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Jun
27
Sun
Highgate Festival – save the dates @ highgate and zoom
Jun 27 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
‘there and then and never again’ Margaret Tait midsummer book launch @ LUX
Jun 27 @ 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm
‘there and then and never again’ Margaret Tait midsummer book launch @ LUX

A midsummer celebration of the life, legacy, attitude and work of Scotland’s filmmaking pioneer Margaret Tait (1918-1999) with the London premiere of a series of newly commissioned films by contemporary artists and filmmakers created for the centenary of her birth and launch of the LUX publication of Margaret Tait‘s unpublished book, Personae. In addition the LUX garden will be open all day as part of Highgate Festival Open Gardens day.

  • 1-6pm Screening of films at LUX
  • 6pm Readings and book launch in the LUX Garden

 

Film Screening – showing continuously on a loop at LUX

A series of new commissioned short films from international talents and Scotland-based artists and filmmakers that celebrate the life, legacy, attitude or approach of Scotland’s filmmaking pioneer: Margaret Tait (1918–1999) produced to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth. Curated by Sarah Neely.
Beginning with one of Tait’s earliest films and ending with one of her last, this programme includes new film commissions by director and critic Mark Cousins; artist, musician and filmmaker Luke Fowler; artist Alexander Storey Gordon; artist and filmmaker Matt Hulse; artist Wendy Kirkup and composer Richy Carey; director Morag Mckinnon; author Ali Smith and filmmaker Sarah Wood; artist Catherine Street; curator and artist Peter Todd, and curator and filmmaker Ute Aurand. The new works have been commissioned as part of the Margaret Tait 100, a year-long centenary celebration that included screenings, exhibitions, workshops, readings and new publishing.
Learn more about the film programme here: https://lux.org.uk/event/margaret-tait-mi…mmer-book-launch
Highgate Watercolour Group at the Highgate Festival – CANCELLED @ Highgate Society
Jun 27 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Highgate Watercolour Group at the Highgate Festival
The HWG will be showing a selection of paintings made during the ‘Lockdowns’ of
the last year. It will be available in the Highgate Society’s premises at 10A South
Grove. The group have met occasionally outside but mainly we’ve kept in touch
through Facebook. We’ve chosen a different theme each week and displayed a
selection of our members’ lovely work periodically. Recent topics have included
Nature, Spring, Dreams, Family and Travel – so an eclectic mix! Please check with
the HS for when the hall will be open to visitors.

 

 

Oct
27
Wed
Virtual Tour – The Heights of Dickens @ Online
Oct 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Virtual Tour - The Heights of Dickens @ Online

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; peep into Highgate Cemetery 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 across the grounds of Kenwood towards North End and Hendon. We finish in North End where we view the 17th century farmhouse that Dickens lodged in.

This is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk. There will be opportunities for questions and interaction both during and after the virtual to tour.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-tour-the-heights-of-dickens-tickets-170366438604?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

 

 

Jun
11
Sat
Highgate Festival 2022 @ Various locations
Jun 11 all-day

Whether it be dance, art, music or literature, local talent is invited to get involved.

The full programme is now out – here it is!
Jun
12
Sun
Highgate Festival 2022 @ Various locations
Jun 12 all-day

Whether it be dance, art, music or literature, local talent is invited to get involved.

The full programme is now out – here it is!
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX
Jun 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX

As dusk approaches and the park begins to grow quiet, a unique evening of site specific performances spread throughout Waterlow Park, featuring artists from the UK, Taiwan, Spain, Greece, S Korea, China, Indonesia and Malaysia, curated by LUX Creative Ecologist Richard Layzell.

Artists: Yasmine Aminanda, Amos, Christina Anagnostou, Heejin Ban, Ning Chou, Abel Holsborough, Karen Kearley, Catherine Kiwala, Richard Layzell, Jaime Martinez, Nicole O’Hara, Nurin Yusof

Meet at LUX Moving Image, Waterlow Park Centre, London N19 5JF at 7pm

Please bring umbrellas if rain is expected.

