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LIVESTREAMED PERFORMANCES
Helmsley Arts Centre
(tickets: www.helmsleyarts.co.uk):‘George Egg: DIY Chef, Online!’
Sat 6 March, 8 pm George Egg is a stand-up comedian who cooks food, outstandingly good food, using unconventional methods and unexpected equipment. He makes you laugh too. Normally he performs his show in theatres and arts centres but Covid-19 has put a stop to that. However, in a bid to keep his audience entertained he’s gone online and is performing the show from his house but not from his kitchen as that would be cheating. Tickets: £6 per household, zoom link via email: www.helmsleyarts.co.uk

Tessa Bide Productions: ‘The Anarchist’s Mobile Library – a digital adventure’
Mon 8–Sun 14 March Tessa Bide Productions is visiting Helmsley Arts Centre with a digital tour of audio-interactive experience: ‘The Anarchist’s Mobile Library – An Audio Adventure’.
Following previous success with productions such as ‘The Selfish Giant’ and ‘Perfect’ (★★★★ The Guardian), Tessa Bide Productions returns with an audio-interactive experience about literature, activism and adventure, on whatever internet device you have! ‘The Anarchist’s Mobile Library’ will take you on an incredible audio adventure that YOU choose, solving problems and meeting characters, from wherever you choose to play! With many different worlds to explore, where will you choose to journey to? Perhaps an intergalactic space adventure? Or a deep-sea swim, meeting creatures that lurk in the depths? Or even an abandoned witch’s kitchen, with the cauldron bubbling away?
This event is free but you can donate to Helmsley Arts Centre. Book your place at www.helmsleyarts.co.uk and receive all the info you need via email!

Trilogy Ensemble: ‘From Isolation to Connected’
Sat 20 March Trilogy Ensemble’s virtual event ‘From Isolation to Connected’ will be brought to you live online from Helmsley Arts Centre on Saturday 20 March. The concert of music for Flute, Harp and Viola will be centered around artwork – photos, drawings, paintings, videos, poems – sent in by members of the local community in a project aiming to celebrate our area and to explore how the Pandemic has affected people locally, both in a positive and negative way. During the event the visual artwork will be shown connected to the music, which will include a brand new piece, written in the first 2020 lockdown, on the theme of isolation by York based composer David Lancaster.
Tickets for the livestream event on 20 March will be available soon from the Helmsley Arts Centre website: www.helmsleyarts.co.uk

Online Classes and Workshops

Helmsley Arts Centre is running online classes and workshops, including ballet, bridge, singing, poetry, writing, art and yoga. Check their website: www.helmsleyarts.co.uk
Esk Moors Caring Activities monthly newsletter, available in village shops, includes activities for all ages.
Other local groups with online zoom sessions include the Ladies’ Singing for Pleasure Choir, The Dalesmen Singers, The Eskuleles, and Phil and Eileen’s Steady Tunes.

RURAL ARTS DIGITAL WORKSHOPS
Available 24/7, these will help you keep creative at home. Look on the Rural Arts Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ruralartsnorthyorkshire) to find digital workshops and talks that are free to watch, including printmaking, photography, leatherworking, paper crafts, print-making, card- making, painting on canvas, short-story writing, Indian dance and plenty more. All workshops are led by professional artists, are designed to be followed-along at home, and are free to watch whenever it suits you.
So why not try something new this month, or revisit a favourite craft?
All workshop videos to date are available on our #NorthYorkshireTogether video playlist: www.facebook.com/ruralartsnorthyorkshire

Transport

Esk Valley Railway
Train services nationally have been temporarily reduced to reflect reduced demand while continuing to cater for essential travel. For details about revised services, go to: northernrailway.co.uk/timetables. For information and timetables please contact Esk Valley Community Rail Partnership on 07584 419114 or visit www.eskvalleyrailway.co.uk

Local Transport for Vaccinations
Esk Moors Active Ltd, the operators of the Heather Hopper community minibus, are providing transport to and from Covid-19 vaccination centres for those who need it. https://heatherhopper.org.uk •

Face Masks

Zena’s Handmade Face Masks
Simple single or double cloth homemade face masks for sale. Washable at 60°C, so reusable. Price? A donation to my work in Uganda. Interested? Contact Zena: zenabentley26@gmail.com. Free delivery to Whitby area or I will post to you.

Whitby Hand-made PPE

Members are hand-sewing items of PPE during lockdown, including masks, mask extenders and uniform bags, with 100s of items now delivered to James Cook University Hospital Critical Care, Staithes Community Carers, Peregrine House in Whitby, Esk Hall, Danby Surgery, Coast & Vale Community Action and Whitby Group Practice. If you would like to help by sewing, donating or distributing materials please get in touch by joining the Facebook page: Whitby handmade PPE.

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