A ten-day celebration of Highgate, covering the arts, ecology, music, film, its heritage and its future.
Highgate Festival 14th June to 23rd June: Save the dates and see www.highgatefestival.org for all the events and click on each date separately.
Events all round Highgate; times and venues on the website!
A ten-day celebration of Highgate, covering the arts, ecology, music, film, its heritage and its future.
Highgate Festival 14th June to 23rd June: Save the dates and see www.highgatefestival.org for all the events and click on each date separately.
Events all round Highgate; times and venues on the website!
Open mic and chat and that
Poets read 2 poems each unless they have earned a third by responding to the Highgate Challenge which this month is to write about ‘Water’.
Audience welcome
Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided
All monies raised go to the Highgate Society
Join our chatty open mic Poetry Group. Read 2 of your poems. 3 if you have responded to the group’s Highgate Challenge which this month is to write on the theme of ‘Water’.
£2 admittance includes tea, coffee and biscuits. All proceeds go to the Highgate Society.
The Highgate Society’s infrastructure committee has planned monthly clean up events for 2019. Please join us. Details below and all are welcome.
Time: meeting 930 am on the dates shown (all Saturdays). Each event will last an hour.
2019 Dates: 2nd February (Highgate Hill), 30th March (Archway Road), 27th April (Highgate Station), 8th June (Highgate Hill), 6th July (Archway Road),
3rd August (Highgate Station), 31st August (Highgate Hill), 28th September (Archway Road), 26th October (Highgate Station), 23rd November (Highgate Hill), 7th December (Archway Road)
Meeting points: For Highgate Station area meet in Shepherds Hill, outside the library, for Highgate Hill area meet outside 10a South Grove and for Archway Road area meet in Highgate Station car park meet at the end nearest Shepherds Hill.
Purpose: collect litter and reporting any other issues we find to the relevant Council team for follow up action. The June and September dates are noticeboard clean up events.
Equipment: We will supply litter picker sticks, gloves and rubbish bags. Please bring your own litter picker if you have one. Buckets are also useful as an alternative to keeping litter bags open. For the June and September dates please bring small pliers if you have some. Casual clothes. We will collect in rubbish bags at the end.
Safety: We’ll give a short briefing at the start of each session and will stick together as a group. We will have a first aid kit.
Any questions: please e mail infrastructure@highgatesociety.com
The Highgate Society’s infrastructure committee has planned monthly clean up events for 2019. Please join us. Details below and all are welcome.
Time: meeting 930 am on the dates shown (all Saturdays). Each event will last an hour.
2019 Dates: 2nd February (Highgate Hill), 30th March (Archway Road), 27th April (Highgate Station), 8th June (Highgate Hill), 6th July (Archway Road),
3rd August (Highgate Station), 31st August (Highgate Hill), 28th September (Archway Road), 26th October (Highgate Station), 23rd November (Highgate Hill), 7th December (Archway Road)
Meeting points: For Highgate Station area meet in Shepherds Hill, outside the library, for Highgate Hill area meet outside 10a South Grove and for Archway Road area meet in Highgate Station car park meet at the end nearest Shepherds Hill.
Purpose: collect litter and reporting any other issues we find to the relevant Council team for follow up action. The June and September dates are noticeboard clean up events.
Equipment: We will supply litter picker sticks, gloves and rubbish bags. Please bring your own litter picker if you have one. Buckets are also useful as an alternative to keeping litter bags open. For the June and September dates please bring small pliers if you have some. Casual clothes. We will collect in rubbish bags at the end.
Safety: We’ll give a short briefing at the start of each session and will stick together as a group. We will have a first aid kit.
Any questions: please e mail infrastructure@highgatesociety.com
The next Highgate Society Poetry Group Meeting is on Monday 5th August at Cafe Rouge 6-7 South Grove, London, N6 6BP. 6.30-8.30pm. You get to read two poems and a third if you have responded to the Highgate Challenge which this month is to ‘write a poem about a feeling without naming the feeling’.
The Highgate Society’s infrastructure committee has planned monthly clean up events for 2019. Please join us. Details below and all are welcome.
Time: meeting 930 am on the dates shown (all Saturdays). Each event will last an hour.
2019 Dates: 2nd February (Highgate Hill), 30th March (Archway Road), 27th April (Highgate Station), 8th June (Highgate Hill), 6th July (Archway Road),
3rd August (Highgate Station), 31st August (Highgate Hill), 28th September (Archway Road), 26th October (Highgate Station), 23rd November (Highgate Hill), 7th December (Archway Road)
Meeting points: For Highgate Station area meet in Shepherds Hill, outside the library, for Highgate Hill area meet outside 10a South Grove and for Archway Road area meet in Highgate Station car park meet at the end nearest Shepherds Hill.
