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!
We are delighted to present the UK Premiere of BL CK B X artist Morgan Quaintance’s latest work Batakhalou Dakar (Letter from Dakar). The screening will be followed by a discussion between the artist and curator Amanprit Sandhu.
Batakhalou Dakar (Letter from Dakar) (2019)
A documentary film focusing on arts, culture and politics in Dakar, Senegal.
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 narration of poet Siegfried Sassoon’s life adapted by Maureen Lyle from autobiographical writings and poems.
Following Sassoon’s life from pre-war country gentleman to wartime hero the narration will be accompanied by music, English song and popular ballads. This remarkable journey includes many twists of fate and personal challenges leading to Sassoon’s unique poetry depicting life in the trenches and his ultimate discharge as an army officer, a hundred years ago in 1919.
The show will take place in the Long Gallery at Lauderdale House.
Refreshments are available from 6:30 pm and during the interval.
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!
Come along for a day of local, ethical and sustainable shopping at Extraordinary Artisans Market at Lauderdale House. The next market is on Sunday 23 June.
Discover locally made arts & crafts, gifts, vintage, homewares and clothing and more at a beautiful artisan market where where everything you buy comes from ‘a good place’.
Extraordinary Artisans Market takes place on Sunday 23 June from 11am to 5pm. Entry is free.
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!
Join us for walking tour of Jewish Highgate and learn about:
• the first house owned by Jews after the re-entry
• the 5 synagogues
• the second oldest Jewish school
• a famous Jewish architect and his Jewish client
• what Daniel Defoe said about the Jews of Highgate
• the connection with Coleridge and Voltaire
• famous residents – including George Michael and Karl Marx
• the Highgate man who saved 3,500 people from the holocaust
The tour lasts 90mins , starting at Cromwell House and end with an optional visit to Highgate Synagogue, courtesy of Rabbi Liss.
20 places, ticket sales going towards the festival.
Use this link for tickets on the 23/6/19
WE’RE BACK – AND GOING DIGITAL!
This year’s Highgate Festival – 20-28 June – will be celebrating Highgate online. As ever, our aim is to bring together and connect the community, boost Highgate’s economy and support our local artists and businesses.
https://highgatefestival.org/events/
The Great Highgate Bake Off
Saturday 20th June 2020 10.00 am
We have all been baking a lot during lockdown, so The Highgate Society invites you to the Highgate Festival Bake-Off.
Whether you just progressed from banana bread or have impressed neighbours and family with your amazing cakes for a long time, this casual zoom event is for you. Kick off the first Highgate Festival Saturday with your best cake, impress your neighbours, and due to current restrictions: eat it all yourself.
First meeting: 10 am for meet and greet, and some technical tips.
Second meeting: 4 pm for show off, some laughs and tasting – and finally judging by Kate of www.cakeishappening.co.uk
We look forward to seeing you, and your cake!
Choose a category:
‘The Lost Spring’ exhibition has now brought the ‘inside out’ and is located in the windows of Lauderdale House.
Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June
and Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June. From 11 to 6 pm on all these days.
The Lost Spring includes a fascinating interview with Peter Gallagher as he walks around Lauderdale House, where he also lives, showing us the exhibition he has hung in the galleries and explaining the stories behind his art.
https://www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk/whats-on/lost-spring-peter-gallagher
2020 Fair in the Square – save the date
Launch event of the local #BuildBackBetter campaign organized by local organizations driving action for climate, social and economic change in our post-COVID world. A range of local speakers will address these themes from a global and local perspective.
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/webinar/
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
A solo show for award-winning potter, illustrator and ‘people watcher at heart’ Helen Beard. Join via Zoom to celebrate the opening with a personal tour of the exhibition by the artist herself.
http://www.throwncontemporary.co.uk/asenseofplace
Email gallery@throwncontemporary.co.uk to RSVP
WE’RE BACK – AND GOING DIGITAL!
This year’s Highgate Festival – 20-28 June – will be celebrating Highgate online. As ever, our aim is to bring together and connect the community, boost Highgate’s economy and support our local artists and businesses.
https://highgatefestival.org/events/
‘The Lost Spring’ exhibition has now brought the ‘inside out’ and is located in the windows of Lauderdale House.
Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June
and Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June. From 11 to 6 pm on all these days.
The Lost Spring includes a fascinating interview with Peter Gallagher as he walks around Lauderdale House, where he also lives, showing us the exhibition he has hung in the galleries and explaining the stories behind his art.
https://www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk/whats-on/lost-spring-peter-gallagher
HLSI One-to-One Interviews
Many HLSI members have interesting careers and experiences, and here is a chance to learn about them as one member interviews another. Michael de Swiet, retired professor of medicine, interviews Catherine Budgett-Meakin who grew up in Highgate and has had a varied professional life. Her concern about the climate emergency has permeated her life for more than 30 years.
Please register for a One-to-One Interview by noon, Friday 19 June
Zoom invitations will be sent out on the day.
WE’RE BACK – AND GOING DIGITAL!
