What’s on in York: Hack Camp – Cross PolliNation

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York Explore Library :

Wed 1 Nov :

10.00am – 4.00pm :

Free

Our very first hack media camp!

If you’ve heard of hackathons and Raspberry Pi Jams, you’ll be all over this. If not, come anyway: you’ll love it.

Just bring your imagination and our techies, coders, digital makers and artists will help you to sprinkle a measure of arts into a dash of digital making to create a unique concoction in just one day.

This event is free but booking is advisable to avoid disappointment. This can be done in person at any Explore York Library, over the phone or by email.

What’s on in York – The Game’s Afoot : An encounter with Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

York Explore Library

Wed 25 Oct

6.30pm – 7.30pm

£5

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David Stuart Davies brings the story of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his creator Arthur Conan Doyle to life in this one man play first presented at the Edinburgh Fringe.

To book tickets please click here.

 

What’s on in York: Toddler Fun Days at York Explore

York Explore Library :

Tue 24 Oct and Wed 25 Oct :

9.30am -12.00pm :

Free

Kindermusik

Tuesday 24 October

10am – 10.30am Kindermusik session for 2-4 year olds, free but booking essential.

10.30am – 11am storytime in the childrens library free drop in.

11am – 12.30pm Toy library play session free drop in.

 Wednesday 25 October

9.30-10am Hoglets  Drama for 2-4 year olds, free but booking essential

10am – 11.30am crafts and free bookstart treasure bags to collect.  This  session to include Toy library play.

11.30am – 12pm My Baby Can Dance session for 2-4 year olds, free but booking essential.

For more information or to reserve a place please call York Explore Library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.

What’s on in York: The Uninvited Guest!

York Explore Library

Tue 10 Oct

6.15pm – 7.45pm

£6, or £5 with a YorkCard

Oct _10Univited GuestIt is said that York is the most haunted city in England, and the nightly, highly successful commercial tours reveal no shortage of interesting and unexplained occurrences which claim to be connected to supernatural events within the city.

One such apparition, which has up until now never been revealed to the wider public, is that of a male gentleman who walks the corridors of our Mansion House. Colin Sheppard, a city guide who hosts tours of this newly refurbished and historic building, has explored the possibilities of who this ghostly figure might have been in his earthly life. Join him as he takes you on this voyage of discovery into the identity of this ‘uninvited guest.’
Tickets are £9 each, or £8 with a YorkCard, and are available from any Explore library or from the Inspire website (www.feelinginspired.co.uk).

What’s on in York: Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and The Birth Of Brit Noir

York Explore Library 

Sun 1 Oct 

2.00pm – 3.30pm 

£5

Oct _1Film NoirNick Triplow, biographer of Ted Lewis, Brit noir pioneer and author of the novel Jack’s Return Home, adapted by Mike Hodges as the seminal British gangster film, Get Carter, in conversation with fellow crime writer, Nick Quantrill.

Nick Triplow’s book, Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir is a meticulously researched and riveting account of the career of Ted Lewis, the doomed author of British noir classic Jack’s Return Home, filmed as Get Carter in 1971.

As a precursor to the screening of this classic British crime film at City Screen on October 2, Nick will be in conversation with fellow crime writer, Nick Quantrill. They will discuss Lewis’s relationship to his story, originally set in Scunthorpe, the creation of the enduring character of Jack Carter, and the story’s historical and cultural resonances for our own troubled times.

The event is a taster for the Hull Noir festival, part of the 2017 City of Culture celebrations, which takes place over the weekend of the 18/19 November.

Nick Triplow is the author of the South London crime novel Frank’s Wild Years and the social history books The Women They Left Behind, Distant Water and Pattie Slappers. His acclaimed short story, Face Value, was a winner in the 2015 Northern Crime competition. Originally from London, now living in Barton upon Humber, Nick studied English and Creative Writing at Middlesex University and, in 2007, earned a distinction on Sheffield Hallam University’s MA Writing. Since completing his biography of British noir pioneer, Ted Lewis, Nick has been working on new fiction.

To book tickets please click here.

What’s on in York. PolliNation community arts workshop

PolliNation community arts workshops using microscopic images of pollen as a starting point.

