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Apr
15
Sat
Highgate Tidy-up @ Highgate Tube
Apr 15 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am

15 April 2023 Entrance to Highgate tube in Priory Gardens (North of the Station)

Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
Apr 15 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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.

Apr
17
Mon
Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
Apr 17 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

Apr
22
Sat
Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
Apr 22 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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.

Guerrilla Gardening
Apr 22 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Guerrilla Gardening

Events 2023

Sat 22nd April: 2:30-4pm: Meet at Jacksons Lane Community Centre, N6 5AA

to help with their garden (EARTH DAY EVENT)

Mon 8th May (bank holiday): 2:30-4pm: Meet outside 10A South Grove, N6 6BS to garden in Pond Square

(BIG HELP OUT EVENT)

July, September, October and November events: Details to be confirmed. We
are happy to assist other groups in starting up clean-up events in their local

areas of Highgate, as we did last year. Please let us know!

We will provide rubbish bags and a limited number of gardening tools.
Please bring protective gloves, secateurs and forks if you have these.

Apr
24
Mon
Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
Apr 24 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

Apr
29
Sat
Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
Apr 29 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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.

May
1
Mon
Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
May 1 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

May
3
Wed
Objets aimés @ Highgate Society
May 3 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Encore un prétexte pour bavarder en français! Vous êtes prié(e)s d’apporter un petit objet – ou plusieurs – qui ont une signification particulière pour vous. Ça pourrait être une photographie, un jouet, une clef, une partition de musique… que sais-je encore?! L’idée c’est de présenter votre objet à votre voisin(e) en expliquant, en français, l’importance pour vous de l’objet. Venez nombreux à notre dernière rencontre de la session 22-23! Il y aura, bien sûr, vin, jus et amuse-bouches et beaucoup de bonne volonté. L’entrée est toujours à £8, monnaie exacte si possible. Nous n’avons pas de lecteur de cartes, désolée.
Merci et à bientôt!

May
4
Thu
Jazz in the House: Small Print @ Lauderdale House
May 4 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Jazz in the House is back! Programmed by Blow the Fuse for the first time, we kick off our spring season with Small Print, featuring Norma Winstone.

An off-shoot of acclaimed group ‘The Printmakers’, the members of Small Print have played with the likes of John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler and Vince Mendoza, to name a few! Featuring singer Norma Winstone, pianist Nikki Iles and Mark Lockheart on saxophone, join us in the beautiful, informal setting of Lauderdale House as we kick off the new season of Jazz in the House with an unforgettable evening of music.

 

Tickets:

Standard £15.50

Unwaged Concession £12.50
(This concession applies to guests with disabilities and those not in work. There are no senior concessions for Jazz in the House)

Under 35s Concession £8

 

Doors open at 7:30pm

May
5
Fri
Coffee and Computers at Highgate School @ Highgate School
May 5 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm

Free help with you phone, tablet or computer. One to one advice.

May
6
Sat
Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
May 6 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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.

May
8
Mon
Guerilla Gardening @ Highgate Society
May 8 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Mon 8th May (bank holiday): 2:30-4pm: Meet outside 10A South Grove, N66BS to garden in Pond Square (BIG HELP OUT EVENT)

 

Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
May 8 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

May
10
Wed
Highgate Society AGM: Dan Carrier, Guest speaker @ Jacksons Lane
May 10 @ 6:45 pm – 8:45 pm

Guest speaker: Dan Carrier

Journalist for the Camden New Journal
and previously for the Guardian and
Evening Standard. He is author of Untold
London: Stories from Time Trodden
Streets, Doctor Zipp’s Amazing
Octo-Com and his recent book Locks,
Bolts and Bars – a Life Inside. In his
spare time he is a DJ for Boogaloo Radio.

 

Doors open at 6.45pm and the meeting will commence at 7pm

ADMISSION FREE
Members and non-members welcome

Jacksons Lane,
269a Archway Road, London N6 5AA

 

May
13
Sat
Clean up Highgate @ Queen’s Wood
May 13 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am

13 May 2023 Junction of Wood Lane and Queen’s Wood Road (Queen’s Wood)

Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
May 13 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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.

May
15
Mon
Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
May 15 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

The Highgate Neighbourhood Forum AGM @ Lauderdale House
May 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Deputy London Mayor Joanne McCartney (our London Assembly Member) will be the guest speaker at our AGM 2023. We have asked her to focus on how the Mayor and the GLA are addressing the Climate Emergency and making London greener. Do join us at 7pm on Monday 15 May at Lauderdale House.

May
18
Thu
Jazz in the House: John Etheridge + Art Themen Quartet @ Lauderdale House
May 18 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

John Etheridge and Art Themen have often appeared together in recent years. Neither musician needs much introduction – Etheridge, one of UK’s most eminent guitarists and Themen, a doyen of saxophone over a career of six decades.

Together with Pete Whittaker and George Double they draw from the bluesier end of jazz. Groovy, spiky and lyrical by turns. Mature and vigorous music making!

