What’s on in York: Edwina Hayes – Live at York Explore Library

Fri, 20th September 2019

19:00 – 22:00 BST

£11.37

Edwina’s beautifully written songs, charming stage presence and voice of an angel have won her a reputation as a true natural talent of gentle folk-Americana. She has opened numerous shows for Jools Holland and Van Morrison as well as her own gigs playing stages everywhere from Glastonbury Festival to The Royal Albert Hall. Edwina numbers Michael Parkinson and Mike Harding among her fans and the title track of her album Pour Me A Drink was covered by Nanci Griffith who calls her ‘the sweetest voice in England’.

Her cover of the Randy Newman song Feels Like Home was featured in the Cameron Diaz film My Sister’s Keeper and has since had over eight million plays on You Tube.

Edwina is often invited to guest on studio albums and support major artists on tour and as well as touring with Jools Holland, Van Morrison and Nanci Griffith, Edwina has also toured with artists ranging from Loudon Wainwright and Roger McGuinn to KT Tunstall and Gretchen Peters.

Edwina was born in Dublin and grew up in Preston, Lancashire before moving to the East coast of Yorkshire as a teenager, where she has been based ever since. Dividing her time between the UK and America, Edwina’s second home is Nashville where she is much loved as a songwriter and artist.

Tickets

What’s on in York: A Chapter of Woe – the Battle of Myton-on-Swale, 1319

York Explore Library

Thursday 19th September 2019

18:15 – 19:45

£6

On 20 September 1319 William Melton, archbishop of York, hastily assembled clergymen and local officials. His army headed north from York to take a Scottish invasion force under Robert Bruce. The result – a pitched battle at Myton on the River Swale – which saw the archbishop’s force routed, caused the death of so many clergymen that the Scots later called the battle “The Chapter of Myton”.

In this lecture Dr Paul Dryburgh introduces one of the most calamitous but least known battles of the Anglo-Scots wars and looks at how the northern Church coped with the Scots’ military supremacy.

Tickets

What’s on in York: Peter Robinson – Many Rivers to Cross

September 18 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

York Explore Library

 £7.50

Join international best-selling author Peter Robinson as he launches Many Rivers to Cross, the 26th instalment of the DCI Banks series.
When the body of a teenage boy is found stuffed into a wheelie bin on the East Side Estate, Banks and Annie have a home-grown murder case to solve. But Banks’s attention is also on Zelda, who in helping him track down his old enemy, has put herself in danger and alerted the stone cold Eastern European sex traffickers who brought her to the UK.

This event is presented in partnership with York Literature Festival

Tickets

What’s on in York: Spotlight on Health Archives

Friday June 14th

York Explore Library

10:00 am – 4:00 pm Free

Have you ever wondered what it was like to visit the school dentist in the early 20th century? Or what you could expect from a midwife in the 19th century?

Join us for a drop-in exhibition at York Explore, in partnership with the York Human Rights City, to find out. Uncover what level of healthcare you were (or were not!) entitled to, and what you could expect from the healthcare professionals of the past.

This event is part of the York Festival of Ideas 2019.

What’s on in York: Uncovering Stories – York’s Normandy Veterans

Thursday June 6th

6:15 pm – 7:45 pm

York Explore Library

£6

York Normandy Veterans April 2015

Archivist Laura Yeoman will explain how Explore worked with York’s surviving Normandy Veterans to safeguard their archives and memories for generations to come. Her illustrated talk features video clips from the veterans discussing their experiences.

Find out more about the Normandy Veterans project, learn what Explore now holds in the archive and discover what archivists need to think about in the modern age.

An exhibition related to this talk – York’s Normandy Veterans – will be held at York Explore Library on Thursday 13 June 2019

Details tel 01904 552828

What’s on in York: The Local and Community History Month Great Book Giveaway!

May 29th @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Free

Drop in to view our Local and Community History Month archives exhibition, learn more about what we’ve been up to in the archives service recently, and find out how you can use our archive collections for creative writing.

Following a generous donation by the author, there will also be a chance to pick up a FREE copy of Louisa Elliott by Ann Victoria Roberts, which is heavily based on our Archive and Local History collections. When they’re gone, they’re gone!

Details

Date: May 29th

Time:10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Cost:Free

Venue:York Explore+Phone:01904 552828

What’s on in York: Finding the Words with Malcolm Carson, Lydia Kennaway and Vicky Morris

May 23 @ 6:45 pm – 7:45 pm

£3

Finding the Words is a relaxed and welcoming monthly poetry evening featuring established and emerging poets from Yorkshire and beyond. Bar available and tickets may be bought on the door.

Malcolm Carson was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. He moved to Belfast with his family before returning to Lincolnshire, becoming an auctioneer and then a farm labourer. He studied English at Nottingham University, and then taught in colleges and universities. He now lives in Carlisle, Cumbria. He has had three full collections published by Shoestring Press: Breccia (2006), Rangi Changi and other poems (2011), and Route Choice (2016), as well as a pamphlet, Cleethorpes Comes to Paris (2014). A fourth collection, The Where and When, is due out in March 2019.

