Free BJJ classes for girls and women for the month of March.
About this event
For the month of March, Alexandra Park BJJ (as featured on Channel 4) will be offering women and girls free classes. It is open to all practitioners regardless of experience.
Join us for Tristan Mailliot Quartet: Remembering Chick Corea
Jazz Legend, Pianist and Composer Chick Corea, who passed away a year ago, has left a remarkable and unforgettable legacy. In his long career, he recorded close to 90 albums as a bandleader
MELODIES & MORE
Come for a afternoon of delightful poesy, travelling through French & Spanish melodies with local singer
- you might have heard her singing at her kitchen window during the lockdown!?
Join us for this month's Walk, wheel and Ride from Lordship Rec to Ally Pally (2 miles).
Starting from the Skateboard+BMX area by the Shell Theatre Freedom Road London N17 6HG
11am This Sunday 26 February.
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Join Carol and Susan to learn the basics of modern machine quilting!
In this 6 hour workshop you will learn skills that include choosing which fabrics are suitable, rotary cutting, creating a patchwork, layering the quilt, quilting the layers together
With Nadira Dean
Nadira, is an expert seamstress and pattern cutter with over 30 year of sewing experience. Has enjoyed working with fashion designers such as Alice Temperley, M&S, Top Shop and Dorothy Perkins. Nadira also runs her own craft brand- ca
Meet the editor of the brilliant independent Galley Beggar Press!
The local MET team has informed Councillors of a Public Meeting open to residents of Muswell Hill, Fortis Green, and Alexandra Park Wards . The meeting will take place on Wednesday 22nd February 2023 7.30 pm at the Birchwood Centre, 171 Fortis Green
Spring Two: Mornings
Wednesdays 10.30am-1pm; Feb 22, March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29.
To produce a full manuscript – whether it’s a novel or novella, a memoir, biography or a collection of stories – you need a love of writing, a willingness to grow as a writer
‘Flash is its own form, uniquely suited to innovation and experimentation…That’s what makes it so exciting to read and write. Flash fiction, done well, can be so mind-bending and fresh.’ Kathy Fish
In this new class, we will explore the exciting short
Come and join us for this handmade jute weaving experience with local artist Shirin Kambarova!
Jute bags are a long lasting, durable, useful item to have around with many uses. They are foldable, making them very portable and beautiful to wear.
Made wi
Join us for free family fun and start the special season of Lent with our Community Pancakes!
Pancakes and toppings provided.
Everybody’s welcome.
As the Wednesday evening choir is at capacity and with a good number of new enquiries coming in, I have decided to start a new evening Choir on Mondays. It will be held at the Hornsey Parish Church Studio next to the church where we sing at our conce
Finding the Poem with Paul Lyalls
Complete beginners to poetry sought; relative newcomers very welcome; seasoned poets, come along too! This is a course for anyone who wants to liberate their creativity and immerse themselves in the joy of language. P
Iain Smith and a friend will describe their experience of downsizing in the Muswell HIll area. Their talk, expressing a non-academic, non-expert point-of-view, is intended to be helpful to others who face similar dilemmas.
This event is organised by
Have you been inspired by the Sewing Bee, to try the art of the Japanese mending technique of Sashiko?
Are your favourite garments becoming unwearable with holes and frays?
Are you keen to learn how to repair them rather than buy new ones?
We are all le
Noah Stoneman returns to Karamel with a special Friday night of jazz and original piano compositions
Noah Stoneman, 21-year old pianist and composer from North London, is studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Adept in a wide range of musical idioms,
If the short story is like a photograph and the novel is like a film, the novella is like a fever.
Do you have an idea to explore? A short story that’s growing? A possible novel in progress that could do with some direction? Are you a new writer simpl
This talk will be given by Joe Studman. Joe is a well-known London local history guide of Jaywalks.
Entrance to the hall is through the church car park. Doors open at 1pm.
The event is organised by Hornsey Pensioners Action Group.
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Upcoming events at Karamel.
Monday 2 November to Monday 16 November – Green Open Homes 2026 . Free tours of local energy-efficient homes plus some free speaker evenings. Muswell Hill Sustainability Group in association with Muswell Hill and Fortis Green Association.
The Fireworks and Drone Festival in the Park is on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 this year.
Saturday 7 November – Fortismere Community Symphony Orchestra play Beethoven’s Fifth in *St James Church*, Muswell Hill, 7pm.
