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Events for April 2013

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Monday 1 April

Burgh House - Constable: 200 Years in Hampstead

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FREE ENTRY. John Constable’s love of Hampstead and the Heath is largely overlooked but, as the second centenary of his first visit here approaches, this six month exhibition will redress the balance, thanks to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. We will be showing seven of Constable’s original works on loan from the Victoria and Albert Museum, just steps from the breathtaking views that inspired them. This will be a rare opportunity to see these iconic pieces in their natural home. Heard about our Constable Scramble to riase funds for the House? Well we made it back and it's not too late to donate!

Burgh House - Imaging and Imagining Hampstead Heath

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Venue: Burgh House, New End Square NW3. This Constable display showcases complementary images from our own colletion. It explores other artists who took Hampstead Heath as inspiration.

Double Exposure: Jewish Refugees from Austria in Britain

at Fellowship House. See full details...
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany on 12th March 1938, the London Jewish Cultural Centre will show the exhibition Double Exposure: Jewish Refugees from Austria in Britain. The exhibition, which has already been displayed at the Austrian Cultural Centre London, The Literaturhaus Wien, and Aberystwyth Arts Centre has been curated by Dr Bea Lewkowicz, co-director of the Association for Jewish Refugees (AJR) Refugee Voices Archive and director of Sephardi Voices UK.

Burgh House - Photography by Dorothy Bohm

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Venue: Burgh House, New End Square NW3 1LT. Photography of Hampstead 1944-2014. Admission free

Friday 5 April

Fellowship - Friday Music

2:30pm at Fellowship House. See full details...
Classical Music and Tea 50p

Fellowship - Friday Music

2:30pm to 4pm at Fellowship House. See full details...
Classical Music and Tea 50p
Other dates and times:
  • Friday 12 April from 2:30pm to 4pm
  • Friday 19 April from 2:30pm to 4pm
  • Friday 26 April from 2:30pm to 4pm
  • Friday 3 May from 2:30pm to 4pm
  • Friday 10 May from 2:30pm to 4pm
  • Friday 17 May from 2:30pm to 4pm
  • Friday 24 May from 2:30pm to 4pm
  • Friday 31 May from 2:30pm to 4pm

Sunday 7 April

LJCC - Double Exposure: Jewish Refugees from Austria in Britain Film and Panel Discussion

4:30pm at Ivy House . See full details...
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany on 12th March 1938, the London Jewish Cultural Centre will show the exhibition Double Exposure: Jewish Refugees from Austria in Britain.

Mill Hill Music Club - Contempo Quartet, Ishay Shaer (piano)

7:30pm at Henrietta Barnett School Hall. See full details...
Mendelssohn – Quartet No.3 in D Major, Haydn - Piano Trio Hob XV/18 in A Major, Brahms - Piano Quintet in F Minor. Prices for tickets: Single concert - £15.00. Season Ticket for all 6 concerts - £85.00. By arrangement with the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust full time students aged 8 - 25 are admitted FREE subject to providing details of school/college and teacher. Tickets for concerts are available in advance from: Mill Hill Music Club Box Office, Mr Michael Rawling, 2a Millway, Mill Hill, London NW7 3RE. Telephone 020 8959 3866. Email: info@millhillmusicclub.co.uk Online Tickets Box Office: www.millhillmusicclub.co.uk

Solarek Piano Trio - Bridge to Schubert.

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10.30 am doors open for coffee. Venue: The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, London, NW1. The Solarek Piano trio is presenting an exciting concert at the Forge in Camden. Their programme starts with a flamboyant trio by Frank Bridge followed by Franz Schubert, the master of melody. His famous trio in B flat major was composed in the last year of his life. Enjoy your Sunday morning coffee at the ‘Keys and Coffee Concert’ at the Forge in Camden and sit back and enjoy an hour of luscious piano trio music. Admission Prices: Concession e ticket £8, General admission £10, Children (4-12) £4. Booking Tel. No: 020 7383 780, contact@forgevenue.org, http://www.forgevenue.org/

Tuesday 9 April

LJCC - Guided Walk Around the Kings Cross Area with Isabelle Seddon

11am at Ivy House . See full details...
See the extraordinary regeneration programme that has taken place on 87 acres of derelict railway land. See the incredible transformation of the area starting from the wonderful architecture of St Pancras through to the spectacular Granary Square and London’s biggest arts university campus.

