
Events

Events
As part of Light + Flight – a year of creativity, connection, and belonging in Barnet – there are activities, workshops, programmes, and creative opportunities happening across the borough! Our events page is here to help you see what's going on and how you can get involved. Stay tuned as more events go live.
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Art + Exhibitions
Art + Exhibitions
Outdoor Artwork
Outdoor Artwork
Performance
Performance
Creative Workshops
Creative Workshops
Live Music + DJs
Live Music + DJs
Film
Film
Kid Friendly
Kid Friendly
Heritage
Heritage
Food + Beverage
Food + Beverage
Shop
Shop

From Barnet with Love Activation Stations
From Barnet with Love Activation Stations
Artist Emma Tominey
Artist Emma Tominey
Through November, four free Activation Stations will appear at libraries and cultural venues across Barnet
Through November, four free Activation Stations will appear at libraries and cultural venues across Barnet

Ascendance
Ascendance
At sunset during the Light + Flight Festival, see Finchley Lakeside’s five-storey atrium transformed by Ascendance, a spectacular new installation by artist Matthew Rosier with UP Projects.
At sunset during the Light + Flight Festival, see Finchley Lakeside’s five-storey atrium transformed by Ascendance, a spectacular new installation by artist Matthew Rosier with UP Projects.

Praying for Time
Praying for Time
Arranged by David Arnold
Arranged by David Arnold
At 4pm at the Light + Flight Festival, Praying for Time brings together young musicians, performers and communities from across Barnet for a special new arrangement of George Michael’s iconic song, created by acclaimed composer David Arnold.
At 4pm at the Light + Flight Festival, Praying for Time brings together young musicians, performers and communities from across Barnet for a special new arrangement of George Michael’s iconic song, created by acclaimed composer David Arnold.

Be Our Gust
Be Our Gust
Just as Barnet’s early aviators turned the wind from an obstacle into a way to rise, Jeanne Harignordoquy has been commissioned to create three new kinetic sculptures especially for the Light + Flight Festival.
Just as Barnet’s early aviators turned the wind from an obstacle into a way to rise, Jeanne Harignordoquy has been commissioned to create three new kinetic sculptures especially for the Light + Flight Festival.

Grown up in Barnet
Grown up in Barnet

Solidarities
Solidarities
Solidarities is a new installation at the Light + Flight Festival with a very special audio enlivenment by bill daggs.
Solidarities is a new installation at the Light + Flight Festival with a very special audio enlivenment by bill daggs.

Light + Flight Gallery
Light + Flight Gallery
This exhibition at the Light + Flight Festival looks at light through material, image and space. Across the selected works, light can reveal or erase an image, change how a surface is seen, or shape our experience of a landscape.
This exhibition at the Light + Flight Festival looks at light through material, image and space. Across the selected works, light can reveal or erase an image, change how a surface is seen, or shape our experience of a landscape.

Bringing Stories to Light
Bringing Stories to Light
Work by Light + Flight Community Heritage Grant recipients
Work by Light + Flight Community Heritage Grant recipients
Shining a light on the people, places and stories that make Barnet unique, this exhibition invites you to explore the borough’s rich heritage through the eyes of its communities.
Shining a light on the people, places and stories that make Barnet unique, this exhibition invites you to explore the borough’s rich heritage through the eyes of its communities.

Sounds of Barnet
Sounds of Barnet
With Voices Radio
With Voices Radio
Sounds of Barnet is a series of live radio shows and listening sessions created with Voices Radio, exploring the music, stories and cultural influences of the diverse communities that make up contemporary Barnet from 1.30pm-3.30pm on both days at the Light + Flight Festival.
Sounds of Barnet is a series of live radio shows and listening sessions created with Voices Radio, exploring the music, stories and cultural influences of the diverse communities that make up contemporary Barnet from 1.30pm-3.30pm on both days at the Light + Flight Festival.