Sunday 8 November – Remembrance Sunday at St. Andrew’s Church 10am and St.Saviour’s War Memorial 3pm.
Thursday 12 November – There’s magic in the air … at HLSI, 11 South Grove Highgate, 7.30pm. Magicians!
Friday 13 -22 November – EFG London Jazz Festival at Karamel N22.
Saturday 21 November – Muswell Hill Creatives Winter Makers Fair at St James Square, Muswell Hill, 10.30-4.30pm.
Sunday 22 November – Tottenham Community Choir: annual concert at St Philip’s Church N15, 4.30-6.30pm.
Sunday 29 November – Choral Evensong for the Feast of St. Andrew at St Andrew’s Church, Alexandra Park Road N10, 3.30pm.
Saturday 5 December – Muswell Hill Creatives Winter Makers Market in Hornsey Town Hall, Crouch End Broadway, 11.30-5pm.
Thursday 10 December – Bowes Park Community Choir Winter Concert at Bounds Green Junior School N11, 7.45pm.
Details of Advent and Christmas services at St. Andrew's Church.
Ongoing courses and activities
Life drawing sessions – alternate Saturdays during term time at Rhodes Avenue Primary School (Art Room), 12-2pm.
Illustrating children’s books, course for adults – Wednesday mornings at the Alexandra Palace East Court, 10- 12.00pm. 23 September – 2 December 2026.
Wellness session: Bolly Dance and Music – weekly on Wednesday evenings starting 22 July at The Community Hub, 8 Caxton Road Wood Green, 6.30-7.30pm.
Weekly 25 minute Relaxation Class (online) on Thursdays, 9.30-9.55am. On Zoom.
Salsa Wednesdays – Wednesday evenings at Bounds Green School, Bounds Green Road N11 2QG, 7-8pm.
Women’s BJJ Beginner’s Course on Thursday evenings from 7 to 28 May at Origin BJJ Team N22, 2nd floor Cypress House, 2 Coburg Road N22 6UJ, 5-6pm.
Women-only Jiu-Jitsu Classes on Thursday evenings in March at Alexandra Park School, 6.30-7.30pm.
Women’s BJJ Sessions (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) – fun, fitness and self-defence on Sundays, 9-10am. At Origin BJJ North London, 2nd floor Cypress House, 2 Coburg Road N22 6UJ.
Reading Latin for Pleasure on Thursdays at 2-4pm at Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, Highgate N6 6BS.
Colourwheel Art Classes for adults on Thursday mornings or afternoons at St. Andrews Church Hall, Alexandra Park Road N10 2DD.
H.A.T.E. Club - Hobby and Tabletop enthusiasts, adult-only gaming club - Wednesday evenings at Karamel, 5.30-10.30pm.
Painting for Fun – Thursdays 8 January to 26 March, at CUFOS Community Centre (the old railway station), Top of The Avenue N10, 10-12.30pm or 1.30-4pm.
Haringey Circle: late morning Creative Coffee Drop-In on Thursday mornings at Oita Cafe, the Green Rooms, Station road N22, 11-1.30pm.
Haringey Circle: Paws and Walk dog walk on the last Thursday of every month in Ally Pally, 10-11.30am. Meet outside Ally Pally station.
The 22nd Southgate Beavers have spaces for years 2 and 3 children. Southgate Scout group.
The Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution in Pond Square is offering an exciting array of courses.
Museum of Homelessness will be open from 17 April to 1 November, at the Manor House Lodge, inside Finsbury Park, Seven Sisters Road N4 2DE 12.30-4.30pm.
Geekstraveganza – regular boardgame meetup on these dates at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, 1-6pm.
Em Power fitness classes – 9am on Mondays & Thursdays (term time only), focusing on strength. All abilities welcome!
Fortismere Community Symphony Orchestra rehearses Tuesday evenings during term-time at Fortismere School, 7-9pm. Get in touch for more info.
After School Sewing Club on Fridays at Stitch crafts, 2 Hazelwood Lane Palmers Green, 4.30-6pm. Term time.
V&J Ensemble: Vocal group for ALL Singers on Wednesdays at St. Andrew's Church, Alexandra Park Road N10 (corner of Windermere Road), 6.50-8.30pm.
Bowes Park Community Choir - Thursday evenings during term time at Bounds Green School, 7.15-9.15pm.
All Good Bookshop has many regular events - book groups of course, also music, writing, yoga - and special events .... at 35 Turunpike Lane.
