Highgate Festival 8-16 June 2024

Last weekend of the Festival with our lovely Eco Fair Sat 15th 2 - 5pm in Pond Square with talks, workshops and eco and preloved things to buy, Highgate Musical Theatre Choir 3.30 - 4.30pm followed by Music and Dancing with Vikas and Bob 5 - 7pm.

Something lovely

As part of the Highgate Festival 8-16 June 2024, the wonderful Stephen Hose will be returning to our Long Gallery for another Free Lunchtime Concert with a programme of Mozart, Schumann, Falla and Granados.

📅 Tuesday 11 June at 1.15pm

Tickets are free but we kindly ask you to reserve your tickets with us here: https://bit.ly/lunchtime-piano

Dear All the Highgate Festival 8-16 June 2024 is nearly here so please check out the website for all event and exhibition information, booking etc. We have Coleridge, karaoke, cowgirls and climate action and music including pop, Irish, bluegrass, jazz and classical.

Dear All the 2024 website is live with just a few things to add so please check it out! Lots of highlights and new things this year;
Wed 5th Creative Writing Workshop and Poetry Lounge at the Boogaloo - Highgate, Sun 9th and Wed 12th - Irish, folk and bluegrass music at Brendan the Navigator, Mon 10th a Fundraiser concert for the amazing Highgate Primary School and Art on the Archway Road in 5 spaces; BOTH gallery, Souvenir, E. Scissorhands, Highgate Flowers and Highgate Art School. Please check the website for opening times and booking info.

Dear All The Highgate Festival is back for 2024- 8th to 16th June - with our usual mix of music, art, talks, walks, theatre, our Eco Fair on Sat 15th and a new U21 Short Film Competition. Programme goes live mid-May so sign up for our newsletter or contact [email protected] if you would like to put on an event.

Parkland Walk playful area
JUNE 19 | 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Free

We are pleased to announce that the Parkland Walk Playful Project is getting underway so we’d like to invite local people and interested groups to join us for a creative consultation to help us improve this natural asset.

The consultation will build upon previous findings and focus on ideas to make this area more accessible and more inspiring for everyday users. We’ll provide design proposals and activities as well as an online alternative for those not able to attend on the day.

Parkland Walk: Milton Park entrance. Contact [email protected] for more info.

Joe Webb Trio
JUNE 18 | 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
£15

Joe Webb regularly performs around Europe and has played in venues such as Ronnie Scott’s, The Royal Albert Hall, Dizzy’s Club in New York City and KoKo. Joining Joe on the piano is Tom Farmer – bass and Shane Forbes – drums.

http://www.theredhedgehog.co.uk/230618JuneJoeWebbTrio.html

The Red Hedgehog
Archway Road
London, N6 5BS

Camden Youth Jazz Concert
JUNE 18 | 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Free

Jazz in Camden, running now for 25 years, welcomes young musicians who wish to explore their creativity through performance and improvisation. Headed by jazz pianist, conductor and composer Nikki Yeoh and accompanied by saxophonist, composer and workshop leader Binker Golding. The performance will take place on the Lauderdale House Tea Lawn.

Lauderdale House
Highgate Hill
London, N6 5HG

Open Garden – Harington Scheme
JUNE 18 | 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Free

Harington provides unique training for young adults with learning disabilities in horticulture, gardening services and retail. Cakes and tea to purchase + bric-a-brac stall. Entrance down a narrow lane.

Harington Scheme
55a Cholmeley Park
London, N6 5EH

Open Garden – Ruth and Peter Benton
JUNE 18 | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Free

This traditional glorious garden is an oasis of inspiration and tranquility behind the busy Highgate High Street. Cream teas and biscuits will be available to purchase with proceeds going to The Harington Scheme.

Entrance via Duke’s Head Yard, N6 5JQ

LaLa Ladies
JUNE 18 | 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Free

The LaLaLadies were formed in 2016 by members of the local gym, LA Fitness. When it closed down, they wanted to keep their very valuable and mutually supportive social group going. LaLa Ladies’ current conductor, Lynda Richardson suggested that if they couldn’t swim together, perhaps they could sing together, and so started the choir, which is still going strong.

Swains Lane
London, N6 6QS

Playthrough Sunday
JUNE 18 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm and 2:00 – 4:00pm
This is an opportunity for children and amateur musicians of all ages to play through pieces in an informal concert, on any instrument, in any genre, at any level of difficulty, to a friendly, encouraging audience of family and friends.

The Red Hedgehog
Archway Road
London, N6 5BS

Highgate – the story of a London village over 800 years
JUNE 17 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
FREE

A documentary film revealing the story of Highgate from its medieval origins to the 20th century. Narrated by Bill Paterson, Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith featuring hundreds of rare images, archive documents and accounts by historic figures and residents. Refreshments available for donation to the HLCC. (Doors open at 5pm.)

Holly Lodge Community Centre
30 Makepeace Avenue
London, N6 6HL

Music by Vikas and Bob in Pond Square
JUNE 17 | 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
FREE

With drinks available from The Prince of Wales garden, bring a chair and relax in Pond Square to popular covers from Neil Young to Harry Styles. (Event held in United Reform Church, Pond Square if wet.)

Highgate Village Eco Fair
JUNE 17 | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
FREE

Stalls and activities from local activists and organisations fighting for climate action. Find sustainable local products, projects and services, learn about Highgate’s hedgehog revival project, sign up for community woodworking lessons, bring your clothes for mending with our sewing guru. Also fun activities for children and stalls with pre-loved clothes, books and bric-a-brac. Come and meet Growing Green, Haringey Forest, XR, Wood that Works, Haringey Climate Form and many more. (Eco Fair will be in United Reform Church, Pond Square if wet).

