2024 Tidy up programme
Click More for the 2024 schedule of dates and locations and details of the arrangments.
Past events
Travellers’ tales: Why visit Jordan?
Wednesday 21st February 2024 7.30 pm
10A south Grove N6 6BS and on Zoom
£7.50 including a glass of wine (£3.00 on Zoom)
Richard Webber and Jane Campbell demonstrate why Jordan is worth visiting in spite of the problems in the Middle East. For details and booking click More.
Sunday lunchtime concert: Lior Solomons Wise Trio
Sunday 21st January 2024 12 noon.
£15 including a glass of Buck’s Fizz.
Lior (piano), Edouard (double bass) and Jonah (drums) take their inspiration from the great names of Bebop jazz – Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis and John Coltrane – but will include some compositions of their own. For details and booking click More.
Music in Highgate Homes: Trio Trillium
SOLD OUT
Sunday 11th February 2024 6.30 pm
£30 including interval wine and canapés. Highgate Society members only. For details click More
Cocktail tasting with
Alice Lascelles
SOLD OUT
Friday 23rd February 2024 7.30 pm.
10A South Grove N6 6BS.
Join the Financial Times’s Alice Lascelles for a special evening of cocktail tasting and storytelling. This is the third time Alice has appeared at the Society – her previous, immensely enjoyable, gin and whisky tasting evenings were both sold out.
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Citizen of London: the story of Richard Whittington
Wednesday 17th January 2024 7.30 pm.
10A South Grove N6 6BS and on Zoom
£7.50 including a glass of wine (£3.00 on Zoom).
Michael McCarthy introduces his biography of ‘the boy who would be mayor’. For details and booking click More.
Guerilla gardening discussion evening
Friday 3rd November 2023 7.30 pm at 10A South Grove N6 6BS
The Community Project group is holding a guerrilla gardening discussion evening. If you have ever wondered what guerrilla gardening is or how it has its “roots” in the Civil War, then come along and find out. We will provide light refreshments (no charge) and talk through different ways to support the work (spade-wielding is only one of them). All are welcome.
Shirley Smart /Peter Michaels jazz duo
Sunday 26th November 12 noon at 10A South Grove N6 6BS. Entry £15 to include a glass of Buck’s Fizz.
Shirley (cello) and Peter (guitar) have been playing jazz together for over 8 years taking in a number of festivals and clubs such as Ronnie Scotts. For more details and booking click More
Highgate Cemetery: Facing the future
Wednesday 8th November 2023 7.00 for 7.30 pm
10A South Grove N6 6BS and online on Zoom
£7.50 including a glass of wine (£3 on Zoom)
Ian Dungavell, Chief Executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, will explain plans for a major project to conserve and unlock Highgate Cemetery’s remarkable landscape of memories, strengthen its resilience to the effects of climate change and enhance the visitor experience. Click More for details and booking.
Sunday lunchtime concert: The Ladies of the Salons
Sunday 22nd October 2023
12 noon
10A South Grove N6 6BS
!£15 to include a glass of Buck’s Fizz.
Patricia Hammond, accompanied by Matt Redman sings authentic parlour songs from the 1830s to the 1930s. Sing along with ‘Juanita’, ‘Come back to Erin’, ‘A perfect Day’, ‘Bless this House’ or ‘What a difference a day makes’.
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