21–29 JUNE
HIGHGATE FESTIVAL 2025
QuThe Highgate Festival is eight years old this year and celebrates everything we love about Highgate – our community, culture and history. Highlights include:
- Friday 27: Local favourites The Archway Lightnin’ Mountain Boys perform in Pond Square
- Saturday 28: She Wrote the Songs – An amazing evening celebrating women composers from Georgian London to Billy Eilish with Patricia Hammond and friends (7:30pm, St Michael’s Church)
- Saturday 28: a day of events celebrating Jacksons Lane’s 50th anniversary
- ALL WEEK: An amazing programme of world-renowned musicians and artists at The Red Hedgehog – check out She’Koyokh Quartet on 25 Wednesday
As well as our usual mix of events, exhibitions and walks we have a menopause exhibition at the BOTH Gallery on Archway Road, a celebration of George Eliot at Highgate Cemetery, a Harington Scheme quiz and afternoon tea fundraiser and a Festival sing-a-long special of SHOUT! Upstairs at the Gatehouse.
Pink Plaques
Highgate’s most remarkable women
Festival films
Check out our YouTube channel
Festival gallery
Highlights from previous Festivals
Highgate stories
Little pieces of Highgate folklore