What’s on in York: Viking Banquet Experience – The Great Army Feasts on February 16th!

Viking Banquet Experience – The Great Army Feasts!
Banquet
February 16, 2018 7:00 pm
The Merchant Adventurers’ Hall
Part of the JORVIK Viking Festival
You are invited to feast at the table of the conquering Norsemen of the Great Viking Army.

The year is AD 867; the British Isle have been in turmoil for over a year following the invasion of the Great Viking Army. Most of the Anglo-Saxon strongholds have fallen including the great Northern city of Eoforwic.

With much feasting and celebrating within the halls of the conquered city you will have the opportunity to join the Viking army as they celebrate their victory in the North and rename the city Jorvik!

Featuring a beautiful and atmospheric live performance by festival favourite Einar Selvik as you savour the flavour of a special themed menu, as well as the chance to mix with the new residents of the city this is a gastronomic event you won’t soon forget.

 £85.00 Phone:01904 615505

https://www.jorvik-viking-festival.co.uk/about/

Price includes welcome drinks, three-course Viking inspired meal and special entertainment throughout. This is event always proves popular, so pre-book early to avoid disappointment. Please note, due to the nature of this event it is not suitable for under 18’s.

Wild flower conservation work on Bachelor Hill amenity area this week

Extensive conservation work is taking place on the Bachelor Hill amenity area this week.

Wild flowers were planted on the area a few years ago.

An section of Bachelor Hill is now managed as a wildflower grassland. The Council leaves it through the growing season to flower and set seed.

Cutting and removing the arisings takes place in late summer/autumn to maintain low nutrients (which promotes species diversity).

The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) were there today cutting and are returning tomorrow to remove the arisings.

We’ve suggested that bark or wood chippings be put down at the Askham Lane entrance to the area to ensure that access is possible in wet weather.  The weeds and grass also need to be strimmed from the gate.

The similar path at the Tennent Road entrance (see below) seems to be working well.

Bark path needed at Askham Lane entrance to Bachelor Hill

Entrance to Bachelor Hill from Tennent Road

 

What’s on in York; My Minster – make a mural at Dringhouses Library

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Dringhouses Library :

Fri 3 Nov :

3.00pm – 5.00pm :

£2 per child/£5 family ticket

Artist Anna Harding will help you make a mural of the wonderful York Minster, to help decorate Dringhouses Library. Make the Minster, and then make a picture of yourself to go in the mural! Sponsored by York Evening Decorative and Fine Art Society (YEDFAS).

Booking advisable to avoid disappointment.

This event is aimed at 4-12 year old.

For further information please call Dringhouses Library on (01904) 552674 or email dringhouses@exploreyork.org.uk.

“Good Gym” getting rave reviews for their new service which helps older people

The “Good Gym” people who have helped out a lot in Foxwood getting local green areas cleaned up, are now getting rave reviews for a new service.

They aim to help older people with tasks which are beyond their physical capacities.

Check out their web site here https://www.goodgym.org/request-a-mission

click to go to the Good Gym site

Residents group publishes alternative plan for Lowfields school development

Action Group sets up Facebook page

Residents alternative to Council plans

The Save Lowfields Playing Fields Action Group has stepped up its activities following the decision of the York  Council to submit a planning application aimed at developing the local playing field.

The application was made two weeks before the current consultation, on the Draft Local Plan, was due to conclude.

The Action Group have submitted an alternative development plan in response to the Local Plan consultation. It shows that the playing field could be conserved while still allowing 200 hundred new homes and flats to be accommodated on the site of the school buildings.

Details of the alternative – and the groups objection to the Councils planning application – are now beginning to appear on their dedicated Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/LowfieldsActionGroup/

One key driver for the opposition is the Council plan to move the football pitch over 2 miles to a site on Sim Balk Lane (where it will become the home for a Bishopthorpe based football team).

The Action Group has quoted the Councils own figures which show that the Westfield area is already short of all forms of open space and sports pitches.

Council figures demonstrate lack of open space in the Westfield area

They have won the support of local Councillor Andrew Waller who says he will object to the plans unless they are amended to save the playing fields.

In his local newsletter he says that the proposed alternative open space and sports facilities are simply too far away from Lowfields to be of any use. He points out that there isn’t even a direct bus service to the Sim Balk Lane site.

“There isn’t enough open space for recreation  in the Westfield area and this application, unless amended, will make things even worse.”

Residents have until 15th November to record objections to the two planning applications

Overall site layout http://tinyurl.com/Lowfields-layout

Housing application http://tinyurl.com/Lowfields-housing

The original proposal, tabled by the Council in 2011, would have seen a care village, aimed at older people, built on the school site.

At that time around 70 housing units were proposed.

 

Tickets are now on sale for York’s Shakespeare season

 

Step back in time and experience Shakespeare as it was in his day! Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre comes to the heart of historic York in summer 2018.

In a stunning 13-sided pop-up theatre, four of William Shakespeare’s greatest plays will be performed – Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III – directed by two Olivier Award-winning directors.

Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre promises a thrilling and unique theatrical experience!

Tickets are on sale.
25 Jun – 2 Sep
2018
Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York
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What’s on in York: Hack Camp – Cross PolliNation

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York Explore Library :

Wed 1 Nov :

10.00am – 4.00pm :

Free

Our very first hack media camp!

If you’ve heard of hackathons and Raspberry Pi Jams, you’ll be all over this. If not, come anyway: you’ll love it.

Just bring your imagination and our techies, coders, digital makers and artists will help you to sprinkle a measure of arts into a dash of digital making to create a unique concoction in just one day.

This event is free but booking is advisable to avoid disappointment. This can be done in person at any Explore York Library, over the phone or by email.