Enjoy a variety of family-friendly and adult events at York Castle Museum throughout the year.

Events

Tales from the Trail – Sat 12 Oct 2024

Tales from the Trail

Date: Saturday 12 October 2024, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum

Performances at intervals throughout the day.

Included in general admission

Tales from the Trail

Do you know your grocer’s from your greengrocer’s?
Hardware from haberdasher’s?
Confectioner’s from chemist’s? ……. ( hope so!)
Prepare for silliness, stories and urgent shopping with our Kirkgate characters.
Information
Two slightly madcap Victorian characters will be on Kirkgate at various times during the days to interact with each other and with the visitors. Short scenes take place, each concerning a story or a bit of fun about objects to be purchased from the shops of Kirkgate.

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Black History Month – Objeks and Tings Public events – Sat 12 Oct 2024

Black History Month – Objeks and Tings Public events

Date: Saturday 12 October 2024, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum

Join us at the Castle Museum to celebrate Black History Month for a day of talks and tours to accompany Museumand’s exhibition, 70 Objeks and Tings. Lynda and Catherine, Directors of Museumand will give two guided tours of their exhibition and Yvie Holder, who has contributed to the exhibition, will be giving a poetry reading sharing stories and thoughts from the Windrush Generation.  

Included in museum admission.

Timetable

10:30 – 11:30 – Guided tour

12:30 – 13:30 – Poetry reading

14:00 – 15:00 – Guided tour 

 

Meet the team 

Catherine Burrell – Founder Director of Museumand

I emigrated to the UK from the Caribbean island of St Kitts in 1958, aged seven years old, as part of the Windrush Generation. As the Founder Director of Museumand, I’m responsible for all the museum does (and what it doesn’t!) including how we present our projects in a way that engages, connects, and encourages visitors to recommend others should “come see”. When people tell us they came because of a recommendation or we overhear the phrase “I never knew that” our team high five each other, knowing it’s been a job well done and we’ve got the interpretation right.  

A key part of my role involves harnessing collaborations, building partnerships, fundraising, and representing the museum at various events.  

I am also a published author, former teacher, and management consultant. I have been a national strategic development adviser at both The British Red Cross and The Scout Association. 

 

Lynda Burrell – Creative Director of Museumand

I studied fashion at London College of Fashion and Middlesex University and went on to have an exciting career in New York as a fashion designer for companies including Marc Jacobs, and as a fashion editor with magazines including Vogue and Marie Claire. I have also owned and run a number of successful beauty businesses and a line of cosmetics.  

As the Creative Director of Museumand, I oversee every aspect of the creative process to make sure our projects are second to none, with every detail carefully crafted. We work with a diverse and multi-talented range of curators, artists and other creatives on exhibition-events and projects, but we manage and lead on all these aspects ourselves.  

Creative excellence is at the heart of our vision and mission as an organisation, both in terms of our innovative, collaborative, unique approach; and our high-quality production values. I devise new ideas and unexpected ways of telling heritage stories that capture people’s imaginations and encourage them to become advocates for heritage sites and landscapes – including those who may not be familiar with, or feel welcome in, traditional heritage institutions. 

 

Yvie Holder – Poet

Yvie Holder draws on her UK-Caribbean heritage to explore themes of memory, migration, loss, love and celebration. She has lived in Yorkshire for over sixty years. She enjoyed writing poetry during her schooldays in Hull and took it up seriously in later life. 

Yvie features in York Castle Museum’s Objeks and Tings exhibition, one of the ‘Voices of York.’ As a descendant of the ‘Windrush Generation,’ she will read poems inspired by objects of her own and by the exhibition. 

A former schoolteacher, adult education tutor and university equalities director, Yvie has experience as a volunteer, including trades union work, school governing, community relations and in the Alzheimer’s Society. 

Winner of the Helen Cadbury Poetry Prize 2021, Yvie was commended (2014) and long-listed (2015) in the York Literature Festival Poetry Competition. Her poems have been widely published in anthologies, journals, magazines and online.

