What’s on in York: An Evening of Storytelling with Giles Abbott

Explore York Library : Wed 22 Jun : 6.00pm – 7.30pm : Tickets cost £7 (£6 with a York Card)

Jun 22_Giles By Mishko PapicStorytelling is not just for children. Come grab a seat and hear a magical folktale retold by the wonderfully talented Giles Abbott.

Irish mythology tells that there are more world’s than this one, and that other, magical worlds exist alongside our own, so close, but just out of reach. So is it that we dream and then wake to life, or is our life the dream from which we one day waken?

Mongan could tell you.

Mongan’s Frenzy tells the story of a man who belongs to many worlds. Born here, schooled by the gods, he completes his learning here, his lessons taught in the only way this world can teach. His story is magical, funny, exhilarating, saddening, enraging and sometimes just downright silly!

For more information about Giles please visit gilesabbott.com.

Tickets can be bought online at www.feelinginspired.co.uk or at any York library.

There are a maximum of 50 tickets. For more information please call  York Explore Library on (01904) 552828 (answerphone) or york@exploreyork.org.uk.

 

  • Also on Wednesday morning 9am to 12 noon Giles will be giving a masterclass on how to train your voice. Come and join in this fun, invigorating and energising workshop!

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What’s on in York: Talk and Tasting – Flatulence and Phlegm

Fairfax House: Tues 21 Jun : 7.00pm – 9.00pm : Adults: £16.00 ; Friends & Members: £14.00.  Ticket price includes a glass of wine and food sampling.

IJune 21_Flatulence And Phlegmn this edition of Fairfax House’s Talk & Tasting, food historian Annie Gray discusses the Georgians consumption of salads and herbs, bringing samples and recipes for you to try.

One of the most pervasive myths around our eating in the past is that ‘nobody ate any vegetables’. Food historian Annie Gray returns to Fairfax House to challenge this belief with a talk on eating salad and herbs in history. From medicinal concoctions, to carved celery castles, she’ll show that Georgian views of veg were far from boring.

As usual with her popular talks, Annie will bring samples and recipes for you to take home and try.

Dr Annie Gray is a historian specialising in British food and dining from c.1650 to 1950. She’s the resident food historian on BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet and a regular on James Martin’s Home Comforts (BBC1). She recently presented BBC2’s latest living history programme, Victorian Bakers

To make a booking please phone 01904 655543, email info@fairfaxhouse.co.uk, or visit our Museum Shop.

 

What’s on in York: Author Ali Shaw: The Trees

York Explore Library : Mon 20 Jun : 6.30pm – 7.30pm : Tickets cost £5 (£4 with a York Card)

June 20_Ali Shaw _ImageAuthor Ali Shaw will be speaking about his new novel, The Trees, taking you into a world where nature truly does run wild. Ali has been shortlisted and won awards for his previous two novels and his latest book is definitely one to watch out for this year.

They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Everything is destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves.

Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realises that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognisable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the sea in Ireland. He has no way of knowing whether the trees have come for her too.

Then Adrien meets green-fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb. Together, they set out to find Hannah’s forester brother, to reunite Adrien with his wife – and to discover just how deep the forest really goes.

Their journey will take them to a place of terrible beauty and violence, the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves.

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Tickets can be bought online at www.feelinginspired.co.uk or at any York library.

There are a maximum of 60 tickets. For more information please call  York Explore Library (01904) 552828 (answerphone) or york@exploreyork.org.uk.

What’s on in York: Sky Ride Local Bike Rides in Acomb

Energise Sports Centre : Sun 19 Jun : 10.00am – 11.00am : Free

Jun 19_Sky Ride Local LogoThe Sky Ride Local programme offers free guided cycle rides around York.

The Acomb programme of rides begins on Sunday 19th June and then occurs every Sunday until 21st August.

The programme is provided by the City of York Council Sport and Active Leisure team, in partnership with British Cycling and will be delivered by qualified ride leaders.

These rides will increase in difficulty as the programme progresses, aiding local residents to become more active on their bicycles, whilst improving their fitness over the duration of this programme.

Further details of each ride can be found by visiting the Go Sky Ride website

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What’s on in York: Barnes Wallis in Yorkshire

York Explore Library : Wed 15 Jun : 6.15pm – 7.45pm : £6 each (or £5 with a Yorkcard)

Jun 15_Wallis Off Duty At Howden Airship Shed Beyond 1927Barnes Wallis (1887-1979) is probably the best-known British engineer of the twentieth century. Remembered as the inventor of the water-skipping mine that broke German dams in 1943, the public’s view of him has been influenced by the 1954 film The Dam Busters wherein Michael Redgrave portrayed a gentle, slightly abstracted genius at odds with bureaucracy.

