It comes days after York City Football Club’s triumph at Wembley in the FA Trophy final and in the week of their do-or-die play-off final against Luton Town.

The meeting of the Council Planning Committee took place today at the Park Inn Hotel and saw those in support and opposition to the plans speaking up publicly before the decision was made.

The Community Stadium is a £17 million sweetener for the shopping development put on the table by Oakgate (Monks Cross) Limited, a subsidiary of Whetherby-based property developers Oakgate Group Plc.

Manager of York City Football Club, Gary Mills, lodged his support in a letter to the council’s Planning Department, writing: “This development is vital to support York’s professional and amateur sports clubs, providing a new, modern 6,000 stadium and community facilities.

“The continued professional status of York City Football Club depends on the approval of this application and I believe a new community stadium would help us reach our full potential and create a secure future for the Club.”

Mills stressed the that “football is a very positive force” and that a “successful football club clearly brings increased pride and morale to the local community.”

The plans for the Monks Cross expansion have however been refused and a further meeting is being held to discuss the prospect next week.

More details will follow in the coming days.

Over 150 guests including the civic party, councillors and council officers will attend the Annual Council Meeting on Thursday 24 May.

During the annual meeting a new Lord Mayor will be officially appointed – heralding a new civic year in which 800 years of local democracy will be celebrated through York800.

Councillor Keith Hyman will be sworn in to office and will take over from the current Lord Mayor, Councillor David Horton. Councillor Paul Firth will take over the role of Sheriff from Mr Alan Deller who has supported the Lord Mayor over the last year.

The ceremony will be held in the Guildhall starting at 11am. At the end of the ceremony the new civic party will emerge from the Guildhall and process through the city centre, accompanied by the York Waits and the York Guard. There will be eight members of the York Guard, including their standard bearer and seven halberdiers.

Councillors and Honorary Aldermen will be dressed in robes, and Kersten England, Chief Executive of City of York Council, and Bill Woolley, Deputy Chief Executive will be attending in their capacity of Town Clerk and Deputy Town Clerk.

Along the procession, the party will pause briefly at the new public space arena on Parliament Street (opposite Marks and Spencer) where Kersten England will read a proclamation to mark the special occasion, heralding in the new civic party and the start of the new civic and municipal year.

A local school band will also play a specially selected piece of music to welcome the new Lord Mayor.

Following the event in Parliament Street the civic procession will continue to the Merchant Adventurers Hall to continue the celebrations with a private luncheon.

After several millenia of carvings and paintings of curvaceous women, with cinema and the catwalk comes a new image of the perfect woman. The heroine in the movie is supposed to be the woman the audience wants to be. But more than a character, the actress playing a role is first of all an everyday-woman with her strengths and weaknesses. However, media and tabloid-gossip magazines think it is their job to show the actual person behind the screen image.

But does the media really have the right to define the perfect woman, mostly when they show her as skinny or retouched? Despite the battle of who is the skinniest of the celebrities, perhaps it should be the role of society to reassert what our image of “the perfect woman” is. Nowadays, the average dress size of women is said to be 14, so why do media daily show skinny women as supposedly the most attractive and “normal”, when questions of beauty aside it is anything but the norm?

Scarlett Johansson, a beautiful and unashamedly curvy woman, has now entered the battle of the size of beauty. Tired of reading silly articles about herself, she reacted in the Huffington Post to spark a new debate on the subject. Enjoying some “naughty food” occasionally, Scarlett extols the gym and a balanced diet to stay in shape but admits everybody comes with a different size and not everybody can become skinny.

“Curvy” in the eyes of Hollywood, she is in reality a petite woman, and has never seen the necessity to watch her weight too much. Even so, the media seem to associate Scarlett with funny nonexistent diets, telling readers she managed to loose 14 pounds to which she responded, “If I were to lose 14 pounds, I’d have to part with both arms. And a foot.”

