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‘Melanie’, 2014, Grayson Perry. Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of York Art Gallery, the Art Fund and the Arts Council England / Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund.
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Over the past year, One&Other has been a microcosm of the cultural
world as a whole. With the Tories now in power, we have had to sit back, take a hard look at ourselves and evolve with the times. This is our evolution. Like most people working in the arts, we have had to identify what we really want, and what it really is people want from us. So here we are. We stand by our old company’s original ethos: to promote positivity and change. We will always celebrate the city in which we live and strive to create opportunities for those who are ready to take them. Through our cultural endeavours as a creative agency, we are looking to create industry and scream from the rooftops until our throats hurt that we are here to help, here to stay. We are proud to present, in this issue, an inspiring collection of work from those we admire alongside our own creative endeavours: an exciting sister project will be launching in the coming months called FilmYork; there are movies in the pipeline; an impressive new website and portfolio to share and news about our independent business platform Proudly. On top of this, we will now be producing the magazine biannually, giving people lots of time to get in contact and help be a part of it. For now though, we scurry behind closed doors and build our winter nests, a haven from which to work with you: creatively paving the way for what lies ahead.
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News Article: p.10 — World-Class Art at York Minster
In Brief — p.08 The News in York FilmYork— p.09 The New Initiative to Make York a Centre of Filmmaking Cycle Heaven — p.10 Bigger, Better, Faster, More! Small Business Saturday — p.12 The Return of the Independent Pop-Up World-Class Art at York Minster — p. 14 The Unveiling of an Icon
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This year NRM has done an absolutely astounding job of housing some of the Theatre Royal’s big shows while it is being refurbished. Christmas is set to be no different as for the first time in his fifty year reign as panto king, Kaler will perform Old Mother Goose in The Station Hall. 11 Dec–3 Jan.
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A new night set up at Kiosk on Fossgate has an innovative open-doors policy to filmmakers wanting to share their shorts in a lo-fi, laid back environment. It’s a bi-monthly event that encourages filmmakers, cinophiles and artists to meet under one roof and share their work. Submissions of films are taken in advance of each show. For more information visit: byofilm.com.
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Shambles Market has really undergone some great changes since the redevelopment; aside from the usual sellers there has been an influx of new start up businesses and food sellers and now they are opening at nighttime. Open every Friday until Christmas from 5pm to 9pm, the new night market will include popular traders selling a range of unique gifts, stunning antiques, beautiful bags, stylish homeware and crafts, cult and classic vinyl and sweet treats.
From grass roots to professional filmmaking, FilmYork is an exciting new portal that connects creative enthusiasm with corporate expertise to support a new wave of UK films.
Launched on 1 December as part of York UNESCO City of Media Arts, FilmYork will seek to spark conversation and inspire collaboration between aspiring and experienced filmmakers: a platform that aims to be inclusive rather than elitist. For more information visit: filmyork.org.
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So what can you expect? Apart from the space – an amazing selection of bikes: from custom-built carbon road bikes to stately townies; f rom formidable cycle crosse rs to kid’s balance bike s; f rom the ruf f t y-tuf f t y to the refined and delicate; from £150 to over £8,000. We’ve a well equipped workshop, ready to handle most repairs on the spot. We’ve a beautiful café – serving a diverse range of sit down and t a ke away food, wi th ve g e t a ri an, ve g an and gluten free options and of course, excellent cof fee. With indoor bike parking, as well as plenty of car parking, we’re easy to get to – just off the Fulford Road and immediately adjacent to the nexus of cycle paths that converge on Millennium Bridge. We are cycle friendly, cycle-club friendly and family-friendly. We want to conver t you and the world to one of mankind’s greatest ever inventions and liberator from the ills of modernity – the bicycle! Come and visit us today. We are Cycle Heaven.
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along at just the right time. When we set out to find something new back in February, we’d never have imagined that we’d be sitting here at the end of the year with 10,0 0 0 square feet of retail space and the smell of freshly cooked food from our café wafting up the stairs. What we came across was something truly special – a huge Victorian industrial building, with high ceilings, cast iron columns and 2.5 miles of original floorboards (they needed a bit of a sand). We immediately saw the potential and decided to take it on the spot. After months of hard graft, we have opened one of the biggest cycle shops in Yorkshire – right here, in York, its cycling capital. And if we’re not to be the biggest, then we’re determined to make it the most beautiful. We’ve let the building drive the design and stripped it back to make the most of this wonderful airy space. We’re in and we’re open and we intend to spend the next few years embellishing it.
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returning to york city centre after last year ’s triumphant
event which saw over 16,000 customers enjoying a world of independent shopping, Small Business Saturday once again highlights the artisan businesses of York. From clothing and food to music and gift ideas, this is the shopping event of the year, encouraging customers to shop locally and support small businesses across a wide range of tastes. Proudly In York is delighted to present the culmination of the hard work and industry of the hundreds of retailers and craftspeople helping York to thrive, all in the shadow of glorious York Minster.
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art is slowly being unveiled at York Minster, as the conservation and restoration of the cathedral’s Great East Window and majestic East End gathers pace. The project is one of the largest of its kind in Europe and has seen the Minster’s East End wrapped in 16 miles of scaffolding for nearly 12 years. Now, as work on the historic stonework nears completion, residents and visitors to the city are being given the first glimpses of the newly restored masterpiece. York Minster contains the greatest collection of medieval glass in Britain, with its 128 windows holding more than 50% of the country’s surviving works. The Great East Window is arguably its crowning glory – the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the country and of international significance and importance. The size of a tennis court, it towers nearly 80 feet above the cathedral’s
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floor and dominates the East End of the building. In 2008, all 311 stained glass panels from the window were removed by York Glaziers Trust to start a painstaking and hugely ambitious programme of conservation. The window was originally designed and created between 1405 and 1408 by John Thornton, the foremost master glazier of his age. It’s a window of enormous ambition in both scale and subject matter and is one of the great artistic achievements of the Middle Ages. The trust has already conserved 157 panels from the window, with each taking between 400 and 600 hours of work, and these have been re turne d to the window during the summe r. The scaffolding which covers the window’s interior is due to be removed by early 2016, allowing visitors to the cathedral the first glimpses of Thornton’s masterpiece.
