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9 April-8 May: Easter Events in Yorkshire

Friday, April 15th, 2011 by admin
Yorkshire Easter Egg Hunts Galore

Yorkshire Easter Egg Hunts Galore

Easter’s a terrific time for kids and there are loads of Easter egg hunts and other Easter events for families across Yorkshire for you to enjoy – here’s a selection:

Wentworth Castle’s Eggciting Easter Fun for all the Family!
22-29 April

Follow the Easter Trail through the delightful gardens and stunning parkland. Take part in an Easter Egg Hunt and meet Wentworth Wabbit the Easter Bunny!

Burton Agnes Hall’s Easter Egg Hunt
11am-5pm, 24-25 April

Come along and search for chocolate Easter Eggs in the beautiful grounds and along the woodland walk.

Ripley Castle’s Easter Egg Hunt & “Dress the Egg”
10.30am-3.30pm, 23-25 April

Join in the fun with a great Easter Egg Hunt and “Dress the Egg” competition, fabulous prizes to be won!

Swinton Park Easter Egg Hunting Days
16 April – 1 May

Test your detective skills on our Easter Treasure Trail and on Easter Sunday the Easter Bunny will be making a special visit!

Newby Hall & Gardens Easter Fun Days
22-25 April

Come and meet the costumed characters on our woodland trail where they will help you in your quest to find the Newby Treasure!

Brodsworth Hall & Gardens Easter Family Fun Trail
10am – 5.30pm, 22-25 April

Take part in the Easter Egg hunt for a chance to get your hands on a real golden egg!

Bolton Castle’s Easter Eggstravaganza!
18-25 April

Come along and enjoy egg decorating, bonnet making and so much more, as well as the spectacular Eggciting Easter Egg hunt.

Harewood’s Mad Hatter’s Easter Weekend
10.30am – 4.30pm, 22-25 April

Enjoy our Alice in Wonderland themed Easter weekend with face painting, biscuit decorating and a chance to decorate your own tea cup.

Pannett Park’s Easter Egg Hunt
11am – 3.30pm, 23 April

At Pannett Park this Easter there is the traditional Easter Egg hunt, Easter egg rolling, Easter bonnet competition and so much more.

Thorp Perrow’s Easter Treasure Hunt
7-26 April

Solve the clues on our Treasure Hunt, a great game for everyone.

Harlow Carr’s East Egg Hunt
11am – 4pm, 22-25 April

Visit the Easter Bunny in his burrow and join the hunt for the giant eggs he has hidden around the garden, collect as many as you can to claim a delicious chocolate treat.

Sutton Park’s Easter Sunday Children’s Treasure Hunt
24 April

Come and enjoy our Treasure Hunt.

Bolton Abbey’s Eggciting Easter Egg Hunt
10am – 4pm, 22-25 April

Join the Easter Bunny and have a look in Strid Wood for all the hidden eggs.

Whitby Abbey’s Easter Family Fun Trail
22-25 April

Want to get your hands on a real golden egg? Come along and take part in our fantastic Easter egg hunt in Whitby.

RSPB Old Moor Easter Egg Hunt
24 April

Solve the clues which are hidden around our reserve which will lead you to a splendid chocolate treat!

Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life Easter Egg Trail
24 April

Come along and enjoy our Easter Egg Trail

More Easter Egg Hunts in Yorkshire

More Easter Egg Hunts in Yorkshire

Beningbrough Hall & Gardens Easter Egg Hunt & Olympics!
23-25 April

Join us for the Easter Olympics with Eggtastic races and take part in our Cadbury sponsored East trail.

Rievaulx Terrace’s Family Easter Egg Trail
11am – 5pm, 9-18 April

Easter weekend packed full of fun for all the family, take part in our special Easter trail.

Duncombe Park’s Easter Craft Fair
10am – 5pm, 24-25 April

A delightful Easter Craft Fair.

Nunnington Hall Easter Egg Trail
11am – 5pm, 9 April – 8 May

Take part in our Easter Family Trail and receive a Cadbury egg to take away with you.

Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Cadbury Easter Fun
11am – 4pm, 24-25 April

Join us this Easter for face painting, game playing and enjoy the Easter trails and don’t forget to collect your chocolate ‘Egghead’

Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Easter Eggsploits
From 2pm, 25 April

Come along with your decorated hard boiled eggs and take part in our best decorated egg and egg rolling competitions.

Brimham Rocks Easter Trail
11am – 4pm, 23 April

Solve the puzzles on our Easter trail in the search for your Easter surprise!