HADAS - Nautical archaeology - past, present and future

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A Hendon and District Archaeological Society lecture by Mark Beattie-Edwards, Progamme director, Nautical archaeology society. Avenue House, 17 East End Rd., Finchley N3 3QE. Free to members, donation from non-members.

Wednesday 10 April

St Jude's Church - Service of Nine Lessons and Carols

6pm at St. Jude's Church . See full details...
Church Service open to all. Retiring collection. Info 020 8455 1025

Thursday 11 April

RA Library - Garden Suburb Police Safer Neighbourhood Team

4pm to 5pm See full details...
Venue: Garden Suburb Community Library, Market Place and Hill Rise NW11. Drop in surgery at our Library. Tell them of your community and security concerns and quality of life issues. Crime Prevention and personal safety etc. http://www.hgs.org.uk/snt/index.html Bike Marking 3-4pm

Saturday 13 April

Horticultural Society - QUIZ SUPPER EVENING

7:30pm at Fellowship House. See full details...
A lighthearted quiz on a horticultural theme. £12.50 to include delicious supper and a glass of wine. Tickets from Diane Berger (020 8455 0455). Essential to book in advance.

Sunday 14 April

LJCC - Duplicate Bridge Tournament at Ivy House

6pm at Ivy House . See full details...
Duplicate Bridge Tournament at Ivy House in support of the London Jewish Cultural Centre. Including supper and wine.

Monday 15 April

LJCC - In the Warsaw Ghetto: 1941 Photographic Exhibition

at Ivy House . See full details...
‘In the Warsaw Ghetto: 1941’ is an extraordinary collection of photographs, which record one single day in the Ghetto in 1941. The photographer, Willy Georg, was serving in the German Army as a radio operator. On the day his commanding officer ordered him behind the ghetto walls, he took with him his Leica camera. Walking through the streets, he snapped four rolls of film, and had loaded the fifth before police stopped him and confiscated the film in his camera.

Institute - Fresh Pasta Making

3:30pm to 5:30pm at Institute Arts Centre. See full details...
This 6 week course shows you how to make fresh pasta from scratch with the correct accompanying pasta sauces and fillings. Tel 0208 829 4229 for more info or to enrol.

Institute - The Art of Making Ice-cream

6:30pm to 9pm at Institute Arts Centre. See full details...
Venue: The Institute Arts Centre, Beaumont Close, The Bishops Avenue, N2. This 6-week course will introduce you to the techniques of making home-made ice-cream and sorbets. Admission £115 for 6 weeks. To book 8829 4229

Tuesday 16 April

LJCC - What Should We Think About Israel? with Clive Lawton

2pm to 4pm at Ivy House . See full details...
srael has become one of the hottest issues in the Jewish world. For a time it seemed that support for Israel might unite many Jews who could not agree on other matters, but the topic now seems to have returned to one of deep controversy, ranging from passionate supporters, to utter rejectionists, the far, loony fringe of actually siding with extreme enemies. How did we get here, what are the issues and can we get any perspective on all of this? This afternoon special seems like an intelligent and thoughtful way to mark Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s 75th independence day.

LJCC - FUSION Food Academy Workshops: Homemade Bread

5:30pm to 7:30pm at Ivy House . See full details...
Ready, Steady...FOOD TIME!!!! That is right; we are continuing our popular Food Academy series here at FUSION. So put you chef’s hat on, and pick up your spatulas in hand because it’s cooking time!!!!

Institute - The Art of Baking: Advanced

6:30pm to 9pm at Institute Arts Centre. See full details...
This course is for students who already have some baking experience and want to extend their repertoire with some advanced techniques. Tel 0208 829 4229 for more info or to enrol.

Wednesday 17 April

LJCC - Ovarian Cancer Action

at Ivy House . See full details...
Ovarian Cancer Action is the UK’s leading ovarian cancer charity, dedicated to improving survival rates for women with ovarian cancer.

LJCC - Tata Isa French music sessions for under 4s - Free taster

10am to 11pm at Ivy House . See full details...
Tata Isa – French music group for under 4s. Free taster session. Sessions are in both French and English and last 45 minutes.

Thursday 18 April

Institute - Computing for the Retired: Beginners

10am to 12pm at Institute Arts Centre. See full details...
This 11 week course starting on Thursday 18 April is for absolute beginners who want to learn about computers in a relaxed and friendly environment. For more information or to enrol call 0208 829 4229.

