06 July 2022
Collage Arts are running a free 3-week course to create an online zine, intended to allow people from all backgrounds to celebrate the diverse and rich culture of Britishness and the impact that people of colour have had on the UK for centuries.
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03 May 2022
Enfield Art Circle is a friendly group that welcomes new members, from experienced artists to complete beginners.
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28 April 2022
A new exhibition at the Southgate Club by local artist Angela Dierks opens this week and runs until the end of May.
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29 March 2022
Palmers Green Action Team is recruiting an artist to create a site-specific work to celebrate the life of celebrated poet and PG resident Stevie Smith. This will be one of the Stories of Enfield projects - community heritage activities that are receiving funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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03 March 2022
Gee has sent details of her new art course that runs for six weeks at St Andrews Church Hall in Southgate, starting on Tuesday 8th March. The course normally costs £125, but because she is trying to promote the arts within our local community, Gee is offering a discounted price, £110 per person.
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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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20 October 2021
For the second year running Enfield Art Circle's annual exhibition of members' work will be held online. Between 24th October and 19th December you will be able to drop in and out and browse at your leisure, from the comfort of your own home. Most of the works will be available to purchase, and 10 per cent of the proceeds will be donated to local charity Enfield Young Carers.
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28 July 2021
The new art gallery at the Southgate Club will be holding an open day from 10am on Friday 30th July.
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09 July 2021
WEA Southgate & Enfield will be relaunching face-to-face courses in September. They're currently busy planning the courses that will start then and ensuring that the local venues - Enfield Baptist Church and Palmers Green United Reformed Church - will be safe. The first three courses deal with the history of ideas; the social and political history of English gardens; and poems written about particular paintings. There will also be new online courses, dealing with key artworks, fashion in Tudor and Stuart England, and American independent film makers of the past 30 years.
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31 March 2021
They took a long time to piece together, but at last the mosaic artworks for Palmers Green station are in place. They've been installed in existing recesses in the wall underneath the stairs to Platform 2 and can be viewed as an ensemble from the very front of Platform 1.
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12 March 2021
Enfield Art Circle is holding fortnightly Zoom meetings to enable members to keep up their artistic interests with a mixture of practical sessions and demonstrations. Visitors are warmly welcomed.
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17 January 2021
The next items of street art being created for PG under commission from the Palmers Green Action Team are taking a while... But that's hardly surprising, as they're a set of mosaics which will adorn Palmers Green Station and are being put together one little piece at a time.
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06 January 2021
The Ruth Winston Community Centre is opening up its online classes to anyone aged 50 and above. They all use Zoom.
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26 October 2020
A new art course from Enfield & Southgate WEA begins after half-term, when Colin Lomas will be looking at Baroque and Rococo art to show the impact of the political, social and religious changes in art and architecture between 1600 and 1800.
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19 October 2020
Enfield Art Circle's annual exhibition is under way - this year it's moved online.
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22 September 2020
A pedestrian crossing in Southgate has been transformed by local designer Dan Maier, who says she wanted to create something bright and cheery, introducing the essence of nature and its vibrant colours into our urban landscape. A second crossing, in Enfield Town, has been reimagined by Alevi artist Hasan Bölücek. Three more crossings are due to get the treatment, including one in Palmers Green.
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31 August 2020
Enfield & Southgate WEA has a number of exciting courses running this autumn and all are available for booking now on the WEA website.
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27 August 2020
A new Manga mural by artist and theatrical designer Sonoko Obuchi, featuring representations of students from Platinum Dance, has been officially unveiled at the Millfield Arts Centre in Silver Street Edmonton. The mural celebrates the local enthusiasm and passion for the arts that Platinum is an important part of, and also marks the launch of a new venture, the Platinum Performing Arts Academy, which opens next month.
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19 July 2020
Enfield & Southgate WEA's autumn courses will all be held online, using Zoom.
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19 June 2020
WEA courses and activities have moved online and for the time being are free, so where you live becomes irrelevant. On the one hand, you now have the chance to enrol in courses run by WEA tutors throughout the country, but, on the other hand, people from other parts of the UK will now have a chance to grab places on your favourite Enfield & Southgate courses. So don't delay, enrol today!
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