Thursday, 16 March 2023, 7-9pm Junction Goole

Tuesday, 21 March 2023 7-9pm Hornsea Town Hall

We Are Creative (WAC) are hosting two artist networking events in the East Yorkshire region in March. These are for artists, photographers, writers, performers, musicians and producers to connect, collaborate and learn more about arts developments in your area and beyond. With presentations and discussions these events enable local and regional artists to connect with other creatives, share skills and information, and learn about opportunities that can progress your artistic practice.

The 16 March event in Goole event will include speakers Andra Chelcea, Creative Engagement Manager at Junction, who will share information on venue engagement for local artists along with workshop and session pitching, and Lauren Saunders from the Local Cultural Education Partnership and Critical Fish.

The 21 March event in Hornsea will include speakers from Critical Fish, Eastgate Studio, St Hugh's Foundation and the Local Cultural Education Partnership, and advice about running a business from a remote place will be shared. 

For full agendas, contact We Are Creative.

Click on the links below to register your attendance through Eventbrite.

We Are Creative are a group whose aim is to inform and connect creative people to regional arts development and promoting opportunities. WAC works with HEY Creative (Hull and East Riding Cultural Compact) and other groups such as Risky Cities.

Deadline Wednesday, 08 March 2023

ARCADE, a local arts charity, is looking for people to come forward with real-life love stories connected to Scarborough South Cliff Gardens.

Stories donated will become part of a brand-new musical storytelling trail to be experienced this summer. You don’t need to have any experience of writing or the arts, just a story you’re happy to share.

Any kind of love story is welcome, from the simple everyday story, to the epic and grand. Perhaps it's a tale of friendship, love for a pet or family member, oneself, a special view or place, a secret love or a lost loved one. It might be one sentence, or ten pages!

A selection of the collected stories and themes will inspire the creation of a set of newly composed orchestral love songs, created by community members in collaboration with talented musicians drawn from the Scarborough Spa Orchestra and Sinfonia VIVA.

All are welcome to share their story, be a part of the music-making workshops or to join the recording in Scarborough. Taking part in one aspect is fine.

How to donate a love story

Online

Email your story to info@hello-arcade.com

Visit the ARCADE website 

By phone

Send a text or a voice recording of your story to the ARCADE mobile 07502 909188

​By post

Post your love story to Love Stories Project, ARCADE, Unit 301, Woodend Creative Centre, The Crescent, Scarborough YO11 2PW

Love Stories is Produced by ARCADE, co-produced with Orchestras Live and Sinfonia Viva. Commissioned by Scarborough Borough Council and Funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. With musicians from Sinfonia Viva and Scarborough Spa Orchestra. Supported by the Stephen Joseph Theatre.

Other Lives Productions was founded in 2006 by Richard Avery (left) and Neil King (below) with the intention of touring small scale productions in Beverley and the East Riding and sometimes further afield. At that time there was no professional theatre building in Beverley so the company performed in venues such as St Mary’s Parish Hall, the Friary, St Mary’s Manor and various private houses, and began to tour village halls in the East Riding and occasionally beyond.

Co-Director Neil King tells us, “Our first venture into the countryside was to The Old Chapel, North Dalton, where we still go every year. We were founding members of the East Riding Theatre in Beverley. Our initial entertainments took the form of readings appropriate to a season (e.g. Christmas) or a theme (e.g. The Supernatural in Is There Anybody There?) followed by a short play we had ourselves written. Gradually we became more ambitious and our first full length production was of Waiting for Godot in 2011. Since then we have toured full length plays over the north of England, but we plan in future to focus again upon village halls and other venues in the East Riding and on the East Riding Theatre where we are an associate company. Just before the first Covid lockdown we returned to our roots with an entertainment of readings and semi-dramatisations about trees (The Romance of Trees March 2020), and this month (March 2023) a similar style of evening will focus upon The Crazy English Weather.”

Until Thursday 30 March 2023, 12pm-2pm

Warm Spaces is designed to signpost anyone in need of warmth and community, to a warm space to share with others.

Throughout March 2023, ERT is opening its café doors on selected days to welcome you into its warm space with a free hot drink and sweet treat.

Get warm, play a game, take part in our book swap, hear one of ERT's script-in-hand play readings, or take part in a scenic painting workshop. Or you might just like to sit and watch the world go by or chat with others.

Visit the ERT website to view the Warm Spaces calendar.

Free entry

Box office: 01482 874050

Beverley, Bridlington and Withernsea

East Riding of Yorkshire Council's community dance programme for young people aged 8-18 years in Beverley, Bridlington and Withernsea. Spaces are available in our Beverley Younger, Bridlington and Withernsea groups.

To find out more, visit the East Riding Youth Dance website.

To book a place, email the Arts Development Team.

Friday, 31 March & Saturday, 01 April 2023, 7.30pm

Bridlington Spa

Following his sell-out debut tour in 2022, TV dancing sensation and international champion Johannes Radebe is hosting a party like no other in this electrifying brand-new production for 2023.

