Performances and films

The Today programme is coming to York as part of their University series, exploring issues affecting both students and academics.

Philip Paul of York Central Methodist and St Martin’s Church presents a variety of music from around the world performed on a unique J W Walker organ.

Enjoy soprano Helen Atkinson, self-accompanied on lute and harp, performing Medieval and Renaissance songs related to the Festival theme.

Join us for a journey into the night sky and explore various constellations and hear their stories from different cultural perspectives.

The University Chamber Choir performs Brahms’ Liebeslieder waltzes and Zigeunerlieder.

Join us for beer and ballads at a local tavern as we recreate the convivial atmosphere of the radical meetings of the early 19th centry.

Debashish Bhattacharya and Derek Gripper, guitar maestros from India and South Africa, perform together in the UK for the first time.

Join us for the innovative Platform Summer Theatre Production by students from the University of York's Department of Theatre, Film and Television.

The Chimera Ensemble’s programme includes Sachs-Mishalanie’s I if I for string quartet and electronics, and Younge and Butcher’s Her Disappearance.

Words as Bullets is a contemporary play where African and European theatres collide spectacularly.

Beside Ourselves Collective take you on a surreal theatrical journey into the church’s approach to sex, celibacy and female sexual desire.

Enjoy some exceptional youth music making as York’s own Youth Early Music Group, Minster Minstrels, perform with flautist Nitin Amin.

Come and listen to top female scientists as they take science to the streets of York – standing on a soapbox!

Enjoy some exceptional youth music making as York’s own Youth Early Music Group, Minster Minstrels, perform with flautist Nitin Amin.

Join us for the innovative Platform Summer Theatre Production by students from the University of York's Department of Theatre, Film and Television.

Words as Bullets is a contemporary play where African and European theatres collide spectacularly.

Enjoy a choral concert with a programme of sacred music performed by Waukee High School Choir from Iowa, USA.

Acclaimed pianist Clare Hammond is accompanied by a specially-designed film by the iconic Brothers Quay, producing a mesmeric immersion in a world of shadows.

Join us for the innovative Platform Summer Theatre Production by students from the University of York's Department of Theatre, Film and Television.

Words as Bullets is a contemporary play where African and European theatres collide spectacularly.

York Musical Society is joining forces with Coventry Cathedral Chorus to sing Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Coventry Cathedral. Come along and hear the choir rehearse.

Out of Character Theatre Company presents a dizzying new play exploring the tensions and challenges of living with mental illness.

This exciting, fully staged performance, directed by Michael Cordner and Ollie Jones, presents sequences from the plays of Shakespeare’s brilliant contemporaries.

A retinue of reciters perform a selection of Anglo-Saxon and Norse poetry, both in translation and in the original, on the theme of natural wonders.

Join Leonard Sanderman as he brings a combination of old, new and improvised music to life on the organ.

Join us for a concert celebrating the ongoing generosity of Sir Jack Lyons through scholarships and awards in the University of York’s Music Department.

Join soprano Louise Alp for a solo recital in the atmospheric medieval church of St Helen’s.

An experimental new work by University of York students presents a chain of miniature plays adding up to something epic – a glimpse of multiple possible pasts.

Flamboyant international guitar star Galina Vale returns to York to present an exhilarating programme of music.

Bomb Happy, a play by Helena Fox, evocatively brings to life the experiences of five York Normandy Veterans.

A special performance of The Planets Suite played by pianists Jakob Fichert and Mark Hutchinson on Holst's own newly-restored grand piano.

Join us for Entanglement! An Entropic Tale, a cosmic physics opera describing the mysteries of our Universe.

Bomb Happy, a play by Helena Fox, evocatively brings to life the experiences of five York Normandy Veterans.

Come along and enjoy the Tapestry Singers, a mixed voice a cappella choir of 16 singers from Cambridgeshire.

Paul Muldoon, one of Ireland and America’s leading contemporary poets, presents a compelling selection of new and classic work.

Bomb Happy, a play by Helena Fox, evocatively brings to life the experiences of five York Normandy Veterans.

Discover England's traditional but unusual musical instruments, the pipe and tabor.

Bomb Happy, a play by Helena Fox, evocatively brings to life the experiences of five York Normandy Veterans.

Take a musical journey around Japan and beyond as we explore the development of Japanese taiko drumming.

Bomb Happy, a play by Helena Fox, evocatively brings to life the experiences of five York Normandy Veterans.

Verdi’s Four Sacred Pieces and the Messa di Gloria by Puccini make striking listening in the glorious surrounding of the Minster.

Join us for a special Festival screening of Mike Leigh’s epic film Peterloo.

Discover how innovative women working in the food world are using gastronomy to change perceptions of the role of women in society.

Join us for a special film screening of Emmanuelle de Riedmatten’s documentary on the life of the feminist video artist Carole Roussopoulos (1945 -2009).

Our Festival Focus Day concludes with a screening of Sean McAllister’s documentary, A Northern Soul, which presents the reality of life for many working people locked in poverty in Britain today.

From fascinating sci-fi visions to absurdist takes on the multiverse, we present a special screening of the finalists in the international Quantum Shorts Festival.

The LUMA Film Festival features screenings of University of York student work, plus talks and workshops led by leading professionals in the UK film and television industry.

The LUMA Film Festival features screenings of University of York student work, plus talks and workshops led by leading professionals in the UK film and television industry.

The LUMA Film Festival features screenings of University of York student work, plus talks and workshops led by leading professionals in the UK film and television industry.