• Ripon Walled Garden & Jennyruth Workshops – The Big Red Shoes

    Ripon Spa Gardens Park Street, Ripon, United Kingdom

    The Big Red Shoes is a playful, participant-built performance created with Ripon Walled Garden, Jennyruth Workshops, and The Art Guild CIC. Using oversized props, movement, humour, and Makaton, it reimagines The Big Red Shoes as a story about pressure, fame, rest, connection, and the joy of dancing together. Ripon Walled Garden supports adults with learning …

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    FREE
  • Sound Board

    Ripon Spa Gardens Park Street, Ripon, United Kingdom

    Sound Board Zest Theatre It starts with a conversation. Where it ends? That’s up to you. Part chat show, part game, part live performance - Sound Board has been made especially for young people and their community. Packed with quick-fire debates, playful challenges, and surprising moments of honesty, it’s a show shaped by you in …

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    FREE
  • The Rubbish Shakespeare Company: Romeo & Juliet

    Ripon Spa Gardens Park Street, Ripon, United Kingdom

    Romeo and Juliet Rubbish Shakespeare Company Enemies. Balconies. Kissing... SAUSAGE ROLLS!!?? Three hapless idiots perform Shakespeare’s famous tragedy using nothing but tatty wigs and a burst airbed they found by the bins. This frenetic 60 mins of fourth-wall-breaking, ludicrous action features clowning, slapstick, and mischievous storytelling, ensuring everyone from 5 to 105 knows what’s going …

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    FREE
  • St Aelred’s Irish Dance

    Ripon Marketplace Market Place, Ripon, United Kingdom

    St Aelred's Principal Dance Teacher, Una says: "We are a traditional Irish dance group made up of 25 dancers. We go from young talent, all the way to incredibly skilled older dancers. We love performing for our local community. We regularly perform to thousands each year on St Patrick’s day in Leeds and York. Our …

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  • Cricket on the Hearth

    Ripon Spa Gardens Park Street, Ripon, United Kingdom

    Cricket on the Hearth is an Appalachian step dancing team that meets in St. John’s Church Hall, Harrogate, HG1 3DT, on Sundays at 6.30pm to 8pm.  We are a mixed side and dance mostly to American old time music played on the fiddle, banjo, guitar and mandolin.  New members – dancers and musicians – are …

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  • Participation Zone with Yorkshire CREATE

    Ripon Spa Gardens Park Street, Ripon, United Kingdom

    Ripon Theatre Festival 2024 Dive into a vibrant day of theatre-inspired creativity for families, including mask-making, myths and more. Explore hands-on crafts inside or alongside our dedicated tent space in the Spa Gardens. Participation Zone led by facilitators from Yorkshire CREATE - a Knaresborough-based organisation which provides opportunities for people of all ages. From performing …

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    FREE
  • Punch and Judy

    Ripon Spa Gardens Park Street, Ripon, United Kingdom

    Beautiful, hand-carved wooden puppets come to life in a fast-moving and funny show that has lots of good old-fashioned knock-about fun, with loads of audience participation. Each show lasts 20 minutes For over 30 years, Professor Ron Wood has been a beloved figure in the world of entertainment, bringing the enchanting Punch and Judy Show …

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  • The Soapsud Sisters

    Ripon Spa Gardens Park Street, Ripon, United Kingdom

    ‘Here come the girls!’ Pair up your socks, dig out your delicates, separate your silks, it’s laundry time with the magnificent SOAPSUD SISTERS, Rhubarb Theatre’s latest festival show for 2025. Join our bubbly beauties as they take you for a spin through a washing cycle like no other. Presented by Rhubarb Theatre Company About the …

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    FREE
  • The Crow House

    Ripon Spa Gardens Park Street, Ripon, United Kingdom

    A derelict house appears in the middle of the street. The windows are shattered and a Keep Out sign bars the front door. Three captivating and multi-skilled performers use aerial, acrobatics, live music and slap-stick comedy to battle the furious crow who has taken up residency. Who will win? A wonderful silent-movie inspired show using …

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    FREE
  • Morris Dance from Slubbing Billy’s

    Ripon Spa Gardens Park Street, Ripon, United Kingdom

    Slubbing Billy's Slubbing Billy's is a mixed Morris side dancing in the North West style. They dance in clogs and bowler hats decorated with fresh flowers. A large bass drum keeps them in time and their musicians play traditional folk dance tunes. In purple kit , sticks and bells they put on a colourful energetic …

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    FREE
  • No Strings Attached – A Puppet Cabaret

    Ripon Arts Hub 49 Allhallowgate, Ripon, United Kingdom

    An evening of song and sketches and some surprises, all performed by talented puppets with help from local community performers and Puppet Power North. Join the Festival Team, friends and volunteers for a fun finish to Festival week. Puppet Power North (PPN) is led by Mark Edwards who has honed his puppetry skills over the …

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