(Detail) Segovia: screenprint 30x42cm. © Denise Purdy 2023. All rights reserved. A Walk with Laurie: Bodenpress. Highgate Gallery from 10 - 23 May 2024. See HLSI website for details

HLSI Film Soc showing of Saint Omer dir. Alice Diop starring Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda Thurs 16 May 7.30. Based on a true story of the trial of a young student leaving her baby to drown. Book via our website

HLSI book for May is Daphne du Maurier’s “Growing Pains” on her birthday 13 May 1907. Why not bring your book group for a tour on 31 May. Enquiries to our Chief Librarian via our website.

Byron died 19 April 1824. HLSI book chosen for April is “In my Hot Youth: Byron’s Letters and Journals vol. 1” ed. Leslie A. Marchand. Take a free tour of our wonderful Library in Highgate on 26 April at 2.00. See our website for details

HLSI Film Society showing on Thursday 18 April 7.30-10.00 in Highgate: The Quiet Girl. Dir. Colm Bairéad. Irish coming-of-age drama film. Book via HLSI website

Beethoven Variations lecture with Ruth Padel in Highgate and online. Tuesday 16 April at 8:00pm. Ruth will be reciting and talking about her poems, accompanied by  recordings from the great composer. Book via our website - free to HLSI members

Photo: © Donna Ford

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Animals and Us. Lecture:Keggie Carew on Tues 9 April at 8.00 online and in Highgate at the HLSI Victoria Hall.She considers our relationship with the world’s creatures and how they could, if given the chance, help to save us from ourselves. Book via website

Handmade In Highgate the Spring Fair

Come and find some of the best and brightest designer/makers
At the HLSI, 11 South Grove, Highgate, London N6 6BS

Friday March 22: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday March 23: 10am – 6pm
Sunday March 24: 11am – 5pm

Concert in Highgate: the Wiggin-Wass Duo will be performing at the HLSI Victoria Hall on Wednesday 20 March at
7:30pm. “A seemingly unlikely combination that works real magic” - a review of a performance by the saxophonist Huw Wiggin and harpist Oliver Wass. Book via our website

Surrealism: a course with Dr. Peter Webb at the HLSI in Highgate 16 April-21 May every Tuesday. Enthusiasts of Peter’s courses will not be disappointed! Enrolments open 26 March (20 March for members). See HLSI website for details

Literature Course on Eerie Country Houses starting 18 April-23 May in Highgate. Sarah Moody explores the country house used in literature to unsettle and mystify the reader. Enrolments open 26 March (20 March for members). For details see our website

Free Taster Session to sing musical theatre in a choir on Tuesday 23 April in Highgate Victoria Hall 7-9 pm with a view to meeting up every Tuesday. Great Rogers and Hammerstein and Sondheim standards. Book via our website

Our book illustration for March is from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame with illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Join our Library Tour on Friday 15 March at 2.00 and see our wonderful library here in Highgate at the HLSI

Utama will be showing in Highgate. A film directed by Alejandro Loayza Grisi. On Thursday 14 March at 7:30pm. Book via the HLSI website

Exhibition of paintings by Heckel’s Horse Jr.-Edgeworth Johnstone-Highgate Gallery 8 March (Detail) Untitled: oil on canvas 51x61cm. © Heckel’s Horse Jr 2023. All rights reserved. See HLSI website for details

Tuesday lecture with Mike Smith in Highgate and Online on 27 Feb 2024 at
8:00pm: My Experience of the Digital Revolution – how the Internet has shaped the musical landscape from creation to consumption. Book via the HLSI website. Free to members

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti with illustrations by Arthur Rackham - HLSI Library Book of the Month. Join our next Library tour on 23 February at 2.00 in Highgate. See website for details

What is Life? lecture by Sir Paul Nurse OM CH FRS - a geneticist who works on what controls the division and shape of cells. Tues 20 February at 8.00 online and in Highgate. Book via HLSI website. Free to members

HLSI Tues 13 Feb 8.00 in Highgate and online: Debora Price will discuss the financial challenges of four things: ageing populations, policy changes across various domains, changing health and cognition, and digital ways of managing money. Book via website