WHAT’S ON IN BOOK A PAGE ON THE BOROUGH B NET OUR WEBSITE Diary of Events by BBAC’s Special rates for members 100 member societies. Ring 07803 174 519 www.barnetarts.org.uk Barnet Borough Arts Council R 23.000 hits recorded on is an independent charity. A Summer 2015 average each month www.barnetarts.org.uTSk HI DDEN TRE ASURES DIARY THE SAGA of THE FUTURE of CHURCH and , both now run by volunteers who 10/5 VE Day Party , 70 years FARMHOUSE on Greyhound Hill In is say they would benefit from being linked into the Stephens House and hopefully improving with news of proposals that Borough system. Gardens, University will occupy this Grade 2* listed Whatever the outcome of the discussions, building, bringing it back into use with some much BBAC advocates that all existing library buildings Noon – 5pm needed improvements. Unresolved however, is the should be retained, albeit with some reallocation of collection, storage and display of much historical functions, as being an essential local facility in this material, particularly in the Hendon and very large Borough, and should also cover its major areas. has extended its programme development areas in and . and opening hours, and plans are in hand to upgrade All can be discussed at our AGM on 11th June their building, but they do not aspire to serve the at The Bull Theatre in Barnet. New members are whole area of this Borough. encouraged to join our Executive Committee, meeting When the collection from Church Farmhouse quarterly with representatives from the different art Museum was auctioned off in 2011 the Borough forms and areas of the Borough, and should contact Council retained some material, now at the Local BBAC in advance by emailing [email protected] Studies Centre in Hendon Library. Barnet Museum FESTIVAL SEASON is here again – and a bought other items and both centres display what lot of dates to celebrate. It’s 50 years for both the See back page for more they can, in showcases, with some on the website at Borough Council and for BBAC, 40 for Summer Literary Highlights. http://www.barnet.gov.uk/citizen-home/libraries/local Festival and The Bull Theatre, 20 for studies-and-archives.html. But it does not replace Festival and 10 for arts depot. And there’s Tea for 14/6 Robin Hood the Musical the Farmhouse spaces and much archive material at Two for Gillian Gear, archivist of Barnet Museum, arena 3pm. Hendon is only available Wednesdays to Fridays by and Pam Edwards, Hon Sec of BBAC, both guests at Bring along a rug or chair. appointment – currently there is a three week waiting Buckingham Palace garden parties, following their Workshop for 5 –10 years. list. BBAC raised this matter at the April meeting of awards of the British Empire Medal. the CELS committee (Children, Education, Library and 1.30pm 07071 780 715 Safeguarding) and are asking the Borough Council to 21/6 East Finchley Festival take steps to provide better facilities for this very Cherry Tree Woods. important civic and educational function. BBAC is also asking that exhibition galleries are Music, dance, stalls, bar. incorporated into any reallocation of spaces in 079834 360 834 libraries, now under discussion following the recent LBB Consultation which suggested that some become 1 – 3/7 East Barnet Festival Community Libraries. Of interest is the 2013 report Oak Hill Park, EN4 8JS on Community Libraries by the Arts Council of Music, dance, stalls, bar. England which gives ten case studies in the UK, Open Golf : Friday 5 – 7pm including Primrose Hill (Camden) which is outside Dog Show : Saturday 1.30pm their Borough system, and Farnham Common, Bucks Gillian meets Sir David Brewster, Lord Lieutenant of Classic Cars : Sunday (inside their system). We do of course already have London, and Pam the Chief Beefeater, Alan Kingscott, at two in the borough at the awards ceremony at the in November. Funfair : Thursday – Sunday and Theatre in the Park. 12/7 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 19/7 Peter Rabbit are pleased to sponsor the production of the Barnet Arts Magazine. 26/7 Twelfth Night Oak Hill Park arena 3pm Contact Mike 020 8200 0600 07071 780 714 12/7 Chicken Shed Specialists in print & design for business & community groups Open Day 8292 9222 [email protected] 28/7 – 8/8 Exhibition 4 Sunnyside Terrace, Road, Colindale NW9 5DL Barnet Guild of Artists Christ Church, EN5 4LA