Free Church - Thursday Fellowship

2:30pm See full details...
Venue: Free Church Rooms. Gardens of the National Trust talk by Pam Wright

Avenue House - 200 Years of Fashion

7pm to 10pm See full details...
A fashion show of original garments from 1740-1940. Narrated by Frances Musker, a former curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum. All proceeds used to support Avenue House Estate. Ticket price: £20 per person (wine and canapés included)

LJCC - Warsaw Erev Pesach 1943: 70 Years Ago

7:30pm at Ivy House . See full details...
Tonight, on the anniversary of the eve of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Trudy Gold will present the latest research by Holocaust survivor, Jack Kagan which illustrates the connection between the revolt in Belarus and the revolt in Warsaw.

Residents Association - RA Open Meeting re Temple Fortune Police station closure & options at

8pm at Fellowship House. See full details...
The ”front counter” at our Temple Fortune police station (known as Golders Green) will be closed by “Boris’s” office (Mayor of London's police authority, as part of a cost-saving drive) on 24th June. At present the police “shop” at 61 Golders Green Rd is not open to the public. Representations for a counter service there are welcome, say the Barnet police, although hours may be limited. Learn more at the meeting – the police will be represented by Chief Inspector Andy Mariner, and Barnet by Cllrs John Marshall and Daniel Seal. Andrew Dismore, GLA, has been invited - he is currently abroad so his presence is uncertain. Fellowship House, 136A Willifield Way. This is another of the RA’s series of open meetings to hear residents’ views

Friday 19 April

Highgate Gallery - Emily Ault - On the Verge

1pm to 4pm See full details...
Paintings of the undergrowth at the edges of our awareness reveal surprising beauty and variety. This is local artist Emily's second show at Highgate Gallery, following on from her successful series of 2009 of Highgate Woods painted over the course of a year. All the work in her current show has again been painted directly from life.

Fellowship - Friday Music

2:30pm at Fellowship House. See full details...
Classical Music and Tea 50p

Hampstead Garden Opera - Mansfield Park

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Venue: Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate Village, N6 4BD. Full-length chamber opera by Jonathan Dove and Alastair Middleton, first performed in August 2011. Tickets £16-£20. To book 8340 3488

Saturday 20 April

Youth Music Center (YMC) Prizewinners Concert

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YMC is holding their third annual concerto prize at Union Church Weston Park, Crouch End on 20th April 2013 between 2pm and 10pm. Many talented young musicians will give their best in front of the distinguished adjudicators Amanda Denley (violin/viola), Nick Roberts (cello/bass) and Joseph Sanders (wind). The event aims to bring the chance to play with an orchestra to students at a radically early stage in their musical lives. Each age group will produce a winner who will play a movement of their concerto with one of the very able YMC orchestras on 12th May at 6 pm in HGS Free Church, Central Square in Hampstead Garden Suburb. This year there will be representatives of the double bass classes giving us a taste of the famous bass solo of Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the animals. Famous concertos and double concertos by Bach, Vivaldi and Boccherini alongside works by Böhm, Bartók and many other exciting composers will be performed.

Tuesday 23 April

LJCC - Cooking with Fabienne - Session 1: Seasonal Ingredients

9:30am to 11:30am at Ivy House . See full details...
Fabienne is a chef, cooking teacher and caterer most often found chopping and creating new dishes in her kitchen.

LJCC - FUSION Food Academy Workshops: Chocolate box cookies

5:30pm to 7:30pm at Ivy House . See full details...
Ready, Steady...FOOD TIME!!!! That is right; we are continuing our popular Food Academy series here at FUSION. So put you chef’s hat on, and pick up your spatulas in hand because it’s cooking time!!!!

LJCC - FUSION: Get Down With Graffiti - After School Course!

6pm to 7:30pm at Ivy House . See full details...
For Ages: 10-13 Learn the techniques you’ll need to become a contemporary street artist. Skills will include; typography, freehand, stencilling and t-shirt design. 5 week course.
Other dates and times:
  • Tuesday 30 April from 6pm to 7:30pm
  • Tuesday 7 May from 6pm to 7:30pm
  • Tuesday 21 May from 6pm to 7:30pm
  • Tuesday 11 June from 6pm to 7:30pm

Yad Vashem - UK Foundation Book Launch: Postcards to a Little Boy and The End! Das Ende!

8:30pm at Fellowship House. See full details...
Dr Henry Foner, author of Postcards to a Little Boy, and Dr Iael Nidam-Orvieto, editor-in-chief of Yad Vashem Publications will present these two new books published by Yad Vashem

Wednesday 24 April

LJCC - CanExercise with Lizzy Davis

at Ivy House . See full details...
Join us in for an informative discussion with Cancer Exercise Specialist Lizzy Davis of how, through exercise, we can be active against cancer.

