Judging takes place on Friday of the annual Foxwood Garden contest. Entries are still being accepted.
The results will be announced at the Community Garden open day which is taking place on Sunday.
The early indications are that many gardeners are successfully overcoming the challenging “dry” conditions
York Minster
& Deans Park
4th Jul – 2nd Sep
9:00am – 10:00pm
Various Prices
Workshops, craft activities, bars and a cinema will take over Dean’s Park this summer for a very special festival hosted by York Minster.
There are activities for all ages and you are warmly invited to pop along to take part or to simply enjoy the space as always.
See YorkMinster.org for all up coming events.
Please download the brochure here.
Fairfax House
Tue 3 Jul – Sun 8 Jul
10.00am – 5.00pm
Free as part of admission to Fairfax House
For 2018, Fairfax in Bloom will be inspired by the extraordinary genius of Grinling Gibbons.
Taking inspiration from the ‘Michaelangelo of Wood’s’ carvings and sculptures, floral designers from Acomb Flower Guild will be creating displays that pay homage to the hallmarks, motifs and designs of Gibbons’ artworks.
Our guest designers will also capture the essence of the Georgians’ love of horticulture and fascination with the natural world, translating it through flowers, fruit and foliage to create floral artworks that mantle the period interiors of Fairfax House with a riot of colour.
For more information please visit this website.
York Explore Library :
Thu 28 Jun :
6.45pm – 7.45pm :
£3 or £2 with a York Card
Headlines Two prizewinning poets, Peter Wallis and Sally Festing, present poems about the head, both in its physical and mental aspects. With special guest Carole Bromley
How does repeated brain surgery impact on families? What if the patient has an identical twin? The answers come, in Andrew McMillan’s words, in poems that see “life as something tentative as well as tender”. Similarly, how can the effects of something like schizophrenia, bear on future generations? Family history and a cache of intimate letters suggest answers.
Sally Festing’s fifth collection will be published in 2019. Four prizes fed into Swimming Lessons, Salaams (Happenstance), Font, and Doors Opening (Oversteps) which followed journalism, radio plays, academic studies, biographies and other non-fiction books. Sally runs Saltmarsh Poetry.
Peter Wallis won publication of a pamphlet, Articles of Twinship, in the Bare Fiction Debut Poetry Collection Competition 2015, was shortlisted in the 2016 National Poetry Competition and longlisted in that of 2017. He is Submissions Editor for the U.K. charity “Poems in the Waiting Room”.
Carole Bromley is the Poetry Society’s York Stanza rep and runs poetry surgeries at York Explore. She has three books with Smith/Doorstop, A Guided Tour of the Ice House, The Stonegate Devil and a children’s collection, Blast Off. Carole is currently working on a sequence of poems about her recent experience of brain surgery and will be sharing some of those poems.
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