1 All Saints Arts Centre arts depot Art & History All Saints Arts Centre 5 Nether Street, N12 OGA [email protected] Arts depot is celebrating its tenth birthday ART CLUB at the Triumph Press 122 Oakleigh Road North, N20 9EZ 8445 8388 with a programme with something thoughtful Classes for adults and children. Purpose built and entertaining for everyone, and continues studios with proper work surfaces, sinks, table and Clubs and Classes its projects in the community which combat Jazz Dance Company’s sketching easels, with excellent natural daylight. ocial isolation, build confidence and help Silver Screen Tour Drop off car park at Mead Road off Whitchurch Lane. Drumming Monday 7.30 s bring people together. A celebration of dance from film, 92 High Street, Edgware, HA8 6LH. Indian Dance Thursday 5.00 THEATRE AND COMEDY ranging from movies and www.artclub.co.uk 8951 3883 Israeli Wednesday 8.00 2/5 Katherine Ryan musicals to pop videos. Italian Dance Sunday 7.00 21/5 Bloominauschwitz A wonderful night of live THE ART STABLES – School of Art Rough Magicke Wednesday 3.00 – 7.00 6/6 Patrick Monahan performance for any dance Painting in all subjects, after school and Sunday 11/7 10:10:10 Take II clubs for children, Pilates and Alexander Technique, Sakiado Sunday 12.30 or theatre enthusiast. Music and Dance monthly screen printing. Sculpture Tuesday 9.30 Friday 10.00 2/6 INTOTO Dance 80 East End Road, N3 2SY Spotlight Tuesday 5.00 4/6 Jazz Dance Company’s Silver Screen Tour www.artstables.co.uk 07551 506 276 Street Hip Hop Dance Tuesday 8.00 21/5 MDX Dance Sunday School Sunday 10.00 10/5 The Ronnie Scott’s Story BBAC ART & INFORMATION EXHIBITIONS 29/5 26/6 Free entry to Folk in the Foyer We regret that the exhibition through May has to be Taikwando Tuesday and Thursday 5.00 10/5 Sunday Buzz Mairi-O-Nettes CLASSES FOR TEENS postponed because of renovations as The Spires in Tea Dance Wednesday 1.00 26/7 Last Summer’s tealights AND ADULTS Barnet is upgraded. Watch for new exhibition dates Toddler Sense Wednesday 10.00 FAMILY THEATRE Boxfit, Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Main O Nettes Choir, and opening of Carluccio’s Restaurant. Wrestling Sunday 9.00 – 3.00 3/5 The Ugly Duckling Zumba Fitness, Russian Ballet, Art, Pilates matwork, 10/5 Information Stands will be at Stephens House Zumba Saturday 12 noon 10/5 Mrs McMoon’s Tea Party Youth Dance, Actors Studio, Actors Company, and Gardens and at Borough Festivals. 17/5 Comedy Club for Kids Insanity and Youth Theatre www.barnetarts.org.uk 8368 8654 Sundays at Seven – 21/5 Half Term Home EXHIBITIONS music recitals 22 – 24/5 Dogs Don’t Do Ballet Exhibitions in the Apthorp Gallery BARNET & SOUTHGATE COLLEGES 10/5 Catherine Leonard piano 30 and 31/5 Half Term Workshops 24 – 30/5 The View From Here Offering free courses for the adult Community. 17/5 Gemma Kateb piano 19 – 21/6 The three Little Pigs 16/7 – 18/9 Decade Learning at a local centre. 21/6 Tom Hicks piano Classes for Children: Diddi Dance, Mini Mozart, La For every £ spent when you see a show, join a Extensive creative industries, catering and la Land Kids, Visual Sensation Academy, Danswer class, enjoy lunch or buy a coffee, 82p goes directly many commercial courses. 10/9 Antonio Oyarbazal piano Street Dance for Kids, arts depot Junior Performers, back into supporting the local community. www.barnetsouthgate.ac.uk 8440 6321 Swamprock Dance . See website arts depot Youth Dance Company, arts depot Mini 5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, N12 OGA www.allsaints.uk.com/weekly Performers, Childrens Art, arts depot Youth Theatre. www.artsdepot.co.uk 8369 5454 BARNET LIBRARIES – WHAT’S ON See What’s On booklet for the full programme. Children’s Library Service has clubs for board games, book discoverers, active fun, gaming and Theatre Shows homework. Adults : Knit and Natter, One Stitch at a THE BULL THEATRE INCOGNITO THEATRE BARNET & DISTRICT DRAMA FESTIVAL Time, Craft Monthly, Health Information, Career 1/5 Shak and The Banned 10 – 16/5 The Sunshine Boys Drama Societies in Barnet and adjoining advice and Conversations Club. 7 – 9/5 The Lion in Winter by Neil Simon areas compete annually. Adjudicator www.barnet.gov.uk/library-events Garden Suburb Theatre Theatre is behind the Clinic in Jennifer Scott-Reid will be visiting all seven BARNET GUILD OF ARTISTS Saturday 8pm matinée 3pm Holly Park Road, N11 3HB productions, and awards are made at the prizegiving early in June. 28/7 – 8/8 Annual Exhibition at Pennefather 14 – 18/5 Magic Musicals by the Warren www.incognitotheatre.com 07912 874 700 23/5 Johnny Cash Revisited 7.30pm For more details contact 01442 862402. Hall, Christ Church, St Alban’s Road, Barnet. THE BULL CLASSES Other societies taking part are : Meet at Whalebones, Wood Street, Barnet, EN5 4LA Allen Ashley – Writing for Fun or for Publication THEATRE IN THE PARK Incognito Theatre, East Lane Theatre of www. barnetguildofartists.org.uk 8449 0724 Monday 5.30 – 6.30pm Touring professional companies in Wembley, Potters Bar Theatre, Belmont Saturday Theatre School 9.30am 5 – 16s beautiful Oak Hill Park, EN4 8JS. Theatre of Watford and the Good BARNET MUSEUM Talent Time Monday 5.00 – 9.30 pm all ages Children’s shows and Shakespeare, Companions of Edgware. The site of the Battle of Barnet is another hidden Acting for TV and Films Wednesday 4.30pm Sundays at 3pm. treasure – no-one over the years has been able to Non Stop Dance Wednesday 5.00pm Begins 14th June GARDEN SUBURB THEATRE pinpoint the exact location of this crucial clash in Bravo Theatre Company Monday 5.00pm Robin Hood the Musical 7 – 9/5 The Lion in Winter 1471, and it is great news that Barnet Museum has been involved in arranging a Heritage Grant Elders’ Dance Co. for 55 plus Thursday 4.30pm Cambridge Touring Theatre with a by James Goldman. to finance a Survey by archaeologists from 360 Arts Sunday 10.00 – 1.00pm workshop for 5 – 10s at 1.30pm. Henry II, his estranged wife Eleanor of Aquitaine and their sons quarrel over Huddersfield University, led by Glenn Foard, who Zumba Fitness Dance Tuesday 7.30pm Booking 01805 624624 Susi Earnshaw Theatre School the succession to the throne. recently discovered the site of the Battle of 12/7 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Full time independent secondary school. The Bull Theatre, Barnet 8pm Sat matinée 3pm Bosworth. He will no doubt be checking the local Booking 0845 450 51577 68 High Street, Barnet, EN5 5SY 17 – 25/7 Shakespeare’s car parks as well as the fields and woods bordering www.Thebulltheatre.com 8441 5010 19/7 Peter Rabbit Booking 0845 450 51577 Much Ado About Nothing on beautiful , where the stone pillar 26/7 Twelfth Night Booking 8807 8680 Open air theatre, Oak Wood, Addison Way, NW11 6QS commemorates that Warwick the Kingmaker was CHICKEN SHED www.eastbarnetfestival.org.uk 07071 781 745 www.gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk 7723 6609 slain nearby. Richard III was there too, as brother Till 16/5 Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and supporter of Edward IV in Edward’s struggle to The ‘Ska’ themed adaptation of one of Open Air Family Theatre be King in place of the ailing Henry VI. It is all great Shakespeare’s earliest comedies is seriously history, enhanced by Shakespeare’s plays. hilarious. The show is fast, physical and ROBIN HOOD THE MUSICAL Archaeologists and members of the furiously funny – this doesn’t tell half of ... has familes rolling around with laughter. Battlefields’ Trust will be joining Tea in the Park on the story!! 7.30pm Cambridge Touring Theatre 28th June, held in the garden of the Museum, to (except Friday 15 May at 5pm and 8pm) bring everyone up to date. Matinées: Thursday 7 May at 1pm, Lectures are at Church House opposite the Saturday 9 May at 3.30pm, Thursday 14 May at Museum on Mondays at 3pm. 1pm and Saturday 16 May at 3.30pm. 11/5 The Battle of Waterloo by Paul Chamberlain Box Office : 020 8292 9222, or book online at 15/6 Dickens in Barnet by Paul Baker www.chickenshed.org.uk The museum open Tuesday, Wednesday and 22/5 Derek Nash Sax Appeal 7pm Thursday 1.30 – 4.30pm Saturday 10 – 4pm 23/5 Tales Big Day Out 10am – 8pm and new hours on Sunday 2.30 – 4.30pm. 23/5 Jo Collins and Friends 31 Wood Street, Barnet, EN5 4BE. Play pop, soul, funk and punk www.barnetmuseum.co.uk 8441 8086 25/8 Comedy Night 8pm 3/7 Jazzin Jolsen 7pm BARNET RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION 21/6 Nicholas Parsons 7.30pm Advice on planning and parking issues in High Barnet. 12/7 SUMMER FESTIVAL 10am – 4pm www.barnetresidents association.org.uk 8440 0194 with groups from across Barnet and Enfield. 11/6 – 14/6 London to Paris Cycle Challenge THE BARNET SOCIETY 12/7 Open Day Over a five week period 2,500 people have signed 2/8 Prudential Ride, London-Surrey 100 the Society’s petition to consider offering an hour’s Check their website for details free parking to help the town’s retailers who are of coming programme. being penalised because of the free parking Specialist training in inclusive theatre techniques. available in other nearby shopping centres. The Studio Theatre, Chickenshed Chase Side, The Pop Up Shop at 89 High Street continues to Southgate, London N14 4PE. display work by local artists. www.chickenshed.org.uk 8292 9222 www.barnetsociety.org.uk

