Thomas Edison’s last words were “It’s very beautiful over there”.
In this new piece of writing, the audience is presented with a powerful story of a young adult’s effort to cope with the unexpected death of a close friend.
A one-woman show about understanding death and grief, the importance of telling stories, and the ways in which we live on through the legacy we leave behind in our names and our memories. And how to fold origami swans.
Stephanie Greenwood is a British-South African writer and actress living in London who has recently completed the first UK tour of Jonathan Lewis’ play Soldier On.
Twitter: @stephmgreenwood
It’s 1969 and a woman looks back on her life lived in London. From The Boer War to The Summer of Love, Flo Smith, mother, widow and grandmother, recalls with horror and humour, tears and joy, the turbulent times at home and in the world beyond her front door.
“Incredibly vivid. Spunky. Gossipy. Human. Relatable. Magical.” Stratford Herald.
Twitter: @flonowandthen
We are now taking bookings for the Autumn Term for Painting with Watercolour and Acrylic.
This class is the perfect opportunity to learn the basics of both 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. The cost for the entire term is £225.
Our art tutor, Sharon Finmark, lives in North London & studied at Central St. Martins School of Art. She has had several books published on painting & drawing – one on learning to draw was published in May 2016.
Painting with Watercolour and Acrylic takes place every Thursday at 10:30am at Lauderdale House. The Autumn Term runs Thursday 13 September to Thursday 13 December. Please note there is no class on 25 October for Half Term.
Plants and bulbs to buy from small specialist nurseries, to add interest and colour to your garden in Spring and Autumn.
enjoy a fun day out with events and stalls centred on the field edge, including live music, arts and crafts, local bee keepers, conservation and heritage groups, a dog show and more
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highgate-wood-community-heritage-day-tickets-43124755304
Join us on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month for a FREE lunchtime concert at Lauderdale House! Take a break at lunchtime and enjoy 45 minutes of gorgeous classical music performed live by our resident musicians; pianist Stephen Hose and chamber ensemble The Meritus Collective.
4th September – Chamber Ensemble
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We are now taking bookings for the Autumn Term for Painting with Watercolour and Acrylic.
This class is the perfect opportunity to learn the basics of both 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. The cost for the entire term is £225.
Our art tutor, Sharon Finmark, lives in North London & studied at Central St. Martins School of Art. She has had several books published on painting & drawing – one on learning to draw was published in May 2016.
Painting with Watercolour and Acrylic takes place every Thursday at 10:30am at Lauderdale House. The Autumn Term runs Thursday 13 September to Thursday 13 December. Please note there is no class on 25 October for Half Term.
Calling all creative 10-15 year olds, we run a friendly alternative art club, with varied themes ranging from spray-painting to sculpture, prosthetics – printmaking, cartoons – costume design and more! We focus on experimentation and having fun with new media, and letting the students steer their own projects. Sessions run every Thursday during term time from 6-7.30,at Highgate Wood School, for more info visit www.creative-youth.co.uk, come join our tribe!
Organ Recital at St Joseph’s Church. Look at the poster here Organ Recitals 2018
Thursday 5th July
7.30 – 9pm
Organ recital, choral singing and poetry mixed programme St Joseph’s Church, Highgate Hill, N19 5NE
Free, but donations welcome www.stjosephshighgate.org.uk
It is 1985. Philip Larkin is the nation’s best-loved poet. He sits in his suburban house in Hull, drinking too much, listening to his beloved jazz and wondering why he can’t write any more.
Award-winning playwright Gail Lowe explore’s the roots of Larkin’s poetry – his happy childhood, his need for privacy, and the complex relationships he had with the women in his life.
Larkin is brought vividly to life by Brighton actor Graham White in this witty and intriguing production.
Gail Louw has her plays performed throughout the world: Duwayne, (Best New Play at Brighton Fringe), Blonde Poison (Argus Angel, Best of the Fest – San Francisco Fringe, South Africa and Sydney Opera House). Miss Dietrich Regrets (Naledi Award). And this is my friend Mr Laurel, with Jeffrey Holland (Edinburghand tour), Two Sisters (Los Angeles and UK). Most recently is The Mitfords. Oberon have published two collections of Gail’s plays.
Directed by Sylvia Vickers.
