Date: Fri 24 July – Sun 2 Aug
Time: From 10.15am – 11.00pm
Venue: Parliament Street
Cost: From £5
A weird, wise and wonderful 10 day festival of comedy and entertainment comes to York to start the summer.
Planting the past
Date: Sat 18 July, to Wed 22 July
Time: 10.30am – 11.30am
Venue: Various libraries
Cost: Free but booking required
Make a mini cress garden, and enter the radish challenge. Find out what was grown in York in the past.
Afternoon coffee, crime and Sara Paretsky
Date: Thur 16 July
Time: 4.00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: York Explore Library
Cost: £7 or £6 with a YorkCard
Crime fiction, coffee and cake – can you think of a better way of spending the afternoon?
Rowntree Park Birthday Party
Date: Sun 12 July
Time: 1.00pm – 4.00pm
Venue: Rowntree Park
Cost: Free
Join us for our own annual “Party in the Park” , not bad for 94!
Chatterbox cafe this morning from 9:30am!
Summer of reading challenges
Date: From July 10th until Sept 12
Time: Varied
Venue: In all our libraries, the Minster, York Theatre Royal, Castle Museum and Yorkshire Museum.
Come and join us having a record breaking summer reading challenge, with events, story times and prizes.
Bingo in Chapelfields
Elvis has entered the building … or may do shortly
We understand that tickets for the charity concert at the end of the month are selling well
Entries for Foxwood garden competition invited
Sing it, Move it, Sign it
Sing it, Move it, Sign it! – It’s all in the mix
Fri 26 June: 7pm: New Earswick Bowls Club
York-based inclusive arts charity Accessible Arts & Media champions and celebrates the talents of adults with learning difficulties and disabilities.
What better way to celebrate their 33rd birthday, than with a gig in York on Friday 26th June featuring three incredible performance groups: MiXiT, Hands & Voices and Chilli BON BON ?
MiXiT, the ground-breaking inclusive pop group from County Durham, blew everyone away when they performed in York for the first time last year.
Made up of both disabled and non-disabled singers this hugely talented group have performed all over the UK to massive audiences and they can’t wait to bring their joyful celebration of all things pop to everyone here in York.
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