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We are now taking bookings for the Spring 2019 term of Portraiture & Figure Drawing!

Working from a live model, this class is aimed at artists of all levels, including beginners and advanced students, who wish to expand their skills in portraiture and figure drawing. Taught by our experienced art tutor, Zoe Hirson, this course looks at anatomy and spends some time focusing on drawing a single pose.

Materials will be provided.

The cost for the entire term is £225 (concessions £205).

The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility.   Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website 

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

A special breakfast viewing of the exhibition with artist Kathryn Elkin. Coffee, tea and pastries will be provided. All welcome, drop-in anytime between 9am-10.30am.

In this “pregnancy and baby” video—as the artist describes it—Kathryn Elkin tackles, with her usual sense of humour and irreverence, issues around motherhood, labour and creation, personal biography, being an artist and the transforming pregnant body. Queen was conceived and shot during the artist’s pregnancy and first months of parenthood.

Queen was first presented at BALTIC 39 and was produced in the context of the Warwick Stafford Fellowship. BL CK B X: Kathryn Elkin is Elkin’s first solo show in London.

Kathryn Elkin (Belfast, 1983) is an artist working with performance, video and writing. Her idiosyncratic, self-reflexive and at times hilariously absurd video works deal with roleplaying and improvising, often resembling simplified versions of music videos and TV talk shows. In her work, Elkin fuses biographical memory with shared cultural memory (popular music, television and cinema), offering a comparison of the way in which we experience art to the ways and means it is understood culturally.
Elkin is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art (2005) and Goldsmiths College (2012) and former LUX Associate Artist (2013). She is currently based in Berwick Upon Tweed.

Rucksack music at Jacksons Lane.

Wednesdays and Fridays 10.15-11.15am.

Come and enjoy a relaxed, interactive guided musical session for children & their adults (parents/carers). Expect nursery rhymes, popular songs & movement, with small percussion instruments to play and live guitar accompaniment. Lots of singing, stomping, clapping, wriggling, just having a good time. Learning through enjoyment. Classes are 1 hour with a break. Tutor is jazz musician Faye Patton.

Suitable for children 0 – 4 years old.

NO NEED TO BOOK – JUST DROP IN!  

£5.00 per child/£3.50 siblings

For more information –  www.rucksackmusic.co.uk

At Lauderdale House, we are now taking bookings for the Spring 2019 term of Introductory Art – Still Life.

This weekly class offers both beginners and developing students the chance to explore their creative potential in drawing, focusing mainly on Still Life. During the term the class will explore essential drawing techniques – observation, perspective, negative spaces, mark-making and composition.

The cost for the entire term is £225.

Concession tickets for senior citizens (60+), students, people who are registered as unemployed, disabled people, and carers: £205

Introductory Art – Still Life takes place on Wednesdays from 10.30am to 1pm
The Spring Term runs from Wednesday 16 January until Wednesday 10 April
Half term: Wednesday 20 February

We are now taking bookings for the Spring 2019 term of Still Life – Introductory Art.

This weekly class offers both beginners and developing students the chance to explore their creative potential in drawing, focusing mainly on Still Life. During the term the class will explore essential drawing techniques – observation, perspective, negative spaces, mark-making and composition.

Taught by art tutor, Zoe Hirson, this is a general art course suitable for anyone looking to expand and practice their skill set. An informal, friendly and loosely structured class, Introductory Art allows participants to explore the areas and techniques that they find most useful.

The cost for the entire term is £225 (concessions £205).

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

We are now taking bookings for the spring term of our Painting with Watercolours and Acrylics art course.

This class is the perfect opportunity to learn the basics of two wonderful paint mediums; how to mix, blend and layer watercolour and how to apply acrylic. Explore how to make dynamic compositions that produce interesting paintings using still Life, photographs and sketches as inspiration.

On warm days in the Spring and Summer, this class is sometimes taught outside, taking advantage of the stunning scenery of Waterlow Park.

Our art tutor, Sharon Finmark, lives in North London and studied at Central St. Martins School of Art.  She has had several books published on painting and drawing.

The cost for the entire term is £225 (concessions £205).

Weekly drop-in Hatha yoga classes suitable for all levels, beginners welcome. Come and practice some lovely postures in a safe environment that will leave you feeling uplifted and refreshed. I am certified by the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) and classes include a mixture of pranayama, postures and relaxation with focus on correct alignment. The steady flow of postures will improve your strength and flexibility. Mats, blocks and bricks provided or you are welcome to bring your own.

*Email me to book your place and receive your first class FREE*

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Thu 17 – Sun 20 Jan

Thu – Sat 2pm, 5pm, 8pm; Sun 11am, 2pm, 5pm

Around a small table, in an intimate salon setting, a powerful sequence of close-up sensory experiences invoke old memories and invent new ones. Through this miscellany of sights and sounds, objects and photos, the fascinating story of Spain in the latter half of the twentieth century unfolds, exploring memory and identity. Like a medium at a séance, Bobés deals out history and brings it to life, manipulating both past and future.

