Guide to What's On In York, November
York Christmas Markets - St. Nicholas Fayre
 York is famous for its Christmas markets and they are just getting bigger and better every year. This year they start at the end of November and go on throughout December. Explore Parliament Square, St Nicholas Fayre & Markets, St Sampson's Square and Coppergate for food, craft and gift stalls!
Shops traditionally open late in the lead up to Christmas, with city-centre late night opening every Thursday from 29th November.
>> Forward to December Christmas In York.
Plan your visit to York: Hotels, Pubs & Restaurants
Medieval Market at Barley Hall
November 29th - December 2nd 2007
Medieval traders selling their crafts and wares - brilliant living history and a great place for unique presents! Plus our medieval bar selling traditional ales and wines. Admission £1 10am - 5pm.
Barley Hall - 2 Coffee Yard, off Stonegate, York. YO1 8AR
Fairfax House
 Chippendale & His Contemporaries
11 November 2007 at 12.30
Price: £10.00
(senior citizens & students £8.00)
The mid 18th Century furniture compared and contrasted by Peter Brown. One of the great strengths of the Noel Terry Collection is the quality of the mid-18th century furniture. Pieces from, amongst others, the workshops of Thomas Chippendale, William Vile, John Linnell and Gordon and Tait are compared and contrasted by Director of Fairfax House, Peter Brown.
Fairfax House, Castlegate, York, YO1 9RN
Tickets & Information Tel. 01904 655 543
Craft Fair at St. William's College
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 November 2007
A popular craft fair inside this amazing old building. Make an early start on your Christmas gifts.
St. William's College
Show Map of York
York Theatre Royal
York Theatre Royal Presents 'Enjoy'
03 - 24 November 2007
Written by Alan Bennett.
Directed by Damian Cruden & Juliet Forster, Designed by Nigel Hook, Lighting design by Ciaran Bagnall
Wilf and Connie Craven seem pretty familiar: getting on a bit, bickering a bit, wondering if the kids will ever come and visit them in their cramped back-to-back in Leeds. They’re just normal, aren’t they? So why is there an ‘observer’ quietly scribbling in the corner of the room? and what are all the secrets that threaten to bring the Cravens’ house down around their ears?
'Enjoy' is Bennett for the Big Brother age – hilarious and unsettling, brilliantly dark – a laugh-out-loud tale of class values and town planning, the generation gap, sexual politics and fashionable sociology.
York Theatre Royal, St. Leonard's Place, York, YO1 7HD
Box Office Tel. 01904 623568
The Grand Opera House York
Grumpy Old Women Live
26th & 27th November 2007
Starring DENISE BLACK, BRITT EKLAND and DILLIE KEANE
www.grumpyoldwomenlive.com
Grand Opera House York, Cumberland Street, York, YO1 9SW
Tel. 0870 606 3595
York Musical Society
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - ELIJAH
Saturday 17th November 2007
7.30pm in York Minster
Tickets for our concerts cost between £6 to £18 each and are available about one month before the performance from the York Theatre Royal Box Office Tel. 01904 623568 or at the door on the night.
www.yorkmusicalsociety.org.uk
The National Centre for Early Music
Acoustic Triangle
24 November 2007 at 7.30pm
 Malcolm Creese, double bass
Tim Garland, saxophones, bass clarinet
Gwilym Simcock piano, french horn
Acoustic Triangle is a unique trio performing highly innovative un-amplified music. All three players are widely admired as world-class jazz soloists and have significant backgrounds in European classical music. Their unique blend of melodic jazz, classical and folk styles from around the world is both virtuosic and serenely beautiful. Buy tickets and for further information.
The National Centre for Early Music
St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate, York. Y01 9TL
City Screen Picturehouse York
 November 2007
Next to the River Ouse, the City Screen Picturehouse is an inspired re-development of the Yorkshire Herald press works building, original architectural features with very contemporary design and style.
The cinema has 3 screens and the largest is equipped to the prestigious THX standard. All screens have very comfortable seating.
Other features of our extensive premises include an impressive café-bar with a terrace overlooking the River Ouse, the Sky Lounge which affords panoramic views of the city, the Basement Bar which hosts diverse music, poetry and comedy events plus a regular film quiz night, the Gateway Internet Café and two art exhibition spaces.
