What's On For York Creatives: June 2025
Your monthly round up of news, events, opportunities, call-outs and funding
York Creatives is excited to announce two new membership options
Supporter membership - £2.50 per month:
All current member perks PLUS
Free Creative Drinks!
50% off our events
Pro membership - £6.25 per month:
All Supporter membership perks PLUS
Your profile featured in the York Creatives Professionals Directory
Your profile shared to the York Creatives Instagram grid and story
LinkedIn campaigns highlighting York Creative’s Professionals and more!
Independent Bookshop Week
7 events across the city from 14 - 21st June. Receive a £5 book voucher when booking onto any paid or donations-based event (while vouchers last).
York Creative Drinks - A week today!
Come and meet the community, expand your network, make friends and find collaborators. All welcome.
Funny Fridays at Patch
Comedy night at The Bonding Warehouse, 7pm, Friday 13th June, £10 tickets.
York Photographers Events in June
The Photo Books Social Club. 13th May, Free, Moxy Hotels. Tickets.
York Creatives Blends: Photography Writing. 18th June, £5, Thin Ice Press. Tickets.
Making Waves
Launch event: Sunday 8th June 2025: 6 -l 9pm free, all welcome.
Art exhibition on both floors of City Screen Picturehouse. Art for sale and meet the artists.
MAKING WAVES LIVE!
Sat 21 Jun 2025, 4 - 10pm
Sounds of the Solstice! Post-Festival of Ideas celebration of live music, comedy, poetry and performance art by some of our favourite past performers and exciting new discoveries.
Micklegate Arts Trail!
31st May - 15th June, 12- 5pm, free - no booking required
Local traders host local artists in York's longest art gallery! Art, music and spoken word events. LAUNCH DAY: Saturday 31st May, 12 till 5 pm.
About Time Too!
Saturday 14th June, 7.00 pm.
A lively programme of music and spoken word to round off a day of time-related talks at St Olave's church for the Festival of Ideas.
An Unremarkable Wood’ Symposium
Thursday, June 12, 10am - 6pm, £40
Creative Centre, York St John University
Chrysalis Arts Development and York St John University present a one-day symposium exploring creative relationships and processes that aim to reset connections with place, nature and artists’ responses to the ecological crisis.
+ Field-cum-Woodland: rethinking the unremarkable in remarkable ways
Fri 6 June, 11am–2.30pm, £15 (£7.50 if you book to attend ‘An Unremarkably Woodland’
Marton Wood, Marton cum Grafton
Exploring boredom as a tool to disrupt embedded narratives about the woodland, its inhabitants, and human relationships. Through listening, noticing, creative experiments, and sensory exploration, participants will attempt to engage with the landscape in new ways.
Want more? Check out these other events this month!
Patch Print Club | Acting Workshops | Degree Show | Festival of Print
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