Duration: 1h 15m

Age guidance: 16+

Price: £18/£16

Rucksack music at Jacksons Lane.

Fridays and Wednesdays 10.15-11.15am.

Come and enjoy a relaxed, interactive guided musical session for children & their adults (parents/carers). Expect nursery rhymes, popular songs & movement, with small percussion instruments to play and live guitar accompaniment. Lots of singing, stomping, clapping, wriggling, just having a good time. Learning through enjoyment. Classes are 1 hour with a break. Tutor is jazz musician Faye Patton.

Suitable for children 0 – 4 years old.

NO NEED TO BOOK – JUST DROP IN!  

£5.00 per child/£3.50 siblings

For more information –  www.rucksackmusic.co.uk

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Thu 17 – Sun 20 Jan

Thu – Sat 2pm, 5pm, 8pm; Sun 11am, 2pm, 5pm

Around a small table, in an intimate salon setting, a powerful sequence of close-up sensory experiences invoke old memories and invent new ones. Through this miscellany of sights and sounds, objects and photos, the fascinating story of Spain in the latter half of the twentieth century unfolds, exploring memory and identity. Like a medium at a séance, Bobés deals out history and brings it to life, manipulating both past and future.

Duration: 1h 15m

Age guidance: 16+

Price: £18/£16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Dembitzer

Benny Dembitzer is a British economist who has specialized in the economics of developing countries, particularly on the continent of Africa. He was a member of the team that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.

Benny is currently Managing Director of GRASSROOTSAFRICA, a not for profit organisation that is offering an on-line agricultural advisory service for farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim is to set up a service that, in the long run, will be accessible on mobile telephony as well as on the internet and in a variety of languages. The project is being trialled across Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda in 2015 and 2016. www.grassrootsafrica.org.

He is also the director the GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES which have been run in London since 2003. Over 750 staff of different voluntary organisations through the UK that work in the field of development (from OXFAM to Save the Children Fund, from ActionAid to WaterAid) have been trained via this highly professional short course, organised twice a year in central London.

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Thu 17 – Sun 20 Jan

Thu – Sat 2pm, 5pm, 8pm; Sun 11am, 2pm, 5pm

Around a small table, in an intimate salon setting, a powerful sequence of close-up sensory experiences invoke old memories and invent new ones. Through this miscellany of sights and sounds, objects and photos, the fascinating story of Spain in the latter half of the twentieth century unfolds, exploring memory and identity. Like a medium at a séance, Bobés deals out history and brings it to life, manipulating both past and future.

Duration: 1h 15m

Age guidance: 16+

Price: £18/£16

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Thu 17 – Sun 20 Jan

Thu – Sat 2pm, 5pm, 8pm; Sun 11am, 2pm, 5pm

Around a small table, in an intimate salon setting, a powerful sequence of close-up sensory experiences invoke old memories and invent new ones. Through this miscellany of sights and sounds, objects and photos, the fascinating story of Spain in the latter half of the twentieth century unfolds, exploring memory and identity. Like a medium at a séance, Bobés deals out history and brings it to life, manipulating both past and future.

Duration: 1h 15m

Age guidance: 16+

Price: £18/£16

We are now taking bookings for the Spring 2019 term of Portraiture & Figure Drawing!

Working from a live model, this class is aimed at artists of all levels, including beginners and advanced students, who wish to expand their skills in portraiture and figure drawing. Taught by our experienced art tutor, Zoe Hirson, this course looks at anatomy and spends some time focusing on drawing a single pose.

Materials will be provided.

The cost for the entire term is £225 (concessions £205).

The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility.   Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website 

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Rucksack music at Jacksons Lane.

Wednesdays and Fridays 10.15-11.15am.

Come and enjoy a relaxed, interactive guided musical session for children & their adults (parents/carers). Expect nursery rhymes, popular songs & movement, with small percussion instruments to play and live guitar accompaniment. Lots of singing, stomping, clapping, wriggling, just having a good time. Learning through enjoyment. Classes are 1 hour with a break. Tutor is jazz musician Faye Patton.

Suitable for children 0 – 4 years old.

NO NEED TO BOOK – JUST DROP IN!  

£5.00 per child/£3.50 siblings

For more information –  www.rucksackmusic.co.uk

At Lauderdale House, we are now taking bookings for the Spring 2019 term of Introductory Art – Still Life.

This weekly class offers both beginners and developing students the chance to explore their creative potential in drawing, focusing mainly on Still Life. During the term the class will explore essential drawing techniques – observation, perspective, negative spaces, mark-making and composition.

The cost for the entire term is £225.

Concession tickets for senior citizens (60+), students, people who are registered as unemployed, disabled people, and carers: £205

Introductory Art – Still Life takes place on Wednesdays from 10.30am to 1pm
The Spring Term runs from Wednesday 16 January until Wednesday 10 April
Half term: Wednesday 20 February

We are now taking bookings for the Spring 2019 term of Still Life – Introductory Art.

