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Events at a glance (click on an event for more details)

Date Time Event Venue
Thursday 29 March 10.30am York Walk
A Guided Stroll Through Literary York		 Meet at Museum Garden Gates, Museum Street
Thursday 29 March 6.00pm Neil Hanson
Escape From Germany		 Waterstones
High Ousegate
Thursday 29 March 7.00pm NT Live
She Stoops To Conquer		 City Screen
Coney Street
Thursday 29 March 8.30pm Ian McMillan & Andrew McMillan
 City Screen
Coney Street
Friday 30 March 7.30pm Ayo Akinfe
Fuelling The Delta Fires 		Bar Convent
Blossom Street
Friday 30 March 7.30pm - 10.00pm Yorkshire Voices
Oz Hardwick, Pat Borthwick & Ian Duhig
 Jacob’s Well
Trinity Lane
Fri 30 & Sat 31 March 7.30 pm Souvenir D’Anne Frank York Theatre Royal
St Leonard’s Place
Saturday 31 March 10.00am & 11.00am Telltale Tent
Bringing Stories to Life		 Café No. 68, Gillygate
(in the café’s garden)
Saturday 31 March 10.30am - 3.00pm Poetry: Shape and form
with Andrew McMillan		 York Art Gallery
Saturday 31 March 3.00pm Matt Haig
To Be A Cat		 Waterstones
High Ousegate
Saturday 31 March 5.00pm - 7.00pm Tony Benn & Roy Bailey
The Writing on The Wall		 Temple Hall
York St John University
Lord Mayor’s Walk
Saturday 31 March 8.00pm - 10.00pm York Talent Cabaret
Words, Music and Laughter		 Temple Hall
York St John University
Lord Mayor’s Walk
Sunday 1 April 10.30am York Walk
A Guided Stroll Through Literary York		 Meet at Museum Garden Gates, Museum Street
Sunday 1 April 11.30am - 1.00pm The Dickens Enigma
John Bowen In Conversation		 Garden Room
York Central Library
Sunday 1 April 2.00pm Drums & Tanka Clements Hall
Nunthorpe Road
Sunday 1 April 5.30pm Dickens Before Sound
Introduced by Andrew Higson		 City Screen
Coney Street
Sunday 1 April 3.00pm - 5.30pm Poetry Afternoon Friargate Theatre
Friargate
Sunday 1 April 4.00pm - 5.45pm Pub Shorts
Short stories from Yorkshire writers		 Wolfe Room,
The Black Swan
Peasholme Green
Sunday 1 April 6.00pm - 8.30pm Pennine Poets & open mic Upstairs at
The Black Swan
Peasholme Green


Other events

Date Time Event Venue
Saturday 7 April 12.30am - 3.00pm The Great North Songbook - Forum Unitarian Chapel
St Saviourgate
Wednesday 30 May 7.30pm Andrew Motion - Silver York Theatre Royal