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Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Max Wall, who is buried in Highgate Cemetery East, is one of the great British comedians of the 20th century, as anyone who saw his character Professor Wallofski will attest. Born Maxwell George Lorimer in Brixton, he made his stage debut as Jack in Mother Goose, going on to appear in many musicals and stage comedies in the 1930s. His distinctive facial expressions and mournful voice led to many parts in films after the war including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He played serious parts, too: Vladimir in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot being perhaps the best known.
Max’s close friend Michael Pointon, who is writing a personal memoir about him, will regale the audience with anecdotes and insights. Max was a friend of another star buried at Highgate, Leslie ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson, and Michael will tell us about that friendship and play music Max and Hutch recorded together. The talk will be illustrated with film clips and excerpts from Max’s performances.
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
THE HIGHGATE DEBATE
This house believes that …
the NHS should be attempting the impossible
Proposing:
PHILIP STEER
Emeritus Professor, Imperial College, London; Editor Emeritus, BJOG, an International Journal of Obstretrics and Gynaecology
Opposing:
DR MALA RAO
Professor and Senior Clinical Fellow, Dept of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College
Reserve your free place: 020 8340 3343 or admin@hlsi.net
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
A fantastic new food market selling fresh produce and hot and cold street food!!! Situated in the front playground at St Michael’s. School, North Road, N6 4BG
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
A new weekly Sunday farmers market for the community.
We’re delighted to be hosted by St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School.
St Joseph’s are especially delighted to celebrate the opening of the Market with the School’s 10th anniversary in September of the ‘St Joseph’s Children’s Garden’ project, enabling children in the Community to sell their garden produce and share their growing expertise.
Produce will include; Freshly pressed juice, soft fruit and top fruit in season, vegetables and salads. Organic & free range meat, raw milk, cheese, plants & flowers, handmade preserves, herbs, pies, cakes and bread, wet fish and shellfish, free range eggs.
Something for everyone.
All farms are based within 100 miles of London and everyone is visited before they sell with us. Secondary producers such as jam makers have to use a minimum of 50% local ingredients and we ask bakers to use seasonal ingredients and free range/organic eggs. We’ll do our best to include locally based producers, anyone interested should get in touch with us as soon as possible.
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
In the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Highgate Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of works by members of the Artists’ Union of St Petersburg 1950-1980.
Curator John Barkes has been working with artists in St Petersburg for more than twenty years. A chance meeting in 1993 with a painter with close links to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts resulted in nearly a hundred trips to the city, with visits to more than three hundred studios. The collapse of the Soviet system in 1989 left many elite professions without salaries or resources. Members of Artists’ Unions were no exception, but crucially they retained their studios and the paintings that represented their lives’ work.
To the artists’ surprise, and often severe irritation, John Barkes nearly always ignored their finished exhibited paintings, which tended to be rigid and formal, selecting in preference the vibrantly observant oil sketches and drawings that had no monetary value under the old system. It has thus been possible, by chance and the accidents of history, to exhibit and sell a great number of works by eminent artists and teachers at very accessible prices.
One wall will feature designs for major mosaic and mural projects from the 1960s and 1970s by Evgeni Kazmin. He is most proud of his scheme for the Sochi State Circus building, and is delighted that it survived the depredations associated with the recent Winter Olympics. The main theme of any Socialist Realist exhibition is life under the Soviet system – work, leisure and the family – paintings of a time that has passed into history, brilliantly observed.
All works are for sale, mostly priced from £400 to £4,000.
Gallery Talk:
On Sunday 5th February at 5.30pm. Dr Elizaveta Butakova, visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, will lecture on Socialist Realism. John Barkes will share the platform giving his insights into the Soviet art education system.
Admission £10 (HLSI members £5) on the door.
To reserve your place please eMail admin@hlsi.net or telephone 020 8340 3343.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Exhibition continues until 16 February and is free.
2017 is the 50th year since conservation areas were first designated. St John’s Wood was the second one to be approved.
London Forum and its members will be celebrating this occasion including at Civic Day in June 2017. Members are invited to attend this open meeting and discuss what should be done for this anniversary.
