Women's Circle: Telling our Stories

Date: Monday 28th July 2025

Time: 7.30pm-9pm

Location: Kemps Bookshop, 11 Market Place, Malton, YO17 7FN

Event Details

A new evening monthly Women's Circle in the haven of Kemps Bookshop. Step out of the busy world and come to enjoy time out for yourself. Expect an unhurried guided relaxation, reflective prompts and time to share stories and be heard or simply listen, connect, reflect, be nourished and inspired.

Tickets: £10 and can be booked direct from Jenny: 07745 730341 or email jenny@underthebaobabcircles.co.uk. Alternatively they can be booked via Eventbrite.

Future Event Dates

25th August

29th September

27th October

Booking links for these events are coming soon. Please contact Jenny directly with any queries via email jenny@underthebaobabcircles.co.uk

More information can also be found on the following Instagram page: @under_the_baobab_circles

Imogen Cooper Plays Beethoven

Tickets: £40 | £35 | £2 (Under 25s)

Location: St Peter’s Church, Norton

Imogen Cooper piano

Beethoven Sonata no.30 in E op.109

Beethoven Sonata no.31 in A-flat op.110

Beethoven Sonata no.32 in C minor op.111

Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas trace a profound journey from thoughtful introspection to visionary heights. Known for her profound artistry, Imogen Cooper brings these late masterpieces to life with exceptional insight and sensitivity.

Interval bar

Find out more or book your tickets here:

The Night Overtook Us - Donald Grant and Friends

Tickets: £22 | £18 | £2 (Under 25s)

Location: St Peter’s Church, Norton

Thuit an Oidhche Oirnn (The Night Overtook Us)

Travel with Donald Grant to Gaelic lands, where winter nights are long and isolating. His new work Thuit an Oidhche Oirnn (The Night Overtook Us) is inspired by the hardship, wild beauty and community spirit of an island winter. Join these esteemed musical friends for traditional and contemporary Scottish tunes, celebrating folk roots – but with a twist.

Pre-concert bar

Find out more or book your tickets here: The Night Overtook Us - Donald Grant & Friends | Ryedale Festival

Sing with Eric Whitacre

Tickets: £10 | £2 (Under 25s)

Location: Wesley Centre, Malton

All are welcome at this one hour choral workshop led by Grammy-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre. Music will be provided and repertoire includes Sing Gently and The Seal Lullaby.

‘Harmonising with strangers was a deeply felt, primitive refresher course in community. We experienced, full force, the fundamental urge to just get along…inspiring’ – LA Times

Find out more or book your tickets here: Sing with Eric Whitacre | Ryedale Festival

Energetic storytelling, bubbles and music!

Mouse loves to paint. Sometimes she sells her paintings in return for food which she shares with Bear. Bear is big and powerful and promises to protect Mouse but when a storm comes will Mouse be forgotten? A tale of determination, inspiration and new-found friends.

Join narrator Polly Ives and clarinettist Jack McNeill for a musical telling of Mouse and Bear by Kev Payne for children aged 3-7. With fun actions and songs to join in with, this is a relaxed and friendly introduction to music, animation and storytelling. Start the fun now by learning the songs and actions at www.concerteenies.com/resources and join us from 10.15am to make your own mouse finger puppet and meet the musicians.

Find out more or book your tickets here: Mouse and Bear - A Musical Story | Ryedale Festival

Malton Roman Festival 2025

Date: Sunday July 20th 2025

Time 10:30am to 4pm

Tickets: Adults £10 | Kids 14 -18 years £5 | Kids under 14yrs free.

Salve! The Romans are back in Malton

This year they arrive Sunday 20th July at their home at the Roman Fort on Orchard Field. They will be making camp and cleaning all their kit in anticipation of marching around the fort with the Kids Roman Army. Recruitment starts at 10:30am.

