Friarwood Festival is a family friendly, community music festival, raising funds for the upkeep and maintenance of Friarwood Valley Gardens in Pontefract. Enjoy local bands and artists, delicious street food, bars and plenty of kids entertainment.
All for one – and one for all! Young D’Artagnan is desperate to join Athos, Porthos and Aramis as an elite Musketeer of the King’s Guard. To prove himself he plunges headlong into a thrilling adventure. He must retrieve the Queen’s jewels, restore Her Majesty’s honour, survive the machinations of scheming Cardinal Richelieu, and cross swords with the deadly Milady de Winter.
Set against a sweeping panorama of 1600s France at war, The Three Musketeers is a whirlwind of excitement, comedy and ingenious storytelling.
Pedalling from venue to venue with all of their set, props and costumes on the back of their bikes, the HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors. They are spending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues across the UK!
2026 marks the 50th anniversary for KCB and this year's Parton's Concert will celebrate this wonderful achievement in full.
Featherstone Male Voice Choir will be performing alongside Ripon City Band in a joint concert at St Giles Church, Pontefract.
David Hardcastle, is a retired West Yorkshire Police constable of 20 years and is a volunteer at a local police museum. He will be giving an interactive presentation on the history of the police service over the last 120+ years. The presentation will feature historical artefacts that will be available to handle during the talk for proper immersion in the history of policing, artefacts ranging from 1880, covering the Victorian period, both World Wars and into the 21st Century. A big assortment of various police uniforms, helmets, hats and even a working radio from the 1980s for the audience to try!
A one man performance of A Christmas Carol by Actor Chris Cade
Join us at the stunning Ackworth School for our third annual Dickensian Christmas Fair! After two wonderfully successful years, we’re thrilled to return and celebrate the festive season with you once again. Our team will be dressed in full Dickensian attire, and we’re enthusiastically encouraging our stallholders to join in the tradition — we remain…
Alan Frayn’s Mother Goose is a lively, family‑friendly pantomime packed with comedy, music, and magical mayhem. Frayn’s version follows the warm‑hearted but easily tempted Mother Goose, who is granted a goose that lays golden eggs. As fame and fortune go to her head, she’s lured into trading her beloved goose for the promise of beauty and glamour.
Alan Frayn’s Mother Goose is a lively, family‑friendly pantomime packed with comedy, music, and magical mayhem. Frayn’s version follows the warm‑hearted but easily tempted Mother Goose, who is granted a goose that lays golden eggs. As fame and fortune go to her head, she’s lured into trading her beloved goose for the promise of beauty and glamour.