2 BARNET WALKS HADAS Hendon and District Archaeological Society MARI I’ANSON CHRISTINE WATSON 3/5 and 2/8 2.30pm 6/6 and 1/7 11am All are invited to join the dig beginning on 8/6 on Illustrator and painter. Mari has a large stock of Christine teaches painting and drawing on The Battle of Barnet the green opposite Cromer Road School, Barnet. beautiful work. She teaches all abilities. Tuesdays at 10am at Church House, Wood Meet at junction of Great North Road 10/5 Taking part in WW2 celebration Mari’s Finchley Sketchbook with eight pages of Street, Barnet and on Mondays at 10am and and Hadley Green Road. coloured illustrations is £15 at Waterstones N12. at Stephens House and Gardens. Thursdays at 7pm at URC Church in Muswell 15/5, 21/6, 25/7 Things That Go Bump in High Barnet When B&Q is demolished at Whetstone a full Indian Notebook is £10.99 from Chaville Press. Hill. Christine has been a tutor at Barnet Meet at High Barnet Tube outside booking archaeological condition is being applied. www.mari-artist.co.uk 8346 7011 College for many years. office. Prizes for most spooky costumes. 7.30pm www.hadas.org.uk 8440 4350 9/5, 25/7, 23/9 Dickens in Barnet MILLDON ART SOCIETY www.christinewatsonartist.co.uk 8883 4207 Meet at High Barnet tube outside HEARTS OF GLASS 2 – 5/5 Annual Exhibition at Trinity Church, booking office. 2.30pm Decorative, stained and fused glass is on show at The Broadway, , NW7 3TB. WHISPERS THROUGH TIME 3/7 A Meander through the Pop Up Shop at 89 High Street, Barnet and is Painting evenings every Wednesday 7.30pm DVD captures the voices of those who recorded Meet outside The Spires, being supplemented by some commissioned pieces Eversfield Hall in Eversfield Gardens. Reminiscences of WWll in BBAC’s project in ww.milldonartsociety.org.uk 8445 1363 Barnet High Street. 2.30pm and shown at crafts fairs in a busy programme. w 2005 when these were placed in the BBC’s 5/9 Fabulous Finchley www.heartsofglass.co.uk 07976 933 225 National Archive. A selection of 60 recordings is Meet outside Finchley Central tube, PAINTING FOR PLEASURE Ballards Lane exit. 2.30pm Receive encouragement and excellent tuition now incorporated with music and archive INSIGHT SCHOOL OF ART For further information, including walks in from Ros Morley, BA Hons MA , practising artist footage of fascinating recordings made by Pam Insight are currently offering free taster classes for London, contact : 8440 6805 / 07506 761294 and printmaker. Life Class on Tuesdays 10am and Edwards and created into the DVD by Barry children and adults and offering a wide range of www.barnetwalks.talktalk.net Still Life and Landscape Thursdays. Ainsworth, recording engineer. Some people, term time educational leisure painting classes for Now at The Orchard Room, Grange Park Methodist such as Percy Reboul, the historian, were COMMUNITY FOCUS adults and children, holiday workshop days with Church, Old Park Ridings, N21 2EU. children selling the shrapnel after the overnight Now installed in their new premises at Friary studio space and mentoring to practising artists. www.rosmorley.com 07958 714 130 or 8445 2514 House, , N20 )NR North London Artists Network is currently looking bomb run. Others, such as John Frost, who died as few years ago, were old enough to be in the Courses include painting, drawing, jewellery, for businesses with suitable spaces for exhibitions. RAF MUSEUM Army and landing in France on D Day. make and sell, textile art, dance, drumming and 12 2–128 Lancaster Road, , EN4. Current exhibitions include : singing, art and drama, playreadings, creative www.insight.art.co.uk 8441 6153 Chinook Helicopters Copies available at £12 each from BBAC 8445 8388 writing, singing and computer skills. Princess Mary’s RAF Nursing Service in Volunteers and visitors of all backgrounds THE INSTITUTE Our Finest Hour – The Battle of Britain WORKERS EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION and abilities are very welcome. Explore their newly refurbished Masons House and The Blitz. The WEA is a national association, independent Classes for 16 – 25s contact in Kingsbury, to see displays of students’ work www.rafmuseum.org 8205 2266 and non-profitmaking, providing part time day James Hughes 07948 111748. and meet tutors. Classes include arts and crafts, and evening courses for adults of all Buses 234, 383 and 634 best serve the centre. antique furniture, book keeping, bridge, creative THE STEPHENS COLLECTION backgrounds. No formal entry or educational www.communityfocus.co.uk 8361 5184 writing, dance, fitness, singing, one day This museum at Avenue House has mementoes qualifications are required. Art, poetry, music, related to the invention of ink in 1832 by Dr Henry EAST BARNET FESTIVAL dressmaking, and many more. ‘Inky’ Stephens MP who bequeathed Avenue industrial archaeology, London history and 3 – 5/7 Oak Hill Park, EN4. for its 20th anniversary. Other classes continue at The Archer House to the people of Finchley. buildings, and current affairs are included in the See more on Summer Highlights page. Academy, next to East Finchley tube station, Exhibition open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and course booklets in all libraries. 3/7 New this year OAK HILL OPEN GOLF and at Bishop Douglass School, Hamilton Road, Thursdays 2pm – 4.30pm. Barnet 8368 0159 / 8445 1709 Tee off from 5 – 7pm. East Finchley, N2. 8829 4229 Take a look at their prospectus on www.london-northwest.com/sites/stephens 8346 7812 Finchley & 8202 9500 / 8346 8576 www.hgsi.ac.uk 0800 328 1060 EAST FINCHLEY SUMMER FESTIVAL UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE Mill Hill and Edgware 8954 1450 / 8959 1230 21/6 Cherry Tree Woods. One of the national and international U3As giving LONDON JEWISH CULTURE CENTRE See more on Summer Highlights page. people who are no longer in full-time employment 8374 1212 / 8440 4008 Their final season at Ivy House includes the opportunity to continue taking part in the www.london.wea.org.uk FINCHLEY ART SOCIETY Till 14/5 Dance of Life exhibition by 13/5 Caran d’Ache demonstration learning experience. Barbara Jackson, the story of her family’s Did you know that U3A has 865 branches and LINDA ZEFF Meet Mondays 7.15m at Trinity Church Centre flight from Europe in the 1930s. 295,050 members? Barnet Branch has over 600 Linda runs regular classes in clay sculpture, 15 Nether Street N12 7NN and 15/5 – 26/6 Living with Portraits Exhibition by Wednesdays 12.30pm St Mary’s Church Hall, and has a thriving programme of shared learning pottery and stone carving from her studio in Julia Weld of paintings of her family. Hendon Lane, N3 1TS. experiences ranging from Astronomy to Balkan Whetstone. Suitable for all abilities, clay All at Ivy House, 9 4–96 North End Road, NW11 7SK. Dancing, Computing, Book Groups, Walking, www.finchleyartsociety.org.uk 8440 2257 sculpture/pottery classes are held on Mondays www.ljcc.org.uk 8457 5000 Languages and History of all sorts. Meetings are and Thursdays at 10am and 8pm, and stone THE FINCHLEY SOCIETY London Jewish Culture Centre is merging in held in members’ homes, pubs and local halls, and The unveiling of the memorial sculpture of the autumn with JW3, the arts centre opened there are many social occasions. They meet carving Saturdays 10.30am. Spike Milligan by John Somerville in September, in 2013 at 341 –351 Finchley Road, NW3 6ET. monthly at the Ewen Hall, Wood Street, Barnet. Linda also holds occasional taster courses. commissioned by The Finchley Society, was [email protected] 7433 8988 www.u3a.org.uk 8449 1527 www.lindazeff.com attended by a host of celebrities, since when there has been a steady stream of visitors to Stephens House and Garden. The space on the bench offers THEATRE AND MUSIC FOR YOUNG PEOPLE a photo opportunity, and there are many references to Spike’s work and life incorporated in its design. 360 ARTS FLASH MUSICALS See www.spikemilliganfund.org.uk New performing arts school for 0 – 18s, offering Community based theatre in Edgware, with many MUSIC for some special Spike moments. tuition in dance, theatre, singing and much more, opportunities for young people aiming to encourage 10/5 A Celebration of WW2 has moved to The Bull Theatre in Barnet, performers, including working in conjunction with BARNET EDUCATION ARTS TRUST 12 noon – 5pm. Stalls and music. meeting on Sundays 10am – 1pm. crime prevention officers and local government Three Saturday music centres at www.thefinchleysociety.org.uk 8888 4154 www.360arts.co.uk schemes. Touring professional shows include East Barnet, Finchley and Hendon are winners of Sony Bollywood Award. part of this new independent charity. FRIENDS OF CHAVILLE SOCIETY BODENS STUDIO & AGENCY www.flashmusicals.co.uk 8930 9930 Performing at East Barnet Festival on 5th July. Arrange interchanges with Chaville near Paris Established since 1975 Bodens provides JIGSAW ARTS www.barneteducationtrust.org.uk 8959 4111 including individual youth exchanges. performing arts classes for 2 – 12s and up to Weekend schools for 3 – 18s at 8959 4504 or 8440 9096 young adults. They produce regular plays and Enfield Lower County School, Saturday mornings, FINCHLEY CHILDREN’S MUSIC GROUP musicals in their own 100 seat theatre licensed FRIENDS OF Highlands School, Winchmore Hill, Saturday afternoons Rehearse at Brookland School, Hill Top, for public performances, which attract sell-out The Friends are most concerned about the Bell Lane School, Hendon, Saturday afternoons NW11 on Sunday afternoons, performing audiences. The majority of students work future of this beautiful Grade 2* building on Compton School, Finchley, Sunday mornings and at major venues in London. professionally in the industry, working with a Greyhound Hill, and it is good news the Youth Theatre for 16 – 25s at www.fcmg.org.uk 8444 8418 Borough Council are negotiating new committed team of professional staff in purpose Woodhouse College. Finchley, Wednesday 6 – 9 pm . built dance and drama studios. arrangements with . Jigsaw Jumpers, under 3s. St John Parish Centre, RITHMIK YOUTH MUSIC STUDIO www.bodenstudios.com 8447 0909 Friern Barnet, Wednesday 10am . www.friendsofchurchfarmhousemuseum.co.uk Young people can develop their creative and Half term and holiday weeks at All Saints Arts FRIENDS OF MONTCLAIR SUSI EARNSHAW THEATRE SCHOOL Centre, Whetstone and Bell Lane School. technical skills at this purpose-built music Barnet’s Twin town in New Jersey, USA. Full time school at The Bull Theatre, 68 High Street www.jigsaw.arts.co.uk 8447 4530 facility with free sessions on production, [email protected] 8368 1329 Barnet. Has small classes to GCSE in all theatre and recording and singing. academic disciplines. Pupils achieve top grades RAZZAMATAZ THEATRE SCHOOL Canada Villa Youth Centre, Pursley Road, Razzamataz has been heavily featured on the BBC’s FRIERN BARNET COMMUNITY LIBRARY and move on to college of their choice. Scholarship Mill Hill NW7 2BL. Dragons Den programme. Classes are held on See events listed in Summer Highlights for Finchley places available. After school classes and Saturday e-mail [email protected] 8359 3562 Literary Festival. Not only a library but a community morning Theatre School. Theatrical agency on site. Saturdays and offer fun and funky dance, singing and drama for 2 –18s at Southgate Academy, N14. hub open Monday to Saturday 11am – 7pm, with a www.susiearnshaw.co.uk 8441 5010 busy schedule of clubs and classes for all ages. www.razzamataz.co.uk 07788 592 171 YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE Saturday morning music for 2 – 18s. Orchestras, There’s a chess table, computers, sofas, tea and FINCHLEY YOUTH THEATRE THEATRETRAIN MILL HILL coffee and newspapers, with special events later in Courses and programmes for 10 – 25s in drama, Meets on Saturday at Copthall School, choirs, ensembles, instrumental and vocal lessons the evenings and at the weekends. dance and technical theatre skills. Mill Hill and takes part in major shows and Junior Musicianship for the very young. Friern Barnet Road, N11 3DS. 142 High Road, East Finchley, N2 9ED. in London for all Theatretrain classes. Bigwood House, HBS Bigwood Road NW11 7BD. www.friernbarnetlibrary.org. 8361 0174 Email fytinfo.barnet.gov.uk 8359 3540 www.theatretain.co.uk 8202 2006 www.youthmusiccentre.org 8450 9290