LJCC - Guided Walk: Stepney and Whitechapel...with a host of East End treasures with Stephen Burstin

10:30am to 1pm at Ivy House . See full details...
Join us on a tour of an enthralling part of London’s East End with a multitude of fascinating sights to see and wondrous tales to hear.

NEW TO FUSION: Kids Kickboxing Course

7pm to 8:30pm See full details...
Learn to defend yourself and gain self-confidence, strength and mental focus. You will also increase your fitness level, balance and co-ordination. Shaolin training will condition and tone the whole of your body and improve your posture and flexibility. You will become self-motivated and cope better in stressful situations. But most importantly you will make new friends and have fun.

LJCC - NEW TO FUSION: Kids Kickboxing Course

7pm to 8:30pm at Ivy House . See full details...
Learn to defend yourself and gain self-confidence, strength and mental focus. You will also increase your fitness level, balance and co-ordination. Shaolin training will condition and tone the whole of your body and improve your posture and flexibility. You will become self-motivated and cope better in stressful situations. But most importantly you will make new friends and have fun.

Thursday 25 April

A Separation

8pm See full details...
Venue: Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove N6. 7.30 for 8pm start. The Highgate Film Society presents the acclaimed Italian film. Admission £9. To book 8340 3343

Migration: Good or Bad for Britain? with Prof. Tony Kushner and Dr. Edie Friedman

8pm at Fellowship House. See full details...
Migrants and immigration are in the news and becoming pressing issues in party politics. This event will explore through ‘then’ and ‘now’ how Britain has been shaped by migration and how Britain treats its newcomers. Are immigration controls necessary or necessarily racist? And how, as Jews, and our migrant past, do we confront these issues?

Saturday 27 April

St Jude's Church - Bring and Buy Book Market

10am to 3pm at St. Jude's Church . See full details...
Sale of second-hand books to raise funds for fabric of church. Admission £1 for adults. Info 8455 1025. Also on Sunday 28 April 12.30-4pm

Institute - Introduction to Dressmaking

10am to 3:30pm at Institute Arts Centre. See full details...
This one day session is designed to introduce absolute beginners to dressmaking techniques, terminology and principles. For more info or to enrol, tel 0208 829 4229.

Sunday 28 April

LJCC - Ivy House Music & Dance: Steven McRae with Kevin O’Hare

3:30pm at Ivy House . See full details...
The Summer Season at Ivy House opens spectacularly with Steven McRae, Principal dancer of The Royal Ballet, who will talk with Royal Ballet Director Kevin O’Hare and perform his signature works.

Monday 29 April

LJCC - Rewriting History: The Recovery of Nazi-Looted Art with Howard Spiegler, Co-Chair of the Internation

8pm at Ivy House . See full details...
The looting of art by the Nazi regime and its collaborators before and during World War II was the greatest theft of cultural property in the history of the world.

Tuesday 30 April

LJCC - Representatives from three Israeli not-for-profit organisations - Lunchtime talk

12:30pm at Ivy House . See full details...
The London Jewish Cultural Centre is delighted to welcome representatives from the Peres Centre for Peace, Etgarim and Unistream, who will tell us about their amazing work. These unique and special organisations showcase some of the best of the pioneering work occurring in Israeli civil society.

LJCC - The Bar Kokhba Revolt – the event Jewish history tried to forget with Clive Lawton

2pm to 4pm at Ivy House . See full details...
It is probably true that no event is Jewish history has been quite so utterly devastating as the Bar Kokhba Revolt – and that includes the Holocaust. Who was Bar Kokhba? What went so wrong and why do the consequences still reverberate through the Jewish world? And how come nobody much seems to want to commemorate the catastrophe?

LJCC - FUSION Food Academy Workshops: Shavuot special - Cheesecake Factory

5:30pm to 7:30pm at Ivy House . See full details...
Ready, Steady...FOOD TIME!!!! That is right; we are continuing our popular Food Academy series here at FUSION. So put you chef’s hat on, and pick up your spatulas in hand because it’s cooking time!!!!

LJCC - The Church Discovers the Talmud with Harry Freedman

8pm at Ivy House . See full details...
For a thousand years the church had quoted the bible at the Jews to try to persuade them they were wrong. Then they discovered why the Jews took no notice: they had a book called the Talmud which explained the Bible to them; they had no need of Christian interpretations. This session will look at what happened at the church’s response when they finally discovered the Talmud.