Ticket prices: £32.50-£46.50

Box office: 01262 678258

Friday, 03 March 2023, 2.30pm

Bridlington Community Hub, Marshall Avenue

Making their first appearance at The Hub, popular Scarborough folk duo The Blow-ins make gentle acoustic music with Celtic harp, guitar and voices. Playing together since they met in 2012, their eclectic mix of old and new folk music and their own compositions will take you from ancient love songs to contemporary protest with quiet humour and powerful emotion.

Free entry

Friday, 03 March 2023, 8pm (doors 7.30pm)

St Michael's Church, Cherry Burton

Cherry Burton Arts in conjunction with Upstairs at Monks is set to host this fascinating show.

The Doctors of Madness musician, actor and writer has appeared on stage, films, and television alongside names such as James Nesbitt, Peter Capaldi and Marianne Faithful. His film and TV credits include Batman, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Harry Potter and Men Behaving Badly. In this one-man show described as ‘funny, fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable’, the audience can expect an evening of songs, film clips, stories, readings and scurrilous gossip from his forty years in the arts and entertainment world.

Ticket price: £12

Tickets available in advance from Eventbrite (Upstairs at Monks) and Cherry Burton Costcutter.

For more information telephone Martin Peirson 07399 568834 or email.

Saturday, 11 March 2023, 2pm

Junction Goole

Performed by Ensemble 360 and Aga Serugo-Lugo

A tour through the wondrous world of chamber music, specially created for young audiences, combining some of the most well-known music ever written as well as some new works, from surprising places.

This brand-new concert includes thrilling adventures told through music, cheeky characters and epic heroes along with mind-blowing musical games and the chance to join in and make music together.

Introduced by Aga Serugo-Lugo, this is a friendly hour of fun and the finest string quartet music.

Ticket price: £7

Box office: 01405 763652

Friday, 17 March 2023, 7.30pm

Bridlington Spa

Think Floyd's exciting new show will feature a complete performance of Pink Floyd's 1973 masterpiece The Dark Side of the Moon, as well as classics from Wish You Were Here, The Wall, The Division Bell, Animals and more.

Ticket price: £27.50

Box office: 01262 678258

Saturday, 18 March 2023, 8pm

Pocklington Arts Centre

Lucy Farrell is a songwriter, folk singer and multi-instrumentalist from Kent. A much in-demand collaborator she has been a key member of influential folk acts including Eliza Carthy's Wayward Band, the Emily Portman Trio and Carthy, Oates, Farrell & Young. As one-quarter of the critically acclaimed band The Furrow Collective she won the 'Best Band' category at the BBC Folk Awards in 2018.

Ticket price: £14

Box office: 01759 301547

Sunday, 19 March 2023, 7.30pm

East Riding Theatre Café Bar

ERT's Candlelight Session guest artist this month is the incredible hot-club, latino-jazz, flamenco duo Farino.

Ticket price: £10

Box office: 01482 874050

Thursday, 23 March 2023, 6pm

Bridlington Spa

In partnership with the Royal Opera House, The Voices Foundation and Nevill Holt Opera, pupils from the David Ross Education Trust (Quay Academy and Thomas Hinderwell Primary Academy) will perform a 60-minute version of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Ticket price: £5

Box office: 01262 678258

Friday, 24 March 2023, 7.30pm

Bridlington Spa

Made in Tennessee takes you through the decades of the nation's fastest-growing music genre, from country's origin in the Southern States of America to modern-day country heard around the world.

Ticket price: £26

Box office: 01262 678258

Saturday, 25 March 2023, 7.30pm

Bridlington Spa

This live concert-style guitar fest journeys through 50 years of iconic hits from the music's greatest guitar legends.

Ticket price: £25.50

Box office: 01262 678258

Thursday, 30 March 2023, 7.30pm

Doors: 6.45pm wine and soft drinks reception

Beverley Guildhall, Register Square

Beverley Guildhall is delighted to partner up with the Georgian Society for East Yorkshire for an evening of Georgian music. Come along and listen to some of the county’s finest musicians, set in the period elegance of the Guildhall’s Georgian Courtroom. The programme showcases Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s stirring and energetic String Quartet in E-Flat Major to mark Women’s History Month and is complemented by Franz Joseph Haydn’s beautiful String Quartet in G Major, Op.76, No.1.

Georgian Society new members exclusive! You are invited to join up as members of the Georgian Society for East Yorkshire on the evening of the performance and receive £8 money back on your ticket price. For more information on the Society visit their website.

Ticket price: £16 / £8 Georgian Society members

Booking essential

Visit the East Riding Museums website to book tickets or call the booking line on 01482 392699 (Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm).

Good Friday, 07 April 2023, 7.30-9.15pm

St Mary's Church, Beverley

Jeffrey Makinson – Music Director

Jonathan and Tom Scott – Piano

Eleanor Garside – Soprano

Stuart O’Hara – Baritone

Brahms: A German Requiem

Howells: Requiem       

Ticket price: £17.50 Reserved / £12.50 Unreserved

Tickets available from Beverley Tourist Information 01482 391672 or purchase online or on the door from 7pm.