 

Richard Layzell is a Creative Ecologist in residence at LUX. He has been a leading innovator in the fields of live art, video and installation since the 1980s. He has been commissioned by most major public galleries and museums across the UK and completed many international artist residencies. As a mentor and facilitator he’s devised an individual approach to sharing knowledge and supporting others. He has pioneered socially engaged practice and worked with many diverse communities nationally and internationally. His interactive installation Tap Ruffle and Shave was experienced by 100,000 people of all ages and abilities on its UK tour. He is the author of Live Art in Schools, Enhanced Performance (ed. Deborah Levy) and Cream Pages (ed. Joshua Sofaer), an honorary associate of the National Review of Live Art.

Jun
13
Mon
Highgate Festival 2022 @ Various locations
Jun 13 all-day

Whether it be dance, art, music or literature, local talent is invited to get involved.

The full programme is now out – here it is!
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX
Jun 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX

As dusk approaches and the park begins to grow quiet, a unique evening of site specific performances spread throughout Waterlow Park, featuring artists from the UK, Taiwan, Spain, Greece, S Korea, China, Indonesia and Malaysia, curated by LUX Creative Ecologist Richard Layzell.

Artists: Yasmine Aminanda, Amos, Christina Anagnostou, Heejin Ban, Ning Chou, Abel Holsborough, Karen Kearley, Catherine Kiwala, Richard Layzell, Jaime Martinez, Nicole O’Hara, Nurin Yusof

Meet at LUX Moving Image, Waterlow Park Centre, London N19 5JF at 7pm

Please bring umbrellas if rain is expected.

 

Richard Layzell is a Creative Ecologist in residence at LUX. He has been a leading innovator in the fields of live art, video and installation since the 1980s. He has been commissioned by most major public galleries and museums across the UK and completed many international artist residencies. As a mentor and facilitator he’s devised an individual approach to sharing knowledge and supporting others. He has pioneered socially engaged practice and worked with many diverse communities nationally and internationally. His interactive installation Tap Ruffle and Shave was experienced by 100,000 people of all ages and abilities on its UK tour. He is the author of Live Art in Schools, Enhanced Performance (ed. Deborah Levy) and Cream Pages (ed. Joshua Sofaer), an honorary associate of the National Review of Live Art.

Jun
14
Tue
Highgate Festival 2022 @ Various locations
Jun 14 all-day

Whether it be dance, art, music or literature, local talent is invited to get involved.

The full programme is now out – here it is!
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX
Jun 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX

As dusk approaches and the park begins to grow quiet, a unique evening of site specific performances spread throughout Waterlow Park, featuring artists from the UK, Taiwan, Spain, Greece, S Korea, China, Indonesia and Malaysia, curated by LUX Creative Ecologist Richard Layzell.

Artists: Yasmine Aminanda, Amos, Christina Anagnostou, Heejin Ban, Ning Chou, Abel Holsborough, Karen Kearley, Catherine Kiwala, Richard Layzell, Jaime Martinez, Nicole O’Hara, Nurin Yusof

Meet at LUX Moving Image, Waterlow Park Centre, London N19 5JF at 7pm

Please bring umbrellas if rain is expected.

 

Richard Layzell is a Creative Ecologist in residence at LUX. He has been a leading innovator in the fields of live art, video and installation since the 1980s. He has been commissioned by most major public galleries and museums across the UK and completed many international artist residencies. As a mentor and facilitator he’s devised an individual approach to sharing knowledge and supporting others. He has pioneered socially engaged practice and worked with many diverse communities nationally and internationally. His interactive installation Tap Ruffle and Shave was experienced by 100,000 people of all ages and abilities on its UK tour. He is the author of Live Art in Schools, Enhanced Performance (ed. Deborah Levy) and Cream Pages (ed. Joshua Sofaer), an honorary associate of the National Review of Live Art.

Jun
15
Wed
Highgate Festival 2022 @ Various locations
Jun 15 all-day

Whether it be dance, art, music or literature, local talent is invited to get involved.

The full programme is now out – here it is!
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX
Jun 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX

As dusk approaches and the park begins to grow quiet, a unique evening of site specific performances spread throughout Waterlow Park, featuring artists from the UK, Taiwan, Spain, Greece, S Korea, China, Indonesia and Malaysia, curated by LUX Creative Ecologist Richard Layzell.

