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Dec
10
Sat
Highgate Antiques & Crafts Christmas Fair @ Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
Dec 10 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

A small, friendly Christmas fair set in the beautiful surroundings of Highgate’s Literary & Scientific Institution offering a wide range of antiques and local crafts as well as items from Indie Books (publishers of From Syria With Love), culinary crafts from Kitchen Provisions, hand-made cards from Save Me I’m Wild, children’s clothing from Olive Pip Clothing plus jewellery and textiles from Antonia Graham.

For food-lovers, there will be a Cookbook Swap Shop where you can bring a cookbook from home and swap it for a new one, wine tasting and a literary-themed pop-up Cafe serving cakes, sweets and snacks such as Proust’s Madeleines, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Apple Pie, Walt Whitman’s Coffee Cake, Sausage Rolls from Harry Potter and Turkish Delight from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. For children, there will be a Scavenger Hunt (with goodie bags from Rude Health’s new kids’ range) and a Craft Room where they can create hand-made Christmas cards themed around well known Christmas books.

Feb
24
Sat
Children’s Book Fair @ Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Feb 24 @ 10:30 am – 1:30 pm

Bring your mouse along to meet Maisy Mouse, lovable creation of children’s book writer and illustrator Lucy Cousins, at this year’s Children’s Book Fair at HLSI.

We’ll have secondhand books and home-made cakes and biscuits for sale, children’s activities, face-painting, and competitions.  Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop will be here selling Lucy Cousins’ books.

Children’s Book Fair 2018

Jun
1
Fri
Liesbeth Allart – Oboe Recital @ Lauderdale House
Jun 1 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Talented oboist Liesbeth Allart performs live at Lauderdale House in a celebration of solo repertoire for the oboe.

Book tickets here

In this concert, Liesbeth explores the Oboe’s deeper and more sonorous relations with the Oboe d’Amore and the Cor Anglais. Rarely seen together in a single recital, these instruments first get to display their particular individual qualities in works by CPE BachBenjamin Britten, John Rushby-Smith and Vincent Persichetti, after which they join forces in possibly one of the most exciting works ever written for solo oboe: “Solo” by the Italian composer Bruno Maderna.

Liesbeth Allart is a freelance oboist enjoying a varied career. Based in the UK, and with family ties in the Netherlands and Ireland, she has played with orchestras and ensembles throughout Europe, including the BBC Concert Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, and the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, as well as acting as Artistic Director of De Bezetting Speelt, a chamber group in the Netherlands, for ten years. As a keen interpreter of contemporary music, Liesbeth has taken part in the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and is a regular guest with the Insomnio Ensemble in the Netherlands.

Liesbeth Allart’s solo Oboe Recital will take place at Lauderdale House on 1 April at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm. 

Mar
23
Sat
Children’s Book Fair, with added Bear Hunt! @ Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Mar 23 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Children’s book fair, with added Bear Hunt, on Saturday 23 March, 10-1.  Celebrating 30 Years of Michael Rosen’s & Helen Oxenbury’s We’re going on a Bear Hunt with our own Bear Hunts at 10.15, 10.45, 11.15, 11.45, 12.15.  For more information or to book now for a Bear Hunt tel 020 8340 3343 or email librarian@hlsi.net

ADMISSION FREE BUT BOOKING ESSENTIAL FOR BEAR HUNT

Ideal for 3-6 year olds

Also: children’s activities, refreshments, face-painting, second-hand books & Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop