Sedan Chair Stories
2024-07-06 11:00 - 12:30, 2024-07-06 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Ripon City Centre
Hail down the ultimate in Georgian era transport and be carried above the hoi polloi, hear scurrilous tales from Ripon’s scandalous past as your footmen pass on their knowledge and deposit you at your destination of choice.
From the dastardly deeds of Eugene Arum to the insider trading of Chancellor Aislabie, each Sedan Chair Story is complimentary with carriage.
FREE EVENT
Carriage operating on Minster Gardens and Kirkgate between 11am to 12.30 and 1pm till 2pm

The Wakeman Mummers
2024-07-06 11:15 - 11:30, 2024-07-06 13:15 - 13:30 | Ripon Cathedral, Minster Road,, Ripon, HG4 1QS, United Kingdom
FREE EVENT
11.15-11.30am Ripon Cathedral forecourt
1.15-1.30pm Ripon Cathedral forecourt

Medieval Maniax
2024-07-06 11:15 - 12:00, 2024-07-06 14:00 - 14:45 | Ripon Marketplace, Market Place, Ripon, HG41BP, United Kingdom
Death by Laughter. Giggle and guffaw as the fatal fools amuse and bemuse you.
These award-winning street-performers perform all over the world and are ready to make you laugh with their historical hysterics. A spectacular show full of music, jokes and illusions.
The Maniax are great crowd pleasers and repeatedly star at ‘The Robin Hood Festival Sherwood Forest’, The Medieval Pageant’ Nottingham Castle and many other historic events.
FREE EVENT
11.15 – 12 noon Market Place
2 – 2.45pm Market Place

Yorkshire Voices
2024-07-06 11:30 - 12:00 | Ripon Cathedral, Minster Road,, Ripon, HG4 1QS, United Kingdom
FREE EVENT
11.30am-12 noon Ripon Cathedral

Arcade
2024-07-06 11:30 - 12:00 | Ripon Cathedral, Minster Road,, Ripon, HG4 1QS, United Kingdom
Casson & Friends has a passion for bringing dance to people in new and unusual ways. Set to a bouncing electronic soundtrack, ARCADE’s interactive dance games will connect you with the childlike joy of play. Watch the fun unfold or get stuck in with our friendly team of dancers, led by The Gamesmaster.
Six unique games in each set – some mesmerising & fun to watch,
others invite gentle playful participation.
Casson & Friends are known best for World Record Breaking
international hit, ‘The Dance WE Made’.
“Absolute genius – whether you watch or participate, it can’t fail to make you smile” Bradley Hemmings – Artistic Director, Festival.org
FREE EVENT
Market Place 10 – 10.30am
Cathedral Forecourt 11.30 – 12 noon
Market Place 1 – 1.30pm
Market Place 3 – 3.30pm

The Tea Cosies
2024-07-06 11:30 - 12:00, 2024-07-06 13:30 - 14:00, 2024-07-06 15:00 - 15:30 | Ripon City Centre
Meet Dorothy Dunker, Tippy Teapot and Barbara Bourbon. Come and have a natter with our colourful crochet trolley dollies!
There’s always a warm brew and plate of goodies on show when these ladies are about…
“One lump or two?”…
A fun, family-friendly walkabout act with dance, stories and jokes. There are also a few interactive games which may involve biscuits!
FREE EVENT
10 – 10.30am City Centre streets
11.30 – 12 noon City Centre streets
1.30 – 2pm City Centre streets
3pm – 3.30pm City Centre streets

Tales from Honeypot Village
2024-07-06 11:30 - 12:15 | Little Ripon Bookshop, 12-13 Westgate, Ripon, HG4 2AT, United Kingdom
Join our Storyteller in Residence, Ilaria, for an imaginative adventure with puppets. Funny and interactive stories featuring loveable characters Rita the Mouse and The Tidy Trolls.
Age guide ​4+
A Pay What ​You Can event. Recommended price £4 per ​child.

