Events

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

1950s brought Rock and Roll to these shores, and shocked our parents and teachers. Elvis and Little Richard gave us a new and exciting sound that made us want to move and dance. The sixties took us on to soul and skiffle, Bob Dylan, with his guitar and folk, and the new pop groups, the Beatles and Rolling Stones. Seventies, and the flamboyant Glam Rock, with Queen, Abba and Bowie. Punk, hip hop and rap all followed, musical genres growing from previous generations and ever more inventive.

Free, suitable for ages 16+.

This workshop is sold out.

Join House of Frisson for a fun afternoon of paper collage on ceramic vases at Bruce Castle Museum, celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month in Haringey.

Special violin recital - accompanies our exhibition ‘The Two Williams: Violin Maker and Photographer’

Welcome in the Chinese Lunar New Year at Bruce Castle with a live violin recital of Chinese and Taiwanese works from Constance Hsieh and her pupil Jacqueline. Including a beautiful adaptation of “The Butterfly Lovers”, this recital will blend traditional and contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese music, all in the historic backdrop of Bruce Castle’s Coleraine Gallery.

Brought to Haringey with Ming Ai (London) Institute, Bounds Green and Bruce Castle Museum & Archive.

Welcome to Saturday Beginners Draw!

Join artist-tutor Susan Bryan for the opportunity to explore technique, line and space.  Reconnect with your innate creativity in the historic, Grade I listed backdrop of Bruce Castle.

All art materials included within the ticket price.

Tickets are £15, pay on the day or book via Eventbrite.

For queries, please contact Susan on 07535 676276.

Free, no booking required. Just drop-in!

Come hear and join Las Witchas Collective as they explore through song and drums the memories our mothers and grandmothers have left in us.

Help them with their music and be inspired and get crafty, making a colourful card to give to the special women in our lives. All in time for Mothering Sunday.

Families are welcome to come along, bring their own memories and use their imagination to create little works of art on card.

This free workshop will be lots of fun and spiced up with Afro Latin music by Las Witchas!

Free, all welcome. Booking essential.

Meet: Outside The Everyman Cinema, Fortis Green Rd, Muswell Hill, London N10 3HS

From suffragettes to the feminist punk band The Slits, Muswell Hill has some remarkable women to discover. First settled as part of a medieval shrine to Mary, mother of Jesus, more secular inhabitants include an influential 20th century designer Peggy Angus and pioneering Egyptologist Myrtle Broome. Just join your guide Oonagh Gay on this 90-minute circular tour and learn more on this free walk about women from Muswell Hill. 

Join us at Bruce Castle for morning tea and the opportunity to look at our collections and share stories. March's theme is music, so we'll be sharing objects and images from the collection that tell the exciting history of Haringey's music scene.

You’ll be able to chat and enjoy refreshments in a safe and welcoming environment.

You will also have exclusive access to the Museum's ground floor gallery spaces. 

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

Free, all welcome. Booking recommended. 

Join sculptor Al Johnson as she discusses the inspiration for and making of ‘Land of Laundries’, which will be on display in Bruce Castle Museum’s Compton Gallery for Women’s History Month.

Two Atkinson descendants - Ron Atkinson and Andy Thomas - will talk about these two immensely talented men who lived and worked in Church Road, Tottenham, at the turn of the 20th Century.

Ron will provide further fascinating insights into the life and work of the world-renowned luthier, William Senior, while Andy will look, in detail, at William Junior's young life and his immense contribution to local history through the medium of his many magnificent images of Edwardian Tottenham.

Doors open at 12pm for a 12.15pm start.

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

Modern gadgets can be a bit of a challenge for some of us, for all their usefulness. Those we used in the past were often so much more simple and trustworthy. The telephone, firmly fixed to the wall so it was never lost and never ran out of charge like those all-singing, all-dancing mobiles.

Discover more about the extraordinary historic area in and around Bruce Castle as we team up with other heritage buildings for this special event.

See full programme here.

The history of our local communities can be read in our buildings, the different styles of architecture and the stories they tell. Some may still be with us, others vanished with changing fashions. The handsome Wood Green Empire and the Tottenham Palace are evidence of past entertainment pleasures – music hall, theatre, bingo and cinema. The 1930s Muswell Hill Odeon, on the other hand, with its beautiful Art Deco architecture, still survives.

Head down to Bruce Castle Courtyard for an afternoon of outdoor play. Try giant chess, have a go at hopscotch, play a game of dominoes or get busy building with blocks. 

Suitable for families with children aged 3 to 8 years old.

Please note: all activities are weather dependent.  

Head down to Bruce Castle Courtyard for an afternoon of outdoor play. Try giant chess, have a go at hopscotch, play a game of dominoes or get busy building with blocks. 

Suitable for families with children aged 3 to 8 years old.

Please note: all activities are weather dependent.  

22 June is Windrush Day, and Windrush has its own London Transport rail line to celebrate, recognising the contribution immigrants made to the country. It doesn’t go through Haringey, but we have our Weaver and Suffragette lines. Weaver, from Liverpool Street to Enfield/Cheshunt/Chingford, acknowledges the immigrant French silk weavers and the Jewish ‘rag trade’. It brought migrants from the East End to Tottenham and provided residents with the easiest route to the Essex seaside.

Since the 19th century, Haringey’s fields and woods have been steadily covered in bricks and concrete. But through foresight and community action, some green spaces have survived. Tottenham Marshes to the east and Highgate Woods to the west edge a borough with parks, greens, allotments and commons poking holes in our urban jungle. Today, children play in the parks, walkers patrol the larger areas, with runners and cyclists weaving round them, football and tennis players find their places and for fitness there are the outdoor gyms.