Better football facilities in Westfield

Following a request by the Foxwood Residents Association, a set of goal posts has been fitted on the Foxwood Park. It is hoped that they will attract children away from playing ball games on the street.

Improvements are also in hand at the Grange Lane Westfield Park where volunteers have made a start on repainting the existing goal posts on the site.

Local Councillors Andrew Waller & Sue Hunter are following up a requests from children living in the Chapelfields area for better play and sports facilities. It is hoped that a 5 a side pitch will be marked out on the playing field.

The York Knights Rugby Foundation have already agreed to run sessions in the park over the summer holidays

What’s on in York: Pottery – Just Throwing

West York Adult Education Centre

Mon 19 Jun – Mon 17 Jul :

7.00pm – 9.00pm :

Full fee £190 /State pension £180 /JSA or means tested benefits £180

This is a skill learning course, giving the opportunity to use both electric and kick wheels. We will cover clay preparation, how to centre and throw a pot and how to finish/turn a pot, plus a guide to glazing.  There will only be a max of 2 people per course to give you full time on the wheels and detailed tutor instruction.

Suitable for anyone aged 19 and over looking to gain skills in basic pottery throwing techniques.

Clay and glazes are provided by the centre at an additional cost of £10 per student for each 5 week course.

Please wear old clothes, short sleeved top preferable, jewellery best not worn.

Booking online by clicking here or call the York Learning bookings line: 01904 552806.

What’s on in York: Children’s bookmaking workshop

York Explore Library 

Sat 17 Jun 

2.30pm – 4.00pm 

Free

Book Making WorkshopPart of the Festival of Ideas programme, come along and have look at different types of books and their bindings including early books, play some fun games then make and decorate a beautiful book of your own to take home.

Free for children age 7+ with an accompanying adult.

Booking is essential and places can be reserved at any library.

For more information contact York Explore Library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.

 

What’s on in York: ZEPPELINS OVER YORK – ONE WOMAN’S GREAT WAR DIARY

Saturday 17 June 2017, 4.30pm to 5.30pm

Free admission Booking required – 01904 461010

York Army Museum, Tower Street 

Wheelchair accessible

‘It was a still, starlit night. The humming had become a loud throbbing and up there, showing against the stars, was the long, black, threatening shape of the Zeppelin. It was a most thrilling, weird sensation, standing out there by myself and watching it approaching rapidly.’  Mabel Goode, August 1916

From her home in St Leonard’s Place, York, Mabel Goode recorded what she knew would be the biggest event of her lifetime. Her diary reveals how life on the home front was transformed by a conflict without precedent. Join Mabel’s great-great-nephew, Michael, as he sheds light on her recently discovered Great War diary, which was found at the bottom of a dusty trunk in 2011.

About the speaker Michael Goode read History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. As an undergraduate, he took a special interest in economic and political history, especially the concept of total war.  This talk is based on his book, The Lengthening War: The Great War Diary of Mabel Goode, which began when he and his grandfather were clearing out the attic and found his great-great-aunt’s diary at the bottom of a dusty trunk in 2011.

Tickets click

What’s on in York: Story of things with Lego

 

York Explore Library :

Sat 17 Jun :

1.00pm – 4.00pm :

Free

Part of the Festival of Ideas programme, come along and have creative fun with Lego. Be inspired by our archive treasures and see what you can make.

This is free drop in session so spend 10 minutes or all three hours constructing and making.

For more information please call York Explore Library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.

What’s on in York: PolliNation – Telling the Bees

York Railway Institute and York Explore Library :

Jun – Oct :

Free

Pollen Eg 2We will be running a series of workshops during the summer and autumn and the completed artwork, PolliNation, will be formed from more than 300 individual hexagons.

The first workshops will be held at York Explore on 16 June and York Railway Institute on 21 and 28 June.

Details of all courses can be found on www.yortime.org.uk.

For more information please contact Claire Douglas on claire.douglas@york.gov.uk or 07990 774420.

What’s on in York: University of York Choir & Symphony Orchestra at York Minster

Wednesday 14th June 2017

19.30

From £5

Benedict Nelson baritone

Peter Seymour, John Stringer conductors

Walton     Crown Imperial

Berlioz     Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale

Walton     Belshazzar’s Feast

Belshazzar’s Feast became an immediate success after its first performance, in Leeds, in 1931. Walton’s music drama uses colourful and dramatic writing for choir and large orchestra to tell the story of the Babylonian king who saw the writing on the wall. Soloist Benedict Nelson is one of the most exciting baritones of his generation, equally at home on the concert platform and opera stage. Berlioz’s Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale opens with a sombre funeral march and ends with a triumphal choral finale.  Written for the coronation of Edward VIII, the stirring march Crown Imperial was first performed at the coronation of King George VI.

The concert is part of the University of York’s Festival of Ideas; the University Choir is sponsored by Evans Property Group, Tribal and Schroders.

Tickets:  Front Nave: £28 (concs £26)

Rear Nave:  £24 (concs £23)

Unreserved side aisles: £10 (concs £8), students £5

From University of York Concert Box Office:  01904 322439 (open Mon-Fri, 1.00-3.30pm) and online BOOK TICKETS