Festival of Ideas
Princess Anne visits York's Festival of Ideas
8:00am Friday 28th June 2013
THIS year’s Festival of Ideas has been hailed the most successful to date with attendance expected to have well exceeded last year.
Comedian Ross Noble turns up at Festival of Ideas after invite on Twitter
9:26am Thursday 27th June 2013
YORK’S Festival of Ideas had a surprise visit from comedian Ross Noble.
City folk ‘politer’ than rural cousins
9:23am Thursday 27th June 2013
CITY dwellers are more polite and connected than people who live in villages or bland new towns, research has revealed.
Taking science to the streets as part of York Festival of Ideas
10:12am Monday 24th June 2013
SCIENTISTS and healthcare workers demonstrated how diseases are being tackled to shoppers in York city centre.
Clocking In, York Cocoa House, in Blake Street, York, June 25-29
11:55am Monday 24th June 2013
THIS week, the York Cocoa House, in Blake Street, York, will become a temporary theatre in the evenings when the audience will be “hit by the gorgeous smell of chocolate and a cacophony of chocolate-making sounds”.
Engineer behind London's shard at York Festival Of Ideas
8:44am Saturday 22nd June 2013
Does York need to go high rise? STEPHEN LEWIS talks to one of the engineers behind Europe’s tallest building
The Dam Busters, City Screen, York, June 23
12:17pm Thursday 20th June 2013
ON Sunday afternoon, City Screen, York commemorates scientist Sir Barnes Wallis and his invention of the bouncing bomb, deployed 70 years ago during the Second World War.
Anne Boleyn, King’s Manor until June 22
12:50pm Thursday 20th June 2013
MOVE over BBC2’s late-night romps in The Tudors. Here comes Anne Boleyn, written by Howard Brenton for the Globe Theatre in London in 2010 and now making its first appearance in York at the King’s Manor, once Henry VIII’s northern pad, as part of the York Festival of Ideas.
Top health scientist in diabetes talk
8:57am Tuesday 18th June 2013
SCOTLAND’S top health scientist will give a public lecture in York on how statistics could provide a formulae for tackling diabetes.
Welfare state in the spotlight at York's Festival of Ideas
7:50am Monday 17th June 2013
THE future of the benefits system came under the spotlight in York when a national panel of top writers and social commentators agreed sweeping changes would be needed to save the welfare state.
Festival of Ideas: Experts clash over ‘north-south split’
8:01am Saturday 15th June 2013
POLICY experts clashed over the existence of the north-south divide at a debate taking place as part of the York Festival of Ideas.
Festival shares ideas on nation's great divide
8:13am Friday 14th June 2013
YORK’S Festival of Ideas has been launched with the first of a series of events exploring the impact of growing divisions in Britain.
York Festival of Ideas starts with north and south theme
10:41am Thursday 13th June 2013
Today sees the start of York’s Festival of Ideas and with the event’s theme being north and south. MATT CLARK explores a commonly held urban myth
Festival Of Ideas launched
11:52am Monday 10th June 2013
BUSINESSES were urged to nurture creativity at the annual dinner of York Professionals, which launched the city’s Festival Of Ideas.
City debate for new authors
8:20am Wednesday 5th June 2013
SOME of Britain’s brightest new writing talents are heading to York for a debate and discussion about the inspiration behind their work.
Festival of Ideas comes to York
10:09am Friday 31st May 2013
There will be something for everyone when the York Festival of Ideas hits town next month. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the festival that keeps on getting bigger.
We don’t shape the world – it shapes us
10:16am Friday 31st May 2013
IN THE late 1990s, investigations by journalist Peter Watson into the illegal trade in smuggled old masters and stolen antiquities led to a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary that shook the art world.
Top writers, speakers and thinkers to descend on York for Festival of Ideas
7:30am Tuesday 21st May 2013
THIS year's York Festival of Ideas, which kicks off on June 13, will be tackling the North-South divide head on.
Ideas Festival attracts world-class speakers
7:54am Friday 12th April 2013
INNOVATION and enterprise will be celebrated at scores of special events taking place as part of the 2013 York Festival of Ideas.
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Festival highlights
Events
• The Historic Atlas of York: Dr Peter Addyman on 2000 years of development in York. York Library, Museum Street, Saturday June 16, 2pm. Tickets £4.
• Brian Sewell in conversation. Ron Cooke Hub, Tuesday June 18, 6.30pm. Free but booking required.
• King of All Britain: TV historian Michael Wood on King Athelstan. Ron Cooke Hub, Wednesday June 19, 6pm. Free, but booking required
• Science out of the lab. St Sampson’s Square, June 22, 10am-3pm,
• Cracking Animation: an audience with Peter Lord, founder of Aardman Animations which created Wallace and Gromit. Scenic Stage Theatre, University of York, June 22, 2.15pm. Free but booking required
• Minster of Mystery – find out what recent excavations beneath York’s cathedral have revealed. York Minster, Tuesday June 25, 5.30pm. £10 (but free to York residents), booking required.
• A reading by Seamus Heaney. University of York Central Hall, June 26, 7.30pm. Tickets £10.
• The Yorkshire DNA Project – the history of Yorkshire’s people as hidden in our genes. Ron Cooke Hub, June 26, 7.30pm. Free, but booking required
• Melvyn Bragg talks about his novel Grace And Mary. Ron Cooke Hub, Friday June 28, 8pm. Free, but booking required.
Exhibitions
• Barnes Wallis: In Yorkshire and Beyond. June 11-23, Merchant Adventurers Hall
• Beeching 50 years on: The man who reshaped Britain’s railways. June 13-16, National Railway Museum
• Looking back at Hungate. June 13-29, DIG
• Fulford Tapestry. June 17-29, St Helen’s Church
• Royal Academy of Engineering: Design for living. June 22-26, Ron Cooke Hub
