Highgate Festival 2021
Highgate Festival 19th to 27th June
The Highgate Festival returns with a wide variety of live and online events. For the full programme and details of Festival offers visit the Festival web site https://highgatefestival.org/ where you can also sign up for programme updates or volunteer to help.
Philip Hughes: Painting the Ancient Land of Australia
Monday 21st June 7.30 pm
An online Zoom event
Highgate resident, artist Philip Hughes, introduces his book of paintings and sketches recently published by Thames & Hudson
An art books publisher’s quest for beauty
CANCELLED
Monday 5th July 2021 7.30 pm
An online Zoom event
Alexander Fyjis-Walker, founder and publisher, Pallas Athene Books, in conversation with Martha Halford-Fumigalli
The Tidy-up Event resumes
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Now that infection levels have lowered the tidy-up events have resumed. The next session will be on Saturday 12th June at 9.30 am. Meet at 10A South Grove. Click More for more details.
Mary Feilding Guild to close for redevelopment
Catherine West, MP for Hornsey & Wood Green, has launched a petition calling for a halt to redevelopment plans for the Highgate care home and revocation of the eviction notices served on the residents. For a link to the petition click More.
Moments in the Museum
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Highgate School Museum on Southwood Lane is currently closed, but that does not mean you can’t step inside the history of Highgate School and enjoy the wonderful artefacts, displays and artworks that are part of its blueprint. Their video series, focusses a spotlight on individual pieces. Click More for links to available videos.
Swain’s Lane No Right
Turn
What do you think of the new ‘No right turn’ rules at Bisham Gardens and South Grove? Have your say by responding to Camden’s consultation. Click More for a link to the consultation page.
Highgate Society responds to Planning White Paper
The Highgate Society submitted a detailed 19-page response to the
Government’s consultation on its Planning White Paper. To learn more and to access the full submission, click More
Highgate Society Events
The Highgate Society exists to make Highgate and its neighbourhood a better place in which to live and work; to ensure changes enhance the area, to encourage sound planning and to improve public transport.
As a social hub the Society is at the very heart of Highgate, staging or facilitating a wide range of events for the whole community.
