East Riding of Yorkshire Council is excited to offer a variety of events and exhibitions across the region, from the coast to the countryside.
What’s on stage at Bridlington Spa
The Fureys: One of Ireland’s all-time most acclaimed and influential middle of the road, folk and traditional bands. Furey’s classics like I Will Love You, When You Were Sweet 16, Red Rose Cafe, Leaving Nancy, The Old Man, From Clare to Here and The Green Fields of France have become the soundtrack to the lives of fans all over the world. Tuesday 16 April at 7.30pm. For more information and to book tickets visit www.bridspa.com/whats-on/events/?entry=00-furey24
Rave On: Charting the meteoric rise of Rock and Roll, Rave On is a thrilling tour through music’s most revolutionary decades. Prepare to be enthralled with an evening of singing along, vibrant vintage costumes, colourful staging and dancing in the aisles! No modern projector screens on stage, just note perfect renditions of the most loved records from the 1950s and 60s performed by an incredibly talented, era-obsessed group of young musicians. Thursday 25 April at 7.30pm. For more information and to book tickets visit www.bridspa.com/whats-on/events/?entry=00-raveon24
Sewerby Hall and Gardens
Check out the highlights for Sewerby Hall and Gardens, plan your visit now www.sewerbyhall.co.uk
Coming soon …
Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition: excitement is mounting at Sewerby Hall and Gardens, in preparation for the opening of the world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, on loan from the Natural History Museum in London.
The exhibition will open on Saturday, 4 May, featuring exceptional images which capture fascinating animal behaviour, spectacular species and the breathtaking diversity of the natural world.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is the most prestigious photography event of its kind, providing a global platform that showcases some of the best photography talent from around the world for nearly 60 years. Launching in 1965, today the competition receives entries from 95 countries all over the world, highlighting its enduring appeal. The 2023 award-winning images are on an international tour that will allow them to be seen by well over a million people.
The 2023 competition attracted an astounding 49,957 entries from photographers of all ages and experience levels from 95 countries. During an intense week at the Natural History Museum in London, entries were judged anonymously on their creativity, originality, and technical excellence by an international panel of industry experts.
The brand-new exhibition will run from 4 May until 14 July.
Full details are at: sewerbyhall.co.uk/wpy along with details of all facilities at Sewerby Hall and Gardens, including the house, events, gardens, the zoo, and the Clock Tower Café, as well as opening hours and admission prices.
© Caitlin Henderson, Wildlife Photographer of the Year
artERY Presents: George Egg: George cooks food without a kitchen. During an evening of live cooking with jokes, anecdotes and general bonhomie he prepares three dishes of real and delicious food using a variety of non-culinary appliances from hotel room equipment (irons, ice buckets etc.), power tools (wallpaper stripper, hot air gun) and other unexpected items (a laptop and a hand-dryer). At the end of the show, if they want to, the audience get to taste the food too. A true multisensory comical experience with a bit of education and a heap of inspiration thrown in too.
Refreshments will be available at the interval and are included in the ticket price.
Tickets; £7.00. Please note that 14+ isn’t to indicate that it’s not a kids’ or family show as such, but everyone is welcome as there’s nothing offensive or ‘adult’, just some power tools!
Buy tickets here: 25 April, 7pm – North Bridlington Library: www.bridspa.com/whats-on/events/?entry=13-GENBD24
26 April, 7pm – Goole Library: www.bridspa.com/whats-on/events/?entry=13-GEG24
Last chance to see…
Goole by Barge
Goole by Barge is an exhibition of photographs, videos and music documenting Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard’s two-day journey from Hull to York via Goole, on the working barge, the George Dyson. It is the latest chapter in Rich and Lou’s Open Bridges project. Rich and Lou’s original Open Bridges event made history in 2017 when for the first and only time, all 13 of the bridges over the River Hull were raised, swung or closed simultaneously as a flotilla of historic vessels representing three centuries mustered at the mouth of the River Hull. They were met on the Humber by three 21st century tugs during the premiere performance of a new piece of musique concrete by BAFTA award winning composer John Stead. The specially commissioned music score was diffused live in octophonic sound at the Stage at the Dock. The event was recorded by 16 film makers with the score as soundtrack by Humber Film Creative Community and was selected for four international film festivals.
Following the Open Bridges event Rich and Lou embarked on ‘A River Full of Stories’, an oral history project which gathered memories of life and work on and around the River Hull. They produced a series of films and the book was published in September 2019. Copies were given to all Hull and East Riding libraries.
Entry to this exhibition is free. Explore this exhibition on Friday 12 April 10am – 12pm, 12.30pm – 5pm and Saturday 13 April 9am – 12pm, 12.30pm – 4pm
Mortimer exhibition at Sewerby Hall
An exhibition at Sewerby Hall and Gardens looks at the life and historical significance of John Robert Mortimer, antiquarian, archaeologist, author and curator from the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Mortimer built the first purpose-built museum in the county, to display the finds from his excavations in the area, and opened it in Driffield.
The exhibition looks at his early life and childhood in Fimber, Fridaythorpe and Leavening. He soon became interested in local archaeology, and visited the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851 and also the British Museum, where he realised he was going to devote his life to antiquities and their study and interpretation.
Set against this background, the study of evolution was becoming a hot topic in Victorian Britain, with the publication of Darwin’s ‘The Origin of Species’ in 1859. Mortimer married Matilda Mitchell in 1869 and moved to Driffield, where they rented St John’s Villa, which became home to his collection of archaeological and geological finds. He subsequently opened the first purpose-built museum in the East Riding, in Lockwood Street in Driffield.
In 1863, Mortimer opened a round barrow on land owned by Yarburgh Lloyd Greame of Sewerby House. His work here led to a very detailed book published in 1905 : ‘Forty Years’ Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire’. The book was the culmination of his life’s work and is still regarded today as the standard reference work for the study of pre-history in East Yorkshire. After his death, Mortimer’s collection was acquired by Hull Museums, and is now part of Hull and East Riding Museums.
The exhibition is to be found in Sewerby Hall, open daily
The exhibition runs until 14 April.
For full details of all opening times, and admission prices to the house and zoo, visit www.sewerbyhall.co.uk