There will be speakers from Historic England and Civic Voice who will explain their aims for this celebration year and suggest to societies what they could do themselves. There will be discussion on the proposals and the ideas of those society representatives who attend.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DATE HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM 30TH JANUARY DUE TO A CLASH WITH ANOTHER EVENT
Venue: The Gallery, 75 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EL
Location: Near to Farringdon station
Cost (per person): No charge but donations welcomed
shakespear in song
friday 3 february
18 songs 14 composers 10 plays 1 playwright
A song recital exploring love, lust, power and decay. Four centuries of the bard’s songs, interwoven with spoken poetry from his sonnets and plays.
Sheakespear’s plays and poetry have inspired the finest composers of songs. Traditional Elizabethan settings will be performed alongside timeless arrangements by Purcell, Quiter, Finzi, Schubert and Haydn. Female composers Dring and Maconchy, together with contemporary settings by Korngold, Horovitz and Tippett.
Contralto Lucy Stevens
Pianist Elizabeth Marcus
Doors and bar open at 7pm, performance at 8pm.
Tickets can be purchased at Ticket Source – http://bit.ly2i687Zx
Price band
Standard £12.00
Concessions £10.00
to book
Box office: 07790456169
Website: www.shakespeareinsong.com
A fantastic new food market selling fresh produce and hot and cold street food!!! Situated in the front playground at St Michael’s. School, North Road, N6 4BG
In the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Highgate Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of works by members of the Artists’ Union of St Petersburg 1950-1980.
Curator John Barkes has been working with artists in St Petersburg for more than twenty years. A chance meeting in 1993 with a painter with close links to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts resulted in nearly a hundred trips to the city, with visits to more than three hundred studios. The collapse of the Soviet system in 1989 left many elite professions without salaries or resources. Members of Artists’ Unions were no exception, but crucially they retained their studios and the paintings that represented their lives’ work.
To the artists’ surprise, and often severe irritation, John Barkes nearly always ignored their finished exhibited paintings, which tended to be rigid and formal, selecting in preference the vibrantly observant oil sketches and drawings that had no monetary value under the old system. It has thus been possible, by chance and the accidents of history, to exhibit and sell a great number of works by eminent artists and teachers at very accessible prices.
One wall will feature designs for major mosaic and mural projects from the 1960s and 1970s by Evgeni Kazmin. He is most proud of his scheme for the Sochi State Circus building, and is delighted that it survived the depredations associated with the recent Winter Olympics. The main theme of any Socialist Realist exhibition is life under the Soviet system – work, leisure and the family – paintings of a time that has passed into history, brilliantly observed.
All works are for sale, mostly priced from £400 to £4,000.
Gallery Talk: On Sunday 5th February at 5.30pm. Dr Elizaveta Butakova, visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, will lecture on Socialist Realism. John Barkes will share the platform giving his insights into the Soviet art education system.
Admission £10 (HLSI members £5) on the door.
To reserve your place please eMail admin@hlsi.net or telephone 020 8340 3343.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Exhibition continues until 16 February and is free.
SOPHIA STARLING
STUDIO OBSTACLES
49a Gallery (pop up)
49 Highgate Highstreet
London N6 5JX
A solo exhibition of prints (amongst other studio obstacles), by London-based artist Sophia Starling. The body of work was created as part of a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, US in 2016. These prints are a response to her abstract painting practice and the physical shifting process and gestural language that is defined by the interaction of the physical elements from which a painting is made.
Opening 3rd February 6-9pm and the exhibition continues until the 12th February
Open SAT & SUN 11am – 5pm or by appointment.
Please email 49agallery@gmail.com (for appointments)
Sophia Starling, b. 1988, Norfolk, UK. Lives and works in London.
Graduated from Camberwell College of Art, London, in 2011.
