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Autumn/winter 2010-11 cultural highlights


Some autumn/winter cultural highlights in the local area (for booking details please look at the goup/venue in our links page: www.improvingourplace.co.uk/content/local-cultural-groups)

Theatre groups:

  • 10 Sept - 10 Oct:  Tales from the Shed - production for children -  at the Chickenshed
  • 9 - 11 Sept:  St Monicas Players - Eurobeat - 7:45 Millfield Theatre, Silver Street, London N18 1PJ
  • 1 Dec - 11 Jan 2011: Christmas:  Badjelly's Bad Christmas - a festive tribute to Spike Milligan - at the Chickenshed
  • 6 - 9 Jan 2011:  Acorn Theatre Company:  Snow White at the Intimate Theatre, Green Lanes, Palmers Green, London N13 4 DH

Poetry:

  • 23 October:  Poetry in Palmers Green:  poetry reading 7pm for 7.30 pm at St. John’s Church, corner of Bourne Hill and Green Lanes. Well-known North London poets Martyn Crucefix (launching new collection), Judy Gahagan, Hertfordshire poet Mike Loveday and Gill McEvoy, Chester poet, launching her first collection. Floor readings, refreshments available, poets’ books for sale. £5.00 (conc. £3.50)

Comedy:

  • ElectricMouseComedy.com:  The Fox Pub, 413 Green Lanes: doors open at 7:30 – performance starts at 8:30 – first Friday of each month

Jazz and blues:

  • 25 Sept, 16 Oct: Jo Collins and Friends - Saturday Night Gigs: Doors 7:30 - Music 8:30-11:30 at the Chickenshed
  • 2 Oct:  Chas and His Band on their Rock, Rabbit and Roll Tour! 8:00 at the Chickenshed
  • Friday evening blues a St Monica's RC Social Club, Canon Hill - every Friday evening

Local orchestras:

  • 13 Nov: Enfield Chamber Orchestra:  7:30 United Reform Church, Fox Lane:  to include Mozart - Symphony no. 31 (Paris);  Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale
  • Winchmore Hill Strings - details to follow
  • 4 Dec:  North London Symphony Orchestra - 7.45 pm at St James Church, Muswell Hill N10 3DB: TCHAIKOVSKY - Polonaise from Eugene Onegin:  TCHAIKOVSKY - Waltz from Sleeping Beauty - Violin concerto  (soloist tba) - Symphony No. 5
  • 27 Nov:   Southgate Symphony Orchestra:  7:30: The Bourne Methodist Church, The Bourne, Southgate, London N14 6RS: Mozart - Symphony no. 31 'Paris':  Beethoven - Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2:  Saint-Saëns -  Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso:  Brahms - Symphony no. 1
  • 5 Dec: Barnet Symphony Orchestra:  7:30 St John's Church, Friern Barnet Road, London, N11 3EQ:  Waldteufel - Skater's Waltz:  Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite: Brahms - Symphony no. 4

Opera and Choral:

  • 3 Oct:  Anthony Stuart Lloyd and Children’s International Voices of Enfield:  In aid of Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice 14:30 Wyllyotts Theatre, Wyllyotts Place, Darkes Lane, Potters Bar, Herts EN6 2 HN
  • 6 Nov:  Enfield Choral Society:  Britten - St Nicolas: 7:30 Christ Church URC, Chase Side, Enfield EN2 6NJ
  • 4 Dec:  Children's International Voices of Enfield with Enfield Chamber Orchestra:  Borough Christmas Concert:  7:00 Dugdale Centre, Cecil Road, Enfield
  • 5 Dec:  Children's International Voices of Enfield with Enfield Chamber Orchestra:  Borough Christmas Concert:  3:00 pm Dugdale Centre, Cecil Road, Enfield
  • 11 & 14 Dec:  The Rowantree Choir: Carols Around the World: 7:30: United Reform Church, Fox Lane
  • 9 - 12 Feb 2011:  Southgate Opera:  Yeoman of the Guard:  7:30 nightly Wyllyotts Theatre, Wyllyotts Place, Darkes Lane, Potters Bar, Herts EN6 2 HN

Chamber music:

Saturday morning at the Grange Park Methodist Church: 11:30 am Entrance Free – coffee and biscuits from 10:15:

  • 4 Sept:  Junko Kobayashi – piano
  • 2 Oct: Musica Primavera - vocal duet
  • 30 Oct:  Keith Nichols - Jazz Piano