March 2016
VESP#09.2
Turn your smart phone or tablet into a viewer for holographic films! Free workshop, open to all. Participants are invited to bring their internet accessible smartphone or tablet and take the activity home with them.
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VESP#10 The Bunker Experience
York Theatre Royal and Pilot Theatre take you underground and into the world of E.M Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’. Set against the backdrop of York’s Cold War Bunker, visuals and music combine to explore our complex relationship with technology and what this might mean for human connection now and in the future.
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VESP#11
York City Screen come out of their cinema and across town to collaborate with the National Railway Museum for June's Vespertine event. With a special screening of Ealing Comedy classic 'The Ladykillers' complete with rescore by the inimitable Shatner's Bassoon, archive films from BFI with live soundtrack from Mia La Metta, new film in a train carriage by artist RL Wilson, screen printing and more. All welcome. Limited capacity for film screening, book your place here: http://bit.ly/1TZvpjE Activities will be happening…
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VESP#12 – Tower to Tower
Two of York’s oldest towers provide the starting point for us to reimagine York’s past and potential futures. Clifford’s Tower is one of the city’s most iconic buildings, built in the 13th Century this elevated castle was once a prison and royal mint. The nearby lesser known and peculiarly named ‘Bitchdaughter Tower’ was once a guardhouse and gun platform. Taking inspiration from these two sites, artists Claire Hind and Gary Winters delve into the 949 years of hard facts, forgotten…
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VESP#13 Hop Skip and a Micklegate Run
Hop Skip and a Micklegate Run 10am - 6pm Sunday 28th August Various Venues including Micklegate Bar, Holy Trinity Church and The Stained Glass Centre at St Martin Cum Gregory. Part of The Micklegate Soap Box Challenge. This August a number of Micklegate’s traders are reinventing the street for a soapbox run! Local teams have designed and created their own motorless vehicle carts to race along the street as part of a community celebration. Follow the trail of venues all…
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VESP#14: Georgian Bizarre
A series of public performances celebrating the weird and wonderful world of Georgian entertainment.
York Theatre Royal and Fairfax House have teamed up to create an early evening experience providing glimpses into a time when the most bizarre activities were considered mainstream.
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VESP#15 Zoom Through
AOC Archaeology Group and National Centre for Early music have teamed up to explore and reinterpret the medieval church of St Margaret on Walmgate using archaeological laser scanning and music from throughout the ages.
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VESP#16 Yorktopia 2026
The latest collaboration in the Vespertine series sees York St John University partner up with My Future York to ask the question: What do we want York to look like in ten years?
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VESP#17: Party
YORK MEDICAL SOCIETY • STONEGATE • YO1 8AW LIVE MUSIC • COCKTAILS • CANAPES • Vespertine is a series of events in some of York's mose intruging and unsusual space and places of hertiage. This part is to celebrate our swishy new online retrospective of commissions and events that have taken place over the last two years; developed with DC Labs and University of York students Noor Mansur and Mark Woodward. DROP IN ANYTIME BETWEEN 5.30PM AND…
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The Bunker Experience Part III
You are invited to take part in an alternative tour of York’s little known Cold War Bunker. Made in response to conversations with older people in the local area about the Cold War era as well as Royal Observer veterans and English Heritage’s knowledgeable staff, the piece mixes the real and not so real and takes you on a different journey.
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