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Jamaican Intuitives     13-26 October

This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see a unique Jamaican branch of contemporary art which was first acknowledged post-independence and which continues to flourish. There are no pretty beach scenes; no ‘tourist’ art. The work is challenging and powerful.

Until Jamaican Independence in 1962, the larger part of Jamaica’s art establishment took only European and North American style art seriously. This was a legacy of colonialism. With Independence, the importance of the arts and of acknowledging and exhibiting Jamaican artists was recognised in helping to shape a national cultural identity.

It was the late Dr David Boxer, Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Jamaica for over 35 years, who coined the word ‘Intuitive’ – now an official art term. He defined the context in which these remarkable artists’ accomplishments should be considered:

‘These artists paint and sculpt intuitively. They are not guided by fashion. Their vision is pure and sincere, untarnished by art theories and philosophies, principles and movements. They are, for the most part self-taught…. Their visions (and many of them are true visionaries) as released through paint or wood, are expressions of their individual relationships with the world around them – and the worlds within.’

All five artists in this show were born and (have) spent their lives in Jamaica. Their work has been part of major exhibitions at the National Gallery of Jamaica, and has been shown across the Caribbean, the US and Europe.

• Christopher Harris was born in 1974. He was one of the fourteen selected exhibitors in the prestigious Young Talent V Competition at the National Gallery of Jamaica in 2010. Encouraged to draw from an early age by his father, a farmer and a portraitist, Christopher’s work connects to his Ashanti forefathers.
• Kingsley Thomas was born in 1941. He worked in Kingston as a journalist for the now closed Jamaica Daily News before moving back home to rural Portland. A number of his lyrical paintings and sculptures refer to stories he covered as a journalist.
• Leonard Daley 1930 – 2006. Partly surreal, partly realist, Daley’s images tap into Jamaica’s collective consciousness and history. In 1999, at the opening of Daley’s one-man show at the University of the West Indies, Dr David Boxer declared him to be ‘one of the truly great natural painters of the century.’ Daley was awarded the prestigious Bronze Musgrave Medal in 2002.
• Evadney Cruickshank, born c1950. Evadney started painting after observing her then partner, the artist Sylvester Woods, at work. Her narrative paintings record daily life in her rural community – Pocomania services (an African-based religion), street dances, clearing up after hurricane damage. Her dry sense of humour infuses her work.
• Birth ‘Ras Dizzy’ Livingstone c1932 – 2008. Ras Dizzy first came to public attention in the 1960s as a Rastafarian poet/philosopher selling his writings on the University of the West Indies campus. A remarkable colourist, he portrayed himself in his paintings as a prize-winning boxer, a judge, a horse race jockey. A poetic insight was written on the reverse of each work.

Opening Party on Sunday 15th October 2-5 pm featuring the Koromanti Mento Band. Mento is Jamaica’s folk music and the precursor to ska and reggae. The High Commissioner, His Excellency Mr Seth George Ramocan, will be guest of honour. Jamaican Intuitives is part of the official Jamaica55 celebrations.

Exhibition continues until 26 October.

Highgate Gallery open Tue-Fri 1-5; Sat 11-4; Sun 11-5. Closed Mon.

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Make a Hallowe’en movie full of mystery and mayhem!

This half term workshop is inspired by the new Pixar movie Coco and The Day of the Dead festival, bringing some creepy and macabre comedy to October half term.
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Throughout the course, members will learn how to create fun and unique production designs, learn some creepy special and technical effects, as well as practise their directing, acting and camera skills.
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Open to Ages 7-11 and 11-14.

Times and prices are subject to change. Contact venue before setting out.

Make a Hallowe’en movie full of adventure and magic!

This playful half term workshop explores storytelling and special effects, as Shooting Stars members create a magical adventure movie full of wonder and scintillating surprises…

There are lots of creative skills to learn, as well as new friends to make, all whilst building up confidence and having lots of fun.

Within the course, members will take part in drama, imaginative play, animation and arts and craft activities, as well as plenty of movie making fun to capture all the adventures on camera.

Open to Ages 4-7 year olds.

Times and prices are subject to change. Contact venue before setting out.

Christopher Harris, Jockey Rider

Jamaican Intuitives     13-26 October

This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see a unique Jamaican branch of contemporary art which was first acknowledged post-independence and which continues to flourish. There are no pretty beach scenes; no ‘tourist’ art. The work is challenging and powerful.

