An illustrated talk by Richard Webber and Michael Hammerson.
This is an online meeting delivered through Zoom. To participate click here to complete the booking form. You will be sent a link via email prior to the meeting.
Monday 25th May 2020
7.30 pm
An illustrated discussion between Siri Zanelli and Andrew Sulston in which they tell of their own experiences and travels and offer tips for visitors, covering topics including Japanese society, the worlds of education, work and leisure, linguistic challenges and more.
This is an online meeting delivered through Zoom. To participate click here to complete the booking form. You will be sent a link via email prior to the meeting.
The Highgate House Party continues on Boogaloo Radio on Friday evenings.
Tune in online between 5.00 pm and 7.00 pm to hear interviews and music DJ’d by Dan Carrier of Camden New Journal. Go to Boogalooradio.com and click on TUNE IN. Check the Highgate Society Instagram account for updates.
The Poets Group is now meeting online via Zoom. Time tbc!
New members are welcome. The next meeting is on June 2nd. For more information and log-in details contact Richard Downes on r.downes@yahoo.co.uk;
- Our info@coffeecomputers.org email address is available to answer questions and offer guidance on all matters & issues
- Our Coronavirus Support page provides links to official support services and local voluntary groups
- The weekly emails will continue to keep us all in touch and we will aim to also offer handy tips & advice
- We have compiled a list of useful Resources & Guides, e.g. how to get started with the various communication tools that are available
- We are investigating various technologies whereby one-to-one help could be offered using via online video & audio calls
The Highgate House Party continues on Boogaloo Radio on Friday evenings.
Tune in online between 5.00 pm and 7.00 pm to hear interviews and music DJ’d by Dan Carrier of Camden New Journal. Go to Boogalooradio.com and click on TUNE IN. Check the Highgate Society Instagram account for updates.
Check for more details – see https://highgatesociety.com/news/
Stuck Inside Survival Guide – Finance, Fashion & Couples Time
Monday 8th June 8.00 pm
A talk by three North London Entrepreneurs:
The Highgate House Party continues on Boogaloo Radio on Friday evenings.
Tune in online between 5.00 pm and 7.00 pm to hear interviews and music DJ’d by Dan Carrier of Camden New Journal. Go to Boogalooradio.com and click on TUNE IN. Check the Highgate Society Instagram account for updates.
Travellers’ Tales: In Search of the Bedouin
Monday 15th June 7.00 pm
Louise Sibley will talk about leading nine women on a month-long journey, following the story of the modern Bedouin right across the Middle East.
To book click here
The Highgate House Party continues on Boogaloo Radio on Friday evenings.
Tune in online between 5.00 pm and 7.00 pm to hear interviews and music DJ’d by Dan Carrier of Camden New Journal. Go to Boogalooradio.com and click on TUNE IN. Check the Highgate Society Instagram account for updates.
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:
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.
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/
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/
“The Shell Collector”
Monday 22nd June 7.00 pm
Local author Robert Lyons will talk about his recently published book – a fictionalised account of a real-life 1970’s financial scandal. Robert is donating all royalties from the book to NHS Charities Together. 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/
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/
The Highgate House Party continues on Boogaloo Radio on Friday evenings.
Tune in online between 5.00 pm and 7.00 pm to hear interviews and music DJ’d by Dan Carrier of Camden New Journal. Go to Boogalooradio.com and click on TUNE IN. Check the Highgate Society Instagram account for updates.
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/
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/
- Our info@coffeecomputers.org email address is available to answer questions and offer guidance on all matters & issues
- Our Coronavirus Support page provides links to official support services and local voluntary groups
- The weekly emails will continue to keep us all in touch and we will aim to also offer handy tips & advice
- We have compiled a list of useful Resources & Guides, e.g. how to get started with the various communication tools that are available
- We are investigating various technologies whereby one-to-one help could be offered using via online video & audio calls
Monday 13th July 2020 at 7.00 pm
Travellers’ Tales: Vietnam is the next installment in the Travellers’ Tales series. Robert Hatfield leads a snap shot look-through, as he retells his time living in Saigon and traveling through the diverse and exciting country.
