What's On For York Creatives: July 2025
Your monthly round up of news, events, opportunities, call-outs and funding
Hiscox Art Tours!
Sat 5th July 2025 - Sun 6th July 2025, book from £5-£10
The Hiscox Building, York, YO1 7PR
York Creatives is proud to collaborate with Hiscox York Art Tours on a weekend of guided tours of the internationally significant art collection at the Hiscox office on Peasholme Green alongside some of our amazing contemporary local female artists! As part of the introduction to each tour, guests will be presented with an exhibition of artworks of York-based artists, curated by York Creatives.
Homestead Park Festival: Here is Hope!
5 - 6th July,
Homestead Park Festival invites the people of York to come together for a FREE weekend of celebration and reconnection with nature, creativity, and community.
Set in the historic Homestead Park, the festival will take place over the first weekend of July, bringing artists, musicians, and changemakers to inspire, create, and share magical experiences.
York Creative Drinks - free with any subscription!
Come and meet the community, expand your network, make friends and find collaborators. All welcome.
York Photographers Events in July
The Photo Books Social Club. 1st July, Free, Moxy Hotels. Tickets.
Drafting Photography Contracts and Invoices. 9th July, From £3.25, Patch. Tickets.
YP X ANALOGUE WONDERLAND: Analogue Street Photography Workshop. 12th July, From £3.25, Patch, Tickets.
YO Underground 4
18th July 2025: 7:30-10:30pm, from £5 in advance
Live, local & left-field new folk song, electronica and film Embrace the unexpected... audiences are loving it!
"Outside the box creativity... filling a gap in the York creative scene" (BBC Upload)
Drawvik York Illustrators: Create a Character
Tuesday 15th July 2025, 7-9pm, FREE
Exhibition Hotel, 19 Bootham York YO30 7BW
Get your pencils moving and your brains buzzing with our guided creative prompts focused on building brand new characters. We'll spend the first hour designing and doodling, followed by a relaxed hour of drinks, chats, and sketching with new friends.
Bring your own tools and something to draw on — we'll supply the prompts.
York Filmmakers July Meet-Up
Wednesday 23rd July, 7-9pm, £2.50
The Basement Bar, York City Screen
Screenwriter MATT BAKER - lead writer on Channel 4’s PATIENCE - currently shooting its second series in YORK this summer will be joining us for an evening in conversation. A native of Pocklington, we’ll be chatting about his career, writing, the challenge of adaptation, writers rooms and returning to the homeland to shoot Patience.
As usual, there’ll be time for a Q&A and networking with your fellow filmmakers afterwards.
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