Come along to our Autumn show and marvel at the wonderful flowers, fruit and vegetables on display. If you are a keen flower arranger or a wiz in the kitchen then there is something for you too! You can revive yourself with afternoon tea with our delicious cakes, visit our plant, produce and raffle stalls and bid for some of the donated exhibits at our famous auction! New members and exhibitors are always welcome, see our website for how to join.
It is 1985. Philip Larkin is the nation’s best-loved poet. He sits in his suburban house in Hull, drinking too much, listening to his beloved jazz and wondering why he can’t write any more.
Award-winning playwright Gail Lowe explore’s the roots of Larkin’s poetry – his happy childhood, his need for privacy, and the complex relationships he had with the women in his life.
Larkin is brought vividly to life by Brighton actor Graham White in this witty and intriguing production.
Gail Louw has her plays performed throughout the world: Duwayne, (Best New Play at Brighton Fringe), Blonde Poison (Argus Angel, Best of the Fest – San Francisco Fringe, South Africa and Sydney Opera House). Miss Dietrich Regrets (Naledi Award). And this is my friend Mr Laurel, with Jeffrey Holland (Edinburghand tour), Two Sisters (Los Angeles and UK). Most recently is The Mitfords. Oberon have published two collections of Gail’s plays.
Directed by Sylvia Vickers.
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.
It is 1985. Philip Larkin is the nation’s best-loved poet. He sits in his suburban house in Hull, drinking too much, listening to his beloved jazz and wondering why he can’t write any more.
Award-winning playwright Gail Lowe explore’s the roots of Larkin’s poetry – his happy childhood, his need for privacy, and the complex relationships he had with the women in his life.
Larkin is brought vividly to life by Brighton actor Graham White in this witty and intriguing production.
Gail Louw has her plays performed throughout the world: Duwayne, (Best New Play at Brighton Fringe), Blonde Poison (Argus Angel, Best of the Fest – San Francisco Fringe, South Africa and Sydney Opera House). Miss Dietrich Regrets (Naledi Award). And this is my friend Mr Laurel, with Jeffrey Holland (Edinburghand tour), Two Sisters (Los Angeles and UK). Most recently is The Mitfords. Oberon have published two collections of Gail’s plays.
Directed by Sylvia Vickers.
There’s a Pheasant on the Roof: Kyffin at Highgate
David Smith, Highgate School
Sir Kyffin Williams RA, one of Wales’s most cherished artists, taught at Highgate School from 1944-73 before retiring to paint full-time on Anglesey, where he was born. This talk will describe some aspects of his ‘London years’ in preparation for a pair of parallel exhibitions to mark Kyffin’s centenary in the Highgate School Museum and at the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution.
Talks take place on Mondays at 7pm in the AV Room in the Mills Centre. Refreshments, including wine, are available from 6.30 pm and afterwards.
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/highgate/the-mills-centre-av-room/mondays-at-the-mills-there-s-a-pheasant-on-the-roof-kyffin-at-highgate-david-smith
We are now taking bookings for the Autumn Term for Portraiture and Figure Drawing!
This class is aimed at artists of all levels, including beginners and advanced students, who wish to expand their skills. Taught by 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.
Portraiture and Figure Drawing takes place every Tuesday. The Autumn Term runs Tuesday 11 September to Tuesday 11 December. Please note there is no class on 23 October for Half Term.
We are now taking bookings for the Autumn Term for 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.
Introductory Art – Still Life takes place every Wednesday at 10:30am. The Autumn Term runs Wednesday 12 September to Wednesday 12 December. Please note there is no class on 24 October for Half Term.
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An East End gangster’s tale as you’ve never heard it before.
Better known as Skinny Dan or Longdog, Danny O’Halloran was a villain in the old fashioned sense of the word. A contemporary of the Great Train Robbers, ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser and all those old-school London gangsters, he robbed banks for a living. But, unlike the infamous Kray twins, he never sought the spotlight.
After a life spent shuttling in and out of jail, scrapping to survive and leaving plenty of broken bones in his wake, Longdog died in 2005. Prairie Flower is set in that year.
Written and performed by Danny’s son Ryan Simms, this one man play turns a family’s dark past into a compelling new piece of theatre.
Architecture Short Course – The Development of the Modern Home – Day one is on Thursday 5th July 2018
We are now taking bookings for the Autumn Term for Painting with Watercolour and Acrylic.
This class is the perfect opportunity to learn the basics of both 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. The cost for the entire term is £225.