As well as the living history encampment, visitors can see Roman entertainments and crafts. Roman History researchers and archaeologists will be there too, along with authors of both fact and fiction.

Highlights of the kids activities are always the sword, shield and tile painting, mosaics, dressing up, axe and plumbata throwing as well as our archaeology ‘dig’. You can even learn to ‘beat box’ with ‘Spartapuss’.

Food and drink will keep you happy whilst you watch the Roman Cavalry and other demos in the arena.

Bring the whole family along for a day in Roman Delgovicia!

Buy advanced discounted tickets from the Malton Museum Website along with many more details about the day. www.maltonmuseum.co.uk  

Event Overview

Tickets: £40pp

Our next cheese and wine evening is Saturday, 19th July. Tickets sell out fast, so reserve your place today!

📅 Saturday, 19th July
⏰ 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
📍 The Walled Garden Pantry, 8a Finkle Street, Malton

A Night of Cheese & Wine Indulgence Awaits!

Join us at our charming Malton deli for an enchanting evening of artisan cheeses, fine wines, and warm candlelit ambiance. Savor five expertly selected cheeses, each boasting unique flavors, textures, and styles, perfectly paired with premium wines to elevate your tasting experience.

Whether you're a cheese aficionado or simply love good food and great company, our knowledgeable hosts will guide you through each pairing, sharing fascinating insights along the way. Treat yourself to an unforgettable night of gourmet delights!

To book your tickets, visit The Walled Garden Pantry booking site: July 2025 Cheese and Wine Evening - The Walled Garden Pantry

1940s Murder Mystery at Howsham Hall

Date: Saturday 19th July 2025

Time: Arrival drinks from 6.30pm for dinner at 7pm.

Location: Howsham Hall, Howsham, Malt 1pmton, York YO60 7PB

Tickets: £73.50 per person

It’s 1947 and you are all actors and actresses who have been invited to a party being held to celebrate the resumption of film making at Pynewood Studios after the War. The auditions for Stefan Spellbinder’s the latest blockbusting movie “Dying to tell You” are to be held in the morning and everyone who is anyone in the film world will be at tonight’s “star studded” gala. Why not come in 1940s costume or black tie?

Turn sleuth for the evening as events unfold around you- can you solve the fiendish murder? Enjoy a fabulous night of mystery with friends, with delicious 3 course dinner served over the course of the evening. 

Includes dinner and arrival drinks.

Make a weekend of it and stay over on Saturday night in one of our bedrooms, from £190 per room for up to 2 people including continental breakfast.

Find out more about the event or book your place: https://www.dine.co.uk/venues/howsham-hall/event-calendar/

Paella Party in the Garden at Forty-Six

Date: Saturday 19th July

Time: 3pm-8.30pm

Location: Forty-Six, 46 Market Place, Malton, YO17 7LX

Find out more about the event over on Forty-Six’s social channels.

Cosy Cottage Soap Making Workshop - SOLD OUT (updated 09/07/2025)

Tea/coffee and introductions

- The history of soap making
- The chemistry of soap-making
- Fragrances, botanicals and essential oils
- Soap Making demonstratio
- Choose your own fragrances, flowers, exfoliants
- Make your own soap
- Next steps - after 24 hours (cutting the soaps) and 2 weeks (post curing)

- Goodbyes and loading soap for transporting home

Tickets can be bought in-store or online: £57.50pp

NEW for 2025

Spend a whole day crafting and enjoy a free delicious lunch with us in Malton. Create beautiful, unique candles and soaps to take home with you!

Other Session Dates: 21 June, 19 July.

Join us for the day in our Malton, Navigation Wharf workshop for a glorious, relaxing crafting day. In the morning, create two large (300ml) or several smaller 100% soy wax, scented candles, then in the afternoon, we enjoy a session of palm oil free soap-making, making six bars of your own signature, cold process soap to take home. We will share a delicious lunch together and there will be time to wander around Malton's Market Place after lunch too, if you wish.

