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Tales from the Trail- February Half Term 2025 – Sat 22 Feb 2025

Tales from the Trail- February Half Term 2025

Date: Saturday 22 February 2025, 10:30 am - 4:00 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum

Tales from the Trail 
22 February 2025, 10:30am – 4pm
Included in general admission – Please confirm exact times at the museum on the day of your visit.

Do you know your grocer’s from your greengrocer’s?
Hardware from haberdasher’s?
Confectioner’s from chemist’s? ……. ( hope so!)
Prepare for silliness, stories and urgent shopping with our Kirkgate characters. Pick up a copy of our free Time Travellers Trail at the ticket desk so you can get involved too!
Information
Two slightly madcap Victorian characters will be on Kirkgate at various times during the days to interact with each other and with the visitors. Short scenes take place, each concerning a story or a bit of fun about objects to be purchased from the shops of Kirkgate, all belonging within our Time Travellers museum trail.

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Meet Me at The Yorkshire Museum- February Half Term 2025 – Sat 22 Feb 2025

Meet Me at The Yorkshire Museum- February Half Term 2025

Date: Saturday 22 February 2025, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum

Meet Me at The Yorkshire Museum is included in general admission.

 

Ever wanted to visit a Viking?

Run into a Roman?

Follow the footsteps of a Fossil Hunter?

Meet a Medieval Storyteller?

…. A whole host of exciting characters will be dropping into the Yorkshire Museum this year!

This is YOUR invitation to ….

…….. MEET ME AT THE YORKSHIRE!

 

Suitable for all ages.

Short stories and object handling throughout the day. Times will be advertised at the Museum on the day.

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Mesolithic art and personal ornamentation: Insights from Star Carr and beyond – Wed 5 Mar 2025

Mesolithic art and personal ornamentation: Insights from Star Carr and beyond

Date: Wednesday 5 March 2025, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Venue: Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum

Join Dr Andy Needham (Department of Archaeology at the University of York) for the next in our series of free talks in association with our current exhibition, Star Carr: Life after the ice.

The talk explores a collection of beads and pendants discovered at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, which includes perforated animal teeth; drilled pieces of amber; shale beads and a unique engraved shale pendant, which constitutes the earliest Mesolithic engraving in Britain. A resemblance between this engraved object and similar forms found on other engraved objects from other parts of Europe invites comparison between Star Carr and the wider British and European Mesolithic context. While Mesolithic art and personal ornamentation remains a relatively rare phenomenon, a growing corpus of objects from across Britian and Europe provides a fascinating insight into the Mesolithic world.

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Life Drawing – Model as Muse – Sat 8 Mar 2025

Life Drawing - Model as Muse

Date: Saturday 8 March 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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Sketchbook Circle at York Art Gallery – Wed 26 Mar 2025

Sketchbook Circle at York Art Gallery

Date: Wednesday 26 March 2025, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery

 1:30pm-3:30pm, £5 per person

Book tickets here

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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Art for Wellbeing – Sun 30 Mar 2025

Art for Wellbeing

Date: Sunday 30 March 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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