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5 things to do in and around Harrogate this weekend, August 29-31
Watch a unique and immersive theatre experience
Harrogate Theatre is inviting children aged five above with learning disabilities to immerse themselves in this weekend's production of Drift.
The interactive perfromance allows the audience to take control of player one and two after they are dragged inside an arcade machine.
Drift by Harrogate Theatre at the Wesley Centre
Tickets are £10 per person, see website for details and booking, performances at 12pm and 2.30pm, August 30, Wesley Centre, 28 Oxford Street, Harrogate, HG1 1PP.
Conductor Janusz Piotrowicz
Attend a night at the opera in Ripon
Enjoy the emphatic opening to Ripon's International Festival conducted by the festival's co-founder and artistic director, Janusz Piotrowicz.
Taking place this Saturday at 7.30pm, at Ripon Cathedral, the concert marks the start of the 28th year of the festival.
The performance will include the works of composers from the Romantic era including Richard Wagner's Overture Tannhäuser, Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suites 1 and 2, and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony number nine 'From the New World'.
This will be the first of several performances happening throughout September and the beginning of October.
Tickets prices vary from £15-£35 for adults and £5 for students and children, see website for details, 7.30pm, August 30, Ripon Cathedral, Liberty Court House, Minster Road, Ripon, HG4 1QT.
Harrogate and Ripon Beekeepers Association
Become a beekeeper for a day
The Harrogate and Ripon Beekeepers Association is running taster sessions at RHS Harlow Carr in Harrogate on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31.
Visitors can learn the basics of beekeeping, the crucial ways bees contribute to the eco-system and how to protect and care for them.
Tickets are £63 per person, see website for details, 10am-4pm, August 30 and 31, RHS Harlow Carr Garden, Crag Lane, Beckwithshaw, Harrogate, HG3 1QB.
Credit: Women's Rugby World Cup 2025
Witness the pinnacle of women's rugby in York
If you want to go a bit further out, it's well worth it this weekend. Go and watch the Women's Rugby World Cup in York.
Australia take on USA in the second round of group stage matches on August 30, two teams who had very different results in their first matches.
Australia will be hoping to follow up from their 73-0 win against Samoa to almost guarantee them a place in the knockouts.
USA will be looking to pick up their first points of the tournament following a 69-7 defeat to hosts England.
Tickets vary from £10-£25 for adults and £5 for children, see website for details, 7.30pm, August 30, LNER Community Stadium, Kathryn Avenue, Huntington, York, YO32 9AF.
Minskip Scarecrow Festival 2024, Credit Tiina Gray.
Judge scarecrows at Minskip Scarecrow festival
The annual Minskip Scarecrow Festival is back.
The festival is back for its sixth year, with funds going towards Minskip St John's Church.
The theme for this year is pop stars, with the competition being judged on Sunday by Radio York presenter Elly Fiorentini.
There is a new "People's Choice" award, which costs £1 per vote, and is open to everyone.
After wandering round the village of Minskip and admiring everyone's efforts, there will be refreshments and stalls in the church garden, with a barbeque, Pimm's bar and tombola on Sunday.
Free entry, £1 fee for voting in "People's Choice" award, 10am-4pm August 30 and 31, Minskip St John's Church, Minskip, York, YO51 9JG.
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