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What's on in & around the
Estate and at local cinemas
Highgate Festival
"The Fair in the Square"
Saturday afternoon, 21st June 12:30 to 5:30
The annual Festival on Pond Square is Highgate's most popular event and this year will see many new stands, a new line up on the main stage plus lots of family fun throughout the day.
Organised by the Highgate Society and the HLSI there will be live entertainment on the central stage, lots of fun for kids and families, many new stands and our first spit roast!
Highgate still has reason to think of itself as a village ... and this is our village summer fete. Attractions include:"
- Entertainment: non-stop on the main stage, including a steel band, the Highgate Poets, children from Highgate Ballet, the wonderful St Michael's School Choir and an exotic show from a top Bollywood dance troupe (try a belly dancing lesson)
- Children: roundabout rides and kids corner (organised by Lauderdale House)
- Food: a wide variety of food stalls, a tea bar, the barbecue and the St Michael's School fresh popcorn stand
- Stalls: selling arts, crafts and books as well as the Antiques and Collectors Fair in the HLSI
- Charity: including Kirima and Great Lakes Schools in Uganda - Highgate's Africa Charity
- Apiarists: the North London Beekeepers group will explain why Highgate is the perfect place to make your own honey
- Campanologists: St Michael's Church is opening the famous bell tower for viewings
- Camden & Harnigey: Councillors surgery and Recycling Team
Holly Lodge Community Centre
Life Drawing
Covering the basic elements of drawing: anatomy and proportion, weight and mass, tone and line. We will also explore a more subjective approach to the figure.
Video
For people with some experience
Fridays 2-6pm
30 Makepeace Ave N6 6HL
Both classes are sponsored by Workers Educational Association and are free to unemployed and retirees
More details: 020 8342 9524
Screen on the Hill
Odeon Muswell Hill
Highgate Safer Neighbourhood Meeting
Wednesday 18th June
Please come along to the meeting of the Highgate Safer Neighbourhood Team at 7pm in the Highgate Newton Community Centre.
It is a forum for local residents to meet the local police and Safer Neighbourhoods Team as well as some members of the local Panel. It is a chance for residents to express their views &concerns, get information and become involved to whatever extent you wish.
Kenwood Concerts
The provisional Kenwood Concert programme for 2008 has now been announced.
June
Saturday 28 June
BRIAN WILSON - Legendary musician Brian Wilson, founder of the Beach Boys, inventor of the California sound and one of the most influential pop music composers of all time, will open the 2008 concert season at Kenwood House. Choosing from his remarkable song catalogue, Brian and his formidable ten-piece band will perform a number of classic compositions as well as a collection of The Beach Boys greatest hits.
July
Saturday 5 July
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - Referred to by Elton John as “the greatest songwriter on the planet” and by NME as “the only living song writing genius”, Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists and songwriters of his generation. This will be a rare opportunity to see and hear him as a solo performer.
Saturday 12 July
KENWOOD SUMMER PROM - The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Ben Pope, presents the Kenwood Summer Prom. The programme will include well-known overtures and symphonic pieces by Mozart, Rossini, Wagner and Elgar, as well as Gershwin’s dazzling Rhapsody in Blue, played by award-winning international pianist Viv McLean. The evening will culminate with the musical dramatics of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.
Saturday 19 July
OMARA PORTUONDO - Direct from Havana, Cuba, international star of The Buena Vista Social Club, returns to Kenwood for an extraordinary and vibrant evening of the very best of traditional and contemporary Cuban music.
August
Saturday 2 August
MICHAEL BALL & LESLEY GARRETT - two of Britain’s best-loved singers in this extraordinary double-bill. West End and Broadway musical legend Michael Ball is joined by the UK’s most popular soprano, Lesley Garrett for an evening of your favourite songs and arias.
Saturday 9 August
DIANA KRALL - Canadian born singer/pianist Diana Krall mixes her cool and expressive vocals with sensitive, soulful piano, drawing on a deep well from America’s Jazz and Pop traditions.
Saturday 16 August
VAN MORRISON - Grammy Award winning musician Van Morrison brings his distinctive mix of jazz and blues, together with the Celtic influences of his Northern Irish roots to Kenwood House. With time-honoured classic songs such as Brown Eyed Girl, Days Like These and Have I Told You Lately.