Until Jamaican Independence in 1962, the larger part of Jamaica’s art establishment took only European and North American style art seriously. This was a legacy of colonialism. With Independence, the importance of the arts and of acknowledging and exhibiting Jamaican artists was recognised in helping to shape a national cultural identity.

It was the late Dr David Boxer, Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Jamaica for over 35 years, who coined the word ‘Intuitive’ – now an official art term. He defined the context in which these remarkable artists’ accomplishments should be considered:

‘These artists paint and sculpt intuitively. They are not guided by fashion. Their vision is pure and sincere, untarnished by art theories and philosophies, principles and movements. They are, for the most part self-taught…. Their visions (and many of them are true visionaries) as released through paint or wood, are expressions of their individual relationships with the world around them – and the worlds within.’

All five artists in this show were born and (have) spent their lives in Jamaica. Their work has been part of major exhibitions at the National Gallery of Jamaica, and has been shown across the Caribbean, the US and Europe.

• Christopher Harris was born in 1974. He was one of the fourteen selected exhibitors in the prestigious Young Talent V Competition at the National Gallery of Jamaica in 2010. Encouraged to draw from an early age by his father, a farmer and a portraitist, Christopher’s work connects to his Ashanti forefathers.
• Kingsley Thomas was born in 1941. He worked in Kingston as a journalist for the now closed Jamaica Daily News before moving back home to rural Portland. A number of his lyrical paintings and sculptures refer to stories he covered as a journalist.
• Leonard Daley 1930 – 2006. Partly surreal, partly realist, Daley’s images tap into Jamaica’s collective consciousness and history. In 1999, at the opening of Daley’s one-man show at the University of the West Indies, Dr David Boxer declared him to be ‘one of the truly great natural painters of the century.’ Daley was awarded the prestigious Bronze Musgrave Medal in 2002.
• Evadney Cruickshank, born c1950. Evadney started painting after observing her then partner, the artist Sylvester Woods, at work. Her narrative paintings record daily life in her rural community – Pocomania services (an African-based religion), street dances, clearing up after hurricane damage. Her dry sense of humour infuses her work.
• Birth ‘Ras Dizzy’ Livingstone c1932 – 2008. Ras Dizzy first came to public attention in the 1960s as a Rastafarian poet/philosopher selling his writings on the University of the West Indies campus. A remarkable colourist, he portrayed himself in his paintings as a prize-winning boxer, a judge, a horse race jockey. A poetic insight was written on the reverse of each work.

Opening Party on Sunday 15th October 2-5 pm featuring the Koromanti Mento Band. Mento is Jamaica’s folk music and the precursor to ska and reggae. The High Commissioner, His Excellency Mr Seth George Ramocan, will be guest of honour. Jamaican Intuitives is part of the official Jamaica55 celebrations.

Exhibition continues until 26 October.

Highgate Gallery open Tue-Fri 1-5; Sat 11-4; Sun 11-5. Closed Mon.

Christopher Harris, Jockey Rider

Jamaican Intuitives     13-26 October

This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see a unique Jamaican branch of contemporary art which was first acknowledged post-independence and which continues to flourish. There are no pretty beach scenes; no ‘tourist’ art. The work is challenging and powerful.

Until Jamaican Independence in 1962, the larger part of Jamaica’s art establishment took only European and North American style art seriously. This was a legacy of colonialism. With Independence, the importance of the arts and of acknowledging and exhibiting Jamaican artists was recognised in helping to shape a national cultural identity.

It was the late Dr David Boxer, Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Jamaica for over 35 years, who coined the word ‘Intuitive’ – now an official art term. He defined the context in which these remarkable artists’ accomplishments should be considered:

‘These artists paint and sculpt intuitively. They are not guided by fashion. Their vision is pure and sincere, untarnished by art theories and philosophies, principles and movements. They are, for the most part self-taught…. Their visions (and many of them are true visionaries) as released through paint or wood, are expressions of their individual relationships with the world around them – and the worlds within.’

All five artists in this show were born and (have) spent their lives in Jamaica. Their work has been part of major exhibitions at the National Gallery of Jamaica, and has been shown across the Caribbean, the US and Europe.

