Volunteers needed to spuce up Foxwood Park on 15th February

SATURDAY 15th FEBRUARY 2014 10am – noon

Foxwood Park, Bellhouse Way (opposite Community Centre)

We will have tools and training to cut down branches, open up the wooded area and clear the undergrowth and litter.

Also some bird-boxes.

Event will start at 10am and finish at noon.

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NB. Volunteers will be planting trees on Chesney’s Field tomorrow (Saturday 14th Dec) from 10:00am

Please come along and give us a hand

York Arts Academy Christmas Concert and Open Day

Students, tutors and organisers from the council’s arts academy for young people are issuing an open invitation to come and get in a festive frame of mind listening to their work at the annual Christmas Concert, and to find out more about the academy at its Open Day.

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York Arts Academy’s Christmas Concert will take place on Saturday 7 December at the University of York’s Central Hall. Performances will take place at 11am, 2pm and 7pm and feature around 250 instrumentalists and singers from the academy’s ensembles who will be joined by pupils from Huntington Primary School.

The groups taking part in this festival of seasonal music are:

· 11am – First strings, Huntington Primary School, Folkestra, String Orchestra, Junior Guitar Circle,

· 2pm – Umbu Drummers, Brass and Wind Ensemble, Young Voices, Improvisation Group, Intermediate Band

· 7pm – Concert Band, Chamber Choir, Senior Guitar Circle, Minster Minstrels, Big Band, String Quartet, Symphony Orchestra.

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