Everyone is invited to come and enjoy this annual event with live music, children’s activities, stalls and entertainment for all. Admission is free.
Pond Square will reverberate to the carnival sounds of The Hornsey School for Girls Steel Band and local amateur choirs, dancers and musicians will perform on the stage in Pond Square as well as the cast from ‘The Blond Bombshells of 1943’ at Upstairs at the Gatehouse.
Over 120 charities, societies, Highgate shops and small businesses are taking part this year. No one need go hungry as there will be stalls serving an international selection of delicious foods. The popular Country Fair, arranged in conjunction with the Highgate Horticultural Society, will showcase the baking and horticultural skills of local people and entry is open to all.
There will be lots for the younger visitors to enjoy with roundabout and train rides, a creative play tent, Punch and Judy shows, circus skills workshops, stilt walkers and an unmissable Sheep Shearing Show.
Live band, food stalls, face painting, T-Shirt painting, ceramic painting stall, community stalls and lots lots 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!
Everyone is invited to come and enjoy this annual event with live music, children’s activities, stalls and entertainment for all. Admission is free.
Pond Square will reverberate to the carnival sounds of The Hornsey School for Girls Steel Band and local amateur choirs, dancers and musicians will perform on the stage in Pond Square as well as the cast from ‘The Blond Bombshells of 1943’ at Upstairs at the Gatehouse.
Over 120 charities, societies, Highgate shops and small businesses are taking part this year. No one need go hungry as there will be stalls serving an international selection of delicious foods. The popular Country Fair, arranged in conjunction with the Highgate Horticultural Society, will showcase the baking and horticultural skills of local people and entry is open to all.
There will be lots for the younger visitors to enjoy with roundabout and train rides, a creative play tent, Punch and Judy shows, circus skills workshops, stilt walkers and an unmissable Sheep Shearing Show.
Jacksons Lane summons you to a ghoulish feast of blood-curdling burlesque, macabre music, spectral circus and eerie illusion with some horrifically talented artists in this frighteningly fantastic night.
Overseen by the dark lord of comedy magic Christian Lee, expect vampires on ropes, tantalising terrors of tease, ghouls on your lap and gothic glamour all around, including the queen of erotic neo-burlesque, the sensational MisSa Blue.
The ticket includes a chiller cocktail on arrival, with a late bar and special medicinal concoctions to get your fangs into. Book early!
We encourage attendees to dress to distress.
18+ adult content and nudity
Combining high-level circus skills with pathos, humour and beauty, Jess Love creates a vision that is at once delicately touching, visually enchanting and heart-warmingly playful. Dark clowning, dirty acrobatics and surreal sideshow feats go hand-in-hand with slapstick, roller-skating, hula hoops, skipping and hopscotch acrobatics – phew! With crafted storytelling and awe inspiring images on a bed of roses and broken glass, it’s so sweet you’ll want to squeal!
“LIVELY AND ENTERTAINING…SERIOUSLY WACKY…EXCITING…CHARISMATIC”★★★★ THE AGE
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We have introduced a Pay What You Decide policy for Postcards Festival 2016shows.
You can attend the shows without paying for a ticket beforehand, but tickets can be reserved in advance (max 4 per booking). When the show finishes, you will have the opportunity to make a donation – either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.
If Kraftwerk made circus it would look something like this: comedy meets electro-robotic-vogueing in an epic feat of handstand endurance!
Natalie Reckert is a German hand balancer who loves to dance to electronic beats and read Wikipedia articles about load experiments. In her highly skilled one-woman experiment, she tests the limits of the body and the stability of quite a lot of eggs. Brilliantly absurd and totally unique.
“PURE CIRCUS MAGIC” REVIEWS HUB
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We have introduced a Pay What You Decide policy for Postcards Festival 2016 shows.
You can attend the shows without paying for a ticket beforehand, but tickets can be reserved in advance (max 4 per booking). When the show finishes, you will have the opportunity to make a donation – either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.
Making its UK premiere as part of our Sirkus Finnish showcase, Taival blends contemporary dance, circus and visual theatre to paint a bold and blistering portrait of the human body. The multi-disciplined, hyper-talented cast explore themes of control, manipulation, beauty and pain, using light and sound to manipulate the barrier between artist and audience. A physical, versatile, vibrant piece of contemporary circus.
Curious about Highgate, its origins, stories, green spaces and buildings? Come in and talk to people who have an interest in and passion for local history. There will be representatives and stalls from the Roman Kilns in Highgate Woods, Camden Tour Guides, HLSI, Lady Gould’s Charity, Highgate School Museum, Friends of Kenwood, Highgate Horticultural Society, Friends of Hornsey Church Tower, Friends of Highgate Library Shepherds Hill, Highgate Society and lots of information about Lauderdale House.
The world’s largest philosophy and music festival is coming to London in the summer of 2018. Feed your minds, bodies and souls at HowTheLightGetsIn. For one weekend only, you’ll find the world’s leading thinkers debating today’s biggest ideas in the spectacular grounds of Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath.The festival is packed with stimulating debates covering topics from politics, art, philosophy and science. The impressive line up includes psychologist Steven Pinker, author and playwright Deborah Levy, post-colonial theorist Homi Bhabha, activist and filmmaker Tariq Ali, philosopher Rebecca Goldstein, mathematician and Hawking collaborator Roger Penrose, and many others.
Alongside a range of debates, talks and workshops in London, there will be fantastic acoustic music acts making for a wonderful atmosphere at a beautiful location.
The world’s largest philosophy and music festival is coming to London in the summer of 2018. Feed your minds, bodies and souls at HowTheLightGetsIn. For one weekend only, you’ll find the world’s leading thinkers debating today’s biggest ideas in the spectacular grounds of Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath.The festival is packed with stimulating debates covering topics from politics, art, philosophy and science. The impressive line up includes psychologist Steven Pinker, author and playwright Deborah Levy, post-colonial theorist Homi Bhabha, activist and filmmaker Tariq Ali, philosopher Rebecca Goldstein, mathematician and Hawking collaborator Roger Penrose, and many others.
Alongside a range of debates, talks and workshops in London, there will be fantastic acoustic music acts making for a wonderful atmosphere at a beautiful location.
A great day out for all the family.
The Highgate Festival will kick off with the Fair in the Square and continue with events all week.
Discover fascinating stories from Highgate’s past, and the diverse history of the communities that make up North London.
Come and chat to over 20 people who are interested in and knowledgeable about the history of our local area, including representatives from local museums, historic houses and local history societies at this FREE fair! Alongside Jacksons Lane, we will also be hosting a ‘memory stall’ this year, and collecting photos from the community that show the venues or Waterlow Park. Have any images from the past that you’d like to share? Bring them along!
Confirmed attendees for this year’s Heritage fair include:
The Arts Society Hampstead Heath
Camden History Society
Camden Tour Guides Association
Channing School
The Coleridge Trust
Friends of Kenwood
Highgate Cemetery
The Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution Archive
The Highgate Roman Kiln Project
Highgate School Museum & Archive
The Highgate Society
Hornsey Historical Society
Jacksons Lane
Kenwood House
Lady Gould’s Charity
Lauderdale House
North London U3A
Memories Stall
Pink Plaques Project