The park looks so beautiful with a strong frost and a clear sky, although it hasn’t always been quite so stunning this year! The Friends had their first 2014 meeting in January, swiftly followed by the first 2014 meeting of the Birthday Party planning team, in the congenial setting of the Slip Inn. As theContinue reading “The Friends in 2014”
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Writers in the park
Local writer, Karen Hill-Green, has worked with her fellow Creative Writing MA (York St John) students to collate beautiful new written pieces. So far seven pieces have been created, inspired by Rowntree Park, by being outside and by the wonder of nature. Each of these pieces (poems and prose) can be ‘found’ in the parkContinue reading “Writers in the park”
Art workshops for children
As a new venture for the Young Friends, we’re offering art workshops for children, on Saturday mornings, starting this Saturday, November the 9th. This week, Liz Collier, an exciting local artist, is going to be leading a session based on doodling. The sessions are totally FREE to Friends, and only £2 for others. 10am toContinue reading “Art workshops for children”
Very Young Friends in 2013
The Very Young Friends have been out and about! Each meeting has a different theme and the theme in June was ‘finding fairies’ – I’m not sure how many were found, but much fun was had with ribbons in the sunshine, as you can see. Young ones and their parents/carers are very welcome to joinContinue reading “Very Young Friends in 2013”
Young Friends’ meetings this summer
This summer’s Young Friends’ activities involve story telling and crafts. They have the theme ‘Shaggy Dogs Tales’; see the poster below for details of meeting dates.
Yarnbombing!
Sally Stone and Deborah New are organising a yarnbombing installation in the Park, for the day of the Birthday Party (13th July 2013), working with the Friends and the Council. All are welcome to join in. So what is yarnbombing? It may sound a bit unusual, but it should be great fun. Yarnbombing is aContinue reading “Yarnbombing!”
Slow and careful cycling
The Park is open to slow and careful cyclists, who respect other users. To mark this, the Friends and GetCycling are organising a ‘slow bike ride’ competition, to discover who is the slowest cyclist in the park!
More theatricals
Liz Topi has just reminded us that the Lords of Misrule will be performing in Rowntree Park on 19, 20 and 21 July at 6.00pm and will be doing dress rehearsals on Sunday 15th 2 – 6pm, Monday 16th 6 – 9pm and Tuesday 17th 6 – 9 pm. She says “they will be visitingContinue reading “More theatricals”
Events in the park, summer 2012
We’ve just received this updated list of events in the park this summer, thanks to Liz Topi (CYC) Dates Event name Contact name Contact detail 16-17 June All Day Tennis Tournament 17 June Prostate Cancer Run Richard Smith smithrichard14@sky.com 17 June Barrio Festival Lotita Boddy 01765 607619/ 07973469450 07 July Model Boat Club Flotilla R Thompson 01902Continue reading “Events in the park, summer 2012”
Shakespeare in the park
Information about this year’s production by the York Shakespeare Project can be found here