This is an online event delivered through Zoom. To book click here.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdetXu2HUd9fqvgo8I6C7DTRmLBq0ghjW38leIE3Jk6LCYfVQ/viewform
In 1890 the Impressionist painter Claude Monet bought a property at Giverny, a village to the northwest of Paris. He redesigned the grounds and diverted water from a nearby stream to create a lily pond with a Japanese bridge. In these gardens he found an infinite source of creative inspiration for his late paintings, nowadays considered his greatest achievements.
Talks start at 6.00pm each Tuesday and will be delivered by Zoom. There will be a short question and answer session at the end, using the Chat facility on Zoom.
Please register for a Tuesday Talk by noon on the day of the talk.
Zoom invitations will be sent out on the afternoon of the talk.
NB Start time: 6.00pm
Waiting Room open 5 minutes before.
Booking will close at 12 noon.
Proposer: Paul Kafno, television producer and writer
Opposer: Martyn Bond, former BBC producer and foreign correspondent
Please join us to debate the live topic of the BBC, enlightened by the arguments of expert speakers, supported by ‘seconders’ from local sixth forms. Speakers from the floor will be able to make contributions to the debate, which will have the same format as usual.
Please note: start time 6pm
Booking closes at 12 noon
https://members.hlsi.net/Event-Booking/EventId/108
This month Catherine Budgett-Meakin interviews Martin Adeney.
Martin Adeney worked as a journalist, reporting on labour and British industry for the Guardian, Sunday Telegraph and the BBC. He had his own public relations agency and is the author of a book published just before the Brexit vote, ‘Baggage of Empire; reporting politics and industry in the shadow of imperial decline’.
At this time, the interviews will be on Zoom, but we hope they will be able to take place in the HLSI in due course.
Please register by 12 noon on Friday 17th July.
Zoom invitations will be sent out on the day.
NB Start time: 4.00pm
Waiting Room open 5 minutes before.
Monday 20th July 2020 at 7.00 pm
Claire Norton and Rachel Lock will be giving an informal talk about the Highgate N6 Mutual Aid group, from how it came into being and the way the community has come together, to the way it has worked across Highgate, and beyond. They will be discussing other voluntary initiatives in the area, and inviting you to discuss how you’d like to be involved in the community going forward, with the hope that we can use the positive collective community response to the Covid-19 pandemic to benefit the wider community. We hope you’ll be able to join us!
This is an online meeting delivered by Zoom. To book click here.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdfWBDhj0f79wdvt9L_kc27aYrrSbdH6c23fqCh2fv8L3XzPg/viewform
Maureen Lipman – film, theatre and TV actress, writer, columnist and
comedian, currently playing the role of Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street – will share her thoughts and feelings on life in lockdown.
Talks start at 6.00pm each Tuesday and will be delivered by Zoom. There will be a short question and answer session at the end, using the Chat facility on Zoom.
Please register for a Tuesday Talk by noon on the day of the talk.
Zoom invitations will be sent out on the afternoon of the talk.
NB Start time: 6.00pm
Waiting Room open 5 minutes before.
Booking will close at 12 noon.
The story of the kitchen garden and the healing of the land
Karen Leason of Omved Gardens in Highgate explains “how we have been putting sustainability at the heart of everything we are doing at Omved Gardens”
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRD4TVjQ9T4b0HXs-_kA-BoF9cPuaztsXRYtZNsrp7d6_2Vg/viewform
Join Tim Blanning, Professor Emeritus of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy, on a journey down the valley of the River Danube.
Talks start at 6.00pm each Tuesday and will be delivered by Zoom. There will be a short question and answer session at the end, using the Chat facility on Zoom.
Please register for a Tuesday Talk by noon on the day of the talk.
Zoom invitations will be sent out on the afternoon of the talk.
NB Start time: 6.00pm
Waiting Room open 5 minutes before.
Booking will close at 12 noon.