This month, the sleepy village of Slaithwaite in West Yorkshire will be celebrating a local legend with a festival of storytelling, music, and arts and crafts…
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Wakefield’s rhubarb festival
Wakefield’s annual culinary festival of all things rhubarb takes places this month featuring the usual mix of foodie entertainment but with a rhubarb-themed twist…
Multi-sensory show tours the UK
A multi-sensory, immersive theatre show, for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities, will be visiting towns and cities across the UK…
Best beard competitions, spectacular battles and forgotten stories of Viking women
JORVIK Viking Festival will feature forgotten stories of Viking women, a battle spectacular, a Viking encampment, Strongest Viking and Best Beard competitions, mead tasting, a Viking banquet and Poo Day…
A fearlessly told story of growing up in a multi-cultural community
Tara Finney Productions and tiata fahodzi present good dog by Arinzé Kene, retelling the stories of multiple characters, families and years…
A Human Aquarium in Leeds
The Human Aquarium is a new exhibition opening on Friday 15th February in Leeds, looking at the world through the eyes of sea mammals…
A Hair of the Dog Jog in Sheffield with beer and cake
Why not get 2019 off to a good/bad start, by putting some of those new year resolutions to one side and joining the annual Sheffield Hair of the Dog Jog on Saturday 12th January…
Bedale Medicinal Leech House
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an unusual little building that looks like a castellated folly from the outside, but was actually built to store leeches…
Scarborough don their top hats for unusual Boxing Day match
Said to be Scarborough’s oldest surviving custom, the Fishermen & Firemen’s Charity Football Match takes place on Boxing Day at South Bay Beach…
Seasonal swims and daring dips for the hardy this Christmas
Contrary Life delights in bringing you our annual round-up of the festive swims and dips taking place across the UK this year…
Krampus visits Whitby for an alternative Christmas event
As Father Christmas makes his annual visit to towns across the UK for the festive season, there’s another, much darker character making his way to Whitby in North Yorkshire…
Ditch the technology and delve into Christmas past
Take a trip to Christmas past, in a more pleasant way than Scrooge did, by visiting one of the many Dickens, Victorian and medieval themed events taking place across the UK this festive season…
Giant puppets and illuminated installations at the Lamplighter Festival
On Saturday 17th November, Todmorden will light up with a handmade lantern parade, fire performers, street bands and illuminated installations…
Authentic and refreshing adaptation of Dickens’ timeless Christmas tale
This festive season, audiences will be welcomed into Dickens’s intimate study, a warm inviting environment full of Christmas cheer and hidden surprises…
Indian artist beams into Settle with screening of contemplative film
Arts Charity Settle Stories is to screen a creative documentary, The Poetics Of Fragility, at The Joinery in Settle on Sunday 11th November…