Lego play sessions, specially designed bringing storytelling and imagination together with Lego.
Each child will receive a bag of Duplo bricks to take home.
Booking is essential, ages 18 months to 5yrs old
Contact 01904 552660 or email mailto:haxby@exploreyork.org.uk for details.
Property Marking and an opportunity to raise issues with the local policing team.
Dot peen property marking
York Police have invested in the top-of-the-range “dot peen” property marking machines, and are offering the service free to York residents.
Every year, police recover hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of stolen property from the hands of criminals, but all too often there is no way of identifying its rightful owners. Being able to trace the ownership of the property not only helps people get the property back, but it can also provide evidence that is vital in securing convictions.
Dot peen marking involves using a tungsten carbide-tipped pin to indent an object with dots to create a visible, permanent unique number. The unique number will be entered onto the national Immobilise property register database, vastly increasing the chances that it will be reunited with its owner if it is lost or stolen.
The new machines in York can mark at a speed of two characters per second, to an accuracy of 0.006mm, and can be used on everything from steel and aluminium to plastic.
They have been funded by North Yorkshire Police, the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire, and Safer York Partnership.
While other methods of property marking, such as UV marker pens or forensically-coded liquid, can also be very effective in reuniting property with its rightful owners, the visual deterrent of a permanently marked serial number alone could be enough to deter would-be thieves.
Dot peen marking is suitable for everything from bikes and garden tools to PlayStations and laptop computers (however mobile phones are likely to be too delicate)
Time: 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Venue: Acomb Explore Library
Cost: Full fee £55 but concessions available
Learn how to get to grips with your laptop and adjust settings that will help you to use it to the full!
How to make sure it is secure using the Internet, understand how to use folders and where to put files and change the way your mouse works.
The course covers Windows 7, 8 and 10
Great for those who are wanting to know more about their laptop.
You must bring your own laptop, fully charged and a notepad and pen for taking notes.
ASFF returns to York for its fifth year, running 5 – 8 November across 15 venues spanning some of the city’s most historic and iconic locations.
The festival showcases 300 films in 11 genres: advertising, animation, artists’ film, comedy, dance, documentary, drama, experimental, fashion, music video and thriller.
There will also be a family friendly programme.
For those looking to expand their knowledge of film, there are over 20 masterclasses with leading organisations in the industry, such as Channel 4, Association of Camera Operators (Star Wars, Gravity and James Bond) and Oscar and BAFTA Award Winning VFX giant Framestore (Guardians of the Galaxy and Jupiter Ascending).
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Coffeehouse : Debate, Discussion, Controversy, Coffee: Read All About It: Political journals, scandal sheets and the beginnings of journalism
This autumn’s talks take their inspiration from the 18th century origins of the Coffeehouse and look at the history of everyday things and the way this can inform our ideas and attitudes.
The autumn series is facilitated by Dr Kaley Kramer of York St John University.
Suggested donation £3.50 or £2.50 with a York Card (includes a hot drink from York Explore’s Cafe)
Please book via www.feelinginspired.co.uk or in person at any Explore Library Adults 16+
Date: Tue 3 Nov
Time: 2.00pm – 3.00pm
Cost: £10
Coin hoards from Roman York : more
Date: Sat 14 Nov
Time: 10.30am – 3.30pm
Cost: £30
Yorkshire’s Beginnings: how it was formed, why it looks like it does : more
Date: Sat 14 Nov
Time: 3.30pm – 4.30pm
Cost: Free
Join the Museum’s book club to discuss a novel linked to the collections : more
Date: Sat 28 Nov
Time: 10.30am – 3.30pm
Cost: £30
Explore the Museum’s collections of Roman coinage : more
Date: Tue 3 Nov, Wed 4 Nov, Sat 14 Nov, Tue 1 Dec
Times: Evenings and weekends
Costs: From £35
Venue: Huntington School
Course for cake lovers, cake decorators, and maybe just cake eaters.
Date: Tue 10 Nov for 4 weeks
Time: 7.00pm – 9.00pm
Venue: Fulford School
Cost: £45 plus ingredients
Can cook course, for beginners and the cooking shy.
Date: Thur 19 Nov
Time: 7.00pm – 9.00pm
Venue: Joseph Rowntree School
Cost: £50
Travel through the far east on our Oriental Vegetarian Cookery course.
Tue 3 Nov : 7.00pm – 8.30pm Dringhouses Library |
Date: Tue 3 Nov
Time: 7.00pm – 8.30pm
Venue: Dringhouses Library
Cost: £6 / £5 with a YorkCard
In this interactive talk you the audience are the jury, while Rosemary presents the evidence concerning who killed this WW1 heroine in a ‘locked room’ mystery which still has not been conclusively solved.
Join us to celebrate the launch of the new edition of this true story, by local author Rosemary Cook.
Who killed Florence Nightingale’s Goddaughter, and why?
You decide.
Tickets available from any Explore York Library, refreshments included.
Signed copies of ‘The Nightingale Shore Murder’ at a discounted price.
Disabled access and toilet.
Wed 4 Nov : 6.30pm – 7.30pm York Explore Library
Coffeehouse : Debate, Discussion, Controversy, Coffee: Read All About It: Political journals, scandal sheets and the beginnings of journalism
This autumn’s talks take their inspiration from the 18th century origins of the Coffeehouse and look at the history of everyday things and the way this can inform our ideas and attitudes.
The autumn series is facilitated by Dr Kaley Kramer of York St John University.
Suggested donation £3.50 or £2.50 with a York Card (includes a hot drink from York Explore’s Cafe)
Please book via www.feelinginspired.co.uk or in person at any Explore Library Adults 16+
Date: Wed 4 Nov
Wed 4 Nov : Tickets £4.50 , £3.50 with a York card
York Explore Library 7.00pm – 8.30pm
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Sat 21 Nov: 2.00pm – 4.00pm : York Explore Library
Gervase Phinn, one of Britain’s best loved comic writers, introduces his latest book A Lesson in Love, his new tale of life in the Dales. Laughter, tears and entertainment are guaranteed!
Gervase Phinn will sign books after the talk – an ideal Christmas present for anyone who loves Yorkshire.
All the beloved characters from Gervase Phinn’s other Little Village School novel make welcome returns in this new tale of life in the Dales.
Elizabeth Stirling (formerly Devine but now newly wed to Dr Stirling), the head teacher of the newly amalgamated school must prove its worth to the parents, governors, school inspectors and the children themselves.
She must tread the narrow line between kindness and discipline with diplomacy if she is to get what she knows the school needs – and avoid an unholy row about teachers and health and safety.
There are lessons learned and characters shaped in this most entertaining of novels. Humour and raw emotion, laced with humour and wicked observations pepper Gervase Phinn’s writing and this book is a wonderful example.
Tickets priced £6 or £5 with a Yorkcard are available from www.feelinginspired.co.uk , or from any Explore York Library
Tue 24 Nov: 6.30pm – 7.30pm : York Explore Library
If you love police procedural don’t miss crime writers Mari Hannah (creator of the Kate Daniels novels) and Kate Ellis (author of the Wesley Peterson series) interviewed about their lives in crime writing by Chris Titley from The York Mix this November.
Mari will also be introducing her new standalone thriller The Silent Room, while Kate has a new novel out in her series featuring DI Joe Plantagenet, set in the northern city of Eborby….now does that remind you of anywhere?
Please book via www.feelinginspired.co.uk or in person at any Explore York Library.
Tickets are £4.50 or £3.50 with a YorkCard
Bar available on the night.
Adults 16+
