Aesthetica Videotheque – part of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival

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York Explore Library :

Thu 8 Nov – Sun 11 Nov :

Various Times

As part of the eighth edition of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York Explore hosts the renowned Videotheque, a unique opportunity to pick and choose from 400 BAFTA-Qualifying films.

Whether you’re interested in Comedy or Drama, curate your own screening and experience the best in new cinema, with the entire festival programme in one location. With award-winning filmmakers from over 45 countries – including UK, USA, China, Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Syria and Lebanon – stories from all over the world are available at your fingertips in these personalised sessions.

Spaces are limited.  www.asff.co.uk/tickets

Free access for York Card holders between 1pm & 2pm each day.

What’s in in York – Deadly Fictions: Writing Horror and the Macabre with Naomi Booth Sponsored by York Literature Festival

Nov _9Deadly

York Explore Library :

Thu 8 Nov :

5.30pm -7.00pm :

£5

A masterclass for writers who want to produce unsettling works of fiction. We’ll experiment with different approaches to the macabre, from Edgar Allan Poe’s formula for horror to contemporary versions of the uncanny. This will be a chance to experiment with new approaches, in order to inspire new pieces of writing or to help you develop work in progress. The class is suitable for new writers and those who are more experienced. You can expect a discussion of key writers and approaches, as well as some time to write and share work. We may discuss some gruesome topics—you have been warned!

Author’s Biography:
Dr Naomi Booth is an award-winning writer and academic who lives and works in York. Her first work of fiction, The Lost Art of Sinking, was selected for New Writing North’s Read Regional campaign and won the Saboteur Award for Best Novella 2016. Her debut novel, Sealed (Dead Ink Books, 2017) is a horrifying tale of body mutation and environmental contamination, described by The Guardian as “not for the faint-hearted… a marvellous first novel”. Her uncanny short fiction, “Cluster” was long-listed for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2018. Naomi is Subject Director of Creative Writing at York St John University.

Please visit our ticketing website to book a place.

What’s on in York – Book Launch: The Story of Museum Gardens Story

Nov _7Museum

York Explore Library :

Wed 7 Nov :

2.00pm – 4.30pm :

Free

Join us to meet Dr Peter Hogarth and Professor Ewan Anderson as they introduce this new copiously illustrated book.  Discover the story of the gardens, including the Roman fortress, the medieval St Mary’s Abbey, the Yorkshire Museum and the botanical garden.

Signed copies of the book, published by The Yorkshire Philosophical Society, will be on sale at a discounted price. Refreshments will be available.

The book will interest garden lovers, historians and anyone with treasured family memories of visiting the gardens.

This event will take place in The Marriott Room and there will be refreshments available.

For more information please call the library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.

What’s on in York – Frankenstein’s science: How does Victor Frankenstein animate his creature?

Nov _6Frankenstein

York Explore Library :

Tue 6 Nov :

6.30pm – 7.45pm :

£5

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, published 200 years ago in 1818, engaged in detail with the scientific culture of its day. Mary Shelley read scientific manuals, attended lectures and read newspaper reports of the latest attempts to uncover the mysteries of electricity, chemistry and medicine, and incorporated that knowledge into her novel. But how does Victor Frankenstein animate his creature? Shelley ensures that Victor’s methods remain a secret, but this talk will explore the hints that she writes into the novel, and compare Shelley’s text with cinematic adaptations, which offer much more explicit and spectacular accounts of the creature’s animation.

Author’s Biography:
Dr Mary Fairclough is a lecturer in English and Related Literature at the University of York. Her research interests lie in the intersection between literature, politics and science in the long eighteenth-century. She teaches an MA module entitled Literature, Medicine & Revolution: Electricity from Franklin to Frankenstein.

Please visit our ticketing website to book a place.

The Big Lit Quiz

Nov _5Lit Quiz

York Explore Library :

Mon 5 Nov :

6.00pm – 7.30pm :

£2

Join us for the Big Lit Quiz to celebrate this year’s Big City Read.
Round up your team of five (be that friend or foe) and join the quiz to test your knowledge. We advise you have read The Radleys before arrival, and swatted up on your classics, gothic literature and know all your favourite authors by sight – easy right?

