The Captain Calamity Mega Show

The Captain Calamity Mega Show is a crazy mix of magic and hilarity like no other. Expect jaw dropping science stunts, enormous balloons, beautiful bubbles, calamitous custard pies, crazy puppet characters, action dances and games in this marvellous melting pot of momentous mayhem. If you want to see what all the fuss is about then check out The Captain’s very own YouTube channel at www.calamity.tv and book your ticket for a splendiferous adventure into the crazy world of Captain Calamity. Ages Suitable for children of 2 – 8 years.

Ticket Prices:

Adults/Children ( Standard) – £8.50

Adults/Children ( Concession) – £6.50

Family Ticket ( 2 Adults/ 2 Children) – £28.50

Family Ticket (Concession) 2 Adults/2 Children – £20.00

Under 18 months free.

To Book tickets:

Box office: 02083488716

Email: enquiries@lauderdale.org.uk

Website: http://www.lauderdalehouse.co.uk

alison guill

then and now

Alison Guill, once full-time singer, now teacher, mother and part-time gin sipper, is accompanied by Martin Leberman in this somewhat eclectic, hopefully entertaining and slightly indulgent musical journey. Between Schumann and Sondheim, Mozart and Menken, Michael Head and Kander & Ebb, Alison will share anecdotes about auditions gone wrong, mistaken casting, toddlers and terriers. There is bound to be something for everyone so come and join us for a varied and enjoyable evening.

Proceeds will go to support Mind and Cancer Research UK.

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

companeros

jazz in the house

Georgia Mancio (vocals), Guillermo Rozenthuler (vocals / guitar), Arnie Somogyi (bass), Dave Ohm (drums)

The multi lingual singer Georgia Mancio has risen through a veritable forest of singers to become one of the UK’s most subtle and impressive artists whether performing classic standards or songs from Italy, Spain and Portugal.  Originally from Argentina, Guillermo has been described by Mark Murphy as “someone who rocked me with his amazing swinging versatility” For Georgia, who presented her co-written Songbook album with the legendary pianist Alan Broadbent all over Europe last Spring, this will be a contrast in style with the music of Cuba, Brazil and Chile to banish those early winter blues.  Don’t miss this, our London Jazz Festival show.

The Lauderdale House Cafe will be open from 6pm serving sausage rolls, frittata, cheese tarts, cakes and other light snacks along with a selection of teas, Illy coffee, wines, beers, including Peroni, Camden Pale Ale, London Pride, Aspall Cyder and Luscombe organic soft drinks.

TICKETS AVAILABLE BY PHONE ONLY

Due to technical issues with our online payment system tickets are not currently available to purchase online. If you would like to purchase tickets in advance please call 020 8348 8716 or email enquiries@lauderdale.org.uk. .

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

valerie cutko

cabaret at tea time

Where is home? And what does it mean to return there?

West End and Broadway actress and longtime host of Cabaret In The House Valerie Cutko returns from a season at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre where she led the cast of Alan Bennett’s People in its Scottish premiere. She and Musical Director Simon Beck present an evocative, witty, sophisticated set of songs on the theme of homecoming from composers from Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer to Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and John Bucchino.

Valerie’s West End roles include Fraulein Kost in Cabaret, Marlene Dietrich in Piaf, Madame Egorova in Beautiful and Damned (the story of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, directed by Craig Revell Horwood) and The Queen ofTransylvania in My Fair Lady. She played Madame Giry in The Phantom of the Opera, Mrs Mullin in Carousel and Ninotchka – the role played by Greta Garbo in Ernst Lubitch’s 1939 film Ninotchka. In 2015 she played Rafaella in Grand Hotel at the Southwark Playhouse, the role she took over in Tommy Tune’s original Broadway production. Valerie has performed in cabaret at Birdland in New York and at London venues including the St James Studio, Jermyn Street Theatre, Soho Revue Bar, The Old Vic Theatre Bar, Freud’s in Covent Garden, Wimbledon Theatre Studio and Torch in King’s Cross.

Simon Beck

Alongside being a music supervisor/director in West End and touring theatre, Simon has enjoyed a varied concert and cabaret career conducting/playing piano for such stars as Christina Bianco, Stephanie J Block, Susan Boyle, Barbara Cook, Cynthia Erivo, Maria Friedman, Haydyn Gwynne, Andrew Lippa, Lorna Luft, Millicent Martin, Lee Mead, and Monty Python, as well as concerts with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Full details at simonbeckmusician.com

Support: Kitty Whitelaw

Kitty is a Jazz singer and one half of the music duo Sealionwoman, who have played The Vaults, Union Chapel, Cafe Oto, Ikletik and numerous other London Venues.  Her theatre ​credit include Dr Warner in Metropolis, Assistant Choreographer for The Frogs, Delivery Kid/Various Ensemble in Wonderful Town, Jenna in Jagged Edge, Selkie in Selkie. Winner “Festive Spirit Award” for Vault Festival 2016.

