The Highgate Village Christmas Festival – a magical wonderland with giant snow globe containing dancers, main stage hosted by Alex Zane and mystery celebrity to switch on lights at 4pm.
In Pond Square Santa will bring some of his reindeer and elves to his grotto, and a magical fairy will be granting wishes. There will even be a dancing Christmas tree!
Also appearing Cinderella’s Carriage from BBC Strictly Come Dancing Christmas spectacular 2012 pulled by two beautiful white horses.
Mulled wine, hog roast, mince pies and hot chocolate. Don’t miss it!
Dr Jonathan Black, Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at Kingston University and co-author of Abstraction and Reality: The Sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones is to give the seventh KW lecture on Monday 2nd February at 8.00 p.m. in the AV Room in the Mills Centre. Book here: https://highgateoc.org.uk/kw2015-lecture
“Hornsey Wood House” talk by John Hinshelwood. 8pm, Union Church Hall www.hornseyhistorical.org.uk
Dr David McAllister will discuss attitudes to burial in the years leading up to the birth of the Garden Cemetery movement in the early nineteenth century and the establishment of Highgate Cemetery itself. His talk will focus on attempts by a series of writers including Wordsworth, Burke, Godwin and Bentham to identify the value of buried bodies, and to establish whether the grave was anything more than an inefficient dumping ground for human remains.
David McAllister is a lecturer in Victorian Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and course director of its MA in Victorian Studies.
Friends of Waterlow Park are organising a coach trip on Saturday 30 May to this famous garden and plant nursery near Colchester in Essex. Beth Chatto, now in her 90s, is one of the country’s foremost plantswomen. Highlights are the gravel garden, the fabulous display of herbaceous plants and shrubs, and water and woodland gardens. Come along to get ideas for your garden or just to enjoy seeing great garden design. Coach will depart Highgate at 9.00 and return by 17.30.
Mondays @ the Mills Lectures – Michaelmas Term 2016
7th November 2016, Mills Centre AV Room
The hidden wildlife of Provence
Will Atkins, Highgate School
Following in the footsteps of that peculiar Victorian species, ‘the British Naturalist on the Riviera’, biology teacher Will (whose photos have appeared on The One Show, in Country Life magazine and in the British Wildlife Photography Awards) has chronicled some of the unexpected, colourful and wonderful fauna that can be seen only a small distance from the packed beaches of Provence. In showing the results of his photographic safaris, he will be aiming to add an extra dimension to your future visits to the south of France.
Tickets can be booked through Ticketsource, by clicking here
Refreshments, including wine, are available from 6.30 pm and afterwards.
Mondays @ the Mills Lectures – Michaelmas Term 2016
28th November 2016
The Francis Crick Institute
Clare Davy and Professor Julian Downward, FRS
The Francis Crick Institute conducts ground-breaking medical research to understand why disease develops and to find new ways to prevent and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections and neurodegenerative diseases. These talks will survey the history of the Crick and introduce its new home next to St Pancras, before focussing on some of the cancer research being conducted there.
Refreshments, including wine, are available from 6.30 pm and afterwards.
16th January
The New Junior School and Fibonacci
David Smith, former Head of Physics
Highgate’s magnificent new Junior School opened for business in September of last year. After exploring the history of the Junior School, David will describe the philosophy behind the new structure, making particular mention of the Leonardo Bonacci – known as Fibonacci – and the features around the building that his sequence inspired.
Why do whales sing? Why do humans wail? Last year, Little Bulb Theatre embarked on a quest to discover the answers to these perplexing questions and more. Now, they share their findings in an aquatic cabaret of songs, science and soundscapes with chances to win cheap prizes galore! Little Bulb Theatre return to their lo-fi roots in this haphazard two-hander that’s sure to be a whale of a time. Part gig, part lecture, part your lips and WAIL!
