Rowntree Park Reading Cafe :
Mon 1 Oct – Sun 11 Nov :
9.00am – 4.30pm :
Free
This Clements Hall Local History Group exhibition shows the impact of the War on South Bank, Clementhorpe and the Nunnery Lane areas of York.
Free publications available: a newspaper with local stories, a map/guide, and a booklet on Scarcroft School in the War.
York Explore Library :
Sat 29 Sep :
2.00pm – 3.00pm :
£3
On a hot night in the summer of 1938, Violet Lowther’s mother Peggy is dying, her father Ellis is drunk in the pub, and Violet’s life is being ruined behind a dance hall in Barnsfield by a young miner who doesn’t look like Clark Gable after all. What more could go wrong? By the end of September, the Prime Minister is flying to Munich to try to make peace with Hitler, and in the same week Violet travels to the remote moorland of Thorndale to visit relatives, escaping her own war with her father. But when Violet learns the truth about Ellis’ love for Peggy, will she be able to make her peace with him?
An engaging family drama, Janet Dean Knight’s debut novel explores the tensions in the run up to the Second World War, barely twenty years after the first. Janet’s research for her book drew heavily on family history, newspapers and other archive material, and in this talk she will share how York Explore Library and Archive helped her add the fine detail of everyday life in the 1930s to her compelling story.
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York Explore Library :
Sat 29 Sep :
10.00am – 1.00pm :
£20
Come and try your hand at mono printing and block printing onto paper to create a night-bird image. There will be a range of pre-prepared print blocks to use or – for those who are happy using a craft knife – have a go at creating your own bat, owl or night-time songbird design.
By the end of the workshop you will come away with a printed design for a 3D bird on a string or a 2D bird picture. Bring an apron and a bag/cover to transport your (wet) design so that it can fully dry back at home.
Author’s Biography:
Sarah Jackson is a mixed media artist
This event will take place in The Garden Room.
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York Art Gallery :
Fri 28 Sep – Thu 25 Nov :
10.00am – 5.00pm :
£7.50 or YMT Card Holder Free
This landmark exhibition showcasing ground-breaking moving image, new media and interactive artwork is coming to York this September, as part of York’s first Mediale.
The exhibition is inspired by William Smith’s geological map of 1815, which transformed the way in which we understand the world.
It will be the most ambitious and large scale media art exhibition York has ever hosted.
Curated by Mike Stubbs, Director of FACT, Liverpool, in partnership with York Museums Trust and York Mediale, the exhibition features works by artists Isaac Julien, Agnes Meyer Brandis, Semiconductor, Phil Coy, Liz Orton, David Jacques and Ryoichi Kurokawa.
For more information please visit our website.
York Explore Library :
Thu 27 Sep :
6.45pm – 7.45pm :
£3 (or £2 with a York Card)
Finding the Words is a regular poetry evening every month at York Explore Library. Each evening brings together three poets and we aim to include both published writers and those working towards a collection. We’ll have a bar available and readings last around an hour. The evening is also a chance to share and chat, so please feel free to bring any news or information about poetry local, regional or national.
Nick Allen’s poetry has appeared in various magazines and anthologies – most recently, the Interpreter’s House, the Poetry Salzburg Review, Verse Matters and Un/Forced: a collection of writing from Rhubarb. His first pamphlet, the necessary line, was published by Half Moon Books of Otley, in October. He helps to organise the open mic evening, Rhubarb at the Triangle in Shipley, the last Wednesday of each month. He is a sub-editor with the on-line poetry magazine Algebra of Owls. He derives most of his sustenance from malt whisky and good espressos.
Katharine Goda writes poetry as a way of recording and reflecting on moments which would otherwise go unnoticed. Her work has appeared on the YorkMix poetry blog and been chosen for two Forward Poetry anthologies. She enjoys participating in Poetry Society stanza groups and workshops, volunteering with participatory arts organisations and running poetry writing sessions.
Pauline Kirk was born in Birmingham, and now lives in York. She has had ten collections of poetry and six novels published, three under her own name, and four as PJ Quinn. Her most recent collection, Time Traveller, was published by Graft Poetry. She is Editor of Fighting Cock Press, and a member of the editorial group of Dream Catcher.
This event will take place in the Marriott Room and cost £3 or £2 with a York Card
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Rowntree Park Reading Cafe :
Thu 27 Sep :
4.00pm – 5.30pm :
£6
A future England, and Jake and his dog Jet are trying to reach Scotland. But nobody leaves England now, and there’s a border, and guards with guns, and the government has eyes everywhere.
Come and hear about Jake, Jet and the Outwalkers. And come and discuss what you think might happen in the future. And in case that all sounds too stressful, come and drink tea, and eat cake, because everything feels better with tea and cake.
Author’s Biography:
Fiona Shaw was born in London and studied at the University of York and the University of Sussex, completing her academic studies in York with a PhD on the American poet, Elizabeth Bishop.
She is the author of a memoir and five novels. She has been a Royal Literary Fund writing fellow, and has run a reading-round book group (also for the RLF). She is also a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Northumbria.
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Acomb Explore Library :
Thu 27 Sep :
2.00pm – 4.00pm :
Free
Grief, bereavement and loss are extremely hard to talk about…but they shouldn’t be!
Come together with professional artists and storytellers, to, share memories and find creative ways of expressing what has happened and who you are, through the arts.
This workshop is run by Next Door But One. All we ask is for you to bring an object that has a story attached to it (a photo, a song, a piece of jewellery, anything) and we will all make poems, art and music from it.
This is a free workshop, but please book.
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Fairfax House :
Thu 27 Sep :
7.00pm – 8.30pm :
£14.00 (Members: £12.00, Students: £8.00)
By 1745, the son of the deposed James II & VII, Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, had been living in exile for over 55 years, firstly in France – ‘the support and shelter of unfortunate princes’ – and then Rome. This lecture will discuss the background and progress of the most famous attempt to restore the senior and Catholic branch of the Stuart Dynasty by the Old Pretender’s son Charles Edward Stuart – Bonnie Prince Charlie – during the turbulent years of 1745-6.
Dr Jacqueline Riding is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and alumna of the University of York (PhD). She is the author of the award-winning Jacobites: A New History of the ’45 Rebellion (Bloomsbury 2016), trustee of the Jacobite Studies Trust and senior editor of Jacobite Studies (Manchester University Press).
Jaqueline Riding: http://www.jacquelineriding.com/
Twitter @jaqriding
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York Explore Library :
Wed 26 Sep :
6.30pm – 7.30pm :
£5
An introduction to the origins of the literary Gothic in eighteenth-century Britain, discussing how three particular novels helped to define the terms in which the home and family have subsequently been represented in Gothic literature, art and film.
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve and A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe demonstrate that the Gothic is nothing if not a self-referential mode, and this talk will be illustrated with literary and visual examples of its strange and (sometimes) funny as well as frightening metamorphoses over the past 250 years. Along the way it will ask what we mean when we refer to a cultural artefact as ‘Gothic’.
Author’s Biography:
Jim Watt teaches in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. He is the author of Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832 (Cambridge UP, 1999) and of essays and articles on the Gothic and other topics. His latest book British Orientalisms, 1759-1835 is forthcoming with Cambridge UP.
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