Twitter: @KittyWhitelaw

Cabaret Tea A – £28.50

Glass of Prosecco

Hot smoked salmon with cream cheese and chive bridge roll

Free-range egg mayonnaise and mustard cress bridge roll

Rich chocolate brownie square

Cabaret Tea B – £25.50

Luscombe Wild Bubbly Elderflower Presse

Hot smoked salmon with cream cheese and chive bridge roll

Free-egg mayonnaise and mustard cress bridge roll

Rich chocolate brownie square

Times:

3.30 – doors open and tea served

4.30 – show starts

5 – interval

5.20 – second half starts

6.15 – end

Time: 15:30

Venue: Lauderdale House

If you just want to join us for Cabaret then you can purchase a full price ticket for £16.00 / £14.00 concession for students, unwaged & Equity members only.

chopin & champagne

nocturne – the romantic life of frederic chopin

HIGHGATEHASHEART is delighted to announce a fundraising concert, “Chopard & Champagne” on Sunday 19th November in support of vital refugee causes.

“Nocturne – The Romantic Life of Frederic Chopin“ is an evening of music and drama conceived by the internationally renowned concert pianist Lucy Parhamwith narrations by the celebrated actors Henry Goodman and Juliet Stevenson(a co-founder of Highgate Has Heart and local resident). The programme of words and music has been scripted and adapted from letters and diaries by Parham, chronicling the romantic life of one the greatest and most popular composers for solo piano – Frédéric Chopin. The narrative follows his turbulent relationship with the controversial literary figure George Sand, their time together in Majorca, his fragile health and his ultimate demise in poverty in Paris at the age of 39. The readings, with Frederic Chopin narrated by Goodman and George Sand by Stevenson, are interspersed with some of his most loved and poignant compositions played by Parham in the evocative setting of Lauderdale House.

Tickets includes drinks reception and concert performance.

Drinks reception from 7pm with concert starting at 8pm. The evening will end at 10pm with a short interval.

http://bit.ly/2xL31Ki

“Lucy Parham’s trailblazing evening concerts in which she fuses music and words with the help of some of our most distinguished actors, have become one of the must-see events on the musical calendar.”

BBC Music Magazine 5 stars *****

Proceeds from the evening will be donated on behalf of HighgateHasHeart to the 4 refugees charities we support: Help Refugees, Safe Passage, Islington Centre and Young Roots.

Please download the booking form below and email it to Jenny Taylor at jim.taylor4@virgin.net

Payment is by bank transfer (please put reference name) and we will email you your tickets once payment has been received. Please bring a print out of your tickets or on your phone.

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

ivo neame quartet

jazz in the house

TICKETS AVAILABLE BY PHONE ONLY

Due to technical issues with our online payment system tickets are not currently available to purchase online. If you would like to purchase tickets in advance please call 020 8348 8716 or email enquiries@lauderdale.org.uk. .

Ivo Neame (piano), George Crowley (tenor saxophone), Tom Farmer (bass), Martin France (drums)

Pianist and composer Ivo Neame has now reached European star status with his work with piano trio Phronesis and with Norwegian superstar saxophonist Marius Neset. A considerable leap up from those Kentish Town Loop Collective sessions of a few years ago. Having heard his own Quartet at this year’s Swanage Festival, where he delighted a full church venue of typical elderly mainstream jazz fans with his innovative but beautifully melodic and accessible music, we are fortunate to be able to attract such a busy musician to the House. If you think new wave Euro jazz is all about ice-cold intellectualism, come and have your prejudice confounded. At some points George Crowley almost sounds like one of those classic Texas tenors; there are real jazz roots in this music.

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

singing for humanity

sunday songfest

We are currently living in a refugee crisis unseen since the Second World War with approximately 65.3 million people now refugees, seeking asylum or internally displaced. Therefore we have decided to give these 2 concerts in aid of one of the most important charities in the world at the moment, working with refugees, Help Refugees.

1st concert 5pm:

Rachel Mildon – Soprano

Antoine Carrier – Tenor

Mozart, Purcell, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Massenet, Verdi, Debussy, Chausson, Faure, Delius, Albeniz, Britten and more

2nd concert 7.45:

Lana Quaid, Ashley Racov – Soprano,

Roy Neilie – Tenor

Marcus Andrew Brentley – Baritone,

Anthony Philips – Bass baritone

Mozart, Bach, Mendelsohn, Schubert, Verdi, Donizetti, Offenbach, Bizet, Gurney, Ravel, Bernstein, Sondheim and more

Pianist – Richard Black

Musical direction – Idit Arad

From Help Refugees’ mission statement:

“Help Refugees is not simply another aid organisation. We work where governmental and other non-governmental bodies can (or will) not, filling the gaps and providing emergency aid and vital services to those affected by the global refugee crisis. We act fast to get aid and services directly and immediately to the people who need it most by identifying the most effective grassroots groups, local people, individual volunteers and refugees themselves active in the crisis and providing them with funding and support, enabling them to focus their time and energy on the vital work they do every day. Help Refugees are also operational where needed across Europe providing our experienced teams to maintain quality services and uphold dignity for refugees.”

