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Highgate Christmas Festival
The Highgate Village Christmas Festival – a magical wonderland with giant snow globe containing dancers, main stage hosted by Alex Zane and mystery celebrity to switch on lights at 4pm. In Pond Square Santa will …
London Repertoire Orchestra Fundraising Concert for the Hill Homes Foundation
Classical Concert – Mozart Symphony No 29, Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2, Beethoven Symphony No 1. Condutor David Cutts and Piano Julian Jacobson (professor of piano and chamber music at the Royal College of Music). Proceeds …
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Family carols
A real community event for young and old alike with carols sung by Highgate Choral Society, the New London Children’s Choir and children from St Michael’s Primary School, Highgate with organist Daniel Moult conducted by …
Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
The Vespro della Beata Vergine, more usually known as the Vespers, is widely acknowledged to be one of the most impressive ‘calling cards’ in musical history. Dissatisfied with his work at the court of Vincenzo …
A local history of Highgate Cemetery
Ben Baker and Annemarie Langhard
Ben Baker (1939-2012): a retrospective Annemarie Langhard: In Love with Nature 18-31 October 2013 Highgate Gallery@Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution Celebrating the life and work of Ben Baker, together with garden and flower paintings by …
LONDON’S WASTE: FROM HUMP IT OR DUMP IT – TO THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
How should London manage waste and recycling? What are the options and are we doing it right? Come and discuss with Highgate and Dartmouth Park Transition members concerned about waste and climate …
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Troubled Island: A workshop performance
An opera by William Grant Still (1895-1978), with libretto by Langston Hughes (1902-1967) “Troubled Island” (1949) tells the story of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, once a slave, then a rebel general and first Emperor of Haiti in the …
Friends of Parkland Walk
the Big Clean organised by Friends of Parkland Walk. Please contact info@parkland-walk.org.uk to outline which of the four sessions you would be interested in attending: either at the southern section or Muswell Hill section of …