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Mon 6 Feb 7.30pm
Helmsley Decorative and Fine Arts Society presents
A lecture by Hilary Hope Guise : Chariots of Fire - The Olympic Games
Hilary Hope Guise trained as a painter at St Martin’s. She has exhibited in Berlin and France and lectures widely in London and America. This lecture will cover the story and excitement of the Olympic Games in this topical year.
Tue 7 Feb 10.00am
Exhibition opens today
Paintings by Jane Worthington & Judith Ellis
Jane's paintings are primarily about colour, and her inherent synaesthesia adds an extra dimension to her work.Judith uses the diaries of her Canadian explorer grandmother as the inspiration for her monochrome paintings and prints.
Exhibition ends Fri 2 March
Wed 8 Feb 7.30pm
Cinema
Wuthering Heights
A Yorkshire hill farmer on a visit to Liverpool finds a homeless boy on the streets. He takes him home to live as part of his family on the isolated Yorkshire moors where the boy forges an obsessive relationship with the farmer’s daughter.
Monday 13 - Tuesday 14 February 10.00am - 3.30pm
Half-term Workshops at Helmsley Arts Centre
2-day Street Dance! with professional Dancer and TV Actor Abigail Uttley
For dancers aged 11-18Come and learn the latest moves from top street dancer Abigail Uttley.
Explore a variety of styles - Street , African, Carribean, Zumba and 'freestyle', and prepare for a grand street-dance battle....
Wed 15 Feb 7.30pm
Cinema
My Week With Marilyn
When Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe worked together as the stars of The Prince and the Showgirl, their relationship was, to say the least, tense....a relationship explored in this film by a great cast: Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Williams, Dame Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Zoe Wanamaker."The stand-off between Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier ... is recreated wonderfully in this entertaining film"
Peter Bradshaw,The Guardian
Thursday 16 February 1.00 - 4.00pm
Half-term Workshops at Helmsley Arts Centre
Circus Skills & Show with Greentop Circus performers
Open to anyone aged 7 - 16Learn to juggle, spin plates, toss (and catch!) the diabolo - and many more circus skills. Two circus performers will show you how it's done in a performance especially for you. Then they'll teach you how.
Only 25 places available, so book now!
Friday 17 February 7.30pm
Uncorked!
A new evening of mesmerising musicians, accompanied by Top Quality Wines and Nibbles will be launched at Helmsley Arts Centre!
Sunday 19 February 7.30pm
Piano Recital - Alasdair Beatson
Highly regarded as a distinctive and accomplished musician, the young Scottish pianist continues to make an impact on the classical music scene. This season he holds an artistic residency at Perth Concert Hall, performs in Belgium, in Bath's Mozartfest, appears three times at the Wigmore Hall and continues his extensive work with a welcome visit to Helmsley.
Wed 22 Feb 7.30pm
Cinema
The Deep Blue Sea
There couldn't be a better fit for playwright Terence Rattigan than film-maker Terence Davies,in his adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea, one of Rattigan's most touching plays....The film taps into the emotional thrust of the play, aided by an understated but eloquent and finally very moving performance from Weisz that's one of the best she has accomplished on screen....(from a review by Derek Malcolm)
Saturday 25 February 7.30pm
Hunt Roberts Theatre presents
Fast Woman
Daredevil Helle Nice was a fast woman in every sense: in life, in love and in motor-racing. Roaring through the 1920's she danced her way to notoriety at the Casino de Paris, posed nude for Parisian photographers and risked her life many times in adventures as diverse as skiing, high wire acts, mountaineering and speed record attempts...
Wed 29 Feb 7.30pm
Cinema
Hugo
HUGO is the astonishing adventure of a wily and resourceful orphan boy whose quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father will transform Hugo and all those around him.
Friday 2 March 7.30pm
Reform Theatre in association with The Harrogate Theatre presents
My Favourite Summer
In its first outing since its universally acclaimed original release, My Favourite Summer is a comedy for everyone who's ever been in love… and lived to tell the tale.
Sunday 4 March 3.00pm
Keziah Thomas - The Virtuosic Harpist
Keziah Thomas presents a programme of showpieces highlighting the full capacity of her magnificent instrument. In her recent Carnegie Hall debut in New York, Keziah was hailed by the New York Concert Review as ‘Stupendous…totally original and engaging’ and is set to show the harp as being an exciting, dynamic instrument in a concert that includes works by Britten, Parish-Alvars and Piazzolla.
