A new exhibition opening at Beverley Art Gallery on Saturday, 14 March.
‘Journey Into Abstraction’, will be a retrospective exhibition of the contemporary British artist John Sprakes, whose career spans over 60 years of painting and shows.
Beverley Art Gallery and the Treasure House have unveiled a varied and interesting programme for 2020.
Exhibitions to be held range from local attractions like The Yorkshire Wolds to the delights of Japan.
Tiny Treasures sessions will return to the Treasure House, Beverley for winter/spring 2020.
The fun sessions, for under 5s and their grown-ups, explore themes linked to the Beverley Art Gallery and Treasure House Museum collections and each session runs from 1.30-2.30pm.
East Riding youth groups wanting support and advice with their Positive Activity Grant (PAG) applications are invited to attend a free open evening on Tuesday 21 January.
As the deadline approaches for this year’s applications, East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s youth and family support service (YFS) is holding the event in conjunction with the HEY Smile Foundation and the council’s external funding team.
Beverley Art Gallery has acquired – and put on display – a painting by local artist Fred Elwell, which was purchased by the Friends of Beverley Art Gallery.
The painting is a black and white image, signed and dated 1896. This dates to the time that Elwell lived in Paris where he studied at Academie Julian, an independent school where lots of artists from all over the world studied at that time.
Families and Early Years Foundation Stage groups can now take part in the Creative Families Award at any museum run by East Riding Museums.
Little creatives aged between one and four can take part in the Award during their visit to the museum, which could be Sewerby Hall and Gardens, Goole Museum, Skidby Mill, Beverley Guildhall, or also the Treasure House in Beverley.
Medical illustrator Annamaria Dutto will be in Beverley where she will give a talk at the Treasure House.
The artist will describe how she became involved in this area of work. During her talk, she will present an interesting insight into the medical illustration profession.
Beverley Chamber Choir under the direction of Jeffrey Makinson will perform a concert in the town.
It will feature the great choral work by Mendelssohn, Elijah that will take place at St Mary’s Church in November.
Beverley Theatre Company (BTC) are pleased to announce that their next production will be CHESHIRE CATS, by Gail Young.
Grown women, aching feet and heaving bosoms! Follow the Cheshire Cats team as they speedwalk their way to fundraising success in the London Moonwalk.
A new exhibition exploring the intriguing work of a local medical illustrator will open at the Treasure House, Beverley, on Saturday, 21 September.
Mysteries Inside Us: Medical Illustrations by Annamaria Dutto will showcase an overview of the artist’s professional practice, and includes early pencil drawings from her training in hospitals and contemporary digital pieces produced using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Beverley will once again be taking part in the Heritage Open Days as a host of places will welcome the public in to have a look around.
A completely free event, Heritage Open Days in Beverley will take place from Friday 13 to Sunday the 15 September.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is reminding residents and visitors that the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition will close on Saturday, 14 September. The exhibition is open every day – including Sundays – until then.
On loan from the Natural History Museum in London, the exhibition features 100 awe-inspiring images, from fascinating animal behaviour to breathtaking wild landscapes.
The East Riding Festival of Words will be back from 15 – 20 October, bringing popular authors to the local area to talk about murder, belonging and a great deal more besides.
Writers including Christy Lefteri, Ann Cleeves and Jessica Fellowes will all be in Beverley, as part of the event organised by East Riding Libraries.
The Treasure House in Beverley runs art sessions for children and young people every Thursday after school during term time called ‘Young Creatives’.
Working with artist Esther Cawley, the sessions give children the unique opportunity to make their own pieces of art and find out more about the artworks at Beverley Art Gallery.
A trip to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition in Beverley in 2018 has inspired one young visitor to complete a fundraising walk from Beverley to York, to raise money to save rhinos.
Acacia Van Dyk, aged 10 and from Cottingham, visited the exhibition at the Treasure House last year, which showed winning photographs from 2017, and was moved by the stunning and shocking picture she saw of a rhino with its horns removed.
Saturday, 3 August will see two more events at the Treasure House in Beverley as part of the exciting Events Programme to accompany the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.
Wild Art for Little Ones between 10am and 11am will be an event for Under Fives and their grown ups – a chance to make bright, bold wildlife art to take home, with artist Claire West. Participants should dress for mess!
On Saturday, 27 July, visitors to the Treasure House in Beverley will be able to visit the award-winning Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, and from 11am – 1pm, there will be a showcase of the stunning imagery that award-winning local photographer Steve Race has captured.
Plastic in the world’s oceans has become a topic of worldwide concern, which has been fueled by recent TV shows.
As a result of the coverage of the issue by Sir David Attenborough in Blue Planet II and by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and Anita Rani in the BBC series, War on Plastic the impact of plastic is reaching millions of people.