York Explore Library :

Sat 30 Sep :

9.30am – 1.00pm & 1pm – 3.30pm :

Free

Sept _30Pollo NationCome and contribute to a brilliant community arts project where images of microscopic pollen will be used to inspire the creation of an art installation created from over 300 individual hexagons and exhibited in Explore York Library in November 2017.

The PolliNation workhops and art installation is part of the Telling the Bees is a 12 month project bringing drama, design storytelling, media arts and the maker movement together to explore playful, immersive ways to understand environmental issues and share future visions about bees and beekeeping.

PolliNation is a partnership project between York Learning, Explore York, University of York and supported by Telling the Bees project partners – Sheffiled University, Lancaster University and Grow Theatre.

All workshops are free to attend.

Call our enrolments line on (01904) 552806.

12 places available on each workshop.

What’s on in York: Archives Blitz-It … Crime and Punishment

 York Explore Library :

Fri 29 Sep :

10.30am – 12.00pm &

12.45pm – 2.45pm &

3.30pm – 5.30pm :

Free

Sept _29Blitz -ItJoin us for you chance to get ‘up close and personal’ through cataloguing some of our 19 century crime and punishment archives!

At York Explore we hold a large collection of archives relating to crime and punishment, from the organisation of York Castle Gaol to court books and records of the debtors prison. Join us as we get hands-on with some of these amazing archives, cataloguing them to international standards and helping make them available to the public to research.

No experience is necessary – just bring your enthusiasm!  There are three sessions available, so please indicate your preferred session time when booking

  • To book tickets for Session 1 click here.
  • To book tickets for Session 2 click here.
  • To book tickets for Session 3 click here.

What’s on in York, Poetry Workshop with Anna Woodford

York Explore Library :

Thu 28 Sep :

2.30pm – 4.30pm :

Free

Sept _28Anna WoodfordAnna Woodford – creator of the exhibition T(here) on display at York Explore – invites you to join her for this informal creative writing workshop exploring freedom. Beginners and experienced writers welcome.

We will be exploring freedom to travel with our bodies and our minds in this lively informal creative writing workshop We will also be looking at free writing and poems on freedom by writers from Jack Mapanje to Emily Dickinson. Please come along whether you are a beginner or an experienced writer. Bring a pen, paper and a sense of adventure!

Anna Woodford’s poetry collection Birdhouse (Salt,2010) was a winner of the Crashaw Prize. The Guardian included Birdhouse in a round-up of poetry books of the year and Grazia called it ‘quite quite wonderful’.

Her poems have appeared in many publications including the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, the Rialto and Poetry London. She has also been anthologised in The Forward Book of Poems of the Year.

To book tickets click here.

What’s on in York: The Greedy Queen .. Queen Victoria and her food

 

York Explore:

25 Sep:

6.15pm – 7.45pm :

£9 or £8 with a York Card

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What does it mean to eat like a Queen?
Elizabeth gorged on sugar; Mary on chocolate, and Ann was known as Brandy Nan.
Victoria ate all of this and more.

This lecture, based on Annie Gray’s latest book, offers a new perspective on one of Britain’s most iconic monarchs, charting her life and times through her food and drink.
From intimate breakfasts with the King of Fance, to romping tea-parties with her children, and from state balls to her last sip of milk, this is a celebration of appetite, both for food and, indeed, for life.

Minimum age 14.

To go to book click here

What’s on in York: Book Launch of Race to the Kill: Sean Denton 3

York Explore Library :

Tue 26 Sep :

6.30pm – 8.00pm :

Free

Sept _26Raceto KillJoin Helen Cadbury’s friends, publisher and agent to celebrate the launch, of the thrilling third novel in the Sean Denton series.

Sean Denton takes a risk and follows homeless Mary into a disused school, where he finds the aftermath of a horrific crime. Meanwhile, at Chasebridge Greyhound Stadium, Sarah Sutton is making herself indispensable. But who is she? And why has this outsider made her home with the criminal Heron family? In a gripping story of hidden truths and surprising victims, Sean needs to work with new colleagues and old friends to solve the mystery, before anyone else loses their life.

Race to the Kill sees Sean build on his success as a PCSO in To Catch A Rabbit, and a response PC in Bones in the Nest, as he gets closer than ever to his goal of becoming a detective.

Be the first to hear extracts from the book and buy a copy with 10% discount

To book tickets click here.