To read more please go to their official website: www.helprefugees.org.uk

“For many years I have admired Idit as both a singer and a teacher of singing: she brings to all her musicmaking a lively professionalism and integrity, coupled with the gift of communication which inspires others to aspire to the same high standards. I have witnessed her in action as a teacher and have seen how quickly she can achieve positive results with committed students by pinpointing the specific areas of development relevant to each individual singer – the singers themselves are frequently surprised at the speed of their progress under Idit’s tuition. I enthusiastically recommend Idit as an exceptional teacher who commands international respect.”

Michael Pollock. (Consultant coach: English National Opera Harewood Artists; regular guest coach for National Opera Studio, Royal Academy Opera, Royal College of Music International Opera School (London); Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (Cardiff, Wales); North Sea Vocal Academy (Denmark), etc)

http://singingteacherinlondon.co.uk/

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

sarah moule

jazz in the house

TICKETS AVAILABLE BY PHONE ONLY

Due to technical issues with our online payment system tickets are not currently available to purchase online. If you would like to purchase tickets in advance please call 020 8348 8716 or email enquiries@lauderdale.org.uk. .

Sarah Moule (vocals), Simon Wallace (piano), Steve Watts (bass), Paul Robinson (drums)

‘We want people to leave our gigs feeling a little different from when they arrived‘. This is the goal for one of our finest singers, Sarah Moule and the musicians she surrounds herself with, acclaimed composer and pianist Wallace, Loose Tubes bassist Watts and Nina Simone’s drummer for 19 years, Robinson. Their music is melodic and layered, by turns moody or playful or even occasionally, ripe with the kind of bawdy humour you might have encountered on the Black Vaudeville circuit of the 1920’s.

‘Cool, elegant and immaculate’. Dave Gelly, The Observer

mini mozart

Mini Mozart offers fun and interactive live music classes for toddlers and babies. The classes feature two or more live instruments; a clarinet, violin, flute, French horn, saxophone or trumpet with a piano accompanist. The idea of Mini Mozart is to get children actually listening, not just hearing. Children interact with our live musicians in a way that is impossible with recorded music.

It’s hard to say which will be your favourite part of the class; the warm up where the teachers introduce their instruments allowing your little one to get up close and touch the instruments, or the part where they reveal their suitcase full of fun props that will entice your child on an interactive musical adventure.

Packed with puppets, parachutes & percussion, bursting with Bach & bubbles, and flush with fairy tales and flutes; follow our rotating team of 4 teachers and their piano accompanist on a multi-sensory musical journey that will inspire your little one with instruments from every section of the orchestra.

“I couldn’t wait to get out and about after Alfie was born. Mini Mozart was perfect because it was interesting for both of us!” Claire, Mum to Alfie (aged 4 months)

Start time: 9.30am for toddlers and 10.15 for babies.

alison rayner quintet

jazz in the house

TICKETS AVAILABLE BY PHONE ONLY

Due to technical issues with our online payment system tickets are not currently available to purchase online. If you would like to purchase tickets in advance please call 020 8348 8716 or email enquiries@lauderdale.org.uk. .

Alison Rayner (bass), Steve Lodder (piano), Deirdre Cartwright (guitar), Diane McLoughlin (saxophone), Buster Birch (drums) 

The full date book for this most appealing of bands, full of almost folk melody, neo funk grooves and jazz swing, all built around Alison Rayner’s magnificent bass sound, tells its own story of a group of musicians who clearly love playing together.  No empty virtuosity here but just a strong wish to communicate and give audiences pleasure.

“ARQ bring to the stage a musical bond that is expressed in such fun and joyful moments that it is a pleasure to be in the same room with them; jazz of the highest quality” Phil Rose, Birmingham Jazz

Chopin and his patrons

Distinguished pianist Tomasz Lis will present the seventh concert in the series of Music At Unique Venues. The lecture recital will take place at Lauderdale House, build in 1582 during the reign of Elisabeth I. In 1645 the house was inherited by Earl of Lauderdale and visited by such notable people like Charles II, Samuel Pepys and Nell Gwyn.

During the evening Tomasz Lis will give a recital of Chopin’s music as well as discuss his most illustrious patrons, focusing his attention on the three most lavish and distinguished salons of the day ruled over by Harriet Lady Granville, Baroness Thérèse d’Apponyi and Baronne Betty de Rothschild.

The lecture recital will by illustrated with paintings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Eugène Delacroix. Wine will be served during the interval and the audience will have an exclusive access to the house and its surrounding gardens.

Programme:

Fantaisie Op.49 in F minor; Polonaise-Fantaisie Op.61 in A flat major; Mazurkas Op.59; Nocturnes Op.27; Nocturnes Op.62; Mazurkas Op.17.