Exhibitions include: Painting & Structure, Kennington Residency, London (2017). Summer Mix, Turps Banana Gallery, London (2016) Solo, Horatio Jr, London (2015), UK/RAINE, Saatchi Gallery, London (2015), Corporeality, Objects and Other Stuff, FOLD, London, (2014). Time to Hit the Road, Leila Heller Gallery, New York (2014). Jerwood Painting Fellowship Award Winner, Jerwood Visual Arts, London (2013).
sophiastarling.co.uk
A new weekly Sunday farmers market for the community.
We’re delighted to be hosted by St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School.
St Joseph’s are especially delighted to celebrate the opening of the Market with the School’s 10th anniversary in September of the ‘St Joseph’s Children’s Garden’ project, enabling children in the Community to sell their garden produce and share their growing expertise.
Produce will include; Freshly pressed juice, soft fruit and top fruit in season, vegetables and salads. Organic & free range meat, raw milk, cheese, plants & flowers, handmade preserves, herbs, pies, cakes and bread, wet fish and shellfish, free range eggs.
Something for everyone.
All farms are based within 100 miles of London and everyone is visited before they sell with us. Secondary producers such as jam makers have to use a minimum of 50% local ingredients and we ask bakers to use seasonal ingredients and free range/organic eggs. We’ll do our best to include locally based producers, anyone interested should get in touch with us as soon as possible.
In the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Highgate Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of works by members of the Artists’ Union of St Petersburg 1950-1980.
Curator John Barkes has been working with artists in St Petersburg for more than twenty years. A chance meeting in 1993 with a painter with close links to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts resulted in nearly a hundred trips to the city, with visits to more than three hundred studios. The collapse of the Soviet system in 1989 left many elite professions without salaries or resources. Members of Artists’ Unions were no exception, but crucially they retained their studios and the paintings that represented their lives’ work.
To the artists’ surprise, and often severe irritation, John Barkes nearly always ignored their finished exhibited paintings, which tended to be rigid and formal, selecting in preference the vibrantly observant oil sketches and drawings that had no monetary value under the old system. It has thus been possible, by chance and the accidents of history, to exhibit and sell a great number of works by eminent artists and teachers at very accessible prices.
One wall will feature designs for major mosaic and mural projects from the 1960s and 1970s by Evgeni Kazmin. He is most proud of his scheme for the Sochi State Circus building, and is delighted that it survived the depredations associated with the recent Winter Olympics. The main theme of any Socialist Realist exhibition is life under the Soviet system – work, leisure and the family – paintings of a time that has passed into history, brilliantly observed. All works are for sale, mostly priced from £400 to £4,000.
Gallery Talk:
On Sunday 5th February at 5.30pm. Dr Elizaveta Butakova, visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, will lecture on Socialist Realism. John Barkes will share the platform giving his insights into the Soviet art education system.
Admission £10 (HLSI members £5) on the door.
To reserve your place please eMail admin@hlsi.net or telephone 020 8340 3343.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Exhibition continues until 16 February and is free.
SOPHIA STARLING
STUDIO OBSTACLES
49a Gallery (pop up)
49 Highgate Highstreet
London N6 5JX
A solo exhibition of prints (amongst other studio obstacles), by London-based artist Sophia Starling. The body of work was created as part of a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, US in 2016. These prints are a response to her abstract painting practice and the physical shifting process and gestural language that is defined by the interaction of the physical elements from which a painting is made.
Opening 3rd February 6-9pm and the exhibition continues until the 12th February
Open SAT & SUN 11am – 5pm or by appointment.
Please email 49agallery@gmail.com (for appointments)
Sophia Starling, b. 1988, Norfolk, UK. Lives and works in London.
Graduated from Camberwell College of Art, London, in 2011.
Exhibitions include: Painting & Structure, Kennington Residency, London (2017). Summer Mix, Turps Banana Gallery, London (2016) Solo, Horatio Jr, London (2015), UK/RAINE, Saatchi Gallery, London (2015), Corporeality, Objects and Other Stuff, FOLD, London, (2014). Time to Hit the Road, Leila Heller Gallery, New York (2014). Jerwood Painting Fellowship Award Winner, Jerwood Visual Arts, London (2013).
sophiastarling.co.uk
The Post War Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia
Dr Elizaveta Butakova Kilgarriff, visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, will talk about Socialist Realism. John Barkes, curator of Highgate Gallery’s current exhibition PAINTINGS FROM SOVIET RUSSIA 1950-1980, will share the platform giving his insights into the Soviet art education system.