In our spacious premises in Navigation Wharf, Yorkersgate, next to the Talbot Hotel, Malton, we will be hosting up to ten participants for each of the morning and afternoon sessions. The programme for this special all-day event is as follows

10.30am start with Tea/coffee, cake, introductions and safety briefing 

• Candlemaking background, materials, fragrances and choice of containers

• Candlemaking demonstration

• Make-your own soy wax candles to take home

• Decorate a pre-made candle using a range of materials provided by us

12.45 - LUNCH and relaxation time

2.00pm tea, coffee and more cake (if you have room)

• Chemistry, history and practice of soap-making

• Materials selection, choice of fragrances 

• Soapmaking demonstration

• Make-your six bars of signature blended, all natural, palm oil free soaps to take home

• Next steps, cutting and curing your soaps

4.00 to 4.30pm leave for home with your candles and soaps.

Your palm oil free soaps are created from vegetable oils and waxes using the cold process soap-making method. No melt-and-pour synthetic soap bases here! Your 100% soy wax candles are made from 100% high quality soy wax; no paraffin or smoky waxes!. Your items will be unique to you, personalised with your own dried flowers, fruit, exfoliants and essential oil fragrances.

For more information or to book your place please visit the Cosy Cottage website here .

The soap and candle making sessions can be booked as individual workshops too:

Soap Making: https://www.cosycottagesoap.co.uk/collections/malton-store-events/products/face-to-face-soap-making-workshops-in-malton

Candle Making: https://www.cosycottagesoap.co.uk/collections/malton-store-events/products/christmas-candlemaking-workshop

Soy Wax Candle Making Workshop - SOLD OUT (updated on 09/07/2025)

We will start with warm drinks and cake, before settling down for a session of learning and crafting together. We anticipate the workshop will take around two hours but we do not like to rush, it's all meant to be enjoyable and relaxing :)

- Learn all about 100% soy wax container candle-making in our Malton workshop
- Create your own, unique fragrance blend using natural, essential oils
- Make your own signature fragranced, 100% soy wax container candle(s)
- While your candle(s) is/are setting, decorate a (pre-made) 30cl container candle in your own unique style
- After the workshop, you will have at least 2 x container candles to take home with you to enjoy or gift to your friends and family

Tickets can be bought in-store or online: £57.50pp

Exclusive Fresh Skin Ritual Facial

Date: Saturday 19th July 2025

Time: Various times throughout the day from 9.30am onwards

Cost: £50pp

Cooling – Soothing – Cleansing

Join us in-store this summer for a moment of calm, cool refreshment.

You deserve it.

Book your space for a one-to-one luxury Fresh Skin Ritual Facial with our experienced therapist, Chloe, in our serene treatment room at the Cosy Cottage Store, 17 Market Place, Malton, YO17 7LP.

This exclusive, seasonal, 50-minute facial experience has been specially designed to soothe summer skin using our own natural Cosy Cottage skincare products, with expert techniques from our in-house beauty practitioner. 

Treatment includes:

• Double cleanse with our handmade soap and gentle chamomile cleanser

• Exfoliation with a calming honey & oat scrub 

• Rejuvenating facial massage with Frankincense & Marula Serum

• Cooling facial ice globes to de-puff and refresh

• A freshly prepared, limited edition cucumber & mint mask for a cooling summer boost

• Your choice of a relaxing neck and shoulder massage or a scalp massage to release tension

Early booking for these popular limited edition events is recommended.
Bookings can be made online or by visiting our Cosy Cottage Malton store.

Appointments are available between 09:30am and 16:00 on 19th July 2025 via the dropdown menu on this product description.

The event takes place in our dedicated treatment room at:
17 Market Place, Malton, YO17 7LP

Each 50-minute appointment includes time to settle in, enjoy your full treatment, and gently regather before stepping back into your day.

