Events

This five-day coach tour to Sussex has been arranged for the Friends by Travel Editions. Departing from York Memorial Gardens on Monday 28 September, we will visit Wardown House Museum & Gallery en route. Accommodation will be at the four-star Holiday Inn on Brighton Sea Front. The tour will include Farleys House & Towner Eastbourne […]

This is a Friends' private view of 'The Next Classics : classic materials, techniques and inspiration in sculpture today', a selling exhibition at Sliding Water Gallery, of sculpture - in various materials - drawings and prints, exploring the work of seven of the most exciting sculptors working in York and North Yorkshire. These include Harold […]

‘Wedgwood and Flaxman: A Creative Alliance’, a talk by The Honourable Sir Tristram Hunt, FRHistS, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.This lecture in the Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum, has been organised in connection with the exhibition on John Flaxman and his influence held to mark the bicentenary of his death, which will run from […]

Our speaker, Alison Gilchrist, is an accredited stained-glass conservator at Barley Studio, York. In late 2025 the Barley Studio were honoured to work on this very special memorial window from St Lawrence’s Church, York. Designed by the Arts and Crafts artist, Joan Fulleylove, the window commemorates Thomas Ableson Harpley, sometime Vicar of the Church, and […]