What’s on this March at Helmsley Arts Centre

Classes, workshops and activities.

Friday Café, every Friday at 10am, call in and relax in our Studio Bar with a hot drink and a selection of cakes, all home-made by our team of volunteers. We have full facilities, are accessible and have highchairs for small children available and plenty of room for prams (a great meeting place for parents/carers and small children!).

Ballet with Jill Robertson. Children’s classes are held on a Saturday in term time from 10am for children 3+, with Mrs Jill Robertson (qualified and registered teacher of ballet with the Royal Academy of Dance). Ladies’ classes are held on a Monday, 11am – 12 noon. All standards welcome. Contact Jill for more details (jillrobertson@hotmail.co.uk / 01642762911)

Helmsley Arts Centre Choir meets on a Monday 7-8:30pm. It’s £5 per session and is relaxed and friendly. Choral leader Jessa Liversidge helps develop singing voice and promises an evening of fun and joy.

Printing with Colour with Suzie Devey (20 March 10am – 4pm) is a workshop where you will learn how to create colour with linocut printing. From rainbow printing, multiple blocks to collage and chine-collé, you can have fun experimenting with colour processes. Discover how to create multiple blocks as linocuts to create a series of prints to take home. Suitable for beginners. The workshop cost is £50 and materials are included. For more information please visit www.helmsleyarts.co.uk.

Ryedale writers meet in the Studio Bar, HAC, once and a month. The next dates are Mondays February 21st, March 21st and April 25th. Every writer, no matter how experienced is welcome. Contact Jean for more details, jeansheridan111@btinternet.com.

Yoga with Nadja Shutt is held in term-time. Nadja has a waiting list for he Thursday session 9am – 10:30am (please email to be placed on the waiting list or for up-to-date availability) and starting at HAC in the Morley Room from March 3rd 10:45 – 12:15am. The price is £50 for a block of 5 sessions or £12 for a drop-in session (email for availability). nadjaschutt@gmail.com

Events this month – Tickets www.helmsleyarts.co.uk or call the box office on 01439711700

Comedy: Gary in Punderland, Fri 4 & Sat 5 Mar – 8pm. Get ready to dive into a rabbit hole of the best jokes in the world - star of Live at the Apollo and sell-out sensation Gary Delaney is back! Gary has been through the laughing glass and he’s ready to bring you a brand new show with hit after hit of the kind of one-liners only a master could craft. If you’re hunting for snark, Gary’s got it covered! EVENT SOLD OUT; please contact the Box Office for the waiting list information.

Music: Peter Knight & John Spiers, Sun 6 Mar – 7:30pm. The pairing of violin and melodeon is played beautifully by uniquely gifted musicians who make a sublime pairing, and create a live performance to be remembered for a long time. Tickets cost £18.

Live Theatre: 1812 Youth Theatre: Like There’s No Tomorrow, Wed 9 – Fri 11 Mar, 7:30pm. There are strange cracks appearing in the land on the other side of the world, turning habitats into wastelands and creating a new wave of climate refugees. However, no one’s worrying about that here – where a mayoral candidate is promising more, more, more. New industries, new jobs, new homes and masses of new stuff – all of it achieved by expansive and rapid economic growth. It’s what the people want. Apart from Maru that is… Presented by 1812 Youth Theatre. Tickets cost £5.

Cinema: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (15), Wed 16 Mar – 7:30pm. English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings. Tickets cost £8 (U16’s £5.50).

Music: Cello on Fire- Peter Hudler, Fri 18th Mar – 7:30pm. Not your standard Cello recital but a colourful journey through a wide range of styles and genres. Beautiful works by contemporary musicians (J.Zorn, E. Reijseger, M. Summer) are combined with classical pieces, (Bach, Debussy), and a wide range of Jazz and Folk inspired music. Tickets cost £20.

Live Theatre: Red Dragonfly Productions and Grist to the Mill Productions Presents: The Ballad of Mulan, Sat 19 Mar – 7:30pm. Woman, warrior, Legend. For ten years Mulan, disguised as a man, has fought for the Chinese Empire. Now the fighting is coming to an end, one last battle and she will be going home – but can she return to her old life, become a woman again. A search for identity in a violent world. Tickets cost £15 (U18’s £13).

Cinema: Nightmare Alley, Wed 23 Mar – 7:30pm. An ambitious carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is. Tickets cost £8 (U16’s £5.50).

Comedy: The Comedy Network, Fri 25th Mar, 7:30pm. Come and unwind after a stressful week at one of our Comedy Network comedy club shows. Gather your friends, grab a drink from the bar and enjoy laugh out loud comedy from some of the hottest comedians on the circuit. Tickets cost £12.

Music: Howlin’ Ric & the Rocketeers, Sat 26 Mar - 7:30pm. Leeds based Howlin’ Ric & the Rocketeers play vibrant and authentic rock and roll, roving from raucous rhythm and blues right through to dreamy popcorn love songs. Wailing vocals, virtuosic sax and biting, grooving guitar will have the audience bouncing, swinging and sweating from start to finish. Tickets cost £12.

Music & Theatre: Concert for MIND: Sun 27th Mar – 7:30pm. An Evening with James Kershaw, Dominic Goodwin and Friends.

Drama, comedy and music combine to make an evening of reminiscence, comedy and nostalgia. Never before has Rachmaninoff jostled with Lerner and Loewe and Richard Stilgoe for prominence! A titter and a tapping foot is promised! All profits for the concert go to Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale Mind. Tickets cost £10.