Festival Venues
York Festival of Ideas takes place at a wide variety of venues throughout York city centre and on the University of York campus.
All venues are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise stated.
Venues in the city
- Acomb Explore Library, Front Street
- Bedern Hall, Bartle Garth, St Andrewgate
- Bioscience Laboratories, York St John University
- Bootham School, Bootham
- Clements Hall, Nunthorpe Road
- Coney Street
- Heslington Church, Field Lane, Heslington
- Hiscox Building, Peasholme Green
- Holgate Windmill, Windmill Rise, Holgate (no wheelchair access)
- Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate
- King's Manor, Exhibition Square (no wheelchair access to K133, no parking)
- Malton Market Place
- National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate
- National Railway Museum, Leeman Road
- Ripon Wing, York St John University
- Southlands Methodist Church, Bishopthorpe Road
- St George’s Graveyard, Lead Mill Lane
- St Helen's Church, St Helen’s Square
- St Oswald's Church Hall, Main Street, Fulford
- St Peter’s School, Clifton
- Spark:York, Piccadilly
- Tang Hall Explore Library, The Centre @ Burnholme, Mossdale Avenue
- Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum, Museum Gardens
- Temple Hall, York St John University
- The Guildhall
- Three Hagges Woodmeadow, Escrick
- Walmgate Bar, Foss Islands Road
- York Cocoa Works, Castlegate
- York Explore Library, Library Square, Museum Street
- York Medical Society, Stonegate (please call 01904 849821 or email yorkfestivalofideas-admin@york.ac.uk for details on wheelchair access)
- York Minster, Deangate
- York Theatre Royal, St Leonard’s Place
- Yorkshire Museum, Museum Gardens
Venues at the University of York campus
Campus East
- Piazza Building
- Ron Cooke Hub
- Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media Building
- York Sport Village
Campus West