Jess Gillam Ensemble II

Tickets: £30 | £26 | £20 | £2 (Under 25s)

Location: St Peter’s Church, Norton

Pedro Itturalde (1929-2020) Pequeña Czarda (arr. John Harle)

CPE Bach (1714-88) Allegro assai from Flute Concerto in A Minor Wq.166 (arr. Simon Parkin)

Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) Cantique (arr. Alistair Vennart)

David Bowie (1947-2016) Life on Mars (arr. Alistair Vennart)

Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) Petite Fleur (sax part transcr. Lolo Garcia/arr. Sam Becker)

Barbara Thompson (1944-2022) A Tribute to Bechet

trad/Corelli (1653-1713) Variations on La Folia (arr. Poxon and Parkin)

INTERVAL

Ruairí Dall Ó Catháin (c.1600-53) Tabhair dom do Lámh

Barbara Strozzi (1619-77) Che si può fare (arr. Alistair Vennart)

John Harle (b.1956) Flare

Ólafur Arnalds (b.1986) saman (arr. Geoff Lawson)

James Blake (b.1988) Retrograde (arr. Benjamin Rimmer)

Debussy (1862-1918) Clair de Lune (arr. Simon Parkin/JGE)

Duke Ellington (1899-1974) and Juan Tizol (1900-84) Caravan (arr. Harry Baker/JGE)

Michael Nyman (b.1944) Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds (arr. Peter Riley)

Rune Sørensen (b.1983) Shine You No More (arr. Simon Parkin/JGE)

Dynamic, bold and unique, the Jess Gillam Ensemble brings vibrant energy and boundless enthusiasm to the stage, redefining the concert experience. Join them as they blend classical and contemporary music into an engaging celebration.

‘A true inspiration … she frankly rocks’ Huffington Post

‘Not just one of Britain’s most virtuosic instrumentalists, but also an unstuffy, inspiring personality’ The Times

Pre-concert and interval bar.

This concert will be recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3.

Find out more or book your tickets here: Jess Gillam Ensemble II | Ryedale Festival

Kemps presents Charlie Connelly’s ‘Attention All Shipping’

Date: Wednesday 16th July 2025

Time: 7.30pm

Location: The Milton Rooms, Market Place, Malton, YO17 7LX

Tickets: £18 per person

Event Overview
As the shipping forecast embarks on its second century, bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster Charlie Connelly’s hilarious and informative show brings the quirky broadcast vividly to life, celebrating what he regards as the greatest invention of the modern age.

How did a weather forecast for ships capture the hearts of a nation, from salty old sea dog to insomniac landlubber? How is it possible for ‘rain later’ to be ‘good’? And where the hell is North Utsire?

Delving into the history of the forecast and the extraordinary people who made it, Charlie explains what those curious phrases really mean, celebrates its wide cultural impact, shares rip-roaring adventures from his own extraordinary journey through the 31 sea areas – the times he was accused by the media of trying to annex Rockall from the British government and sang sea shanties with Tom Hardy in a Manx hotel bar while Scary Spice pulled the pints – and presents his case for the shipping forecast being our finest achievement.

Inspired by Charlie’s bestselling book, which has sold more than a quarter-of-a-million copies worldwide, this pacy, moving and hilarious show takes you all the way from Viking to South East Iceland to ensure the shipping forecast will never sound the same again.

“Charlie Connelly is one of the funniest people I have ever had the pleasure of sitting in a studio with…He has a natural wit that doesn’t get crushed by an over-zealous ego with a lovely personality attached to it.” Fi Glover, broadcaster 

“Charlie is always warm, funny and engaging…I actually sent him a fan letter – and I’ve never done that to anyone in my life before.”  Bernard Sumner, New Order

“I can thoroughly recommend an evening spent in the company of the very funny and very lovely Charlie Connelly, whose knowledge of what I call ‘the ships’ is excellent. Sou’westers optional.” Corrie Corfield, BBC Radio 4