Artists: Yasmine Aminanda, Amos, Christina Anagnostou, Heejin Ban, Ning Chou, Abel Holsborough, Karen Kearley, Catherine Kiwala, Richard Layzell, Jaime Martinez, Nicole O’Hara, Nurin Yusof

Meet at LUX Moving Image, Waterlow Park Centre, London N19 5JF at 7pm

Please bring umbrellas if rain is expected.

 

Richard Layzell is a Creative Ecologist in residence at LUX. He has been a leading innovator in the fields of live art, video and installation since the 1980s. He has been commissioned by most major public galleries and museums across the UK and completed many international artist residencies. As a mentor and facilitator he’s devised an individual approach to sharing knowledge and supporting others. He has pioneered socially engaged practice and worked with many diverse communities nationally and internationally. His interactive installation Tap Ruffle and Shave was experienced by 100,000 people of all ages and abilities on its UK tour. He is the author of Live Art in Schools, Enhanced Performance (ed. Deborah Levy) and Cream Pages (ed. Joshua Sofaer), an honorary associate of the National Review of Live Art.

Jun
16
Thu
Highgate Festival 2022 @ Various locations
Jun 16 all-day

Whether it be dance, art, music or literature, local talent is invited to get involved.

The full programme is now out – here it is!
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX
Jun 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX

As dusk approaches and the park begins to grow quiet, a unique evening of site specific performances spread throughout Waterlow Park, featuring artists from the UK, Taiwan, Spain, Greece, S Korea, China, Indonesia and Malaysia, curated by LUX Creative Ecologist Richard Layzell.

Artists: Yasmine Aminanda, Amos, Christina Anagnostou, Heejin Ban, Ning Chou, Abel Holsborough, Karen Kearley, Catherine Kiwala, Richard Layzell, Jaime Martinez, Nicole O’Hara, Nurin Yusof

Meet at LUX Moving Image, Waterlow Park Centre, London N19 5JF at 7pm

Please bring umbrellas if rain is expected.

 

Richard Layzell is a Creative Ecologist in residence at LUX. He has been a leading innovator in the fields of live art, video and installation since the 1980s. He has been commissioned by most major public galleries and museums across the UK and completed many international artist residencies. As a mentor and facilitator he’s devised an individual approach to sharing knowledge and supporting others. He has pioneered socially engaged practice and worked with many diverse communities nationally and internationally. His interactive installation Tap Ruffle and Shave was experienced by 100,000 people of all ages and abilities on its UK tour. He is the author of Live Art in Schools, Enhanced Performance (ed. Deborah Levy) and Cream Pages (ed. Joshua Sofaer), an honorary associate of the National Review of Live Art.

Jun
17
Fri
Highgate Festival 2022 @ Various locations
Jun 17 all-day

Whether it be dance, art, music or literature, local talent is invited to get involved.

The full programme is now out – here it is!
Summer Social Event @ Highgate Society
Jun 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX
Jun 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX

As dusk approaches and the park begins to grow quiet, a unique evening of site specific performances spread throughout Waterlow Park, featuring artists from the UK, Taiwan, Spain, Greece, S Korea, China, Indonesia and Malaysia, curated by LUX Creative Ecologist Richard Layzell.

Artists: Yasmine Aminanda, Amos, Christina Anagnostou, Heejin Ban, Ning Chou, Abel Holsborough, Karen Kearley, Catherine Kiwala, Richard Layzell, Jaime Martinez, Nicole O’Hara, Nurin Yusof

Meet at LUX Moving Image, Waterlow Park Centre, London N19 5JF at 7pm

Please bring umbrellas if rain is expected.

 

Richard Layzell is a Creative Ecologist in residence at LUX. He has been a leading innovator in the fields of live art, video and installation since the 1980s. He has been commissioned by most major public galleries and museums across the UK and completed many international artist residencies. As a mentor and facilitator he’s devised an individual approach to sharing knowledge and supporting others. He has pioneered socially engaged practice and worked with many diverse communities nationally and internationally. His interactive installation Tap Ruffle and Shave was experienced by 100,000 people of all ages and abilities on its UK tour. He is the author of Live Art in Schools, Enhanced Performance (ed. Deborah Levy) and Cream Pages (ed. Joshua Sofaer), an honorary associate of the National Review of Live Art.