Saturday 23 August
LAST NIGHT OF THE KENWOOD PROMS - The ultimate Last Night of the Proms concert, featuring operatic superstar Katherine Jenkins with special guests Blake. A true celebration of Britishness.
For full details and bookings, see the official website.
Upstairs at the Gatehouse
June
24th June - 6th July
@ Theatre Productions presents MARTHA, JOSIE AND CHINESE ELVIS By Charlotte Jones (the author of Humble Boy)
July
7th - 19th July
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL PREVIEWS
Please call the box office for more details
Sat 12th and Sun 13th July
Ovation presents: JIM BOWEN, Look At What You Could Have Won
22nd July - 10th August
European Arts Company presents Oscar WIlde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Screen on the Green
Phoenix Cinema Finchley
Odeon Holloway
Highgate Society
June
- 14 Sat: Midnight Walk in aid of North London Hospice. Annual ladies only walk around north London 6.5 or l3 miles. Details from Nicola 8446 2288
- 18 Wed: Garden Open for Charity: 2 Millfield Place, off West Hill, Evening : 5:30-9pm. £3.50 wine.
- 19 Thu: Highgate Library, Chester Rd. Talk by Richard Layard, Emeritus Professor at the LSE and author of book: Happiness: Lessons for a New Science. 7:30pm (Free entrance)
- 21 Sat: Highgate Festival: THE ANNUAL SUMMER FAIR IN POND SQUARE 12noon – 5pm. A Village day out for locals and visitors of all ages.
- 22 Sun: Bike Ride in aid of North London Hospice: Details from Faye 8446 2288 or fholahan@northlondon hospice.co.uk
- 27 Fri: Highgate School Summer Opera on the Senior Field. Charity performance of Donizetti'e Don Pasquale by the Garden Opera Company. TIckets £40 from www.gardenopera.co.uk/
- 28 Sat: Antiques & Collectors’ Fair, HLSI, 10 – 4pm
- 28/29: Local Gardens Open for Charity: 27 Wood Vale, N10, 1:30 – 6pm. Teas
July
- 5/6 Highgate Wood – various events including traditional woodworking, charcoal kiln demonstration, old photos of wood, etc.
- 12 Sat Highgate Horticultural Society Summer Show at United Reformed Church, Pond Square
For more details, see www.highgatesociety.com
Lauderdale House
Children’s shows
If you have children between the ages of 2 and 8, be sure to visit Lauderdale House on Saturday mornings for charming shows that the kids (and you) will love. Shows are normally at 10:00 and 11:30 - get there a few minutes early for a good spot on the rug!
This year’s favourites include:
- Mr Boom
- Henry & the King’s Birthday by Pippin Puppets
- Eddy the Teddy’s Birthday By Barking Dog Theatre
- Mozart’s Birthday By Chalemina
- Hampstead & Highgate Festival Kate Shortt Comedy Cello
- The Story of Sea-Rover Ruby By Mollie Whoopee
- Clownderella By Krazy Kat Theatre
- Billy Banjo
- Aladdins Bin By Jactito Theatre
- The Lucky Gingerbread Man by Magic Book Theatre
- Steve Grocott
- Henry & the Lollipop Pirates by Pippin Puppets
Jazz in the House
Too old for the children’s shows? Then don’t miss the Jazz seasons in May/June and October/November. The next programme is:
- 19 June- Neon Stan Sulzmann (sax), Gwilym Simcock (pno), and Jim Hart (vibes)
- 26 June- Theo Travis Quartet Theo Travis (saxes, flt), Mike Outram (gtr), Pete Whittaker (organ) and Roy Dodds (dms)
- 03 July- Christine Tobin with Phil Robson (gtr), Dave Whitford (d.bs) & Thebe Lipere (percussion)
Highgate Choral Society
July
Saturday 12th July
Beethoven Choral Fantasia
Ronald Corp Mary's Song
Lambert Rio Grande
19:30 at All Hallows’ Church, Gospel Oak NW3
Highgate Choral Society box office: 07952 508234.