3 General Category BARNET BOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL Working Beach Three Kinds of Elegance Flood Theoretical: All the detritus of the beach Albert Einstein took his time Infusion of much water Resting on banks of cobbles and space and intellectual passion tipped into the land’s cup And pebbles, rounded balls of flint, to make his special theory rhyme; ignoring our collective ‘when’. Shifting imperceptibly like a slow tide the eureka elegance of his equation E = MC 2 Barbarous brew, permitting For a reluctant sea. ignites synapses of a dreamer, the contents of the sewers Here yellow tractors like rusting beetles simply brilliant, halo-haired, to lick the reclining chairs, Gaze blindly with broken head lamps to hotly bloom at Hiroshima. slaver in the salad drawer At the piles of orange and blue Physical: at the foot of the fridge, Plastic heavy sheets Electro microscopy draft a tide line on the wall. And coils of rope, broken buckets, shows the Big C made flesh, the gaudy colourised scan, Shacks, walkways and boxes, vivid, opulent terror Households taken short Scraps of net that catch nothing, of the biopsy image, by sudden motion sideways Watched over by ragged boats cancer bright as a crown-jewel, purling out of control. Hauled like fish out of water onto the beach. and good surrounding cells which The entire land is a ship aground had been minding their own bailed out by saucepans, This is no light, feathery site, cellular business, No haunt for sun lovers or sea swimmers, deferring and defecting We are laid waste. There is a silence kept here to this imperial reign. Bible writers could find Even by the gulls Emotional: inspiration here and legends All things seem trapped by this clenched pause Pip Scott-Ellis who partnered the Spanish Infanta niece ripe for pressing into the ooze. at tennis came out in ’32 tiara-ed and torrid swanned through Like a runner waiting for the gun. Nationalist Spain in ’37 smoked tore round in a sportscar Terence Jones THIRD PRIZE Am I intruding in this un-own-able hinterland? Daddy shipped over drove like a demon and fragrant in the front-line Seen only by a desiccated fish dressing station she tended relays of fascist wounded Eyelessly dreaming of swimming again. carried in for sepsis and to hold a female hand at the end and lulled by her patrician vowels Something seems to happen here, they’d stop raving so much and after bandaging hopeless Though not now and not to me. cases all day she’d get tight and pillow-fight All this must mean something like there’s no tomorrow and she’d shimmy unchaperoned To some one, moving in edges, to her personal gramophone with young German pilots who clicked their heels and swayed her till a jazz dawn. In a light we can’t yet see. Lindsay Fursland FIRST PRIZE Lindsey is a former Assistant Head Teacher at Riff Poynton COMMENDED Queen Ellizabeth’s Girls School” The Gift Lobster fly observes Its claws are rubber-banded shut human All your life you have been wilful, The deep blue of its carapace Wanting and demanding. is splashed with white, a Hokusai its sharp; eyes track her A charmed world sees only strength breaker, a tie-dyed t-shirt of chitin. darting erratically as if she’s been sprayed And you beguile it. Her carmined nails reach in to grasp. six legs and two wings follow at speed I think of the pale pink keratin as she searches every corner It knows no weakness or the betrayal beneath those lacquered superstimuli; Of those you should have loved the best. of how the shell will colour-shift to coral two feelers touch her skin But I am your son, I will not flinch. as all that sea’s boiled out of it. burning, shivering I will uphold you now in these your dimming days. Mark Totterdell it smells her sweat I watch the gentle Debbie kneel to take your hand. THIRD PRIZES jumps with her heart Her fierce brown gaze speaks only love. You do not hear buzzes with her But from that swath I reap a raw sweet balm. where is it, where is it

