with Steve Lodev (keyboards), Steve Waterman & Martin Shaw (tpts,), Mark Nightingale & Barnaby Dickinson (tmbs)
Ben Crosland, acoustic and electric bass player, is based in Yorkshire and assembled this premier-league brass section to realise a commission from the 2011 Marsden Jazz Festival, inspired by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, An Open Place. The compositions are inspired by specific pieces, such as Henry Moore’s Reclining Figures, and Barbara Hepworth’s Family of Man, the whole composition is suffused with the gentle, pastoral quality of the Park. A project like this would be easy meat for a classical brass group, but here the fascination is how some of the most technically-brilliant brassmen of the jazz world preserve the excitement of jazz, spontaneity and creativity without ‘raising the roof’, which in other circumstances they could easily do.
See event website.
In this lecture, Professor Gareth Stedman Jones looks at the last decade and a half of Marx’s life, a period in which he effectively gave up further work on Capital and read up instead on the village community and the early history of man. He was interested in particular in the new work on pre-history which developed from the 1860s onwards connecting this with a notion of primitive communism and an epoch in history before patriarchy and political hierarchy.
Professor Gareth Stedman Jones is Director of the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge University since 1974. He was Professor of Political Science, History Faculty, Cambridge University from 1997 and in 2010 became Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London. His publications include An End to Poverty? (2004), a long introduction to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (2002), and The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, co-edited with Gregory Claeys, 2011.
He is currently working on an intellectual biography of Marx commissioned by Penguin and a more general work on political thought between the French Revolution and the Revolutions of 1848.
Doors open at 7pm and wine and nibbles will be served. The talk starts promptly at 7.30pm and will last about an hour.
Tickets are non-refundable but, as a courtesy to others, please let us know if you cannot attend.
We all love honey, don’t we? Well, on Monday 13th April 11am-1pm, you can join us and explore the lives of bees and secrets of beekeeping with our local enthusiast Brian Haddon. All welcome!
Caring Connections is a borough wide project by Age UK Haringey and it supports older people with long term health conditions to keep socially active. They meet here at Trees every Monday. If you would like to join them, speak to Kathy Wiltshire, Development Worker at Age UK Haringey, on a day or contact her atKathy.wiltshire@ageukharingey.org.uk , or on 020 8885 8353 / 020 8801 2444
Come and visit our wonderful Spring show. Lots of beautiful exhibits plus plant and produce stalls and our famous afternoon teas!
Spend an hour among the flowers
The first of the year’s flower shows is always a great delight as our daffodils, tulips and flowering shrubs take centre stage, bursting with spring scent and colour!
Highgate Horticultural Society’s 52nd Spring Flower Show will be held on Saturday 1 April 2017 at the United Reformed Church, South Grove, Highgate Village, N6 6BA. The show, including plant and produce stalls and homemade teas and cakes is open from 2-4.3o pm. Awards will be presented at 3.30 pm by the Mayor of Camden, and the raffle drawn at 4.30 pm followed by the auction of exhibits.
For more information see www.highgatehorticulturalsociety.org.uk
Come along to the Highgate Horticultural Society Spring Flower Show. Wonderful exhibits from our members and plant and produce stalls not to mention our famous teas!
Baby Gospel is an uplifting family concert of soul, Motown and gospel music, featuring the astonishing vocal talents of London’s CK Gospel Choir.
The whole family can enjoy singing and clapping along to hits by Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Adele, Jackie Wilson, Pharrell and more – as well as some traditional Gospel songs and nursery rhymes. Concerts are baby-friendly and open to all ages from newborns to school age to grandparents.
CK Gospel Choir are a versatile professional group from London who are united by their love of gospel music and have provided backing for artists such as Beverley Knight, Peter Andre and Alfie Boe.
“The most uplifting and relaxing activity we have ever done together as a family” Curious Life of a Mummy
Suitable for newborns and up
Baby Gospel is an uplifting family concert of soul, Motown and gospel music, featuring the astonishing vocal talents of London’s CK Gospel Choir.
The whole family can enjoy singing and clapping along to hits by Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Adele, Jackie Wilson, Pharrell and more – as well as some traditional Gospel songs and nursery rhymes. Concerts are baby-friendly and open to all ages from newborns to school age to grandparents.
CK Gospel Choir are a versatile professional group from London who are united by their love of gospel music and have provided backing for artists such as Beverley Knight, Peter Andre and Alfie Boe.
“The most uplifting and relaxing activity we have ever done together as a family” Curious Life of a Mummy
Suitable for newborns and up