Jun
18
Sat
Highgate Festival 2022 @ Various locations
Jun 18 all-day

Whether it be dance, art, music or literature, local talent is invited to get involved.

The full programme is now out – here it is!
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX
Jun 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX

As dusk approaches and the park begins to grow quiet, a unique evening of site specific performances spread throughout Waterlow Park, featuring artists from the UK, Taiwan, Spain, Greece, S Korea, China, Indonesia and Malaysia, curated by LUX Creative Ecologist Richard Layzell.

Artists: Yasmine Aminanda, Amos, Christina Anagnostou, Heejin Ban, Ning Chou, Abel Holsborough, Karen Kearley, Catherine Kiwala, Richard Layzell, Jaime Martinez, Nicole O’Hara, Nurin Yusof

Meet at LUX Moving Image, Waterlow Park Centre, London N19 5JF at 7pm

Please bring umbrellas if rain is expected.

 

Richard Layzell is a Creative Ecologist in residence at LUX. He has been a leading innovator in the fields of live art, video and installation since the 1980s. He has been commissioned by most major public galleries and museums across the UK and completed many international artist residencies. As a mentor and facilitator he’s devised an individual approach to sharing knowledge and supporting others. He has pioneered socially engaged practice and worked with many diverse communities nationally and internationally. His interactive installation Tap Ruffle and Shave was experienced by 100,000 people of all ages and abilities on its UK tour. He is the author of Live Art in Schools, Enhanced Performance (ed. Deborah Levy) and Cream Pages (ed. Joshua Sofaer), an honorary associate of the National Review of Live Art.

Jun
19
Sun
Highgate Festival 2022 @ Various locations
Jun 19 all-day

Whether it be dance, art, music or literature, local talent is invited to get involved.

The full programme is now out – here it is!
Sunday lunchtime concert: The Reliables jazz group @ Highgate Society
Jun 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

On the last day of the Highgate Festival…..

To buy you ticket: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sunday-lunchtime-concert-the-reliables-jazz-group-tickets-341701567587?utm_campaign=post_publish&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_content=shortLinkNewEmail

EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX
Jun 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TWICE @ LUX

As dusk approaches and the park begins to grow quiet, a unique evening of site specific performances spread throughout Waterlow Park, featuring artists from the UK, Taiwan, Spain, Greece, S Korea, China, Indonesia and Malaysia, curated by LUX Creative Ecologist Richard Layzell.

Artists: Yasmine Aminanda, Amos, Christina Anagnostou, Heejin Ban, Ning Chou, Abel Holsborough, Karen Kearley, Catherine Kiwala, Richard Layzell, Jaime Martinez, Nicole O’Hara, Nurin Yusof

Meet at LUX Moving Image, Waterlow Park Centre, London N19 5JF at 7pm

Please bring umbrellas if rain is expected.

 

Richard Layzell is a Creative Ecologist in residence at LUX. He has been a leading innovator in the fields of live art, video and installation since the 1980s. He has been commissioned by most major public galleries and museums across the UK and completed many international artist residencies. As a mentor and facilitator he’s devised an individual approach to sharing knowledge and supporting others. He has pioneered socially engaged practice and worked with many diverse communities nationally and internationally. His interactive installation Tap Ruffle and Shave was experienced by 100,000 people of all ages and abilities on its UK tour. He is the author of Live Art in Schools, Enhanced Performance (ed. Deborah Levy) and Cream Pages (ed. Joshua Sofaer), an honorary associate of the National Review of Live Art.

Sep
26
Mon
Snapshot Photography and Highgate School’s Collection @ Virtual Zoom Event
Sep 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Snapshot Photography and Highgate School’s Collection

Elaine Woodbridge has been a volunteer archivist at Highgate School for the last two years working on the school’s photographic slide collection and other projects.  Elaine has been fascinated with mid-century slide photographs since she began collecting them more than twenty years ago in South Africa.  In her journey with old slides, she has digitised and creatively edited them, shared them on social media, made art and given public talks about them.

