Bingo night at Foxwood Community centre
Cllrs Waller, Jackson and Fenton at the bingo
The last of the current season of Bingo nights at the Foxwood Community centre was a big hit last night
The event was a sell out prompting calls for a new season to be scheduled next year.
Next up at the centre is Line Dancing (see below)
York Explore Library
Sun 1 Oct
2.00pm – 3.30pm
£5
Nick Triplow, biographer of Ted Lewis, Brit noir pioneer and author of the novel Jack’s Return Home, adapted by Mike Hodges as the seminal British gangster film, Get Carter, in conversation with fellow crime writer, Nick Quantrill.
Nick Triplow’s book, Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir is a meticulously researched and riveting account of the career of Ted Lewis, the doomed author of British noir classic Jack’s Return Home, filmed as Get Carter in 1971.
As a precursor to the screening of this classic British crime film at City Screen on October 2, Nick will be in conversation with fellow crime writer, Nick Quantrill. They will discuss Lewis’s relationship to his story, originally set in Scunthorpe, the creation of the enduring character of Jack Carter, and the story’s historical and cultural resonances for our own troubled times.
The event is a taster for the Hull Noir festival, part of the 2017 City of Culture celebrations, which takes place over the weekend of the 18/19 November.
Nick Triplow is the author of the South London crime novel Frank’s Wild Years and the social history books The Women They Left Behind, Distant Water and Pattie Slappers. His acclaimed short story, Face Value, was a winner in the 2015 Northern Crime competition. Originally from London, now living in Barton upon Humber, Nick studied English and Creative Writing at Middlesex University and, in 2007, earned a distinction on Sheffield Hallam University’s MA Writing. Since completing his biography of British noir pioneer, Ted Lewis, Nick has been working on new fiction.
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York Castle Museum :
Sat 30 Sep :
11.00am – 11.45am :
Free (normal museum admission applies)
The site where the museum now stands has been a place of justice and imprisonment for around 1,000 years.
Visit the Debtors’ prison building, and the Prison Experience displays and find out about the poor sanitary arrangements, the punishments and the exercise which felons faced every day.
The tour is followed by the opportunity to handle original prison objects from the past two centuries.
Free (normal museum admission applies)
Booking necessary .. see the museum’s events page .. https://www.yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk/your-visit/events/2017-09-30/?blog=1
15 adults max (16+ years)
Report to admissions desk.
PolliNation community arts workshops using microscopic images of pollen as a starting point.
York Explore Library :
Sat 30 Sep :
9.30am – 1.00pm & 1pm – 3.30pm :
Free
Come and contribute to a brilliant community arts project where images of microscopic pollen will be used to inspire the creation of an art installation created from over 300 individual hexagons and exhibited in Explore York Library in November 2017.
The PolliNation workhops and art installation is part of the Telling the Bees is a 12 month project bringing drama, design storytelling, media arts and the maker movement together to explore playful, immersive ways to understand environmental issues and share future visions about bees and beekeeping.
PolliNation is a partnership project between York Learning, Explore York, University of York and supported by Telling the Bees project partners – Sheffiled University, Lancaster University and Grow Theatre.
All workshops are free to attend.
Call our enrolments line on (01904) 552806.
12 places available on each workshop.
Fri 29 Sep :
10.30am – 12.00pm &
12.45pm – 2.45pm &
3.30pm – 5.30pm :
Free
Join us for you chance to get ‘up close and personal’ through cataloguing some of our 19 century crime and punishment archives!
At York Explore we hold a large collection of archives relating to crime and punishment, from the organisation of York Castle Gaol to court books and records of the debtors prison. Join us as we get hands-on with some of these amazing archives, cataloguing them to international standards and helping make them available to the public to research.
No experience is necessary – just bring your enthusiasm! There are three sessions available, so please indicate your preferred session time when booking
The “Good Gym” team returned to Foxwood yesterday and tidied up the side of the community centre. Previously the team had worked in the Foxwood Park.
Both areas are now much improved thanks to this voluntary work
Big loss on the Grand Departy
The Councils Executive will this week receive the final report into the 2014 Tour de France concert fiasco.
The Concert cost some £250,000 but attracted only around 1500 people to the Huntington Stadium
The report (click) makes salutary reading
It has subsequently turned out that this casual approach to spending taxpayer’s money was the tip of the iceberg with another recent report into the appointment of consultants also revealing that procurement rules were broken.
The Executive is being recommended to approve a series of recommendations aimed at preventing a repetition of the problems.
However, rather surprisingly, it appears that officials apparently do not want the following scrutiny committee proposals to be approved.
To ensure the risks associated with future major events are assessed and mitigated effectively:
vii. The event manual for each planned event must be prepared and supplied to the SAG and event management staff by the required pre-event deadline.
viii. For those events where ticket sales are required, to mitigate any associated financial risk, arrangements for monitoring ticket sales must be made before tickets go on sale and an effective method for the continuous assessment of sales against targets put in place. Any proposed price changes or special offers to boost sales must be assessed and agreed before implementation.
York Explore Library :
Thu 28 Sep :
2.30pm – 4.30pm :
Free
Anna Woodford – creator of the exhibition T(here) on display at York Explore – invites you to join her for this informal creative writing workshop exploring freedom. Beginners and experienced writers welcome.
We will be exploring freedom to travel with our bodies and our minds in this lively informal creative writing workshop We will also be looking at free writing and poems on freedom by writers from Jack Mapanje to Emily Dickinson. Please come along whether you are a beginner or an experienced writer. Bring a pen, paper and a sense of adventure!
Anna Woodford’s poetry collection Birdhouse (Salt,2010) was a winner of the Crashaw Prize. The Guardian included Birdhouse in a round-up of poetry books of the year and Grazia called it ‘quite quite wonderful’.
Her poems have appeared in many publications including the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, the Rialto and Poetry London. She has also been anthologised in The Forward Book of Poems of the Year.
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What does it mean to eat like a Queen?
Elizabeth gorged on sugar; Mary on chocolate, and Ann was known as Brandy Nan.
Victoria ate all of this and more.
This lecture, based on Annie Gray’s latest book, offers a new perspective on one of Britain’s most iconic monarchs, charting her life and times through her food and drink.
From intimate breakfasts with the King of Fance, to romping tea-parties with her children, and from state balls to her last sip of milk, this is a celebration of appetite, both for food and, indeed, for life.
Minimum age 14.
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