David Nixon Ruth Hanchett THIRD PRIZES

Judges for the 2014 competition were MARIO PETRUCCI for the Entry fee £5 (£4 Barnet residents) , 7 – 16s £1 for individual children. General Category and KATHERINE GALLAGHER for the Juniors, Free entry for Barnet Schools for minimum entry of five poems, but a donation is appreciated. Entry forms are on line and in libraries, or send an SAE to Barnet Borough Arts Council. and they will also be judges for the 2015 competition. Poems illustrated by CAROL JUSTIN , tutor for art classes at arts depot. HIGHER PRIZES for 2015 will now be : ADULTS 1ST £500 2ND £250 and 3 RD of £100 and Illustrated Anthologies for General and 7 – 16s contain prizewinners and all the JUNIORS 7–11s 1ST £25 2ND £15 and 3 RD 3 of £10 ; 1 2–16s 1ST £75 2ND £50 and 3 RD 3 of £25 commended poems and are £7.00 each plus 50p p &p from BBAC.

4 SOME OF THE WINNING POEMS FROM THE 20 14 POETRY COMPETITION Junior Entries Nani Nani is my grandma, she loves me very much. Nani is very helpful, when I get stuck. Nani is very kind, when I need a hug. Nani is quite strict, but can be fun too. Nani wears a sari, bright and colourful. Nani cooks Puri, a fried tasty dough. Nani loves her jewellery all sparkly of course. Nani loves to garden, there are never any weeds My Nani loves to paint, pictures of scenes. Perfume I absolutely love my Nani and I hope you feel Bottle the same way with your grandma too! My perfume bottle sits on my dressing-room table It makes me feel alive and able. Where Reality Shiam Ardeshna age 9 COMMENDED Ends Miss Dior is my perfect accessory. My scent then comes complimentary. There is so much to do! I must feed the summer wind for its long journey to Africa. When Will it End ? The little silver bow that sits round the lid, I must weave the dreams of children They leave me out, shows the bottle is complete and never will be undid. And sprinkle hope in the air. and pretend I’m not there. The design of the square bottle, I tell the teachers, I forgot that this is the remodel. I must whisper the secrets of time into a clock’s handle but they don’t care. And muster the scream of a hawk. The rich colour of the scent, I must gather the last sunset of summer They laugh at me, makes me feel like I’m ready for an event. I must collect a warlock’s pupil. and kick my chair. The aroma of the perfume bottle makes me I must paint the midnight sky They mock me and spit think of strong French roses. and pull my hair. And shatter the windows to hell. Miss Dior makes me feel so elegant, I must shoot the pain of guilt into a bad man’s heart I cry every day, my skin then turns delicate. I must grant the wishes of sad hearts because of what they say. I don’t know what I would do without my perfume bottle, And sprinkle love in the wind. They’re mean to me, but for sure it will never be forgotten. I must help a child learn their numbers from one to ten. in every single way. Kianna Gregory age 13 COMMENDED I must go now. They throw notes at me, My master is calling from a different dimension! and call me rude, Lilly Lees age 10 FIRST PRIZE They budge me at lunch, and steal my food. Stopped I’m so lonely, I haven’t got a friend, I bobbed at the surface, Suffering daily. Watching the stopper, When will it end ? Suddenly . . . Melissa Faldes age 12 COMMENDED All Suddenly I was under, Water in my ears like thunder. About Millions of droplets in my view. The Me Torrents of bubbles drowning too. Helen Humming I was told I have Mum’s eyes, The beat of my heart soon to stop. Hippo So I guess I now look wise ! I struggle and try to reach the top. Helen’s a hippo, humming hotly. But then they say I have Dad’s ears, I have not drunk from the bottle of everlasting life. Hooting owls hatch eggs up high But that just gives me many fears ! Terror stabs me like a knife Where hot Helen Hippo heaves. As water grabs and handles me. I hope I don’t have my sister’s teeth, Mia Suzuki age 7 THIRD PRIZES A thought strikes me like a golden key. Because then I’ll look like Uncle Keith. I see a branch and take my chance Dad says I have grandma’s feet, As shadows move in a repeating dance. I hope not cause they’re like 2 lumps of meat ! Breath. Air …. But altogether I look like me, Life. Happy, funny, controlled, but free ! Thoughts spin in my head like a merry go round, Without these features I’d be plain, Then a death sound. But I’d rather not be that vain ….

