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Traces- Rachel Rimell
Tue 6 May - Fri 4 July
Traces is a curated body of work exploring metamorphic and abstracted memories of the seascape through photographic medium. The exhibition explores the transience of human experience and place against...Event type: Exhibitions
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The Friend (15)
Wed 25 June, 7.30pm
When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creative inner life. Directors - Scott McGehee & Da...Event type: Film
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Hotbuckle Productions: Little Women
Sat 28 June, 7.30pm
Popular Shropshire based Hotbuckle Productions are bringing their latest adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Little Women’ to theatres and venues across the country this Summer. After...Event type: Theatre
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Seascapes Watercolour Workshop With Ione Harrison
Sun 29 June, 10am - 1pm
Create an atmospheric watercolour painting. This workshop is suitable for you whether you have some experience of watercolour and would like to explore new techniques, or are a total beginner. The foc...Event type: Workshops
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The Salt Path (12A)
Wed 2 July - Fri 25 July, 7.30pm
Drama, based on the memoir by Raynor Winn, in which a coupleembark on a coastal trek in England after losing their home....Event type: Film
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Season Songs - Ione Harrison
Tue 8 July - Fri 5 September
An exhibition about the rhythm of the year: serene, dynamic and joyful, these paintings explore seasonal changes in mood, colour and light. Ione Harrison is a North Yorkshire-based landscape painter. ...Event type: Exhibitions
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1812 Theatre: The Watsons by Laura Wade
Wed 9 July - Sat 12 July, 7.30pm
What happens when the writer loses the plot? Emma Watson is 19 and new in town. She's been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast. If not, t...Event type: Theatre
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The Three Inch Fools - The Most Perilous Comedie of Elizabeth I at Helmsley Walled Garden
Wed 16 July, Gates 6pm, show start 7pm
Book your tickets here! The Most Perilous Comedie of Elizabeth I The Three Inch Fools present a largely historical, always hysterical, brand new Tudor comedie Elizabethan theatre is flourishing. Bu...Event type: Theatre, Music
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Snake Davis and Chris Bannister
Fri 18 July, 7.30pm
Chris is a singer-songwriter-guitarist of immense talent and class. The two met when Chris was invited to play an opening set on a Heather Small tour some years ago. They bonded immediately, sociall...Event type: Music
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Clap Trap Theatre: PENNYROYAL by Lucy Roslyn
Sat 19 July - Sun 20 July, 7.30pm
Clap Trap Theatre PENNYROYAL by Lucy Roslyn “I think of my body sometimes like it’s stubborn. We’re not good friends. Like it’s a spooky hotel, and I’m just a ghost hau...Event type: Theatre
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Summer Pottery Social with Beespoke Pottery
Sun 20 July, 1.30pm-3.30pm
Join us on Sunday 20th July for a delightful Pottery Painting Social in the studio bar at HAC, right in the heart of town. Perfect for all ages, it's a chance to unleash your creativity in a wa...Event type: Workshops
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The Phoenician Scheme (15)
Wed 23 July, 7.30pm
Wes Anderson returns with story of a family and a family business. Director Wes Anderson Writers Wes Anderson Roman Coppola Stars Benicio Del Toro Mia Threapleton ...Event type: Film
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DOODLEFEST- The Art of Doodling Art Festival Workshop
Wed 23 July - Thu 24 July, 11am, 9.30am & 1pm
Are you ready to embark on a magical artistic journey? Join us at Doodle Fest and prepare to be amazed by the endless possibilities of doodling. With local artist Nicola Hutchinson as your guide, you'...Event type: Workshops, Family
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HAC Studio Bar Open Mic Jul 2025
Sat 26 July, 7.30pm
A social evening in HAC’s studio bar with the opportunity to hear local musicians and artists perform. The bar will be open serving beer from Helmsley Brewery and Brass Castle Brewery, an assort...Event type: Music, Spoken Word, Other
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The Three Inch Fools - A Midsummer Night's Dream at Helmsley Walled Garden
Fri 1 August, Gates 6pm, show start 7pm
Book your tickets here!A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Three Inch Fools present Shakespeare’s most iconic comedy. It’s Midsummer’s eve and deep in an enchanted forest mis...Event type: Theatre, Music
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The Plandits - The Secret Garden
Fri 29 August, 7pm
Join Mary, Colin and Dickon as they tell you the story of their favourite place in the world - The Secret Garden. A brand new re-imagining of the classic Frances Hodgson Burnett book brought to you by...Event type: Theatre, Family
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National Theatre Live: Inter Alia
Thu 4 September, 7pm
Inter Alia a new play by Suzie Miller Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica inthemuch-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie. Jessica Parks is a smart Crown ...Event type: Screening, Film, Theatre
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The Arts Society Helmsley: The Wonder Of Art - Rehanging the National Gallery.