This year’s Highgate Festival – 20-28 June – will be celebrating Highgate online. As ever, our aim is to bring together and connect the community, boost Highgate’s economy and support our local artists and businesses.
https://highgatefestival.org/events/
WE’RE BACK – AND GOING DIGITAL!
This year’s Highgate Festival – 20-28 June – will be celebrating Highgate online. As ever, our aim is to bring together and connect the community, boost Highgate’s economy and support our local artists and businesses.
https://highgatefestival.org/events/
Sir Mark Elder, conductor and music director of the Hallé Orchestra, explores the story of how Karl Hallé came to Manchester in the 1850s and founded the orchestra that still bears his name.
Please register by noon on the day of the talk and Zoom invitations will be sent out on the afternoon of the talk.
The Pen Demics Live
The Pen Demics AKA The Highgate Society Poetry Group and friends look back on the Pandemic. What did they find there? Do poets on Lock Down know if anyone in Highgate is alive?
Join the Pen Demics on Zoom to let them know. Contact r.downes@yahoo.co.uk
WE’RE BACK – AND GOING DIGITAL!
This year’s Highgate Festival – 20-28 June – will be celebrating Highgate online. As ever, our aim is to bring together and connect the community, boost Highgate’s economy and support our local artists and businesses.
https://highgatefestival.org/events/
WE’RE BACK – AND GOING DIGITAL!
This year’s Highgate Festival – 20-28 June – will be celebrating Highgate online. As ever, our aim is to bring together and connect the community, boost Highgate’s economy and support our local artists and businesses.
https://highgatefestival.org/events/
Thurs 25 June 7.30pm
In this interactive chat Monica Martini will discuss the fundamentals, simple hacks and handy tips and debunk some myths along the way. To book click here
WE’RE BACK – AND GOING DIGITAL!
This year’s Highgate Festival – 20-28 June – will be celebrating Highgate online. As ever, our aim is to bring together and connect the community, boost Highgate’s economy and support our local artists and businesses.
https://highgatefestival.org/events/
Adjacent to Waterlow Park where LUX is based is Highgate Cemetery, one of London’s finest cemeteries and the final resting place of a number of extraordinary people. During the lockdown when visiting the cemetery is difficult, LUX, in partnership with the Cemetery is organising a series of online virtual visits with thinkers and artists reflecting on life and work of some of the inspirational people buried there.
The first event is a discussion on the life and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), the pioneering and inspirational Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist who is buried in Highgate Cemetery close to Karl Marx. We will be joined by Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University and Claudia Jones scholar, author of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008) and editor of a reader of Jones’ writing Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment (2010) and artist Rhea Storr, who in her recent film works has investigated carnival as a space of both celebration and protest, exploring their social structures, costume and language.
We are pleased to share the recorded conversation with Carole Boyce Davies and Rhea Storr on our website. The conversation is also accompanied by Rhea Storr’s recent work Bragging Rights (2019).
Visit: https://lux.org.uk/event/lux-highgate-cemetery-talks-claudia-jones
Highgate’s own boutique distillery, Sacred Gin, will conduct a remote gin tasting, preceded by a reprise of Ruth Hazeldine’s illustrated history of gin delivered last year at 10A.
Gin samples will be available from Sacred Gin’s new premises in Highgate High Street from June 23rd. Samples will cost £29.95 per person for 5 x 50 ml bottles of various different gins (all Sacred) plus a 50ml sample of Sacred English Dry Vermouth for the Martini, plus a bottle of Fever Tree tonic. There will also be a sheet with some instructions.
Hilary Whitney of Sacred Gin explains: “On the night, each person chooses either Pink Grapefruit Gin or Cardamom Gin to make a G&T with – they should put a tiny amount aside for tasting later – so that they have a drink in their hand when we start. Ian [Hart] and I will taste through the samples people have given and we will round off the evening with a Martini.”
Participation in this part of the evening will be limited to the first 30 to buy the sample pack.
The talk will begin at 7.00 pm and the tasting at 8.00 pm. To book for the event (whether or not participating in the tasting) click here.
WE’RE BACK – AND GOING DIGITAL!
This year’s Highgate Festival – 20-28 June – will be celebrating Highgate online. As ever, our aim is to bring together and connect the community, boost Highgate’s economy and support our local artists and businesses.
https://highgatefestival.org/events/
Adjacent to Waterlow Park where LUX is based is Highgate Cemetery, one of London’s finest cemeteries and the final resting place of a number of extraordinary people. During the lockdown when visiting the cemetery is difficult, LUX, in partnership with the Cemetery is organising a series of online virtual visits with thinkers and artists reflecting on life and work of some of the inspirational people buried there.
The first event is a discussion on the life and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), the pioneering and inspirational Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist who is buried in Highgate Cemetery close to Karl Marx. We will be joined by Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University and Claudia Jones scholar, author of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008) and editor of a reader of Jones’ writing Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment (2010) and artist Rhea Storr, who in her recent film works has investigated carnival as a space of both celebration and protest, exploring their social structures, costume and language.
We are pleased to share the recorded conversation with Carole Boyce Davies and Rhea Storr on our website. The conversation is also accompanied by Rhea Storr’s recent work Bragging Rights (2019).