Bridestone, Crosscliff and Blakey Topping’s Bridestone Easter Egg Trail
10am – 3pm, 24 April

Follow the clues around the Easter trail to find your Easter treat.

Ormesby Hall’s Easter Egg-static
1.30pm – 4pm, 22-25 April

Come and have fun in our beautiful garden whilst looking for the answers to the Easter quiz.

East Riddlesden Hall Easter Egg Hunt
22-25 April

Complete the trail around the garden and claim your chocolate surprise.

The Lord Mayor’s Easter Egg Hunt, York
10am – 1pm, 23 April

Take part in the city-wide search for chocolate, work out the answer to the puzzles to visit 6 locations around the city and collect a treat at each stop!

Tropical Butterfly House Easter Egg Hunt
10am – 5.30pm, 24-25 April

Join our Easter Egg Hunt to win a chocolate surprise.

Knaresborough Easter Fayre
9am – early evening, 22 – 23 April

Come along for a family fun day out with market stalls, street entertainment, fairground rides and plenty more.

Once Easter’s over, you can find a superb list of Christmas markets and Christmas fayres in Yorkshire here.

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April-May 2011: The James Herriot Story 2011

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 by chrisjones
Christopher Timothy at the Herriot Museum in Thirsk

Christopher Timothy at the Herriot Museum in Thirsk

From April 2011, the Badapple Theatre Co Ltd will be touring their production of “The James Herriot Story 2011”.

This comic-drama is a revised version of the biography of Alf Wight, “An Honorary Yorkshireman”, after he came to Yorkshire from Glasgow after the war and became a vet in Thirsk, North Yorkshire. Alf Wight is better known as the author James Herriot whose stories were best-sellers and were adapted into the long-running TV series “All Creatures Great & Small”, starring Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison and Lynda Bellingham, and two films, “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet” with John Alderton and Colin Blakely and “All Creatures Great and Small” – the latter starring Simon Ward and Anthony Hopkins.

The James Herriot Story 2011 is set in a pub in Yorkshire in the 1940s – in the heyday of traditional farming, and includes a variety of the characters drawn from his novels and short stories with Jonny McPherson as the title character. The show remembers one of Yorkshire’s and also the rest of Britain’s, popular best-selling authors in a wryly humorous way.

Coincidentally (or maybe not),  BBC 1 will be screening a new 3-part drama series this year called “Young James” about James Herriot’s life in Scotland and the events which occurred which led to him deciding on a career as a vet. Each episode will last an hour and is based on Herriot’s notes of his own student days, and also Jim Wight’s autobiography of his father. UPDATE 16 September 2011: the title of this programme has now been changed from Young James to Young Herriot – see some pics of the cast and read more here.

You can find out a little more about this here:

Young Herriot – BBC drama

These are the Yorkshire dates for “The James Herriot Story 2011”:

Wed 27 Apr 2011 – Marton cum Grafton Memorial Hall, Marton cum Grafton, York YO51 9QY – T:  01423 339 168/ 01423 325 179

Fri 29 Apr 2011 – Markington War Memorial Institute, Harrogate HG3 3NR – T:  01423 339 168/ 01765 676 321

Sat 30 Apr 2011 – Markington War Memorial Institute, Harrogate HG3 3NR – T:  01423 339 168/ 01765 676 321

Sun 1 May 2011 – Long Marston Village Hall TBC – Long Marston, York YO26 7LN – T: 01423 339 168/ 01904 738 527

Tue 3 May 2011 – Pickering Friends Meeting House, Pickering YO18 7AX – T: 01751 474 043 – Tickets £9.00

Wed 4 May 2011 – Fewston Parochial Hall, Fewston, Harrogate HG3 1SU – T: 01943 880 362

Thu 5 May 2011 – Kirkby Malzeard Mechanics Inst Hall HG4 3RS – T: 01423 339 168

*Fri 6 May 2011 – Skirlaugh Village Hall TBC – Skirlaugh, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire HU11 – T: 01964 500 356

Sun 8 May 2011 – Scawby Village Hall DN20 9AS – T: 01652 655 595 – Tickets £6.00

*Wed 11 May 2011 at 7.30pm – Pocklington Arts Centre, Pocklington, York YO42 2AR – T: 01759 301 547 – Tickets £8.50/£7.50/under 18s £6.00

Wed 25 May 2011 – Suddaby’s Crown Hotel, Wheelgate, Malton YO17 7HP – T: 01653 692 038 – Tickets £8.00

*Thu 26 May 2011 – Helmsley Arts Centre, Helmsley, York YO62 5DW – T: 01439 771 700

Fri 27 May 2011 – Green Hammerton Village Hall, Green Hammerton, York YO26 8BA – T: 01423 339 168

Sun 29 May 2011 – 2.30 pm & 7.30 pm - World of James Herriot, Thirsk YO7 1PL – T: 01845 524 234 – Tickets £10

Prices £8.50 adult, £5 child, except where indicated.