Katherine Bettis age 11 THIRD PRIZES Holly Strawson age 12 FIRST PRIZE

5 Keep in touch POETRY AND Most arts groups in the Borough MUSI C LITERATURE already belong to BBAC but we hope many more individuals will join and POETRY AND LITERATURE and keep in touch with what goes on BARNET OPEN POETRY COMPETITION through Barnet Arts Magazine, which Celebrating 21 years, the prizes for this year is mailed direct every 2/3 months are raised to £500 (1st), £250 (2nd) and £100 listing events, and through the (3 x 3rd prizes) for the general category, to be website and email group. judged by Mario Petrucci , and £25 (1st), £15 Please tick for information on : (2nd) and 10 (3 x 3rds) for the 12 – 16s, to be Member societies, Drama/Music judged by Katherine Gallagher. /Arts and exhibitions. Entry forms and rules are now on line, in libraries, BBAC poetry / short story / drama/ or on receipt of an SAE from BBAC, for poems up to filmscript competitions. 35 lines, to be received by 16th November 2015. Anthologies for 2014 are now on sale from Name: ...... The Bull Theatre (8441 5010) @ £7 (order and Address: ...... collect) or £7.50 by post from BBAC c/o All Saints Arts Centre, 122 Oakleigh Road North, N20 9EZ...... www.barnetarts.org.uk 8445 8388 ...... ALYTH CHORAL SOCIETY 17/5 Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms BARNET POETRY APPRECIATION GROUP ...... and Chilcott’s Aesop’s Fables. Meet at the Friends Meeting House on the North Western Reform Synagogue, NW11 7EN. second Saturday of each month 2.30pm. Postcode: ...... www.alythchoralsociety.org 8355 1732 9/5 A Matter of Taste Tel: ...... 13/6 Rakin’ It In BARNET BAND 55 Leicester Road, New Barnet, EN5 5EL. Email: ...... 16/5 Concert in aid of Friend in Need Centre, 07709 698 349 or 07988 870 997 My interests are: ...... caring for the Over 55s in East and New Barnet, WAYS INTO WRITING at St John’s Church Mowbray Road, New Barnet. Katherine Gallagher recently had her poem ...... They will be playing at Barnet Museum’s Tea in the The Year of the Tree chosen as Poem of the Week ...... Park on 28th June, where there is an exhibition to in The Guardian. She also holds her workshops at coincide with the Band’s 125th anniversary. the Friends Meeting House, monthly on second Add £5 if you wish to become an Individual www.barnetbarnet.org.uk 07965 687 590 Wednesdays 1 – 4pm, and a monthly poetry Member and join the mailing list and new workshop at Torriano, 99 Torriano Avenue NW5 email list (cheques to BBAC). Or take BARNET CHURCH first Saturdays 1 – 5pm. advantage of our special offer and add £15 The male choir of St John the Baptist Church is www.katherine-gallagher.com unique in the district in offering tuition of a high which will cover three years hence. standard, and there are proposals to develop the GREENACRE WRITERS Membership for societies is £40. programme further with a mixed choir and to set up This year’s Finchley Literary Festival will take place a new Friends group. The church has very fine from 20th to 24th May (see Summer Highlights) Members can add their news to based again in the three Finchley Libraries and BBAC web site. Email to acoustics for major concerts, and Saturday morning recitals are held in the summer when the church Friern Barnet Community Library, where a meeting [email protected] tower is open for sightseers. on 27th May will feature a distinguished Panel to 4/7 Antonio Oyarbazel , piano discuss the future of libraries. Send to Barnet Borough Arts Council 11/7 Catherine Leonard , piano In the meantime catch up on the c/o All Saints Arts Centre 18/7 Ashley Wagner , organ delightful prizewinning short stories 122 Oakleigh Rd North, 25/7 Fangfei Du , piano published on this website. London N20 9EZ Tel: 020 8445 8388 1/8 Florian Rago , solo violin www.greenacrewriters.blogspot.co.uk 8346 9449 8/8 Gemma Kateb , piano THE ENFIELD POETS www. barnetarts.org.uk 15/8 Hadjineophyton Family 8/5 Hannah Lowe , prizewinner and named mandolin, piano, cello, flute and violin BARNET BOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL as one of the Next Generation . 22/8 Jared Bennett , recorders, with keyboard Links 100 art, drama, music and amenity 6/6 Readings from Londongrip, At 11am, refreshments from 10.30am groups with individuals in a forum online cultural omnibus. www.chippingbarnetchurchrecitals 8447 0350 promoting events in the Borough. The 4/7 Launch of the quarterly Executive Committee meet with Borough poetry magazine Acumen . BARNET CHORAL SOCIETY Councillors and officers to discuss topics Enfield Poets are Poets in Residence at 4/7 Songs of the Fleet by Stanford and and policies. Barnet Arts Magazine is The Dugdale Centre, Enfield Town Centre 7.30pm music by Elgar and Vaughan Williams at mailed direct four times a year to www.chela.co.uk/poetry.php 8807 6680 St John the Evangelist, members. BBAC is a voluntary network Friern Barnet Road N11 3EQ CHAVILLE PRESS and has no grants for revenue funding, www.barnetchoralsociety.org.uk 07975 639 576 Ten books, all by local authors or artists have now except for special projects. Admin costs been published and are available from Chaville are covered by subscriptions, sponsor- BARNET FOLK CLUB at arts depot Press, Waterstones and Amazon, the latest being ship and the income from events – which 29/5 26/6 Free events hosted by J J Dunne 8.30pm UDavid Berguer’s All Over by Christmas on life on either link existing societies or aim to www.communigate/barnetfolkclub 8441 3629 include individuals who may not normally be able to belong to any group. 8445 8388 BARNET SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Registered Charity No.249275 5/7 Beethoven’s overture The Ruins of Athens Events listed are correct at time of Consell clarinet concerto No.3 (Luisa Rosina) going to press. Please telephone Niels Gade Symphony No.4 in B flat 7.30pm contacts for more details St John’s Church, Friern Barnet Road N11 3EQ www.barnetsymphony.org.uk 07990 510102

FINCHLEY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 16/5 Concert at North London Festival are pleased to sponsor this leaflet of Music, Dance and Drama 7.30pm FILM & VIDEO and help Kodály, Dances of Galeánta Barnet Borough Arts Council Schumann, Piano Concerto Soloist, Asagi Nakata Contact Mike 020 8200 0600 Beethoven, Symphony No.7 United Reformed Church, Tetherdown, N10 1NB [email protected] 11/7 Gala Concert and Last Night 7.30pm at the Proms at 4 Sunnyside Terrace, Edgware Road, Trinity Church, Nether Street, N12 7NN Colindale NW9 5DL www.finchleychamber.org 07928 278 449