Willing to help the thousands of people fighting anorexia and bulimia, Scarlett would like media to become an ally helping people towards a healthier lifestyle rather than pushing them trying radical diets. ‘In shape’ should be associated with a healthy body size, not long-suffering regime of constant diet. The image the media convey of the average woman should be fair and not limited only to skinny or fake photoshopped women.

My native France became a player in this battle as TV shows about confidence and fashion have become normal, and adverts and bill-boards showing curvy and plump women are everywhere. For the last few years, people have even had the chance to vote for a Plump Miss France, but let’s admit it is still discreet and the official Miss France will never been allowed to have peanut butter for breakfast!

Still, the idea is growing and even New York Fashion week decided to include the Plus Size to their styles in order to let all sizes add their creations directly into their wardrobes. Even though it is a step forward, the fact that curvaceous women are still apart and not seen as the norm in the media means that the battle is far from being over.

‘Skittles’ was a break out show at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe festival. Called “funny and wise” by the Observer and “witty and ingenious” by the Telegraph, Richard has become something of an underground celebrity. However, such success did not come overnight. ‘Skittles’ started life as a 3 minutes spot in an open mike night at the BAC (Battersea Arts Centre). From there, he performed all over; at Scratch Nights and ‘The Nursery’ in Waterloo to name a few. Richard, primarily a playwright had told me that he had never performed before. Although enjoying the flexibility and freedom that solo performing granted, he was still terrified. Finally, Mr Marsh built up the necessary material, finances and courage to take his show to the Fringe.

“Edinburgh was like a month long office and sales job, with an hour of poetry a day,” Marsh tells me. His first audience was only 11 strong, and anyone who has been to Edinburgh Festival will understand the effort that it must have taken to attract that modest audience. For one month Marsh handed out fliers to anyone who would take one, come rain or shine or confused Japanese tourists. Marsh reflected that “The whole experience was emotionally, artistically and financially draining.” Nevertheless, Richard persevered and left Edinburgh with glowing reviews a plenty and enough cred that he was talented stopped by York’s Takeover team, and his now coming to our own fair city.

Richard is a “big fan of anything that gets younger people to participate in the arts.” He is very keen to give credit to those who have helped him along the way. He talks about the support he received from Chris Redmond from the BAC, Tim Roseman who was his first director and Dan Coleman who directed the Edinburgh Show. It is through the support of people and places like the BAC, The Nursery and Theatre 503, (where Richard was a resident) that new talent is fostered. Festivals like the Fringe and of course York Takeover are the perfect proving ground for these young artists.

Richard Marsh inspirations are not quite what you would expect. Jay Z and Kanye West are big influences on his easy rhyming style. It is this very style that has given Skittles and his other works have their reputation for charm and warmth without becoming too Richard Curtisy. Indeed, he is acclaimed for his realistic portrait of a relationship in decline, not manufacturing ‘happy endings’.  Marsh said that good poetry and good love stories are born out of genuine human emotion and experiences. On the other hand, bad poetry is just based on words, and bad love stories are based on “Good looking women falling over.”

Richard will be performing ‘Skittles’ on the 06/06/12 at the York Theatre Royal Studio. He is also planning on taking another show to Edinburgh call “Dirty Great Love Story,” which he has co-written with fellow poet Katie Bonna. Another love story, it tells the tales of two lovers who first meet while out on a Stag and Hen do.

Keep your eyes out for a full review of ‘Skittles’ coming soon.

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The Worry Box is a physical performance that delves into the themes of childhood struggle and disability by working closely with those who are affected by its realities.

Shazam Theatre are Charlotte Swanborough and Samantha Hutchinson who, through their practise, aim to create moving pieces of theatre driven by their work creating workshops and miniature performances for children.

‘We believe that children should experience quality and diverse programmes that allows them to escape, feel free and be part of a fun, energetic group. We aim to deliver and engage children the best quality of work.’ – Shazam Theatre

Shazam Theatre has also teamed up with the SIBS organisation (http://www.sibs.org.uk/). Alongside SIBS they aim to create workshops for the siblings of those with special educational needs.