Purpose: collect litter and reporting any other issues we find to the relevant Council team for follow up action. The June and September dates are noticeboard clean up events.
Equipment: We will supply litter picker sticks, gloves and rubbish bags. Please bring your own litter picker if you have one. Buckets are also useful as an alternative to keeping litter bags open. For the June and September dates please bring small pliers if you have some. Casual clothes. We will collect in rubbish bags at the end.
Safety: We’ll give a short briefing at the start of each session and will stick together as a group. We will have a first aid kit.
Any questions: please e mail infrastructure@highgatesociety.com
The Highgate Society’s infrastructure committee has planned monthly clean up events for 2019. Please join us. Details below and all are welcome.
Time: meeting 930 am on the dates shown (all Saturdays). Each event will last an hour.
2019 Dates: 2nd February (Highgate Hill), 30th March (Archway Road), 27th April (Highgate Station), 8th June (Highgate Hill), 6th July (Archway Road),
3rd August (Highgate Station), 31st August (Highgate Hill), 28th September (Archway Road), 26th October (Highgate Station), 23rd November (Highgate Hill), 7th December (Archway Road)
Meeting points: For Highgate Station area meet in Shepherds Hill, outside the library, for Highgate Hill area meet outside 10a South Grove and for Archway Road area meet in Highgate Station car park meet at the end nearest Shepherds Hill.
Purpose: collect litter and reporting any other issues we find to the relevant Council team for follow up action. The June and September dates are noticeboard clean up events.
Equipment: We will supply litter picker sticks, gloves and rubbish bags. Please bring your own litter picker if you have one. Buckets are also useful as an alternative to keeping litter bags open. For the June and September dates please bring small pliers if you have some. Casual clothes. We will collect in rubbish bags at the end.
Safety: We’ll give a short briefing at the start of each session and will stick together as a group. We will have a first aid kit.
Any questions: please e mail infrastructure@highgatesociety.com
TheHighgate Coffee & Computers’ special Cyber scam session is today!
Numbers are limited so please email to say if you’ll be joining us on Friday 04 October and if you’re bringing a friend.
A talk by local historian Ruth Hazeldine.
Thursday 10th October 2019
7.00 pm
10A South Grove N6 6BS
“All attempts to curtail the consumption of the spirit of ‘Madam Geneva’ have failed. I shall tell you how and why. Highgate has a local connection with gin, as Felix Booth, of the Booth gin distilling family, lived in Crouch Hall, Crouch End. William Hogarth drew Gin Lane, his famous depiction of the horrors of drunkeness, by observing drunken revellers reeling out of the Flask pub. What is the origin of the phrase “to take Dutch courage”? I shall tell you, and more”
Ruth Hazeldine
The Highgate Society’s infrastructure committee has planned monthly clean up events for 2019. Please join us. Details below and all are welcome.
Time: meeting 930 am on the dates shown (all Saturdays). Each event will last an hour.
2019 Dates: 2nd February (Highgate Hill), 30th March (Archway Road), 27th April (Highgate Station), 8th June (Highgate Hill), 6th July (Archway Road),
3rd August (Highgate Station), 31st August (Highgate Hill), 28th September (Archway Road), 26th October (Highgate Station), 23rd November (Highgate Hill), 7th December (Archway Road)
Meeting points: For Highgate Station area meet in Shepherds Hill, outside the library, for Highgate Hill area meet outside 10a South Grove and for Archway Road area meet in Highgate Station car park meet at the end nearest Shepherds Hill.
Purpose: collect litter and reporting any other issues we find to the relevant Council team for follow up action. The June and September dates are noticeboard clean up events.
Equipment: We will supply litter picker sticks, gloves and rubbish bags. Please bring your own litter picker if you have one. Buckets are also useful as an alternative to keeping litter bags open. For the June and September dates please bring small pliers if you have some. Casual clothes. We will collect in rubbish bags at the end.
Safety: We’ll give a short briefing at the start of each session and will stick together as a group. We will have a first aid kit.
Any questions: please e mail infrastructure@highgatesociety.com
The Highgate Watercolour Group’s annual exhibition starts today and continues throughout most of November. It’s not open every day (not on Saturdays and only on two Sundays), so please check with Lauderdale House for exact opening hours. We look forward to seeing you!
image by Freda Blayney
Wednesday 6th November 2019
8.00 pm to 10.00 pm
10A South Grove N6 6BS
An evening of chat in French with partners, using provided questions. Judging by the enjoyment had by participants at previous such evenings, a good time will be had by all.
