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Workshops

Hands-on Workshops

Get stuck into a range of hands-on workshops. Learn how to make jam, screenprint your old t-shirt, whittle a spoon, compost your food waste, repair your clothes, service your bike, create a terrarium, and more!

All day, Saturday 5th July

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Print Poetry with Little Hirundine Micro Press

Come and have a go at printing a letterpress poem! Be part of a poetry experiment and watch our collaborative poem unfold on a historic Adana press.

All day, Saturday 5th July

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Preserve Making Workshop

Come and see how to preserve seasonal homegrown fruit and veg

All day, Saturday 5th July

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Everything you ever wanted to know about COMPOST!

Top rotter 'Compost John' brings his recycling know how to help you start your composting endeavours. Bring a container to take away some beautiful rich compost you can riddle yourself!

All day, Saturday 5th July

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Bike Repair Workshop: Recycle York

Come and learn the skills you need to keep your bike in tip top condition!

All day, Saturday 5th July

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Print Room Party: Make Your Own Merch!

Inky fingers, not fast fashion! Join Mek Summat in the Print Room and make your own festival merch.

All day, Saturday 5th July

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Talks

Gypsy Traveller Wisdoms of Earth, Craft, and Kin

An experiential space within the festival that honours the historical and ongoing natural, cultural, and spiritual relationships between Gypsy and Traveller (GT) communities and the land.

All day, Saturday 5th July

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Mindful Rock Balancing

A family friendly workshop which combines the fun, interactive practice of rock stacking, along with the challenge and art of mindfulness!

All day, Saturday 5th July

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Future York: Young People's Hopes and Dreams

How can we make York a better place to live for young people? Join us where we will be using arts-based methods (collage, zine making) to design a Future York, and to envision what our community can become.

All day, Saturday 5th July

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Sanctuary of the Hopeful Sun

Meet radical changemakers making a difference in York and discover how we can all play a part in building the future today.

All day, Saturday 5th July

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Yoga for Liberation

Join the Teapot Collective for a morning of gentle, accessible chair or mat-based asana.

10:15, Saturday 5th July

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The Atchin Tan (Stopping Place)

This session invites you into the textures of Gypsy and Traveller life and land practice - through poetry, song, storytelling, and conversation.

11:00, Saturday 5th July

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Your Park. Reimagined

A legacy of the Homestead Park Festival will be a new community structure in the park. We’ll be gathering your thoughts and hopes for what a new structure could be, and what you might use it for.

11:00, Saturday 5th July

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Chanting in Community

Connect with each other through sound and vibration in this chanting workshop from the Teapot Collective.

13:15, Saturday 5th July

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Proud Gypsy Traveller: Practising Kinship with Land

A celebration of traditional Gypsy Traveller crafts and tools. Meet a horse farrier, explore a Living wagon, and sing folk songs together.

13:30, Saturday 5th July

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Workshops

Hands-on Workshops

Get stuck into a range of hands-on workshops. Learn how to make jam, screenprint your old t-shirt, whittle a spoon, compost your food waste, repair your clothes, service your bike, create a terrarium, and more!

All day, Sunday 6th July

Here is Action

Workshops

Print Poetry with Little Hirundine Micro Press

Come and have a go at printing a letterpress poem! Be part of a poetry experiment and watch our collaborative poem unfold on a historic Adana press.

All day, Sunday 6th July

Here is Action

Workshops

Preserve Making Workshop

Come and see how to preserve seasonal homegrown fruit and veg

All day, Sunday 6th July

Here is Action

Workshops

Mossarium Workshop

Learn about the magic of Terrariums with moss and then create one of your own!

All day, Sunday 6th July

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Workshops

Everything you ever wanted to know about COMPOST!

Top rotter 'Compost John' brings his recycling know how to help you start your composting endeavours. Bring a container to take away some beautiful rich compost you can riddle yourself!

All day, Sunday 6th July

Here is Action

Workshops

Bike Repair Workshop: Recycle York

Come and learn the skills you need to keep your bike in tip top condition!

All day, Sunday 6th July

Here Is Hope

Workshops

Print Room Party: Make Your Own Merch!

Inky fingers, not fast fashion! Join Mek Summat in the Print Room and make your own festival merch.

All day, Sunday 6th July

Here is Action

Talks

Gypsy Traveller Wisdoms of Earth, Craft, and Kin

An experiential space within the festival that honours the historical and ongoing natural, cultural, and spiritual relationships between Gypsy and Traveller (GT) communities and the land.

All day, Sunday 6th July

Here is Conversation

Workshops

Living Lab: Future Community

Help staff and students from the York St John Living Lab to create the perfect, climate-resilient, community space. Explore our own experiments in positive futures and bring your craft, words and ears to create a bit of the future.

All day, Sunday 6th July

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Cardboard City

Join us to create a world out of cardboard! Imagine your perfect city, then build it! Fancy your own apartment building? A zoo?! Drop by and contribute to our dream city.

All day, Sunday 6th July

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Workshops

Sanctuary of the Hopeful Sun

Meet radical changemakers making a difference in York and discover how we can all play a part in building the future today.

All day, Sunday 6th July

Here Is Hope

Workshops

Let's Play with Theatre of Connections

Enjoy a story-filled drama workshop made for everyone!

10:00, Sunday 6th July

Here Is Hope

Workshops

Your Park. Reimagined

A legacy of the Homestead Park Festival will be a new community structure in the park. We’ll be gathering your thoughts and hopes for what a new structure could be, and what you might use it for.

11:00, Sunday 6th July

Here is Play

Workshops

Proud Gypsy Traveller: Practising Kinship with Land

A second opportunity to experience the open engagement space, with continued focus on traditional knowledge, storytelling and relational practice

13:00, Sunday 6th July

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Workshops

Leaving No Trace (Taking Apart the Bender)

Take down the bender tent in a ritual of respecting the land and what it has given us.

15:00, Sunday 6th July

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