Mr Bear’s Christmas Wish
In a chair, in a shop window sits ‘Mr Aloysius B. Bear, Retired’. Known to all and sundry as, Mr. Bear. He had once belonged to a little girl and when she grew up she had given him to the shop as she thought he would very much like the hussle and bussle of shop life and in that she was not mistaken. Mr Bear loved sitting in his chair in the window of the shop. He could wish for nothing more except for one thing – he wished it would snow for Christmas . So he set off to find the mysterious Frost Dragon to ask for her help …Join Mr Bear on his exciting adventure to find The Frost Dragon. With magical effects, puppets and storytelling. Music and soundscape by the Swiss composer Petrus Project. Ages suitable for children aged 2- 8 years.

Ticket Prices:

Adults/Children ( Standard) – £8.50

Adults/Children ( Concession) – £6.50

Family Ticket ( 2 Adults/ 2 Children) – £28.50

Family Ticket (Concession) 2 Adults/2 Children – £20.00

Under 18 months free.

To Book Tickets:

Box office: 02083488716

Email: enquiries@lauderdale.org.uk

Website: http://www.lauderdalehouse.co.uk

The beautiful 15th century Lauderdale House is at the south end of Highgate High Street. It is set in gorgeous Waterlow Park and next door is the famous Highgate Cemetery.

Artisan Market

MARCH, JUNE, SEPTEMBER & DECEMBER
SECOND SUNDAY 11AM-5PM

Duck Pond Market is back at Lauderdale House for quarterly 2017 markets with the best local artists, crafters, food producers and ethical businesses. There are locally made arts & crafts, gifts, vintage, homewares and clothing.

A tempting choice of locally made food to take home. London Craft Club host craft workshops for both adults and children. They also offer FREE crafting for children. Musicians perform live.

the art deco night owls

the art deco ball

Cassellah Presents The Art Deco Night Owls in association with Nikki Santilli.

The Art Deco Night Owls are specialists in the recreation of the music and atmosphere of the exhilarating Roaring 20s Jazz Age into the Swinging 30s. Said by an appreciative public, to effervesce like sparkling Champagne!

The Hot Dance Orchestra comprises eight talented multi-instrumentalists playing vintage instruments such as: original vintage era drum kit with period console, Chinese tom, temple blocks, crash/ accent / bell cymbals; bass sax, tuba, string bass – not of course all played at once !!

Banjo, piano, 2 saxophonists-playing soprano, alto, tenor, saxophones, clarinets, cornet, leader trombone

Vocal – Brian Webb one of the very best/most accurate male vocalists covering this period of music, be it as a 30’s crooner or as a driving 20s singer.

With us for The Art Deco Ball we have Nikki Santilli a leading early Jazz dancer to delight us with a dance or two. What will it be?!! Charleston, Blackbottom, Balboa? Most of the music from the period was actually written in Foxtrot rhythm, including perhaps surprisingly, The Charleston, Blackbottom and Varsity Drag!

Come to dance, or just come to listen and soak up the atmosphere, either way we’ll have a Ball!

mini mozart

Mini Mozart offers fun and interactive live music classes for toddlers and babies. The classes feature two or more live instruments; a clarinet, violin, flute, French horn, saxophone or trumpet with a piano accompanist. The idea of Mini Mozart is to get children actually listening, not just hearing. Children interact with our live musicians in a way that is impossible with recorded music.

It’s hard to say which will be your favourite part of the class; the warm up where the teachers introduce their instruments allowing your little one to get up close and touch the instruments, or the part where they reveal their suitcase full of fun props that will entice your child on an interactive musical adventure.

Packed with puppets, parachutes & percussion, bursting with Bach & bubbles, and flush with fairy tales and flutes; follow our rotating team of 4 teachers and their piano accompanist on a multi-sensory musical journey that will inspire your little one with instruments from every section of the orchestra.

“I couldn’t wait to get out and about after Alfie was born. Mini Mozart was perfect because it was interesting for both of us!” Claire, Mum to Alfie (aged 4 months)

Start time: 9.30am for toddlers and 10.15 for babies.

ancestry

Artists explore the theme of Ancestry each producing images that reflect their own unique backgrounds, histories and perspectives.

Janet Campbell:

Janet will be presenting several paintings exploring her maternal ancestry line through five generations – the mitochondrial line. There will be individual portraits and group scenes inspired by Velasquez’s Las Meninas utilising mixed media (oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and collage) on canvas.

Carry Gorney:

Carry is using torn lace and old photographs, fragments salvaged from the vanishing world of her refugee ancestors. She has scorched and singed ghostly faces and created a series of ephemeral images by stitching heat-distressed fabrics to the lace of another time. Materials; lace, photographs, torn papers, inks, Tyvek, synthetics, acrylics, gelli-printing.

