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Oct
28
Sat
Open Coffee Morning and Environment Committee Members Surgery @ Highgate Society
Oct 28 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Oct
31
Tue
Life-Drawing Group @ Highgate Society
Oct 31 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Nov
1
Wed
CERCLE FRANÇAIS: Soirée Quiz sur la France et la Francophonie @ Highgate Society
Nov 1 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Nov
2
Thu
Watercolour Group AM @ Highgate Society
Nov 2 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Nov
4
Sat
Open Coffee Morning and Environment Committee Members Surgery @ Highgate Society
Nov 4 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Nov
7
Tue
Life-Drawing Group @ Highgate Society
Nov 7 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Nov
9
Thu
Watercolour Group AM @ Highgate Society
Nov 9 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Nov
11
Sat
Open Coffee Morning and Environment Committee Members Surgery @ Highgate Society
Nov 11 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Nov
14
Tue
Life-Drawing Group @ Highgate Society
Nov 14 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Nov
16
Thu
Watercolour Group AM @ Highgate Society
Nov 16 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Nov
18
Sat
Open Coffee Morning and Environment Committee Members Surgery @ Highgate Society
Nov 18 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Nov
21
Tue
Life-Drawing Group @ Highgate Society
Nov 21 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Nov
23
Thu
Watercolour Group AM @ Highgate Society
Nov 23 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Nov
25
Sat
Open Coffee Morning and Environment Committee Members Surgery @ Highgate Society
Nov 25 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival @ St. Michael's Church
Nov 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival @ St. Michael's Church | England | United Kingdom

Programme

Haydn: Piano Trio No.39 in G, Hob XV:25, ‘Gypsy’

Arensky: String Quartet No.2 in A minor Op.35

Dvorak: String Sextet in A, Op.48

 

 

Artists

Evgenia Epshtein, Benjamin Gilmore & Natalie Klouda – violin

Ruth Gibson & Alexandros Koustas – viola

Matthijs Broersma & Ashok Klouda – cello

Irina Botan – piano

Nov
28
Tue
Life-Drawing Group @ Highgate Society
Nov 28 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Nov
30
Thu
Watercolour Group AM @ Highgate Society
Nov 30 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Dec
6
Wed
CERCLE FRANÇAIS: La Fête du saint Nicolas @ Highgate Society
Dec 6 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Dec
13
Wed
Carols in Pond Square with Highgate Society 6.30pm @ Highgate Society
Dec 13 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Come and sing Carols with Highgate School Band in Pond Square and refreshments afterwards at 10A South Grove -Highgate Society.

Dec
19
Tue
the meritus collective @ Lauderdale House
Dec 19 @ 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

 

the meritus collective

The Meritus Collective was established to bring together musicians of all instruments who shared a passion for chamber music and to provide platforms from which to perform. Members have trained at most of the major conservatoires in Britain and between them have performed as parts of chamber groups all around the world and for orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonia Orchestra.

Meritus was the pseudonym of Felix Mendelssohn given to the young composer by Robert Schumann. It translates roughly as ‘happy through merit’ and is an inspiring and effective byword for this young and dynamic group of musicians who will be bringing a varied and exciting set of programmes to Lauderdale House over the coming year.

The Meritus Collective will perform a selection of works for flute, clarinet and string.

Programme details to be confirmed

Jan
3
Wed
CERCLE FRANÇAIS: La Fête des Rois @ Highgate Society
Jan 3 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Jan
21
Sun
Travellers’ Tales from Central Asia @ Highgate Society
Jan 21 @ 3:15 pm – 5:30 pm

Free entry – complimentary tea and cake – non members welcome

This is the third in what is now becoming an annual Highgate Society event – a January afternoon
travel talk and tea. Our first, in 2016, featured visits to North America by Catherine Budgett Meakin
and to the Andes by Richard Webber. Last year it was the turn of Michael Hammerson who dusted
off his slides and diary account from 1966 to treat us to a wonderful account of his experiences as a
young man visiting the battlefields of the American Civil War.
This year our focus shifts to Asia where we will hear travellers’ accounts of visits to three countries in
the Caucasus and Central Asia that receive very few foreign visitors.
The presenters will whet your appetite for a visit with images of magnificent mountain scenery as
well as heritage site of world-wide significance. This will be presented within a broader discussion of
sustainable tourism, the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union, geo-political uncertainty and
social acceptance and resistance to the spread of Western values.
Do you need a guide to visit these countries? Or should you join a group? How safe will you be? And
how easy is it to engage in meaningful discussion with the views of local people? Come and hear.

