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8x8x8 A Fresh Start
Ilkley Playhouse's hugely popular playwriting festival, 8x8x8. Many entries from all over Britain and Europe have competed to secure the eight important slots which will make up the performance.
These eight-minute plays, by eight different playwrights explore our world, ask questions about the past and the future, help us to laugh at ourselves and explore the concept of a fresh start.
After a short interval, there will be an opportunity for questions to some of the authors, directors and members of the two judging panels, (there will be no Q and A at the Wednesday performance).
June 23 - 26 at 7.30pm.
Ilkley Playhouse
£10
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Open Air and Drive-in Movies at Ilkley Tennis Club
Between 24th June - 27th June Blue Sky Cinema present Open Air and Drive-in Movies at Ilkley Tennis Club.
24/6 The Greatest Showman (Open Air) 7pm
25/6 Grease Singalong (Open Air) 7pm
26/6 Up (Open Air) 2pm
26/6 Beauty & The Beast (Open Air) 5pm
26/6 Bohemian Rhapsody (Drive In) 9pm
27/6 The Greatest Showman (Open Air) 2pm
27/6 Grease Singalong (Open Air) 5pm
27/6 Mamma Mia (Drive In) 9pm
Ilkley Lawn & Tennis Club, Stourton Rd, Ilkley, LS29 9BG
Adults from £9.95 Children from £6.95
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Makers Fair at the Manor House
As part of the Manor House reopening plans a Makers Fair is being held in the courtyard at the Manor House on Saturday 26 June and Sunday 27 June from 10.30am – 5pm.
14 contemporary artists and makers will be selling work from textiles to jewellery and from wooden furniture to ceramics.
Pop along anytime on Saturday or Sunday. Entrance is free.
Ilkley Manor House courtyard
Free
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Ilkley Local History Hub: Cunliffe Road
The Local History Hub will will look at Ilkley celebrations.
To register for this event and receive a Zoom link, please email
Online (Zoom)
Free
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Makers Fair at the Manor House
As part of the Manor House reopening plans a Makers Fair is being held in the courtyard at the Manor House on Saturday 26 June and Sunday 27 June from 10.30am – 5pm.
14 contemporary artists and makers will be selling work from textiles to jewellery and from wooden furniture to ceramics.
Pop along anytime on Saturday or Sunday. Entrance is free.
Ilkley Manor House courtyard
Free
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Dr John Cooper Clarke (Postponed)
Poet, Rock Star, TV & Radio Presenter, Comedian and Cultural Commentator John Cooper Clarke comes to King's Hall.
King's Hall, Ilkley
From £24.50
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Ilkley Rugby Club 7's tournament
27 men's and 9 women's teams to take part in three different competitions.
The rugby starts at 10:30am and in addition:
- big screens to show the Euros
- Food from main sponsor La Casita
- Indian food from Sachis
- BBQ
- Ice cream
- Bar
- DJ into the small hours
- Camping available Saturday night (accommodation in town is already filling up!)
Ilkley Rugby Club
Free spectator entry
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Real Food Ilkley
Real Food Ilkley is a monthly Fine Food & Speciality Producers’ Market in Ilkley.
The Grove, Ilkley
Free
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Picnic at Hanging Rock at Ilkley Playhouse
This is an amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books. Written by Joan Lindsay, adapted by Tom Wright
Valentine’s Day 1900. Appleyard College, founded to bring English values to Australian girls, arranges for the girls and some staff to go for a picnic expedition to the remote Hanging Rock.
Some girls abscond from the group and are last seen heading towards the beckoning Rock. In 2021, 5 performers struggle to solve the mystery of the missing girls and their teacher. Past and present merge as euphoria and terror reverberate through the community.
The play brilliantly explores many themes including: man’s attempts to tame nature; England and Australia; unspoken desires; and feelings so deep that they are hard to articulate.
Nightly at 7.30 & Saturday 14:30 matinee
Ilkley Playhouse
£10
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On the Sofa with Brendan Sheerin
Join Channel 4 favourite Brendan Sheerin and get to know the life stories of Britain’s favourite tour guide!
Star and host of Coach Trip, Brendan will share stories of his childhood, his love of travel, and what it is like to be a star of stage and screen.
The evening will be split into two sections of interview with time at the end for a Q&A, hosted by former BBC Reporter Marcia Nattress.
Doors open from 6.00pm for drinks and light refreshments. Drinks and snacks will be available before the show and during the interval. Please note the venue is cash only.
Ghyll Royd School and Pre-School, Burley-in-Wharfedale
£20.00-£25.00
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The Children at Ilkley Playhouse
Sometime after an unspecified environmental disaster at a power station somewhere on the coast of England, married couple Robin and Hazel, both retired nuclear scientists, receive a visit from their former colleague Rose.
The three friends haven’t met for over 30 years and while Rose’s arrival initially brings back many fun-filled, humorous memories of their shared youth, it also unearths long-buried secrets and lies.
Lucy Kirkwood’s powerful and often very funny play has at its heart a meaty moral dilemma and the powerfully resonant message that in order to safeguard the future, we have to take responsibility for the present and the past.
20-24 June. Nightly at 7.30pm, with a Saturday matinee at 2.30pm.
Ilkley Playhouse
£10
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Zip the Cow for Manorlands
Facing jumping off the cow and sliding 270m down Ilkley Moor at speeds of up to 40mph❓
Dates: 24 & 25 July and 29 August
Registration £25 per person
Minimum fundraising target £50
Sign up today and support Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice
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Cow & Calf Rocks, Ilkley
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