Dr Kilgarriff is an academic focussing on the Russian post-war avant-garde. In 2015 she completed her thesis entitled ‘A-Ya Magazine: Soviet unofficial art between Moscow, Paris and New York, 1976-1986’ at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Based on this research, in 2014, she curated the exhibition ‘Paper Museums: Moscow Conceptualism in Transit’ at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. She has been a visiting lecturer at the Courtauld, UCL and the Ruskin. In 2016, she co-taught the MA ‘Global Conceptualisms’ at the Courtauld Institute.
Doors open 5.15pm. Admission £10 (HLSI members £5) on the door.
To reserve your place please eMail admin@hlsi.net or telephone 020 8340 3343.
Exhibition open 11am-5pm.
6th February
The Ninth Annual Kyffin Williams Lecture
Vincent Van Gogh and Anthony Green
Martin Bailey
The art historian Martin Bailey has published two books in the past few weeks – one on Van Gogh (Studio of the South: Van Gogh in Provence) and the other on the former Highgate student Anthony Green RA (Painting Life), who was taught by Kyffin Williams in the 1950s. In his lecture, Bailey will explore the links, since Green has always been strongly influenced by Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.
In the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Highgate Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of works by members of the Artists’ Union of St Petersburg 1950-1980.
Curator John Barkes has been working with artists in St Petersburg for more than twenty years. A chance meeting in 1993 with a painter with close links to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts resulted in nearly a hundred trips to the city, with visits to more than three hundred studios. The collapse of the Soviet system in 1989 left many elite professions without salaries or resources. Members of Artists’ Unions were no exception, but crucially they retained their studios and the paintings that represented their lives’ work.
To the artists’ surprise, and often severe irritation, John Barkes nearly always ignored their finished exhibited paintings, which tended to be rigid and formal, selecting in preference the vibrantly observant oil sketches and drawings that had no monetary value under the old system. It has thus been possible, by chance and the accidents of history, to exhibit and sell a great number of works by eminent artists and teachers at very accessible prices.
One wall will feature designs for major mosaic and mural projects from the 1960s and 1970s by Evgeni Kazmin. He is most proud of his scheme for the Sochi State Circus building, and is delighted that it survived the depredations associated with the recent Winter Olympics. The main theme of any Socialist Realist exhibition is life under the Soviet system – work, leisure and the family – paintings of a time that has passed into history, brilliantly observed.
All works are for sale, mostly priced from £400 to £4,000.
Gallery Talk:
On Sunday 5th February at 5.30pm. Dr Elizaveta Butakova, visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, will lecture on Socialist Realism. John Barkes will share the platform giving his insights into the Soviet art education system.
Admission £10 (HLSI members £5) on the door.
To reserve your place please eMail admin@hlsi.net or telephone 020 8340 3343.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Exhibition continues until 16 February and is free.
Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment
Written by Chris Burgess
Directed by Kate Golledge
Musical Arrangements by Andy Collyer
7th February – 11th March 2017
Tuesdays – Saturdays 7.30pm
Sundays at 4pm
Saturday Matinees at 3pm: 25th February, 4th & 11th March
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES
Running Time: approximately two hours including one 15 minute interval
Why have Jews dominated the entertainment industry? How is it that so many writers, composers, performers, directors and producers are Jewish?
THAT’S JEWISH ENTERTAINMENT presents a cornucopia of Jewish talent, with song, dance and comedy spanning decades of Jewish life. From the shtetls of Eastern Europe to Broadway. From Yiddish folk songs to Hollywood blockbusters.
