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Mar
12
Thu
ART TALK AT TREES – inspired by “Renato Guttuso, the painter of modern life” @ Trees / Hill Homes
Mar 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Hill Homes’ Tenants, staff and Volunteers are inviting  you to our first ever

ART TALK AT TREES

inspired by “Renato Guttuso, the painter of modern life”, a temporary show at the Estorick Collection

Thursday 12th March , 4:00-5:30pm

Renato Guttuso (1911-1987) is one of Italy’s most widely respected modern painters

The talk is delivered by Antonio David Fiore (b. 1978), an art historian and curator based in London, currently with the National Portrait Gallery.

Feel free to invite your art loving friends and family.

 

Mar
13
Fri
Liz Miranda, Natural Forms @ HLSI
Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Liz has created a collection of paintings of plants in close detail: uprooted, revealing their complex structures and individual history, and full of visual delight. Although not intended as a scientific study, the paintings bring us to a new relationship with nature.

Liz Miranda’s life as an artist has an international flavour. She was born in Iran, studied in England and France, worked, taught and exhibited, mainly in Brazil, and then returned to England to paint, etch, bring up a family and teach. She continues to teach, concentrating on painting from direct observation. In 2010 Liz exhibited at the Highgate Gallery and in this show her work is, as always, in oil on canvas or wood.

For the past few years Liz has been painting plants in close detail. She likes to work with the whole shape of each plant but also wants to focus on its component parts – roots, stalks, seed-heads, pods, the changes of colour, the texture and thickness of stem with the position on it of the leaves and nodes.

However realistic, her works are not illustrations. Liz wants them to be true but accuracy is not the goal: they are paintings. Painting is the second stage of freezing the potential development of these natural forms; though they were already denied growth when uprooted from the soil.

Her subjects range from modest London weeds to exotic plants, flowers, trees and grasses of the tropics. All are closely observed to reveal their individual integrity.

Open Tuesday-Friday 13:00-17:00
Saturday 11:00-16:00
Sunday 11:00-17:00
Closed Monday

Admission free

Mar
14
Sat
Open Coffee Morning and Environment Committee Members Surgery @ Highgate Society
Mar 14 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Bulb sale for mothers’ day @ Waterlow Park behind Lauderdale House
Mar 14 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Find a last minute present from the bulbs carefully selected by the Friends of Waterlow Park. Bowls and single blooms. All proceeds go to enhance your park.

Neighbourhood Plan: Drop In Session @ Highgate Society
Mar 14 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

The Highgate Neighbourhood Forum will be running a drop-in session for anybody to discuss the Neighbourhood Plan on March 14 from 11am until 2pm at 10a South Grove.

Liz Miranda, Natural Forms @ HLSI
Mar 14 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Liz has created a collection of paintings of plants in close detail: uprooted, revealing their complex structures and individual history, and full of visual delight. Although not intended as a scientific study, the paintings bring us to a new relationship with nature.

Liz Miranda’s life as an artist has an international flavour. She was born in Iran, studied in England and France, worked, taught and exhibited, mainly in Brazil, and then returned to England to paint, etch, bring up a family and teach. She continues to teach, concentrating on painting from direct observation. In 2010 Liz exhibited at the Highgate Gallery and in this show her work is, as always, in oil on canvas or wood.

For the past few years Liz has been painting plants in close detail. She likes to work with the whole shape of each plant but also wants to focus on its component parts – roots, stalks, seed-heads, pods, the changes of colour, the texture and thickness of stem with the position on it of the leaves and nodes.

However realistic, her works are not illustrations. Liz wants them to be true but accuracy is not the goal: they are paintings. Painting is the second stage of freezing the potential development of these natural forms; though they were already denied growth when uprooted from the soil.

Her subjects range from modest London weeds to exotic plants, flowers, trees and grasses of the tropics. All are closely observed to reveal their individual integrity.

Open Tuesday-Friday 13:00-17:00
Saturday 11:00-16:00
Sunday 11:00-17:00
Closed Monday

Admission free

HCS – Bach’s St Matthew Passion @ All Hallows Church
Mar 14 @ 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Arguably the greatest of all Bach’s settings of the Passion, the St Matthew Passion was described by Sir Hubert Parry as “the richest and noblest example of sacred music in existence.”

