Hey Neighbour,
Last week I asked how you're doing. Five of you replied. (Thank you!)
David (N15) got a job after being unemployed for almost a year. So happy for you David, congrats!🥳
Samantha (N7) finally tried Dunns bakery for the first time and doesn't understand the hype. Personally, I think Dunns bakery deserves a second chance. What do you think, how many chances should you give a bakery to make a good impression?
In other news, the Mah-jong poll came back and 95% of you said yes. Leave it with me, will update you soon.
-Maryam
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🗺️ Out N About
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Round Up
Bits and bobs worth knowing.
🍲 New Korean place just opened on Kentish Town Road: It’s called Woo Tang and also Self-service so you build your own bowl on touchscreens, grab your tray, no service charge. Does hot broth, beef, kimchi, rice, noodles. Currently on soft launch so worth going before the queues start. Next door to The Parakeet, 258 Kentish Town Road.
🏀 Wheelchair basketball club in Tottenham open to everyone: Rebels United runs sessions every Monday 7pm at Tottenham Green Leisure Centre. Open to disabled and non-disabled players.Founded by Natasha Benn who wants to bring wheelchair basketball to schools and community centres across Haringey.
My North London Top Events
Crouch End Festival | 📍Hornsey Town Hall and across N8 | 12 - 18 June | Free
Crouch End Festival is a week of community arts events across N8, run by volunteers, funded entirely by local businesses and free to attend. Now in its 15th year. Saturday 13 June is the main day at Hornsey Town Hall with live music from 11am to 11pm, a craft market, food stalls and Poets in a Phone Box on the green. Sunday moves to Priory Park for a family day and an evening of bands including Croc of Bones and Interfunk. Events all week across Crouch End and Hornsey.
Seven Sisters Market Community Summer Festival | 📍Seven Sisters Market, N15 | 13 - 28 June | Free
Bad Bunny is playing Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, a 15-minute walk away and Seven Sisters Market is throwing a two-week fiesta to match. Parties, workshops, freestyle competitions, a Create Your Own Outfit workshop and a summer DJ lineup at the Latin quarter of Tottenham. Full programme to be announced.
Biblioteka Art Book Fair | 📍The Warburg Institute, WC1H | 12 - 13 June | Free
Two-day art book fair in Bloomsbury's Warburg Institute, a research library exiled from Nazi Germany in 1933 and only open to the public since 2024. Over 60 publishers, book dealers and artists selling artists' books, photography, architecture and critical theory. Friday noon to 8pm, Saturday 11am to 7pm.
No Car Boot Sale | 📍West Green Primary School, N15 | 14 June | Free Tottenham's car boot is back. Fifty sellers with vintage, clothing, records, furniture and toys. Coffee from Techo Verde, treats from Be More Shirley, bacon butties from Rose Cafe and ice cream from Licks Real Fruit. From 9.30am.
Highgate Festival 2026 | 📍Highgate, N6 | 13 - 21 June | Free/(£)
Highgate Festival is a nine-day neighbourhood festival that uses the whole village as its venue, from pubs and parks to churches and community halls. This year's programme is built around the 10th anniversary of George Michael's death, with a community sing-along in Pond Square on 20 June. Other highlights include a BAFTA-winning composer's listening party at an immersive sound space, a performance about the Lost Girls of Highgate Cemetery, a plague pit walk, Fair in the Square on 13 June and talks from Will Hutton and Nell Frizzell. Live music at the Boogaloo and Red Hedgehog throughout.
Primrose Hill Summer Garden Party | 📍Chalcot Square Gardens, NW1 | 14 June | Free
A neighbourhood garden party in one of Primrose Hill's prettiest garden squares. Live music, free sandwiches and cake, a magic show, children's arts and crafts and a Pimms bar.
World Naked Bike Ride | 📍Various routes across London | 14 June | Free
Once a year, hundreds of cyclists ride through central London wearing as little as they please, a joyful, peaceful protest against car culture and oil dependency that's been a London fixture since 2004. "Be as bare as you dare" is the dress code. Routes start across London including Regent's Park. Free to take part, just turn up at a start point with your bike.
Drumsheds Spring Flea | 📍Drumsheds, N18 | 14 June | (£)
Drumsheds is the former Tottenham IKEA warehouse, and on Sunday its car park fills with over 200 vintage and preloved traders. Furniture, jewellery, homeware, bric-a-brac and unexpected oddities sourced from across the UK and Europe. Traders deliver larger items. £2 entry, under 16s free. Dogs welcome. 10am to 5pm.
Source: Holloway Road Station by Adam Zed
Palmers Green Summer Market | 📍Devonshire Square, N13 | 13 June | Free
Free community market on the green in Palmers Green, run by Palmers Green Action Team. Local makers, artists, gifts and fresh produce, with live music from The Hummingbirds, Chiara Sicuro, Lost Chimes and Narnia. 11am to 4pm.