Lydia Kennaway’s pamphlet, A History of Walking (HappenStance, April 2019), uses types of walking, from protest march to promenade, to explore themes of ownership, loss and fear of loss. She won the 2017 Flambard Poetry Prize, and her poems were shortlisted for the 2018 Bridport Prize, and longlisted in the 2018 Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition and (three times) in the National Poetry Competition. Other poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies including The Rialto and Any Change? Poetry in a Hostile Environment, edited by Ian Duhig (2018). Lydia completes her MA in Writing Poetry at Newcastle University in September 2019

Vicky Morris is a poet, educator and creative practitioner based in Sheffield. She has been published in places like Butcher’s Dog, The Interpreter’s House, Brittle Star, and Verse Matters anthology (Valley Press). She won first place in the Prole Laureate Competition 2019 and was highly commended in the Carers UK Poetry Competition 2017. Vicky won a Northern Writers Award in 2014, and in 2019 The Sarah Nutly Award for Creativity for her impact in Sheffield and beyond. She is currently an Arvon Jerwood mentee for Poetry (2019/20)

.Book tickets

Details

Date:May 23

Time:6:45 pm – 7:45 pm

Cost:£3

Venue York ExplorepPhone:01904 552828

York Learning celebrates local art with Inspirations exhibit

City of York Council’s York Learning is hosting the annual Inspirations exhibit to celebrate the work of new learners from York Learning’s Drawing, Painting & Watercolour classes.

Inspirations is hosted at York Explore Library from Friday 3 May until Sunday 2 June.

York Learning provides residents with the opportunity to work with qualified tutors to express themselves creatively in a group learning environment.

The creative programme offers regular classes on a term basis, a variety of one day workshops and two community arts projects yearly. Workshops scheduled for autumn and winter include contemporary oil painting, wood carving and, gold and silver leaf gilding.

To view the full range of courses available at York Learning, visit: www.yortime.org.uk, email: york.learning@york.gov.uk or call on 01904 552806.

What’s on in York: Explore a Story – Sunk! By Rob Biddulph

York Explore Library: The Marriott Room

February 21st

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

£2

A pirate hat.
A sunny day.
For Penguin Blue
A game to play…

Sail with us across an interactive storytelling exploration of a swashbuckling new adventure about pirates, treasure, and friendship written by the marvelous Rob Biddulph! While sailing the seven seas Captain Blue, his friends and us  are unexpectedly sunk! With a shipwreck to explore using props and unlimited imagination and a mysterious stranger on a desert island to meet, we might still find some treasure after all!

It’s going to be A GLORIOUS ESCAPADE!

For children between 2 and 5 (parents must remain with children at all times).

Details

Date: February 21

Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Cost: £2

Organiser York Explore

Phone: 01904 552828

What’s on in York: Finding the Words with Andy Armitage, John Foggin and Joan Johnston

JAN Finding The Words

York Explore Library :

Thu 24 Jan :

6.45pm – 7.45pm :

£3/£2 with a YorkCard

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.

John Foggin lives in Ossett, West Yorkshire. His work has appeared in The North, The New Writer, Prole, and The interpreters house, among others, and in anthologies including The Forward Book of Poetry [2015, 2018]. He publishes a poetry blog: the great fogginzo’s cobweb.
His poems have won first prizes in The Plough Poetry [2013,2014], the Camden/Lumen [2014], and McClellan [2015] Competitions respectively. In 2016 he was a winner of the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition judged by Billy Collins.
He has had published four pamphlets/chapbooks: Running out of Space [2014] Backtracks [2015], Larach (WardWood Publications) [2015] and Outlaws and fallen angels (Calder Valley Poetry) [2016], and two collections, Much Possessed (smith|doorstop) [2016], and Gap Year..co-authored with Andy Blackford (SPM Publications) [2017]
A new pamphlet ‘Advice to a traveller’ is published by Indigo Dreams [2018].

Andy Armitage is a poet and editor from Leeds. His first chapbook ‘Letters to a First Love from the Future’ was published in July 2018.
Andy has a PhD in English and has published poetry in Acumen, Dream Catcher, Strix, Riggwelter, The High Window, and Algebra of Owls. In 2017, he won First Place in the Leeds Museums Poetry Competition and this year he was Highly Commended in the York Mix/York Literature Festival Poetry Competition. He’s written scholarly articles on Ted Hughes’s poetry for the British Library and the Ted Hughes society websites.

Joan Johnston was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and lives on Tyneside. She has worked as a writer in hospitals, prisons, day-centres and schools and with the homeless, women’s groups, and older people in residential care. She is the recipient of a Hawthornden Fellowship and teaches creative writing in Adult Education and on a freelance basis.
She has published three poetry collections and three pamphlets – her latest pamphlet An Overtaking was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2016. Her poems have also been widely published in magazines and anthologies – most recently in Land of Three Rivers (pub. Bloodaxe, 2018)
‘Joan Johnston knows what poetry can do. She reveals wonder inherent in the everyday. I like her work very much’. – Kathleen Jamie

Please visit our ticketing website to book a place.