It’s been a long bitter-sweet journey, and on the way contributors to this entertainment heritage are artists such as:
THE GERSHWIN BROTHERS / AL JOLSON / SOPHIE TUCKER / EDDIE CANTOR / IRVING BERLIN
THE MARX BROTHERS / FANNY BRICE / WOODY ALLEN / MEL BROOKS / BARBRA STREISAND
JACKIE MASON / JERRY HERMAN / SID CAESER / JOAN RIVERS / BETTE MIDLER
…and many, many more!
From Louis B Mayer to Steven Spielberg. From The Jazz Singer to Yentl. From fiddlers in the shtetl to Fiddler on the Roof.
A CENTURY OF JEWISH ENTERTAINMENT – IN ONE SHOW!
TICKETS
7th – 12th February
Tuesday – Friday 7.30pm: £16/£14 concessions
Saturday 7.30pm: £18/£16 concessions
Sunday 4pm: £18/£16 concessions
14th – 19th February
Tuesday – Friday 7.30pm: £18/£16 concessions
Saturday 7.30pm: £20/£18 concessions
Sunday 4pm: £20/£18 concessions
21st – 26th February
Tuesday – Friday 7.30pm: £18/£16 concessions
Saturday 3pm: £20/£18 concessions
Saturday 7.30pm: £20/£18 concessions
Sunday 4pm: £20/£18 concessions
28th February – 5th March
Tuesday – Friday 7.30pm: £20/£18 concessions
Saturday 3pm: £22/£20 concessions
Saturday 7.30pm: £22/£20 concessions
Sunday 4pm: £22/£20 concessions
7th – 11th March
Tuesday – Friday 7.30pm: £20/£18 concessions
Saturday 3pm: £22/£20 concessions
Saturday 7.30pm: £22/£20 concessions
BOX OFFICE: 020 8340 3488
Book Tickets Online
Online fee – 5% of total transaction
In the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Highgate Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of works by members of the Artists’ Union of St Petersburg 1950-1980.
Curator John Barkes has been working with artists in St Petersburg for more than twenty years. A chance meeting in 1993 with a painter with close links to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts resulted in nearly a hundred trips to the city, with visits to more than three hundred studios. The collapse of the Soviet system in 1989 left many elite professions without salaries or resources. Members of Artists’ Unions were no exception, but crucially they retained their studios and the paintings that represented their lives’ work.
To the artists’ surprise, and often severe irritation, John Barkes nearly always ignored their finished exhibited paintings, which tended to be rigid and formal, selecting in preference the vibrantly observant oil sketches and drawings that had no monetary value under the old system. It has thus been possible, by chance and the accidents of history, to exhibit and sell a great number of works by eminent artists and teachers at very accessible prices.
One wall will feature designs for major mosaic and mural projects from the 1960s and 1970s by Evgeni Kazmin. He is most proud of his scheme for the Sochi State Circus building, and is delighted that it survived the depredations associated with the recent Winter Olympics. The main theme of any Socialist Realist exhibition is life under the Soviet system – work, leisure and the family – paintings of a time that has passed into history, brilliantly observed.
All works are for sale, mostly priced from £400 to £4,000.
Gallery Talk:
On Sunday 5th February at 5.30pm. Dr Elizaveta Butakova, visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, will lecture on Socialist Realism. John Barkes will share the platform giving his insights into the Soviet art education system.
Admission £10 (HLSI members £5) on the door.
To reserve your place please eMail admin@hlsi.net or telephone 020 8340 3343.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Exhibition continues until 16 February and is free.
The Highgate Society Sustainable Homes Group is running a series of talks to help local residents bring their homes into the 21st Century. The first of our talks will be particularly relevant if you are considering a major renovation or extension. The talk will be chaired by John Doggart who is a government advisor and co-founder of the Existing Homes Alliance. The speaker panel is:
Bob Prewett – a well known local architect and expert on low energy design
Russell Smith – MD of Parity projects who have been advising on low carbon renovations for several years
Peter Rickaby – an architect with many years of experience on insulation and ventilation of older homes
Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment
Written by Chris Burgess
Directed by Kate Golledge
Musical Arrangements by Andy Collyer
7th February – 11th March 2017
Tuesdays – Saturdays 7.30pm
Sundays at 4pm
Saturday Matinees at 3pm: 25th February, 4th & 11th March
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES
Running Time: approximately two hours including one 15 minute interval
Why have Jews dominated the entertainment industry? How is it that so many writers, composers, performers, directors and producers are Jewish?