The exterior of the Minster’s East End is also being transformed with the layers of scaffolding which have covered the building since 2004 being gradually stripped away to reveal the work of the cathedral’s stonemasons. The team, which still uses the traditional craft skills which would have been used in medieval times alongside cuttingedge techniques, has cut and fixed nearly 2,500 stones as part of the project, including replacing a badly weathered figure at the apex of the window believed to represent St Peter, to who York Minster is dedicated. In addition to this prominent figure, the team has hand carved dozens of new grotesques to replace those eroded over the centuries by the weather. Following the theme of medieval ailments and illnesses, the figures include the Plague Doctor, Madness and the Black Prince,
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who died of dysentery. Over the next few months the final scaffolding will be removed, unveiling the majestic East End for the first time in nearly 12 years. The work has formed part of York Minster Revealed, a five year project due for completion in March 2016 which has seen a £20million investment in the cathedral, generously supported by a £10.5m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Work to restore the remaining stained glass from the Great East Window will take around two years to complete, before it is returned to the window in early 2018. The final panels of glass tell the stories dramatised in the Mystery Plays, which the cathedral will stage next summer for the first time in 16 years. For further details, visit yorkminster.org/mysteryplays2016.
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Culture Article: p.24 — Love, Luck and Jack Edwards
The Cliterati: Dirty Girl — p.18 Reading You the Riot Grrl Act
A Very Public Obsession: Mark Hearld — p.38 Into the Lumber Room
Love, Luck and Jack Edwards — p.24 The Singer’s New EP and Music Video
More than Real: Nathan Walsh — p.42 From New York to Old York
Catching Fire: Mad As Birds — p.28 From Elijah Wood to Dylan Thomas
The Wonders of Autumn — p.46 Laura Jackson and Alice Levine
Far from Home: Kim Hopkins — p.34 Her Cuban Documentary Adventure
Baby’s on Fire — p.48 Our Pastel Portrayal of Winter’s Looks
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A Riot Grrl band revelling in the scene, Dirty Girl explain what it is to make a noise.
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Do you think gender is an issue in indie music? Why ‘Dirty Girl?’ I think that gender is an issue in practically every music scene. Most people are welcoming and don’t bat an eyelid at the fact that we’re women, but you can’t help but notice comments, remarks, things that you know wouldn’t be said if we were guys. All too often we’ve heard “What, so you’re all girls?” or “There’s no guy in the band?” or had sound guys (I’m yet to meet a sound woman at a venue, either) hover over us, practically tutting at us expecting us to do something wrong or not be able to set up our own fucking guitars. I guess it’s just general patronising, being told that you’re good ‘for a girl’ and little things like that, but each comment and remark grinds you down. Thankfully, we’re part of a scene full of a lot of wonderful people who are as anti-sexism as we are and there’s a great feminist (and lgbtq) vibe at most of our shows. Also, a lot of our male musician friends have been incredibly supportive of us and the content of our songs which has been just fab. Have you been getting some good publicity and support? So far we’ve had a great amount of support and feedback from lovely people. Publicity isn’t something we really actively reach out for we tend to just lay back and watch things happen so its always a nice surprise to see bits here and there. The same with gigs really, we’re always surprised and very grateful to be asked to play.
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That anyone can start a band! If you’ve ever been at a show and thought, “I wanna do that” then do it. We started not knowing a single thing about playing our instruments apart from what we’d seen at other gigs and then went on to teach ourselves. You really don’t have to be the next Hendrix: it’s okay to be unsure of yourself, it’s okay to be angry, it’s okay to not fit society’s scope of what’s ‘normal’. Write a song about it and make yourself feel fierce! Tell us something about each individual band member. Sumena: I do freelance illustration/printmaking/animation, which comes in handy for gig posters and band art to Estella and Molly’s delight, I am an avid Michael Jackson fan, I mostly listen to traditional Far Eastern and African music. Molly: I do nothing but eat, watch RuPaul’s Drag Race and play/listen to music. Big fan of trains, Weezer and going to car boot sales. Sometimes writes children’s stories but mainly just spend most days sat in cafes trying to think of ideas. Treat yo self. Estella: I like attempting to play whatever instruments happen to be nearby, which explains how I got into drumming. I’ve recently started to learn how to do sound engineering, as I figured I’ve been gigging with various bands for a while now so it’s about time I learned about the technical side of things too. Other interests include the Kisstory playlist and gin. We all love a good boogie and never stop eating.
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We formed in York, I think around late June, and it was something that we (Molly and Sumena: third member Estella not pictured) had been thinking about for a while. Then one night we were sat with Estella in a bar and somebody looked at us and said, “You guys look like a band.” And then we looked at each other and said, “Wanna be in a band?” and that was that. We noticed quite quickly that coming across bands in York with a woman in, let alone made up of a majority of women, was not something that was so easily found.
What message, if any, do you want your fans to take away?
Which of your songs would you say encapsulates you as a group? ‘Dog Shit’ was the first song we ever wrote but I think the first time we really got excited and realised that something was actually starting to happen was when we first sat down and played ‘Fat Girl’. There’s two very different sides to us; angry with something to say and the other fuzzy and a bit sentimental. Fat Girl is the first extreme and Glue the second.
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The Black Swan A proper “foodie holiday” that show-
cases one of the finest areas for cuisine in the world, the menu of The Black Swan, Helmsley proves Yorkshire is about fresh ingredients, ripe and colourful vegetables and the very best quality meats and cheeses that you’d be hardpressed to better in any part of the world. “Food serves several purposes,” says awardwinning chef Patrick Bardoulet, “and there
are different foods for different occasions. I want mine to be a celebration, a love affair with ingredients and an exciting journey for those eating it.” It is this journey that The Black Swan and One&Other now invite diners to embark on. Over the coming months they have a series of specialist gourmet nights centred around Patrick’s artfully curated menu.
