Hey Neighbour,
There’s so many things to do in North London this weekend. Here’s the full list.
— Maryam Bitege
Your guide to what’s happening in North London this week. Events marked with (£) require a ticket in advance.
Vinyl & Vino | 📍The Cellars, N8 | 18 July | (£)
Wine, pizza and records in the garden at The Cellars in Crouch End. Mark Burgess from Flashback Records and Needle Bob from Bona Rays take over the decks from 7.30pm, pulling 60s to 00s vinyl from the Flashback racks, psychedelic, punk, new wave and indie. Pizzas firing alongside the Cellars' wine list. Your £8 ticket gets you in and includes your first glass, from 5pm.
A Day for Amy | 📍Camden Market, NW1 | 19 July | Free
Amy Winehouse died fifteen years ago this month, a mile up the road in Camden Square. Camden marks it with a concert in the Stables Amphitheatre, Lucy Randell and her band singing her songs, with donations going to the foundation set up in her name. Before that, a free afternoon around Hawley Wharf: canalside music, a DJ set from Jazzie B, and things for the kids. Free, from 2pm, Amy at 5pm.
Open Garden at 24 Twyford Avenue | 📍24 Twyford Avenue, N2 | 19 July | (£)
Rachel and Jeremy open their garden in East Finchley for the afternoon, a sunny 120-foot plot packed with cottage-garden borders, a herb garden, a greenhouse and plenty of corners to sit and doze. Local beekeeper Miel de Lucie will be there with East Finchley honey, and there's a plant sale and home-made teas. Dogs welcome. £5 adults, children free, and it goes to the National Garden Scheme's charities. 2pm to 6pm.
Calthorpe Flea Market | 📍Calthorpe Community Garden, WC1X | 19 July | (£)
Rummage for secondhand clothes and bric-a-brac in a community garden off Grays Inn Road. £5 gets you in first at 10, £1 from 10.30, free from 11.30. Runs to 2pm, third Sunday of every month.
Crafty Fox Summer Market | 📍The Crossing, N1C | 19 July | Free
110 independent makers under one roof at The Crossing in King's Cross, by the entrance to Central Saint Martins. Jewellery, ceramics, prints, textiles, candles, homeware and the kind of one-off pieces you won't find on the high street. Crafty Fox have been running these since 2010, so they know how to fill a room. Indoors, dog friendly, free entry, 11am to 5pm.
Pothole Summer Exhibition | 📍The Viaduct, N10 | 18 - 19 July | Free
Pothole is an artist-run pottery studio tucked under the Parkland Walk arches, where people aged 5 to 88 come to learn the wheel. For a weekend they're opening up to show what everyone's made, with throwing demos, a clay photo booth and cake, and it's a good chance to see the place if you've ever thought about giving it a go yourself. All welcome, no booking. 11am to 2pm.
Hot Lemon Vol.5 | 📍De Beauvoir Road, N1 | 18 July | (£)
Summer disco in De Beauvoir with the DJ decks moved outdoors for the first half of the night, so you can drink natural wine in the sun before it moves inside. DJ sets from Val Fritz, Marla Kether and others, toasties and cocktails from Batch Baby, and a tattooist working from 7pm if you fancy leaving with more than a hangover. Arrive before 9pm for a free welcome drink. 7pm to 1am.
Things I Lied to My Parents About | 📍Museum of Youth Culture, NW1 | Ends 19 July | Free
Closing weekend of an exhibition about the lies teenagers tell, sneaking off to parties, covering for first dates, adventures parents never heard about, put together by the Museum of Youth Culture's Youth Collective, a group of young people who curated it themselves. It's in the Youth Club Gallery at the museum's Camden home, which bills itself as the world's first museum of youth culture. 12pm to 8pm Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 6pm Sunday.
Bootyfull Car Boot | 📍Opposite Croftdown Road, NW5 | Every Sunday | Free
A weekly car boot in Kentish Town every Sunday, run by Sharon. Vintage fashion, vinyl records, jewellery, collectables, homewares and the kind of random finds that make car boots worth going to. Violet makes toasted sourdough sandwiches on site. 11am to 2pm.
Brass on the Grass | 📍Caledonian Park & The Story Garden, N1 | 18 July | Free
Let the kids loose on a brass band. Connaught Brass run a free, hands-on music workshop for families outdoors, and they do it twice in the day: 11am under the clocktower in Caledonian Park, just turn up, then 1pm at Global Generation's new Story Garden, which needs booking. Either one, 50 minutes, and children get to join in rather than just listen.