• Christopher Harris was born in 1974. He was one of the fourteen selected exhibitors in the prestigious Young Talent V Competition at the National Gallery of Jamaica in 2010. Encouraged to draw from an early age by his father, a farmer and a portraitist, Christopher’s work connects to his Ashanti forefathers.
• Kingsley Thomas was born in 1941. He worked in Kingston as a journalist for the now closed Jamaica Daily News before moving back home to rural Portland. A number of his lyrical paintings and sculptures refer to stories he covered as a journalist.
• Leonard Daley 1930 – 2006. Partly surreal, partly realist, Daley’s images tap into Jamaica’s collective consciousness and history. In 1999, at the opening of Daley’s one-man show at the University of the West Indies, Dr David Boxer declared him to be ‘one of the truly great natural painters of the century.’ Daley was awarded the prestigious Bronze Musgrave Medal in 2002.
• Evadney Cruickshank, born c1950. Evadney started painting after observing her then partner, the artist Sylvester Woods, at work. Her narrative paintings record daily life in her rural community – Pocomania services (an African-based religion), street dances, clearing up after hurricane damage. Her dry sense of humour infuses her work.
• Birth ‘Ras Dizzy’ Livingstone c1932 – 2008. Ras Dizzy first came to public attention in the 1960s as a Rastafarian poet/philosopher selling his writings on the University of the West Indies campus. A remarkable colourist, he portrayed himself in his paintings as a prize-winning boxer, a judge, a horse race jockey. A poetic insight was written on the reverse of each work.

Opening Party on Sunday 15th October 2-5 pm featuring the Koromanti Mento Band. Mento is Jamaica’s folk music and the precursor to ska and reggae. The High Commissioner, His Excellency Mr Seth George Ramocan, will be guest of honour. Jamaican Intuitives is part of the official Jamaica55 celebrations.

Exhibition continues until 26 October.

Highgate Gallery open Tue-Fri 1-5; Sat 11-4; Sun 11-5. Closed Mon.

christine tobin

jazz in the house

Christine Tobin (vocals), Phil Robson (guitar), Dave Whitford (bass)

Now living in New York, with her partner Phil Robson, this is the first date of an extensive tour for the UK’s most individual and moving singer. Winner of the 2014 original singers Jazz Award for Best Jazz Singer, Christine will present a rich mix from her extremely successful Leonard Cohen show, through songs from the Great American Songbook and Milton Nascimento, as well as some of her own material which was rewarded with a British Composer Award in 2012.

“One of the most gifted and original singers in today’s jazz world”  BBC Music Magazine

Join the tropical pop-up dance floor with N6Zumba – the dance-fitness party with a Latin twist! All levels welcome, drop in any time to start feeling the benefits of a healthier and happier lifestyle. Classes run with the Haringey school term and are ladies only – sorry guys!

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Join the tropical pop-up dance floor with N6Zumba – the dance-fitness party with a Latin twist! All levels welcome, drop in any time to start feeling the benefits of a healthier and happier lifestyle. Classes run with the Haringey school term and are ladies only – sorry guys!

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Join the tropical pop-up dance floor with N6Zumba – the dance-fitness party with a Latin twist! All levels welcome, drop in any time to start feeling the benefits of a healthier and happier lifestyle. Classes run with the Haringey school term and are ladies only – sorry guys!

leon greening trio

jazz in the house

Leon Greening (piano), Adam King (bass), Steve Brown (drums)

A long time favourite and one of the most popular side men in London, Leon makes a long overdue return with his superlative trio of Brown, the best straight-ahead swing drummer in the country and King, winner of a Worshipful Company of Musicians Best Young Musician Award.

For those who love their piano playing to be soaked in the bop, blues and gospel flavours of giants lke Wynton Kelly, Bobby Timmons and Horace Silver, Leon is THE man.  No-one builds a solo with ever mounting excitetment like he does. Well, not in the UK anyway!

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

russian fireworks

Come and join us for a memorable musical 5th of November!

The Rubenstein Trio of Mark Lacey, clarinet, Madeleine Ridd, cello and Robin Rubenstein, piano– present an evening of works by Glinka,Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and others to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution.

