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Sep
12
Thu
Poetry: Shanta Acharya, Anthony Rudolf & Penelope Shuttle @ Lauderdale House
Sep 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Shanta Acharya, founder of Lauderdale’s Poetry in the House, is joined by Anthony Rudolf, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and Penelope Shuttle, widow of poet Peter Redgrove.

Jun
25
Wed
Poetry & talks: Mike Bartholomew-Biggs, Julia Bird, Sue Rose, Stephen Wilson & Tamar Yoseloff @ Lauderdale House
Jun 25 @ 7:00 pm

The readings include narrative about romance in the world of aviation during that glamorous but flawed decade, the 1930s. The contributors include a producer of independent touring live literature shows, a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer; and a poet whose work was shortlisted for the 2012 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.

Jul
23
Wed
Poetry & Talks: John Greening, Lakshmi Holmström, Jenny Lewis, John Menaghan & Will Stone @ Lauderdale House
Jul 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Come along for a fascinating evening with John, a prize-winning poet/playwright; Jenny, an Oxford University tutor whose published works includes a pamphlet of poems in English and Arabic; Lakshmi, an award-winning translator of Tamil poetry, novels and short stories; Will a poet, essayist and literary translator, and John, who has published guides to literary giants such as Yeats, Ted Hughes, Hardy and Edwards Thomas.

Sep
11
Thu
The Vision Splendid – Poems by Dinah Livingstone @ Highgate Library Civic & Cultural Centre
Sep 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Friends of Highgate Library present Poems by local poet Dinah Livingstone from her recent book The Vision Splendid.

Jan
26
Mon
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2015 @ Hill Homes - Trees
Jan 26 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Staff and Tenants at Hill Homes in Highgate are inviting you and your friends on Monday 26th January 2015

  • at 4:30pm

A time for contemplation, with words and quiet time together. Speaker and attendees will include individuals and representatives from different faiths and non-religious community groups.

  • at 5:00pm

Screening of Oscar winning documentary “The lady from No 6” – one of the most inspirational and uplifting stories about 109 year old Alice Herz Sommer, the world’s oldest pianist and Holocaust survivor

Everyone Welcome!

Organised in partnership with Highgate Synagogue, Highgate United Reformed Church & All Saints’ Church

May
1
Sun
Open Garden
May 1 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Tea available at the Open Garden.

May
29
Sun
Open Garden – 33 Wood Vale in aid of Harington @ Mona's Garden
May 29 @ 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Open Garden in Aid of the Harington Scheme

Entrance fee £3

Under 12’s free

No dogs

Tea and homemade cakes will be available

This award winning garden (voted ‘Best Back Garden’ by the London Gardens Society in 2015) is home to the ‘Corokia’ National Collection, and to many other unusual Australasian and Mediterranean plants complemented in recent years by ‘Restios’ from South Africa and interesting exotics.The emphasis of the garden is on texture, shapes and contrasting foliage colour.  Well worth a visit this Sunday. Tea and homemade cakes will be on by the Friends of Harington.

Jun
16
Thu
London Calling @ Hornsey Town Hall
Jun 16 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

A celebration of London life through the ages, with readings, riotous anecdotes and live music. Dickens, Emmeline Pankhurst, Pepys, Blake, Boswell, Ian Dury, Dostoevsky and Virginia Woolf are among those featured. The actors are Daniel Dresner and Kate Walsh, who is about to join Radio 4 as a continuity announcer; music is by Bow and Bellows (violin, vocals, horn, accordion).

 

 



 

Feb
18
Sun
NGS Open Garden
Feb 18 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Garden Open to the public for Charity – The Harington Scheme.

Jun
10
Sun
Open Garden in aid of Harington Scheme @ Harington Scheme
Jun 10 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Open Garden in aid of Harington, teas available

Jan
7
Mon
New Poets Group In Highgate @ Highgate Society
Jan 7 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Come share your poems at a welcoming open mic session
And take up the monthly poetry challenge set by members

£2 entry includes, tea, coffee, cake (sometimes) and biscuits

 

Apr
8
Mon
Highgate Society Poetry Group @ Highgate Society
Apr 8 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Join the Highgate Society Poetry Group on April Fools Day
Open Mic, 2 poems each plus a third if you have completed the Groups Challenge which this month is based on a Frank O’Hara Walk which basically translates as go for a walk and write a poem about it.

Tea, coffee, biscuits, occasionally cake and wine thrown in

Jun
3
Mon
Highgate Society Poetry Group @ Highgate Society
Jun 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Come join Dennis and the rest of our friendly group as we read our poetry to each other
Open Mic event. 2 poems each. 3 if you have responded to the Highgate Challenge which this month is;

write a poem focused on ‘Extinction’

Your £2 admission also covers tea, coffee and biscuits

Jul
1
Mon
Highgate Society Poetry Group @ The Highgate Society
Jul 1 @ 6:30 am – 8:30 am

Open mic and chat and that
Poets read 2 poems each unless they have earned a third by responding to the Highgate Challenge which this month is to write about ‘Water’.
Audience welcome
Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided
All monies raised go to the Highgate Society

Oct
14
Fri
Witch Hunt @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 14 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Following their sell-out, award-winning show Enter The Dragons, A&E Comedy (Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards, “a brilliant comedy coupling” Total Theatre) return with a spell-binding, surreal and darkly hilarious tale, directed by Cal McCrystal.

“I think they are amazing!!” Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Witch Hunt weaves a cautionary fairytale for our time. It celebrates the wisdom of the witch, unpacks the notion of predator and conjures a world of coven-ready weird sisters.

“Watch out, there are wild women about.  Knicker-Wettingly funny” Total Theatre

A ritualistic voodoo brouhaha designed to enchant and hex the pricks and predators; imagine Vic and Bob doing The Crucible.

Using buffoon, puppetry and magic and armed with a ‘wiccan’ sense of humour, A&E Comedy ask “can we use witchcraft to take down the Patriarchy?” Yes we can!

Oct
15
Sat
Witch Hunt @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 15 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Following their sell-out, award-winning show Enter The Dragons, A&E Comedy (Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards, “a brilliant comedy coupling” Total Theatre) return with a spell-binding, surreal and darkly hilarious tale, directed by Cal McCrystal.

“I think they are amazing!!” Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Witch Hunt weaves a cautionary fairytale for our time. It celebrates the wisdom of the witch, unpacks the notion of predator and conjures a world of coven-ready weird sisters.

“Watch out, there are wild women about.  Knicker-Wettingly funny” Total Theatre

A ritualistic voodoo brouhaha designed to enchant and hex the pricks and predators; imagine Vic and Bob doing The Crucible.

Using buffoon, puppetry and magic and armed with a ‘wiccan’ sense of humour, A&E Comedy ask “can we use witchcraft to take down the Patriarchy?” Yes we can!