Ayla's Dream
2024-07-06 12:00 - 12:30 | Ripon Cathedral, Minster Road,, Ripon, HG4 1QS, United Kingdom
A story of imagination and illumination, performed in miniature on beautiful sets within a vintage suitcase.
This very short tale of duration is told through puppetry, spoken word and music.
A captivating tale of night skies, light and counting sheep to enchant and engage adults and children alike.
Performances every 10 minutes.
This show is also performed at Ripon Library at 10.30am where it is followed by a puppet-making workshop, creating beautiful moths. Tickets required for the Library event.
Age guide 3-10
FREE EVENT – just turn up!

Ripon City Morris & 400 Roses and Thorns
2024-07-06 12:00 - 12:30 | Ripon Marketplace, Market Place, Ripon, HG41BP, United Kingdom
We are a North West Morris Dancing team from Ripon. We practice most Monday evenings from 7.45pm in Bishop Monkton Village Hall, which is between Ripon and Harrogate. In the summer months we dance at various pubs in the area on Monday evenings and at Festivals, weekends of dance and at many other events. We are instantly recognisable by our patriotic kit and fresh flowered hats.
We are joined by the incredible 400 Roses and Thorns
FREE EVENT
10.30-11.15 Ripon Cathedral forecourt
12-12.30pm Market Place
2-2.30pm Ripon Cathedral forecourt
3.30-4pm Market Place

Ripon Youth Theatre
2024-07-06 12:00 - 12:30 | Minster Gardens, Minster Road,, Ripon, HG4 1QS, United Kingdom
FREE EVENT
12-12.30pm Minster Gardens

Rock Choir
2024-07-06 12:30 - 13:00 | Ripon Marketplace, Market Place, Ripon, HG41BP, United Kingdom
The UK’s original award-winning, local, contemporary choir.
Local leader Flo Glen says “If you love to sing, you’ll love Rock Choir! No auditions and no musical knowledge needed. We meet every Thursday in Ripon at Harrogate Road Methodist Church 10am-11:30am. Harewood Rd, Ripon HG4 1TG
You can book a taster session https://www.rockchoir.com/join/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Rock.Choir.Flo.Glen/
FREE EVENT
10.15-10.45am Ripon Cathedral
12.30-1pm Market Place

U3A Folk Group
2024-07-06 12:30 - 13:00 | Ripon Cathedral, Minster Road,, Ripon, HG4 1QS, United Kingdom
FREE EVENT
12.30-1pm Ripon Cathedral

The Bachelors of Paradise
2024-07-06 12:30 - 13:00 | Ripon Cathedral, Minster Road,, Ripon, HG4 1QS, United Kingdom
The most beautiful birds to grace the streets of Ripon this season. Check out their glorious wingspans and gorgeous tailfeathers. Stilt walkers from Full Stilt.
FREE EVENT
Market Place 11-11.30am
Cathedral Forecourt 12.30pm
Kirkgate 2 -2.30pm

Logy on Fire
2024-07-06 12:30 - 13:15 | Minster Gardens, Minster Road,, Ripon, HG4 1QS, United Kingdom
Juggling danger and excitement, this show is raw, rock ‘n’ roll and full of danger. Playing with fire and risking lacerations and climaxing in a perilous display of equilibrium and custom-made razor-sharp unique object juggling like you have never seen before!
Logy is a Belfast-based bearded multi manipulator and performer. Performing since 2001, he has performed all over the world as a successful street entertainer and stage performer.
FREE EVENT
Market Place 10.30am – 11.15am
Minster Gardens 12.30 – 1.15pm

Arcade
2024-07-06 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-07-06 15:00 - 15:30 | Ripon Marketplace, Market Place, Ripon, HG41BP, United Kingdom

Snakes and Ladders at The Workhouse
2024-07-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Workhouse Museum, Sharow View, Allhallowgate, Ripon, HG4 1LE, United Kingdom
Join the Master and Matron of the Workhouse on the entrance front green for an interactive game of Snakes and Ladders. Learn how life then, as now, is as precarious as a shake of the dice – slither down the snake to a shaven head and de-fumigation or ascend to a life out the ashes.
FREE EVENT – just turn up and play as long as you like
This event will also run from 11am – 12.30pm

Workhouse Walkabouts
2024-07-06 13:15 - 14:00 | Minster Gardens, Minster Road,, Ripon, HG4 1QS, United Kingdom
FREE EVENT
11am-12noon Minster Gardens
1.15-2pm Minster Gardens

