Hosted by Skipton Town Hall
Aug 1 – Aug 5
Skipton Town Hall, High St, Skipton, BD23 1AH
Celebrating Yorkshire Day 2018 with our five-day long mini film festival, Wednesday 1st to Sunday 5th August!
A little something extra is provided with each film. Discounts are available for family and festival pass tickets.
Wednesday 1st August – Brassed off, 7pm.
Thursday 2nd August – Kes, 7.30pm.
Friday 3rd August – Full Monty, 7.30pm.
Saturday 4th August – Chicken Run, 11am.
Saturday 4th August – The Railway Children, 2pm.
Saturday 4th August – The Calendar Girls, 7.30pm.
Sunday 5th August – The Secret Garden, 2pm.
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Wednesday 1st August – Brassed off
7pm Skipton Brass / 7.30pm Film
Rated 15, Tickets £7.50 / Under 18s or non-drinkers £4.50
Tickets include a 20-minute pre-performance from Skipton Brass and a Yorkshire beer or a nostalgic Yorkshire soft drink to enjoy with the film!
In existence for a hundred years, Grimley Colliery Brass band is as old as the mine. But the miners are now deciding whether to fight to keep the pit open, and the future for town and band looks bleak.
Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor
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Thursday 2nd August – Kes, 7.30pm
Rated PG, Tickets £8.00 / Under 18s or non-drinkers £5.00
Tickets include a pint of Yorkshire beer or a nostalgic soft drink with a slice of Yorkshire Parkin to enjoy with the film!
Acclaimed drama from director Ken Loach following a young boy from a working-class Northern town who begins training a falcon to find relief from his problems. A cult classic for many tykes!
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Friday 3rd August – The Full Monty, 7.30pm
Rated 15, Tickets £8.00 / Under 18s or non-drinkers £5.00
Tickets include a 20cl bottle of Prosecco or a nostalgic Yorkshire soft drink & popcorn to enjoy with the film!
The once-successful steel mills of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, have shut down and after losing his job and desperate for money, Gaz his friend Dave decided to create their own male strip-tease act. The group promises that their show will succeed because they are willing to go “the Full Monty”: completely naked! Starring: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy
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Saturday 4th August – Chicken Run, 11 am
Rated U, Tickets £6.50 / Under 18s £5
Family Ticket – £15.00
Tickets include a Yorkshire ice cream tub to enjoy with the film!
Mrs Tweedy and Mr Tweedy operate a meagre poultry farm in Yorkshire which is far from pleasant for the inmates. Ginger’s various attempts at escape have failed due to the lethargy and downright incompetence of her fellow prisoners, but when Rocky – the famous Flying Rooster – crash lands in the farm, she sees the chance she has been waiting for!
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Saturday 4th August – The Railway Children, 2 pm
Rated U, Tickets £8.00 / Under 18s £6.00
Family Ticket – £20.00
Includes a picnic bag lunch to enjoy with the film!
Originally released in 1970, inspired by the Edith Nesbit novel; after the enforced absence of their father, three children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where during their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance. A much loved classic!
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Saturday 4th August – The Calendar Girls, 7.30pm
Rated 12, Tickets £8.50 / Under 18s or non-drinkers £4.50
Includes a 20cl bottle of Prosecco and cupcake to enjoy with the film!
Calendar Girls is a humorous and inspiring dramatisation of the true story of the Yorkshire Women’s Institute members who stripped for a charity calendar to raise funds for a local leukaemia unit, where a friends husband was treated until his death. A Yorkshire gem starring Julie Walters & Helen Mirren
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Sunday 5th August – The Secret Garden, 2 pm
Rated U, Tickets £6.50 / Under 18s £5.00
Family Ticket £15.00
Includes a cup of tea and a traditional fat rascal to enjoy with the film!
Bringing the Francis Hodgson Burnett classic to the big screen! Mary Lennox is the young orphan sent to stay with her uncle in a forbidding mansion. She not only discovers an invalid cousin she never knew she had but also a secret garden in need of repair. Fun Fact: Yorkshire’s Allerton Castle was used for most of the exterior shots of Misselthwaite Manor.
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Coming to a few film screenings? Buy our film pass and save up to £10! Cost: £22.50 for any four films!
Tickets available to buy online through the ‘Find Tickets’ link above.
Box office situated in the Tourist Information Centre
Open 10am – 4pm, Monday to Saturday
Phone orders welcome – 01756 792809
Skipton Town Hall is committed to ensuring all customers can participate and enjoy our events; visitors who need someone to accompany them to access an event or performance can get a free carer ticket for their companion. Please call our Box Office team on 01756 792809 to request the ticket.
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