YORK 50+ FESTIVAL 2018
Friday 21 September – Sunday 7 October
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME – (brochure with all event details)
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This is our 14th annual 50+ Festival – coordinated by The YOPA festival team.
PHOTO GALLERY 2018
Fri 21 Sep: Vocal Flourish Community Choir & Friendship group with a musical twist
Sun 23 Sep: Myths and fairytales for old and young
Tue 25 Sep: Halves Lunch club & Health + Wellbeing with Ayurvedic herbs & York in Close Up
Wed 26 Sep: Line Dancing & Laughter Yoga
Fri 28 Sep: Action for Elders – balanced lives
Sat 29 Sep: Healing dance
Mon 1 Oct: Scottish country dancing
Tue 2 Oct: Keep Fit & Welcome To Circle Dance
Fri 5 Oct: Keepsake art
Sat 6 Oct: NO KIDDING & Saturday evening English Folk Dance
YORK 50+ FESTIVAL 2017
Saturday 30 September – Sunday 8 October
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME – (brochure with all event details)
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This is our 13th annual 50+ Festival – coordinated by The YOPA festival team.
PHOTO GALLERY 2017
Thursday 21 Sept: Victorian Craftsmen
Friday 22 Sept: Longing, Belonging and Balfour
Saturday 30 Sept: Glen Garden and Sporting Heritage
Saturday 30 Sept: Clothes Swap!
Sunday 1 Oct: Bowls Taster Session
Sunday 1 Oct: Tai Chi and Seated Pilates
Monday 2 Oct: Almshouse walk and Playing the Edinburge Fringe
Tuesday 3 Oct: Sequence dancing and Indoor Bowls
Tuesday 3 Oct: Gale Farm Court and On My Trolley
Wednesday 4 Oct: Needle Felting and Your Cafe
Wednesday 4 Oct: Sing for Joy
Thursday 5 Oct: Health Walk, Seated Tai Chi, and Rowing Taster session
Saturday 7 Oct: More Food for Thought
Wednesday 11 Oct: Theatre Royal Cream Tea and back stage tour
Friday 27 Oct: Line Dancing
YORK 50+ FESTIVAL 2016
Saturday 24 September – Sunday 2 October
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME – (brochure with all event details)
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This is our 12th annual 50+ Festival – coordinated by The YOPA festival team.
Your skills are needed in the creation of a new 50+ Festival Team:-
– programme editor
– publicity and displays
– website and social media
– programme distribution
– taking photos of events for the website
Contact Sue asap through the YOPA office at yorkassembly@btconnect.com
PHOTO GALLERY 2016 by Sue Lister
Thursday 15 Sept: York 50+ Festival Information Fair
Friday 23 Sept: York 50+ Festival Show, Backstage Tour & Cream Tea
Saturday 24 Sept: UnlockYour Camera Power; Free E-Magazines & Audio Books; Classical Indian Dance; Dead Good Cake ‘n Chat
Sunday 25 Sept: Walk & Talk – Judaism & Islam in York
Monday 26 Sept: Dunnington Library Coffee Morning; Pain Free Movement with Somatics
Tuesday 27 Sept: Dunnington Health Walk
Wednesday 28 Sept: Greet, Eat & Meet (GEM); Mini Seated Massage; Almshouses of York
Thursday 29 Sept: New Earswick Carers Hub; Lishi; Reiki; Mini-Facial; Fair’s Fair; Sing-along at St Sampson’s
Saturday 1 Oct: Big Booksale; Harvest Happening
Monday 3 Oct: Circle Dance; Scottish Country Dancing
SPORT & LEISURE PHOTOS by John Saunders
Tuesday 27 Sept 16:Badminton
Thursday 29 Sept 16: Table Tennis
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YORK 50+ FESTIVAL 2015
Saturday 26 September – Sunday 4 October
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME – (brochure with all event details)
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This is our 11th annual 50+ Festival – coordinated by The YOPA festival team.
PHOTO GALLERY 2015 by Sue Lister
Thursday 10 Sept: 50+ Information Fair
Saturday & Sunday 26 & 27 Sept: Camera Power; Zentist; Greenways Cycling
Monday 28 Sept: Walking Football; Kyra Women’s Project; Cloud Storage; Monday Club; Cleverest Thief;Scottish Country Dancing
Tuesday 29 Sept: Social Networking; Circle Dancing; Croquet; Kickboxing; Rock Choir
Wednesday 30 Sept: Free to be Me
Thursday 1 Oct: T’ai Chi; Sitting T’ai Chi; Wandesford House; Patchwork & Quilting; Health & Wellbeing Event
Friday 2 Oct: Glass Fusing; Ageing without Children; Ancestry; Tilling
Saturday 3 Oct: Curiosities of York; Islam in York; Grandfather in Tibet 1905; Djembebash Drum
Sunday 4 Oct: Green Bites
SPORT & LEISURE PHOTOS by John Saunders
Monday 28 Sept: Climbing Wall
Wednesday 30 Sept: Gliding
Friday 2 Oct: Fencing
PHOTO CONTRIBUTIONS
Don Walls Poetry Evening; Mrs Tobit Tells All; Scottish Country Dancing;
Carers Centre Drop In; Marzipan Icing
YORK 50+ FESTIVAL 2014
This year we had an amazing diversity of over 130 events for our 10th Anniversary
with over 5,000 people of all ages participating !
Sport & Active Leisure (thanks to CYC Sport & Active Leisure and clubs around the city) 49 events
Health & Wellbeing 24 events
Workshops 19 events
Socials 11 events
Displays and Open Days 11 events
Shows/Films 9 events
Talks 9 events
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME – (brochure with all event details)
– CLICK HERE
This is our 10th annual 50+ Festival – Festival Coordinator, Sue Lister: 01904 488870.
