The First Crouch End Literary Festival 23-25 February

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Feb 23, 2024 at 7:00pm to Feb 25, 2024 at 9:00pm UTC0
Location: Hornsey Library and venues around N8
Latest Activity: Feb 18, 2024

From Crouch End Festival:

The first Crouch End Literary Festival. February 23-25th, 2024. Most events are free.

A celebration of local writers, interviews, workshops, talks and performances around the written word.

Including: Over 50 writers. Over 20 events. At 8 venues: hub is Hornsey Library.

Full Festival program here: www.CrouchEndFestival.org

This year sees the first ever Crouch End Literary Festival, featuring Linda Plant, Peter Bradshaw (author and Guardian film critic), Mat Baynton (comedian, actor writer, Horrible Histories and Ghosts), Catherine West MP, Robert Peston, Steve Richards, Alan Wolfson, Dave Cohen, Rohan Candappa and a long list of local writers of all kinds – novelists, factual, script writers, comedy writers, poets, etc... From young and new to established names. (List coming soon - watch this space!)

Listen. Learn. Be inspired! Family friendly - kids welcome - they may be inspired.

Run by the Crouch End Festival team, in association with Dave Cohen, Hornsey Library, Friends of Hornsey Library, Waterstones Crouch End, All Good Bookshop, and teh intimate Space, it should be quite an event. And certainly not like most traditional literary festivals.

Spread over 3 days the hub will be in the Hornsey Library but we are also running talks, workshops and novel events across the N8 area in a variety of venues including: Waterstones / Holy Innocents / The Intimates Space (St Mary’s Tower) / Art House / The Green / Stapleton / All Good Bookshop / + various pop-up venues.

A novel favourite with the summer festival, we have Poets in the Phone Box featuring Alan Wolfson and others. Plus the Great Letter Hunt - can you find the 26 letters around Crouch End?

Plus recitals and performances in coffee shops and pop-up performance spaces.

The Crouch End Players will be performing NO QUARTER by local legend Barry Bermange, across all three nights of the festival at the Intimate Space (St Mary’s Tower) in Hornsey Village.

Fri 23, 7:30 - WURDS+MUSIC is an üF-Beat special - a night of improvised music & spoken word in the Holy Eye (Holy Innocents) featuring top writers and musicians.

We have workshops on self-publishing, and comedy writing. A talk on Dyslexic writers featuring Sam Rapp the ‘Dyslexic Poet’ and Dr Chris Arnold, dyslexic and founder of Dyversity Lab. (Did you know Agatha Christie, Yeats, Fitzgerald and Hans Christian Andersen were dyslexic?).

We hope that there is something for everyone, whatever your taste. This isn't your ordinary literary festival, it's more fun. more creative and a little more dynamic.

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This week and the next at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road N22.

Last chance to see: Women in Jazz Photography at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, until the end of June.

Events at All Good Bookshop for the rest of June.

Throughout June - Go Green Eco Urban Festival (Haringey) at various locations in Haringey.

Sunday 22 June – Ally Pally Allotments open for charity, 1-4.30pm.

Sunday 22 June – Hustle Wrestling at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, 5.30-8.30pm.

Saturday 26 July – Haringey Welcome Makers Market! at Blue House Yard, Station Road, N22, 12-4.30pm.

Saturday 28 June – Muswell Hill Repair Cafe at Muswell Hill Methodist Church, 28 Pages Lane N10, 2-5pm.

Sunday 29 June – Famous Local Garden open for charity at 5 St. Regis Close, Alexandra Park Road N10 2DE (near St. Andrew’s Church), 2-6.30pm.

Sunday 29 June – London Metropolitan Brass in the Grove, Alexandra Park, 2-4pm.

Sunday 29 June – Music in the Gardens: Ceilidh with the Red River Band at Muswell Hill Methodist Church, N10 1PP, 2-5pm.

Sunday 6 July – The gardens of Railway Cottages, Dorset Road N22, are open for charity, 2-5.30pm.

Sunday 6 July – Music in the Gardens: English Jazz Orchestra at Muswell Hill Methodist Church, N10 1PP, 2-5pm.

Thursday 10 July – Refugee Tales at Muswell Hill Methodist church, Pages Lane, 7-10pm.

Thursday 10 July – Bowes Park Community Choir: 15 years of harmony at Alexandra Park School (entry via Rhodes Avenue), 7.45-10.30pm.

Saturday 12 July - Lunchtime Concert at St. Andrew’s Church, Alexandra Park Road N10, 1pm.

Sunday 13 July – Music in the Gardens: Life and Mission Choir at Muswell Hill Methodist Church, N10 1PP, 2-5pm.

Sunday 20 July – Music in the Gardens: Rock in the Gardens at Muswell Hill Methodist Church, N10 1PP, 2-5pm.

Wednesday 23 July to 1 August – Children’s Art Club at CUFOS (top of The Avenue, N10), see post for times.

Sunday 27 July – Music in the Gardens: London Metropolitan Brass at Muswell Hill Methodist Church, N10 1PP, 2-5pm.

Sunday 3 August – Famous Local Garden open for charity at 5 St. Regis Close, Alexandra Park Road N10 2DE (near St. Andrew’s Church), 2-6.30pm.

Ongoing courses and activities

5 and 6-a-side Football League on Wednesday evenings from 14 May to 17 December at Christ’s College, East End Road (where it meets the North Circular), East Finchley N2 0SE, 8-10pm. Leisure Leagues.

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.

Illustrating Children’s books, course for adults on Wednesday mornings at The Green Shed, 1 Tetherdown N10, 10-11.30am. April 30 – July 9.

Geekstrav e ganza – regular boardgame meetup on these dates at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, 1-6pm.

Em Power fitness classes – Monday and Friday mornings in OR Tambo Rec, 9-9.30am (term time only). The main focus is on core and legs.

Life drawing sessions – alternate Saturdays during term time at Rhodes Avenue Primary School, 1-3pm.

Painting for Pleasure – Thursdays at CUFOS Community Centre (the old railway station), Top of The Avenue N10, 10-12.30pm or 1.30-4pm. Jan 9th - March 27th.

Fortismere Community Symphony Orchestra rehearses Tuesday evenings during term-time at Fortismere School, 7-9pm. Get in touch for more info.

Fortismere Community Choir rehearses Wednesday 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.

Bowes Park Community Choir - Thursday evenings during term time at Bounds Green School, 7.15-9.15pm.

Salsa Wednesdays – Wednesday evenings at Bounds Green School, Bounds Green Road N11 2QG, 7-8pm.

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.

All Good Bookshop has many regular events - book groups of course, also music, writing, yoga - and special events .... at 35 Turunpike Lane.

Many Music and Art events are held at Karamel, including Collage Kids performance events on Saturday mornings at 11.30am. At 4 Coburg Road,

Wood Green N22 6UJ.

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