Get ready for Jacksons Lane’s first-ever homegrown circus cabaret for kids and their grown-ups — a thrilling mix of acrobatics, jaw-dropping aerial feats, mind-bending juggling, and tricksters who walk on their hands! Packed with surprises, heart-stopping action, and plenty of laughs, this family-friendly show is the perfect half-term treat. It’s an unmissable event filled with circus magic that’ll leave everyone grinning from ear to ear. Don’t miss out — join us for a fun-filled, unforgettable experience!
Get ready for Jacksons Lane’s first-ever homegrown circus cabaret for kids and their grown-ups — a thrilling mix of acrobatics, jaw-dropping aerial feats, mind-bending juggling, and tricksters who walk on their hands! Packed with surprises, heart-stopping action, and plenty of laughs, this family-friendly show is the perfect half-term treat. It’s an unmissable event filled with circus magic that’ll leave everyone grinning from ear to ear. Don’t miss out — join us for a fun-filled, unforgettable experience!
Get ready for Jacksons Lane’s first-ever homegrown circus cabaret for kids and their grown-ups — a thrilling mix of acrobatics, jaw-dropping aerial feats, mind-bending juggling, and tricksters who walk on their hands! Packed with surprises, heart-stopping action, and plenty of laughs, this family-friendly show is the perfect half-term treat. It’s an unmissable event filled with circus magic that’ll leave everyone grinning from ear to ear. Don’t miss out — join us for a fun-filled, unforgettable experience!
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Get ready for Jacksons Lane’s first-ever homegrown circus cabaret for kids and their grown-ups — a thrilling mix of acrobatics, jaw-dropping aerial feats, mind-bending juggling, and tricksters who walk on their hands! Packed with surprises, heart-stopping action, and plenty of laughs, this family-friendly show is the perfect half-term treat. It’s an unmissable event filled with circus magic that’ll leave everyone grinning from ear to ear. Don’t miss out — join us for a fun-filled, unforgettable experience!
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Monday 6 Nov coffee computers 10 30
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Martini – the ultimate cocktail tasting with Alice Lascelles
Thursday 13th March 2025
7.30 pm
10A South Grove N6 6BS
Entry £32 including welcome cocktail, Martini tasters and snacks.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Sunday lunchtime concert: Viola Lenzi and Isabella Gori
Sunday 23rd March
12 noon
10A South Grove N6 6BS
Entry £15 including a glass of Buck’s Fizz
Pianists Viola Lenzi and Isabella Gori will be combining forces on the Highgate Society piano to play us some four handed jazz and folk inspired music.
Think Gershwin, Greig and Dvořák – Slavonic dances, Norwegian dances, Rhapsody in Blue and three Gershwin preludes. A colourful tapestry for dance, culture and virtuosity!
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Monday 6 Nov coffee computers 10 30
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
To sea or not to sea
Wednesday 16th April 2025
7.00 for 7.30 pm.
10A South Grove N6 6BS and on Zoom
Entry £7.50 including a glass of wine (£3.00 on Zoom).
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Following their Transmission residency last summer, this is your chance to experience the premiere of Bending Reality, the latest production from Nua Dance.
Our brains don’t just perceive reality — they reconstruct it. But what if what we see isn’t all there is? Blending dance, circus, and parkour, Bending Reality unravels shifting perspectives and hidden layers of perception. A sculptural dress reshapes the space, while Ben Glover’s video design captures the moments between what is seen and imagined.
As with previous Nua Dance productions, this show prioritises accessibility for deaf audiences through creative captions, vibrotactile wearable devices, and a sound description.
Following their Transmission residency last summer, this is your chance to experience the premiere of Bending Reality, the latest production from Nua Dance.
Our brains don’t just perceive reality — they reconstruct it. But what if what we see isn’t all there is? Blending dance, circus, and parkour, Bending Reality unravels shifting perspectives and hidden layers of perception. A sculptural dress reshapes the space, while Ben Glover’s video design captures the moments between what is seen and imagined.
As with previous Nua Dance productions, this show prioritises accessibility for deaf audiences through creative captions, vibrotactile wearable devices, and a sound description.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Monday 6 Nov coffee computers 10 30
The Merry Mug Quiz
Tuesday 6th May
7.00 for 7.30 pm
HLSI, 11 South Grove N6 6BS
Free entry, no need to book.
Highgate Society and HLSI members only
The Annual Quiz competition between the Highgate Society and the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute.
Curated by pole artist Madeleine Margot, Transient and Trifling brings bold and boundary-pushing performance to the Jacksons Lane stage. This show explores themes of power, control, and intimacy through a feast of circus, pole, and movement. Moving beyond traditional expectations, it invites you to immerse yourself in a unique, radical night of disciplined performance. Strictly ages 18+
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Lessons in Diplomacy: Politics, Power and Parties
Wednesday 14th May 2025
7.00 for 7.30 PM
10A South Grove N6 6BS and on Zoom
Entry £7.50 including a glass of wine (£3.00 on Zoom)
How to become an ambassador? Leigh Turner‘s new book Lessons in Diplomacy: Politics, Power and Parties attempts to answer that question.