Pond Square, Highgate N6 6BS

Meet a Met horse
JUNE 17 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
FREE

Say hello to our four-legged members of the London Met. The Met’s Mounted Branch dates back to 1760 and was first introduced to combat the problem of highwaymen in London.

Pond Square, Highgate, N6 6BS

Pink Plaques walking tour
JUNE 17 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Free

Hear about some of the amazing recipients of Highgate’s unique Pink Plaques

Local historian, Catharine Wells celebrates fascinating women who have contributed to Highgate and the world beyond. These include Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts, Barbara Castle, Nell Gwynn, Claudia Jones, Florence Nightingale, Victoria Wood and more. No booking required.

Meet at Pond Square, Highgate Village, N6 6BS

Omved Open Garden
JUNE 17 | 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Free

OmVed Gardens was born in 2017 to rewild a piece of land and explore ways to relate to it, to food and to our human and non-human kin. Tours available.

OmVed, Townsend Yard, N6 5JF

Booking via www.omvedgardens.com

How to be Happy – talk by Peter Gilmore
JUNE 16 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Tickets: £15

This is a humorous, vibrant, interactive seminar with leading mind coach. Thought-provoking ideas, demonstrations of the body’s energy systems, fascinating anecdotes and a bit of group hypnosis.

https://www.wegottickets.com/event/580844/

The Red Hedgehog
Archway Road N6 5BS

Highgate Society Summer Social
JUNE 16 | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Tickets £6 on the door

Enjoy bubbly and strawberries on a summer evening while socialising with friends and neighbours. The Highgate Society works to make Highgate and its neighbourhood a better place in which to live and work.

Highgate Society
10A South Grove
London, N6 6BS

Tour of the Whittington Estate
JUNE 16 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Free

An event to celebrate the life and work of Hungarian emigre architect Peter Tabori (1940-2022) who, as a young graduate working for Camden Borough Council, designed Highgate New Town, a pioneering work of low-rise high-density modern housing. A walking tour and visits to some of the flats. Meeting point:

The House
126 Dartmouth Park Hill
London, N19 5HS

Deirdre Cartwright’s picnic
JUNE 15 | 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
£15

Enjoy a summer evening of inspirational, upbeat jazz with South African, Latin and reggae influences outside on the tea lawn behind Lauderdale House. Join Deirdre Cartwright -guitar, Annie Whitehead – trombone, Alison Rayner- bass and Winston Clifford – drums. Café/bar and doors open for picnicking at 7pm.

Link in bio to the Highgate Website with full event listings and booking details.

Lauderdale House
Highgate Hill
London N6 5HG

Take Twenty
JUNE 15 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Leading local jazz and pop choir, Take Twenty’s unique sound comes from its own in-house arrangers who take jazz and pop standards to create special versions exclusively for the choir. Songs are backed by piano, double bass, electric guitar, cello, trumpet and even castanets!

Tickets £15 (£12 concessions) from Eventbrite or pay on the door.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/take-twenty-at-the-highgate-festival-tickets-631577765097

Highgate School Chapel
North Road
London N6 4AY

Peter Seivewright Piano Recital
JUNE 15 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
£15

Music of J.S. Bach, Aram Khachaturian, Moszkowski, Mily Balakirev and Friedrich Gulda will feature. Peter has performed extensively as a recitalist and concerto soloist internationally.

https://www.wegottickets.com/event/580871

Red Hedgehog
Archway Road N6 5BS

Dowland Among Friends
JUNE 14 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
£30
The Red Hedgehog
Archway Road N6 5BS

The works by Dowland and his contemporaries are performed by Dame Emma Kirkby – vocals, Daniel Thomson – tenor, Sam Brown – lute and Harry Buckoke – viola gamba.

https://www.wegottickets.com/event/580842/

Psychosomatic
JUNE 14 | 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
£10

HLSI and LUX present Psychosomatic, a new work by artist Richard Layzell, his first feature length film and his 101st performance, using material gathered over a seven-year research period including as creative ecologist based at LUX in Waterlow Park.

https://hlsi.net/whats-on/highgate-festival-film-event/

Highgate Literary & Scientific Institute
11 South Grove
London, N6 6BS

Tour of the Whittington Estate
JUNE 14 & 16 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
FREE

An event to celebrate the life and work of Hungarian emigre architect Peter Tabori (1940-2022) who, as a young graduate working for Camden Borough Council, designed Highgate New Town, a pioneering work of low-rise high-density modern housing. A walking tour and visits to some of the flats.

Meet at:
The House
126 Dartmouth Park Hill
London, N19 5HS

Allan, Boyd, Lapthorn Jazz
JUNE 13 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The Red Hedgehog
Archway Road, N6 5BS

Tickets: £12

Performing are Abigail Boyd – vocals, Tim Lapthorn – piano and Brandon Allan – saxophone.

https://www.wegottickets.com/event/580840/

Untold London by Dan Carrier
JUNE 13 | 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
£5 (Free for HLSI members)

Dan, author and CNJ journalist, reveals unexpected delights, triumphs, tragedies, skulduggery and scandal in the greatest city in the world. Untold London is a celebration of a city whose famous landmarks and thoroughfares are often taken for granted.

www.hlsi.net

Highgate Scientific & Literary Society
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS

Stephen Hose piano recital
JUNE 13 | 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm
FREE

Take a break on a Tuesday lunchtime and enjoy 45 minutes of gorgeous classical music performed live by Lauderdale House’s resident pianist Stephen Hose upstairs in the beautiful Long Gallery overlooking Waterlow Park. Doors open 1pm.

Lauderdale House
London N6 5HG