Into the Park Festival | 📍Queen's Park Bandstand, NW6 | 13 June | Free
Kilburn State of Mind is a local charity that tackles inequality and isolation through community events, and this is their annual summer festival at Queen's Park Bandstand. Live music, street food, craft stalls, kids' activities and a wellbeing zone. 11am to 5pm.
Clissold Park FEASTival | 📍Clissold Park, N16 | 12 - 14 June | Free
Street food festival in Clissold Park across the second weekend of June. Street food, bars, live music, children's rides and a land train. Andy White plays Friday, Limelight Band on Saturday, Ian Fox on Sunday. Enter via the Green Lanes Fink's Pump House entrance. Friday 10am to 7pm, Saturday 9am to 7pm, Sunday 10am to 6pm.
The Old Church Midsummer Festival | 📍St Mary's Old Church, N16 | 14 June | Free/(£)
St Mary's Old Church in Stoke Newington needs saving, and this is the fundraiser. Daytime is free: live music on the grass, sea shanties, Hackney Voices, bellringing and kids workshops, plus a morning session with performance poet John Hegley (£15). Evening show from 5pm inside the church: comedy, torch pop from Hannah Hu, high-energy Klezmer from Beskydy and more. Evening tickets from £12, concessions £8. 10am to 10pm.
Fair in the Square | 📍Pond Square, Highgate, N6 | 13 June | Free
Pond Square in Highgate is one of London's few genuine village squares, and every June it hosts a free community fair. Over 100 stalls from local schools, charities and businesses, live entertainment, street food, stilt walkers, church tower tours and a dog show. New this year is a raffle with prizes from local pubs and restaurants. Run by volunteers. 12.30pm to 5.30pm.
Love Your Local Market | 📍The Green, Winchmore Hill, N21 | 14 June | Free
Sunday market on the village green in Winchmore Hill, bringing the community together and supporting small businesses. Steak buns, hot dogs, pancakes, baked goods, cocktails, art prints and face painting. 10am to 4pm.
🗺️ Out N About
45 Storm Record Fair | 📍The Owl & Hitchhiker, N7 | 13 June | Free
45rpm singles only at this record fair in Archway. Rock'n'roll, blues, rhythm and blues, rockabilly and popcorn garage from the 50s and 60s. Buy, sell or swap. DJs playing all day and into the evening after the fair ends. 11am to 6pm.
Second Life Closet Sale | 📍Lock Studios, N1 | 13 June | (£)
Twenty people selling directly from their own wardrobes at Lock Studios in De Beauvoir. Early bird entry 11am (£7) or anytime from noon (£5). 11am to 5pm.
Crates Hip-Hop Sale | 📍One Eighty One, N7 | 13 June | Free
Hip-hop record fair on Holloway Road with thousands of records, hundreds of sneakers and hip-hop memorabilia. Rodney P, Jake Holloway, Spin Doctor and more playing all-vinyl sets all day. Brick Lane beigels and £5 beers throughout. 10am to 5pm.
JUNK LDN Pop-up | 📍Dalston Pier Studio, N16 | 13 June | Free
JUNK LDN makes sustainable, size-inclusive swimwear from recycled ocean fishing nets and plastic bottles. Shop their Dalston pop-up for styles sold out online and sample sale pieces. Tita's Coffee van on site with a free drink with every purchase. Dogs are welcome. 10am to 5pm.
North London Record Fair | 📍The Kings Head, N8 | 13 June | Free
Record dealers from across the country take over the basement of the Kings Head in Crouch End, part of the Crouch End Festival. Bargain bins to high-end rarities. DJs, craft beers and food upstairs. 11am to 4pm.
👀 Spotted
🍪N5 Kitchen (the Highbury cafe) opened a pop-up in Clerkenwell on 10th June. To celebrate, they're doing a free summer picnic in Spa Fields on Thursday 18th June with lunch and cookies. Register on their website.
🚶 Our North Finchley is doing a community walkathon at Glebelands Open Space on Sunday 14th June, 2pm. It's a fundraiser for a judicial review against tower block plans the GLA approved over local objections. Turn up and walk (£20 adult, £10 kids, under 5s free) or donate online if you can't make it.
🎬 Fancy watching foreign films for as little as £1? Scarlett and Julie off Balls Pond Road (N1) are running a Subtitle Cinema which is basically a pay-what-you-can foreign film club. They screen a double bill every month in Scarlett's home (yes, there's a cat). Next one this Sunday 14th June, 4pm to 7pm: a Hungarian short and Armenian classic The Colour of Pomegranates. There will also be homemade popcorn with flavours like freeze-dried strawberries and dukkah. Cash only for snacks.
🏷️ There's a yard sale at 104 Hazellville Road (off Hornsey Lane, N19) this Saturday 13th June, 10.30am to 4.30pm. Bric-a-brac, vintage clothes, household stuff. Cash only. (Found this out while i was getting my steps during one of my daily walks)
🦊 Crafty Fox Market is doing a winter market at the British Library on 14th and 15th November. If you're a maker wanting a stall, applications are open to non-members now. 80+ trading slots available. Applications close Monday 15th June.