Chroma: A Festival of Pride | 📍Dugdale Arts Centre, EN2 | 18 July | (£)
Enfield Pride runs from noon till 1am, and Jo O'Meara of S Club 7 headlines with a live band. Thirteen hours of drag, DJs, Bollywood dance, spoken word and live music across the day and into the night, with LGBTQI+ makers and stalls alongside. From £15, under 12s £5.Sassify Zine in King's Cross. This session teaches a fold that opens out like a room in a house, then asks you to fill it with what home means to you. Bring nothing, all the materials are there, and the idea is as much about meeting people and swapping stories as the making itself. All ages welcome, with a particular invitation to LGBTQ+ folks aged 16 to 28. 1pm to 4pm.
British Library Building Tour | 📍British Library, NW1 | 19 July | (£)
30 million books sit inside the British Library, and the building holding them was designed to look like a ship. Spend an hour behind the public face of it, the viewing gallery, the book handling room, the Reading Rooms, with the staff who run the place and know its quirks. £10, concessions available, Fridays and Sundays.
Canal Tales: Collecting Tales Along Regent's Canal | 📍Floating Garden, Goods Way, N1 | 19 July | Free
There's a lost river under King's Cross, and this walk traces it. Two hours along Regent's Canal with Tony Hay, who's been boating these waters for thirty years, stopping at the Word on the Water bookbarge and Camley Street Natural Park. Bring a notebook: you collect what you see, and at the end everyone makes something out of it together. From 2pm.
Paint Hampstead Landscape | 📍Kenwood House, NW3 | 18 & 25 July | (£)
Constable painted this view. Two hours on the Heath outside Kenwood House, painting the city in the distance, with a tutor and only five other people, so you actually get taught. Whatever you can or can't draw, and whatever you like working in. Bring your materials. If it rains, everyone goes in the café.
The Illustrators' Fair | 📍The Crossing, N1C | 18 July | Free
Over a hundred illustrators sell their work directly at The Crossing in King's Cross: limited-edition prints, zines, comics, graphic novels, pins, stickers and children's books, at a range of prices. You buy from the person who drew it, and you can talk to them about it. Free, 11am to 5pm.
Montserrat Festival UK: Rising From The Ashes | 📍Haringey Irish Centre, N17 | 18 July | (£)
On 18 July 1995, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupted and buried Montserrat's capital under ash. Two thirds of the island became uninhabitable and two thirds of its people left, many of them for Britain. Thirty-one years to the day, they gather in Tottenham to celebrate what survived: music from Claudette Peters, Lighta, King Kenzie and Scrappy Sinon, Montserratian food, and a Montserrat Masquerade. 12pm to 10pm.
Crafty Fox Summer Market | 📍The Crossing, N1C | 19 July | Free
110 independent makers under one roof at The Crossing in King's Cross, by the entrance to Central Saint Martins. Jewellery, ceramics, prints, textiles, candles, homeware and the kind of one-off pieces you won't find on the high street. Crafty Fox have been running these since 2010, so they know how to fill a room. Indoors, dog friendly, free entry, 11am to 5pm.
Hackney Flea Market | 📍Abney Public Hall, N16 | 18 - 19 July | Free
Hackney Flea returns to Abney Public Hall on Stoke Newington Church Street, with forty handpicked vintage traders selling 20th century furniture, records, salvaged French homeware, lamps, textiles, curiosities and the kind of one-off finds you go home pleased with. The street itself is half the draw, all independent shops, cafes and pubs, so you can rummage and then stop off for a coffee. Dog friendly, free entry, 10am to 5pm both days.
Student Sketch Off | 📍The Bill Murray, N1 | 18 July | (£)
Catch the university sketch groups, Cambridge Footlights, the Oxford Revue and others, previewing the shows they're taking to the Edinburgh Fringe. These are the troupes that gave us Rowan Atkinson and plenty since, so you're seeing the next lot before they're anyone. £8.50, over 18s, from 5pm.
Norman Jay & Melvo Baptiste Street Party | 📍Tileyard Studios, N7 | 18 July | (£)
Norman Jay MBE takes over Tileyard Street in King's Cross for an outdoor party, bringing a bit of the Carnival spirit early, with Melvo Baptiste and Haseeb Iqbal alongside him. Over 18s, from £30.80. From 2pm.
World Cup Final Watch Party | 📍Haringey Borough FC, N17 | 19 July | Free
Watch the World Cup final on the big screen at Haringey Borough FC, put on by the SupportHERS Collective and the club's women's team. You can pull on any football shirt that means something to you, and expect music, raffles, games and a proper crowd. Free in, donations to Haringey Borough Women FC and the Jamaica Basic Schools Foundation, which supports schools hit by Hurricane Melissa. Kick-off 8pm, doors from 6pm.
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