We have some fabulous prizes to be won and promise a fun and competitive evening.

Teams can be up to five people. 1 ticket per person.

Cheaters will be shot from a canon and disqualified.

18+

Please visit our ticketing website to book a place.

What’s on in York: York in the First World War – Family Session

Oct _20Tea - Yortime

York Explore Library :

Thu 1 Nov :

2.00pm – 3.00pm :

Free

Using the fantastic new education packs developed by York Civic Trust and Explore York, learn about the impact of WWI on York and life during wartime using this wonderful new resource while enjoying the rare opportunity to interact with original archives from World War One.

Suitable for children aged 7 – 12 and their parents/carers. This event will take place in the Archives Reading Room at York Explore Library.

Free, but booking essential

To book tickets please click here.

What’s on in York: The Undead Kingdom – The Unnatural History of the English Vampire

Oct _30Undead

York Explore Library :

Tues 30 Oct :

6.30pm – 7.30pm :

£5

What if we told you that the vampire was more than mere superstition? And what if we told you that its birthplace wasn’t mountainous Transylvania, but leafy England? The walking dead of authentic folklore are distinct from the debonair bloodsucker found in popular culture. But the bloodline is there.

Acclaimed author and occult historian Gavin Baddeley leads us on a vampire-hunt through a Renaissance Venetian leper colony, via a cursed medieval crypt in a Slovakian chapel. We conclude, worryingly close to home, on the North Yorkshire Wolds, as the audience are invited to solve a sinister enigma still confounding historians today.

Follow Gavin on Twitter @GavinBaddeley

To book tickets please click here.

 

 

What’s on in York: Family Day at York Explore Library

York Explore Library :

Tue 30 Oct :

1.30pm – 4.30pm :

Free

Oct _30Family DayFun for all the family.

We will have lots of different activities you and an adult to try, including crafts and storytime.

Just drop in for one or stay longer and try them all!

We also have two other events on the same day

Minecraft Mastercrafter – Build a Haunted House

10.00am – 12.00pm

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Come along and build a creepy Minecraft haunted house complete with zombies, spiders and pumpkins! The event is free but booking at the library essential.

E-reading Explained!

2.30pm – 3.30pm

Join us for a whirlwind tour of all the many ways you can enjoy books and audiobooks on your digital device.

We’ll be demonstrating the best e-reading resources including Amazon, Kobo, Google Play Books and our very own Explore E-Library.

Booking at your local library essential.

To book tickets please call York Explore Library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk

What’s on in York: Finding the Words with poets Sarah L Dixon, Ian Harrow and Tristan Moss

Oct _25Find The Words

York Explore Library :

Thu 25 Oct :

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.

Sarah L Dixon lived in Chorlton for 12 years. She moved in May 2017 and is currently based in Linthwaite, Huddersfield and tours as The Quiet Compere. Sarah has most recently been published in Confluence, The Interpreter’s House, The Lake, Obsessed with Pipework, Troubadour and Curlew. She had a poem published on a beer-mat and her pamphlet, The sky is cracked was released by the same press in November 2017 (Half Moon).

Sarah’s inspiration comes from many places, including pubs and music, being by and in water and adventures with her seven-year-old, Frank. She is still attempting to write better poetry than Frank did aged 4! Frank’s line, aged 4, was “Is your heart in a cage so it doesn’t fly away?”

Ian Harrow: b.1945 Bamburgh, Northumberland. Five collections, most recent, Finishing Lines (Rack Press 2018) and Words Take Me (Lapwing 2013). Formerly Head of the School of Art, University of Central Lancashire. Lives in York.
Widely published in journals and magazines, including Stand, London Magazine, Spectator, Times Literary Supplement, New Walk.

Tristan Moss lives in York with his partner and two young children. He has had poems published in a number of online and paper journals. Most recently his poems have appeared in The Poetry Shed, Snakeskin, Amaryllis, Open Mouse, and Picaroon Poetry. In 2012 he had a short pamphlet published entitled ‘Disclaimer, by Lapwing Publications.

Sarah L Dixon @QuietCompereMcr
Tristan Moss @TristannMoss

This event will take place in the Marriott Room and cost £3 (or £2 with a York Card)

To book a ticket please click here.