Month: July 2020

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Changing the World
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Changing the World

Haringey has a long, proud history of being home to community leaders, reformers, campaigners and activists. Some were born here or moved into the borough to set up their home, and others have come to Haringey needing a place of safety, fleeing or exiled from their homeland. Whatever their reasons for being in Haringey, they...

Making Women Artists Visible  – Violet Fuller and Joan Knoblock
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Making Women Artists Visible – Violet Fuller and Joan Knoblock

This week has been London Art Week, when national art collections and leading commercial art galleries bring together an annual summer programme of events. This year it has been a virtual programme of course – London Art Week Digital – with some interesting talks and discussions online. One such event was ‘Making Women Artists Visible’...

The Last Elm
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The Last Elm

Some of you might recall in July last year the premier of Bruce Grove Stories, to showcase a new short film by BBC documentary-maker Alex Jones about the community and neighbourhood of Bruce Grove in Tottenham and a specially-commissioned poem about Bruce Grove by the poet Abondance Matanda. The event highlighted the project to bring...

Huff and puff up Highgate Hill
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Huff and puff up Highgate Hill

If you are a very keen cyclist, you may well have checked out the more challenging inclines in London. Although not known particularly for its hills, London does have some really tough climbs if riding a bike (or even walking for that matter!). And not surprisingly most of the steep hills are located in and...