PHOTO GALLERY by Sue Lister
Wednesday 10 Sept: 50+ Information Fair (Guildhall, Spurriergate Centre, All Saints Pavement, St Sampson’s Centre)
Monday 22 Sept: 50+ Festival Show at the Theatre Royal Studio
Saturday 27 Sept: Food & Cooking; Cruise on the Ouse; Book Sale & Clothes Swap; Funeral Planning; Advance Decisions; Boogie Your Belly
Sunday 28 Sept: Dementia & Me
Monday 29 Sept: Haxby E-Readers; Musical Entertainment; Pamper Session
Tuesday 30 Sept: Dunnington Walk; New Earswick Explore iPads; Connecting Carers; Welcome to your New Home? Sea Fever
Wednesday 1 Oct: 50+ Circuits; Christmas Fair Trade; Food, Fun & Good Company; Dementia Awareness Workshop
Thursday 2 Oct: Live Well Chiropractic; Nova Art; Knit & Natter; Peace Talk; Tramways Dance
Friday 3 Oct: Singing Extravaganza; Fires & Fire Brigades; Let Go & Laugh
Saturday 4 Oct: Qi gonng; Rowntree Park Explore; Rag Rugging
Sunday 5 Oct: Wings; Read My Book Not My Cover
SPORT & LEISURE PHOTOS by John Saunders
Sunday 28 Sept: Indoor Bowls
Monday 29 Sept: Multi-Activity Session
Wednesday 1 Oct: Boccia & New Age Kurling
PHOTO CONTRIBUTIONS
Saturday 27 Sept: Food & Cooking
PHOTO GALLERY
Thursday 12 Sept: 50+ Information Fair (Guildhall & Spurriergate)
Sunday 22 Sept: Model Boat Regatta (Laytham)
Thursday 26 Sept: You Must Remember This (St Sampson’s)
Saturday 28 Sept: York Bake Off; Family Fun Day; Open Day – Ouse & Foss; Kiwis in Concert
Sunday 29 Sept: York Sailing Club; Heworth Tennis Club; Bellringers in Action
Monday 30 Sept: Vanished Chapels of York; Threats to the NHS; Tibet-Ancient Culture/Modern World; Modern Sequence Dancing
Tuesday 1 Oct: Dunnington Health Walk; Over the Rainbow…but Not Over the Hill; Move On MoveUp; Threats to Peace Today
Wednesday 2 Oct: Volunteering is Good for Your Health; The Secrets of Coffee Making; French Choir
Thursday 3 Oct: Table Tennis; York Postal Veterans; Pleasure in Poetry; Greenspeak Cafe; Bellydancing
Friday 4 Oct: International Development Volunteering; York 50+ Festival Show; Times that Remain
Saturday 5 Oct: Poppleton Railway Nursery; St Leonard’s Hospice Open Day; Europe-A Chocolate Soldier?
Sunday 6 Oct: Hidden Stories of York
PHOTO GALLERY
Thursday 13 Sept: 50+ Information Fair
Friday 14 Sept: 50+ Festival Show
Saturday 22 Sept: Dragon Boat Challenge
Sunday 23 Sept: Alzheimers Memory Walk
Sunday 23 Sept: Model Boat Regatta
Saturday 29 Sept: Castle Mills Lock; Let Your Hair Down & Sing; Children of the Holy Land; Music & Muffins; A Life in Music
Sunday 30 Sept: Classical Music with Christian Forshaw
Monday 1 Oct: Historical Walk; Harrowells; Crombie & Wilkinson
Tuesday 2 Oct: Country Music; Health Walk; EFT Tapping; Iran – Problems & Possibilities
Wednesday 3 Oct: Carers’Coffee Morning; Minster Show & Tell; Crystal Workshop
Thursday 4 Oct: Herbal Medicine; Wisdom from Tibet; City of Sanctuary + Real People Theatre
Friday 5 Oct: YKSoul Event
Saturday 6 Oct: Rags to Riches; Tui Na; Rediscovering Bedern’s Boys; Madhyamaka Buddhist Centre
Sunday 7 Oct: Effective Yoga; ENG-age 50+ Games; Look at Me!
Final press release on the success of the 8th annual 50+ Festival here
PHOTO GALLERY
Thursday 8 Sept: 50+ Information Fair
Wednesday 14 Sept: Hospital Open Event
Friday 16 Sept: 50+ Festival Show
Thursday 22 Sept: Auction of Promises
Friday 23 Sept: Castle Howard Away Day Walk
Sunday 25 Sept: Indoor Bowls, Alzheimers Memory Walk, MORmusic Guitar Class; Model Boat Regatta
Monday 26 Sept: Tai Chi, Tap, Adult Ballet
Tuesday 27 Sept: Cycle Rides, Sequence Dancing
Wednesday 28 Sept: Nordic Walking, Line Dancing, Variety Show
Thursday 29 Sept: Zumba Gold, Tai Chi, Piano Concert;
Friday 30 Sept: Recorder Group visits Abbeyfield House;
Bedern Hall; Fair Trade Christmas Preview, Omelette Cooking Demonstration
Saturday 1 Oct:Alexander Technique for Gardeners
Sunday 2 Oct: York’s Famous Fabulous Over 50s
BRIDGING THE GAP
Income & Inclusion at the Friends Meeting House
Saturday 25 Sept 2010
11am – 4pm
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
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Bridging the Gap photos
Tel: 07965 246193
York Older People’s Assembly, St Sampson’s Centre, Church Street, YORK YO1 8BE
Working for older people in York, we aim to:
- Represent the views of older people in York to decision makers locally and nationally.
- Inform older people about services that are available.
- Identify where needs are not being met.
- Work with the local authority and others to make York an age-friendly city