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Love, Luck and Jack Edwards
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The singer-songwriter’s new EP and video are about to hit the streets.
“I couldn’t really think of any career I’d rather do than one that involves music,” says singer-songwriter Jack Edwards. “Music has become a calling, a nagging that will wake me in the night if I haven’t finished a song. I’m obsessed.” Like thousands of other musicians, Jack’s obsession has proven vital in carving out a career in one of the most notoriously confounding creative industries. Except Jack hasn’t quite given up the day job – teaching music in a secondary school – where alongside guitar and vocal tutoring he also writes and performs his own material. This sensibility has put Jack on more solid ground than musical ambition often allows.
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video for Jack’s single ‘Love and Luck’, starring Hamish Logan and Holly Morgan and directed by Nik Morris. DOP: Ben Bentley, all aesthetic: Vicky Parry. Production overseen by Miles Watts. More information about Jack Edwards’ music can be found on his website at: jackedwardsmusic.com Facebook.com/JackEdwardsBand @jackedwardsuk
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all in?’ or, ‘Are you doing your music career justice?’ and they’re right to ask. But to keep on creating music I need to earn money from other jobs until that day comes where I’m self-sufficient as a songwriter and a performer.” Jack’s decisions have inevitably been steered in recent years by an autoimmune health condition called Graves’ Disease, which affects the metabolism: the resulting swelling in Jack’s neck has greatly hindered his voice at times, if not his reach. “Some days I just feel rough, beaten up before I’ve even stepped out the door. Even though my progress may have been slowed by Graves’, I’m determined never to let it stop me. Lots of people have trials and tribulations they have to face, and mine have only made me more resilient – more determined to enjoy what I do and simply make good music.” Jack describes himself as “a grafter by nature. It’s a Yorkshire thing.” Born in Pontefract in the late Eighties, Jack grew up in nearby Castleford, which was at that time a town recovering and adjusting after the closure of the coalmines. “I maintain that I write a lot of my songs about my experiences of my hometown and I’ll never run out of material.” Jack’s main focus over the last year has been on his EP Love & Luck, recorded with Andy Hawkins, a renowned music producer in the Leeds music scene. Love & Luck is raw, muscular and soulful, and Jack’s influences can be heard in the sound, the arrangements and in the songs themselves: an Americana edge of classic Ryan Adams, Pearl Jam-esque angst and the underlying soul of Sheffield artist Paul Carrack. “I wanted Love & Luck to truly reflect my beliefs,” says Jack, “hence the opening line, ‘This is real life…’” Jack has extended the creative spectrum of Love & Luck by recently recording a music video with film director Nik Morris and One&Other Creative. “The experience of filming the video felt very natural on my part. I was just playing guitar and singing to a camera instead of an audience, with a short film woven into the story. “I’m excited to go out and play these songs to people and I believe that good songs speak for themselves, and eventually they will be heard. In the last few months, I’ve settled in knowing that my perseverance will pay off, provided that I keep writing and gigging – and keep moving forward.”
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The exciting new production company take us from their award-winning debut to a slate of new movies.
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Above: Elijah Wood in Mad As Birds’ feature, Set Fire To The Stars
With their first feature film – the Elijah
Wood-starring Set Fire To The Stars – out in the world following a triumphant worldwide release and three bafta wins, Mad As Birds Films represent that rare thing: an emerging independent production company working with the film industry at large to create original, commercial films. Producers Andy Evans and Ade Shannon, along with actor and writer Celyn Jones, have fast become a filmmaking force to be reckoned with, their plans to follow up Set Fire with a slew of projects no less ambitious. “We came together as individuals to make Set Fire To The Stars as a one-off production,” says Andy, “and it was only during the end of the production in June 2014 that Mad As Birds was born. We’d had such a great time, had loads of ideas, that we decided to form a business and take our ideas forward and see where we could go.” Set Fire To The Stars – which stars Celyn Jones as venerated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, alongside Elijah Wood as John Brinnin, the
chap charged with keeping Thomas on the straight and narrow during his visit to 1950s America – filmed in Swansea doubling for New York, with stunning black and white photography telling a fascinating episode of the poet’s troubled life. “I wanted to play Dylan and I knew I could,” says Celyn. “Then when I met the others (and co-writer/director Andy Goddard) it became obvious that we were all passionate to make the film with virtually no money but the desire to make it happen. And then when Elijah got on board, we had that major star to help us find finance, and things snowballed from there. In the end, we made the film exactly the way we wanted to make it.” The film was shot in several weeks and released within a year of production. “It was hard,” recalls Ade Shannon, “much harder than I even imagined, and it stays with you much longer than you think it will. Not in a negative way, but there is so much stuff to do once the film is finished. But by being hard and
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“The film industry can be a very personal pursuit, so if you can help other people along the way, there is an industry to connect to and be a part of”
and various film charities, alongside Michael Sheen and Eddie Redmayne. More recently, he has become the first person to read a long-lost Dylan Thomas poem and locked himself away in a basement with Eddie Izzard to pen the comedian/writer’s first feature film. In short, Mad As Birds has changed his life. “All these amazing projects have just come together. I mean you’re never prepared, you do your best, and the rewards have been phenomenal.” Among other accolades, the script for Set Fire To The Stars was accepted this year into the main collection of the Oscars library, which delights Celyn: “It all comes from the action of committing to doing something which has that’s become our ethos and our mantra.” For a large part of his career, Celyn has worked in education, tutoring and encouraging students with learning difficulties. “It’s a constant source of inspiration, watching them achieve their wildest dreams and supporting their creative ideas alongside my own ambitions: I wanted to see them succeed.”
