Date: Saturday 12 July 2025, 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery
Join us at York Art Gallery for life drawing workshops; whether you are a regular participant, would like to hone your skills, or try life drawing for the first time, these regular two-hour immersive Saturday sessions, led by Rob Oldfield, are a wonderful way to experience life drawing in a supportive and friendly environment.
Date: Sunday 13 July 2025, 10:30 am-1:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery
Platespeak
Sunday 13 July 2025
10.30am – 1.30pm | £40
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A letterpress workshop delivered by Thin Ice Press.
In recent works, especially Hz So Good and R U OK (both 2022), Harland Miller has played with the snappy, abbreviated forms of txt speak or ‘platespeak’ (the language of personalised number plates). In this workshop, we will embrace the personalised number plate as an art form. Participants will play with sense and meaning to create a bespoke ‘number plate’ using wood type. You will print your type and a bespoke border to create your own personalised number plate on paper. Participants will go home with a set of unique prints, showcasing their work.
Date: Wednesday 16 July 2025, 1:30 pm-3:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery
1:30pm-3:30pm, £5 per person (capacity: 20)
Tickets will become available approximately a month in advance.
Pick up a pencil – draw and discover!
Give yourself time to sharpen and share your drawing skills in this two-hour sketching workshop with artist Griselda Goldsbrough.
Enjoy working in sketchbooks in a relaxed and friendly group, taking inspiration from the collections at York Art Gallery. Materials provided.
These informal practical art sessions are for adults only (16+) and are suitable for absolute beginners or those who create regularly.
Sessions will run on one Wednesday each month.(Please book separately for each session).
Date: Saturday 19 July 2025, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum
Phineas Fickletickle Totally Tremendous Time Travelling Tincture
19 July 2025
Three performances per day | Included in general admission
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Join Phineas Fickletickle with his imaginary enchanted hot air balloon, as he travels round the museum to help his friends get back to their own time period using his collection of magical tinctures. They will visit Medieval, Georgian and Edwardian periods, as well as the 1960s, so there’s plenty to discover and learn.
Visitors can follow these promenade performances which will run for 30 minutes.
Please note this is a standing performance and travels through the yard out to the mill area at the back of the museum.
Date: Saturday 19 July 2025, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum
York Castle Museum Kitchen: A feast of flowers
19 July 2025
Throughout the day | Included in general admission
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As part of our summer celebrating York galas of the past, which were full of floral displays, watch live cookery demonstrations that use edible flowers, some from our own Museum Gardens. There’ll be tasters to try and recipes to take away for you to create at home.
Dates: Saturday 19 July 2025–Sunday 31 August 2025, 10:30 am-1:30 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum
Gala Poster Printing
19 July – 31 August
Throughout the day | Included in general admission
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Be inspired by Summer at York Castle Museum and the beautiful posters from Victorian galas and fairs to create your own amazing poster! We’ll provide all the materials and instructions you need to get creative.
This is a self-led activity, drop in anytime throughout your visit.
Date: Sunday 20 July 2025, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum
Sunday Sounds: Live Music at the Castle Museum – The Ran Tanners
20 July 2025
Performances throughout the day | Included in general admission
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Join us on Sunday at York Castle Museum for live music from the past.
The Ran Tanners are a pair of roving miscreants who (when not doing hard labour in chokey or dodging the pressgang), play the traditional music of Georgian and Victorian England using Fiddles, Bagpipes and Squeezeboxes.
Date: Sunday 20 July 2025, 10:30 am-3:30 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum
Summer at York Castle Museum: Gala Flower Making Workshop
20 July 2025
10:30am – 3:30pm
Included in general admission
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Join us for a fun and creative, artist led, flower-making workshop. We’ll be inspired by the beautiful summer floral decorations on our historic Victorian street, Kirkgate —perfect for families!
Drop in any-time.
Date: Sunday 20 July 2025, 11:00 am-4:00 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Meet me at the Yorkshire Museum: Viking North
Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays from 20 July – 29 August 2025
11am – 4pm | Included in general admission | Suitable for all ages
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There are only two seasons in the Viking world.
Summer and Winter.
It is winter.
Night and day are dark and the air is cold. Raids must stop. Longboats are pulled out of the freezing river onto land, and the Great Army must shelter from the harsh weather.
In the dark, fire meets ice and crackles. A story can be heard on the wind. A tune is played. A laugh rings out!
This summer, visit the Winter… as the camp dwellers bring the dark season to life with stories, music, games and laughter.
Meet characters from the Winter camp and discover more from the Viking North exhibition through live performance and interactive interpretation with History Riot.
Date: Tuesday 22 July 2025, 10:30 am-4:00 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum
Silly History Boys Circus Skills
22 July 2025
10.30am – 4pm | Included in general admission
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The Silly History Boys will be delighting us with circus fun. Watch their silly antics and daring acts, then have a go yourself outside in the yard.
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