Midsummer Night Picnic

Hampstead Heath

4pm until late, Sunday 21 June 2009

Another Midsummer Night! Join us at the copse on top of the knoll overlooking Highgate Ponds. From 4pm to late, this Sunday.

Bring food and drink to share. Dogs, frisbees, small children. The weather is poor most years, but we have a good time anyway. Musical instruments – play ’em if you got ’em.

Fed up with being nagged and tagged? This year I’ve been inspired by the Manifesto Club’s Freedom Summer programme of unsupervised and politically incorrect events, and have declared the Midsummer Night Picnic part of it.

There might be children’s games (there might even be children) but not risk assessments. Adults will be in charge even without Criminal Record Bureau checks. Come and live dangerously for an evening.

News of our next event here soon. Email me if you want a heads-up note.

SJT

Street party

We will meet this month to talk of holding a street party in South Hill Park at the end of the summer. If you are interested, please get in touch: email sjt@hillsiders.org.uk or drop us a note at Nº81.

First event

We met upstairs at The Magdala on 22 April 2008. Guy Herbert, general secretary of the national NO2ID campaign spoke to us about “Life in the Database State”.

Future events

Here are some ideas. Please give us yours.

• Hampstead and the new weather What to expect as our climate changes and how to adapt. Tie the roof down? Grow more veg? Host refugees from Plumstead?
• Poems party Everyone knows a poem that touches, inspires or amuses. Let’s hear ’em.
• The Heath & Hampstead Society What is it good for? Should we support it?
• Renewing democracy Do we want to govern ourselves – or is it too much bother? What would we like to control in our own street?

About us

Hillsiders aspires to be a local forum in which we meet as neighbours and citizens.

Contact us

Email sjt@hillsiders.org.uk or drop a note to Stephen Taylor at Nº81.