York Explore Library :
Mon 7 May – Mon 2 Jul :
5.30pm – 7.30pm :
Free
Explore, create, tinker and design. Get stuck into all manner of digital maker tools and tech and learn some coding along the way.
Guided by professional artists & digital makers, come along and create amazing arts technology of the future.
For ages 10 – 14 years.
For more information contact York Library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.
York Art Gallery :
Fri 4 May – Sun 2 Sep :
10.00am – 5.00pm :
Admission charge
The Friends of York Art Gallery (FOYAG) will mark their 70th anniversary with an exhibition of some favourite works this spring.
Since it was founded in 1948, the charity has pledged more than £600,000 which has aided the purchase of over 150 works for the gallery’s collections, including pieces by Albert Moore, David Hockney, Barbara Hepworth and Grayson Perry.
To celebrate their 70th year, members of the Friends have chosen some favourite works from the gallery’s collections which have been acquired or restored thanks to their financial support.
Admission charges:
YMT Card Holder FREE
Adult (with 10% Gift Aid Donation) £7.50
Adult (without donation) £6.81
Child (16 and under) FREE with a paying adult
Access Day Ticket £4.00
For more information click here.
York Explore Library :
Fri 4 May :
10.00am – 3.00pm :
Free
Did you know that Yorkshire Architectural & York Archaeological Society (YAYAS) is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year?
Come and join us to find out more about their key personalities and campaigns dating back to the 1840s. This exhibition in the Archives Reading Room at York Explore will include digitised images from of the Evelyn Core and Hanstock Collections in the possession of YAYAS, as well as slides from the late 19th century until the 1940s.
Plus there will be display boards, examples of the glass slides, and publications. Why not pop in – there’s lots to see!
For more information call the library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.
York Explore Library :
Sat 28 Apr :
2.30pm – 3.30pm :
Free
Inkwell is off to the Antarctic in this cool location adventure!
Come along as we’ll be trekking the icy home of penguins and seals as intrepid explorers and recording our journey through the snowy landscape.
What might we see on our adventures?
This event is aimed at ages 5-12 years.
For more information please call York Explore Library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.
York Explore Library :
Sat 28 Apr :
1.00pm – 4.30pm :
Free
Monopoly, Risk, Cluedo? Modern boardgames go way beyond those. Today’s classics include Settlers, Ticket to Ride, 7 Wonders, Pandemic, Friedrich and Agricola.
BM York, York’s boardgames Club, is based at the Bar Convent. It invites you to an afternoon’s introduction to some of these (and more) at York Explore (Central Library)
Come and have an afternoon’s fun. Experience face-to-face gaming – much better than computer gaming we think.
Entry Free. No need to book.
Open to York Residents 16+ or 12+ if accompanied by an adult.
York Explore Library :
Thu 26 Apr :
6.45pm – 8.00pm :
£3 (£2 with a YorkCard)
Finding the Words is a regular poetry evening every month at York Explore Library. Each evening brings together three poets and we aim to include both published writers and those working towards a collection. We’ll have a bar available and readings last around an hour. The evening is also a chance to share and chat, so please feel free to bring any news or information about poetry local, regional or national.
Harry Gallagher hails from Middlesbrough, though now lives on the coast near Newcastle. His latest book ‘Northern Lights’ (published by York press Stairwell Books) has just entered its 2nd run and Harry describes its contents as “a collective love letter to the people of the North East”. Poet John Hegley described it as containing “gems herein”, while the Yorkshire Times said “Gallagher excels at finding harmony in unlikely places, in juxtapositions; extrapolating subtleties of nuance towards an expression of love, he is, in the end, a poet of hope.” Harry is delighted to be coming to York, one of his favourite cities anywhere.
Judi Sutherland is a poet and would-be novelist living in Barnard Castle, County Durham. Her pamphlet ‘The Ship Owner’s House’ has just been published by Vane Women Press in Darlington and this will be its first ever airing at a poetry reading.