Programme
3.15 1: Kyrgistan: Guyonne James
3.40 2: Armenia: Richard Webber
4.05 Questions, answers and discussion in response to talks 1 and 2
4.20 Tea
4.35 3: Iran: Betty Pires + team (the precise members of which are to be confirmed)
5.00 Questions, answers and discussion on practicalities of a central Asia visit

Mar
7
Wed
CERCLE FRANÇAIS: La Foire aux textes @ Highgate Society
Mar 7 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Mar
21
Wed
Use your Money for Good – and get a good return @ Highgate Society
Mar 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Apr
4
Wed
CERCLE FRANÇAIS: La Dimension française du 2 Willow Road, Hampstead @ Highgate Society
Apr 4 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Apr
13
Fri
Highgate Society Spring Social @ Highgate Society
Apr 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Every one is welcome to come and meet members and non-members of the Highgate Society.

May
2
Wed
CERCLE FRANÇAIS: Soirée discussions @ Highgate Society
May 2 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Jul
8
Sun
‘Highgate as a Conservation Area’ exhibition @ Highgate Society
Jul 8 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

‘Highgate as a Conservation area’ exhibition

Come and learn about the Highgate Society and the CA.

Lifestyles of the super-rich in Edwardian Highgate @ Highgate Society
Jul 8 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Richard Webber illustrates the Lifestyles of the super-rich in Edwardian Highgate – “Then and Now; Great Houses from past Highgate”.

The Mansions of Highgate Ridge

A talk by Richard Webber:  Sun, July 8, 2018 7:00 PM. Book on eventbrite. Limited space so booking essential!

This is the story the Great Mansions of the Highgate Ridge, and the visionaries who lived in them. Using seldom seen material from the HLSI archives, the lecture focuses on the lifestyles of the early owners of these houses and the pioneering reforms for which many of them fought. Now that London has because a location of choice for the global rich, the lecture considers what we can learn from the similarities and differences between the lifestyles of the new occupiers of these mansions and those who lived in them a hundred years ago.

Professor Richard Webber was one of the lead researchers on the recent ESRC project, on this topic. Professor Webber is Visiting Professor at University of Newcastle. He is the originator of the Acorn and Mosaic systems which classify people by the neighbourhood in which they live and is a long term resident of Highgate.

Jul
9
Mon
David Porter’s talk on Modern Homes @ Highgate Society
Jul 9 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Highgate is the location of arguably the finest collection of 20th and 21st Century Modern Homes, many of which are hidden from public view. Professor David Porter will give an illustrated talk on these and the progressive thoughts behind many of the schemes.

Places are limited so booking is essential through eventbrite, although the talk is FREE

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

 

Jan
13
Sun
Travels in UGANDA @ Highgate Society
Jan 13 @ 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

Tessa and Ian Henghes and Karen and Mark Rogers will talk  about their travels in Uganda with slides and tea with cake!

Jan
31
Thu
John Allan – Local Heroes – Modern Movement Architects in North London @ Highgate Society
Jan 31 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

John Allan will give a talk – Local Heroes – Modern Movement Architects in North London. He will present works by Wells Coates, Erno Goldfinger and Bertold Lubetkin, including conservation projects he has carried out on their key buildings such as Isokon Apartments, Willow Road and Highpoint. As a director of Avanti Architects, John is a foremost expert on the restoration of modern buildings, is founding chairman of DoCoMo-UK and chairman of the Isokon Gallery Trust

Please book:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-heroes-modern-movement-architects-in-north-london-tickets-53861601500

 

Feb
24
Sun
The History of Chocolate @ Highgate Society
Feb 24 @ 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Oct
12
Sat
Saturdays at Six Concert – Douglas Bruce (Organ) @ St Michael's Church
Oct 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Every second Saturday of the month we host our popular Saturdays at Six concert series. Programmes range from organ recitals to chamber groups to soloists and choirs. Concerts run from 6-7pm and there is a retiring collection.

