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.
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.
LUX presents a solo exhibition by Kate Davis featuring her new film, Charity (2017), commissioned as part of the Margaret Tait Award, Scotland’s most prestigious moving image prize for artists. This will be the first gallery presentation of Charity outwith Scotland and the first exhibition of Davis’ work in London since 2012.
Working across a range of media, including film and video, drawing, printmaking, installation and bookworks, Davis questions how historical narratives are produced and perpetuated. This has often involved probing the aesthetic and political ambiguities of particular artworks and specific historical moments from a contemporary feminist perspective.
Commissioned by LUX and Glasgow Film Festival in 2016, Charitywas inspired by the ways in which the work of film-maker, poet and artist Margaret Tait invites the viewer to contemplate fundamental emotions and everyday activities that are often overlooked. Taking artistic representations of breastfeeding as its focus, the film explores how the essential – but largely invisible and unpaid – processes we employ to care for others could be re-imagined.
Charity is shown alongside related artworks, bookworks, research materials and a selection of films and videos from the LUX and Cinenova collections. A newly commissioned text by writer and lecturer Amy Tobin will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.
The exhibition is curated by Nicole Yip, Director of LUX Scotland, and presented with LUX Scotland.
Kate Davis’ film, Charity, was commissioned as part of the 2016–17 Margaret Tait Award and received additional generous support from Outset Scotland.
Opening: Sunday 17th September 2-5pm
Exhibition continues Weds-Sat 12-5pm until 28th October
Join us for the Annual Fundraising Concert in aid of the Harington Scheme and Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice.
The Haydn Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jonathan Bloxham with pianist Charles Owen, will be performing on Saturday 27th January 2018 at 7.30pm.
Tickets ( £25, £20, £15, £10) and further information from Pauline Treen 020 8340 5643.
Harington Christmas Sale (55A Cholmeley Park, N6 5EH) on Saturday 8 December, 10am – 2pm. Christmas trees, wreaths and other decorations will be on sale, along with homemade produce and refreshments; Christmas trees can be ordered beforehand from the Scheme and delivered or picked up at the Sale.
Join us at our Christmas sale in aid of the Harington Scheme.
Highlights include:
- Christmas wreaths, decorations and cards for sale
- Raffle and refreshments
- Christmas trees for sale (including free delivery within a 3 mile radius)
- Seasonal plants for sale, including cyclamen, hyacinths and poinsettia
We hope to see you there!
www.harington.org.uk/diary/harington-christmas-sale-2018
For further information 020 8340 5643
For further information 020 8340 5643
For further information 020 8340 5643
For further information 020 8340 5643
For further information 020 8340 5643
For further information 020 8340 5643
For further information 020 8340 5643
For further information 020 8340 5643