Big Ears Sound System
Big Ears Sound System
Big Ears is a handmade, custom-built sound system and music project designed to make music sound exceptional. Find them at the Light + Flight Festival
Big Ears is a handmade, custom-built sound system and music project designed to make music sound exceptional. Find them at the Light + Flight Festival

Made Together
Made Together
With Maxibility and featuring Keith Brymer Jones
With Maxibility and featuring Keith Brymer Jones
At the Light + Flight Festival, Made Together is a large-scale participatory ceramic workshop and installation by Maxibility bringing people from across Barnet together to create one collective sculpture over the weekend, featuring The Great Pottery Throw Down judge Keith Brymer Jones on Sunday. Running Saturday from 2-5pm and Sunday from 11am-4pm!
At the Light + Flight Festival, Made Together is a large-scale participatory ceramic workshop and installation by Maxibility bringing people from across Barnet together to create one collective sculpture over the weekend, featuring The Great Pottery Throw Down judge Keith Brymer Jones on Sunday. Running Saturday from 2-5pm and Sunday from 11am-4pm!

Wind-Spinner Workshop
Wind-Spinner Workshop
Inspired by SPF.50 Project, the Be Our Gust installation, and Barnet’s early aviators, this hands-on workshop running from 12-5pm both days of the Light + Flight Festival, invites you to explore wind, movement and play by making your own kinetic wind spinner.
Inspired by SPF.50 Project, the Be Our Gust installation, and Barnet’s early aviators, this hands-on workshop running from 12-5pm both days of the Light + Flight Festival, invites you to explore wind, movement and play by making your own kinetic wind spinner.

Dear Barnet
Dear Barnet
A From Barnet with Love drop-in creative workshop
A From Barnet with Love drop-in creative workshop
Drop in and join artist Emma Tominey from 12-5pm at the Light + Flight Festival for a creative workshop celebrating the people, places and stories that make Barnet unique.
Drop in and join artist Emma Tominey from 12-5pm at the Light + Flight Festival for a creative workshop celebrating the people, places and stories that make Barnet unique.

Beacons of Light
Beacons of Light
Beacons of Light invites visitors to build sculptural beacons using reclaimed tactile materials and light sources. From 12-5pm on both days of the Light + Flight Festival, participants can experiment, stack, build and play, creating beacons that represent hope for the future.
Beacons of Light invites visitors to build sculptural beacons using reclaimed tactile materials and light sources. From 12-5pm on both days of the Light + Flight Festival, participants can experiment, stack, build and play, creating beacons that represent hope for the future.

Couture Long Exposure
Couture Long Exposure
From 12-5pm at the Light + Flight Festival, Store Projects invites young people to explore fashion, photography, light and movement.
From 12-5pm at the Light + Flight Festival, Store Projects invites young people to explore fashion, photography, light and movement.

Film
Film
A temporary cinema and immersive screening environment, presenting a curated programme of film and audio-visual work throughout the Light + Flight Festival.
A temporary cinema and immersive screening environment, presenting a curated programme of film and audio-visual work throughout the Light + Flight Festival.

Light + Flight Festival Gift Shop
Light + Flight Festival Gift Shop
A unique retail concept at the Light + Flight Fesival combining the charm of a winter market with the curation of a gallery gift shop, all under one roof.
A unique retail concept at the Light + Flight Fesival combining the charm of a winter market with the curation of a gallery gift shop, all under one roof.

Food + Beverage at the Light + Flight Festival
Food + Beverage at the Light + Flight Festival
Expect grab-and-go hot or cold dishes and bold, easy-to-eat flavours; local food producers and a drinks, served up at the Light + Flight Festival.
Expect grab-and-go hot or cold dishes and bold, easy-to-eat flavours; local food producers and a drinks, served up at the Light + Flight Festival.

Basket of Light Takeover
Basket of Light Takeover

Light + Flight Pop-up Gallery
Light + Flight Pop-up Gallery
Missed the festival weekend? (Or want to come back for another look?) Following the Light + Flight Festival, Finchley Lakeside will remain open as a pop-up gallery from 18–22 November.
Missed the festival weekend? (Or want to come back for another look?) Following the Light + Flight Festival, Finchley Lakeside will remain open as a pop-up gallery from 18–22 November.

From Barnet with Love at the RAF Museum
From Barnet with Love at the RAF Museum
Join us at the RAF Museum London for a special day of free activities celebrating From Barnet with Love.
Join us at the RAF Museum London for a special day of free activities celebrating From Barnet with Love.

