Kew at Castle Howard

Much Ado About Nothing

Oddsocks Theatre Company

Sunday 6th July

Discovery Lectures

Saturday 20th September

Saturday 4th October

<<< Shakespeare’s celebration of love, intrigue and smouldering desires will be performed in their usual inimitably entertaining, family friendly way by the mult-talented Oddsocks cast on their Elizabethan pageant wagon.

Order of Service:
A summer evening outdoors
Strolling Minstrels to warm the guests
Scenes of serenading, soliloquies and song
A little light refreshment
Drama, danger and the denouement
Finale: - A happy congregation.

Buzzing! Moth Night

Dr Dave Chesmore is a moth expert from the University of York and a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. Anneliese Emmans Dean is an award-winning performance poet and wildlife photographer. John Rayson is an internationally acclaimed string player and composer. The evening begins with Buzzing!, Anneliese’s fun multimedia show celebrating moths and other insects in poems and projected images, with musical interludes composed and performed by John Rayson. Then, after dark, we move outside to see how many different species of moth Dr Dave Chesmore can trap with his equipment. This event is supported by the Royal Entomological Society Lesley Goodman Award.

Foray For Fungi

A Comedy of Errors

Oddsocks Theatre Company

Sunday 8th July

AONB Junior Rangers

October 22/24

Easter Activity Days

April 11/12

The Taming of the Shrew

Oddsocks Theatre Company

Sunday 23^rd July

AONB Junior Rangers

December 18/19/20

<---- On a beautiful summer evening a near capacity audience were treated to a large helping of music, song, slapstick and comedy, with added prenuptial tension and a host of comedy characters in what must be one of the most entertaining productions of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.

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The AONB junior rangers club held three fun filled activity days in the arboretum.

Sessions included:

Feed the birds

Tree skeletons

Nature Detectives

Star trekking

Festive fun, where items collected in the sarboretum were used to decorate willow wreaths and yuletide logs ----->

Reception for Volunteers and Supporters

Tuesday 6th June

Presentation of the CPRE Mark Award

Wednesday 21st June

Winter Wellie Walk

Boxing Day and New Years Day

A Morning with Alan Titchmarsh

Thursday 12^th May

The Tempest

Oddsocks Theatre Company

Sunday 24^th July

<----- On a beautiful, sunny, still May morning about 300 people enjoyed a Morning With Alan Titchmarsh. He was introduced by the chairman of our trustees, after which he entertained the audience with many varied tales, ranging from his childhood visits to Castle Howard, his early days as a student gardener at Kew through to being a TV celebrity. After questions and a book signing session Alan and his wife, Allison, then joined our trustees and benefactors for lunch.

For more pictures of this occasion please click Here

We are grateful to Bettys of York and Taylors of Harrogate for providing the refreshments.

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On a chilly July evening a crowd of around 300 enjoyed an evening of drama, suspense, horror, hilarity, music, mystery and magic as they were entertained by the ODDSOCKS Theatre Companies production of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’.

At the end of the performance one of the gathered hot air balloons braved the gusting wind and was last seen racing in a south westerly direction.

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Visit by the Scottish Rhododendron Society

Friday 13^th May

Volunteers BBQ

Tuesday 26^th July

Visit by the IDS

Friday 7^th May

Volunteers BBQ

Wednesday 23^rd June

The Legend of Robin Hood

Oddsocks Theatre Company

Sunday 18^th July

Romeo and Juliet

Oddsocks Company

Sunday 29^th June

Trees, Trumpets And Trombones

York Railway Institute Band

Saturday 5^th July

Volunteers BBQ

Wednesday 10^th September