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Mar
27
Thu
Friends of Highgate Library AGM + Stephen Myers ‘Can the Fleet be revived?’ @ highgate Library Civic & Cultural Centre
Mar 27 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Update on the campaign to secure the future of the Library + Stephen Myers on ‘The Fleet, Hampstead & Highgate’s ‘lost’ river, can it be revived?  More details http://www.dartmouthpark.org/FOHL/events/stephenmyers

Apr
1
Tue
Future of Waterlow Park @ Waterlow Park Centre
Apr 1 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Camden have proposed setting up a Community Management Committee (consisting of local people and Camden representatives) to run Waterlow Park and its buildings on behalf of the Waterlow Park Trust.
Discussions have now been ongoing for over a year and involve the management of the Park, the renting of the lodges and the Park Centre, and the future of Lauderdale House.

This is an opportunity for anyone interested to come and get an update from the Working Party and Camden officers.
Please come and have your say

May
9
Mon
A Marvell-ous Literary Walk @ Around Highgate
May 9 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

This will take place on Monday May 9 led by Zeb Soanes and Ruth Hazeldine featuring insights into the lives of famous literary figures in Highgate. The walk will include readings by Zeb Soanes, BBC Newsreader.

Price, including a cream tea, is £12. Places are limited. Please apply by April 30 with s.a.e to Ruth Hazeldine 52 Jacksons Lane, N6 5SX. Phone 020 8340 5446 for more info.
Full details will be sent with your ticket. Cheques made out to Highgate Society.

Mar
2
Thu
Wail @ Jacksons Lane
Mar 2 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Why do whales sing? Why do humans wail? Last year, Little Bulb Theatre embarked on a quest to discover the answers to these perplexing questions and more. Now, they share their findings in an aquatic cabaret of songs, science and soundscapes with chances to win cheap prizes galore! Little Bulb Theatre return to their lo-fi roots in this haphazard two-hander that’s sure to be a whale of a time. Part gig, part lecture, part your lips and WAIL!

Mar
3
Fri
Wail @ Jacksons Lane
Mar 3 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Why do whales sing? Why do humans wail? Last year, Little Bulb Theatre embarked on a quest to discover the answers to these perplexing questions and more. Now, they share their findings in an aquatic cabaret of songs, science and soundscapes with chances to win cheap prizes galore! Little Bulb Theatre return to their lo-fi roots in this haphazard two-hander that’s sure to be a whale of a time. Part gig, part lecture, part your lips and WAIL!

Mar
4
Sat
Wail @ Jacksons Lane
Mar 4 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Why do whales sing? Why do humans wail? Last year, Little Bulb Theatre embarked on a quest to discover the answers to these perplexing questions and more. Now, they share their findings in an aquatic cabaret of songs, science and soundscapes with chances to win cheap prizes galore! Little Bulb Theatre return to their lo-fi roots in this haphazard two-hander that’s sure to be a whale of a time. Part gig, part lecture, part your lips and WAIL!

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.