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+
We’re bringing people together for a second year, to create handmade, unique Christmas stockings that, once completed, will be filled with sweets and will be distributed by two charities this year – York Food banks and IDAS (the Independent Domestic Abuse Service).
Make a stocking – either on your own, or as part of a group. Each stocking should be no more than 40cm long & 25cm wide if possible (although these measurements are approximate and we do expect & hope for a lot of variation!)… Lots of templates are available on the internet, we don’t mind which you use – as long as your stocking roughly matches our dimensions!
Send us your photos both during and after making & we’ll pop them on twitter & Facebook to inspire others. For some inspiration of your own, take a look at our Pinterest page.
Follow York Learning’s board Santa’s Socks on Pinterest.
Completed stockings need to be dropped off at the York Learning desk at West Offices, Station Rise, York YO1 6GA, or at your local library until the 25 November.
Final handing in date is; Wednesday 25 November, as we’ll be filling the stockings on the first of December!
The challenge this year will be based on the story of King Cnut, and the stickers will show him and other characters in his story.
As previously we challenge children to read 4 books on a loose ‘historical’ theme, so castles, fantasy with time slip etc.
The challenge runs from 24th October 2015 and 17th January 2016. Children get a bookmark when they start the challenge and can collect 4 different stickers, one for each book read.
Children completing the challenge will get a voucher for free entry to the Jorvik centre and the chance to come and meet author David MacPhail on Wednesday 17th February.
Children will also win a voucher for a free drink and cake in any York explore cafe on completion of the challenge.
You can enter at all Explore York Libraries, not forgetting the Mobile.
This is a wonderful opportunity to discuss your poetry on a one-to-one basis with poet and tutor Carole Bromley, a relaxed but in-depth analysis of your poems.
Identify strategies for further developing your writing, discuss problems you may be experiencing and look at strategies for taking your work forward.
There will be plenty of time to talk about all those things you need to know about writing, revising and submitting your work.
Surgeries take place at York Explore, Library Square, Museum Street, York, YO1, which is 5 minutes walk from the station and 1 minute from The Minster. Library Square is well served by buses and there are several car-parks nearby. York Explore also has a very nice cafe.
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Dare you come along to our Spooky storytime? Listen to ghostly stories
make creepy crafts, carve a pumpkin, do the ghoul hunt and much more.
Stories and Crafts for 5-12 year olds.
Please bring along a pumpkin to carve.
There will be a ghostly ghoul hunt around the library and various spooky crafts to make.
Please feel free to come dressed up in your Halloween costume
Tickets booked via Clifton Library 01904 552662 clifton@exploreyork.org.uk
Creepy stories across the city today, crafts to make and give, colour ins, fancy dress essential to this one.
Watch out for the famous Haxby spiders … they breed them large and furry (but very friendly and they love books)!
Tickets and more details from Haxby library, 01904 552660,haxby@exploreyork.org.uk
The Merchant Adventurers’ Hall’s popular candlelit tours return for this year’s Illuminating York.
This unique experience includes a fully guided tour by a costumed guide and provides the opportunity to experience this stunning building as it was lit centuries ago.
The tour lasts approximately 1 hour with tours at 6.30pm, 7.30pm & 8.30pm.
Tour groups will be limited to 20 people and we do ask that appropriate footwear is worn as the Hall’s floors are uneven.
Tickets: £8 (no concessions), £4 Children.
Pre-booking is advised on 01904 654818.
Frances Brody, author of the highly-praised Yorkshire-based Kate Shackleton Mystery series set in the 1920s, introduces book number seven: A Death in the Dales.Published in paperback original by Piatkus, on October 1st 2015, price £8.99
Author of short stories, historical novels, plays for theatre and scripts for radio and television Frances will talk about filling her life with crime, and will happily answer questions.
This is a free event but booking is essential, to do so please go to http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/frances-brody-author-a-death-in-the-dales-tickets-18375453476?aff=es2 or contact York Explore Library on 01904 55282 or speak to a member of staff.
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