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doing/learning everything, it also perfectly prepared us for the type of project we wanted to develop, the skills needed, and one of the most important things – the type of people we want to work with.” Mad As Birds’ current projects include I’m Jack, from the novel by Mark Blacklock, the story of John Humble, aka Wearside Jack, the composer of hoax letters and a recorded tape sent to newspapers and police in 1978/79 claiming responsibility for the murders of women in West Yorkshire. Alongside the thriller Keepers, directed by Kristoffer Nyholm (The Killing, Taboo, Enfield Haunting) and Eddie Izzard’s first feature Twelve Minutes To Midnight – which are all now in development – they have also released One&Other Creative’s first feature film on VOD, the dogme-esque Amber. “Set Fire has completely changed my career and my perspective. The reaction to the film, script and performances have wonderful.” In the process, Celyn has also become an ambassador and spokesperson for Into Film
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Mad As Birds’ current view of the state of the British Film Industry is, according to Andy, “Honestly, I don’t think we have a view. Our first and only completed film we made totally outside of the traditional method employed by the majority of films, which gave us total freedom, but made it much harder.” “I believe young people should have a say and that they deserve our support and nurturing,”
asserts Celyn. “The film industry can be a very personal and selfish pursuit, so if you can help other people along the way, there is an industry to connect to and be a part of. I wish everybody in our industry was an ambassador. I wouldn’t be a writer if I hadn’t had the experience of meeting these young people who were trying hard to make it.”
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The veteran filmmaker has chosen a subject both historical and current for her new film: Cuba.
As her follow-up project to ‘Hotel Folly’, filmmaker Kim Hopkins was looking for inspiration. Having spent six years of her life documenting the trials and tribulations of York’s Grays Court boutique hotel during the worst recession in decades, inspiration came calling from Cuba. While Folie A Deux explored the excesses of capitalism and its impact on the family, Kim’s new documentary Voices Of The Sea – A Cuban Odyssey, explores the excesses of Communism.
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In 1998, Kim had co-founded the
documentary department in the Cuban Film School (eictv) twenty five kilometres south of Havana. Over the next four years, she would go back and forth from the UK to Cuba working in the film school, making contacts and beginning to understand how society worked. “A lot of woolly lefty liberals like me were getting a real surprise when they went to Cuba: they began to see the reality of the regime – and I’m certainly not romantic about what a regime does to people – but there resides within me a Socialist ideology which will not go away. Working with the documentary students, I soon learned what we were and weren’t allowed to film: a highly sophisticated surveillance state exists with supreme subtlety.” It’s had over fifty years to perfect it. “I could be sitting in this room with you right now and not entirely know if you were getting paid by the state.” “Every street corner in Cuba has an informer: the Cubans themselves don’t know who they are, so if you want to make a film, you have to learn what the state does and doesn’t like to talk about.” Kim found that Cuban music, architecture, cars, rum and Ernest Hemingway went down very well. “The weight of the state would help you if you were making a film about any of those subjects.” While she was teaching one of the students from Costa Rica, Kim went to a fishing village called Playa Cajio. “They were still rowing out to sea in little wooden boats and fishing in the same way as in The Old Man and the Sea, so I realised that could be my way of telling this story.” Kim made contact with the Cuban film school, who agreed to pave the way with filming permits: “You need permits to enter the Artemisia area, one to be in the Playa Caijo village itself, one to get onto the river, one to get out to sea, and one to get in a state boat. Your proposal has to indicate exactly what you’ll be doing, sometimes even what side of the street you’ll be working on.” “There are certain things you have to steer away from: anything to do with dissidents, you could end up very quickly in prison. Cubans escaping the country is another no-go area. But where there are boats, there are people trying to get away.”
And so Kim, producer Margareta Szabo and Dominic the translator entered Cuba under the guise of a cultural exchange rather than as filmmakers. Then, on 17 December 2014, President Obama made his announcement about America and Cuba “renewing diplomatic relations,” which on the one hand was hitting the zeitgeist, but on the other meant that Cuba was set to become a centre of political and media interest. In February 2015, the filmmakers decided to bite the bullet and head to Cuba, despite having no real financing to do so. They entered Playa Caijo village and lived there for six weeks before the Cuban military turfed them out. “ We were shopped by someone and given four hours to get out,” says Kim. “They didn’t want to look at any of our footage, they just wanted us out.” In the time they were living in the village, the filmmakers found two desires from many of the villagers: a desperate need to tell their story, and a desire to get out. Within the first week of being there, the filmmakers had found their Old Man and his wife, who had already lost her first husband to an escape attempt along with twenty nine other Cubans who had drowned trying to get to Mexico: the long route round to the USA. “After three weeks, we got a whisper that others were planning to escape. This I can’t go into detail about as you’ll have to wait for the film to come out. What I can say is that we got unique material.” This is where Kim dramatically leaves the story, before screening a fifteen minute extract from the documentary. Did the villagers escape, I ask? “They went missing at sea for too long a time. Let’s say it didn’t go to plan,” she says, “which makes for dramatic storytelling.” Kim is drawn to stories that exorcise demons and explore her past and her identity. She has made documentaries about singer songwriters Billy Bragg and Woody Guthrie, about families that are in transition or crisis, and act as microcosms for wider social comment. “They say you always make a film about yourself and I think there is something to that,” says Kim. “My father was a secret communist in the US Air Force and was torn between a salary and an ideology. I understand, even embrace this hypocrisy. It’s that tug of war that happens in Cuban families: there are real splits of ideology, yet real need for improved material wealth.”
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Cubans are “the original boat people” says Kim. In the Eighties, in the Mariel Boatlift, 125,000 Cubans left Cuba in just a few months. “I had no idea it was still happening: there are nearly two million Cubans in America, most of whom have discovered the lie of the American Dream.” Unlike popular opinion, Kim has the opposite view of what will happen to Cuba and their new relationship with America: “It’s not a thawing of relations: it’s geopolitics at play. There’s a form of capitalism creeping in, much like in China, but the state apparatus is still firmly in control. That’s one of the reasons why there’s an exodus of Cubans leaving the country.” There are others… “Whereas the world focuses on the migrants’ point of destination, we are viewing
these choices from the point of departure. Examining the forces at play – the push of a failing state versus the pull of a promise elsewhere”. Kim is trying to tell the story of those who decide to leave their families, country and ideology. However, there is also the story of those who decide to stay, to tough it out. Kim’s ‘Old Man’ is one such character. Though many of his family have left for the USA, he believes that the promise of the capitalist dream is not compensation enough for the pain of separation from family, culture and ideology. “Cuba is ninety miles south of the USA,” says Kim. “I guess the answer lies in between the two systems, somewhere about forty-five miles out to sea in the Straits of Florida.”
