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 …
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The story of the kitchen garden – Omved
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 …
Mutual Aid in Highgate
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 …
Travellers’ Tales: Vietnam
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 …
LUX/ Highgate Cemetery Talks: Claudia Jones
Adjacent to Waterlow Park where LUX is based is Highgate Cemetery, one of London’s finest cemeteries and the final resting place of a number of extraordinary people. During the lockdown when visiting the cemetery is …
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The Lost Spring – Inside Out – Exhibition
The Lost Spring: Peter Gallagher ‘The Lost Spring’ exhibition has now brought the ‘inside out’ and is located in the windows of Lauderdale House. Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June and Saturday 27th and Sunday …
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The Great Highgate Bake Off – Online
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 …
The history of gin and a ‘virtual’ gin tasting led by Sacred Gin – Online
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 …
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Simple Steps to Building a Robust Immune System – Online Talk
Simple Steps to Building a Robust Immune System June 25, 2020 @ 7:30 pm Zoom 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 …
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The Pen Demics Live – Online
The Pen Demics Live June 23, 2020 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Zoom 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 …