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Ryedale Festival: Arthur Bliss: From Rebel to Romantic
Thu 17 July, 3pm
Andrew Burn speaker Haunted by memories of the trenches, Arthur Bliss burst onto the scene as a musical enfant terrible after the First World War. Two decades later, he was a pillar of th...Event type: Talks
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Ryedale Festival: On The Brink - Lucy Beckett
Tue 22 July, 11am-12noon
Lucy Beckett speaker The First World War was the disaster which broke the European order of the century since Napoleon and brought in its wake all the catastrophes which followed. Lucy Be...Event type: Talks
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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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Helmsley Literary Festival 2025
Fri 12 September - Sun 14 September
Join us in Helmsley for a highly entertaining weekend with writers, theatre and music, finishing with a literary quiz night! Featuring... Joanne Harris and the Storytime Band Grahame Howard ...Event type: Talks, Theatre, Spoken Word
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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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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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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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