Entry £5 on the door to include refreshments.
The presentation by Channing pupils has been postponed.
Waste Not Want Not
Our speakers will
address the ‘waste hierarchy’ – how we can reduce, reuse
and recycle more waste, and the meeting is open to all.
We’ll hear from Carina Millstone who is Executive
Director of Feedback, a charity that campaigns to
transform our food systems, cutting the impact on our
planet, particularly from waste. Leigh McAlea will
discuss the impact of fast fashion – she is Head of
Communications at TRAID, a charity which aims to
“stop clothes from being thrown away.” We’ll also find
out what councils can do to tackle plastic waste from Ian
Kershaw of Haringey Council.
Addressing waste disposal – at the end of the waste
hierarchy – will be Ursula Taylor, Head of Legal and
Governance at North London Waste Authority. Ursula
will discuss what happens to our waste – many of us will
have been horrified to see images of piles of British
‘recycling’ strewn across the shores of South East Asia.
Our speakers will address what we can do as individuals
to reduce waste and discuss the sorts of policies that we
should be demanding from local and national politicians.
Following the talks there will be a Q & A session.
The Highgate Society’s infrastructure committee has planned monthly clean up events for 2019. Please join us. Details below and all are welcome.
Time: meeting 930 am on the dates shown (all Saturdays). Each event will last an hour.
2019 Dates: 2nd February (Highgate Hill), 30th March (Archway Road), 27th April (Highgate Station), 8th June (Highgate Hill), 6th July (Archway Road),
3rd August (Highgate Station), 31st August (Highgate Hill), 28th September (Archway Road), 26th October (Highgate Station), 23rd November (Highgate Hill), 7th December (Archway Road)
Meeting points: For Highgate Station area meet in Shepherds Hill, outside the library, for Highgate Hill area meet outside 10a South Grove and for Archway Road area meet in Highgate Station car park meet at the end nearest Shepherds Hill.
Purpose: collect litter and reporting any other issues we find to the relevant Council team for follow up action. The June and September dates are noticeboard clean up events.
Equipment: We will supply litter picker sticks, gloves and rubbish bags. Please bring your own litter picker if you have one. Buckets are also useful as an alternative to keeping litter bags open. For the June and September dates please bring small pliers if you have some. Casual clothes. We will collect in rubbish bags at the end.
Safety: We’ll give a short briefing at the start of each session and will stick together as a group. We will have a first aid kit.
Any questions: please e mail infrastructure@highgatesociety.com
The Highgate Watercolour Group’s annual exhibition starts today and continues throughout most of November. It’s not open every day (not on Saturdays and only on two Sundays), so please check with Lauderdale House for exact opening hours. We look forward to seeing you!
image by Freda Blayney
The Highgate Watercolour Group’s annual exhibition starts today and continues throughout most of November. It’s not open every day (not on Saturdays and only on two Sundays), so please check with Lauderdale House for exact opening hours. We look forward to seeing you!
image by Freda Blayney
More details to follow nearer the time.
The Highgate Society’s infrastructure committee has planned monthly clean up events for 2019. Please join us. Details below and all are welcome.
Time: meeting 930 am on the dates shown (all Saturdays). Each event will last an hour.
2019 Dates: 2nd February (Highgate Hill), 30th March (Archway Road), 27th April (Highgate Station), 8th June (Highgate Hill), 6th July (Archway Road),
3rd August (Highgate Station), 31st August (Highgate Hill), 28th September (Archway Road), 26th October (Highgate Station), 23rd November (Highgate Hill), 7th December (Archway Road)
Meeting points: For Highgate Station area meet in Shepherds Hill, outside the library, for Highgate Hill area meet outside 10a South Grove and for Archway Road area meet in Highgate Station car park meet at the end nearest Shepherds Hill.
Purpose: collect litter and reporting any other issues we find to the relevant Council team for follow up action. The June and September dates are noticeboard clean up events.
Equipment: We will supply litter picker sticks, gloves and rubbish bags. Please bring your own litter picker if you have one. Buckets are also useful as an alternative to keeping litter bags open. For the June and September dates please bring small pliers if you have some. Casual clothes. We will collect in rubbish bags at the end.
Safety: We’ll give a short briefing at the start of each session and will stick together as a group. We will have a first aid kit.
Any questions: please e mail infrastructure@highgatesociety.com
Indoor Market Brocante on 7th December Saturday from 1pm until 6pm All Welcome
Followed by mulled wine and festive fare at 10A (The Highgate Society).