This weekly class offers both beginners and developing students the chance to explore their creative potential in drawing, focusing mainly on Still Life. During the term the class will explore essential drawing techniques – observation, perspective, negative spaces, mark-making and composition.

Taught by art tutor, Zoe Hirson, this is a general art course suitable for anyone looking to expand and practice their skill set. An informal, friendly and loosely structured class, Introductory Art allows participants to explore the areas and techniques that they find most useful.

The cost for the entire term is £225 (concessions £205).

We are now taking bookings for the spring term of our Painting with Watercolours and Acrylics art course.

This class is the perfect opportunity to learn the basics of two wonderful paint mediums; how to mix, blend and layer watercolour and how to apply acrylic. Explore how to make dynamic compositions that produce interesting paintings using still Life, photographs and sketches as inspiration.

On warm days in the Spring and Summer, this class is sometimes taught outside, taking advantage of the stunning scenery of Waterlow Park.

Our art tutor, Sharon Finmark, lives in North London and studied at Central St. Martins School of Art.  She has had several books published on painting and drawing.

The cost for the entire term is £225 (concessions £205).

Wed 23 Highgate Society Whisky Tasting at 10a, 7 pm, featuring five outstanding drams from around the world, with Alice Lascelles, Financial Times Drinks Editor.
Tickets, only available in advance, cost £25 per person from:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whisky-tasting-tickets-53509450206?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Weekly drop-in Hatha yoga classes suitable for all levels, beginners welcome. Come and practice some lovely postures in a safe environment that will leave you feeling uplifted and refreshed. I am certified by the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) and classes include a mixture of pranayama, postures and relaxation with focus on correct alignment. The steady flow of postures will improve your strength and flexibility. Mats, blocks and bricks provided or you are welcome to bring your own.

*Email me to book your place and receive your first class FREE*

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Rucksack music at Jacksons Lane.

Fridays and Wednesdays 10.15-11.15am.

Come and enjoy a relaxed, interactive guided musical session for children & their adults (parents/carers). Expect nursery rhymes, popular songs & movement, with small percussion instruments to play and live guitar accompaniment. Lots of singing, stomping, clapping, wriggling, just having a good time. Learning through enjoyment. Classes are 1 hour with a break. Tutor is jazz musician Faye Patton.

Suitable for children 0 – 4 years old.

NO NEED TO BOOK – JUST DROP IN!  

£5.00 per child/£3.50 siblings

For more information –  www.rucksackmusic.co.uk

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Fri 25 – Sun 27 Jan

Fri – Sat 8pm; Sat 4pm; Sun 5pm

A wild hallucination taking place around the hotel deathbed of Valerie Jean Solanas, convicted would-be assassin of Andy Warhol, Plexus Polaire’s latest piece uses life-size puppets, broken songs, video projections, humour and a desert of solitude to tell the story of Solanos, a writer, radical feminist and creator of the infamous SCUM Manifesto. Featuring work by percussionist Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen and puppeteer Yngvild Aspeli, who studied at the Lecoq School in Paris before attending France’s prestigious ESNAM international puppetry school in Charleville Mezières.

Duration: 1h

Age guidance: 16+

Price: £18/£16

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Haydn Chamber Orchestra Concert – Saturday 26th January 2019, 7:30pm

St. Michael’s Church, South Grove, Highgate, N6 6BJ

In aid of Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice and The Harington Scheme

Information and tickets please call 020 8340 5643

Tickets: £25, £20, £15 reserved and £10 unreserved.

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Fri 25 – Sun 27 Jan

Fri – Sat 8pm; Sat 4pm; Sun 5pm

A wild hallucination taking place around the hotel deathbed of Valerie Jean Solanas, convicted would-be assassin of Andy Warhol, Plexus Polaire’s latest piece uses life-size puppets, broken songs, video projections, humour and a desert of solitude to tell the story of Solanos, a writer, radical feminist and creator of the infamous SCUM Manifesto. Featuring work by percussionist Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen and puppeteer Yngvild Aspeli, who studied at the Lecoq School in Paris before attending France’s prestigious ESNAM international puppetry school in Charleville Mezières.

Duration: 1h

Age guidance: 16+

Price: £18/£16

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Fri 25 – Sun 27 Jan

Fri – Sat 8pm; Sat 4pm; Sun 5pm

A wild hallucination taking place around the hotel deathbed of Valerie Jean Solanas, convicted would-be assassin of Andy Warhol, Plexus Polaire’s latest piece uses life-size puppets, broken songs, video projections, humour and a desert of solitude to tell the story of Solanos, a writer, radical feminist and creator of the infamous SCUM Manifesto. Featuring work by percussionist Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen and puppeteer Yngvild Aspeli, who studied at the Lecoq School in Paris before attending France’s prestigious ESNAM international puppetry school in Charleville Mezières.

Duration: 1h

Age guidance: 16+

Price: £18/£16