Leigh Turner CMG is a British writer and retired diplomat. His final role was British Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna from August 2016 to September 2021. He was British Ambassador to Ukraine from 2008 to 2012.
Jacksons Lane presents a brand-new strand of free live music events in our bar this Summer, curated by Highgate musician Steve Somerset. Each month will see Steve and his band The Lost Weekend perform alongside special guests. Arrive early to bag a seat!
Admission free, donations welcome on the night.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
“One to watch!”
— The Stage
“Sharp, Clever & Fun”
— Stagedoor
You’re SO F**KING Croydon! is a bold, unapologetic dive into the female working-class life experience and noughties club culture, blending music, dance, comedy, and spoken word — plus Croydon’s most infamous celebrities.
“It was my nemesis, I hated Croydon with a real vengeance. It represented everything I didn’t want in my life, everything I wanted to get away from. I think it’s the most derogatory thing I can say about somebody or something: ‘God, it’s so f**king Croydon!’”
— David Bowie
Set against Croydon’s gritty reputation, this interactive show challenges Bowie’s words, exploring identity, resilience, and breaking free from stereotypes.
With a cheeky ‘Love of Huns’ aesthetic and a euphoric ‘Save the Last Dance’-style finale, it’s a celebration of strength, humour, and refusing to be pigeonholed.
Whether you’ve walked Croydon’s streets or not, this show resonates with heart, humour, and a strut down memory lane — with David Bowie appearing in unexpected ways.
We have great pleasure in inviting you to the 58th Annual General Meeting of the Highgate
Society which will be held
On Thursday 22 May 2025 at 7.00pm
at St Michael’s School, North Road, N6 4BG
Griff Rhys Jones will be the guest speaker. A very well-known actor and television
presenter, as President of Civic Voice he has been awarded the OBE for services to the
national civic society movement.
Doors open at 6.30pm, Formal proceedings start at 7pm. Drinks and light refreshments
will be served.
Dylan is living with dementia. Heather must watch the love of her life drift away and battle with the erosion of his memories… but Heather is not going to let Dylan go easily. Instead, they fight to remember their past together, the laughter, the battles, and to rediscover a joy that keeps them connected for whatever the future holds.
Kook Ensemble brings together world-class theatre makers to craft original, playful stories. Blending the best of circus and theatre, they delight in captivating audiences with surprises, charm, and unexpected twists right to the very end!
Dylan is living with dementia. Heather must watch the love of her life drift away and battle with the erosion of his memories… but Heather is not going to let Dylan go easily. Instead, they fight to remember their past together, the laughter, the battles, and to rediscover a joy that keeps them connected for whatever the future holds.
Kook Ensemble brings together world-class theatre makers to craft original, playful stories. Blending the best of circus and theatre, they delight in captivating audiences with surprises, charm, and unexpected twists right to the very end!
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
“Frankly genius!”
— The Guardian
“Thoroughly enjoyable”
—The Wicker Man Director Robin Hardy
Dust off your best Scottish accent, dress up as your favourite pagan character (or a Christian copper if you dare), and join us for an unforgettable night of songs, bottom-slapping, and iconic dialogue from this cult horror classic. With its haunting soundtrack, your hosts, David Bramwell and Eliza Skelton, will get your voices warmed up with live music before guiding you through the actions and words. Then, at the Witching Hour, you’ll receive a goody bag filled with mysterious items, the film will roll, and the singalong will begin.
May God have mercy on your soul!
A must for all The Wicker Man fans. Prizes for best costumes!
Following their Transmission residency last summer, this is your chance to experience the premiere of Bending Reality, the latest production from Nua Dance.
Our brains don’t just perceive reality — they reconstruct it. But what if what we see isn’t all there is? Blending dance, circus, and parkour, Bending Reality unravels shifting perspectives and hidden layers of perception. A sculptural dress reshapes the space, while Ben Glover’s video design captures the moments between what is seen and imagined.
As with previous Nua Dance productions, this show prioritises accessibility for deaf audiences through creative captions, vibrotactile wearable devices, and a sound description.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Alex McAleer has an uncanny ability to tap into his audience’s minds and seemingly read their thoughts at will.
Having played to packed houses at the Edinburgh Fringe, award-nominated sell-out shows in Australia, and toured extensively across North America and the UK as the stand-out star of Champions of Magic, Alex has earned a reputation as a charismatic, engaging, and witty entertainer.
In this unforgettable show, he combines razor-sharp humour with mind-blowing psychological feats, creating an interactive and laugh-out-loud experience. Don’t miss your chance to see Alex McAleer live!