The real Wallis was a different kind of figure, and for the last eight years Richard Morris has been working on a new account of his life. Morris’s forthcoming biography draws on sources that have not previously been seen, of which earlier historians made no use, or which were still classified when earlier accounts were written.

In this talk Morris will look at a special period in Wallis’s life: the building of the R100 airship at Howden in the later 1920s. The first stages of that project overlapped with Wallis’s courtship of Molly Bloxam, who was seventeen when he first met her in 1921, while the airship’s construction coincided with the early years of their marriage. In the lecture, love, engineering and Yorkshire are found intertwined.

For more information contact York Explore Library on (01904) 552800 or archives@exploreyork.org.uk

To book tickets please visit www.yortime.org.uk

What’s on in York: Keeping Time in the Georgian House

 As part of the 2016 Festival of Ideas: “Tick Tock”

Fairfax House : Wed 15 Jun : 7.00pm – 9.00pm : Adults: £14.00 : Friends & Members: £12.00 Ticket price includes a glass of wine.

June 15_Keeping TimeIn this special guest lecture for Fairfax House, Dr John C Taylor OBE, one of the world’s most renowned inventors and foremost horologists, will explore the keeping of time, taking a specific look within Fairfax House, suggesting what clocks the Fairfax family might have owned or acquired.

Revolutionary advances in timekeeping during the Georgian Age gave to the world new ways to calculate, co-ordinate and measure time. An affluent social elite, moving between parties and events at the theatre, racecourse and assembly rooms, demanded accurate timekeeping to regulate their activities, making the ownership of a clock or watch not just a luxury commodity and symbol of status, but also a necessity.

Dr John C Taylor OBE FREng is one of the world’s most prolific inventors.  His bi-metal thermostat controls in the humble kettle are used throughout the world over one billion times a day.  Dr Taylor is also the leading expert on the work of John Harrison, an early pioneer of timekeeping and sea clocks.  This led him to design and help build the Corpus Chronophage, a three metre-high clock that is displayed in an exterior wall of Corpus Christi College building at Cambridge University. His company won four Queen’s Awards for Export and Innovation. Dr Taylor is no stranger to Fairfax House and has lent his wooden Harrison precision longcase clock to the exhibition: ‘Keeping Time’ in 2013.

For more information about John please visit his website www.johnctaylor.com

To make a booking please phone 01904 655543 or email info@fairfaxhouse.co.uk. 

To buy tickets in person you can also visit our Museum Shop.

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What’s on in York: Ladies!!! Fancy learning to play golf?

Heworth Golf Club : Sun 12 Jun : 4.30pm – 5.30pm : £5 per person per 1 hour session.

Apr 10_heworth Gc LogoAfter the success of our ladies taster day, Heworth Golf Club is now offering group coaching for any ladies who are beginners to golf.

The coaching will be with a PGA professional at £5 per person per 1 hour session.

No special clothing or shoes required. Equipment will be provided.

Heworth Golf Club, Muncastergate, YO31 9JY

To book a place phone 07486 080278 or email heworthgc@gmail.com.

Please see our website for further information www.heworthgolfclub.co.uk

What’s on in York: Faber New Poets

 York Explore Library : Sun 12 Jun : 1.00pm – 2.00pm : Free

June 12_FaberA showcase of the very best of the next generation of poets, this event includes readings by 2016 Faber New Poets Sam Buchan-Watts – a University of York PhD student – and Rachel Curzon from Leeds, plus 2014 Faber New Poet Rachael Allen.

Rachael Allen was born in 1989 in Cornwall and studied English Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the Online and Poetry Editor for Granta, Co-editor of the poetry anthology series Clinic and online journal Tender. Her poetry has appeared in The Best British Poetry 2013 (Salt), Poetry London, the Sunday Times, the White Review online, Stop Sharpening Your Knives 5, Dear World & Everyone In It (Bloodaxe) and Night & Day (Chatto & Windus), and Five Dials. Her reviews and other writing have appeared in Ambit, Dazed & Confused and  Music & Literature.

Rachel Curzon was born in Leeds in 1978. She studied English at Oxford, and now teaches in a Hampshire school. In 2007, she received an Eric Gregory award. Her poems have appeared in The Rialto, Poetry London and The Bridport Anthology.

Sam Buchan-Watts was born in London in 1989. He studied English Literature at Goldsmiths and Creative Writing at UEA. He is a Co-editor of the poetry anthology series, clinic. His poems have appeared in Poetry London and Salt’s Best British Poetry series, and his articles in PN Review, i-D and elsewhere. He is currently a PhD student with the University of York’s Department of English and Related Studies.

This event is free but places are limited.  There are a maximum of 50 tickets.For more information visit