TV cameras were in PG last week, filming one of the free weekly Knit & Natter sessions at Stitch! and talking to the people behind the local craft emporium and some of their regular customers.
After two years of lockdowns and social distancing, Southgate Opera are back next month and are inviting everyone to a hell of a party that will make 10 Downing Street look like Toytown. And this time there'll be no ignoring Public Opinion.
This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the song Happy Xmas (War is Over) by John & Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band, and to celebrate this milestone Yoko Ono and Sean Ono Lennon have presented seven music-related organisations with hand-cut acetates of the record to help them raise funds for their individual good causes. One of the seven is Collage Arts, based just down the line in Wood Green's Cultural Quarter.
This Saturday and Sunday, pop along to the North London Hospice's Wellbeing Centre in Barrowell Green to see Catching the Light 2, an exhibition of work by five members of the hospice's patient and family photography group.
On Thursday 11th November Enfield Town Library will be playing host to local authors Dan Brotzel, Martin Jenkins and Alex Woolf, who will be reading from their books and talking about writing groups, collaborating on a novel and the crowdfunding process.
Ever wished you could revisit the romantic and stylish dance venues of the 1930s, 40s and 50s? Well, starting next month you'll have plenty of opportunities as the Southgate Club will be hosting a weekly Swing Dance Club with live bands featuring classic swing from those past decades and dancers from all over London ripping it up on the club's fabulous wooden dance floor!
For the second year running Enfield Art Circle's annual exhibition of members' work will be held online. Between 24th October and 19th December you will be able to drop in and out and browse at your leisure, from the comfort of your own home. Most of the works will be available to purchase, and 10 per cent of the proceeds will be donated to local charity Enfield Young Carers.
A new website, Enfield in Poetry, presents an interactive map of the borough with markers denoting the settings of verses about a local place written by a a local poet. You can read the poems or have the poets read them to you.
On Saturday 13th November Talkies Community Cinema presents its first indoor screening for 19 months, restarting where it left off by presenting the six short films that won its 2020 commissions and were due to be shown on 21st March 2020.
