07 January 2024
Healthcare professional and keen photographer Cliff Docherty's prescription for improved wellbeing involves taking a walk with your camera or phone, engaging with and recording the things you encounter and finding some moments of mindfulness. You can find out more at Cliff's workshops in Palmers Green on 13th and 14th January.
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06 November 2023
As autumn's last flourish of colour is replaced and the world around us desaturates, Palmers Green photographer Cliff Docherty is inviting us to celebrate this new monochrome environment, and at the same time help boost our physical and mental wellbeing, by contributing black and white photographs to his new exhibition at the Dugdale Arts Centre.
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26 July 2023
The current exhibition at the Southgate Art Gallery (at the front of the Southgate Club in Chase Side) features some unusual slit-scan panoramic photography by Gareth Davies. The exhibition runs until the end of August. Entry is free - just ring the doorbell during opening hours.
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21 February 2022
Local artists and photographers are being invited to take part in north London's first Citizens Art Festival, which will be held in Wood Green from 7th to 10th April. The festival will feature both an exhibition in the impressive third-floor gallery at the Green Rooms hotel and three days of art workshops and activities at Wood Green's unique 'meanwhile space', Blue House Yard. Both venues are in Station Road, only a few minutes walk from Wood Green station.
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01 December 2021
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.
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26 July 2021
This photo/music project featuring beautiful photographs taken in Broomfield Park was created by Annemarie Fearnley and Jonathan Wober during lockdown and included in Tower Theatre's 'Love (and Survival) in the Time of Covid' festival.
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23 December 2020
Grange Park resident Katrina Campbell's dream of making a book out of her large collection of photographs recording life under lockdown has been turned into reality. There was a large enough and quick enough response to her Kickstarter campaign for her to get the book, When We All Stayed at Home, out in time for Christmas, hand delivered to addresses in the areas where the pictures were taken - Palmers Green, Winchmore Hill, Bush Hill Park, Edmonton and Enfield.
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23 November 2020
Winchmore Hill photographer Katrina Campbell is planning to turn her online exhibition Tales of Life under Lockdown into a book with the title When We All Stayed at Home and has launched a Kickstarter campaign to have it printed and published in time for Christmas. The idea isn't to create a large coffee table book to be saved for special occasions, but an A5 volume that can be shared at the kitchen table or read on the bus. What an excellent way of recording and remembering an extraordinary year!
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21 October 2020
Making History is a Lottery-funded project designed to encourage young people to express their emotions and experiences relating to COVID-19 and the London lockdown. Platinum Performing Arts is inviting children aged 9-18 from the Enfield community to take part in free creative workshops at Millfield House - pottery, dance, poetry, spoken word, fitness & wellbeing and more!
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03 June 2020
During May Friends of Broomfield Park invited people to send them photographs for a Virtual Flower Show. For June the focus will be on trees, starting with this amazing shot by Tracey Kelly.
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18 May 2020
2020 is turning out to be the year when everything goes virtual/online. The latest to join the trend are the Friends of Broomfield Park. While you can still visit the actual, real, physical park (taking social distancing precautions, of course), the Friends this week launched their Virtual Flower Show, which you can take part in and enjoy without leaving home.
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10 March 2019
Inspired by the wonderful wetlands in Firs Farm, this is our second Firs Farm photography competition. If you've never entered a photographic competition before this is an ideal opportunity to start. The competition will take place as part of the Firs Farm Wetlands 'Get out & Get active' project on 12th May 2019. So come on, get out and capture your Wetlands inspiration!
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29 April 2018
The Lamb Festival 2018: Saturday 16th to Friday 22nd June.
An arts Festival at All Saints, Edmonton, to celebrate the lives and legacies of Charles and Mary Lamb.
You can find the wonderful 2017 Festival Diary here - save the dates and come and join us! (And don't forget - for the fourth year running, there's free admission to ALL Festival events, so why not come and try something new?) 2017 LAMB FESTIVAL DIARY
As before, there will be poetry and photography competitions - three prizes.......
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18 October 2017
The results of the 2017 Friends of Broomfield Park photo competition have been announced.
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12 April 2017
The Lamb Festival: An Arts Festival at All Saints, Edmonton, to celebrate the lives and legacies of Charles and Mary Lamb.
This year's Lamb Festival will take place from 17th to 23rd June at All Saints Church in Edmonton. As before, there will be a photographic competition, but this year instead of an essay competition there will be prizes for the best poems
There will be separate categories for schoolchildren (who must be at an Enfield school) and an open category (open to residents of.......
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12 October 2016
The Friends of Broomfield Park have announced the results of their 2016 Photo Competition.
The winner in the Adult category was Munise Cebesi for entry No 47:
The winner in the Under 16 category was Alize Akturk for a photograph entitled Perspective
Runners up in the adult category were David Sumeray (entry No 13) and Sandra Roberts (entry No 29).
The winners were selected using a two-stage process: first the Friends' committee members selected a shortlist of photographs, which.......
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26 April 2016
For the third year running All Saints Church in Edmonton will be hosting the Lamb Festival, celebrating local literary celebrities Charles and Mary Lamb.
The Festival will run from Saturday 18th June to Friday 24th June, starting with a Fair on the Saturday afternoon. Other highlights will include the young performers from Iconic Arts, jewellery making with Zinfinity, a guided walk with Joe Studman, the Carers UK poetry evening, and music from the Tottenham Community Choir, and.......
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16 April 2016
The Friends of Arnos Park are running a photographic competition. The best picture illustrating "The Joys of Arnos Park" will win an Amazon voucher worth £25.
Entries should be sent by email to to arrive by 19th June. The winner and runners up will be exhibited at the Friends' Summer Picnic on Sunday 17th July and on their Facebook page.
And don't forget the Friends of Broomfield Park photo competition, which runs until 4th.......
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23 June 2015
Breaking with their tradition of running photographic competitions over the winter, the Friends of Broomfield Park have announced that this year the competition will take place during the summer.
Prizes will be awarded in two categories: Adults and Under 16s. You can enter up to three pictures, which must be taken "of the Park or in the Park" between 1st June and the closing date for entries, which is 22nd August.
All entries will be displayed on the Friends of Broomfield Park.......
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14 June 2015
"Inside Job"Southgate Photographic Society are currently holding their 73rd annual Prints and Projections exhibition. This year the exhibition is different from usual in two respects: there are no projections, only prints; and instead of being hidden away in a hall, the pictures are out in the street for all to see. And this year's exhibition is likely to be seen by many more people than usual, as, thanks to Transport for London, it adorns the elegant curved windows of an.......
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