Why do whales sing? Why do humans wail? Last year, Little Bulb Theatre embarked on a quest to discover the answers to these perplexing questions and more. Now, they share their findings in an aquatic cabaret of songs, science and soundscapes with chances to win cheap prizes galore! Little Bulb Theatre return to their lo-fi roots in this haphazard two-hander that’s sure to be a whale of a time. Part gig, part lecture, part your lips and WAIL!
Why do whales sing? Why do humans wail? Last year, Little Bulb Theatre embarked on a quest to discover the answers to these perplexing questions and more. Now, they share their findings in an aquatic cabaret of songs, science and soundscapes with chances to win cheap prizes galore! Little Bulb Theatre return to their lo-fi roots in this haphazard two-hander that’s sure to be a whale of a time. Part gig, part lecture, part your lips and WAIL!
1941. Egypt. WWII. An escaped German officer. A two day chase across the brutal Sahara. A triumphant capture. A hero’s return.
1991. England. Jack reigns from the armchair of his rest home, a local legend. Decorated veteran of Tobruk. Former river warden, boxer, horse whisperer, boat builder, charmer, prolific father and husband to a very unhappy wife. Dementia is eroding his mind. As the Gulf War rages, the past drags him back to the scorched sands. Inspired by the writer’s grandfather.
Following its critically acclaimed debut at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, Open Sky present Scorched, using new writing, visual physical theatre, period music and an innovative set to create the workings of a mind sinking into the sands of time. “Striking theatrical invention” The Stage
Mondays @ the Mills: Women and revolution from the bluestockings to Virginia Woolf |
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In an exciting and engaging lecture illustrated by contemporary cartoons, Highgate’s Head of History and Foundation Historian Dr Benjamin Dabby will draw upon his ground-breaking research into the culture of Britain’s ‘long nineteenth century’ to overturn the conventional account that women were confined to the domestic sphere and excluded from public life. In revealing a world in which public debate about the progress of the nation was shaped increasingly by women, he will show how women’s and men’s gendered identities were as hotly debated then as they are today. Dr Dabby’s latest book: Women as Public Moralists in Britain has been published recently by the Royal Historical Society, and copies will be on sale for £30. Talks take place on Mondays at 7pm in the AV Room in the Mills Centre. Refreshments, including wine, are available from 6.30 pm and afterwards. |
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In another little step back to the ethos of the London Novello Ensemble – which is the presentation of great music outside the formal constraints of the concert hall – Murray and Gavin present the two opposites of late 19th century romanticism along with music by Delius, Vitali and Sarasate, and a selection of popular tangos including Piazzolla’s famous ‘Libertango’
Gavin Davies studied the violin with Marta Eitler and at the Royal College of Music with Jaroslav Vanecek and Natasha Boyarsky. He combines a freelance orchestral career with ensembles such as the London Philharmonic and BBC Concert orchestras with regular chamber music and solo performances.
Murray Hipkin is a fulltime member of the music staff at English National Opera, where he has conducted The Mikado, The Gondoliers, The Pirates of Penzance, Kismet, Carousel, Chess and Man of la Mancha. He is musical director of the Pink Singers and the North London Chorus and he recently finished filming Anyone Can Sing for ENO/Sky Arts in the role of music supervisor and accompanist.
Programme to include:
Brahms – Sonata No. 1 in G
Liszt – Romance
Delius – Sonata No. 3
Vitali – Chaconne
Sarasate – Zigeunerweisen
Tangos by Albeniz, Gade, and Piazzolla
Advanced booking is advised as we will be limiting capacity in order to ensure socially distanced seating is available for those who require it. In accordance with normal practice, we respectfully ask that you do a lateral flow test – available free from www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-lateral-flow-tests.com in the 48 hours prior to the concert – but please do get in touch for a full refund if you get a positive result!
This page is for the performance at Pond Square Chapel, Highgate on 9th December.
To buy tickets for the performance at St Paul’s Lorrimore Square, Kennington on 6th December, please click on this link: Brahms and Liszt in Kennington 6 December
