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Jun
15
Wed
Dyne House Recital Series: Joseph Shiner (clarinet) @ Dyne House Auditorium
Jun 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Dynamic young clarinettist Joseph Shiner will perform the London premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen’s Nocturne, alongside works by Weber, Lutoslawski and others. A recipient of numerous solo prizes, Joseph has also performed at venues including St John’s Smith Square and the Wigmore Hall. He is a member of the Magnard Ensemble and has collaborated with the Endellion and Alauda Quartets.

Tickets are available from www.ticketsource.com/highgateschool.

Jul
6
Fri
Community Art Show
Jul 6 all-day

Community Art Show (runs until Mon 9 July 2pm)

At Lauderdale House and Highgate Newtown Community Centre hall

Check times with Venues.

PRIVATE VIEWS: 5 – 7 PM on FRIDAY 6th July.

Jul
7
Sat
Community Art Show
Jul 7 all-day

Community Art Show (runs until Mon 9 July 2pm)

At Lauderdale House and Highgate Newtown Community Centre hall

Check times with Venues.

PRIVATE VIEWS: 5 – 7 PM on FRIDAY 6th July.

Jul
8
Sun
Community Art Show
Jul 8 all-day

Community Art Show (runs until Mon 9 July 2pm)

At Lauderdale House and Highgate Newtown Community Centre hall

Check times with Venues.

PRIVATE VIEWS: 5 – 7 PM on FRIDAY 6th July.

Jul
9
Mon
Community Art Show
Jul 9 all-day

Community Art Show (runs until Mon 9 July 2pm)

At Lauderdale House and Highgate Newtown Community Centre hall

Check times with Venues.

PRIVATE VIEWS: 5 – 7 PM on FRIDAY 6th July.

Sep
21
Fri
Highgate Gallery Talk: KYFFIN WILLIAMS @ Highgate Gallery
Sep 21 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018), discusses the work of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA.

8pm (doors open 7.30pm)

Entry £5 on the door (cash or cheque only).

Brochures and books for sale.

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  He spent much of his adult life in Highgate.  This talk is part of the Kyffin 100 celebrations in conjunction with Highgate School Museum.  Kyffin was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973, and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall hosting this talk.

Oct
13
Tue
Virtual Tour – The Heights of Dickens @ Virtual tour
Oct 13 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

From the comfort of your home, follow in a virtual tour in Charles Dickens’ footsteps in a walk from Highgate to the hamlet of North End on the border with Hampstead and Hampstead Garden Suburb. We will follow some of Bill Sikes escape route after murdering Nancy in Oliver Twist, see houses that Dickens stayed in; learn about his friendship with philanthropist Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts; view the house that inspired Steerforth’s mother’s house in David Copperfield and peep into Highgate Cemtrey where several members of the Dickens family were buried and follow the Gordon rioters in Barnaby Rudge towards Lord Mansfield’s country estate at Kenwood (Caen Wood). We will pay a visit o the Spaniard’s Inn featured in the Pickwick Papers and continue with Bill Sikes’ journey in Oliver Twist from Highgate Hill across the grounds of Kenwood towards Northend and Hendon. We finish in North End where we view the 17th farmhouse that Dickens lodged in after the death of his sister in law Mary Hogarth.