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Clubs and Organisations

Arts: Ilkley Arts Festival

Arts: Ilkley Arts Festival

Wednesday 1st November 2023

Time: 7.45pm Venue: St. John’s Church Hall, Ben Rhydding 

Wharfedale Recorded Music. Free Lecture by Sue Jones ‘Behold the Sea’ Vaughan-Williams, Elgar and Mozart

Free coffee and biscuits

Contact: Catherine Clarke 608664

 

Friday 3rd November 2023

 Time: 12.30 - 1.10pm

Venue: St Margeret's Church Ilkley
 
Free organ recital by Christopher Rathbone
 
Francois Couperin
Messe pour les couvents (organ music for convents)
 
Donations invited.
 

Wednesday 8th November 2023

Time:12.45-2.45pm: Clarke Foley Centre Sciety.

Ilkley Art Club

The Royal Academy of Art, post-war

Free lecture by Alex Purves 

Coffee and tea available from the cafe

Contact: Sharon Crosby 07751 155650

 

Saturday 11th November 2023

 Time: 7.30pm

Venue: St Margaret’s Church, Ilkley
Society: Cantores Olicanae
Michael Hadyn's Requiem
Mozart's Solemn Vespers
Musical Director is James Savage-Hanford
Organist: Anthony Gray
 
Refreshments available during the interval.
Tickets £15; students £5; U14 free 
Eventbrite, from Grove Books or Tourist
Office or Judith on 07718 305398
Contact 01943 872689

Sunday 12th November 2023

 8.00pm

Venue: Ilkley Playhouse
Ilkley Film Society
The Quiet Girl - the 1st Oscar-nominated film in Gaelic
 
Guest tickets £5
 
Contact 07523 189400
 

Thursday 16th November 2023

Time: 7.45pm

Venue: Clarke Foley Centre
Society: Olicana History Society 
 
Factories and Fevers: 19th Century Child Health
Dr Emma Storr
Contact: Keith Roebuck 07587 463179
 
Saturday 18th November 2023

Time: 7.00pm
Venue: St Margeret's Church Ilkley
Society: Ilkley and Otley Choral Societies
 
Ethyl Smyth: Mass in D and Orchestral pieces
Yorkshire Chamber Ensemble
 
Conductor: Jennifer Sterling
 
Tickets £18 including programme and refreshments
 
Contact: 07792 610657
 
Saturday 18th November

Time: 7.30pm for 8pm
Venue: Winter Garden Ilkley
 
Two Rivers Swing Band Dance
 
Swing, Jive, Rock n Roll
Live Big Band and Jive lessons
Society: Ilkley Civic Society
Tickets £15
 
Tickets available on-line at tworiversbands.org uk
Also from the Grove bookshop or on the door.
 
Thursday 23rd November 2023
 
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Church House
Ilkley Civic Society
 
1860s Ilkley: The Start of the Transformation by Alex Cockshott
 
The Keith Hartley Memorial Lecture
 
Refreshments included
 
Contact: 01943 601561
 
 
DECEMBER
 
Friday 1st December 2023
 
A programme of Advent and Christmas Music 
Time: 12.30–1.10pm
Venue: St. Margaret’s Church, Ilkley
Music by Bach (Advent chorales from the Orgelbuchlein) and Leighton (Veni Redemptor) plus music by Grainger, Guilmant, Vaughan Williams, Bertalot and Messiaen.
 
Donations invited.  
 
Friday 1st December 2023 
Time: 7.30-9.30pm
 
Venue: St. Peter's Church Hall, Addingham
 
Ilkley Camera Club Talk
"Yorkshire's Wild Beauty" by Joan Gardner
 
Tea and coffee served during the interval
Contact: Alison Tetley 07779 599590
 
Saturday 2nd December 2023
 
Time: 10am 
Venue: Ilkley Playhouse
 
Greenroom performances on a Christmas theme
 
Junior class: 10am
Senior class; 11.15am
 
Entry to coffee morning £1.
 
Contact Andrew Leggott at the Playhouse
 
Saturday 2nd December 2023
 
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Christ Church
 
Ilkley Moornotes Choir
Winter Concert
 
Tickets £10 and concessions
 
Contact Tony Thornley 609565 
 
 Saturday 9th December 2023
 
Time: 5.00pm
Venue: St John's Ben Rhydding
Society:  Cantores Olicanae
 
Christmas Carol Concert
 
Musical Director: James Savage-Hanford
Accompanist: Robert Sudall
 
Festive Fun with carols and readings
 
Interval refreshments available
 
Tickets £15 from Grove Bookshop, Tourist office or 07718 305398
 
 
Sunday 10th December 2023
 
Time: 2.30pm
 
Venue: Ilkley Baptist Church
 
The Two Rivers Concert Band
 
Festive Winter Concert
 
Tickets; £10 including interval refreshments
Retiring charity collection
Tickets available at tworiversbands.org.uk or on the door.
 
Friday 15th December 2023
 
Time: 7.30pm
 
Venue: Christ Church, Ilkley
Society: Rombalds Recorder Orchestra
 
An evening of Christmas music and verse with Andrew Leggott
 
Ticket price £10 on the door
 
Thursday 21st December 2023
 
Time: All evening
Venue: Ilkley town centre hostelries
Society: Ilkley and Wharfedale Rotarians singing to raise funds for Martin House hospice
Please give generously.
 
Friday 22nd December 2023
 
Time: 2pm
Venue: Clarke Foley Centre
 
"Musical Christmas Card"
New Horizons Orchestra
 
Free concert with charity collection
 
Popular Christmas classics and carols for audience participation.