10 JANUARY 2010 THE ARCHER - 08717 334465 Regular Events E-mail your listings to: An artsdepot What’s On... [email protected] SPORT & FITNESS Tuesday 12 January v Finchley & Hornsey Ramblers • An evening lecture by Ken Marks on the archaeology of Anglo-Jewry in Group Call Vivien 8883 8190 London, The Drawing Room, Avenue House, East End Road, N3. Entrance v Glebelands Indoor Bowls Club, audience with Angela free. Hosted by the Hendon and District Archaeological Society. Summers Lane N12. New and By Diana Cormack experienced bowlers welcome. Wednesday 13 January v Keep fit for the Retired on When she became the first woman to present BBC TV news • Crochet class, all materials and refreshments provided. Make beautiful gifts Wednesdays, Christ Church N12. regularly, Angela Rippon was the subject of much media and accessories after just one class. Starts 7pm at an East Finchley venue. Call Bridie 8883 5269 Call 07932 035325 for details or register online at www.omarama.co.uk. v comment. Despite this and her impressive career in radio Pilates in East Finchley, qualified Saturday 23 January teacher. Contact Dee on 8883 7029 and television, she is famously remembered for her dance • Quizical Extravaganza at The Alexandra, Fortis Green, at 7.30. Raising vPilates class Wednesdays, 2.15- routine with Morecambe and Wise in their 1976 Christmas 3.15pm at Youth Theatre, N2. Ring money for The Animal Hostel Trust. Big Prizes to be won! Penny Hill 8444 2882. Show. Her lovely long legs kicked away the stuffy news- • Spring Park Motel music evening at the East Finchley Constitutional Club, vTae Kwon Do at The Green Man reader image, a forerunner perhaps to performances by The Walks, N2, showcasing acts from north London. Thursdays 7-9pm 07949 612 706 today’s news teams on Children in Need. • Pavement Pounders at The Institute: Rembrandt and the Dutch Republic. v Yoga, breathing & relaxation. Meet at The Institute, East Finchley, for morning talk at 11am, then at The Weekly drop-in classes - N2, N6, N10. Listening to her clear, crisp National Gallery at 2pm. Enquiries: course tutors David or Maryanne on Phone Judy on 07956 375607. tones as she told her life story 020 8340 7178 or www.pavementpounders.org.uk. Bookings: The Institute v Yoga, pregnancy yoga, meditation at artsdepot in November, it on 020 8829 4141 quoting course reference 517. classes. Call Sunnah 07941 321 772 or Saturday 6 February see www.stretchingpeople.co.uk. seemed inevitable that Angela would have become a presenter. • Pavement Pounders at The Institute: We look at 20th Century British art. MUSIC, DANCE & Meet at The Institute for morning talk at 11am, then at Tate Britain at 2pm. But there is much more to this See above for contact details. Institute course reference 510. CREATIVE ARTS elegant and engaging lady than What’s on at artsdepot v Art Classes. For info call Henry on having a voice that holds the Art gallery: Ed Pien: Memento, Wednesday 13 January to Sunday 28 Febru- 8888 5133. attention; she also possesses a ary, 12pm - 4pm. Sunday Buzz free lunchtime concert: Christian Brewer, v Ballroom Dance Classes, Wednesday wealth of knowledge about her Sunday 17 January, 1pm. Stewart Francis: Tour De Francis, Thursday 21 eves for beginners & improvers . St January, 8pm. Folk in the Foyer free concert, Friday 29 January, 8.30pm. Mary’s Church Hall, N3. 8444 0280. profession. As she told her large John Bishop Elvis has Left the Building, Friday 5 February, 8pm. v Ballroom & Latin American Dance audience: “I didn’t go to univer- Classes - beginners and Improvers. Wed & Fri eve, Bishop Douglass Sch. 8207 2323. sity and do a degree in Media v Club Dramatika drama club for kids. Studies. I learned on the job.” Angela Rippon. Photo courtesy Review: Make laugh not war Call 8883 7110. A grounding in journalism of the artsdepot. By Lucy Chamberlin v Creative writing classes in informal, Having left her Plymouth on the Royal Wedding in 1981 A packed-out back room in The Alexandra pub in Fortis friendly atmosphere. Tel Sallie Rose Green was the venue for the launch of new monthly comedy 020 8444 7217. girls’ grammar school at 17, and the only downturn in her v Drama Classes for 11-18 year olds. Angela spent three years learning award-winning career appears outfit Make Laugh Not War on 22 November. The crowd Mondays at 6.30pm. Contact Carolyn every aspect of local newspaper to be a brief involvement with was young on the whole, trendy and artsy but on the polite on 07905 481682 side of raucous. v East Finchley Writers Group, Weds work. She became a West Coun- launching TV-am the follow- at the Old White Lion. Contact Carola try BBC radio journalist, then an ing year, after which she left Masters of Ceremony Katrina recognisable scenarios and, in 8883 5808 or Lilian 8444 1793. editor for Westward Television to work in the United States. Thompson and Lou Sanders pro- time, should be one to watch on v East Finchley Poetry Writing before moving to London. Her four years using all her vided a lively if slightly chaotic the comedy circuit. The wild and Workshops. Monthly on Saturdays. Angela feels she gained the professional skills as the voice evening, covering for late come- wacky Roisin Conaty undoubt- Contact Dennis Evans 8346 9528. dians and introducing acts with edly had the most stage presence v Finchley Jazz Club: Live jazz on Mon news reading position “purely of LBC Radio’s News Talk are 4 & 18 Jan at 8.15pm, Wilf Slack Cricket by chance” because she hap- still much admired. pizzazz and in one or two cases and had us in stitches with her Pavilion, East End Rd, N3. pened to be around when the I can thoroughly recommend significantly more ability than the brilliantly conceived mime. v Line dancing Tuesdays from The headline act Paul Foot regular newscaster and his acts themselves. 8.30pm at The Constitutional Club. artsdepot’s “Audience With…” Tom Webb got the evening was, well, weird in every way. Call Maureen 8440 8530. male counterparts were all una- productions, particularly the off to a good start with his His exaggerated mannerisms and v Memory Lane Singing Club - vailable. Angela commentated question and answer section. friendlysinging club meets every Friday darkly funny gags and very suc- pedantic long-windedness were at in Finchley. Call Valerie 8458 4508. In this, Angela’s views were cessful audience repartee. Grainne best not everyone’s cup of tea, and v Over 50s Tea Dance at Christ Review: sought on the BBC being ageist, Maguire, though winning over a at worst simply exasperating. That Church, North Finchley. Every Weds, particularly towards women. few audience members with her said, Katrina and Lou are on to a 1pm. 020 8444 0280. Her answer was measured and v Learn to sing at Finchley Methodist endearments, was a little too girl- brilliant idea. Check out the site Church, Ballards La. Call 8888 4412. 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