*To be confirmed

Tickets are available online from the Badapple website.

And if you need accommodation in Helmsley or a Pickering B&B or a Thirsk hotel, take a look at the accommodation on Hello Yorkshire.

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15-17 October 2010: Railway in Wartime weekend

Saturday, June 12th, 2010 by chrisjones

This is an incredibly popular event (and growing in popularity each year) organised primarily by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NMYR) and takes place in Pickering and the villages (Levisham, Goathland, and Grosmont) on the rail line to Whitby. Although originally based on the railway stations, it has, over the years, spread out across the towns and villages and involves a large proportion of the local population, as well as thousands of visitors (many in period costume) who come along to join in the many and varied events that take part over the weekend.

The basis of the Railway in Wartime Weekend is that Britain’s railways and the staff that ran them played a vital part in the Allied victory in World War 2. To celebrate this contribution to the war effort and to commemorate those staff who died in service the North Yorkshire Moors Railway set aside one weekend a year in which they turn the clock back to those days when fair Albion had its back again the wall. The NMYR decorates it stations in WW2 style, station names are covered up (spies are everywhere!) station windows are taped-up (to minimise flying glass), sandbags line entrances and exits (to absorb shrapnel), and propaganda posters adorn the walls (to boost morale and encourage everyone to do their duty). To complete the picture the Railway’s staff wear appropriate uniform for the duration.

Many of the local populace join in and also dress in period civvies or in the uniforms of our valiant armed forces, and there are dances (organised by ENSA*, naturally), parades and marches. Participants also have to be aware that air-raids can occur at any time and must be prepared to take precautions – so always wear your gas-mask!

If you visit any of the participating towns and villages, you’ll find lots of men and women in military uniforms – and you’ll need to be aware that you might be challenged by a German paratrooper (they have been known to invade Pickering before now). There are always displays of military equipment – from hand guns to tanks – flags, and insignia, etc.

And, of course, you can really get a feel for it all by boarding one of the steam trains that journey back and forth on the line that day.

The weekend serves many functions – it’s an excuse to dress up, it’s a chance to relive recent history (a time for grandparents to share their or their parents’ experiences of wartime Britain), it’s a commemoration (a wreath is laid in tribute to railway workers who died during wartime service, but it’s also huge fun and a treat for all the family.

*Not really, as ENSA – Entertainments National Service Association – no longer exists, but they are in the style of ENSA concerts and dances.

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16 July-1 August: Ryedale Festival 2010

Thursday, April 8th, 2010 by chrisjones

The Ryedale Festival is a musical and artistic jewel which began, under very modest circumstances, as the Helmsley Festival in 1981. In the intervening 29 years it has expanded geographically to other venues in Ryedale District and musically with a wide range of artists performing a rich tapestry of pieces – mainly classical but with a smattering of folk and other genres.

The Artistic Director of the Festival is the pianist and accompanist Christopher Glynn , who directed two series of McCann Concerts at the National Portrait Gallery in London and a festival to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the death of Benjamin Britten at the Royal Academy of Music.

This year’s Ryedale Festival has some stunning performers including Dame Felicity Lott, the Fitzwilliam Quartet and the Northern Sinfonia.

Here’s the full line up (correct at the time of writing):

1) Friday 16th July – 6.00 pm
St Peter’s Church, Norton
Community Opera – Odyssey

2) Friday 16th July – 8.00 pm
The Saloon, Duncombe Park
Opening Gala Concert – Love and Marriage – Dame Felicity Lott

3) Saturday 17th July – 11.00 am
Sheriff Hutton Village Hall
Fell Clarinet Quartet – A Magical Musical Voyage Around the World

4) Saturday 17th July – 5.00 pm
St Peter’s Church, Norton
Community Opera – Odyssey

5) Saturday 17th July – 7.00 pm
All Saints’ Church, Hovingham
Pre-opera talk – John Warrack

6) Saturday 17th July – 8.00 pm
Hovingham Hall
Ryedale Festival Opera – Britten – The Prodigal Son and Mendelssohn – The Homecoming (Heimkehr aus der Fremde)

