10 of the best
Your guide to events you must not miss this week
1Malton
Malton, Saturday December 3 and Sunday December 4, daily from 9am to 3.30pm
The Malton Christmas Festival will be living up to the town’s status of Yorkshire’s Food Capital with a plethora of street food. Local producers will be serving mulled wine, figgy puddings, traditional turkey, goose, and award-winning macarons from Malton’s Master Pâtissier.
New to the Christmas Festival this year will be Lucela’s with their unique chocolate flavoured rum, Serious Sweets with a range of old-fashioned sweets, and Seagrown who hand-harvest seaweed from the Yorkshire coast to create a range of food seasonings, cosmetics and beer. Leeds-based The Yorkshire Sea Salt Company is the first salt house to produce 100 per cent natural, mineral-rich sea salt in Yorkshire since the neolithic era. Returning favourites include many of the monthly market
Christmas Festival
regulars so you can stock up on olive oil, charcuterie, festive tipples, baked goods, cheese, ingredients, gifts and homewares. Entertainment comes from Malton’s local brass bands, fairground rides and free activities provided by Be Amazing Arts. Visitors will get the chance to tour Malton’s Market Place on the festive land train.
Free
Christmas Open Studio
2 Woodend, The Crescent, Scarborough, Saturday December 3 and Sunday December 4, daily from 10am to 4pm
Woodend artists Lindsey Tyson, Wendy and Tony Belshaw – Sunday only
– and the Scarborough Zine Library – aka Nathan Whackett and Joel Hague – will be opening their studio doors, giving you the opportunity to talk to them about their practice and/or to purchase something hand crafted and unique. Tony Belshaw creates artwork from sea-washed pottery and Wendy Belshaw creates jewellery from seawashed pottery and sea glass as well as hand-crafted Christmas decorations. Lindsey Tyson Art will be having a mega-sale of her semi-abstract landscapes. Free
Bootleg Blondie
3 Whitby Pavilion, Saturday December 3 at 7.30pm Bootleg Blondie are a Debbie Harry and Blondie tribute band, established in 2001, and have played the CBGB club in New York City, the Isle of Wight Festival, the Shepherds Bush Empire, London’s 100 Club and the Hammersmith Palais.
Expect all the hits, from Denis, Denis to The Tide is High.
Tickets: 01947 824768
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile 4 Whitby Pavilion, Sunday
December 4 at 5pm; Monday December 5 at 2pm; Tuesday December 6 at 6pm and Wednesday December 7 at 7pm
When the Primm family moves to New York City, their young son, Josh, struggles to adapt to his new school and friends. All of that changes when he discovers Lyle, a singing crocodile that loves baths, caviar and great music.
Tickets: 01947
824768
Whitby Coliseum, Thursday December 1 at 2pm and 7pm
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home. Tickets: 01947 825000
Cinderella
6 Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, from Friday December 2 to Saturday December 31
The team that sailed you to Treasure Island, that took you up the Beanstalk and down the rabbit hole to Wonderland invite you to a madcap adventure filled with dastardly deeds, nutty mice and a pumpkin with a mind of its own. There’ll be songs, silliness and festive fun by the carriage-load.
Tickets: 01723 370541 or www. sjt.uk.com
Dick Whitttington Scarborough Spa from Saturday December 3 to Saturday January 1
Fun and laughter-filled pantomime brought to you by Tony Peers Productions and featuring Amy Thompson from Channel 5’s Milkshake!
Follow Dick, his loyal cat and various colourful characters he meets, as he seeks fame and fortune in London town. Tickets: 01723 376774 or https://www.scarboroughspa. co.uk/
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Christmas light show
8 Scarborough Castle and Lighthouse and Whitby Abbey, Friday December 2 and Saturday December 3 and Friday December 9 and Saturday December 10, from 7pm until 9.30pm in 20-minute intervals
The four-night spectacle, funded by the Yorkshire Coast BID, will see multiple laser beam shows performed in a sequence.
For the best views: Filey Country Car Park, Whitby Harbour, Scarborough seafront and Ravenscar.
Free
A Christmas Carol
9 Malton town centre, from Saturday December 3 to Christmas Eve, not December 9, 16 and 22
Be Amazing Arts’ immersive production of A Christmas
Carol is set to return to the streets of Malton. Starting at Kemps Bookshop in Malton’s Market Place the promenade production will follow Dickens around the streets of Malton, while the audience are immersed in the festive tale of A Christmas Carol. The audience will also receive festive nibbles and a festive tipple en-route from The Cooks Place, Malton. James Aconley, producer, said ‘‘We were overwhelmed with the response and feedback to our production of A Christmas Carol last year. We are so excited to bring the production back this year with an adapted script and more unexpected stops along the way. We are thrilled to be working with our project partners again this year, Gilly from he Cooks Place, the wonderful Liz from Kemps and of course the team at Malton Estate.” Tickets: www.beamazingarts. co.uk or 01653 917271
0 Ice rink
1 Whitby from Friday December 2 until Monday January 2
Whitby Seafoods are helping to sponsor the event for the second year running by creating the Whitby Seafoods Community Ice Skating Programme.
The programme allows as many young people as possible to have the experience of ice skating. The Whitby Seafoods sponsorship means that they have created 800 opportunities for school children to take to the ice. The family-focused rink will be open until January 2, giving everyone across the Yorkshire Coast the chance to come down and glide into the festive spirit. Whatever the weather, visitors will be able to skate under the cover of an all-weather marquee on the beautiful Endeavour Wharf.
Tickets: www.whitbyicerink. com/tickets/.