Events

Browse through our event listings or click on the following exhibition titles or themes to skip to the area you are interested in: Tracy Chevalier - writer in residence, and Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York.

 

Tracy Chevalier - Writer in Residence events

Author Tracy Chevalier, who wrote Girl With a Pearl Earring among several other historical novels, is our Writer in Residence for 2008. Details of events later in the year will appear here as soon as they are confirmed. Click here to find out about our short story competition, Paint a Picture in 300 words. Click here to find out more about Tracy Chevalier and her work.

The Writer is in...

1 July

2pm - 4pm

Come and visit Tracy in the gallery and take this opportunity to ask her about her work, writing processes and her thoughts on the paintings on display.

Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York events

Studio Saturdays

7 June, 2 August

11am - 12.45pm and 2pm - 3.45pm

Join artist Shirley Hudson at these workshops creating sculptures and images of horses using recycled materials.

Our Studio Saturday events are for accompanied children and a small charge is made for materials.

Studio Saturday

5 July

11am - 12.45pm and 2pm - 3.45pm

Textile artist Kirstie Briggs-Bateman will lead this workshop, inspired by the colour in the Stubbs exhibition.

This event is for accompanied children and a small charge is made for materials.

Stubbs Cavalcade

Every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 30 July until 23 August

11am - 1pm and 2pm - 4pm

Come and help decorate one of 30 large scale horses at these drop-in workshops for families. They will form a cavalcade of horses which will parade through the Museum Gardens at our Whistlejacket Race Day (see event below).

A small charge will be made for materials.

Rocking Horse Afternoon

Friday 29 August

1pm - 4pm

Anthony Dew of The Rocking Horse Shop, Fangfoss, near York, hosts an afternoon of demonstrations, talks and children's activities in The Studio.

Whistlejacket Race Day - in the Museum Gardens

Saturday 30 August

2pm - 4pm

Come and see our 'cavalcade of horses' in the Museum Gardens, five minutes' walk away from the gallery. All the horses will have been produced during the summer activities (above). Take part in obstacle races or watch, relax and listen to music from the Kirkbymoorside Brass Band.
Click here for more information about the Yorkshire Museum and Museum Gardens.