Matthew Buswell – Christus
Rupert Charlesworth – Evangelist
Soraya Mafi – soprano
Magid El-Bushra – countertenor
Adrian Ward – tenor
Sam Evans – baritone
New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp – conductor

This performance uses the edition in English by the tenor Neil Jenkins and tells the story of Christ’s betrayal, trial and crucifixion.

Tickets are now available to book online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/highgatechoral

Please note the early start time and bring a picnic for the 45-minute interval. Wine and water will be on sale.

Highgate Choral Society – Bach : St Matthew Passion @ All Hallows Church
Mar 14 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Bach : St Matthew Passion

Mar
15
Sun
I Maestri present: Where Trails Tell Tales – Promoting Soloists from the National Youth Orchestra @ St. Anne's Church
Mar 15 @ 6:30 pm

The Orchestra and Conductors of I Maestri warmly present: Where Trails tell Tales; a Young Soloists Concert programme in collaboration with rising new talent from student musicians of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

I Maestri strongly dedicate its efforts in aiding the next generation of highly gifted and talented musicians and has worked and helped promote the beginnings of a new musical journey to many now well established artists such as Nicola Benedetti, Yuri Zhislin, Maxim Rysanov and many others. It offers a platform for Young Artists to work with an orchestra, for some, the very first time, before they embark on their professional careers and musical path.

This evening’s performance begins the ‘Trail’ of a new ‘Tale’ for three very special young individuals; Leora Cohen (Violinist), Anna Semple (Violist) and Joseph Pritchard (Cellist). All three perform with the NYO and attend some of the most eminent musical institutions, such as the Royal College of Music and the Yehudi Menuhin School.

Venue: St Anne’s Church, Highgate West Hill, London. N6 6AP

Date: Sunday 15th March 2015, 6:30pm

Evening Concert Programme:
Franz Schubert – Symphony No.8, D. 759 (Unfinished)

Edward Elgar – Cello Concert in E minor, Op. 85 (1st & 2nd Movements)

Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (2nd & 3rd Movements)

Carl Phillipp Stamitz – Viola Concerto in D major, Op. 1 (1st Movement)

Carl Neilsen – Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 7

 

Soloist: Leora Cohen – Violin, Anna Semple – Viola, Joseph Pritchard – Cello

Conductors: Luke Cleghorn, Gabriel Drossart, George Hlawiczka

 

Tickets: Adult £12, Concessions and Members £10 (On the door)

Advance Tickets: Adult £10, Concessions and Members £8

Advance tickets can be purchased through the following site:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/310427
Please note: tickets will not be posted out and must be collected from the box office on the day of the performance.

Box Office and Doors open at 6pm
We hope that you will be able to help support I Maestri by attending our next concert.

Mar
16
Mon
Monday Bridge Club @ Highgate Society
Mar 16 @ 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Mar
17
Tue
Life-Drawing Group @ Highgate Society
Mar 17 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Liz Miranda, Natural Forms @ HLSI
Mar 17 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Liz has created a collection of paintings of plants in close detail: uprooted, revealing their complex structures and individual history, and full of visual delight. Although not intended as a scientific study, the paintings bring us to a new relationship with nature.

Liz Miranda’s life as an artist has an international flavour. She was born in Iran, studied in England and France, worked, taught and exhibited, mainly in Brazil, and then returned to England to paint, etch, bring up a family and teach. She continues to teach, concentrating on painting from direct observation. In 2010 Liz exhibited at the Highgate Gallery and in this show her work is, as always, in oil on canvas or wood.

For the past few years Liz has been painting plants in close detail. She likes to work with the whole shape of each plant but also wants to focus on its component parts – roots, stalks, seed-heads, pods, the changes of colour, the texture and thickness of stem with the position on it of the leaves and nodes.

However realistic, her works are not illustrations. Liz wants them to be true but accuracy is not the goal: they are paintings. Painting is the second stage of freezing the potential development of these natural forms; though they were already denied growth when uprooted from the soil.

Her subjects range from modest London weeds to exotic plants, flowers, trees and grasses of the tropics. All are closely observed to reveal their individual integrity.

