Holgate Windmill detail

Community events

York Festival of Ideas warmly welcomes local residents and families to its events - including these community events which are specifically aimed at a wide-ranging audience including children. Throughout the Festival, come along to York Castle Museum to discover what life was like in York’s Debtors’ Prison in 1777; take part in worm hunts, wild life and wild flower identification at the Museum Gardens; find out what life was like in York Debtors' Prison in 1777, and visit an exhibition in York's restored windmill.

Previous community events

Exploring York's Changing Cityscape

Sunday 24 June 2012

Three walking tours of York’s historic centre.

Science Out of the Lab: Chronic Diseases and Disorders

Friday 22 June 2012

What does the spleen do in the human body? How did people in the past treat a variety of diseases? Come along to this hands-on interactive event which explores the treatment and prevention of a range of chronic diseases and disorders that effect people of all ages.

Holgate Windmill: Original concepts of development in the windmill industry

Sunday 17 June 2012

Holgate Windmill Preservation Society present an exhibition of inspirational ideas which changed the milling industry and improved peoples' lives.

BioBlitz!

Saturday 16 June 2012

Bat walks, rat cams, worm hunts, wildflowers ...

Holgate Windmill: Original concepts of development in the windmill industry

Saturday 16 June 2012

Holgate Windmill Preservation Society present an exhibition of inspirational ideas which changed the milling industry and improved peoples' lives.

BioBlitz!

Friday 15 June 2012

Bat walks, rat-cams, worm hunts, wildflowers ... join in the Bioblitz at the Yorkshire Museum!