Dec
14
Sat
Saturdays at Six Concert – Paul Dean (Organ) – Messiaen – La Nativite du Seigneur @ St Michael's Church
Dec 14 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Every second Saturday of the month we host our popular Saturdays at Six concert series. Programmes range from organ recitals to chamber groups to soloists and choirs. Concerts run from 6-7pm and there is a retiring collection.

May
23
Sun
Pentecost – A New Devotional Performance By Jonathan Byrd @ St Augustine's Church Highgate London UK
May 23 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

A Pentecost performance of uplifting and (hopefully) sunlit sacred music on the Spanish Guitar.

“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”

 

 

Dec
10
Fri
“Now May We Singen”: A Christmas concert @ St. Mary Brookfield Church
Dec 10 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Get into the Christmas spirit with an evening of sacred music, popular festive songs and traditional carols from acclaimed choir Voxcetera. 

Enjoy beautiful choral works spanning 400 years, from anthems by Byrd and Praetorius to contemporary composers including John Rutter, Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen and Cecilia McDowall. And there’ll be dazzling arrangements of popular songs and carols such as Winter Wonderland, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and Ding Dong Merrily on High.

It isn’t Christmas without a Christmas concert – so why not start the season in beautiful surroundings with joyous, tranquil and uplifting music.

Mar
26
Sat
Fauré: Requiem and sublime short works @ St. Michael's Church
Mar 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm

Voxcetera chamber choir sings Gabriel Fauré’s much-loved, moving masterpiece, with soloists Ellie and Jamie Sperling, accompanied by violin, cello, harp and organ.

The concert will also feature Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine; a selection from Gustav Holst’s Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, a collection of ancient Indian sacred texts; and Henry Balfour Gardiner’s dramatic Evening Hymn.

And you’ll hear beautiful music from contemporary composers: the hypnotic Northern Lights by Ola Gjeilo; and Paul Aryes’ sun-drenched love song Quanto sei bella.

Voxcetera is a north London-based chamber choir, directed  by its founding conductor Jane Hopkins. Recent activity includes concerts at St Martin-in-the-fields, East Finchley Arts Festival, overseas tours and recording work.

 

Mar
16
Sat
Concert – Vivaldi: Gloria and Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass @ St Michael's Church
Mar 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Voxcetera returns to the beautiful St Michael’s Church with two dazzling works for choir and strings, written nearly 300 years apart.

Vivaldi: Gloria

In a crowded field, little beats this for exuberant Baroque joy. Yet it is full of variety, from the slow and tender “Et in terra pax” to the effervescent “Domine, Fili unigenite”, the choir accompanied throughout by sprightly strings, oboe and trumpet.

Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass

“Most of my favourite composers are film composers working in America today” says the New York-based Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo, and this thrilling mass pays tribute to the emotions, adrenaline and sense of wonder of film music. Scored for choir and strings and using traditional Latin texts, the 30-minute piece is strong on melody and rich in harmony, opening with gorgeous shimmering chords that emerge magically out of silence. It’s unmistakably modern, but it’s also in touch with early sacred music including Gregorian chant.

with:
Voxcetera chamber choir
Jane Hopkins, conductor
Ellie Sperling & Bethany Partridge, soloists
String orchestra, oboe, trumpet, organ

Voxcetera is a chamber choir celebrating sacred and secular music from medieval times to the present day under the direction of its founding conductor Jane Hopkins. The choir’s achievements include its popular Christmas concerts; performances with chamber ensembles of Fauré’s Requiem, Saint-Saëns’ Requiem and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, at St Michael’s Highgate; tours to Germany and Ireland; performances at St Martin-in-the-Fields, St. John Smith Square, St. Stephen Walbrook and East Finchley Arts Festival; appearances at the Science Museum, British Library and the Southbank Centre; and a variety of recording work.