We’re delighted to announce this year’s Artist in Residence is Nick Booth, a MA student studying Fine Art at York St John University. We met up to discuss his ideas on Saturday, and we were intrigued by his proposals. Partly inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, Nick wants to explore some of the historical aspects ofContinue reading “Artist in Residence 2018”
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Application deadline extended
We have extended our deadline for applications for our “Artist in Residence” opportunity; please do pass on this information to anyone who might be interested. The Friends of Rowntree Park are looking for an artist who is studying in York (at post-16 level), who would like to spend time in Rowntree Park and express theirContinue reading “Application deadline extended”
Birthday Party: cancellation
We’ve had to take the difficult decision to cancel the Birthday Party this year. This is due to the fact that 1) we do not have enough volunteers to organise it, and 2) we have not raised the money needed for several new ‘essential items’ (eg security, portaloos, a PA system), which are required on topContinue reading “Birthday Party: cancellation”
Free theatre in the Park
STOP PRESS: DUE TO CRAZY RAIN SITUATION, THIS HAS BEEN RELOCATED TO SOUTHLANDS METHODIST CHURCH We are delighted that the York International Shakespeare Festival are again putting on a show in the park; see the poster below. Many people enjoy coming to these events, and often embrace the whole atmosphere, by bringing picnics, blankets, deckContinue reading “Free theatre in the Park”
Help the Birthday Party 2017
The Birthday Party is the biggest event in Rowntree Park and it’s always lovely to see the park so full of people having a great time. The date for 2017 is Sunday July 16th. However organising the Birthday Party is a major undertaking, with many hours being spent on planning, and on the day itself. AContinue reading “Help the Birthday Party 2017”
Round up for 2016
World events may be getting you down, but perhaps we can cheer you up a bit by saying that the Park, and the Friends, have had a good year overall. At our AGM, we looked back at 2016, and noted some highlights: Very Young Friends have had a strong year, with an enormous turn-out for theContinue reading “Round up for 2016”
Crowning Autumn
We had a lovely time at our October meet up for Very Young Friends playing with leaves. Sadly not enough leaves had fallen for us to make a giant leaf pile for jumping in but we still had fun looking for leaves and autumn colours on our leaf treasure hunt. We also really enjoyed makingContinue reading “Crowning Autumn”
Could 2015 be the year that you help us make the Park even more wonderful?
Step up! Make it happen! The Friends of Rowntree Park aim to: promote the well-being of the Park and its users support increased and diverse uses of the park, by all sections of the community represent the views of the park’s users. A very small group of volunteers work together to support these aims. They alsoContinue reading “Could 2015 be the year that you help us make the Park even more wonderful?”
Young wordsmiths sought!
Would you like to see your story on a bench in Rowntree Park? Writers in the park is holding a competition. Now the writing project is open to under-18s too! If you are interested, please see the instructions for more information.
Opening up Words from a Bench
Our Words from a Bench project has been very successful, with four editions over the first year, with contributions from a total of 19 writers from one York-based writers group in the UK and a partner group of writers in Iceland. Now we’d like to open up the project to all writers, from anywhereContinue reading “Opening up Words from a Bench”