Sarah Phillips:

Sarah will be illustrating the threads of creativity that permeated her childhood and inspired a lifelong involvement with art, craft and design. Her maternal great grandfather was a Victorian lace designer in the East End and her great grandmother was a pattern cutter. One of her earliest memories is of her Sunday lace on a rag doll mob cap that her aunt made for her.  She will visually embody a nostalgic representation of the desire to collect, horde and recycle that she has inherited from her paternal grandmother who carefully and lovingly preserved buttons, lace, trimmings and unravelled wool.

Chris Demetriou:

Chris will be investigating the areas and specific places of London that have shaped his life, and that of his ancestors and children, utilising a series of photographs.

Veronica Slater:

Veronica Slater manipulates images, taken from old family album photographs. Producing a series of paintings, that probes our process of recognition. These create an unsettling iconography which perhaps reflects the emotional mine field that is family and is ultimately our ancestral legacy.

Litza Jansz:

Litza Jansz uses photo montage to reimagine the ages and relationships of family members over four generations. By playing with time in representing different generations interacting at the same age her work subverts the power relationships within families and the rigid boundaries of the nuclear families within them.

Open times:

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday: 11am – 4pm

Thursday: 11.30 – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Friday: 11.00am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Saturdays: Closed

Sunday 17th December: 11am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open other dates)

ancestry

Artists explore the theme of Ancestry each producing images that reflect their own unique backgrounds, histories and perspectives.

Janet Campbell:

Janet will be presenting several paintings exploring her maternal ancestry line through five generations – the mitochondrial line. There will be individual portraits and group scenes inspired by Velasquez’s Las Meninas utilising mixed media (oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and collage) on canvas.

Carry Gorney:

Carry is using torn lace and old photographs, fragments salvaged from the vanishing world of her refugee ancestors. She has scorched and singed ghostly faces and created a series of ephemeral images by stitching heat-distressed fabrics to the lace of another time. Materials; lace, photographs, torn papers, inks, Tyvek, synthetics, acrylics, gelli-printing.

Sarah Phillips:

Sarah will be illustrating the threads of creativity that permeated her childhood and inspired a lifelong involvement with art, craft and design. Her maternal great grandfather was a Victorian lace designer in the East End and her great grandmother was a pattern cutter. One of her earliest memories is of her Sunday lace on a rag doll mob cap that her aunt made for her.  She will visually embody a nostalgic representation of the desire to collect, horde and recycle that she has inherited from her paternal grandmother who carefully and lovingly preserved buttons, lace, trimmings and unravelled wool.

Chris Demetriou:

Chris will be investigating the areas and specific places of London that have shaped his life, and that of his ancestors and children, utilising a series of photographs.

Veronica Slater:

Veronica Slater manipulates images, taken from old family album photographs. Producing a series of paintings, that probes our process of recognition. These create an unsettling iconography which perhaps reflects the emotional mine field that is family and is ultimately our ancestral legacy.

Litza Jansz:

Litza Jansz uses photo montage to reimagine the ages and relationships of family members over four generations. By playing with time in representing different generations interacting at the same age her work subverts the power relationships within families and the rigid boundaries of the nuclear families within them.

Open times:

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday: 11am – 4pm

Thursday: 11.30 – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Friday: 11.00am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Saturdays: Closed

Sunday 17th December: 11am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open other dates)

ancestry

Artists explore the theme of Ancestry each producing images that reflect their own unique backgrounds, histories and perspectives.

Janet Campbell:

Janet will be presenting several paintings exploring her maternal ancestry line through five generations – the mitochondrial line. There will be individual portraits and group scenes inspired by Velasquez’s Las Meninas utilising mixed media (oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and collage) on canvas.

Carry Gorney:

Carry is using torn lace and old photographs, fragments salvaged from the vanishing world of her refugee ancestors. She has scorched and singed ghostly faces and created a series of ephemeral images by stitching heat-distressed fabrics to the lace of another time. Materials; lace, photographs, torn papers, inks, Tyvek, synthetics, acrylics, gelli-printing.

Sarah Phillips:

Sarah will be illustrating the threads of creativity that permeated her childhood and inspired a lifelong involvement with art, craft and design. Her maternal great grandfather was a Victorian lace designer in the East End and her great grandmother was a pattern cutter. One of her earliest memories is of her Sunday lace on a rag doll mob cap that her aunt made for her.  She will visually embody a nostalgic representation of the desire to collect, horde and recycle that she has inherited from her paternal grandmother who carefully and lovingly preserved buttons, lace, trimmings and unravelled wool.

Chris Demetriou:

Chris will be investigating the areas and specific places of London that have shaped his life, and that of his ancestors and children, utilising a series of photographs.

Veronica Slater:

Veronica Slater manipulates images, taken from old family album photographs. Producing a series of paintings, that probes our process of recognition. These create an unsettling iconography which perhaps reflects the emotional mine field that is family and is ultimately our ancestral legacy.