THAT’S JEWISH ENTERTAINMENT presents a cornucopia of Jewish talent, with song, dance and comedy spanning decades of Jewish life. From the shtetls of Eastern Europe to Broadway. From Yiddish folk songs to Hollywood blockbusters.
It’s been a long bitter-sweet journey, and on the way contributors to this entertainment heritage are artists such as:
THE GERSHWIN BROTHERS / AL JOLSON / SOPHIE TUCKER / EDDIE CANTOR / IRVING BERLIN
THE MARX BROTHERS / FANNY BRICE / WOODY ALLEN / MEL BROOKS / BARBRA STREISAND
JACKIE MASON / JERRY HERMAN / SID CAESER / JOAN RIVERS / BETTE MIDLER
…and many, many more!
From Louis B Mayer to Steven Spielberg. From The Jazz Singer to Yentl. From fiddlers in the shtetl to Fiddler on the Roof.
A CENTURY OF JEWISH ENTERTAINMENT – IN ONE SHOW!
TICKETS
7th – 12th February
Tuesday – Friday 7.30pm: £16/£14 concessions
Saturday 7.30pm: £18/£16 concessions
Sunday 4pm: £18/£16 concessions
14th – 19th February
Tuesday – Friday 7.30pm: £18/£16 concessions
Saturday 7.30pm: £20/£18 concessions
Sunday 4pm: £20/£18 concessions
21st – 26th February
Tuesday – Friday 7.30pm: £18/£16 concessions
Saturday 3pm: £20/£18 concessions
Saturday 7.30pm: £20/£18 concessions
Sunday 4pm: £20/£18 concessions
28th February – 5th March
Tuesday – Friday 7.30pm: £20/£18 concessions
Saturday 3pm: £22/£20 concessions
Saturday 7.30pm: £22/£20 concessions
Sunday 4pm: £22/£20 concessions
7th – 11th March
Tuesday – Friday 7.30pm: £20/£18 concessions
Saturday 3pm: £22/£20 concessions
Saturday 7.30pm: £22/£20 concessions
BOX OFFICE: 020 8340 3488
Book Tickets Online
Online fee – 5% of total transaction
In the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Highgate Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of works by members of the Artists’ Union of St Petersburg 1950-1980.
Curator John Barkes has been working with artists in St Petersburg for more than twenty years. A chance meeting in 1993 with a painter with close links to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts resulted in nearly a hundred trips to the city, with visits to more than three hundred studios. The collapse of the Soviet system in 1989 left many elite professions without salaries or resources. Members of Artists’ Unions were no exception, but crucially they retained their studios and the paintings that represented their lives’ work.
To the artists’ surprise, and often severe irritation, John Barkes nearly always ignored their finished exhibited paintings, which tended to be rigid and formal, selecting in preference the vibrantly observant oil sketches and drawings that had no monetary value under the old system. It has thus been possible, by chance and the accidents of history, to exhibit and sell a great number of works by eminent artists and teachers at very accessible prices.
One wall will feature designs for major mosaic and mural projects from the 1960s and 1970s by Evgeni Kazmin. He is most proud of his scheme for the Sochi State Circus building, and is delighted that it survived the depredations associated with the recent Winter Olympics. The main theme of any Socialist Realist exhibition is life under the Soviet system – work, leisure and the family – paintings of a time that has passed into history, brilliantly observed.
All works are for sale, mostly priced from £400 to £4,000.
Gallery Talk:
On Sunday 5th February at 5.30pm. Dr Elizaveta Butakova, visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, will lecture on Socialist Realism. John Barkes will share the platform giving his insights into the Soviet art education system.
Admission £10 (HLSI members £5) on the door.
To reserve your place please eMail admin@hlsi.net or telephone 020 8340 3343.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Exhibition continues until 16 February and is free.