Mon 8 September, 7.30pm
Per Rumberg is the Jacob Rothschild Head of the Curatorial Department at the National Gallery. He previously held curatorial positions at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Morgan Library & Mu...Event type: Talks
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Dyad Productions - Austen's Women: LADY SUSAN
Sun 21 September, 7.30pm
Austen’s Women: LADY SUSAN Dyad Productions The award-winning creators of Austen’s Women, That Knave, Raleigh, A Christmas Carol, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, Christmas Gothic,and A Room...Event type: Theatre
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Imogen Cooper - 2025
Sat 27 September, 7.30pm
Programme BACH ARR. KEMPFF Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'meinBACH ARR. BUSONI Chorale-prelude, Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV.659SCHUBERT Four Impromptus, D. 899 (Op. 90)-Interval-BEETHOVEN 7 ...Event type: Music
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The Arts Society Helmsley: Pots and Frocks - The World of Grayson Perry from Essex Punk Potter to Superstar National Treasure.
Mon 6 October, 7.30pm
Ian Swankie A Londoner with a passion for art and architecture, Ian is an official guide at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Guildhall Art Gallery and St Paul’s Cathedral, and gives tours around each...Event type: Talks
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Suthering
Fri 10 October, 7.30pm
Powerful songwriting with traditional folk influences, Suthering offer an authentic and engaging performance of self-penned songs for our times.SUTHERING consists of Julu and Heg, whose harmonies weav...Event type: Music
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Henry Normal - The Slideshow
Sun 26 October, 8pm
A multi-MEdia spectacular with the emphasis on the ‘me’. This show celebrates my meteoric rise to z celebrity status together with my joyous and inevitable slide into physical and mental ...Event type: Spoken Word, Talks
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The Arts Society Helmsley: What really happened on Easter Island?
Mon 3 November, 7.30pm
PAUL BAHN Studied archaeology at the University of Cambridge, and completed PhD thesis (1979) on the prehistory of the French Pyrenees. Has held post-doctoral fellowships, at Liverpool and London, pl...Event type: Talks
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Hejira - Celebrating Joni Mitchell
Sat 8 November, 7.30pm
'Hejira’ is a 7-piece band set up to celebrate and honour the masterpiece works of Joni Mitchell, mostly from the late ‘70s. Having released the albums ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns&r...Event type: Music
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The Book of Darkness & Light Present - A Christmas Carol
Sat 22 November, 7.30pm
by Charles Dickensadapted by Adam Z. Robinson Marley was dead… to begin with. The Book of Darkness & Light Theatre Company present their ghostly adaption of this most beloved fes...Event type: Theatre
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Justin Moorhouse: The Greatest Performance of My Life 2026
Fri 23 January, 8pm
Get ready for an unforgettable experience as Justin returns with "The Greatest Performance of My Life". After a successful and extensively extended tour of his 2022 show Stretch and Think (which you ...Event type: Comedy
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Simon Yates of Touching the Void - My Mountain Life
Fri 30 January, 7.30pm
A fascinating and humorous evening, acclaimed by both regular theatre patrons and outdoor enthusiasts alike! On the remote Siula Grande in Peru in June 1985, mountaineer Simon Yates found himself in ...Event type: Talks
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Tom Stade - Naughty By Nature
Sat 16 May, 8pm
Direct from the Edinburgh festival, and his last smash-hit nationwide tour, the legendary Canadian stand-up star is back on the road with a brand-new show. Join Tom as he playfully dishes out more of...Event type: Comedy
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