Now in its 19th year, the 2012 Harrogate International Festivals’ Sunday Series will see the magnificent Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate welcome some of the brightest stars on the classical music scene. The season starts in style this weekend, with a sensational performance from internationally renowned pianist and Festival favourite Artur Pizarro. Pizarro will present [...]
We wanted to take this opportunity to wish all our supporters A Very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Harrogate International Festivals works year-round to bring high quality arts experiences to audiences in the North of England. Below you will see what your support helped us to achieve throughout 2011….
Summer Festival Review
The 2011 Festival was a [...]
Now in its 19th year, the 2012 Harrogate International Festivals’ Sunday Series will see the magnificent Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate welcome some of the brightest stars on the classical music scene, including two sensational piano performances from two big names. Internationally renowned pianist and Festival favourite Artur Pizarro will appear on Sunday 22nd January [...]
The Harrogate International Sunday Series has built its reputation on bringing the greatest classical artists to the region. Now in its 19th year, 2012 is certainly set to continue this tradition, with the exciting Spring Season seeing Harrogate set to welcome some of the brightest stars on the classical music scene.
With the programme for 2012 [...]
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
Presents
An Evening with Patricia Cornwell
Saturday 26 November 2011, 7.30pm.
The Ballroom, Barceló Majestic Hotel, Harrogate
See the multi-award winning writer in conversation with BBC Radio Four’s Mark Lawson in her only UK event outside London this year!
‘Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns’ The Mirror
The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival is proud [...]
The heatwave has passed, and with it, the sizzling Summer Festival has now finished.
We would like to thank all those who came along during July and helped make this year’s Festival the best yet in it’s 45 year history.
We’ve selected a few pictorial highlights below, but we really want to know what you thought of [...]
Catch the award-winning Brodsky Quartet on Saturday 30 July, 2pm at St John Fisher RC High School palying the divine Debussy, before the Festival’s two Guest Curators – Clare Teal & Soweto Kinch – close the 2011’s arts extravaganza.
The finale weekend certainly is grand, featuring two Yorkshire icons as Sir Michael Parkinson presents Clare Teal [...]
Bleep…bleep…bleep…ever wondered about the miraculous if pesky barcodes when you’re stood at the check-out watching the frozen peas? The identities of millions of products are captured in those optical machine-readable representations of data.
Nearly every aspect of our lives has been completely transformed by the barcode. Shopping, going to the cinema, using a library card, aviation, [...]
Author Tom Palmer, the ultimate football fan, scores a winning goal at the Children’s Festival this weekend.
“I got into writing through football really, I think you should write about what you’re passionate about,” Tom said explaining his Foul Play, Dead Ball and the Football Academy Series of books.
His books have the ability to capture [...]