Arts, Crafts, Music and Culture

An outdoor exhibition of portrait photographs taken on benches in Broomfield Park was launched at the weekend.

PG-based artist Cathy Taylor invites you to a free event this Sunday afternoon where you can try your hand at traditional Chinese brush painting, in the beautiful surroundings of Broomfield Conservatory. Suitable for ages 14 to 114.

If you go along to art galleries hoping to experience the sublime, then the exhibition that's on at the Southgate Club in Chase Side is probably not for you. But if it's the ridiculous that 'grabs you by your shakers and lifts you like a wing', then you're in for a treat.

On the afternoon of Friday 21st March the Southgate Beaumont care home on Cannon Hill will be hosting an exhibition of paintings by Regina Skrida, inspired by the beautiful landscapes of her native Lithuania.

Artists have until 21st March to submit entries to the third Enfield Community Art Exhibition, which will be held in Palmers Green in June, in the revamped Devonshire Square and at Arbeit Studios off Green Lanes.

Winchmore String Orchestra's spring newsletter whets our appetites for the feast of Nordic music that they will be laying on in Southgate on Saturday 5th April.

At the inauguration ceremony in the new Saddlers Square for phase 1 of Enfield Town Liveable Neighbourhood, Christine Vial and Mary Duggan from the Enfield Poets gave short readings to celebrate the event. They've each sent one poem for publication on PGC.

Yoriko Cole is a Southgate based artist originally from Kyoto, Japan. Her pictures are at the Southgate Gallery until 22nd February.

Enfield Council's environment and communities team is holding a free workshop to help design a new mural which will be created using reclaimed paint provided by the North London Waste Authority

Wear A Gorilla Suit Day, National Double Cheeseburger Day, Peanut Butter Day... Does anyone take these seriously? And if someone did set out to celebrate a 'Day' every day for a year, what effect would it have on them? Local author Dan Brotzel set himself that very challenge, and found that the experiment had unexpected consequences...

The Dugdale Arts Centre is looking for members of the local community with a stake in arts and culture to sit on its community panel.

Whose designs, created in a studio in Southgate, have been seen everywhere from cruise liners and theatres to national retailers and London Underground? You may have spotted her work in the Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras, on stage at the Old Vic, the National Theatre or the O2, or you may even have one of her lighting designs in your home. The answer is Dan Maier, and there are three opportunities this month to meet her.