York St John University | Theatre Studio 4 | 3pm

SOL Theatre.

What does privacy mean in the 21^st century?

What percentage of our days is free from the glare of the ubiquitous CCTV camera?

What rights to privacy do we have left?

En Privé by SOL Theatre attempts to answer some of these questions by placing you in the role of voyeur.

Made up of artists Fiona Walker, Chloe Meads and Lisa Adams SOL Theatre uses the audience as a major influence throughout their creative process aiming to push themselves and their performative boundaries.

Are you sitting comfortably?

York St John University | Theatre Studio 3 |  5pm

Two Yellow Birds

Two lab rats dissatisfied with their appearance after being restrained for so long in their working environment, decide to conduct a chain of zany but grotesque experiments to perform on one another. Through these different trials, they begin to comprehend the true nature of life itself and each other’s existence.

This eccentric company manifests work that attempts to push boundaries mentally and physically.

‘As a pair we rely on one another and throughout our creative process, we aim to produce theatre of a contemporary relevance.’ –Two Yellow Birds

The companies policy brings our own and society’s daily life to the forefront in order to create performance that is influenced by abstract and naturalistic theatre which juxtapose throughout physical movement and script based material.

Two Yellow Birds are Bridget Townsley and Catherine Rennison

York St John University | Theatre Studio 1 | 7:30pm & 9:45pm

With its tall stone buildings and narrow cobbled streets, walking the village is like taking a step back to the Bronte era. Yet it is not the village alone which holds the most fame, walking away from the streets and stone you will be led past Lower Laithe Reservoir and once past this, the adventure can begin.

Behind the Haworth you can find the picturesque Bronte Falls, the Bronte Bridge and the renowned Bronte Stone Chair, in which it is rumoured the sisters sat in to write the original stories. If this walk is continued along the right path, up on to the moors, the eventual destination will be that of Top Withens. Now a bleak ruin, it is said that this was the setting for Heathcliff’s moor top home in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering heights.

As well as its long routed Bronte history the village also boasts many more attractions, with such things like its steam railway and a great amount of its own local history. For a day out that will both inspire and enlighten Haworth village is a great destination.

Fast forward to a Wednesday night otherwise defined by the monsoon-like weather York appeared to be incurring, nothing appeared to have stopped ticket-holders from venturing into the depths of the cavernous Duchess to spend an intimate evening with a band whom for the best part of a decade have played some of the biggest festivals in the world.

Before the near capacity Duchess crowd could get their Maximo-fix, up first were Manchester indie-stars Dutch Uncles. As ever a warm and incredibly modest set from the Mancunian five-piece appeared to go down incredibly. The band also sought the opportunity to introduce some of their newer material from a yet to be named upcoming release to be expected later this year. With a couple of songs that appeared to encourage some welcomed crowd movement, (certainly within the first few rows at least), Dutch Uncles appeared to have also dried the some what soaked Duchess crowd out as well as warming them for the headliner to follow.

After the sufficient shuffling and sound-checking of the relevant paraphernalia on stage, the in-house PA was silenced and with the lights lowered. Four silhouettes made their way from the backstage area and assumed their relevant positions, hastily followed by an un-mistakable fifth, wearing a now trademark bowler hat. Opening with “When I WasWild” and “National Health” from the bands upcoming album of the same name, Paul and the boys wasted no time at all invoking their signature energetic onstage antics. Having opened with two “new” tracks, a short quip from Smith, (regarding a hypothetical “Duchess versus Fibbers rivalry”) was followed by fan favorite “Graffiti”. At this point the crowd very much so appeared to be putty the hands of these clearly very capable Geordie rockers. The night was theirs to do with what they pleased, and so they did; littering the rest of the set with a healthy combination of material from the previous studio albums as well as a handful of further insights into their next LP. Despite a live absence over the last eighteen months, it appeared that seemed that Maximo Park can still do no wrong in the eyes of their live audiences, if tonight was anything to go by.