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exhibition on the first floor of York’s impressively refurbished, rethought and re-launched art gallery is like slipping behind an ornate, moveable bookshelf into a secret and magical world… and that’s exactly what The Lumber Room is: a whole world of art in one place. The first thing you see, once your eyes have taken in the explosion of form, artefacts and colour, is a painting of this very gallery undergoing transformation, becoming something else. “I knew from the outset what I wanted to do was make a piece of work that pulled together all of York Museum Trust’s collections,” says the affable artist, who studied Illustration at Glasgow School of Art and an MA in Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art, London. “There was this incredible resource
of objects of all types. I felt passionate that all objects have a quality, and when you put them together, surprising things can work amazingly together.” This astounding room has been carefully curated both as a collection of art and curios from all eras, and also stands as an incredibly personal expression by Mark. It’s a great introduction to those not in the know about the artist’s popular artworks in galleries and books and, as Mark puts it, “appealing I hope to a connossieur but also someone who’s not necessarily a gallery-goer.” A wander around may at first suggest random, eccentric selections, but guided round by the artist himself, the level of thought behind individual items and their place as a whole becomes clear. “Many of the things I’ve selected
More information about The Lumber Room can be found at: yorkartgallery.org.uk
are surprising and haven’t been displayed before: some were restored especially, including a set of primitive portraits from the late 18th Century: they’re rather strange (they depict a moustachioed youth of uncertain gender) but fantastically direct.” At the entrance, a stuffed falcon responds to a letterpress by the artist; at the back of the room is a vintage, life-sized ice cream cart, vital in that it stops the display being ‘too polite’ as Mark puts it. “You’ve got to get people on the back foot wondering why there’s an ice cream cart in an art gallery, then seeing a painting from the same period with a cart in it: it’s about poetic connections.” Moving round the room, paintings of fish are surrounded by real fish in glass cases, a painted swan swimming above them. Mark has grouped red military jackets with Edward Burra prints and a pair of giant, bespectacled eyes – relating to the scene in The Great Gatsby where Dr. T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes are ever-watchful – Mark thought Burra would appreciate the design and placing: the red of the jackets, the red of the back wall that catches your eye as you enter the room. “It’s about thinking of the whole thing becoming more than the sum of its parts,” says Mark. Coloured buttons, Georgian dog collars and Victorian pincushions fill a glass case; a drawing of Mark’s own skeleton lying in a coffin; Mark’s
own scrapbooks alongside historic scrapbooks he’s selected; a jug with pop art images on it. “I wanted a fluid vision of how art works.” All the while, Mark wants to toy with the idea of how a gallery works. “It’s really sparked in me a new way of thinking about art: the joy in looking and the spatial placement of things that I’d like to explore further.” Mark sat down to design The Lumber Room intuitively. Four large display cases were set into the room as a starting point, and Mark decided to leave them where they were, in order to create formal sightlines as you would find in any museum. Indeed, when you stand in certain spots you can see portraits that wouldn’t be out of place in the Tate, only to find your eyes drawn upward to wonderfully incongruous signage that dismantles any sense of formality. “3D piecemeal work is also what I do with collage,” says Mark, referring to his popular work to date, “and putting things together in a room created this visual element, but it’s also about the different quality of things: surfaces, colours, relationships, surprises all go towards making a theatrical scene that people can experience in a very rich way.” “Everything I do doesn’t have to go in a frame on a wall: the challenge is to create something with universal appeal, that doesn’t mean being any ‘less’ of an artist as it’s a creative game I play.”
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Nathan Walsh has been creating ‘photorealistic’ works of art concerned with the urban landscape for over a decade. His city paintings are something to behold, from the carousels and cafés of Paris to the subways of New York. Through rain and shine & crowds and tranquillity, his work stuns in its scope and impresses with its slices of life. Currently based near Old York, Nathan explains that, “photorealism is a loaded and complex term, coined by Louis Meisel in 1969. My aim for the work is for it to be as convincing as possible, but this is on its own terms. Whilst online or in print the work may seem photographic in appearance, the actual nature of my paintings is very different.”
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Travelling the world for the sake of art, Nathan Walsh finds inspiration on every street corner.
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Above: Chicago in the rain (in progress) Right: Chicago in the rain
Having moved to York in 1998 to take on a teaching job at York College, Nathan began to develop his work and establish himself as an artist. Since 2005, he has been exhibiting worldwide, his ambition to show his work at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York. “The gallery has a longstanding reputation of showing the world’s leading realist and photorealist painters, so when the invite came to start showing with Louis and his partner Frank Bernarducci, I gladly accepted!” Nathan left his teaching job eight years ago to paint full time but has stayed in York because he likes the fact that the city is “a quiet place: nobody really knows I’m here and I can go about my business undisturbed.” For experience and inspiration, the artist enjoys visiting cities where he finds himself unfamiliar with the visual culture. “This seems to lead to less predictable outcomes. I find cities endlessly
fascinating, and the ability to fix the chaos of urban life through the act of painting a worthwhile one.” Before he visits a city, Nathan tries to have no cIear idea of what he’s going to paint, so that he can “amble around” with few preconceptions, very much like a flaneur waiting for something to connect with. “When I do find something of interest I’ll take numerous photographs of a location and normally a series of thumbnail drawings in a sketchbook. Of late, I’ve found the sketchbook to be of increasing importance even for notes on colour or whatever I happen to be thinking about at the time. This immediate personal response to the environment plays an important role when I’m back in my studio in the United Kingdom and reliant on the photographs taken.” Back in the UK, Nathan then sifts though the raw material he has collected and makes
surface that aims to maximise the potential of the paint, and present an alternative reality to our own.” Nathan’s paintings have evidently become more about describing particular weather conditions and atmospheres: sunsets, rain, the effect weather has on the look and feel of places: “I can see this playing more of a role in future work where eventually the cityscape is just a stage to investigate the weather through paint.” The artist is currently working towards a solo exhibition in New York in October 2016. “In the lead-up time, I will make between two and three large scale paintings, the average number for a year’s activity. This might not seem like many but I paint six days a week often for very long hours. The rest of the exhibition will be made up from recently made paintings already held in private collections, It will be the culmination of the last 2/3 years work.”