Contact: Mark Lacey, markrichardlacey@aol.com

Join the tropical pop-up dance floor with N6Zumba – the dance-fitness party with a Latin twist! All levels welcome, drop in any time to start feeling the benefits of a healthier and happier lifestyle. Classes run with the Haringey school term and are ladies only – sorry guys!

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

6 November
The Crossrail Project
Caroline Metcalf and Emily Tibbitts, Crossrail

Caroline Metcalf, project manager for Bond Street Station, and Emily Tibbitts, site manager for Tottenham Court Road station, will give an overview of the status of the project to build a new railway across London, with particular reference to their individual stations.  In doing so they will describe some of the contemporary opportunities for women in engineering.

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Join the tropical pop-up dance floor with N6Zumba – the dance-fitness party with a Latin twist! All levels welcome, drop in any time to start feeling the benefits of a healthier and happier lifestyle. Classes run with the Haringey school term and are ladies only – sorry guys!

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

julian siegel quartet

jazz in the house

Julian Siegel (saxophones, bass clarinet), Liam Noble (piano),  Oli Hayhurst (bass) Gene Calderazzo (drums)

Another really outstanding saxophone player and composer. 2017 has been a very good year for Julian with tonight’s group having performed under the Brit banner at Bremen’s Jazzahead Festival and his first ever Jazz Orchestra fulfilling a highly successful Spring tour, including a sold out night at Ronnie Scott’s. He has also just completed a tour with the great US singer Dianne Schurr in Italy where he is an extremely popular visitor.

Liam Noble is considered to be one of Britain’s most significant pianists, a master of all styles and the Calderazzo/Hayhurst rhythm section generates all the fire you would want.

The Lauderdale House Cafe will be open from 6pm serving sausage rolls, frittata, cheese tarts, cakes and other light snacks along with a selection of teas, Illy coffee, wines, beers, including Peroni, Camden Pale Ale, London Pride, Aspall Cyder and Luscombe organic soft drinks.

TICKETS AVAILABLE BY PHONE ONLY

Due to technical issues with our online payment system tickets are not currently available to purchase online. If you would like to purchase tickets in advance please call 020 8348 8716

Join the tropical pop-up dance floor with N6Zumba – the dance-fitness party with a Latin twist! All levels welcome, drop in any time to start feeling the benefits of a healthier and happier lifestyle. Classes run with the Haringey school term and are ladies only – sorry guys!

Baby Broadway brings the sound of West End musicals to your doorstep in Highgate! The whole family can sing and dance along to well-known songs from hit shows and films such as Hairspray, Mamma Mia, Singin’ in the Rain, Frozen, Moana and many more in a family concert performed by West End singers.

Open to all ages from newborns to school age to grandparents, tickets are £10 per adult and children go FREE! Concert lasts approximately 45 minutes, doors open 15 minutes before start time.

Visit the Baby Broadway website for more information.

(tickets available online or on the door subject to availability)

“Tip-top show tunes that worm their way into ears of all ages” – Time Out London
“Suitable (and immensely enjoyable!) for all ages; from babies, toddlers to pre-schoolers and, of course, their grateful parents seeking an indulgent break” – Curious Mum

Highgate Watercolour Group Autumn Show, Lauderdale
House, Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm; Sunday 5th  and 19th  Nov, 12-5 pm. Check times at
www.highgatewatercolour.org.uk

Nov 10th to 19th, at Jacksons Lane Theatre in Highgate, Hampstead Garden Opera will present a magical new production of Jonathan Dove’s ‘The Enchanted Pig’, directed by Laura Attridge.  This will be the company’s second Jonathan Dove opera, following on from their critically acclaimed 2013 production of ‘Mansfield Park.  Having been commissioned and first produced by the Young Vic, this captivating opera is a wonderful tapestry of musical and theatrical styles. Humorous yet touching, Dove has created a deeply lovable work which can be enjoyed by the whole family

Performances of The Enchanted Pig:

Evenings at 7.30 pm – Nov 10, 11, & 14-18

Matinées at 4.00pm – Sundays Nov 12 & 19

Matinée at 2.30pm – Saturday Nov 18

Jacksons Lane Theatre, Highgate, London N6 5AA

Tickets: (unreserved) £27 (Premium Seats) £22 (General Admission) (Concessions £20 – Nov 10 & 11)

Box Office: 0800 411 8881