🚶 Shaping Wood Green is a free guided walk through Wood Green's community-designed spaces as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Visits to Rising Green, Blue House Yard and other spots where local people have shaped the neighbourhood. Friday 13th June, 11am to 1.30pm.
🌸 Elizabeth Dobbie is opening her garden at Arnos Park Lodge on Sunday 14th June, 2pm to 4.30pm. She's been creating this "enchanting treasure trove" since 2006 and recently won a Lifetime Achievement Award from Enfield Council for her work at Broomfield Park. £3 entry, money goes towards new plants for Broomfield Conservatory. Brookdale, N11 1BP.
🧁 There's a bake sale at Parliament Hill Lido raising funds for Kentish Town Foodbank. Carrot cake, brownies, cookies, free tea and coffee. Come for a swim, leave with cake, money goes to a good cause. Want to contribute? Bake something and drop it at the lido.
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🎟️ Heads up
Upcoming events you should consider booking in advance or planning ahead for. In and out of North London. Events marked with (£) require a ticket in advance.
Torriano Poetry Karaoke | 📍Torriano Meeting House, NW5 | 28 June | (£)
Pick a poem you love, no not one of yours, but someone else's. Read it to the room and tell everyone why. That's the whole idea behind this new poetry night at Torriano Meeting House in Kentish Town. Whether you read poetry every day or have never read out loud before, it's for you. £6 on the door. 7.30pm.
Taste of London | 📍Regent's Park, NW1 | 17 to 21 Jun | (£)
Taste of London takes over Regent's Park every June and it's exactly what it sounds like: over 30 of the city's best restaurants set up in one place so you can eat across all of them in an afternoon.
Amwell 200 | 📍Various venues, EC1 | 19 - 28 June | (£) Amwell is a quiet Georgian neighbourhood in Clerkenwell that describes itself as a village within the vast city. This ten-day festival marks 200 years of the area's history with talks, walking tours, outdoor sketching, an a cappella concert at St Mark's Church on Myddelton Square, radical history at the Marx Memorial Library and a closing picnic in Wilmington Square Gardens.
What’s On This Weekend: 13-14 June 2026
Your guide to what’s happening in North London this week. Events marked with (£) require a ticket in advance.
British Library Food Season Big Weekend | 📍British Library, NW1 | 13 - 14 June | (£)
The British Library's annual Food Season opens with a two-day programme of talks and debates. Sixteen sessions across Saturday and Sunday: Palestinian food and memory, the legacy of Edna Lewis, women redefining BBQ, Ruthie Rogers on the River Café, curry across cultures, food writers turned novelists. Sessions are individually priced with a multi-session discount available.
Terrific Totteridge: A Guided Walk | 📍Totteridge & Whetstone Station, N20 | 14 June | (£)
Paul Baker, the City of London guide who led our Dickens and Halloween walks, is back with a two-hour tour of Totteridge. One of the wealthiest corners of North London, with grand houses, a village green and more famous past and present residents than you can count. Meet outside Totteridge & Whetstone tube station at 2.30pm. My North London readers: £12 adults, £3 under 12s (usually £15/£5). Just mention My North London when booking. Email [email protected] or call Paul on 07506 761294
Everywoman Festival | 📍Business Design Centre, N1 | 13 June | (£)
Women's health festival at the Business Design Centre in Islington, set up by surgeon Julie Cornish, who was tired of women being told their symptoms are just something they have to accept. Honest talks and workshops from puberty to menopause, led by clinicians. Yoga, live music and street food too. Neighbours get 25% off general admission with code MYNORTHLONDON25.
Bandstand Concert: Emergency Jam | 📍Parliament Hill Bandstand, NW5 | 14 June | Free
Emergency Jam are bringing funk, jazz and an eclectic mix to Parliament Hill Bandstand on Sunday afternoon. 3pm to 5pm.
Type-In | 📍Stephens House and Gardens, N3 | 14 June | Free
Drop in and type on a typewriter at this celebration of analogue creativity in Finchley. Try one of their machines or bring your own. All levels welcome.
Adelaide Community Garden Club Open Day | 📍Adelaide Road, NW3 | 14 June | Free
RHS Silver Medal winning community garden in Belsize Park, open for one afternoon. Plant sale with flowers, unusual herbs and vegetables, art in the greenhouse gallery and tea in the garden.
Ain Bailey: The Jamaica Project | 📍Camden Art Centre, NW3 | Until 14 June | Free
Sound and film installation by London-based composer, artist and DJ Ain Bailey, exploring her biography and relationship to Jamaica through a trilogy of films and compositions.
Marine Perfume Tasting | 📍Hampstead Heath, N6 | 14 June | (£)
Did you know salt has no smell? So how do perfumers make you smell the sea? On Sunday afternoon on Hampstead Heath, Bells and Smells will decode exactly that — testing 15 marine fragrances and unpicking the science of how synthetic molecules trick your brain into smelling ocean, freezing water and salt air that technically doesn't exist. Eight guests, two hours, £16. Meet outside The Gatehouse Pub in Highgate Village at noon.
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