What's On
We welcome contributions to this page which should be addressed to: Amanda Griffiths, What's On, Yorkshire Life, 3 Tustin Court, Port Way, Preston. PR2 2YQ. These should be sent at least two months in advance of the event. Although every effort is made to ensure accuracy at the time of going to press, times, dates and venues can be changed. Please check with the venue before travelling to any of the events.
Charity events, exhibitions and festivals
Harrogate Spring Flower Show
The 81st annual show, which runs from April 24th to 27th, is organised on behalf of the North of England Horticultural Society and covers 22 acres of the Great Yorkshire Showground.
For further information or to book a ticket, phone 0870 758 3333 or click on www.flowershow.org.uk Prices range from £12-14 (under-16s free).
Big-hearted kids from Scala Performing Arts are to stage a Charity extravaganza at Yeadon Town Hall from Wednesday 23rd April to Saturday 26th April.
The Show features over 80 kids from the renowned stage school performing numbers from well loved musicals including Hairspray, Beauty and the Beast, High School Musical, We will Rock you and Joseph. All proceeds from the show once again go to Martin House Children’s Hospice at Boston Spa. Last year scala donated £6,000 to the Charity and are hoping to beat that amount after this years show. Ticket hotline is 0113 2577183
The Yorkshire Wind Orchestra will be performing a family friendly afternoon Spring concert at The Victoria Hall, Saltaire on Sunday 6th April 2008 with music including Horovitz’s Bacchus on Blue Ridge, Percy Grainger’s Children’s March, Woolfenden’s Gallimaufry, Ticheli’s version of Shenandoah and more!
The grand Main Hall, with its double storey windows, decadent 10 metre high ceiling, large stage and traditional Victorian balcony level is the perfect setting for an afternoon of wind music.
Tickets priced £10 (£5 for students and senior citizens) are available to purchase in advance from our website www.yorkshirewinds.co.uk and on the day (subject to availability). Accompanied under 16’s will be admitted for free.
To avoid disappointment buy your tickets in advance at www.yorkshirewinds.co.uk
The Church of St John the Evangelist
5 Ranmoor Park Road
Ranmoor
Sheffield
S10 3GX
The Yorkshire Wind Orchestra will be performing the Grand Finale Concert in the magnificent surroundings of St Johns in Ranmoor, Sheffield on the evening of Saturday 24th May 2008 at 7.30pm as part of the May Music Festival.
Music will include Martin Ellerby's Dreamscapes, Bacchus on Blue Ridge by Joseph Horovitz, Percy Grainger’s Children March and more!
Tickets are available in advance from our website www.yorkshirewinds.co.uk and on the day (subject to availability).
To avoid disappointment buy your tickets in advance at www.yorkshirewinds.co.uk
Tickets - £8 (£4 students and senior citizens) - accompanied under 16's will be admitted for free.
A GRAND SCHEME
SCRUFFY hoardings adjoining Leeds Grand Theatre have been hiding an extraordinary secret. The theatre reopened last year after major refurbishment but no one paid much attention to the building next door.
This unassuming place is the Assembly Rooms, built the year after the Grand Theatre in 1879 for more raucous, sing-along audiences.
The advent of ‘the talkies’ saw the Assembly Rooms become a cinema, with its windows blocked up and tiles painted over.
In 1958 it became The Plaza, offering adult double bills, before a fire left it virtually derelict. Now, architects BDP (whose other projects include the Royal Albert Hall and Covent Garden’s Opera House) are breathing new life into the Assembly Rooms.
The Victorian wooden ceiling is being renovated to reveal a stencilled design covered by years of grime, and the entire floor is being raised to bring it back in line with the theatre’s Grand Hall, renamed the Emerald Grand Hall after a generous donation from a Bradford publishing firm.
When the work is finished, the Assembly Rooms will be used as a performance space for small productions, a recital hall for an audience of up to 350, a rehearsal space for Opera North and an open area for exhibitions, educational and social events. The shops that front New Briggate, part of the original Victorian concept, will also be let.
You will have to wait until early 2009 to see the results for yourself. In the meantime, £150,000 remains to be raised. To make a contribution, visit www.transformationatleeds.co.uk