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August 2021
Recorder Players’ Workshop
Tutor: Terry Smurthwaite Ensemble playing in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, this workshop is aimed at experienced adult players who ideally offer two instruments and are able to swap between them. The ability to hold your own part in a group and good sight-reading skills are…
Find out more »Art Appreciation II – Laura Knight and English Impressionism
Tutor: Tim Stimson Laura Knight's career began in earnest at Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast, with her husband-to-be, Harold, and other artists inspired by outdoor painting. In paint and prose she expressed her admiration and solidarity with the hardy fisher folk of Staithes whilst…
Find out more »September 2021
Heart & Soul Singing Retreat
Tutor: Keely Hodgson Combine singing in harmony with rest nurture and inspiration. No previous singing experience, or the ability to read music, is required. A varied repertoire of songs and rounds are sensitively taught using call and response. Keely Hodgson is a composer and natural…
Find out more »Literature Appreciation: Tales from the Underworld
Tutor: Hugh Parry The borderline between Earth and Hell has always been permeable enough to enable writers to invite some unsavoury characters to pay us a visit and curdle our blood. The fear is salutary, no doubt – and the commercial potential gratifying. This course…
Find out more »October 2021
Autumn Rambling in Wharfedale
Wharfedale offers a wealth of landscapes; wild moorland, limestone uplands, wooded alleys and gentle farmland, with the uninterrupted beauty of Upper Wharfedale laid out before you from the hilltops. The colours of autumn are spectacular. We offer a choice each day of either short or…
Find out more »Friends of Parcevall Hall Eucharist & Lunch
The Friends of Parcevall Hall meet for a tine of worship ad fellowship together over lunch. Coffee and biscuits will be served from 10.30am.
Find out more »Open Quiet Day
Leader: Revd Ruth Harris Journeying with Christ is the theme for our final Open Quiet Day this year. Using images of individual encounters with Christ, we will explore our own spiritual journeys. Ruth is vicar in Skipton with Carleton and Area Dean. Originally from the…
Find out more »Recorder Players’ Workshop
Tutor: Sandra Foxall Ensemble playing in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, this workshop is aimed at experienced adult players who ideally offer two instruments and are able to swap between them. The ability to hold your own part in a group and good sight-reading skills are…
Find out more »Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer Retreat
Witness: Revd Martin Thorpe A silent ‘listening’ weekend. ‘Jesus invites you into His Presence.’ Contemplative life is the expression of the desire to seek stillness amid the rush of life, to hear ‘the still small voice’ amid today’s modern clamour; to search for and listen…
Find out more »November 2021
Advent Retreat
Leader: Joyce Simpson ‘Let us now go even unto Bethlehem.’ The journey to Bethlehem passes through the wilderness, where John, the desert wild man, insists that change is necessary, and change is coming. As pilgrims, in the company of poets, we shall venture into the…
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