Litza Jansz:

Litza Jansz uses photo montage to reimagine the ages and relationships of family members over four generations. By playing with time in representing different generations interacting at the same age her work subverts the power relationships within families and the rigid boundaries of the nuclear families within them.

Open times:

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday: 11am – 4pm

Thursday: 11.30 – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Friday: 11.00am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Saturdays: Closed

Sunday 17th December: 11am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open other dates)

mini mozart

Mini Mozart offers fun and interactive live music classes for toddlers and babies. The classes feature two or more live instruments; a clarinet, violin, flute, French horn, saxophone or trumpet with a piano accompanist. The idea of Mini Mozart is to get children actually listening, not just hearing. Children interact with our live musicians in a way that is impossible with recorded music.

It’s hard to say which will be your favourite part of the class; the warm up where the teachers introduce their instruments allowing your little one to get up close and touch the instruments, or the part where they reveal their suitcase full of fun props that will entice your child on an interactive musical adventure.

Packed with puppets, parachutes & percussion, bursting with Bach & bubbles, and flush with fairy tales and flutes; follow our rotating team of 4 teachers and their piano accompanist on a multi-sensory musical journey that will inspire your little one with instruments from every section of the orchestra.

“I couldn’t wait to get out and about after Alfie was born. Mini Mozart was perfect because it was interesting for both of us!” Claire, Mum to Alfie (aged 4 months)

Start time: 9.30am for toddlers and 10.15 for babies.

ancestry

Artists explore the theme of Ancestry each producing images that reflect their own unique backgrounds, histories and perspectives.

Janet Campbell:

Janet will be presenting several paintings exploring her maternal ancestry line through five generations – the mitochondrial line. There will be individual portraits and group scenes inspired by Velasquez’s Las Meninas utilising mixed media (oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and collage) on canvas.

Carry Gorney:

Carry is using torn lace and old photographs, fragments salvaged from the vanishing world of her refugee ancestors. She has scorched and singed ghostly faces and created a series of ephemeral images by stitching heat-distressed fabrics to the lace of another time. Materials; lace, photographs, torn papers, inks, Tyvek, synthetics, acrylics, gelli-printing.

Sarah Phillips:

Sarah will be illustrating the threads of creativity that permeated her childhood and inspired a lifelong involvement with art, craft and design. Her maternal great grandfather was a Victorian lace designer in the East End and her great grandmother was a pattern cutter. One of her earliest memories is of her Sunday lace on a rag doll mob cap that her aunt made for her.  She will visually embody a nostalgic representation of the desire to collect, horde and recycle that she has inherited from her paternal grandmother who carefully and lovingly preserved buttons, lace, trimmings and unravelled wool.

Chris Demetriou:

Chris will be investigating the areas and specific places of London that have shaped his life, and that of his ancestors and children, utilising a series of photographs.

Veronica Slater:

Veronica Slater manipulates images, taken from old family album photographs. Producing a series of paintings, that probes our process of recognition. These create an unsettling iconography which perhaps reflects the emotional mine field that is family and is ultimately our ancestral legacy.

Litza Jansz:

Litza Jansz uses photo montage to reimagine the ages and relationships of family members over four generations. By playing with time in representing different generations interacting at the same age her work subverts the power relationships within families and the rigid boundaries of the nuclear families within them.

Open times:

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday: 11am – 4pm

Thursday: 11.30 – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Friday: 11.00am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Saturdays: Closed

Sunday 17th December: 11am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open other dates)

ancestry

Artists explore the theme of Ancestry each producing images that reflect their own unique backgrounds, histories and perspectives.

Janet Campbell:

Janet will be presenting several paintings exploring her maternal ancestry line through five generations – the mitochondrial line. There will be individual portraits and group scenes inspired by Velasquez’s Las Meninas utilising mixed media (oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and collage) on canvas.

Carry Gorney:

Carry is using torn lace and old photographs, fragments salvaged from the vanishing world of her refugee ancestors. She has scorched and singed ghostly faces and created a series of ephemeral images by stitching heat-distressed fabrics to the lace of another time. Materials; lace, photographs, torn papers, inks, Tyvek, synthetics, acrylics, gelli-printing.

Sarah Phillips:

Sarah will be illustrating the threads of creativity that permeated her childhood and inspired a lifelong involvement with art, craft and design. Her maternal great grandfather was a Victorian lace designer in the East End and her great grandmother was a pattern cutter. One of her earliest memories is of her Sunday lace on a rag doll mob cap that her aunt made for her.  She will visually embody a nostalgic representation of the desire to collect, horde and recycle that she has inherited from her paternal grandmother who carefully and lovingly preserved buttons, lace, trimmings and unravelled wool.

Chris Demetriou:

Chris will be investigating the areas and specific places of London that have shaped his life, and that of his ancestors and children, utilising a series of photographs.

