Events

Art for Wellbeing – Sun 6 Jul 2025

Date: Sunday 6 July 2025, 10:30 am-12:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery

10.30am – 12.30pm, free

Art activities to release your creative energy!

Set in the beautiful surroundings of York Art Gallery’s Studio space, this 2 hour workshop gives opportunity for discovery and time to explore a variety of art materials and inspiring themes designed to promote wellbeing.

Enjoy the company of others, creating art with gentle guidance from artist Griselda Goldsbrough. For adults (16+ only) and running one Sunday each month, there is no need to book for this workshop, session will start at 10:30am and run for approximately 2 hours, it is a practical art session which is suitable for all abilities.

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Futuresound: York Comedy Festival in York Museum Gardens – Sun 6 Jul 2025

Date: Sunday 6 July 2025, 2:30 pm-7:30 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens

York Comedy Festival in York Museum Gardens
6 July 2025 | From 2.30pm | Book tickets here | Strictly 16+

On Sunday 6 July 2025, York Museum Gardens will host York Comedy Festival 2025!

The all new one day festival is headlined by award winning Irish Comedian and presenter Dara Ó Briain and Canadian comic Katherine Ryan, alongside a selection of the UK’s best and most hilarious stand-ups including Yorkshire’s own Maisie Adam, Angelos Epithemiou + lots more!

Further details can be found at: https://www.york-comedy-festival.com/

This event is organised by Futuresound. If you have any questions about the event please visit Futuresound’s FAQ page.

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Life Drawing – Model as Muse – Sat 12 Jul 2025

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.

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Platespeak- letterpress workshop – Sun 13 Jul 2025

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.

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Sketchbook Circle at York Art Gallery – Wed 16 Jul 2025

Date: Wednesday 16 July 2025, 1:30 pm-3:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery

1:30pm-3:30pm, £5 per person (capacity: 20)

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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).

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Phineas Fickletickle Totally Tremendous Time Travelling Tincture – Sat 19 Jul 2025

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.

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York Castle Museum Kitchen: A feast of flowers – Sat 19 Jul 2025

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.

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Gala Poster Printing – Sat 19 Jul 2025

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.

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Sunday Sounds: The Ran Tanners – Sun 20 Jul 2025

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.

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Summer at York Castle Museum: Gala Flower Making Workshop – Sun 20 Jul 2025

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.

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