Found photographs have an enthusiastic following in  popular culture where people do everything from collecting, blogging and making art with them, to trying to reunite them with their original owners.  The snapshots of yesterday have also influenced mainstream photography and given rise to new aesthetic traditions.  They have great creative potential and have been used by artists in a myriad of ways.  But they also contain an intimate and important record of people’s lives and society in past decades, as well as the worlds of work and education.  Elaine has read widely on this subject which finds itself at the meeting place of technology, history, popular culture, fine art and archives.

Elaine is completing a Masters degree in Archives and Records Management at the University of Dundee and previously studied Archaeology, Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Cape Town.  She is not averse to scratching around in flea markets and dusty drawers for lost photographs.  Elaine was delighted to be given the task of working with Highgate’s slide collections, showing school life in the 1960s and 1980s, which she says is a treasure trove of surprising images that open a window on decades past, and is a valuable component of the school’s archive holdings.  She asks what we can learn from them and how to understand the collection against the backdrop of British vernacular photography.

Elaine will discuss concepts of snapshot photography and offer behind-the-scenes insights into caring for and archiving a slide collection, covering storage and preservation, copyright and digitisation.  Her talk will be illustrated with stunning images from her South African collection, as well as those of Highgate School.  She will comment on the value of the collection for bringing to light the school’s changing education technology, built environment and way of life.  The 1960s to 1980s was a period on the brink of great technological and digital change.  It is a world still cherished in the living memories of many parents and alumni.

Join Elaine Woodbridge online on September 26 to hear more about this intriguing topic and see a glimpse of life at the school back in the day.

Jun
9
Fri
Maggie Jennnings: Verdance @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 9 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery

These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.

 

Maggie Jennings: Verdance
In Long Grass 80cm x 50cm?

Maggie Jennings: Verdance

Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed

Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30

Jun
10
Sat
Maggie Jennnings: Verdance @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 10 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery

These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.

 

Maggie Jennings: Verdance
In Long Grass 80cm x 50cm?

Maggie Jennings: Verdance

Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed

Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30

Jun
11
Sun
Maggie Jennnings: Verdance @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 11 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery

These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.

 

Maggie Jennings: Verdance
In Long Grass 80cm x 50cm?

Maggie Jennings: Verdance

Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed

Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30

Jun
14
Wed
Maggie Jennnings: Verdance @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 14 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery

These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.

 

Maggie Jennings: Verdance
In Long Grass 80cm x 50cm?

Maggie Jennings: Verdance

Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed

Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30

Psychosomatic, a film performance by Richard Layzell @ Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
Jun 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Psychosomatic, a film performance by Richard Layzell @ Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution and LUX present Psychosomatic, a film performance by Richard Layzell as part of the Highgate Festival

Psychosomatic is a new work by artist Richard Layzell, his first feature length film and his 101st performance, using material gathered over a seven-year research period including as creative ecologist based at LUX in Waterlow Park.

Psychosomatic follows an intuitive approach to ecology and art practice, where expectations are confounded and accidents become central to the narrative. As this unfolds, through the voice of Kino Paxton, a (fictional) maverick environmentalist, so does the incalculable grief and loss of First Nations peoples in their relationship to land and the natural world, with their holistic philosophy that predates the Deep Ecology of Arne Naess (Norway) and the Fragments of Heraclitus (Ancient Greece).

Geographies linked to these two philosophers are also explored: the site of the first ever eco-action at Mardalsfossen and the birthplace of Heraclitus in Ephesus. A chance hearing of composer Hollis Taylor speaking on the World Service about the song of the pied butcherbird leads to a meeting in Alice Springs. Oranges drop from street trees in Selcuk outside a supermarket that has no oranges, while the two oranges left as offerings to Artemis at the temple should have been pomegranates. The slope elevates the automobile to a higher plane, up where the action is, and in Montreal the highway concrete crumbles and falls onto car roofs.

There’s an enormity to the scale of this work that’s both impressive and absurd. And this reach was never envisaged at the start. Beginning in the back streets of New Malden in 2017 and concluding with a return visit to Ephesus in 2022, the film crosses five continents, and becomes a record of the artist as traveller, performer, photographer, and hearer of voices.

 

To mark the upcoming screening of ‘Psychosomatic’, we are pleased to bring back Layzell’s 2021 film ‘Marvell Park’ online for a month.