Next Month in December ~ The Metropolitan Opera Live in High Definition, returns with eight transmissions Live from New York.
Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, starring Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón.
Saturday, December 15, 2007 6pm
Running time: 3 hours, 5 minutes. 1 intermission
Who better to portray the world’s most famous lovers than opera’s ultimate charismatic duo, Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón? Gounod’s ultra-sensual interpretation of Shakespeare is an ideal vehicle for their unique and incandescent appeal. The irresistible Nathan Gunn is Mercutio and Plácido Domingo presides on the podium.
City Screen Picturehouse.
13-17 Coney Street, York YO1 9QL Tel: 0871 704 2054
York St. John University Graduation 2007
Every year, York St John University marks the academic achievements of its graduates at ceremonies held in the splendid surroundings of York Minster.
This year there will be 4 separate ceremonies held on Thursday 8 November and Friday 9 November at 10.00am and 2.00pm
Literature Events In York
Thursday 1st November
Jacqueline Wilson - promoting her new book, Kiss This, the celebrated children’s author will be appearing at Waterstone’s in York. Please note this is a ticket only event. Please tel: 01904 628740 Time: 4pm.
Sunday 4th November
Dreamcatcher Workshop at The Royal Oak pub on Goodramgate, from 6-9 pm. Please bring 5 or 6 copies of your work, which should be less than 4 pages of A4 or 2,000 words. Charge: £2, £1 if you're under 18.
More info from adriantellwright@hotmail.com
Tuesday November 6th
Promoter’s Forum: If you would like to be involved in the 2008 York Literature Festival, you are welcome to attend the next Promoter’s Forum meeting, to be held from 7pm-9pm on November 6th at the Marriot Room, York Central Library. We will be discussing the latest draft programme for the festival, which is beginning to take shape. Buffet and refreshments provided. Please email miles.salter@york.gov.uk if you would like to be involved, have an event you would like to host, or wish to attend the November meeting.
Tuesday 6th November
7.30 - 9 pm : The SPOKEN WORD : Poetry and Prose OPEN MIC. At : The Exhibition Hotel, in the Conservatory, rear of pub/restaurant. The hotel is at the corner of Bootham and Gillygate Bring your poetry, prose, monologs, music, or urban primal scream Spread the WORD! For information, please contact:
Rose Drew yorkspokenword@yahoo.co.uk, rose@stairwellbooks.com
or Alan Gillott agillott@sunglobal.com
Thursday 15th November
Helen Dunmore is one of our most successful novelists with The Siege and Mourning Ruby gaining popular and critical acclaim . Her latest novel House of Orphans is set in Finland where she spent some time after graduating from York University. She still writes poetry and Glad of These Things (2007) is the first new collection since her Collected Poems (both published by Bloodaxe Books).
Basement Bar, City Screen, York. Tickets £6 / £4 concs.
Box office : 0871 7042054
Thursday 15th November
Women & Words Meeting. Women and Words is a group for women interested in developing their own writing and in the writing of others. New members are always welcome. The group meets on the first Monday to share Work-in-Progress, and the third Thursday of each month usually a speaker or workshop from 10am to 12 noon at Jacobs Well, Trinity Lane (off Micklegate), York. Forthcoming Thursday speaker meetings: - "Writing our Memoirs" tips and advice from Kate Lock. £2.50 per session including tea/coffee.
Tel. Sharon Morgan : 01904 788080
Wednesday 21st November
Geoffrey Hill (A Writers At York Event) 7pm, Seebohm Rowntree Building (Alcuin) ATB/056 & 057, University of York. A reading by poet Geoffrey Hill. The acclaimed poet, lecturer and essayist Geoffrey Hill will be reading at the University of York.
Monday 26th November
Pat Borthwick will be reading from her collection “Wave”, recent winner of the 2007 Templar Pamphlet Poetry prize. 7.30 pm, Jacob’s Well, off Micklegate. Tickets £2. To reserve a place, please email pab@theolddairy1.freeserve.co.uk
Heritage Promotions Fair, York Guildhall
Wood Art Exhibition
22 & 23 November 08
Are you looking for a special gift?
Visit our stands at the Heritage Promotions Fair - York GuildHall.
Located just off St Helen's Square, York YO1 9QN - map
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