7) Sunday 18th July – 5.00 pm
All Saints’ Church, Hovingham
Pre-opera talk – John Warrack

8) Sunday 18th July – 6.00 pm
Hovingham Hall
Ryedale Festival Opera (picnic performance) – Britten – The Prodigal Son and Mendelssohn – The Homecoming

9) Monday 19th July – 11.00 am
All Saints’ Church, Hovingham
Coffee Concert – ‘Meet the Fitzwilliam Quartet’

10) Monday 19th July – 12.30 pm
Worsley Arms, Hovingham
Festival Lunch and the Fitzwilliam Quartet in conversation

11) Monday 19th July – 8.00 pm
Sledmere House
Catrin Finch – ‘Remaking the Goldbergs’
Tuesday 20th July -Friday 30th July – 12.00 noon – 3.30 pm
Helmsley Arts Centre
Ryedale Transport Through the Ages – Photographic Exhibition

12) Tuesday 20th July – 2.00 pm
Pickering Parish Church
Open Rehearsal – The Fitzwilliam Quartet

13) Tuesday 20th July – 3.00 p.m
Ampleforth Abbey
Organ Recital – Robert Sharpe

14) Tuesday 20th July – 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Talents Fine Arts Gallery, 7 Market Place, Malton
Festival Exhibition – Private View

15) Tuesday 20th July – 8.00 pm
St Peter’s Church, Norton
Gala Concert

16) Wednesday 21st July – 11.00 am
Malton Methodist Church
Lucy Beckett – Dante: Voyage and Homecoming
Wednesday 21st July – Saturday 24th July – 7.30 pm (all performances)
Helmsley Arts Centre
1812 Production – 84 Charing Cross Road

17) Wednesday 21st July – 8.00 pm
Kirk Theatre, Pickering
‘From Rags to Ryedale’ – A History of Ragtime – Lecture Recital by Helen Crayford (piano)

18) Thursday 22nd July – 3.00 pm
Galtres Centre, Easingwold
Afternoon Concert – La Serenissima – Charlotte Tetley – mezzo soprano, James Baillieu – piano

19) Thursday 22nd July – 8.00 p,m,
St Peter’s Church, Norton
The Naked Violin – Tasmin Little in recital

20) Friday 23rd uly – 3.00 pm
Sheriff Hutton Village Hall
Festival Tea Party – Peter Moore (trombone), Nicholas Oliver (piano) – In association with Chetham’s School

21) Friday 23rd July – 8.00 pm
The Library, Sledmere House
‘Goodbye to all that’ – Marking the 25th anniversary of the poet Robert Graves

22) Saturday 24th July – 11.00 am
The Saloon, Duncombe Park
Coffee Concert – Karen Geoghegan (bassoon), Timothy End (piano)

23) Saturday 24th July – 8.00 pm
The Saloon, Duncombe Park
Fizwilliam quartet and friends with Carolyn Sparey (viola) and Colin Carr (Cello)

24) Sunday 25th July – 10.30 am
Pickering Parish Church
Festival Service – Preacher: The Right Reverend Dr. Martin Warner, Bishop of Whitby – Celebrant: Father Antony Pritchett

25) Sunday 25th July – 3.00
St Mary’s Church, Lastingham
Yorkshire Young Musicians

26) Sunday 25th July – 7.00 pm
Algonquin Room, Ampleforth College
Pre-performance talk – Peter Seymoor – Bach: The Great Communicator

27) Sunday 25th July – 8.00 pm
Ampleforth Abbey
Bach – Mass in B minor

28) Monday 26th July – 11.00 am
All Saints’ Church, Helmsley
Celebrity Coffee Concert – Captain Corelli’s Souvenirs

29) Monday 26th July – 8.00 pm
Helmsley Arts Centre
‘Honey and Broken Glass’ – Poetry and Prose of Philip Larkin combined with Jazz

30) Tuesday 27th July – 11.00 am
Pickering Parish Church
Coffee Concert – Rachel Brown (baroque flute/ recorders), Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)

31) Tuesday 27th July – 11.00 am
Ryedale Show, Welburn Park, near Kirkbymoorside
North Tyneside Steel Band

32) Tuesday 27th July – 3.00 pm
Malton Market Square
North Tyneside Steel Band

33) Tuesday 27th July – 7.00 pm
Castle Howard – The Chapel, The Long Gallery and The Great Hall
Triple Concert: – Consortium – Fitzwilliam Quartet and Christopher Glynn – Craig Ogden, guitar

34) Wednesday 28th July – 11.00 am
Joan of Arc Hall, Botton Village
Family Concert – Michael Hayward and Laura Grime – Scottish Folk Duo

35) Wednesday 28th July – 3.00 pm
Helmsley Arts Centre
Film Premiere – ‘Rainbow Tribe’

36) Wednesday 28th July – 8.00 pm
St Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton
Candlelit Concert – Alison Stephens (mandolin), Rachel Brown (flute), Peter Seymour (continuo), Fitzwilliam Quartet

37) Thursday 29th July – 11.00 am
St Mary’s Church, Lastingham
Coffee Concert – Rowena Calvert (cello) and Warren Mailley-Smith (piano)

38) Thursday 29th July – 3.00 pm
St Mary’s Church, Lastingham
Performance Workshop – Fitzwilliam Quartet

39) Thursday 29th July – 8.00 pm
Helmsley Arts Centre
Ryedale Festival Opera – Poulenc – La Voix humaine

40) Friday 30th July – 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
Pickering Parish Church
Schumann Day – Introduced by Richard Wigmore

41) Friday 30th July – 11.00 am
Pickering Parish Church
Schumann Day – ‘Florestan and Eusebius’ – Spring Song
Friday 30th July – Approximately tbc
Pickering Parish Church
Schumann Day – Lunch break

42) Friday 30th July – 2.00 pm
Pickering Parish Church
Schumann Day – Study Session – String Quartet in F major

43) Friday 30th July – 3.00 pm
Pickering Parish Church
Schumann Day – ‘Beloved Clara….’ – Marriage and new horizons

44) Friday 30th July – 6.00 pm
Pickering Parish Church
Schumann Day – Study Session – ‘A poet’s Love’

45) Friday 30th July – 8.00 pm
Pickering Parish Church
Schumann Day – ‘Robert, Clara………and Johannes’

46) Saturday 31st July – 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
Ryecrawl
Mystery tour

47) Sunday 1st August – 10.00 am
Rievaulx Abbey
Festival Eucharist

48) Sunday 1st August – 3.00 pm
Worsley Arms, Hovingham
Kirkbymoorside Brass Band

49) Sunday 1st August – 6.00 pm
Hovingham Hall/Worsley Arms
Final Gala Concert: – Northern Sinfonia – Director Bradly Creswick

You can contact the Festival Box Office on 01751 475777 or via email: info@ryedalefestival.co.uk

For more information visit www.ryedalefestival.co.uk

With so much going on during this 2 week extravaganza of an event, it’s an ideal opportunity to visit this wonderful part of Yorkshire. We’ve got a great selection of Helmsley guest houses, bed and breakfast in Pickering, holiday cottages in Malton, plus a whole host of accommodation near York and the North Yorkshire Moors.

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18-28 March: Bradford International Film Festival

Friday, March 5th, 2010 by admin
Bradford International Film Festival

See new cinema from around the world and classic films remastered

The Bradford International Film Festival is really making a name for itself on the international stage, and rightfully so; movies have been shown in Bradford for over a century!

This year, the 16th Bradford International Film Festival will continue to further Bradford’s reputation as the home of unique and ground-breaking cinema. The festival has attracted some big name special guests, including Fernando Meirelles, director of the Academy Award nominated City of God, who will be giving a talk prior to a screening of the film; revered British Actor, John Hurt, who’s career spans six decades and includes roles in such films as 10 Rillington Place, Midnight Express, Alien, The Field, and more recently, the Harry Potter movies. John’s talk will be followed by a screening of the 1980 film, The Elephant Man; considered by many to be his finest work. English cinematographer and film director, Nicolas Roeg will also be discussing his origins in the business before a screening of his 2007 supernatural drama, Puffball, and actress of theatre and film, Imelda Staunton will be looking back on her stage and screen career prior to a screening of the 2004 film, Vera Drake, for which she won numerous awards.

Enjoy a plethora of cinematic delights from around the globe, including previews and premieres from highly acclaimed directors, as well as remastered classics. Film fans will delight in the latest releases from the likes of Jacques Rivette, Tom DiCillo, Werner Herzog, Manuel Olivera, Todd Solondz and Chris Morris.

Locations

The 11 day event will be hosted at the National Media Museum in Bradford, as well as a number of other locations in the city and across Yorkshire, including Bradford Cineworld, Bradford Playhouse, Saltaire Victoria Hall, Hebden Bridge Picture House, Ilkley Playhouse, Leeds Trinity University College, Hyde Park Picture House, Otley Courthouse and Pocklington Arts Centre.

Find accommodation in Bradford for this event, including Bradford hotels and B&Bs.

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