Collection and donations in aid of Little Village Camden.
A fundraising event for HLSI and Highgate Society
Catherine Budgett-Meakin tells the story of her Trans-Siberian railway journey, illustrated with slides.
Booking essential: https://members.hlsi.net/Event-Booking/EventId/50
(Non-members can also book using this link!)
Thursday 30th January 2020
7.00 pm to 9.00 pm
10A South Grove N6 6BS
Helen Lawrence will speak about her new ground-breaking book, THE SAVING OF HAMPSTEAD HEATH: A Story of People Power, which gives us a new perspective on the campaigns to save Hampstead Heath. It makes clear that the need for vigilance to protect the Heath did not end with the “saving” of its core area in the 1870s, but continued until well into the later 20th century and is still essential. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Helen has been Chairman of the Heath and Hampstead Society, a Trustee of the London Forum and a Trustee of Civic Voice.
Entry to the meeting is £5 (plus 98p booking fee), booked through Eventbrite (click here.)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-hampstead-heath-was-saved-tickets-88273369023?utm_term=eventurl_text
Meeting 9:30am on the dates shown. Each event will last an
hour.
8th February 10A South Grove
7th March Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
11th April Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
9th May 10A South Grove
13th June Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
11th July Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
8th August 10A South Grove
12th September Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
10th October Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
14th November 10A South Grove
12th December Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
Purpose: Collecting litter and reporting any other issues we find to the
relevant Council team for follow up action.
Equipment: We will supply litter picker sticks, gloves and rubbish bags.
Please bring your own litter picker if you have one. Buckets
are also useful as an alternative to keeping litter bags
open. We will collect in rubbish bags at the end.
Safety: We will give a short briefing at the start of each session and
will stick together as a group. We will have a first aid kit.
Any questions: Please e mail infrastructure@highgatesociety.com
14th February 2020 7.30 pm 10A South Grove N6 6BS Sing or recite your favourite songs and poems – original verses welcome! Or just come along and listen. Entry £10 to include love-themed refreshments.
Meeting 9:30am on the dates shown. Each event will last an
hour.
11th January Shepherds Hill,
8th February 10A South Grove
7th March Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
11th April Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
9th May 10A South Grove
13th June Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
11th July Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
8th August 10A South Grove
12th September Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
10th October Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
14th November 10A South Grove
12th December Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
Purpose: Collecting litter and reporting any other issues we find to the
relevant Council team for follow up action.
Equipment: We will supply litter picker sticks, gloves and rubbish bags.
Please bring your own litter picker if you have one. Buckets
are also useful as an alternative to keeping litter bags
open. We will collect in rubbish bags at the end.
Safety: We will give a short briefing at the start of each session and
will stick together as a group. We will have a first aid kit.
Any questions: Please e mail infrastructure@highgatesociety.com
Meeting 9:30am on the dates shown. Each event will last an
hour.
8th February 10A South Grove
7th March Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
11th April Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
9th May 10A South Grove
13th June Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
11th July Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
8th August 10A South Grove
12th September Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
10th October Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
14th November 10A South Grove
12th December Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
Purpose: Collecting litter and reporting any other issues we find to the
relevant Council team for follow up action.
Equipment: We will supply litter picker sticks, gloves and rubbish bags.
Please bring your own litter picker if you have one. Buckets
are also useful as an alternative to keeping litter bags
open. We will collect in rubbish bags at the end.
Safety: We will give a short briefing at the start of each session and
will stick together as a group. We will have a first aid kit.
Any questions: Please e mail infrastructure@highgatesociety.com
Highgate Society French Circle. All welcome. £5 on the door.
Meeting 9:30am on the dates shown. Each event will last an
hour.
8th February 10A South Grove
7th March Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
11th April Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
9th May 10A South Grove
13th June Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
11th July Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
8th August 10A South Grove
12th September Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
10th October Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
14th November 10A South Grove
12th December Shepherds Hill, outside the Library
Purpose: Collecting litter and reporting any other issues we find to the
relevant Council team for follow up action.
Equipment: We will supply litter picker sticks, gloves and rubbish bags.
Please bring your own litter picker if you have one. Buckets
are also useful as an alternative to keeping litter bags
open. We will collect in rubbish bags at the end.
Safety: We will give a short briefing at the start of each session and
will stick together as a group. We will have a first aid kit.
Any questions: Please e mail infrastructure@highgatesociety.com
Highgate Society vs HLSI Tuesday May 12 th 7.30 for 8.00pm at 11 South Grove Feeling quizzical? It’s time for the annual challenge between HiSoc & HLSI. Come and join your fellow Society Swots for an evening of fun – frustration – frivolity and ultimate victory? See you there?!