A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
The Festival, being held for the first time, launches on 16 June and will run until 10 July, focusing on the themes of Beckett, the body and the Bible.
The opening event will take place on 16 June at 6pm at the Ron Cooke Hub on the Heslington East campus and will include a talk by renowned Irish photographer, John Minihan, about his exhibition of Beckett photos, which includes a range of multi-media displays, followed by the ceremonial cutting of a Festival of Ideas cake.
The Festival is being run in partnership between York Theatre Royal, the National Centre for Early Music, York St John University and York Museums Trust and various departments at the University of York, including English, History of Art, Music, Theatre, Film and Television.
One of the organisers Professor Jane Moody, Director of the Humanities Research Centre at the University of York, said: “The Festival will bring ideas into conversation with the heritage of the city to reveal new and exciting stories about York, Britain and the world.”
“It is a celebration of ideas that has the community at its heart and features a huge and varied tapestry of events, the overwhelmingly majority of which are free. We hope to make the York Festival of Ideas an unmissable feature of the Yorkshire calendar.”
The Festival will feature a range of talks, exhibitions, theatre, music, and community events for all ages.
There is the chance to explore the work of 20th century dramatist Samuel Beckett, through readings by Nobel Laureate, J M Coetzee, and fellow novelist John Banville. The Festival will feature performances of the playwright’s works by the Gare St Lazare Players.
We hope to make the York Festival of Ideas an unmissable feature of the Yorkshire calendar.
The theme of the body, as a site of pleasure or a catalyst for artistic and racial controversy, will see the City Art Gallery showcasing the controversial career of York painter William Etty, he first major British artist to specialise in depicting the nude.
Writer Kester Aspden will discuss the case of David Oluwale, the Nigerian migrant whose body was found in the River Aire in 1969 and explore its significance in the history of race relations in Britain.
There will be a landmark performance of A Mad World, My Masters, Thomas Middleton’s comedy of conmen and sexual intrigues, first staged in 1605.
The Festival will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, with a series of events including an exhibition A Book Fit for a King at York Minster’s Old Palace and a blend of early Renaissance music and digital imagery in The Greatest Story Ever Told at the National Centre for Early Music.
Children at York primary schools have created their own art, inspired by sixteenth-century woodcuts from the King James Bible, and the Festival will challenge young people to write and design their own Ten Commandments for the 21st century.
People will have the chance to learn about Viking ice-skates and medieval stained glass, the history of the Jews in York, as well as discovering the history of Museum Gardens’ Champion trees in a series of interpretation sessions and trails at the Yorkshire Museum.
Anthony Minghella’s play, Two Planks and a Passion, about the people and the history of York, is being performed at the Theatre Royal.
Adventurous fans of Charles Dickens will have the chance to sample an authentic mouthful of the Victorian gruel, as served to Oliver Twist, at the Sensory Stories cafe to be held at University of York.
Download a free ticket now and find out about more of the events on the Festival website.
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