Our resident string quartet The Billroth Quartet (Thomas Leate and Christian Halstead, violins, Simon Ballard, viola, James Greenfield, cello) perform free monthly concerts with a wide-ranging programme. This month they perform music by Dimitri Shostakovich, together with contemporary works by modern composers.
The Billroth Quartet perform a versatile selection of summer melodies at Lauderdale House including works of jazz and tango. A delightful mix of composers including Mendelsohn, Haydn, Tchaikovsky and Piazzolla.
Our AGM is on 18 March, 2017 at 2.30pm –
All welcome.
Tired of your t-shirts? Wish you had some different dresses? Save money by bringing along your unwanted (but wearable) clothes to our Swish and Style event and go home with a new-to-you outfit, all for free!
It’s simple. Have a clear out and bring good quality clothes to one of our seven events. For each item you bring, you get a token that you can exchange for another garment (maximum 10 items). Everything is free, everything is clean and everything will be re-worn and re-loved.
How it works
For the first hour (12.30 – 1.30), everyone is invited to drop off their clothes, shoes and accessories that they want to donate. Whilst we busily sort them into style and hang them on hangers, you’ll be free to check out the workshops – learning how to do simple fixes to your clothes and how to upcycle them into something completely different – a jumper becomes a hot water bottle cover, a treasured Babygro becomes a patchwork memory blanket and an old t-shirt becomes a bag. If you have any clothes that need a little TLC, bring them along and our seamstress can fix them for you for free while you wait.
The from 2pm until 3pm, you get to look through all the clothes and choose what you want. If you love it, take it. It’s first come, first served – but no elbows please!
What can you bring?
Please bring along:
- Clean and wearable clothes, shoes and accessories
- No damage, holes and stains
- You can bring women’s, men’s, children’s and baby clothes
- No underwear please, unless in sealed, unworn condition
Anything that we deem unacceptable will be given back to you and you will not be given a token. We have the right to turn away any item.
Please note only adults will be allowed at events. Parents with children under the age of 12 can bring them but they must remain under the parents’ supervision at all times.
Any clothes that are left over at the end of the event will be donated to the Salvation Army.
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.
Handmade in Highgate the Summer Fair 2020 will take place on 25 – 27 September. Come and find some of the UK’s most talented designer/makers at the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, entrance is FREE and everyone is welcome.
Times:
Friday 25 September: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday 26 September: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 27 September: 11am – 5pm
Handmade in Highgate the Summer Fair 2020 will take place on 25 – 27 September. Come and find some of the UK’s most talented designer/makers at the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, entrance is FREE and everyone is welcome.
Times:
Friday 25 September: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday 26 September: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 27 September: 11am – 5pm
Handmade in Highgate the Summer Fair 2020 will take place on 25 – 27 September. Come and find some of the UK’s most talented designer/makers at the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, entrance is FREE and everyone is welcome.
Times:
Friday 25 September: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday 26 September: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 27 September: 11am – 5pm