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a series of postcard sized drawings, which suggest potential paintings, choosing whichever has the most visual potential to make a dynamic full scale painting. Nathan starts to draw elements in a fairly loose and organic way. “Freehand drawing is fundamental to all of my work, allowing me to take full ownership of photographic material. Rejecting the mechanical transfer of imagery forces me to construct each object from scratch and allows for a fluid and inventive approach. Fixing pictorial elements to separate vanishing points allows the construction of a space independent of both reality and any photographic record of the scene. A shifting horizon line allows to viewer to look up and down into the space, and question their position in relation to the scene.” Nathan then builds up layers of paint, editing and re-editing through colour and markmaking: “The end result is a heavily worked
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October 2015 sees the launch of the first ever ‘Wonders of Autumn’ campaign from McArthurGlen York Designer Outlet until 2 November 2015. The campaign heralds iconic pieces from the new season collections, as selected by best friends and emblems of cool, effortless style, Laura Jackson and Alice Levine.
Laura Jackson says: I am ALL about a deal and that’s why McArthurGlen Outlets are fantastic! You can find brilliant hidden gems at a fraction of the price. When you let me loose in there I end up spending more money as there are so many amazing things. I would say invest in a good knit – layering is the key to AW dressing; a good coat is important so look for something you can wear for all occasions. I like to keep my coat to a tame colour, nothing too garish that will go out of fashion – stick to a timeless muted palette. Alice Levine says: Look at your wardrobe and think what will tie your existing pieces together. A classic black trouser or white shirt could give you a whole new set of combinations. McArthurGlen has some incredible coats this season too and that is the item you will spend most of your time in. Classic doesn’t have to mean black – try a navy, grey or even maroon. Layers, layers, layers! Try a polo neck under a jumper, a shirt under a dress or a jacket plus
a coat. It makes items from the rest of the year integrate into your AW wardrobe. Clashing textures or prints along the way looks great, or alternatively you can match your pieces. More than anything, it keeps you warm! Laura Jackson says: I feel that my style is constantly evolving but one thing that never changes is my love for AW dressing. I love layering up for the weather with chunky knits and oversized coats, and I’m also a fan of a cashmere hat. AW is a time to experiment with textures and colours. Alice Levine says: It’s all the colours that I love – berry, mustard, deep forest green and navy. My AW dressing is more polished and put together than the rest of the year. In summer it’s about loose, light fabrics. Come autumn I’m so ready for merino wool, cashmere, suede and glossy leather. Laura Jackson says: Less is definitely more! Alice Levine says: What you feel good in is what you look good in!
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Best friend duo and style heroes Laura Jackson and Alice Levine front McArthurGlen York Designer Outlet’s AW15 Campaign.
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Baby’s on Fire Sherbet colours, party hair, fun and freedom.
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departments to kit out the actors for a show.” Anna’s advice for vintage buyers is that “it can be tricky in terms of sizes: you shouldn’t rely what it says on the label and you should always try items on. If you fall in love with something that doesn’t quite fit right, then you can always get it adjusted by a tailor. The small investment and inconvenience can be totally worth it to own a one-off garment that looks fantastic.” York is well catered for in terms of vintage clothing, with Dog & Bone Vintage on Gillygate and Bowler on Fossgate, which is why Anna chose Holmfirth as the location for her first pop-up. “Compared to a little start-up, those shops felt like vintage heavyweights and it was daunting to compete with them.” What Mr. Fox offers, alongside the vintage, is “modern pre-loved clothing, particularly Topshop items from Kate Moss and Laura Lees label, all in immaculate condition.” Anna admits she finds it hard to wear vintage from head-to-toe and likes to mix old and new together, so the pop-up and Me And Mrs Fisher represents a selection of vintage, customised, handmade and secondhand clothing. “Pricing is based on the quality of the garment, but I always aim for a figure that is affordable and realistic. Most items fit within the £4–£40 range, but occasionally some handmade items reach £75+.”
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Mr. Fox Clothing have recently taken their popular online vintage and customisation shop to a pop-up at Me and Mrs Fisher, with big plans for the future. “For ages I had about £300 worth of leftover stock from an Ebay business,” says founder Anna Siobhan Lewis. “It was all wholesale, ex-high street dresses that were dated and out of season. I didn’t really know what to do with them, nobody was interested in buying them.” In January 2015, Anna took a trip to Reykjavik, and while driving through the vast, snowy mountain landscapes, she got the inspiration to launch a new business: customising items for the Etsy market. The day after Anna flew back to the UK, she ordered the business cards, recruited a seamstress to do all the sewing, and Mr. Fox made its first sale in February. “Working backstage on theatre productions gave me a huge respect for period costume,” says Anna. “The attention to detail is incredible. The costume designers use every trick in the book to get the right look, mixing garments that have been hired, brought in, made from scratch or recycled from previous shows. Just changing a collar or turning up a hem would mean the same shirt or skirt could work for multiple eras; it’s very thrifty and clever. I loved sourcing costumes for my own projects and would happily spend hours trawling the rails of costume
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Highlights Article: p.82 — A Christmas Message
How to Beat Winter Lethargy — p.66 With York Sports Music Listings — p.68 Our Pick of the Gigs and Shows to See The Lowdown — p.71 All the New Releases Film Listings — p.72 On the Route from Manhattan to Buffalo Community Listings — p.74 Some Tasters from the Months to Come
Art Listings — p.76 Exhibitions, New Galleries and Old Faithfuls Comedy Listings — p.78 Things to Make You go LOL Theatre Listings— p.80 From the Indies to the Big Show A Christmas Message— p.82 Sending You all on Your Festive Way
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how to beat the lethargy and inject some summer feel - good factor into your winter . This season is about feeling your best – not slimming down for your Xmas party! And if you do fancy slimming down, the best way to do it is finding that feel good factor in your activities.
