A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
Discover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate.
£12
24 events found.
Events
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Opposite the Woodman Pub Archway Road, London, Highgate, United Kingdom
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The Ballad of the Cosmo Café
St Peter’s Church Hall Belsize Square, Belsize Park, London, United KingdomAn imagined immersive ‘singspiel’ recreating this much-loved café in Finchley Road, in St Peter’s Church Hall, Belsize Park. Based on selected memories and stories from the Cosmo research group and translated into lyrics by the Cosmo writers group.
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The Ballad of the Cosmo Café
St Peter’s Church Hall Belsize Square, Belsize Park, London, United KingdomAn imagined immersive ‘singspiel’ recreating this much-loved café in Finchley Road, in St Peter’s Church Hall, Belsize Park. Based on selected memories and stories from the Cosmo research group and translated into lyrics by the Cosmo writers group.
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Lens & Press: Photographs in Print
Hungarian Cultural Centre London 10 Maiden Lane, London, United KingdomExperts discuss the massive contribution to British photography by two Hungarians in the 1930s: Stefan Lorant and Andor Kraszna-Krausz.
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Pastor Hall: CineClub
Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate, London, United KingdomBased on Murray Forbes’ story of the same title, the film follows John Muller (Paul Henreid) on his escape from mobsters out of the frying pan into the fire. The protagonist’s cynical view of human blindness provides for quite an ironic and surprising ending to this true noir.
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Talk: Stewart Purvis: Hampstead Spies
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, London, United KingdomEdith Tudor-Hart was a documentary photographer who chronicled working class life in Britain in the 1930s. Based at her darkroom in Belsize Park she was also a KGB recruiter who talent spotted Kim Philby and other spies. Cambridge spy Anthony Blunt later confessed to MI5 that ’she was the grandmother of us all’.
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Jacques & Jacqueline Groag
The Isokon Gallery Lawn Road, London, United KingdomThe dramatic and fascinating story of two former Lawn Road Flats residents, brought to life by their biographer, Ursula Prokop.
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Summit Dance Theatre & Ali Curtis-Jones
Trinity Laban Bonnie Bird Theatre Laban Building, Creekside, London, United KingdomSummit Dance Theatre and choreographer Alison Curtis‑Jones give two works by Rudolf Laban a contemporary twist and new lease of life. Curtis-Jones re-imagines Laban’s work to create a new living archive, reinvigorating Laban’s principles and archeo-choreological research.
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Art Workshop: Barbara Jackson
New North London Synagogue East End Road, London, United KingdomInsiders/Outsiders: Do you have views and images you would like to express visually and/or verbally around this topic? Then come and join us!
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Inspiration & Processes: Janet Haig
Hampstead School of Art Penrose Gardens, London, United KingdomJanet Haig is a Hampstead-based ceramicist, whose unique hand-crafted vessels and stoneware torsos have been shown in many galleries and featured in boutiques and magazines.
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The Promise
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomScreening of a new film about artist and holocaust survivor Roman Halter, followed by a Q&A with Ardyn Halter (Roman’s son), Fred Scott and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg.
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back: CineClub
Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate, London, United KingdomBased on Murray Forbes’ story of the same title, the film follows John Muller (Paul Henreid) on his escape from mobsters out of the frying pan into the fire. The protagonist’s cynical view of human blindness provides for quite an ironic and surprising ending to this true noir.
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Bye Bye Bauhaus
University of Westminster School of Architecture 35 Marylebone Road, London, United KingdomAs the Bauhaus Centenary year comes to its close, what is left to say? The Bye Bye Bauhaus day symposium, offers new perspectives and stories that have not yet been told, concerning design in Germany and Britain during the past century.
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Hollow Triumph: CineClub
Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate, London, United KingdomBased on Murray Forbes’ story of the same title, the film follows John Muller (Paul Henreid) on his escape from mobsters out of the frying pan into the fire. The protagonist’s cynical view of human blindness provides for quite an ironic and surprising ending to this true noir.
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“A Camp full of Once and future Very Important Persons”
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture: Fred Uhlman and Kurt Schwitters in Internment
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Ernst Schoen – the life of an anti-fascist radio pioneer
Bishopsgate Institute 230 Bishopsgate, London, United KingdomTaking the form of a live radio presentation, this evening will highlight the fascinating life of Ernst Schoen (1884–1960), radio practitioner, writer, composer and lifelong anti-fascist, as presented by Dr Esther Leslie and Dr Sam Dolbear.
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A Ceramic Conversation
Hampstead School of Art Penrose Gardens, London, United KingdomJanet Haig is a Hampstead-based ceramicist, whose unique hand-crafted vessels and stoneware torsos have been shown in many galleries and featured in boutiques and magazines. This talk provides an opportunity to understand the life of a maker, to ask questions and share your views.
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Talk: The Jew as an Outsider?
Who were the real outsiders? with David Herman
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Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
Royal West of England Academy Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomArtist refugees in the last hundred years and their influence on British art
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Albert Reuss Exhibition
Truro Cathedral High Cross, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomThe works of Reuss are expected to attract art lovers and those interested in his story and will be an integral part of the Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 display and event.
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Between Departure and Arrival: Re-Assessing the Work of Ilse Aichinger and Helga Michie
Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate, London, United KingdomTwin sisters Ilse Aichinger and Helga Michie responded to the tremors of the 20th century through different creative media. This international conference will be the first occasion where their oeuvres in literature and the visual arts will be examined conjointly and considered as reflections of personal experience and in the context of their time.
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Between Departure and Arrival: Re-Assessing the Work of Ilse Aichinger and Helga Michie
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomTwin sisters Ilse Aichinger and Helga Michie responded to the tremors of the 20th century through different creative media. This international conference will be the first occasion where their oeuvres in literature and the visual arts will be examined conjointly and considered as reflections of personal experience and in the context of their time.
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Talk: Judith Kerr
The recent death of the famous children’s writer, Judith Kerr, an old family friend, received an enormous amount of attention. Many of her best-known books have been loved by generations of young children. Tributes pointed out that she was a German Jewish refugee.
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Child Survivors’ Drawings of the Genocide in Darfur
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis exhibition features drawings by child survivors of the genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Sudanese government forces and the Janjaweed militia against non-Arab Darfuri people since 2003.
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