Mon 5 Mar 7.30pm
Helmsley Decorative and Fine Arts Society presents
A lecture by Matthew Williams : Tyntesfield - A Victorian house re-discovered
Matthew Williams lectures widely on the subject of design and is especially interested in that of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the curator of Cardiff Castle. This lecture gives the story of one of the last great Victorian Country Houses still intact and saved by the National Trust at the eleventh hour.
Tue 6 Mar
Exhibition opens today
Paintings by Jo Rodmell
“I love our countryside and coasts and try to capture the changing light and seasons. I paint mostly with watercolours.”Exhibition ends Fri 30 Mar
Wed 7 & Thur 8 March 7.30pm
Cinema
The Iron Lady
"The Iron Lady" is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.
Saturday 10 March 7.30pm
Aireborough Gilbert & Sullivan Society presents
Trial By Jury and G&S Songs from the Shows
It is quite short and, alone of all the G&S works, contains no spoken dialogue. Many people consider this to be the most perfectly constructed of all the operas and it is indeed a little gem of wit, sentiment and charm.
Sunday 11 March 3.00pm
Ampleforth College Big Band
Ampleforth College Big Band was founded by their leader, William Dore in 2003 to balance the strong choral and orchestral traditions present in the College music-making. The group consists of around twenty students and two adults, playing a range of music from 1930s swing, soul, and arrangements of jazz-funk and rock numbers. The band has been in constant demand and this is the third time the Big Band have performed at the Arts Centre. It is a great pleasure to be helping to raise money for these two valuable causes.
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 March, 7.30pm
1812 Youth Theatre presents
Deadly Deeds and Terrible Tales!
Edgar Allen-Poe's classic ghost story The Tell- Tale Heart is the centre piece for this terrifying evening of ghost stories which will include a new version of the classic W W Jacobs short story The Monkey's Paw as well as a new and original work written for the youth theatre by local acclaimed writer Kit Park.
Sunday 18 March, 3.00pm
An Afternoon with The Archaeologist Gillian Hovell
A Muddy History of Britain
Join Gillian for an afternoon's richly illustrated journey from the dawn of mankind in Britain to the nineteenth century. Explore special sites in Yorkshire and their place in our history: you'll never look at an empty field in the same way again.
Wed 21 & Fri 23 Mar 7.30pm
Cinema
War Horse
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, "War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets-British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter-before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land.
Saturday 24 March to Sunday 25 March
Jazz at its very best!
Helmsley Jazz'n'Swing Weekend
Here at Helmsley we're looking forward to welcoming jazz fans to our first-ever Jazz 'n' Swing Weekend - a full two days of traditional jazz and swing presented by some of the top performers in the UK.
Wednesday 28 - Saturday 31 March, 7.30pm
1812 Theatre Company presents
Table No. 9
Two friends meet up after losing touch for thirty years. We meet them in full flow oftheir renewed friendship. They share a cafe with two young women, who pity them.The older ones envy the younger pair.
Tue 3 April 10.am
Exhibition opens today
Paintings by Daniel & Raymond Greenley
The Yorkshire landscape is not directly represented in Daniel's paintings. He takes elements from it : shapes, form, line and spatial relationships, mixed with an instinctive use of colour.Raymond's interest in abstract art grew from his time as a student at the College of Art in Hull and Goldsmith's College in London and has been a constant source of inspiration .
Exhibition ends Fri 4 May
Thursday 19 April, 7.00pm
Friends Fashion Show
The Friends of Helmsley Arts Centre bring a touch of Hollywood Glamour to Helmsley with their Spring and Summer Fashion Fantasia.
Friday 20 April, 7.30pm
Prodigal Theatre presents
Caruso and The Monkey House Trial
Celebrity. Scandal. Monkeys. Opera!When legendary Tenor Enrico Caruso is accused of pinching women's bottoms at the Central Park Zoo in New York, it's not his reputation but his whole career that's at stake.
With text drawn from contemporary newspaper accounts, the audience plays the jury and must pass judgement: guilty or not guilty?
Thursday 26 - Saturday 28 April, 7.30pm
1812 Theatre Company presents
Born In The Gardens
By Peter NicholsMaud lives in a dilapidated mock-Tudor house with her son Mo, an antiquarian bookseller and trad-jazz enthusiast who accompanies records on his drumkit and encourages Maud's eccentricities such as the war she wages on hordes of (imaginary) mites which infest her life.