6 Borough arts round-up

VENUES ORGANISATIONS BARNET WHETSTONE / FRIERN BARNET LITERARY, HISTORICAL & B1 Hadley Memorial Hall 8440 6229 W1 All Saints' Arts Centre CONSERVATION GROUPS B2 The Bull Theatre 68 High St 8441 5010 122 Oakleigh Road North, N20 9EZ 8445 8388 Barnet Museum 8440 8066 Hampstead Garden Opera 8340 3488 B3 Barnet College Wood St 8200 8300 W2 Christ Church Hall Barnet Poetry Appreciation Group 8441 2849 London Pro Arte Choir 8420 7238 B4 Barnet Museum 31 Wood St 8440 8066 Oakleigh Road North, N20 8445 2148 Barnet Residents Association 8440 0194 Mill Hill Music Theatre 07798 670004 B5 Church House Wood St 8449 4704 W3 St Mary Magdalene's Hall Barnet Society 07892 697 324 Mill Hill Music Club 8959 3866 B5 St John's Church Wood St 8449 3894 B6 Barnet South Community Centre Athenaeum Road, N20 8445 3557 Barnet U3A 8449 1527 Mill Hill Music Festival 8420 6594 1 Spring Close, Barnet 8449 1100 W4 Incognito Theatre Barnet Walks 8440 6805 North London Music Festival 8886 7237 B7 Wesley Hall Stapylton Road 8447 1847 Holly Park Road, N11 8361 8310 Barnet WEA 8202 9500 Proms at St Jude’s 8455 8687 B8 Village Hall 8440 0680 Chaville Press 8445 7850 St Mary at Finchley 8349 0824 EDGWARE / ARTS CENTRES Enfield Poets 8807 6680 Southgate Opera Company 8360 0788 O1 Watling Community Association Artsdepot 8369 5454 Finchley Society 8346 5256 Zemel Choir 8907 8159 145 Orange Hill Road, Edgware 8959 2259 All Saints Arts Centre 8445 8388 Friends of Chaville Society 8959 4504 02 Sangam Centre, 210 Burnt Oak The Bull Theatre 8441 5010 Friends of Church Farmhouse Museum VISUAL ARTS Broadway, Edgware 8952 7062 Friends of Friern Barnet Library 8361 0174 The Art Stables 07551 506 276 Flash Musicals Methuen Road 8952 9134 Chickenshed 8292 9222 EAST FINCHLEY Community Focus 8361 5184 Friends of Montclair 8368 1329 Barnet Guild of Artists 8449 0724 E1 East Finchley Methodist Church Finchley Youth Theatre 8359 3530 Garden Suburb Gallery 8445 9290 Finchley Art Society 8883 3819 High Road 8349 9340 Flash Musicals 8930 9130 Greenacre Writers 8346 9449 Garden Suburb Gallery 8458 7410 E3 East Finchley Neighbourhood Centre The Institute 8829 4429 HADAS Hendon & District Archaeological Society 8440 4350 Insight School of Art 8441 6153 42 Church Lane 8444 6265 London Jewish Cultural Centre 8457 5000 The Stephens Collection 8346 7812 Milldon Art Society 8959 6509 E4 Finchley Youth Theatre RAF Museum 8205 2266 Phoenix Cinema 8444 6789 142 High Road 8883 9957 Trinity Music Centre 8445 0397 MUSIC SOCIETIES Painting for Pleasure 07958 714 130 E5 The Old Barn Community Centre Alyth Choral Society 8455 1732 The Institute, Bishop Douglass School, Hamilton Road, N2 OSQ 8829 4429 DRAMA GROUPS Barnet Band 8347 9208 YOUNG PEOPLE FINCHLEY Garden Suburb Theatre 7723 6609 Barnet Choral Society 8447 3705 360 Arts www.360arts.co.uk F1 Club Southover 8445 3510 Good Companions 8959 4003 Barnet Folk Club 8441 3620 Bodens 8447 0909 F3 Ballards Lane Methodist Church Hal l 8349 2261 Incognito Theatre Club 8361 8310 Barnet Education Arts Trust 8959 4111 Chicken Shed Theatre 8292 9222 F4 Moss Hall Junior School Barnet Symphony Orchestra 07990 510 102 Finchley Youth Theatre 8359 3530 Nether Street, N3 8445 7965 FESTIVALS Church Recitals 8440 8593 Jigsaw Arts 8447 4530 F5 45 Fitzalan Road N3 8349 0699 Barnet Christmas Fayre 8441 5010 Finchley Chamber Choir 3441 7450 Razzamataz 07788 592 171 F6 Manor House (Sternberg Centre) East Barnet Festival and Finchley Chamber Orchestra 07928 278 449 Rithmik Youth Music Studio 8359 3530 80 East End Road, N3 8346 2288 Finchley Childrens’ Music Group 8444 8418 Susi Earnshaw Theatre School 8441 5010 F7 Stephens House and Gardens Theatre in the Park 07071 781 745 17 East End Road, N3 8346 7812 East Finchley Festival (June) 07983 360 834 Finchley Choral Society 7263 3358 Theatretrain (Mill Hill) 8202 2006 F8 St Mary's Hall Hendon Lane 8349 0824 Finchley Literary Festival (May) 8346 9449 Finchley & Friern Barnet Op Soc 8368 5813 Youth Music Centre 8450 9290 F9 St Philip's the Apostle Church Mill Hill Music Festival 8420 6594 Garden Suburb Opera 07590 567 790 Gravel Hill 8346 2459 Trinity in May 8446 0397 F10 Trinity Church Nether Street 8446 0397 Proms at St Jude’s 3322 8123 F12 artsdepot, 5 Nether St. N12 8369 5454 GOLDERS GREEN/GARDEN SUBURB G1 Henrietta Barnet School Central Square NW11 8458 8999 London Jewish Cultural Centre, Ivy House, 94 –96 North End Road NW11 8457 5000 HENDON H1 Wilberforce Hall Wilberforce Road H2 St John's Church Algernon Road NW4 8202 8606 H3 Whitefields School Claremont Road 8455 4114 H5 Barnet College Way 8200 8300 H6 Barnet Multicultural Centre Algemon Road, Hendon 8202 3794 MILL HILL M1 John Keble Church Hall Deans Lane 8959 6169 NEW BARNET N1 Lyonsdown Church Hall 8441 1591 T1 Village Hall Badgers Croft 8445 5333 / 8445 0870 T3 Kemp Hall Totteridge Village 8446 2778

The organisation name is followed by meeting days and venue reference where applicable (see venue list / map). Contact numbers are 020 unless stated otherwise. Information supplied by Barnet Borough Arts Council, c/o All Saints’ Arts Centre, 122 Oakleigh Road North, N20 9EZ. Telephone : 020 8445 8388 www.artsinbarnet.org.uk Membership is open to societies and individuals.