Veronica Slater:

Veronica Slater manipulates images, taken from old family album photographs. Producing a series of paintings, that probes our process of recognition. These create an unsettling iconography which perhaps reflects the emotional mine field that is family and is ultimately our ancestral legacy.

Litza Jansz:

Litza Jansz uses photo montage to reimagine the ages and relationships of family members over four generations. By playing with time in representing different generations interacting at the same age her work subverts the power relationships within families and the rigid boundaries of the nuclear families within them.

Open times:

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday: 11am – 4pm

Thursday: 11.30 – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Friday: 11.00am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Saturdays: Closed

Sunday 17th December: 11am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open other dates)

the meritus collective

The Meritus Collective was established to bring together musicians of all instruments who shared a passion for chamber music and to provide platforms from which to perform. Members have trained at most of the major conservatoires in Britain and between them have performed as parts of chamber groups all around the world and for orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonia Orchestra.

Meritus was the pseudonym of Felix Mendelssohn given to the young composer by Robert Schumann. It translates roughly as ‘happy through merit’ and is an inspiring and effective byword for this young and dynamic group of musicians who will be bringing a varied and exciting set of programmes to Lauderdale House over the coming year.

The Meritus Collective will perform a selection of works for flute, clarinet and string.

Programme details to be confirmed

wilde roses

Wilde Roses is an early music collaboration between singers, multi-instrumentalists, composers, dancers and performers Anna Tam and Emily Alice Ovenden who met whilst they were performing with the Mediaeval Baebes.

Musically and visually inspired by the medieval and renaissance world, we draw our repertoire from illuminated manuscripts, courtly song books, Elizabethan broadside ballads and the folk tradition. Fascinated by the stories in these songs – medieval religious imagery so beautifully infused with nature; renaissance tales of piracy, jilted lovers and general folly alongside some of the most sincere and tender love songs that reach to the heart of life and human relationships.

Anna Tam (musical director, singer, nyckelharpa, viola da gamba, hurdy gurdy player, percussion) enjoys and eclectic career both in the folk and classical genres. She trained as a classical singer and instrumentalist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. During her early studies, she performed at the Wigmore Hall and on BBC Radio 3 and has been touring internationally since she was 15.

Emily Alice Ovenden (singer, recorders, percussion) received a scholarship from Andrew Lloyd Webber to study in London. With the Mediaeval Baebes she has made several albums, and recorded themes for BBC TV shows Victoria and Elizabeth. Emily made 3 acclaimed albums with her band PYTHIA and has recorded vocals for multi platinum selling band Dragonforce.

wilde roses

Wilde Roses is an early music collaboration between singers, multi-instrumentalists, composers, dancers and performers Anna Tam and Emily Alice Ovenden who met whilst they were performing with the Mediaeval Baebes.

Musically and visually inspired by the medieval and renaissance world, we draw our repertoire from illuminated manuscripts, courtly song books, Elizabethan broadside ballads and the folk tradition. Fascinated by the stories in these songs – medieval religious imagery so beautifully infused with nature; renaissance tales of piracy, jilted lovers and general folly alongside some of the most sincere and tender love songs that reach to the heart of life and human relationships.

Anna Tam (musical director, singer, nyckelharpa, viola da gamba, hurdy gurdy player, percussion) enjoys and eclectic career both in the folk and classical genres. She trained as a classical singer and instrumentalist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. During her early studies, she performed at the Wigmore Hall and on BBC Radio 3 and has been touring internationally since she was 15.

Emily Alice Ovenden (singer, recorders, percussion) received a scholarship from Andrew Lloyd Webber to study in London. With the Mediaeval Baebes she has made several albums, and recorded themes for BBC TV shows Victoria and Elizabeth. Emily made 3 acclaimed albums with her band PYTHIA and has recorded vocals for multi platinum selling band Dragonforce.

ancestry

Artists explore the theme of Ancestry each producing images that reflect their own unique backgrounds, histories and perspectives.

Janet Campbell:

Janet will be presenting several paintings exploring her maternal ancestry line through five generations – the mitochondrial line. There will be individual portraits and group scenes inspired by Velasquez’s Las Meninas utilising mixed media (oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and collage) on canvas.

Carry Gorney:

Carry is using torn lace and old photographs, fragments salvaged from the vanishing world of her refugee ancestors. She has scorched and singed ghostly faces and created a series of ephemeral images by stitching heat-distressed fabrics to the lace of another time. Materials; lace, photographs, torn papers, inks, Tyvek, synthetics, acrylics, gelli-printing.

Sarah Phillips:

Sarah will be illustrating the threads of creativity that permeated her childhood and inspired a lifelong involvement with art, craft and design. Her maternal great grandfather was a Victorian lace designer in the East End and her great grandmother was a pattern cutter. One of her earliest memories is of her Sunday lace on a rag doll mob cap that her aunt made for her.  She will visually embody a nostalgic representation of the desire to collect, horde and recycle that she has inherited from her paternal grandmother who carefully and lovingly preserved buttons, lace, trimmings and unravelled wool.

