Annual book fair with something for everyone who loves books. Thousands of good-quality second-hand books on all subjects: fiction, history, biography, literature, travel and much more. Special collections this year include art, photography and antiquarian books.
Annual York Rise Street Party with Bands, competitions, disco, food & drink, commercial and community stalls, authors reading children’s stories and much more
HLSI’s annual book fair with something for everyone who loves books. Thousands of good-quality second-hand books on all subjects: fiction, history, biography, literature, travel and much more, priced from 50p. Collections this year include art, photography and special/antiquarian editions. Seriously good bargains!
As part of the London Children’s Book Swap we will be doing free storytelling sessions in our foyer. Come along and listen to writer Lissa Evans read from popular children’s books, including Small Change for Stuart and Big Change for Stuart.
New writer Celia Purcell will read from her young teenage novel Jonathan’s Leap about a young boy dancer’s struggles and final route to stardom.
Also being read on the day will be Snail and the Whale, which is coming to Jacksons Lane as part of our family theatre season with Tall Stories.
Come along from 10am – 12noon for free storytelling.
Bring in your old books and swap them for favourite children’s stories from our book swap shelves in the foyer all week.
This year’s Children’s Book Fair on Saturday 28th February at HLSI welcomes special guest Clara Vulliamy (Martha & the Bunny Brothers, Small, Tom & Small, Lucky Wish Mouse, Dixie O’Day), following in the footsteps of previous guests including Alex T. Smith, Anthony Browne, Michael Rosen, Allan Ahlberg, Helen Oxenbury and, of course, Clara’s mother, Shirley Hughes.
There will be secondhand books for sale, children’s activities, home-made cakes and biscuits and Clara’s books will be sold by Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop. Clara will be on stage at 11 to read from her books and to draw for us, and she’ll stay to sign copies of her books.
The Fair runs from 10 until 1 at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, Pond Square, N6 6BS.
wilde roses
Wilde Roses is an early music collaboration between singers, multi-instrumentalists, composers, dancers and performers Anna Tam and Emily Alice Ovenden who met whilst they were performing with the Mediaeval Baebes.
Musically and visually inspired by the medieval and renaissance world, we draw our repertoire from illuminated manuscripts, courtly song books, Elizabethan broadside ballads and the folk tradition. Fascinated by the stories in these songs – medieval religious imagery so beautifully infused with nature; renaissance tales of piracy, jilted lovers and general folly alongside some of the most sincere and tender love songs that reach to the heart of life and human relationships.
Anna Tam (musical director, singer, nyckelharpa, viola da gamba, hurdy gurdy player, percussion) enjoys and eclectic career both in the folk and classical genres. She trained as a classical singer and instrumentalist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. During her early studies, she performed at the Wigmore Hall and on BBC Radio 3 and has been touring internationally since she was 15.
Emily Alice Ovenden (singer, recorders, percussion) received a scholarship from Andrew Lloyd Webber to study in London. With the Mediaeval Baebes she has made several albums, and recorded themes for BBC TV shows Victoria and Elizabeth. Emily made 3 acclaimed albums with her band PYTHIA and has recorded vocals for multi platinum selling band Dragonforce.
Time: 19:30
Venue: Lauderdale House
| Price band | A | B |
| Standard | £15.00 | |
| Concession | £8.00 | |
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HLSI’s annual book fair with thousands of good-quality second-hand books on all subjects: fiction, history, biography, literature, cookery and much more, all at bargain prices. Collections this year include art and special editions.
Annual book fair with something for everyone who loves books. Thousands of good-quality second-hand books on all subjects: fiction, history, biography, literature and much more, all at bargain prices. Collections this year include art and special editions.
A Pentecost performance of uplifting and (hopefully) sunlit sacred music on the Spanish Guitar.
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“A sequence of timeless emotions, such as awe, reverence, ecstasy, penitence, prayer, gratitude, rapture, worship, praise, ardour, resolve, Jonathan Byrd’s music presences us at the Holy Spirit’s descent as the disciples’ likely knew it”