Our art tutor, Sharon Finmark, lives in North London & studied at Central St. Martins School of Art. She has had several books published on painting & drawing – one on learning to draw was published in May 2016.
Painting with Watercolour and Acrylic takes place every Thursday at 10:30am at Lauderdale House. The Autumn Term runs Thursday 13 September to Thursday 13 December. Please note there is no class on 25 October for Half Term.
Calling all creative 10-15 year olds, we run a friendly alternative art club, with varied themes ranging from spray-painting to sculpture, prosthetics – printmaking, cartoons – costume design and more! We focus on experimentation and having fun with new media, and letting the students steer their own projects. Sessions run every Thursday during term time from 6-7.30,at Highgate Wood School, for more info visit www.creative-youth.co.uk, come join our tribe!
An East End gangster’s tale as you’ve never heard it before.
Better known as Skinny Dan or Longdog, Danny O’Halloran was a villain in the old fashioned sense of the word. A contemporary of the Great Train Robbers, ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser and all those old-school London gangsters, he robbed banks for a living. But, unlike the infamous Kray twins, he never sought the spotlight.
After a life spent shuttling in and out of jail, scrapping to survive and leaving plenty of broken bones in his wake, Longdog died in 2005. Prairie Flower is set in that year.
Written and performed by Danny’s son Ryan Simms, this one man play turns a family’s dark past into a compelling new piece of theatre.
Kyffin Williams, who taught art at Highgate School from 1944-73 and went on to be one of Wales’s most significant and best-loved artists, was born one hundred years ago this year. To mark his centenary two exhibitions under the joint banner Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife are planned to take place this autumn in the Highgate School Museum on Southwood Lane and in the Gallery of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLS I). The former will feature the School’s collection of oils alongside paintings borrowed from private collectors and small loans from the National Library of Wales (NLW) in Aberystwyth and Oriel Môn on Anglesey, highlighting to some extent Kyffin’s ‘London years’.
The HLSI will be displaying a substantial loan of (mostly) works on paper from the NLW. Together the two exhibitions will constitute the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work to be shown in England and will provide an absorbing overview of the subjects that he painted and the styles and media that he used. Entry will be free and they will run concurrently from 14th September to 7th October, opening times: Tuesday to Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm and Sunday 11am-5pm. On 21st September arts journalist and critic Rian Evans, co-author of the recently published book Kyffin Williams: The Light and The Dark, will be giving a lecture at the HLSI.
A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006 at Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum 14 September – 7 October 2018
Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art. Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales. We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.
Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique. On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100). There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia. Highgate School Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.
Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition. Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques. Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London. He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game… We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist…. At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”
Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973. In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.
His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales. From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy. In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992. A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008. He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999. He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991). A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.
Event: Friday 14th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS
Event: Friday 21st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm). Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018) discusses the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.
An East End gangster’s tale as you’ve never heard it before.
Better known as Skinny Dan or Longdog, Danny O’Halloran was a villain in the old fashioned sense of the word. A contemporary of the Great Train Robbers, ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser and all those old-school London gangsters, he robbed banks for a living. But, unlike the infamous Kray twins, he never sought the spotlight.
After a life spent shuttling in and out of jail, scrapping to survive and leaving plenty of broken bones in his wake, Longdog died in 2005. Prairie Flower is set in that year.
Written and performed by Danny’s son Ryan Simms, this one man play turns a family’s dark past into a compelling new piece of theatre.
An introductory workshop which will empower students, practitioners and those wishing to take more responsibility for their health and the health of their loved ones.
In oriental medicine, it is understood that plants possess energetic qualities to enhance, improve and heal our health. Join acupuncturist Lori Hillman for a fascinating journey through the use of the oriental medicine’s Five Elements. Lori will facilitate group work during which you can discover your Guardian Element as well as explaining and practically demonstrating the connection between our environment and our health. We will also learn how to address the crucial ecological issues of our time through eating the right food for the season and the environment, aligning our health and well being with the health and wellbeing of others and the planet.
** If you are a health practitioner or student interested in CPD, this is an opportunity to expand your knowledge and hone your diagnostic skills from the wisdom of oriental medicine.
** If your work is with food as a chef or nutritionalist, deepen your understanding of the ingredients that you use, come and explore the transformation of energies from soil to food to body to planet.