Open Tuesday-Friday 13:00-17:00
Saturday 11:00-16:00
Sunday 11:00-17:00
Closed Monday

Admission free

Mar
18
Wed
Liz Miranda, Natural Forms @ HLSI
Mar 18 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Liz has created a collection of paintings of plants in close detail: uprooted, revealing their complex structures and individual history, and full of visual delight. Although not intended as a scientific study, the paintings bring us to a new relationship with nature.

Liz Miranda’s life as an artist has an international flavour. She was born in Iran, studied in England and France, worked, taught and exhibited, mainly in Brazil, and then returned to England to paint, etch, bring up a family and teach. She continues to teach, concentrating on painting from direct observation. In 2010 Liz exhibited at the Highgate Gallery and in this show her work is, as always, in oil on canvas or wood.

For the past few years Liz has been painting plants in close detail. She likes to work with the whole shape of each plant but also wants to focus on its component parts – roots, stalks, seed-heads, pods, the changes of colour, the texture and thickness of stem with the position on it of the leaves and nodes.

However realistic, her works are not illustrations. Liz wants them to be true but accuracy is not the goal: they are paintings. Painting is the second stage of freezing the potential development of these natural forms; though they were already denied growth when uprooted from the soil.

Her subjects range from modest London weeds to exotic plants, flowers, trees and grasses of the tropics. All are closely observed to reveal their individual integrity.

Open Tuesday-Friday 13:00-17:00
Saturday 11:00-16:00
Sunday 11:00-17:00
Closed Monday

Admission free

Mar
19
Thu
Watercolour Group AM @ Highgate Society
Mar 19 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Liz Miranda, Natural Forms @ HLSI
Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Liz has created a collection of paintings of plants in close detail: uprooted, revealing their complex structures and individual history, and full of visual delight. Although not intended as a scientific study, the paintings bring us to a new relationship with nature.

Liz Miranda’s life as an artist has an international flavour. She was born in Iran, studied in England and France, worked, taught and exhibited, mainly in Brazil, and then returned to England to paint, etch, bring up a family and teach. She continues to teach, concentrating on painting from direct observation. In 2010 Liz exhibited at the Highgate Gallery and in this show her work is, as always, in oil on canvas or wood.

For the past few years Liz has been painting plants in close detail. She likes to work with the whole shape of each plant but also wants to focus on its component parts – roots, stalks, seed-heads, pods, the changes of colour, the texture and thickness of stem with the position on it of the leaves and nodes.

However realistic, her works are not illustrations. Liz wants them to be true but accuracy is not the goal: they are paintings. Painting is the second stage of freezing the potential development of these natural forms; though they were already denied growth when uprooted from the soil.

Her subjects range from modest London weeds to exotic plants, flowers, trees and grasses of the tropics. All are closely observed to reveal their individual integrity.

Open Tuesday-Friday 13:00-17:00
Saturday 11:00-16:00
Sunday 11:00-17:00
Closed Monday

Admission free

Mar
20
Fri
Julia Wallin Piano Recital: Debussy, Haydn, Rachmaninoff & Messiaen @ Lauderdale House
Mar 20 @ 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm

Concert pianist Julia Wallin, Royal Academy of Music graduate and competition prize winner, invites you to an evening of piano music ranging from playful Debussy to profound and moving Rachmaninoff.

Programme:

Debussy: Suite Bergamasque

Haydn: Sonata in E flat Major Hob. 49

Rachmaninoff: Etude-tableaux, selection

Messiaen: Premiere Communion de la Vierge

Rachmaninoff: Moments Musicaux op.16

 

Doors open: 6.45pm, Concert starts: 7.15pm, 20 minute interval: 8.00pm, Concert ends: 9.00pm

Bar serving wine, beer, soft drinks and water will be available during interval and after concert

Venue is located in the Lower Gallery of the historic and beautiful Lauderdale House originally build in 1582.  Lauderdale House is behind the gates to Waterlow Park on Highgate Hill.

