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Go along to the Ruth Winston Centre this Friday afternoon for a taster session to discover whether 'drama for connection' is something that could enrich your life through connection with other people and boost your confidence. During a 12-week course you'll explore simple acting exercises and practice small scenes, all building towards a joyful group performance just before Christmas

Five years after the year of Covid lockdowns, photographer Katrina Campbell brings some of her portraits of people on their doorsteps to the Arbeit Gallery. On 27th September she'll be joined by PG-based journalist Maggie Westhead to discuss those strange times that we all lived through.

Enfield Council's deadline for commenting on proposals for more 20mph zones is again 21st September. The evidence that reducing speed limits from 30mph to 20mph cuts deaths and serious injuries is now clear, and particularly so in cases where drivers are in collision with children.

Enfield Council has launched consultations on 'masterplans' for its controversial proposed housing developments in the Green Belt, at Crews Hill and 'Chase Park'. The consultations are open for two weeks only, from 8th September to 22nd September.

On Saturday afternoon take a picnic along to Broomfield Park and while you're eating watch a bold and fresh retelling of Mary Shelley's classic Gothic horror story.

This year's Open House Festival runs from 13th to 21st September. It's a chance to go inside a wide variety of buildings all over London: some ancient and historic, others brand new and with innovative features; some very large, others very small; some famous, others you won't have heard of.

An urgent appeal from Clare Hinchcliffe who has been helping a family in Gaza.

On Saturday 6th September the Right2Thrive UK project will open a pioneering Wellbeing Hub in Edmonton Green, designed to tackle the local community's severe problems of youth violence and social inequality.

Palmers Green author Stephen Cox will be launching his third novel at two events this weekend. It marks a change of genre and a switch to self-publishing.

The Edmonton-based charity All People All Places (APAP) have a vacancy for a full- or part-time community fundraising and partnerships coordinator.

A retired bus industry manager returns to Southgate to commemorate his home-to-school route.

In the run-up to a meeting to discuss the Enfield Local Plan, the Green Belt, and the borough’s housing crisis, to be held at the Dugdale Centre on 15th September, the editor of Enfield Dispatch takes to the columns of the capital-wide news website On London to describe some of the issues that have arisen so far at the Examination in Public of the plan.