From Barnet with Love Activation Stations
Artist Emma Tominey
Through November, four free Activation Stations will appear at libraries and cultural venues across Barnet
Through November, four free Activation Stations will appear at libraries and cultural venues across Barnet

Ascendance
At sunset during the Light + Flight Festival, see Finchley Lakeside’s five-storey atrium transformed by Ascendance, a spectacular new installation by artist Matthew Rosier with UP Projects.
At sunset during the Light + Flight Festival, see Finchley Lakeside’s five-storey atrium transformed by Ascendance, a spectacular new installation by artist Matthew Rosier with UP Projects.

Praying for Time
Arranged by David Arnold
At 4pm at the Light + Flight Festival, Praying for Time brings together young musicians, performers and communities from across Barnet for a special new arrangement of George Michael’s iconic song, created by acclaimed composer David Arnold.
At 4pm at the Light + Flight Festival, Praying for Time brings together young musicians, performers and communities from across Barnet for a special new arrangement of George Michael’s iconic song, created by acclaimed composer David Arnold.

Be Our Gust
Just as Barnet’s early aviators turned the wind from an obstacle into a way to rise, Jeanne Harignordoquy has been commissioned to create three new kinetic sculptures especially for the Light + Flight Festival.
Just as Barnet’s early aviators turned the wind from an obstacle into a way to rise, Jeanne Harignordoquy has been commissioned to create three new kinetic sculptures especially for the Light + Flight Festival.

Grown up in Barnet

Solidarities
Solidarities is a new installation at the Light + Flight Festival with a very special audio enlivenment by bill daggs.
Solidarities is a new installation at the Light + Flight Festival with a very special audio enlivenment by bill daggs.

Light + Flight Gallery
This exhibition at the Light + Flight Festival looks at light through material, image and space. Across the selected works, light can reveal or erase an image, change how a surface is seen, or shape our experience of a landscape.
This exhibition at the Light + Flight Festival looks at light through material, image and space. Across the selected works, light can reveal or erase an image, change how a surface is seen, or shape our experience of a landscape.

Bringing Stories to Light
Work by Light + Flight Community Heritage Grant recipients
Shining a light on the people, places and stories that make Barnet unique, this exhibition invites you to explore the borough’s rich heritage through the eyes of its communities.
Shining a light on the people, places and stories that make Barnet unique, this exhibition invites you to explore the borough’s rich heritage through the eyes of its communities.

Sounds of Barnet
With Voices Radio
Sounds of Barnet is a series of live radio shows and listening sessions created with Voices Radio, exploring the music, stories and cultural influences of the diverse communities that make up contemporary Barnet from 1.30pm-3.30pm on both days at the Light + Flight Festival.
Sounds of Barnet is a series of live radio shows and listening sessions created with Voices Radio, exploring the music, stories and cultural influences of the diverse communities that make up contemporary Barnet from 1.30pm-3.30pm on both days at the Light + Flight Festival.

Big Ears Sound System
Big Ears is a handmade, custom-built sound system and music project designed to make music sound exceptional. Find them at the Light + Flight Festival
Big Ears is a handmade, custom-built sound system and music project designed to make music sound exceptional. Find them at the Light + Flight Festival

Made Together
With Maxibility and featuring Keith Brymer Jones
At the Light + Flight Festival, Made Together is a large-scale participatory ceramic workshop and installation by Maxibility bringing people from across Barnet together to create one collective sculpture over the weekend, featuring The Great Pottery Throw Down judge Keith Brymer Jones on Sunday. Running Saturday from 2-5pm and Sunday from 11am-4pm!
At the Light + Flight Festival, Made Together is a large-scale participatory ceramic workshop and installation by Maxibility bringing people from across Barnet together to create one collective sculpture over the weekend, featuring The Great Pottery Throw Down judge Keith Brymer Jones on Sunday. Running Saturday from 2-5pm and Sunday from 11am-4pm!