Chérie Taylor-Battiste. After graduating from SOAS with a degree in African Studies, Chérie worked first in television production as a Researcher, then moved onto acting gaining various parts on stage and screen and with the BBC. Alongside this, she engaged in another passion, facilitating drama and video workshops in prisons PRUs and schools.
Finding herself a single parent of two, she was drawn back to her first love of writing, embracing the flexibility that allowed her to write around her baby daughter. She began by getting a prose piece published in the Tangled Roots anthology, then winning a competition to have a poem included in the Saboteur Award winning anthology Remembering Oluwale. After winning the Pitch and Pen event at the Headingley Literature Festival, she began talks with Valley Press.
She has just completed her debut collection “Lioness”, due to be published alongside an audiobook by Valley Press in Autumn 2018.
To book tickets please click here.
Acomb Explore Library :Mon 16 Apr for 7
weeks :
1.00pm – 3.00pm :
£74
Make the most of your holiday in a Spanish speaking country by learning the essentials before your trip. Or if you are interested in learning a language this could be an opportunity to try some basic Spanish and see if you would like to take your study further. All hand outs will be provided and websites will be recommended.
Learn to greet Spanish speakers, introduce yourself, order something to eat and drink in a café and find your way around the town using public transport. The lessons will be very practical and you will learn by listening to and repeating new words and phrases, reading simple texts, doing a variety of exercises and practising the language in role play situations. Gain extra tips about the country and its customs and traditions from your tutor.
To book on the course please click here.
You may be interested to know we have two other holiday language courses running too. Please click the links below if you would like to find out more.
York Explore Library :
Sat 14 Apr :
2.00pm – 3.30pm :
£5
When the BBC’s Michael Bristow decided to write a history of modern China he turned to his language teacher for help and discovered a fascinating perspective on his host country.
Approaching the end of his eight-year stay in Beijing, Michael Bristow decided he wanted to write about the country’s modern history. To assist him he asked for the help of his language teacher, who was born just two years after the communist party came to power in 1949. The changing fortunes of his life have mirrored the ups and downs of his country, which has moved from communist poverty to capitalist wealth in just a single generation. It came as a surprise though, to learn that the teacher was also a cross-dresser. Michael gradually realised that the teacher’s story is the story of modern China.
Michael Bristow is Asia/Pacific editor for the BBC World Service in London. He appears on radio and TV, commenting on developments in the world’s fastest-changing region. For five years he was a BBC correspondent in Beijing, covering everything from earthquakes to the Olympics. Apart from his family, China is his great passion, an interest that began while at university in Newcastle. He’s spent much of his adult life trying to learn Mandarin; a task he imagines might take many more years. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife and their two children.
To book tickets please click here.
Fairfax House :
Sat 14 Apr – Fri 14 Sep :
Normal Opening Times :
General admission price
To celebrate the ‘home-coming’ of the exquisite ‘King David Panel’ and to illuminate the extraordinary skill of Grinling Gibbons, Fairfax House will be mounting a major new exhibition in 2018, The Genius of Grinling Gibbons: From Journeyman to King’s Carver.
Opening on the 370th anniversary of his birth, this exhibition also marks the 350th year of Gibbons’ arrival in York. Drawing on new research and bringing together artworks and sculpture by the hand of this iconic individual from across the country, it will explore his development from an obscure journeyman to becoming the country’s most celebrated master-carver.
Ticket Prices :
Included in admission to the museum:
Adult: £7.50
Concession: £6.00 (applies to over 60s and students)
Children: £3.00 (over 6 and under 16) and include the Townhouse Mouse Trail or Townhouse Mouse Quest.
Family ticket: £17.50 (2 adults and up to 3 children)
Friends of Fairfax House, York Civic Trust members, York Pass holders, National Art Pass holders and Historic Houses Association members: Free Entry
For more information please click here.