7 SUMMER HIGHL IGHTS 2015 EAST BARNET FESTIVAL FINCHLEY LITERARY FESTIVAL Free entry on 3rd 4th and 5th July Now in its fourth year, based at Libraries, Oak Hill Park, EN4 8JS. at Waterstones and Café Buzz. A weekend of Music and Dance, Market Stalls 20/5 A welcome to Mike Carey , author of Children’s World, Food Fair and Bar. “The Girl With All the Gifts” Hammonds Funfair Thursday to Sunday. 21/5 Allen Ashley leads a poetry workshop. Open Golf Friday 5 – 7pm Music from 6.30pm. 12 – 2pm [email protected] Dog Show Saturday 1.30pm, register 12.30pm. 21/5 Discussion on libraries by Panel. Classic Car Show all day Sunday. Friern Barnet Community Library. 7.30pm Blue badge drivers may park on the field. 22/5 Andi Michael facilitates a Writing for MUSIC STAGES Wellbeing workshop. 6 – 8pm Bring a rug or low back chair and sit on the hill to All these events are at Friern Barnet enjoy the best of the bands of North London on Community Library. the main stage and new talent on show on the 22/5 Literary Walk . Meet Finchley Central. 2.45pm 23/5 Lindsay Barnfield gives a practical Start Up Stage. Big bands on Friday evening, all workshop on voice skills. 10.30 –12.30pm day Saturday and Sunday. Sundays at 3pm in the green woodland arena. Library. BIG TOP DANCE NEW THIS YEAR 23/5 Katie Alford runs a workshop on fantasy Local dance companies both days, with return of 14/6 Robin Hood, the Musical writing. 10.30 –12.30pm Church End Library. Canadian Dance Through Time on Sunday. Cambridge Touring Theatre, with a 24/5 Josie Pearse and Penny Black CHILDREN’S WORLD workshop for 5 – 10s from 1.30pm (£4) host an exciting creative writing workshop. Features Punch and Judy and Smart Play games Advance booking : 01805 624624 2–4pm North Finchley Library. both days, with Kazzum’s Paper People for www.cambridgetouringtheatre.co.uk Contact Murder in the Library. youngsters on Sunday. 12/7 A Midsummer Night’s Dream” 24/5 Rosie Canning leads a gentle walk with 19/7 Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny stops to write inspired by nature. both by Quantum Theatre, Meet at West Finchley Tube 11.30am Advance booking : 0845 450 51577 Contact The Walking Writer. 26/7 Twelfth Night 24/5 A Celebration of Local Writers Principal Theatre 020 8807 6680 Café Buzz 5 – 7pm Admission £12 (£10 conc. £6 4 –16s) U4s Free Don’t forget to bring a rug or cushion. MILL HILL 11th MUSIC FESTIVAL Light refreshments available. 12/6 Hendon Band of the Salvation Army Shows continue whatever 13/6 Film Music Gala BBC Elstree Concert Band 4/6 A Night on the Raj the weather. Blue badge 15/6 Shir Klezmer Music drivers escorted at 2pm 16/6 The Barber of Seville UpCloseOpera from car park off Parkside 17/6 The Hermitage Quartet with Gardens EN4 8JS. soprano Carola Darwin Sponsored by Bodens, 18/6 100 Years of Jazz in 99 minutes Chas Lowe Estates, and 19/6 The Boss Born in the USA and other late . evening entertainmen at various venues.

FESTIVAL CONTACT DETAILS THE BULL THEATRE 68 High Street, Barnet, EN4 8SY [email protected] CHICKENSHED SPRING INTO SUMMER CHICKENSHED Chase Side, N14 3pm Sundays at St Mary’s Church, EN4 8XD. 29/4 – 15/5 Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors www.chickenshed.org.uk 020 8292 9222 £5 at the door. 22/5 Derek Nash : Sax Appeal 7pm EAST FINCHLEY FESTIVAL www.iloveen2.co.uk/festival.html 079834 360 834 17/5 The Willow Trio , Royal Academy of Music 23/5 Tales Big Day Out 10am – 5pm EAST BARNET FESTIVAL & THEATRE IN THE PARK 21/6 The Arbory String Quartet , 23/5 Jo Collins and Friends www.eastbarnetfestival 07071 781 745 play pop, soul, funk and punk classical and romantic. FINCHLEY LITERARY FESTIVAL 19/7 Enfield Brass Band 25/6 Comedy Night 8pm [email protected] 3/7 Jazzin Jolson 7pm INCOGNITO THEATRE THE BULL THEATRE 21/6 Nicholas Parsons 7.30pm Behind the clinic in Holly Park Road, N11 3HB 1/5 Shak and The Banned 12/7 SUMMER FESTIVAL 10am – 4pm www.incognitotheatre.com 07912 874 700 7 – 9/5 The Lion in Winter by James Goldman. with groups from across Barnet and Enfield. MILL HILL MUSIC CLUB Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henrietta Barnett School, NW11 7BN 020 8959 3866 their four sons quarrel. BBAC ART & INFORMATION EXHIBITION 10 – 24/5 Outside Waitrose store in The Spires MILL HILL MUSIC FESTIVAL Presented by Garden Suburb Theatre. www.nillhillmusicfest.co.uk Work by local artists and What’s On display. An entry in BBAC 2015 Drama Competition. SPRING INTO SUMMER Tickets 020 2723 6609 8pm BARNET GUILD OF ARTISTS St Mary’s Church, EN4 Saturday matinée 3pm [email protected] 020 8441 4401 28/7 – 8/8 Summer Exhibition PROMS AT ST JUDE’S 14 –16/5 Magic Musicals by The Warren Christ Church, St Albans Road, EN5 4LA Central Square NW11 7AH 28/5 Johnny Cash revisited www.promsat stjudes.org.uk 020 3322 8123 MILLDON ART SOCIETY Most events are free and can be booked online : ARTS DEPOT 2 – 5/5 Annual exhibition tinyurl.com/Finchley-Literary-Festival 29/5 and 26/6 Folk in the Foyer Trinity Church, Mill Hill Broadway, NW7 3TB Published by Barnet Borough Arts Council Tally Ho Corner, N12 OGA 020 8359 5454 www.barnetarts.org.uk 07071 781 745 MILL HILL MUSIC CLUB INCOGNITO THEATRE 10/5 Sunwook Kim , piano Bach Sciabin and Schbert 10 – 16/5 The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon PROMS AT ST JUDE’S are pleased to sponsor the production of the Barnet Arts Magazine. EAST FINCHLEY FESTIVAL 20 – 28/6 Annual Concert Series at Contact Mike 020 8200 0600 Sunday 21st June in 12.45 and 7.45pm each day (see their website) by East Finchley tube. Celebrating 40 years. are supplemented by the LitFest at weekends and Specialists in print & design for business & community groups Noon – 6pm Free entry. Heritage Walks. Proceeds support Toynbee Hall [email protected] Music, Dance, Food Fair, Bar and over 60 stalls. and North London Hospice. 4 Sunnyside Terrace, Edgware Road, Colindale NW9 5DL

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