Wind-Spinner Workshop
Inspired by SPF.50 Project, the Be Our Gust installation, and Barnet’s early aviators, this hands-on workshop running from 12-5pm both days of the Light + Flight Festival, invites you to explore wind, movement and play by making your own kinetic wind spinner.
Inspired by SPF.50 Project, the Be Our Gust installation, and Barnet’s early aviators, this hands-on workshop running from 12-5pm both days of the Light + Flight Festival, invites you to explore wind, movement and play by making your own kinetic wind spinner.

Dear Barnet
A From Barnet with Love drop-in creative workshop
Drop in and join artist Emma Tominey from 12-5pm at the Light + Flight Festival for a creative workshop celebrating the people, places and stories that make Barnet unique.
Drop in and join artist Emma Tominey from 12-5pm at the Light + Flight Festival for a creative workshop celebrating the people, places and stories that make Barnet unique.

Beacons of Light
Beacons of Light invites visitors to build sculptural beacons using reclaimed tactile materials and light sources. From 12-5pm on both days of the Light + Flight Festival, participants can experiment, stack, build and play, creating beacons that represent hope for the future.
Beacons of Light invites visitors to build sculptural beacons using reclaimed tactile materials and light sources. From 12-5pm on both days of the Light + Flight Festival, participants can experiment, stack, build and play, creating beacons that represent hope for the future.

Couture Long Exposure
From 12-5pm at the Light + Flight Festival, Store Projects invites young people to explore fashion, photography, light and movement.
From 12-5pm at the Light + Flight Festival, Store Projects invites young people to explore fashion, photography, light and movement.

Film
A temporary cinema and immersive screening environment, presenting a curated programme of film and audio-visual work throughout the Light + Flight Festival.
A temporary cinema and immersive screening environment, presenting a curated programme of film and audio-visual work throughout the Light + Flight Festival.

Light + Flight Festival Gift Shop
A unique retail concept at the Light + Flight Fesival combining the charm of a winter market with the curation of a gallery gift shop, all under one roof.
A unique retail concept at the Light + Flight Fesival combining the charm of a winter market with the curation of a gallery gift shop, all under one roof.

Food + Beverage at the Light + Flight Festival
Expect grab-and-go hot or cold dishes and bold, easy-to-eat flavours; local food producers and a drinks, served up at the Light + Flight Festival.
Expect grab-and-go hot or cold dishes and bold, easy-to-eat flavours; local food producers and a drinks, served up at the Light + Flight Festival.

Basket of Light Takeover

Light + Flight Pop-up Gallery
Missed the festival weekend? (Or want to come back for another look?) Following the Light + Flight Festival, Finchley Lakeside will remain open as a pop-up gallery from 18–22 November.
Missed the festival weekend? (Or want to come back for another look?) Following the Light + Flight Festival, Finchley Lakeside will remain open as a pop-up gallery from 18–22 November.

From Barnet with Love at the RAF Museum
Join us at the RAF Museum London for a special day of free activities celebrating From Barnet with Love.
Join us at the RAF Museum London for a special day of free activities celebrating From Barnet with Love.
Past Events:
Past Events:

Herbs & Heritage: Plant herbs to take home, uncover garden's history
Herbs & Heritage: Plant herbs to take home, uncover garden's history

Stone Swap
Stone Swap

A Stone Safari with artist Becky Lyon
A Stone Safari with artist Becky Lyon

Waylamps of Barnet Launch
Waylamps of Barnet Launch

Buzzing Barnet: Heritage in Bloom – Rewilding Gardens for Pollinators
Buzzing Barnet: Heritage in Bloom – Rewilding Gardens for Pollinators

Arrivals Free Community Event
Arrivals Free Community Event

From Barnet with Love Postcard Party
From Barnet with Love Postcard Party

Light + Flight: A Carnival of Journeys
Light + Flight: A Carnival of Journeys

Meadows, Memories + Making
Meadows, Memories + Making
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Want (even more) Light + Flight?
We'd love to hear from you, whether you want
to get involved or be kept in the loop!
Get in Touch
Want (even more) Light + Flight?
We'd love to hear from you, whether you want
to get involved or be kept in the loop.
Send us an email!

Get in Touch
Get in Touch
Want (even more) Light + Flight?
We'd love to hear from you,
whether you want to get
involved or be kept in the loop!



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