Performers: 

John Etheridge – Guitar

Art Themen – Saxophone

Pete Whittaker – Organ

George Double – Drums

Tickets:

Standard £15.50

Unwaged Concession £12.50
(This concession applies to guests with disabilities and those not in work. There are no senior concessions for Jazz in the House)

Under 35s Concession £8
Limited numbers!

 

Doors open at 7:30pm

May
20
Sat
Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
May 20 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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.

May
22
Mon
Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
May 22 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

May
27
Sat
Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
May 27 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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.

May
29
Mon
Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
May 29 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

Jun
1
Thu
Jazz in the House: Alan Barnes + Dave Newton Quartet @ Lauderdale House
Jun 1 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Alan Barnes and Dave Newton have been playing and recording together for over 40 years! With Andrew Cleyndert and Matt Fishwick completing the line-up, we can’t wait to welcome this world-class quartet.

Alan Barnes is a prolific international performer, composer, arranger, bandleader and touring soloist.  He is best known for his work on clarinet, alto and baritone sax, where he combines a formidable virtuosity with a musical expression and collaborative spirit that have few peers. Alan’s unique musicianship, indefatigable touring, and warm rapport with audiences have made him uniquely popular in British jazz.  He has received over 25 British Jazz Awards, most recently in 2014 for clarinet, and has twice been made BBC Jazz Musician of the Year.

David Newton was voted best Jazz Pianist in the British Jazz awards for the thirteenth time in 2014 and was made a Fellow of Leeds College of Music in 2003. His reputation as an accompanist is unparalleled, and he has featured on numerous recordings since the mid-80s.

Performers:

Alan Barnes – Saxophones/Clarinet

Dave Newton – Piano

Andrew Cleyndert – Bass

Matt Fishwick – Drums

Tickets:

Standard £15.50

Unwaged Concession £12.50
(This concession applies to guests with disabilities and those not in work. There are no senior concessions for Jazz in the House)

Under 35s Concession £8
Limited numbers!

 

Doors open at 7:30pm

Jun
3
Sat
Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
Jun 3 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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.

Jun
5
Mon
Highgate Coffee & Computers @ Highgate Society
Jun 5 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Drop in for coffee and free one to one advice about computer, tablet or phone.

Join the mailing list: highgatecoffeeandcomputers@gmail.com

Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
Jun 5 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

Jun
9
Fri
Coffee and Computers at Highgate School @ Highgate School
Jun 9 @ 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm

Free one to one help with phone, tablet and computer.

Jun
10
Sat
Clean up Highgate @ Highgate Sopciety
Jun 10 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am

10 June 2023 10A South Grove (Highgate Hill)

Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
Jun 10 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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.

Fair in the Square @ Pond Square N6
Jun 10 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Jun
12
Mon
Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
Jun 12 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

Jun
14
Wed
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
Jazz on the Tea Lawn: Deirdre Cartwright’s Picnic @ Lauderdale House
Jun 15 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Join us for a special, outdoor edition of Jazz in the House on our Tea Lawn!

Picnic make absorbing and life affirming music. Join Deirdre Cartwright, Annie Whitehead, Alison Rayner and Winston Clifford for some inspirational, upbeat jazz with South African, Latin and Reggae influences.

Performers: 

Deirdre Cartwright – Guitar

Annie Whitehead – Trombone

Alison Rayner – Bass

Winston Clifford – Drums

Tickets: 

Tea Lawn £15.50 per person

Bench £60
(Group of 4)

Picnic Table £90
(Group of 6)

Unwaged Concession £12.50
(This concession applies to guests with disabilities and those not in work. There are no senior concessions for Jazz in the House)

 

Doors open at 7pm

 

Jun
17
Sat
Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
Jun 17 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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.

Jun
19
Mon
Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
Jun 19 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

Jun
24
Sat
Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
Jun 24 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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.

Jun
26
Mon
Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
Jun 26 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

Jun
29
Thu
Jazz in the House: Laura Jurd Group @ Lauderdale House
Jun 29 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Laura Jurd and Corrie Dick (of the Mercury Prize-nominated band Dinosaur) join Liam Noble and Ruth Goller for a stunning evening of Jazz in the House!

Composer-performer Laura Jurd’s distinct voice as an improvising trumpet player is at the heart of everything she creates. Her music celebrates and innovates the rich traditions of jazz and folk music, whilst often reflecting her love of The Beatles and Stravinsky to name two notable influences. Her compositions dig into something primal, earthy and human, whilst taking twists and turns that both invite surprise and evoke the inevitable.

Performers:

Laura Jurd – Trumpet

Liam Noble – Piano

Ruth Goller – Bass

Corrie Dick – Drums

Tickets:

Standard £15.50

Unwaged Concession £12.50
(This concession applies to guests with disabilities and those not in work. There are no senior concessions for Jazz in the House)

Under 35s Concession £8
Limited numbers!

 

Doors open at 7:30pm