Friday, 03 & Saturday 04, March 2023, 7.30pm

East Riding Theatre

In 2014, residents of Fairbourne, Wales, were watching their local evening news when they found out they were to be Britain's first climate refugees, with their town set to be decommissioned and depopulated by 2054. Housing prices dropped over night, insurance disappeared, and life savings were lost in the chaos.

This award-winning new writing follows the story of Ava and Josh: two siblings caught in the purgatory of a fictional but analogous town set to be abandoned.

Ticket prices: £15 / £14 (Over 65 & Under 23)

Box office: 01482 874050

Saturday, 04 March 2023, 12pm, 2pm & 4pm

Junction Goole

Don't miss Northern Ballet's hugely popular Ugly Duckling as it returns to the stage this spring.

Ticket price: £9

Box office: 01405 763652

Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 7.30pm

Thursday, 16 March, 2023, 1.30pm

Junction Goole

Featuring an ensemble of 9 exceptional actors with learning disabilities and rooted in physical storytelling, Dark Horse promises a bold and entertaining show accompanied by integrated animation and captioning, an original electronic soundtrack, and the option to participate virtually from your seat.

Ticket prices: £13 / £7 (Under 25)

Box office: 01405 763652

Wednesday, 15 March - Saturday 25 March 2023, 7.30pm

East Riding Theatre

Newly retired couple Caroline and Dave have everything they have ever wanted – a nice house, a hot tub, a small mortgage, a few savings and a new smart meter. But with Covid and the cost of living crisis things are changing. Their children have moved back home, their money is disappearing, the hot tub’s gone, the lights are going out and the smart meter is stressful. No wonder they feel like starting again, and with their newfound hobby of walking it feels like they have...

Ticket prices: £20 / £15 (Student)

Box office: 01482 874050

Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 12pm, 2pm & 6pm

Bridlington Spa

Don't miss Northern Ballet's hugely popular Ugly Duckling as it returns to the stage this spring.

Ticket price: £10 (Adult) / £7.50 (Child)

Box office: 01262 678258

Thursday, 30 March 2023, 7.30pm

Pocklington Arts Centre

This funny, tender heart-felt, one-woman (and a puppet) show is drawn from workshops with women of all ages and Michele’s own lived experiences with her 91-year-old Mother, Gena.

Ticket prices: £12 / £10 (Under 18)

Box office: 01759 301547

Until Saturday, 18 March 2023

Beverley Art Gallery

An exhibition celebrating 40 years of the Yorkshire Wolds National Trail through the work of resident artists Ian & Stef Mitchell. Ian produces digital linescapes, embedded in traditional landscape whilst also exploring the language of abstraction. Stef documents place and space through painting and the historic tradition of nature print. Come and see their new work inspired by the landscape.

Free entry

Until Sunday, 19 March 2023

Ropewalk Gallery, Barton-on-Humber

East Riding photographer Nigel Walker presents his photographic exhibition Estuary.

Free entry

Until Saturday, 08 April 2023

Pocklington Arts Centre

Light Up! by Debs England focuses on her love of the different effects of light on the landscape. She mainly takes her inspiration from the landscapes of the countryside around her in beautiful Yorkshire.

Free entry

Visitors can take a trip down memory lane with film footage of the Hornsea Pottery visitor centre in the 1970s, courtesy of Yorkshire Film Archive. East Riding Archives holds over 800 documents, photographs and design sheets relating to Hornsea Pottery and some of the photographs will be on display. 

Free entry

Tuesday, 07 – Thursday, 09 March 2023

Junction Goole

Junction is excited to welcome back Into Film Festival to its screens this Spring. The Into Film Festival is a free, annual, UK-wide celebration of film, providing memorable cinema experiences for children and young people aged 5-19. Boasting everything from specialist films to exclusive previews of upcoming blockbusters – as well as inclusive SEN and autism-friendly screenings – the Into Film Festival has something to offer everyone.

Free entry

Box office: 01405 763652

Saturday, 28 March 2023, 7pm

Saturday, 15 April 2023, 2pm

Junction Goole

Get ready for big fun – the smash hit West End stage show Heathers the Musical is coming to cinemas nationwide. Based on the 1989 cult classic film starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, and recorded live in its original London home, The Other Palace, this award–winning musical follows Westerberg High student Veronica Sawyer, whose dreams of popularity finally start to come true when she’s taken under the wings of the three beautiful, yet impossibly cruel Heathers. 

Ticket price: £12

Box office: 01405 763652

Using the camera to think differently

Saturday, 15 April 2023, 11am-3pm

Hull Artist Research Initiative

47 King Edward St, Hull, HU1 3RW

This half day course considers slow photography through introducing the habits of slow photographers, some examples and group discussion on the topic, a walk in the local area to practise what has been learnt and a review of the session. The walk will include individual tuition.

This is not a technical course but rather a course about technique. It help put into practice what Ansel Adams said was the most important part of the camera – the twelve inches behind it. There is a limit of eight people on each course.

Cost (inc. tea/coffee & biscuits): £15 / £10 unwaged

Payable upon booking and non-refundable

To book or receive more details without obligation, email Nigel Walker. 

The course is led by Nigel Walker. You can find out more about him at his website.