Lauderdale House is behind the gates to Waterlow Park on Highgate Hill

 

Mar
21
Sat
Open Coffee Morning and Environment Committee Members Surgery @ Highgate Society
Mar 21 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Mar
23
Mon
Monday Bridge Club @ Highgate Society
Mar 23 @ 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Mar
24
Tue
Life-Drawing Group @ Highgate Society
Mar 24 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Mar
26
Thu
Watercolour Group AM @ Highgate Society
Mar 26 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Film – No @ HLSI
Mar 26 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Chile/France/USA 2012, 118 mins. Dir. Pablo Larrain

Mar
28
Sat
Spring Show: Highgate Horticultural Society @ Highgate United Reformed Church
Mar 28 all-day

Highgate United Reformed Church, South Grove, London N6 6PH.
http://www.highgatehorticulturalsociety.org.uk

Open Coffee Morning and Environment Committee Members Surgery @ Highgate Society
Mar 28 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Spring Flower Show @ Highgate United Reformed Church
Mar 28 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Spend an hour amond the flowers at our 50th Spring Show
Highgate Horticultural Society’s 50th Spring Show will be held on Saturday 28 March 2015 at the United Reformed Church, South Grove, Highgate Village.
The first of the year’s shows is always a great delight as our daffodils, tulips and flowering shrubs take centre stage, bursting with spring scent and colour!
The show, including plant and produce stalls and homemade teas and cakes is open from 2-5pm.  Awards will be presented at 3.30 pm, and the raffle drawn at 4.30 pm followed by the auction of exhibits.
 
This year’s classes include:
> Cut bulbs: hyacinths, tulips, daffoldils & amaryllis
> Bulbs in growth: tulips & daffoldils
> Pot plants: primula, foliage plants, african violets & cacti
> Cut flowers: pansies, primula, hellebores & flowering shrubs

> Floral Art: including exhibits on a theme of “woodland walk” and “morning glow”
> Novice entries
> Children’s classes: easter cards and eggs

Mar
29
Sun
Highgate Camp Remembered Exhibition @ Jacksons Lane
Mar 29 @ 12:30 pm – 12:50 pm

The 12:30pm call up is for the Highgate Camp exhibition at Jacksons Lane
Repeated at 1.05pm; 2pm and 2.35pm

Hidden Heroes on your doorstep

In Highgate you are never far from a WW1 memorial giving the names of the brave men who gave their lives in this devastating conflict.

Join us for our special exhibition to honor our local heroes supported by the Heritage Lottery.

Over the past months local people aged 8 to 80’s have become heritage detectives led by practitioner D R Corgan. After taking part in research workshops, talks and trips they have created their own WWI exhibition.

This unique, interactive exhibition will be a fitting tribute to our Highgate Heroes. It will give an insight into their WWI experiences from the optimistic call up to the horrors of battle.

Suitable for Ages 6+

Call up’s: see the exhibition at Jacksons Lane

Highgate Camp Trail walks: see Highgate’s WW1 memorials

Sign up at: http://bit.ly/HighgateCamp

Mar
30
Mon
Monday Bridge Club @ Highgate Society
Mar 30 @ 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Mar
31
Tue
Life-Drawing Group @ Highgate Society
Mar 31 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Apr
2
Thu
Watercolour Group AM @ Highgate Society
Apr 2 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Apr
4
Sat
Open Coffee Morning and Environment Committee Members Surgery @ Highgate Society
Apr 4 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Apr
6
Mon
Monday Bridge Club @ Highgate Society
Apr 6 @ 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Apr
7
Tue
Life-Drawing Group @ Highgate Society
Apr 7 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Apr
9
Thu
Watercolour Group AM @ Highgate Society
Apr 9 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Waterlow Park Trails @ Waterlow Park, adventure playground
Apr 9 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Explore the park with trails, quizzes and scavenge hunts

Apr
11
Sat
Open Coffee Morning and Environment Committee Members Surgery @ Highgate Society
Apr 11 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Apr
12
Sun
Beginners Vocal Workshop @ Lauderdale House
Apr 12 @ 10:30 am – 2:30 pm

Learn how to develop your singing voice from total scratch

You don’t need to have previous singing experience or be able to read music as this workshop will teach you the singing essentials of breathing techniques and vocal skills in four hours for £25.50.

Kieran and Idit will show you how to transform your speaking voice into a singing voice through practical techniques. Not only will these techniques help improve your singing but also your voice for presentations and public speaking. And that’s not all, for completing the Level 1 workshop you will receive a certificate.

It will be fun and entertaining and to help you we will email the song sheets upon booking so you become familiar with the chosen songs.

