Join our Storyteller in Residence, Ilaria, for a breakfast-time adventure. Funny and interactive stories featuring loveable characters Rita the Mouse and The Tidy Trolls. Age guide 4+ A Pay What You Can event. Recommended price £4 per child.
We love our Pop-Up Events! Surprising events in surprising places. Puppets, storytelling, music, heritage tales, poetry, music and theatre. Venues large and small, across our beautiful city. Professional performances alongside community groups plus events from our Storyteller-in Residence and shows with links to the history of Ripon. Please note: some of these events are ticketed …
Casson & Friends has a passion for bringing dance to people in new and unusual ways. Set to a bouncing electronic soundtrack, ARCADE’s interactive dance games will connect you with the childlike joy of play. Watch the fun unfold or get stuck in with our friendly team of dancers, led by The Gamesmaster. Six unique …
Meet Dorothy Dunker, Tippy Teapot and Barbara Bourbon. Come and have a natter with our colourful crochet trolley dollies! There’s always a warm brew and plate of goodies on show when these ladies are about… “One lump or two?”… A fun, family-friendly walkabout act with dance, stories and jokes. There are also a few interactive …
Walkabout acts, crazy characters, circus and clowning bring the streets and open spaces of Ripon to life throughout the day. Professional acts come together with community performers including Ripon City Morris Dancers, the Rock Choir and Ripon Youth Theatre. Performances will be staged at Ripon Market Place, Minster Gardens (in front of the Courthouse Museum), …
Another magical miniature suitcase show from expert puppeteers, Eye of Newt. A captivating tale of night skies, light and counting sheep. Puppet workshop making beautiful moths accompanies the library performance. Age guide 3-10 A Pay What You Can event. Recommended price £4 per child. Performance is also repeated every ten minutes in Ripon Cathedral from …
Juggling danger and excitement, this show is raw, rock ‘n’ roll and full of danger. Playing with fire and risking lacerations and climaxing in a perilous display of equilibrium and custom-made razor-sharp unique object juggling like you have never seen before! Logy is a Belfast-based bearded multi manipulator and performer. Performing since 2001, he has …
Street theatre with a difference. 3 short performances lasting 3 minutes. Each performed to only one person at a time, (plus curious onlookers!) A most intriguing, and then exclusive, theatre experience! “A simple idea, the best ones often are, created with such loving care and attention to detail that you just have to smile. Sometimes …
The most beautiful birds to grace the streets of Ripon this season. Check out their glorious wingspans and gorgeous tailfeathers. Stilt walkers from Full Stilt. FREE EVENT Market Place 11-11.30am Cathedral Forecourt 12.30pm Kirkgate 2 -2.30pm
FREE EVENT 11am-12noon Minster Gardens 1.15-2pm Minster Gardens
Join the Master and Matron of the Workhouse on the entrance front green for an interactive game of Snakes and Ladders. Learn how life then, as now, is as precarious as a shake of the dice - slither down the snake to a shaven head and de-fumigation or ascend to a life out the ashes. …
Hail down the ultimate in Georgian era transport and be carried above the hoi polloi, hear scurrilous tales from Ripon’s scandalous past as your footmen pass on their knowledge and deposit you at your destination of choice. From the dastardly deeds of Eugene Arum to the insider trading of Chancellor Aislabie, each Sedan Chair Story …