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Soul Cake Cooking Demonstrations – Wed 16 Oct 2024

Soul Cake Cooking Demonstrations

Date: Wednesday 16 October 2024, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum

Cooking Demonstration in the Castle Kitchen.

Included in general admission 

We’re excited to be opening the Castle Kitchen on various dates throughout October and November where we will be making traditional soul cakes, ready for All Souls Day on 2 November! 

 

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Tales from the Trail – Wed 16 Oct 2024

Tales from the Trail

Date: Wednesday 16 October 2024, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum

Performances at intervals throughout the day.

Included in general admission

Tales from the Trail

Do you know your grocer’s from your greengrocer’s?
Hardware from haberdasher’s?
Confectioner’s from chemist’s? ……. ( hope so!)
Prepare for silliness, stories and urgent shopping with our Kirkgate characters.
Information
Two slightly madcap Victorian characters will be on Kirkgate at various times during the days to interact with each other and with the visitors. Short scenes take place, each concerning a story or a bit of fun about objects to be purchased from the shops of Kirkgate.

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Soul Cake Cooking Demonstrations – Thu 17 Oct 2024

Soul Cake Cooking Demonstrations

Date: Thursday 17 October 2024, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum

Cooking Demonstration in the Castle Kitchen.

Included in general admission 

We’re excited to be opening the Castle Kitchen on various dates throughout October and November where we will be making traditional soul cakes, ready for All Souls Day on 2 November!

 

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Tales from the Trail – Thu 17 Oct 2024

Tales from the Trail

Date: Thursday 17 October 2024, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum

Performances at intervals throughout the day.

Included in general admission

Tales from the Trail

Do you know your grocer’s from your greengrocer’s?
Hardware from haberdasher’s?
Confectioner’s from chemist’s? ……. ( hope so!)
Prepare for silliness, stories and urgent shopping with our Kirkgate characters.
Information
Two slightly madcap Victorian characters will be on Kirkgate at various times during the days to interact with each other and with the visitors. Short scenes take place, each concerning a story or a bit of fun about objects to be purchased from the shops of Kirkgate.

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Tales from the Trail – Sat 19 Oct 2024

Tales from the Trail

Date: Saturday 19 October 2024, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum

Performances at intervals throughout the day.

Included in general admission

Tales from the Trail

Do you know your grocer’s from your greengrocer’s?
Hardware from haberdasher’s?
Confectioner’s from chemist’s? ……. ( hope so!)
Prepare for silliness, stories and urgent shopping with our Kirkgate characters.
Information
Two slightly madcap Victorian characters will be on Kirkgate at various times during the days to interact with each other and with the visitors. Short scenes take place, each concerning a story or a bit of fun about objects to be purchased from the shops of Kirkgate.

View event >

Soul Cake Cooking Demonstrations – Tue 29 Oct 2024

Soul Cake Cooking Demonstrations

Date: Tuesday 29 October 2024, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum

Cooking Demonstration in the Castle Kitchen.

Included in general admission 

We’re excited to be opening the Castle Kitchen on various dates throughout October and November where we will be making traditional soul cakes, ready for All Souls Day on 2 November!

 

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Soul Cake Cooking Demonstrations – Thu 31 Oct 2024

Soul Cake Cooking Demonstrations

Date: Thursday 31 October 2024, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum

Cooking Demonstration in the Castle Kitchen.

Included in general admission 

We’re excited to be opening the Castle Kitchen on various dates throughout October and November where we will be making traditional soul cakes, ready for All Souls Day on 2 November!

 

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After Hours Ghost Count 6pm-7pm – Fri 1 Nov 2024

Date: Friday 1 November 2024, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum

After Hours Ghost Count 6pm – 7pm
Friday 1 November 2024
£8 per person
Book here

If you want to make a special trip just to count the ghosts, join us after hours on Friday 1 November! You’ll have one hour to find and count the York Ghosts.

Please note this ticket only provides access to our Victorian Street ‘Kirkgate’ for this specific event and not the whole of York Castle Museum. You cannot use this ticket to re-enter York Castle Museum at a later date. There are 2 timeslots available – please click here for the 7.30pm – 8.30pm slot. 

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