Or if you simply wish to take good care of yourself, join us at the tranquil venue of OmVed Gardens in Highgate. During the weekend we will also be privileged to have the expertise of chef Arthur Potts-Dawson who will produce foods and tastes according to the season, flavours and their energetic qualities. All of this will be included in the ticket price.
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This is a weekend course which is divided over two days:
On Saturday we will learn the Five Element theory in connection with the planet and plant energetics.
The Sunday will be focussed on a simple yin/yang diagnosis, the energetics of foods as well as making a diagnosis to choose ingredients for. Whilst it is not compulsory we do encourage attendees to come for both days.
Chickenshed comes to Lauderdale House with their hugely popular show Tales from the Shed.
This interactive performance is full of colourful puppets, live songs and enchanting stories. Every show is fun, extremely engaging an includes plenty of music and magic. Children are encouraged to use their imaginations, make lots of noise and be part of the story. Performers and audience share the same space with some of Chickenshed’s much loved characters – from Can-Can the beautiful bird to laid back Lion Down and The Thing That Goes Blurgh! Tales from the Shed is perfect for young children and fun for the whole family.
Tales from the Shed takes place at Lauderdale House on 15 September 2018, starting at 10:30am. Suitable for children up to age 6.
Chickenshed comes to Lauderdale House with their hugely popular show Tales from the Shed.
This interactive performance is full of colourful puppets, live songs and enchanting stories. Every show is fun, extremely engaging an includes plenty of music and magic. Children are encouraged to use their imaginations, make lots of noise and be part of the story. Performers and audience share the same space with some of Chickenshed’s much loved characters – from Can-Can the beautiful bird to laid back Lion Down and The Thing That Goes Blurgh! Tales from the Shed is perfect for young children and fun for the whole family.
Tales from the Shed takes place at Lauderdale House on 15 September 2018, starting at 10:30am. Suitable for children up to age 6.
A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006 at Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum 14 September – 7 October 2018
Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art. Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales. We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.
Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique. On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100). There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia. Highgate School Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.
Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition. Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques. Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London. He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game… We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist…. At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”
Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973. In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.
His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales. From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy. In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992. A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008. He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999. He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991). A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.
Event: Friday 14th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS
Event: Friday 21st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm). Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018) discusses the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.
Kyffin Williams, who taught art at Highgate School from 1944-73 and went on to be one of Wales’s most significant and best-loved artists, was born one hundred years ago this year. To mark his centenary two exhibitions under the joint banner Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife are planned to take place this autumn in the Highgate School Museum on Southwood Lane and in the Gallery of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLS I). The former will feature the School’s collection of oils alongside paintings borrowed from private collectors and small loans from the National Library of Wales (NLW) in Aberystwyth and Oriel Môn on Anglesey, highlighting to some extent Kyffin’s ‘London years’.
The HLSI will be displaying a substantial loan of (mostly) works on paper from the NLW. Together the two exhibitions will constitute the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work to be shown in England and will provide an absorbing overview of the subjects that he painted and the styles and media that he used. Entry will be free and they will run concurrently from 14th September to 7th October, opening times: Tuesday to Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm and Sunday 11am-5pm. On 21st September arts journalist and critic Rian Evans, co-author of the recently published book Kyffin Williams: The Light and The Dark, will be giving a lecture at the HLSI.
An East End gangster’s tale as you’ve never heard it before.
Better known as Skinny Dan or Longdog, Danny O’Halloran was a villain in the old fashioned sense of the word. A contemporary of the Great Train Robbers, ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser and all those old-school London gangsters, he robbed banks for a living. But, unlike the infamous Kray twins, he never sought the spotlight.
After a life spent shuttling in and out of jail, scrapping to survive and leaving plenty of broken bones in his wake, Longdog died in 2005. Prairie Flower is set in that year.
Written and performed by Danny’s son Ryan Simms, this one man play turns a family’s dark past into a compelling new piece of theatre.
An introductory workshop which will empower students, practitioners and those wishing to take more responsibility for their health and the health of their loved ones.
In oriental medicine, it is understood that plants possess energetic qualities to enhance, improve and heal our health. Join acupuncturist Lori Hillman for a fascinating journey through the use of the oriental medicine’s Five Elements. Lori will facilitate group work during which you can discover your Guardian Element as well as explaining and practically demonstrating the connection between our environment and our health. We will also learn how to address the crucial ecological issues of our time through eating the right food for the season and the environment, aligning our health and well being with the health and wellbeing of others and the planet.