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Hannah Longster — H ealth & Fitness Coach Soups and casseroles are easy opportunities to pack more veg into your diet, and are classic comfort foods for the colder months. Clever substitutes and sacrifices mean when you get to that Christmas dinner you can enjoy it! Top tip from Hannah: Treat Christmas as a scheduled break (after all it only happens once a year!) but have a set date to return to normality.
More advice from Hannah: Christmas is a time to eat drink and be merry. There’s no need to deprive yourself of a few treats. Everything in moderation, including moderation. A party without cake is effectively just a meeting.
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Classes are a great way to get you motivated and smiling during the cold and dark months. Try something different like the new fitness sensation Barre Concept (new at York Sport Village!) – doing something new is sure to get you out from under the duvet in the morning! Group fitness classes are friendly, motivating and are sure to get you laughing! The perfect
antidote to the winter blues. Top tip from Hannah: One month off over Christmas means three months of hard work in spring – just to regain your strength and performance!” More advice from Hannah: Remember: summer bodies are built in the winter.
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bringing the summer into winter : Jonny Mumby — Tennis Coaching & Development Just because the summer is over doesn’t mean you have to stop doing your favourite activities. Many of your favourite summer activities only need tweaking for year-round enjoyment! Tennis can be enjoyed year-round in York
Sport’s indoor tennis courts, with plenty of fun classes and programmes to keep you motivated. Jonny’s top tip: We play for 48 weeks of the year – you don’t need to pack away your tennis racquet and wait for the summer to return.
embracing the winter :
Embrace the winter this year and find a winter activity you love. Next year you’ll be waiting for winter to come back around again! Cyclo-X (also known as Cyclo-cross), is essentially off-road cycling. It’s fun, fast and will keep you fit over the winter months. York
sport has a variety of events and sessions for all ages and abilities starting in October, with bike hire available. Andy’s top tip: Winter might seem like a time to hang up your wheels, but it’s actually the most exciting time for cycling!
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Shopping The Crescent Front Bar — 12 Dec
The Crescent Front Bar — 12 Dec
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ppy present: shopping
Shopping are propulsive bass lines, primitive disco-not-disco drums and guitar lines straight out of a Spaghetti Western. The band released a 7 inch single shortly after forming, which sold out within a week. They released their debut LP, put out via their own MILK records, and now the band have signed on to FatCat, with a new LP on the way in November. Fully entrenched in the UK DIY community Shopping are all about being as productive and creative as possible.
The Duchess — 2 0 Nov The sound of Jack White curating a beach party for Sabbat, The Wytches are an English three-piece surf-psych Garage band. They released their debut album, ‘Annabel Dream Reader’, on Heavenly in the summer of 2014 and have a sell out record and cult following. They embody the riffs of Os Mutantes trying to play louder than Jesus and Mary Chain. Live they are dark and psychedelic.
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wolf alice York Barbican Centre — 17 March
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Clash magazine once described Wolf Alice as “The Lovechild of Grunge and Folk” and we couldn’t put it more eloquently ourselves. The folk twinged four piece have gained huge reputation for their live ambience and ever evolving sound. They whisper and shout their stories over catchy garage riffs.
christmas festivities at the ncem This year’s York Early Music Christmas Festival runs from Friday 4 to Saturday 12 December. Highlights include: The European Union Baroque Orchestra (Fri 4 Dec, 7.30pm, NCEM) under their director Lars Ulrik Mortensen presenting a sparking programme of Muffat, Biber and Marcello.
Yorkshire Bach Choir (Sat 5 Dec, 7.30pm, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York) presenting Haydn’s choral masterpiece ‘The Creation’.
The ever cheerful Joglaresa (Tues 8 Dec, 7.30pm, NCEM) with their medley of traditional medieval carols.
The York Waits (Wed 9 Dec, 7.30pm, NCEM) who look to Northern Europe for their Advent programme of 16th and 17th century carols.
We conclude with a richly variegated programme led by the Belgian based B’Rock Orchestra with soprano Julia Doyle (Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York). Plus... join us for Crazy Creatures on Sun 13 Dec, 11.00am and 1.30pm where Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives will bring to life two brilliant children’s stories ‘The Duck with No Luck’ and ‘A Cat called Scratch’ by Jonathan Long with music written by Paul Rissmann, award winning Children’s Composer in Residence at Music in the Round in Sheffield. Suitable for 3+ with a special family/friends ticket offer of just £12.00! Tickets for all concerts can by purchased online at ncem.co.uk or by ringing the NCEM Box Office on 01904 658338.
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York Pavement Vaults The Franceens: Loud and Live in The Inkwell Sherbet Flies: No New Yorkshire
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Buffalo 66, by Vincent Gallo Kinofólk Cinema, The Basement Bar — 8 Feb
Kinofólk Cinema, The Basement Bar — 8 Feb
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buffalo 66, by vincent gallo
Generation X’s indie-cinematic masterpiece. The ever hard to gauge Vincent Gallo was infamously hard to work with on set and helped create the film’s icy intimacy and bleak horizons. Each shot is like a work of art and its tender naïve ballad towards isolation leans heavily on the masterpieces of Goddard.
Southbank Community Cinema — 1 8 Dec Many people’s favourite Woody Allen film is every cynic’s romantic benchmark. A love letter to its eponymous location as much as to romance itself, it is one of the most copied films in cinematic history. It has some of the most iconic stills in film and lines up the dominoes of Allen’s signature neurosis and cultural snobbery that paved the rest of his career.