Visit: https://lux.org.uk/event/lux-highgate-cemetery-talks-claudia-jones
‘The Lost Spring’ exhibition has now brought the ‘inside out’ and is located in the windows of Lauderdale House.
Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June
and Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June. From 11 to 6 pm on all these days.
The Lost Spring includes a fascinating interview with Peter Gallagher as he walks around Lauderdale House, where he also lives, showing us the exhibition he has hung in the galleries and explaining the stories behind his art.
https://www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk/whats-on/lost-spring-peter-gallagher
WE’RE BACK – AND GOING DIGITAL!
This year’s Highgate Festival – 20-28 June – will be celebrating Highgate online. As ever, our aim is to bring together and connect the community, boost Highgate’s economy and support our local artists and businesses.
https://highgatefestival.org/events/
Adjacent to Waterlow Park where LUX is based is Highgate Cemetery, one of London’s finest cemeteries and the final resting place of a number of extraordinary people. During the lockdown when visiting the cemetery is difficult, LUX, in partnership with the Cemetery is organising a series of online virtual visits with thinkers and artists reflecting on life and work of some of the inspirational people buried there.
The first event is a discussion on the life and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), the pioneering and inspirational Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist who is buried in Highgate Cemetery close to Karl Marx. We will be joined by Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University and Claudia Jones scholar, author of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008) and editor of a reader of Jones’ writing Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment (2010) and artist Rhea Storr, who in her recent film works has investigated carnival as a space of both celebration and protest, exploring their social structures, costume and language.
We are pleased to share the recorded conversation with Carole Boyce Davies and Rhea Storr on our website. The conversation is also accompanied by Rhea Storr’s recent work Bragging Rights (2019).
Visit: https://lux.org.uk/event/lux-highgate-cemetery-talks-claudia-jones
‘The Lost Spring’ exhibition has now brought the ‘inside out’ and is located in the windows of Lauderdale House.
Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June
and Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June. From 11 to 6 pm on all these days.
The Lost Spring includes a fascinating interview with Peter Gallagher as he walks around Lauderdale House, where he also lives, showing us the exhibition he has hung in the galleries and explaining the stories behind his art.
https://www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk/whats-on/lost-spring-peter-gallagher
Adjacent to Waterlow Park where LUX is based is Highgate Cemetery, one of London’s finest cemeteries and the final resting place of a number of extraordinary people. During the lockdown when visiting the cemetery is difficult, LUX, in partnership with the Cemetery is organising a series of online virtual visits with thinkers and artists reflecting on life and work of some of the inspirational people buried there.
The first event is a discussion on the life and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), the pioneering and inspirational Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist who is buried in Highgate Cemetery close to Karl Marx. We will be joined by Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University and Claudia Jones scholar, author of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008) and editor of a reader of Jones’ writing Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment (2010) and artist Rhea Storr, who in her recent film works has investigated carnival as a space of both celebration and protest, exploring their social structures, costume and language.
We are pleased to share the recorded conversation with Carole Boyce Davies and Rhea Storr on our website. The conversation is also accompanied by Rhea Storr’s recent work Bragging Rights (2019).
Visit: https://lux.org.uk/event/lux-highgate-cemetery-talks-claudia-jones
Adjacent to Waterlow Park where LUX is based is Highgate Cemetery, one of London’s finest cemeteries and the final resting place of a number of extraordinary people. During the lockdown when visiting the cemetery is difficult, LUX, in partnership with the Cemetery is organising a series of online virtual visits with thinkers and artists reflecting on life and work of some of the inspirational people buried there.
The first event is a discussion on the life and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), the pioneering and inspirational Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist who is buried in Highgate Cemetery close to Karl Marx. We will be joined by Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University and Claudia Jones scholar, author of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008) and editor of a reader of Jones’ writing Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment (2010) and artist Rhea Storr, who in her recent film works has investigated carnival as a space of both celebration and protest, exploring their social structures, costume and language.
We are pleased to share the recorded conversation with Carole Boyce Davies and Rhea Storr on our website. The conversation is also accompanied by Rhea Storr’s recent work Bragging Rights (2019).
Visit: https://lux.org.uk/event/lux-highgate-cemetery-talks-claudia-jones
Adjacent to Waterlow Park where LUX is based is Highgate Cemetery, one of London’s finest cemeteries and the final resting place of a number of extraordinary people. During the lockdown when visiting the cemetery is difficult, LUX, in partnership with the Cemetery is organising a series of online virtual visits with thinkers and artists reflecting on life and work of some of the inspirational people buried there.
The first event is a discussion on the life and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), the pioneering and inspirational Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist who is buried in Highgate Cemetery close to Karl Marx. We will be joined by Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University and Claudia Jones scholar, author of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008) and editor of a reader of Jones’ writing Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment (2010) and artist Rhea Storr, who in her recent film works has investigated carnival as a space of both celebration and protest, exploring their social structures, costume and language.
We are pleased to share the recorded conversation with Carole Boyce Davies and Rhea Storr on our website. The conversation is also accompanied by Rhea Storr’s recent work Bragging Rights (2019).
Visit: https://lux.org.uk/event/lux-highgate-cemetery-talks-claudia-jones