Tracking the extraordinary ups and downs of 2020, ‘Marvell Park’ is a playful and personal meditation on a state of being, of how to move and interact with nature and the space of the park in a time when the world was so tangibly in flux. It takes a long view of the changing seasons and the puzzling activities of humans and other wildlife.

Richard Layzell has worked with most of the major UK public galleries and museums. He is a writer, performer, sculptor, filmmaker and the author of Enhanced Performance (ed Deborah Levy) and Cream Pages (ed Joshua Sofaer). After an extended period as an artist in industry, in the role of ‘visionaire’, he fed this experience back into the public sector, working with many diverse communities nationally and internationally.
www.thenaming.org @Layzell_Paxton

Jun
15
Thu
Maggie Jennnings: Verdance @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 15 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery

These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.

 

Maggie Jennings: Verdance
In Long Grass 80cm x 50cm?

Maggie Jennings: Verdance

Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed

Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30

Jun
16
Fri
Maggie Jennnings: Verdance @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 16 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery

These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.

 

Maggie Jennings: Verdance
In Long Grass 80cm x 50cm?

Maggie Jennings: Verdance

Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed

Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30

Jun
17
Sat
Maggie Jennnings: Verdance @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 17 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery

These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.

 

Maggie Jennings: Verdance
In Long Grass 80cm x 50cm?

Maggie Jennings: Verdance

Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed

Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30

Jun
18
Sun
Maggie Jennnings: Verdance @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 18 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery

These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.

 

Maggie Jennings: Verdance
In Long Grass 80cm x 50cm?

Maggie Jennings: Verdance

Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed

Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30

Jun
21
Wed
Maggie Jennnings: Verdance @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 21 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery

These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.

 

Maggie Jennings: Verdance
In Long Grass 80cm x 50cm?

Maggie Jennings: Verdance

Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed

Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30

Jun
22
Thu
Maggie Jennnings: Verdance @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 22 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery

These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.

 

Maggie Jennings: Verdance
In Long Grass 80cm x 50cm?

Maggie Jennings: Verdance

Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed

Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30

Oct
11
Wed
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain . @ Highgate Society
Oct 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain . @ Highgate Society

Wednesday 11th October 2023
7.00 for 7.30 pm  10A South Grove N6 6BS and online via Zoom
Entry £7.50 including a glass of wine (£3.00 on Zoom)

Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund are trustees of the Isokon Gallery, the museum in the building,. Their richly illustrated talk is not just about design and architecture but also war, sex, death, espionage and famous dinner parties.

Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain.

Nov
8
Wed
Highgate Cemetery: Facing the future @ Highgate Society
Nov 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Highgate Cemetery: Facing the future @ Highgate Society

Wednesday 8th November 2023
7.00 for 7.30 pm
10A South Grove N6 6BS and on Zoom
Entry £7.50 including a glass of wine. (£3 on Zoom)
Booking is via Eventbrite – click here

Highgate Cemetery is one of the most famous in the world. Opened in 1839, it is now treasured not only as a sanctuary both for the living and the dead but also for its beauty and heritage. Ian Dungavell, Chief Executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, will explain plans for a major project to conserve and unlock Highgate Cemetery’s remarkable landscape of memories, strengthen its resilience to the effects of climate change and enhance the visitor experience.

Nov
29
Wed
Talk on Waterways: save the date @ Highgate Society
Nov 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Talk on Waterways: save the date @ Highgate Society

Weds 29 Nov  waterways: details to book to follow

Jun
28
Fri
Walls of Boxes Solo Perfomance @ Jacksons Lane Art Center
Jun 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Walls of Boxes Solo Perfomance @ Jacksons Lane Art Center

A must-see solo performance inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince”. Fragility. Vulnerability. Storytelling through sound. Original songs and instrumental music composed and performed by Luba Hilman. Directed by Nelli Chernetskaya.

Tickets and more information:

https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/walls-of-boxes/

Contact: 020 8340 5226

Oct
16
Wed
Migrants: UK from 500 to 2024 @ Highgate Society
Oct 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Migrants: UK from 500 to 2024 @ Highgate Society

Migrants: UK from 500 to 2024

Wednesday 16th October 2024
7.30 pm (doors open 7.00 pm)
10A South Grove N6 6BS and on Zoom
Entry £7.50 including a glass of wine (£3 on Zoom)