This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities...
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT
    • Politics
    • Transport
    • Lifestyle
    • Community
    • Business
    • Crime
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Education
    • Sport
    • Harrogate
    • Ripon
    • Knaresborough
    • Boroughbridge
    • Pateley Bridge
    • Masham
  • What's On
  • Offers
  • Newsletter
  • Podcasts

Interested in advertising with us?

Advertise with us

  • News & Features
  • Your Area
  • What's On
  • Offers
  • Newsletter
  • Podcasts
  • Politics
  • Transport
  • Lifestyle
  • Community
  • Business
  • Crime
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Education
  • Sport
Advertise with us
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Latest News

We want to hear from you

Tell us your opinions and views on what we cover

Contact us
Connect with us
  • About us
  • Advertise your job
  • Correction and complaints
Download on App StoreDownload on Google Play Store
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Statement
  • Comments Participation T&Cs
Trust In Journalism

Copyright © 2020 The Stray Ferret Ltd, All Rights Reserved

Site by Show + Tell

Subscribe to trusted local news

In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever. By subscribing, you can help us get the story right.

  • Subscription costs less than £1 a week with an annual plan.

Already a subscriber? Log in here.

03

May 2022

Last Updated: 03/05/2022
Community
Community

Two free events for Ripon literary lovers on Thursday evening

by Tim Flanagan

| 03 May, 2022
Comment

0

If you're interested in the Yorkshire dialect, or like performing to an audience of fellow writers, there's something for you in Ripon on Thursday evening.

ripon-17th-may-2021-curzon-cinema

Writers and poetry fans have a choice of two free events to attend in Ripon on Thursday at the library and Curzon Cinema.

At 7pm in the library, Rod Dimbleby from the Yorkshire Dialect Society, will speak about the life and work of John Hartley.

The prolific West Riding poet, author and performer, was born in Halifax in 1839 and was famous in Victorian England for his Yorkshire dialect poems.

After his work, Bite Bigger,was published by Alfred Wilson — a hatter by trade — Hartley's career took off and was a sell-out hit that had to be re-printed because of demand.

Wilson, who became Hartley's father-in-law when the poet married his daughter Sophia, published the Clock Almanack (named after the clock outside his hatter's shop) and Hartley was the editor for more than 25 years.

Those wishing to attend Mr Dimbleby's talk are asked to book tickets in advance

Write-on Ripon


Also on Thursday evening, with a start time of 7.30, Write-On Ripon is holding its third open mic evening at Curzon Cinema on North Street.

Dion Child, who launched the creative writing group last year, told the Stray Ferret:

"Our free-to-attend weekly meetings on Tuesday afternoons have attracted attendance from people ranging from published authors, such as Maggie Cobbett, to poets who enjoy playing with words.
"The open mic events, which began in February, are a natural extension of the writers' group and provide a platform for writers to present their work to an audience of like-minded people."


He added:

"I'm so pleased that they have taken off and we extend a welcoming hand to those among the ranks of Ripon writers, who want to come along.
"Curzon has kindly allowed us to use its facilities free of charge and the vaulted cellar under the cinema, where the acoustics and atmosphere are tremendous, has led us to give it the nickname of 'the cavern of creativity' in a nod to the Liverpool venue, from which the Fab Four found fame."






Read more:



  • Concert for Macmillan will honour Ripon man of music

  • Ripon celebrates St Wilfrid