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the hateful eight, by quentin tarantino Cinemas Nationwide — 8 Jan
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Everyone’s favourite sick bastard never fails to get tongues wagging and the plot and release of this film have had Tarantino fans in a fizz for a long time now. News of leaked scripts, furore and betrayal has made the intrigue increase and Post Civil War Wyoming has never appealed more. Bounty Hunting, Betrayal and Tim Roth on 70mm. Need we say more?
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The New Ebor Feast Present: Craft Works York Railway Institute — 2 May
business saturday Duncombe Place — 5 Dec After the raging success of last year, Proudly and Make it York again collaborate to bring thirty of the city’s finest traders together for a celebration of independents. Over 16,000 people came to shop in the shadow of the Minster at last year’s event and this year has even more surprises up its sleeve. The event is organised to support small, independent traders and help boost the impact they can make on local economy.
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present : craft works York Railway Institute — 2 May Street Food really has hit the big time and people’s appetite for it just can’t be sated. YO1 Festival’s John Drysdale came along at just the right moment to bring it to York with the New Ebor Street Feast. In spring next year he and his team are taking over The Railway Institute for a weekend of lo-fi, mouthwatering food.
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seeing the unseen Vespertine #7 —10 Dec
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Vespertine launched this year with a strong ethos and mission statement to involve the people of York in spectacular and intriguing art. Their final installment of the year looks at the exciting and groundbreaking archaeological research taking place at University of York. Phytoliths – skeletons of cells that allow identification of plants from thousands of years ago, giving us vital information about our history – are to be transformed into 3D printed sculptures, light projections and festive decorations.
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Pictured: Ails McGee of According To McGee
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elaine thomas : divine antics According to McGee — 11 Mar–5 Apr Elaine’s practice is strongly influenced by Medieval and Romanesque art as well as Ancient Greek, Roman and Indian art. In her paintings, Elaine uses acrylic and watercolour on paper and seeks to recreate the effects of ancient frescoes; their surfaces and layers which hide and reveal images and meaning.
an exploration of Lotte Inch Gallery — 1 3 Jan The inaugural exhibition at Lotte Inch Gallery offers a host of well-known and well-loved names in an exhibition that explores the infinite ways in which line, colour and form are exploited by the artist. Featuring work by a range of 20th and 21st century British artists including Sir Terry Frost RA, Anthony Frost, Sandra Blow RA, Tessa Jaray RA and Bob Law, amongst others, the Gallery will also offer a range of work from Cornish artist Stella Maris and recent graduate Christopher Shefford Smith. An installation piece from York’s Lu Mason echoes the works on the wall whilst ceramics from Holmfirth based David Roberts and St. Ives’ maker Rick Henham will also feature.
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needle felted birds York Art Gallery — 5 Dec, 10.30am–3.30pm
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Work with artist Vivienne Morpeth to create your own felt garden birds, capturing their exquisite expressions and colours using needle felting and hand blending of English wools. All from the inspiring surroundings of our featured artist Mark Hearld and his fantastic Lumber Room. Entry is £35 per person, including gallery admission. To book please visit yortime.org.uk, call 01904 552806 or e-mail: york. learning@york.gov.uk.
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Comedy Featured: Hyena Lounge’s Christmas Baubles The Duchess — B etween 4–19 Dec
the duke ’s comedy night
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Duke of York Pub — 17 Nov A free entry stand-up comedy night taking place monthly, featuring comedy talents that can be found on the open mic circuit in and around the North of England. November’s installment features Rob Mulholland, Stanley Brooks, Laurie Whiteley, Eleanor Mason, and Marshall B Anderson. Hosted by regular compere Daniel Triscott.
hyena lounge ’s christmas baubles The Duchess — B etween 4 –19 Dec On a variety of dates between 4 and 19 December The Hyena Lounge is getting festive, with a host of top comedians to help them along, including Dan Nightingale, Justin Moorhouse and Jonathan Mayor.
richard herring York Barbican — 1 8 Mar
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One of the UK’s finest comedians continues his twelfth stand up show by examining whether he is truly contented. After years of drifting aimlessly and alone, Richard Herring is now settled down with a wife and a tiny baby. Is he finally happy now? Or does responsibility for the lives of others come with its own terrors? Find out the answers to this when Herring offers his acerbic take on the world.
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Pilot Theatre York Theatre Royal — M ar 18 –Apr 11 2016 Photography by Pilot Theatre
Pilot Theatre at York Theatre Royal — M ar 18 –Apr 11 2016 E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but his short story masterpiece published in 1909 brilliantly combines the fantastical with the allegorical. The Machine Stops predicts a networked society where humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground, enmeshed in automated comforts and this chilling exploration of the increased dependency and relationship with technology is told through the characters of Vashti and Kuno, a mother and son who live separated from each other in a world where almost all have lost the ability to live on the earth’s surface.
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the great gatsby
Step into a world of jazz, liquor and excess across three floors of dancing and debauchery. A new adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal jazz-age story sees Jay Gatsby’s parties come to life in a new immersive, theatrical experience. Expect music, cocktails and more than a little scandal. 1920s dress optional encouraged. Friday & Saturday performances include Gatsby Lates, an after show party until 1am. 23rd December: Christmas special including champagne reception and canapés. 31st December: New Years Eve special including champagne reception, canapés and exclusive New Years Eve after show party.
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The Fleeting Arms — 3 Dec to 31 Dec
confirmation The Fleeting Arms — 2 0 to 21 Nov
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Confirmation is a show about the gulfs we can’t talk across, and about the way we choose to see only the evidence that proves we’re right. Working with research into the phenomenon of Confirmation Bias, Confirmation attempts to have an honourable dialogue, real and imagined, with political extremism. From multiple award winning Chris Thorpe (Unlimited, Royal Exchange, Hannah Jane Walker) and Rachel Chavkin (The TEAM). Fringe First award winner, 2014.
2015, you have been special. Happy Christmas to all of our readers and revellers. Stay Warm, Stay Safe. Team One&Other
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