St James the Deacon, Sherringham Drive from 2:00pm on Sunday
What’s on in York: Christmas Cracker Fayre to be opened by Harry Gration
What’s on in York: Poppleton Community Railway Nursery Open Day on Saturday
What’s on in York: Memorial service this weekend at Bishopthorpe crematorium chapel
Residents are being invited to a special memorial service in the chapel of Bishopthorpe Crematorium this weekend.
The annual service looks to bring comfort and remember and celebrate the lives of loved ones.
This year it will take place on Sunday 8 December at 12.30pm and will last for around 30 minutes.
The service has been held at the crematorium for the past 15 years and this non-religious ceremony is open to everyone. It will be led by the crematorium chaplain, The Revd. Allan Hughes.
Names of loved ones will be read out and remembered.
What’s on in York: Big “T” tomorrow Wednesday in Acomb
Fools For Love: A Launch of Two New Books
Thursday December 5th
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Free
A return of former journalists John Wheatcroft and Alan Smith in conversation with Alan Gillott about their latest novels exploring sex, death, and romantic love: no fools like old fools.
Alan Smith and John Wheatcroft bring their experience as journalists and prison teachers to their new novels, Virginia, and Rocket Boy. Virginia is an actor whose lover Dan dies slowly and awfully, leaving her wishing him both alive and dead; until she meets Hank, who is also trapped between lives. In Rocket Boy, Simon Waiters’ life is defined by a childhood meeting with Yuri Gagarin; revisiting his past, and lost loves, sounds dangerous but could just be the break he needs. Alan and John discuss their books with Stairwell publisher Alan Gillott.
What’s on in York: Penny Thorpe – “The Quality Street Girls”
Tuesday December 3rd
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
£5
Join us for a peek inside The Quality Street factory with author Penny Thorpe whose novel The Quality Street Girls is just out in paperback.
What is Christmas without Quality Street? And who better to let us into the secret of Quality Street than Penny Thorpe?
Penny was the company archivist for Nestlé for over 10 years. She has amassed a wealth of stories about the manufacture of chocolate in York and the people involved in the industry. She is writing a series of novels, under the pen name Penny Thorpe, based on her knowledge and experience, the first of which is The Quality Street Girls.
What’s on in York: New listing poster covering December published
What’s on in York: Christmas Fair at Hob Moor School on Saturday
What’s on in York: Foxwood Hub with “everyone a winner” tombola at Foxwood Community centre on Friday
What’s on in York: “Finding the Words” with Mark Connors, Gill Lambert & Kathleen Strafford
Thursday November 28
6:45 pm – 7:45 pm
£5
Mark Connors is an award winning poet and novelist from Leeds, UK. He’s had over 160 poems published in magazines, anthologies and webzines.Mark’s debut poetry pamphlet, ‘Life is a Long Song’ was published by OWF Press in 2015. His first full length collection, ‘Nothing is Meant to be Broken’ was published by Stairwell Books in 2017. His second poetry collection, ‘Optics’, was published in 2019 by Yaffle. A joint collection, Reel Bradford, written with fellow writers behind poetry publishers, Yaffle, in partnership with Bradford City of Film, was also published in 2019. Mark is a managing editor at Yaffle. He is also a Bibliotherapist and Writing Workshop Facilitator for both poetry and fiction, and he co-runs the poetry open mic nights Word Club (Leeds) and Shaken in Sheeptown (Skipton), with his partner, Gill Lambert.
Gill Lambert is a poet and teacher from Yorkshire. She has been published widely in print and online. With her partner Mark Connors she runs the poetry nights Shaken in Sheep Town and Word Club. Her pamphlet ‘Uninvited Guests’ was published in 2017 by Indigo Dreams and her debut collection ‘Tadaima’ was published by Yaffle this year.
Kathleen Strafford is a widely published poet, in journals, webzines and anthologies. Her first poetry collection ‘Her Own Language’ was published by Dempsey & Windle in 2018. Kathleen’s new collection ‘Wilderness of Skin’ is published by Yaffle Press. She is the chief editor of Runcible Spoon webzine publishing. Kathleen runs Runcible Spoon open mic at Miners Arms pub in Morley, Leeds. She is co-creator of ‘The Adventures of Dr Bear and Isabelle’ children’s book series.