Chris Demetriou:

Chris will be investigating the areas and specific places of London that have shaped his life, and that of his ancestors and children, utilising a series of photographs.

Veronica Slater:

Veronica Slater manipulates images, taken from old family album photographs. Producing a series of paintings, that probes our process of recognition. These create an unsettling iconography which perhaps reflects the emotional mine field that is family and is ultimately our ancestral legacy.

Litza Jansz:

Litza Jansz uses photo montage to reimagine the ages and relationships of family members over four generations. By playing with time in representing different generations interacting at the same age her work subverts the power relationships within families and the rigid boundaries of the nuclear families within them.

Open times:

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday: 11am – 4pm

Thursday: 11.30 – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Friday: 11.00am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Saturdays: Closed

Sunday 17th December: 11am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open other dates)

ancestry

Artists explore the theme of Ancestry each producing images that reflect their own unique backgrounds, histories and perspectives.

Janet Campbell:

Janet will be presenting several paintings exploring her maternal ancestry line through five generations – the mitochondrial line. There will be individual portraits and group scenes inspired by Velasquez’s Las Meninas utilising mixed media (oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and collage) on canvas.

Carry Gorney:

Carry is using torn lace and old photographs, fragments salvaged from the vanishing world of her refugee ancestors. She has scorched and singed ghostly faces and created a series of ephemeral images by stitching heat-distressed fabrics to the lace of another time. Materials; lace, photographs, torn papers, inks, Tyvek, synthetics, acrylics, gelli-printing.

Sarah Phillips:

Sarah will be illustrating the threads of creativity that permeated her childhood and inspired a lifelong involvement with art, craft and design. Her maternal great grandfather was a Victorian lace designer in the East End and her great grandmother was a pattern cutter. One of her earliest memories is of her Sunday lace on a rag doll mob cap that her aunt made for her.  She will visually embody a nostalgic representation of the desire to collect, horde and recycle that she has inherited from her paternal grandmother who carefully and lovingly preserved buttons, lace, trimmings and unravelled wool.

Chris Demetriou:

Chris will be investigating the areas and specific places of London that have shaped his life, and that of his ancestors and children, utilising a series of photographs.

Veronica Slater:

Veronica Slater manipulates images, taken from old family album photographs. Producing a series of paintings, that probes our process of recognition. These create an unsettling iconography which perhaps reflects the emotional mine field that is family and is ultimately our ancestral legacy.

Litza Jansz:

Litza Jansz uses photo montage to reimagine the ages and relationships of family members over four generations. By playing with time in representing different generations interacting at the same age her work subverts the power relationships within families and the rigid boundaries of the nuclear families within them.

Open times:

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday: 11am – 4pm

Thursday: 11.30 – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Friday: 11.00am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Saturdays: Closed

Sunday 17th December: 11am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open other dates)

ancestry

Artists explore the theme of Ancestry each producing images that reflect their own unique backgrounds, histories and perspectives.

Janet Campbell:

Janet will be presenting several paintings exploring her maternal ancestry line through five generations – the mitochondrial line. There will be individual portraits and group scenes inspired by Velasquez’s Las Meninas utilising mixed media (oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and collage) on canvas.

Carry Gorney:

Carry is using torn lace and old photographs, fragments salvaged from the vanishing world of her refugee ancestors. She has scorched and singed ghostly faces and created a series of ephemeral images by stitching heat-distressed fabrics to the lace of another time. Materials; lace, photographs, torn papers, inks, Tyvek, synthetics, acrylics, gelli-printing.

Sarah Phillips:

Sarah will be illustrating the threads of creativity that permeated her childhood and inspired a lifelong involvement with art, craft and design. Her maternal great grandfather was a Victorian lace designer in the East End and her great grandmother was a pattern cutter. One of her earliest memories is of her Sunday lace on a rag doll mob cap that her aunt made for her.  She will visually embody a nostalgic representation of the desire to collect, horde and recycle that she has inherited from her paternal grandmother who carefully and lovingly preserved buttons, lace, trimmings and unravelled wool.

Chris Demetriou:

Chris will be investigating the areas and specific places of London that have shaped his life, and that of his ancestors and children, utilising a series of photographs.

Veronica Slater:

Veronica Slater manipulates images, taken from old family album photographs. Producing a series of paintings, that probes our process of recognition. These create an unsettling iconography which perhaps reflects the emotional mine field that is family and is ultimately our ancestral legacy.

Litza Jansz:

Litza Jansz uses photo montage to reimagine the ages and relationships of family members over four generations. By playing with time in representing different generations interacting at the same age her work subverts the power relationships within families and the rigid boundaries of the nuclear families within them.

Open times:

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday: 11am – 4pm

Thursday: 11.30 – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Friday: 11.00am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open)

Saturdays: Closed

Sunday 17th December: 11am – 4pm (please call to confirm the gallery is open other dates)