Feedback from Elaine who attended our Beginners Workshop in January: I loved the workshop.  I thought it was very well organised.  As a complete beginner, the focus on interactive learning (i.e. theory, practice and feedback) was very helpful.  I came away with a lot more confidence but, rather than just a feeling of increased confidence, I have learnt techniques that could develop my singing voice.”

Find out more and book via our Workshops page.

I Maestri present: Northern Temperaments @ Highgate United Reformed Church
Apr 12 @ 6:45 pm

To celebrate the 150th birthday of two great composers; Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius, the orchestra and conductors of I Maestri present: Northern Temperaments, an evening that will transport you through Northern Europe from Finland, to Norway, and crossing the waters of the Baltic to Denmark.

 

The musical journey begins with Jean Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen in Tunoela (from Molto Lento); a tone poem based on Rumos (Elk, Horse and Swan and “Resurrection”). Lemminkäinen is in Tuonela, the land of the dead, to shoot the swan of Tuonela to be able to claim the daughter of Louhi, mistress of Northland, in marriage.  However, the blind man of the Northland Kills Lemminkäinen, whose body is then tossed in the river and then dismembered. Lemminkäinen’s mother learns of the death, travels to Tuonela, recovers his body parts, reassembles him and restores him to life.

 

This piece will be bridged together with Sibelius’s Luonnotar, based on the same Finnish text from Kalevala. Luonnotar is the Spirit of Nature and Mother of the Seas, the words coming from the first part of Kalevala that deals with the creation of the World.

 

In Norway there is a celebration with, Edvard Grieg’s Wedding Day at Troldhaugen that congratulates the best wishes to young newlyweds. From his Lyric pieces for piano, Book VIII,Op. 65, this along with the Cradle Song is an orchestration from this score.

From Story telling we travel onwards where the journey becomes more of a musical conversation with Carl Nielsen’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra. Neoclassical in style and consisting of only two movements it resembles a different landscape altogether, less mystical and more real, cosmopolitan and visual, with its busy dialogue between solo flute and the different instruments of the orchestra.

Nielsen’s Symphony No. 2, ‘The Four Temperaments’ is a musical sketch of humour, titled; ‘The Choleric,’ The Sanguine,’ ‘The Melancholic,’ and ‘The Phlegmatic.’ Influenced by painting of the same titles, Nielsen characterises a Young Man who believes the whole world belongs to him and tells the tale of his naïve journey.

The music in this evenings programme will take your senses and imagination to illustrious places and we hope you can join the orchestra on this enigmatic journey.

 

Evening Concert Programme:

 

Jean Sibelius – Lemminkäinen in Tuonela (from Molto Lento), and Luonnotar

 

Edvard Grieg – Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, (from the Lyric Pieces, Op. 65, No. 6)

 

Carl Nielsen – Flute Concerto

 

Carl Nielsen – Symphony No. 2 (The Four Temperaments)

 

Edvard Grieg – At the Cradle, (from the Lyric Pieces, Op 68. No 5)

 

Soloists: Mia Huhta – Soprano and Caroline Welsh – Flute

 

Conductors:  Cathal Garvey, Ian Helen and George Hlawiczka

 

Tickets: Adult £10, Concessions and Members £8 (On the door)

Advance Tickets: Adult £8, Concessions and Members £6

 

Please note: tickets will not be posted out and must be collected from the box office on the day of the performance.

Box Office and Doors open at 6pm

Apr
13
Mon
Bees & Beekeeping – Age UK Haringey’s guest speaker at Trees / Hill Homes @ Hill Homes/Trees,
Apr 13 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

We all love honey, don’t we? Well, on Monday 13th April 11am-1pm, you can join us and explore the lives of bees and secrets of beekeeping with our local enthusiast Brian Haddon. All welcome!

Caring Connections is a borough wide project by Age UK Haringey and it supports older people with long term health conditions to keep socially active. They meet here at Trees every Monday. If you would like to join them, speak to Kathy Wiltshire, Development Worker at Age UK Haringey, on a day or contact her atKathy.wiltshire@ageukharingey.org.uk , or on 020 8885 8353 / 020 8801 2444

Monday Bridge Club @ Highgate Society
Apr 13 @ 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Apr
14
Tue
Life-Drawing Group @ Highgate Society
Apr 14 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Apr
16
Thu
Watercolour Group AM @ Highgate Society
Apr 16 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm