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10-19 June: The Summer Spark 2011

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 by RichFox
Kirsty Hopkins shop at the King Street Workshops, Pateley Bridge

Kirsty Hopkins shop at the King Street Workshops, Pateley Bridge

King Street Studio Workshops, Pateley Bridge

Located in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the King Street Studio Workshops unite a group of full-time designers and artists, all of whom are inspired by their surroundings – the fabulous contrasting landscape – the heather moorland, the high fells, the gentle farmland – of Nidderdale, home to many craftspeople, artists and designers.

The Workshops are sited in the Old Workhouse complex, and the dedicated makers who are based there include artists who work in ceramic, gemstones, precious metals and blown glass. They are a collective working heritage and their studios are open to members of the public, as is the Nidderdale Museum which is also based on site.

They include the textile artist and photographer Kirsty Hopkins whose work can be seen here and who runs a number of textile courses including in felt making and batik. Other artists include the ceramic sculptor Dodie Hallas, Moxon and Simm contemporary jewellery, the glassmakers Sanders and Wallace, the hat maker Claire Spooner and Zeitgeist fine art by Alister Colley.

There are a number of events throughout the year, including The Summer Spark 2011 which is a terrific opportunity and see and buy original work directly from the artists and designers. What’s more, two of the studios - Maureen Little and Moxon & Simm – are on the Open Studio Trail.

Bunting outside the King Street Workshops

Bunting outside the King Street Workshops

Further information, including directions, can be found on the King Street Studio Workshop website.

And if you’re looking for accommodation nearby, check out the Yorkshire Dales guest houses on Hello Yorkshire.

And if you’re into the Arts, you may be interested in York’s Festival of Ideas.

 

 

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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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14-17 April: Celebrate 100 years at the Harrogate Spring Flower Show

Friday, March 25th, 2011 by admin
Harrogate Spring Flower Show 2011

Harrogate Spring Flower Show 2011

The North of England Horticultural Society celebrates its centenary this year, and you can enjoy the festivities at the 2011 Harrogate Spring Flower Show.

Hosting an array of exciting new show gardens, the dazzling flower halls, numerous live demonstrations, floral art, the cookery theatre and The Garden Roadshow, there really is something for everyone whether you’re new to gardening or an ‘old hand’, you can go and learn how to enjoy your garden to the full.

There will be lots of opportunities to taste some of Yorkshire’s superb locally grown and produced food, whilst a wide variety of plants and flowers will be available should you be after any new additions for your garden.

There will be something for everyone:

Show Gardens – this is the first year Outside Show Gardens will be at the show, and the theme is sustainability

Nursery Displays – horticultural nurseries from all over the UK will be displaying

Kitchen Garden Live – advice on how to ‘grow your own’ with live demonstrations on fruit and vegetable growing

Gardening with Nature – learn how to encourage birds and other wildlife into your garden

Cookery Theatre – watch experienced chefs cooking with local, fresh produce

Floral Art – flower arranging demonstrations and fabulous exhibitions in the Floral Art marquee

Garden Roadshow – talks and Q&A sessions on a wide range of gardening topics

Photographic Competition – just bring your gardening shots to the Garden Roadshow marquee to be in with a chance of winning

Children’s Discovery Zone – plenty of fun activities for the kids, including competitions

Foods Marquee – this popular marquee will be packed to the rafters with fine foods, meat, dairy, treats, wines and spirits

Craft, Gifts and Horticultural Shopping – a spectacular array of gardening and outdoor stalls

Tickets are on sale now – see here for more information.

And don’t forget to book your Harrogate hotels or Harrogate bed and breakfast in advance.

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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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27 March-18 April: Easter Fun for Families

Monday, March 8th, 2010 by RichFox
easter events in yorkshire

There's plenty going on this spring throughout Yorkshire. Below are just some of the great things to do in Yorkshire this Easter

The list below is for 2010; for a very comprehensive 2011 list, see here: Easter activities in Yorkshire in April 2011.

Easter’s a great time for kids and there are many events aimed at families across Yorkshire for you to enjoy – here’s a selection:

Thorp Perrow Arboretum’s Easter Bunny Trail

Mad rabbits and easter eggs, plus a puzzle to get you thinking: 27 March – 18 April

RHS Harlow Carr’s Easter Egg Hunt

The Easter Bunny has hidden some large eggs in the gardens – find as many as you can and claim a delicious chocolate treat: 10am – 4pm, 2-5 April

Studfold Easter Egg Hunt

Win an Easter egg at the Studfold egg hunt – find eggs and nests and solve the clues: 3-5 April

Ripley Castle Easter Activities

Lots of fun events for all the family: 3-5 April

Great Wizzick Easter Egg Hunt

At Thornton Hall Farm Country Park – fun and chocolate on this working farm with farm animals, a play barn and tea room: 4 April

Newby Hall’s Easter Fun Weekend

Discover the Newby treasure on a fantasy woodland adventure, including storybook characters in costumes to help you in your quest: 4-5 April

Sutton Park’s Children’s Treasure Hunt

Family treasure hunt around the wood and spring flowers: 4 April

Find suitable Yorkshire accommodation for these events, including Yorkshire Dales guest houses and York hotels.

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6-7 March: RHS Grow Your Own Open Days at Harlow Carr

Saturday, February 27th, 2010 by admin
Grow Your Own Weekend at RHS Harlow Carr Gardens, Harrogate

Learn How to grow your own food from the experts at Harlow Carr, Harrogate

This fantastic weekend long event is not to be missed by any green fingered enthusiast interested in growing their own food.

The open weekend includes talks by experts from the Royal Horticultural Society, with handy tips and advice; planting and cultivating demonstrations, so you can see how it’s done first hand; fascinating walks around the Harlow Carr gardens, ideal for inspiration; and a range of exhibitors of fine homegrown fruit and vegetables.

Come along and find out how to get the most from your garden, what ever size it is.

Entry £1 on Sat 6th March (free to RHS members)

Looking to stay in Harrogate for this event? Why not check out our selection of Harrogate hotels, or book in to a Harrogate bed and breakfast.

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