Medusa
2024-07-06 13:30 - 14:00 | Ripon Cathedral, Minster Road,, Ripon, HG4 1QS, United Kingdom
Medusa Gothic Morris are a women’s dance group, we are based in Knaresborough and practice on Thursday evenings. We dress in black and purple, and regularly dance at local events. We would welcome new dancers (no experience necessary) and musicians to join us, contact Sally on 01423 868753 or email spolem@hotmail.com
FREE EVENT
10-10.30am Ripon Cathedral forecourt
1.30-2pm Ripon Cathedral forecourt

Stone Soup
2024-07-06 13:30 - 14:00 | Ripon Marketplace, Market Place, Ripon, HG41BP, United Kingdom
A wandering stranger holds the secret to making delicious soup, fit for the finest folk in the land. But can they really make soup with just a stone?
Performed from a travelling cart and including elements of storytelling, music and comical puppet characters.
Eye of Newt’s re-telling of this traditional folk tale invites audiences young and old to help a stranger in need. With the power of community, kindness and more than a little imagination, everyone in town will enjoy a taste of delicious Stone Soup.
FREE EVENT
Market Place 1.30 – 2pm
Minster Gardens 3 – 3.30pm

Theatre for One
2024-07-06 13:30 - 14:30 | Kirkgate, Kirkgate, Ripon, HG4 1PB, United Kingdom
Street theatre with a difference. 3 short performances lasting 3 minutes.
Each performed to only one person at a time, (plus curious onlookers!)
A most intriguing, and then exclusive, theatre experience!
“A simple idea, the best ones often are, created with such loving care and attention to detail that you just have to smile. Sometimes three minutes is all that’s needed!” Dorothy Max Prior, Animations Online (UK)
Join Lempen Puppet Theatre for The Belly Bug and Dr Frankenstein.
Have a look down the “Belescope” and see the habitat and habits of the belly bug. Enjoy the dance of life!
Come and join Dr Frankenstein at his work table and watch him at work. Unsurprisingly he’s creating a new life!
FREE EVENT – just turn up!
Theatre for One is also running at Ripon Cathedral from 10.45- 11.15am and from 3-4pm on Kirkgate.

Monoliths - Saturday afternoon
2024-07-06 13:30 - 15:30 | Ripon Cathedral, Minster Road,, Ripon, HG4 1QS, United Kingdom
Three women. Three voices. Three stories.
An immersive, digital theatre experience, which interweaves three northern UK landscapes – a moor, a city and a coast – with sweeping soundscapes and poetic monologues. Written by Hannah Davies, Carmen Marcus and Asma Elbadawi, the stories are an arresting testament to the inextricable link between person and place.
Three stories open the world of the English northern landscape in virtual reality, what it means to come from it, live in it and belong to it.
Monoliths has been shown at several international film festivals including Melbourne International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival and Sheffield Doc Fest.
https://www.ripontheatrefestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/monoliths_trailer_draft-1080p-new-logos.mp4

Directed by Lucy Hammond.
Four screenings per hour between 1.30 and 3.30pm.
Each performance lasts 11 minutes and can be experienced by 3 visitors at a time, wearing XR headsets.
Age guide 11+
Presented by Pilot Theatre and One to One Development Trust
Tickets £5

Ripon City Morris & 400 Roses and Thorns
2024-07-06 14:00 - 14:30

The Bachelors of Paradise
2024-07-06 14:00 - 14:30 | Kirkgate, Kirkgate, Ripon, HG4 1PB, United Kingdom

The Trial of John Sinkler
2024-07-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Courthouse Museum, Minster Road, Ripon, HG4 1QS, United Kingdom
Step inside a Magistrates Court room virtually unchanged since first being built and experience justice 1871 style in Ripon Courthouse as members of the Workhouse Theatre group invite you to the trial of John Sinkler for Poaching and Threatening to shoot a watcher. Ensure Justice is seen to be done as audience members or perhaps take a more active part as Magistrate (and don a gown) or even stand as Witness in our scripted re-enactment. Learn of the amazing story of the Sinkler brothers and after the Court session, hear how, in 2025, we aim to develop it into a fully-fledged Community play and promenade performance utilizing all three museum venues.
Led by Mark Cronfield of Fell Foss Theatre.
