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May
9
Mon
A Marvell-ous Literary Walk @ Around Highgate
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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.

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Categories: 10A HS Hall Buzz Highgate Events Tags: 50th Anniversary event Highgate Highgate Society Literary walk
May
6
Sat
Scorched @ Jacksons Lane
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May 6 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

1941. Egypt. WWII. An escaped German officer. A two day chase across the brutal Sahara. A triumphant capture. A hero’s return.
1991. England. Jack reigns from the armchair of his rest home, a local legend. Decorated veteran of Tobruk. Former river warden, boxer, horse whisperer, boat builder, charmer, prolific father and husband to a very unhappy wife. Dementia is eroding his mind. As the Gulf War rages, the past drags him back to the scorched sands. Inspired by the writer’s grandfather.
Following its critically acclaimed debut at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, Open Sky present Scorched, using new writing, visual physical theatre, period music and an innovative set to create the workings of a mind sinking into the sands of time. “Striking theatrical invention” The Stage

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Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Jacksons Lane Tags: dementia fringe memory loss scorched Theatre
Aug
12
Sun
Sundial Sundays: The Popinjays & The Metatrons @ Lauderdale House
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Aug 12 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Sundial Sundays: The Popinjays & The Metatrons

12 Aug

 Lauderdale House

Open-Air Summer Season

Join us in pretty Waterlow Park for a summer BBQ plus a double bill of FREE music as two well-established indie acts perform live on the Tea Lawn…

Indie veterans, The Popinjays, return after a 21 year hiatus. After a critically acclaimed John Peel session, three albums on One Little Indian Records, a US College Radio hit “Vote Elvis”, and tours with They Might Be Giants, The Fatima Mansions, and the Kitchens of Distinction, The Pops called it a day in 1994. Since 2015 they have shared bills with The Darling Buds, The Wonder Stuff, and The Wedding Present. Back with their original set of 90s Indie Pop, Wendy, Polly and the drum machine are currently working on a special limited-edition, legacy release, again with OLI.

The Metatrons are an Indie band from Hitchin. Their second album, “Patterns of Chaos” has recently been featured on BBC6 Music and Sky TV.

Relax on the grass with a burger and a cold drink while you enjoy family-friendly live music as part of our ongoing Sundial Sundays season.

The Popinjays & The Metatrons performance will take place between 2.30 and 4.30pm on 12 August. All sessions are free to attend and open to everyone. See the full programme of Sundial Sunday performances here.

Sundial Sundays have been generously sponsored by the Co-op Community Fund.

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Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Lauderdale House Tags: Free music Indie Bands lauderdale house
Oct
13
Tue
Virtual Tour – The Heights of Dickens @ Virtual tour
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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.

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Categories: Online Tags: Coutts Dickens Hampstead Heath Highgate Highgate Cemetery Literary walk Spaniards Virtual
May 2016 – October 2020 May 2016 – Oct 2020