** If you are a health practitioner or student interested in CPD, this is an opportunity to expand your knowledge and hone your diagnostic skills from the wisdom of oriental medicine.
** If your work is with food as a chef or nutritionalist, deepen your understanding of the ingredients that you use, come and explore the transformation of energies from soil to food to body to planet.
Or if you simply wish to take good care of yourself, join us at the tranquil venue of OmVed Gardens in Highgate. During the weekend we will also be privileged to have the expertise of chef Arthur Potts-Dawson who will produce foods and tastes according to the season, flavours and their energetic qualities. All of this will be included in the ticket price.
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This is a weekend course which is divided over two days:
On Saturday we will learn the Five Element theory in connection with the planet and plant energetics.
The Sunday will be focussed on a simple yin/yang diagnosis, the energetics of foods as well as making a diagnosis to choose ingredients for. Whilst it is not compulsory we do encourage attendees to come for both days.
A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006 at Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum 14 September – 7 October 2018
Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art. Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales. We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.
Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique. On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100). There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia. Highgate School Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.
Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition. Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques. Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London. He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game… We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist…. At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”
Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973. In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.
His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales. From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy. In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992. A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008. He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999. He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991). A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.
Event: Friday 14th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS
Event: Friday 21st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm). Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018) discusses the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.
Kyffin Williams, who taught art at Highgate School from 1944-73 and went on to be one of Wales’s most significant and best-loved artists, was born one hundred years ago this year. To mark his centenary two exhibitions under the joint banner Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife are planned to take place this autumn in the Highgate School Museum on Southwood Lane and in the Gallery of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLS I). The former will feature the School’s collection of oils alongside paintings borrowed from private collectors and small loans from the National Library of Wales (NLW) in Aberystwyth and Oriel Môn on Anglesey, highlighting to some extent Kyffin’s ‘London years’.
The HLSI will be displaying a substantial loan of (mostly) works on paper from the NLW. Together the two exhibitions will constitute the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work to be shown in England and will provide an absorbing overview of the subjects that he painted and the styles and media that he used. Entry will be free and they will run concurrently from 14th September to 7th October, opening times: Tuesday to Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm and Sunday 11am-5pm. On 21st September arts journalist and critic Rian Evans, co-author of the recently published book Kyffin Williams: The Light and The Dark, will be giving a lecture at the HLSI.
An East End gangster’s tale as you’ve never heard it before.
Better known as Skinny Dan or Longdog, Danny O’Halloran was a villain in the old fashioned sense of the word. A contemporary of the Great Train Robbers, ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser and all those old-school London gangsters, he robbed banks for a living. But, unlike the infamous Kray twins, he never sought the spotlight.
After a life spent shuttling in and out of jail, scrapping to survive and leaving plenty of broken bones in his wake, Longdog died in 2005. Prairie Flower is set in that year.
Written and performed by Danny’s son Ryan Simms, this one man play turns a family’s dark past into a compelling new piece of theatre.
We are now taking bookings for the Autumn Term for Portraiture and Figure Drawing!
This class is aimed at artists of all levels, including beginners and advanced students, who wish to expand their skills. Taught by 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.
Portraiture and Figure Drawing takes place every Tuesday. The Autumn Term runs Tuesday 11 September to Tuesday 11 December. Please note there is no class on 23 October for Half Term.
Kyffin Williams, who taught art at Highgate School from 1944-73 and went on to be one of Wales’s most significant and best-loved artists, was born one hundred years ago this year. To mark his centenary two exhibitions under the joint banner Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife are planned to take place this autumn in the Highgate School Museum on Southwood Lane and in the Gallery of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLS I). The former will feature the School’s collection of oils alongside paintings borrowed from private collectors and small loans from the National Library of Wales (NLW) in Aberystwyth and Oriel Môn on Anglesey, highlighting to some extent Kyffin’s ‘London years’.
The HLSI will be displaying a substantial loan of (mostly) works on paper from the NLW. Together the two exhibitions will constitute the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work to be shown in England and will provide an absorbing overview of the subjects that he painted and the styles and media that he used. Entry will be free and they will run concurrently from 14th September to 7th October, opening times: Tuesday to Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm and Sunday 11am-5pm. On 21st September arts journalist and critic Rian Evans, co-author of the recently published book Kyffin Williams: The Light and The Dark, will be giving a lecture at the HLSI.