THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER 2013 Don't miss out! BOOK NOW
Starts promptly at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm
Join harpist Holly Lowe and viola player Alison Jones for an evening of the romantic, classical and modern including pieces by Gliere, Arnold Bax, Faure, and Campietro.
Having started studying the harp at the age of 8, Holly trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and The Royal College of Music supported by a Richard Carne Scholarship. She has had the honour of playing for both Her Majesty the Queen for her 80th birthday and for HRH The Prince of Wales' for his 60th. In 2009 she was awarded the ensemble prize at The Royal College of Music with Alison Jones. Holly has worked with Florence and the Machine and Dizzee Rascal and also played at The 2012 Olympics.
Alison Jones studied viola at Trinity College of Music and The Royal College of Music having been awarded a Scholarship to both schools. In 2006 she was awarded the Band Kurtz viola prize for achievement. Alison has worked with the LPO Future First Scheme, Grammy nominated artist Chilly Gonzales, and has toured to China with the Kent Sinfonia
Starts at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm. Booking required. Tickets may be sold at the door subject to availability.
Chapel talk: The Wyon family
THURSDAY 24 OCTOBER 2013 BOOK NOW
Starts promptly at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm
The Wyon family dominated the design and production of medals, coins and seals in nineteenth-century Britain. Renowned around the world for their engraving skills, their commissions included official government works as well as many private medals for institutions and individuals. Together these works document a broad spectrum of life in Victorian England.
This talk given by Philip Attwood Keeper of the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals, will focus on the works of this extensive family, of whom two members; Benjamin Wyon (1802-58) and his son Alfred Benjamin Wyon (1837-84), are buried here at Highgate.
Starts at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm.
Booking recommended. Tickets may be sold at the door subject to availability.
Come into the garden, Maud: An evening of Victorian parlour songs
THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2013 TICKETS £10 BOOK NOW
No Victorian parlour was complete without music and no gathering was complete without singing. Song sheets were readily available for people to play at home and the music halls were flourishing. As important to our understanding of the Victorians, as jazz is to the 1920s, journey back in time through this once hugely popular genre by joining us for a wonderful selection of the comic, the moral and the downright odd. Songs include The Road to Mandalay, Modern Major General.
With
Paul McKenzie: Piano
Rose Stachniewska: Soprano
Mark Nathan: Baritone
Starts at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm. Booking recommended. Tickets may be sold at the door subject to availability; but check the website first.
A Prickly Affair -The Charm of the Hedgehog
THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2013 TICKETS £7 BOOK NOW
A talk by Hugh Warwick.
Hedgehogs are the most important creatures on the planet, argues Hugh Warwick, author of A Prickly Affair. In this engaging talk Hugh, will explain why the population of hedgehogs in the UK, although often spotted in the cemetery has fallen so drastically (down 37% in the last 10 years alone), what we can do about it and of course, explain why he thinks they are so very special!
Starts at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm.
Booking recommended. Tickets may be sold at the door subject to availability
Professor Heard’s grand gothic magic lantern show
SATURDAY 7 DECEMBER 2013 TICKETS £10 SORRY, SOLD OUT
Sights, frights, moral warnings, picture stories and strange phenomena from the century before cinema.
Professor Mervyn Heard tours internationally, recreating original Victorian magic lantern entertainments of various kinds drawing on a unique collection of vintage hand-painted and photographic magic lantern slides which he presents on a magnificent showman’s lantern.
He regularly performs to sell-out audiences at The Little Shop of Horrors in Hackney, is the author of Phantasmagoria – The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern and in 2006 created a phantasmagoria installation for the Gothic Nightmares exhibition at Tate Britain.
“..19th century history has never been so fresh, so entertaining or quite so surprising...”
The Guardian
Starts at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm.
Weekday tours can only be booked on-line
Online booking for weekday tours has been very popular. Visitors have the benefit of real-time information about availability and receive instant confirmation of a place. Tours are advertised about a month ahead.
For weekend tours you don't need to book -- just turn up on the day. Tours run at least hourly on the hour from 11am.
Firewood
We still have free firewood available for you to collect from near the entrance to the East Cemetery.
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