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The next Talkies Community Cinema event at the Fox is an evening of short comedy films on 29th January. Wizards, mime artists, baristas and estate agents are among the comic delights contained in the ten short films making up Ha! Comedy Shorts. Organised by Kate and Gem from Short Sighted Cinema, the evening will bring London's short film glitterati to Palmers Green, where the audience will have an opportunity to talk to them about their work. Ha! Comedy Shorts is part of the LOCO London.......

Joe Studman of Jaywalks will be reprising his course on the history of Enfield, Edmonton and Southgate in March. The course, run in conjunction with the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, will be held on six Monday evenings at the Dugdale Centre, starting on 3rd March, at a cost of £50. Each week's class will be divided into two halves, the first presenting a chronological history from earliest times to the 20th century, the second exploring a particular location (eg Enfield Town) and its.......

Enfield Council is consulting residents about its proposal to introduce compulsory licensing of private landlords throughout the Borough. The private rented sector now accounts for about a fifth of homes in the Borough and is associated with increased levels of anti-social behaviour, such as noise nuisance, dumping of rubbish, pest infestations and unsightly front gardens. In some cases, landlords are failing to control the activities of their tenants, in others the landlords themselves are.......

Residents of the London Borough of Enfield have until 30 January to register their views about the Council's 2013/2014 budget.  A page on the Council website sets the context for its spending plans, while a more detailed document can be downloaded.  This lists how the Council responded to the its residents' views on how it could save money in the current financial year and what its priorities should be, before going on to outline the ways that the Council intend to make savings over.......

A new U3A is being set up for the Palmers Green and Southgate area. An Open Meeting will be held on Wednesday 26th February at The Intimate Theatre, 521 Green Lanes, Palmers Green N13 4DH, starting at 2.30 pm. Doors will be open at 2.00 pm. This will be an opportunity to hear more about U3A and to find out about the interests of potential members. U3A stands for University of the Third Age. It began in France in 1972 with U3As attached to existing universities. The core of the U3A in the UK,.......

An art exhibition opening later this month at the Dugdale Centre is not entitled Watch Out! for nothing. It will comprise some 20+ paintings by Moshe Galili, a Palmers Green resident and Holocaust survivor, who fears that a neo-Nazi movement currently developing in his native Hungary and elsewhere in the former Soviet bloc could revive some of the horrors that he himself lived through as a young man. The Gun - one of the paintings in the exhibition. Click on the picture to read the story behind.......

A group which hopes to set up a two-form faith-based primary school in the Palmers Green/Edmonton area has published information about its project. The Faith And Community School would open in September 2015 and would be state-funded in line with the government's Free Schools initiative.  As a Muslim school it would place emphasis on teaching the Arabic language and learning about the Qur'an.  However, one of the leading members of the project team is Irene Kay, a prominent Jewish.......

The third Southgate and Palmers Green Open Studios and Art Trail event will be held on 7th and 8th June 2014.  As in previous years, artists and a designers will be exhibiting their work to members of the public - some in their own homes or studios, others in local shops. Organiser Dan Maier is inviting creatives and shop owners to apply for inclusion in this year's Open Studios: We're looking for original beautifully made work.  We have an appreciative audience who've come to expect.......

Residents of Palmers Green are being consulted about the design of the clock which the Green Lanes Business Association (GLBA) intends to erect at Palmers Green Triangle. There are two methods by which members of the public can voice their opinions: by completing a brief online survey on this website - the questions refer not only to the planned clock, but also more generally to the future of the Triangle by sending an email to the GLBA. All survey responses on this website will be.......

Possible design for new clock at Palmers Green Triangle

Monthly reports have been issued by the Metropolitan Police Safer Neightbourhood Teams for Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill wards. Highlights - Palmers Green Brief details of operations to combat burglary and street theft Monthly ward promises List of burglaries in November Advice for preventing burglaries from garages and garden sheds Advice for preventing thefts of catalytic converters Highlights - Winchmore Hill Ward promises: targeting motor vehicle crime, anti-social.......

Palmers Green has another new website! The latest addition is Palmers Green Tales, created by a project team led by Jenny Bourke and including Suzanne Beard of Palmers Green Jewel in the North fame. Palmers Green Tales will be recording the history of Palmers Green in both oral and visual form - presenting local people's memories in words and, wherever possible, including video clips of the interviews. All the Tales on the website will feature people who have spent time in and around Palmers.......