As well as the house itself, Nunnington Hall boasts incredible grounds, with its amazing, walled organic garden. The gardens are open giving you the ability to take a gentle stroll around the grounds and picturesque location. You may also be interested in finding out more about the fruit grown in the grounds and even giving the chance for you to learn how to grow it best yourself. Also you may brighten up your day by the opportunity to meet the local residents, the manor’s own peacocks.

With such dreamy surroundings it wouldn’t be difficult to lose yourself in escape and forget there is more to be seen inside the manor. Each room visited will open up new questions and realms for exploration, every one displaying their contributions from the owners over the years. Also, if you venture up to the attic you will be greeted by a rich display of miniature rooms, one of the finest collections around.

If, after all this you then need a sit down and relax Nunnington Hall offers its visitor’s splendid tea rooms, with charming seating alongside the river. With so much to offer for both adults and children Nunnington Hall is a great place to visit for the day or simply use as a peaceful getaway from the troubles of city life.

By car Nunnington Hall is on the A170 Helmsley to Pickering road; 1½ miles north of Malton to Helmsley road (B1257); 21 miles north of York, via B1363.

Inspire Day aims to allow everyone across the UK to get ready for the Olympic and Paralympic games and although the games are due to be based in London there is great encouragement for all to be involved. Events and projects across the country have been given the London 2012 Inspired stamp of approval for helping to bring the spirit of games to local community’s towns and villages.

There have been several organisations in York have taken up the challenge of participating in this day with motivating projects being created and receiving the stamp of approval. They are as follows:

• Today’s Youth: Tomorrows Leaders – North Yorkshire Sport
• Let it Row, Let it Row – York High School
• York Enterprise 2012: Ready, steady, GROW – University of York
• Sporting Giants – City of York Council
• Celebrating Ability Day – City of York Council
• Sports Club Open Days – City of York Council
• 50+ Games – City of York Council

These projects will enable a number of great things to take place around the city ranging from getting young children excited and involved in sports such as rowing, to almost 30 four metre high biochemical puppets, which have been created by York’s Primary schools. Sonja Crisp, York Council’s cabinet member for Leisure, Culture and Tourism said, ‘The Inspire Marked projects help spread the spirit and legacy of the Olympic movement to all parts of Great Britain.

York has an abundance of talented and committed individuals and organisations who richly deserve their Inspire Marks. Their projects add to the health, wellbeing and fun of life in York as well as helping establish a lasting legacy of committed participants and volunteers for the future.’

There is no doubt that Inspire Day will promote a great range of sports and activities around the city for all to get involved in, from young to old. The day offers a chance to raise the health and welfare of York and simply just to have fun. So why not get active and join in?

‘We live in a world where identity is vital.’ – SnapShot Theatre

SnapShot Theatre are Kim Mellor and Charlotte Wetherill, who, using dance, music and verbatim theatre aim to challenge the social aesthetics of young people.

‘Opening the door numbered 84 allowed us to speak out for the young voices that are not normally received well in our community’

The media and society often scapegoat children of a certain age, silencing their voice which can sometimes lead to terrible consequences.

SnapShot Theatre aim to give them back their voice.

York St John University | Theatre Studio 4  | 4pm

Allitterate Theatre Presents Two Sides of The Muffin (A Power Play)

Two Sides of The Muffin (A Power Play) is a performance installation created by artists Laura Howley and Emma Shaw, their work examines and explores the issues surrounding domestic abuse using elements of dark comedy, character exploration and multiple narrative to help, inform and educate audiences, now and in the future.

‘Delving into the reported and unreported stories if those of both genders we intend to heighten awareness of situations that may arise in an abusive domestic world.’ – Allitterate Theatre

York St John University | Arts Workshop | 5pm

 59 Embers Presents The Beach

The Beach is an epic theatre performance for all ages. Delving into traditional British Seaside nostalgia, the piece revolves around a female protagonist as she take us on a journey through her costal memories.

A combination of multimedia and naturalistic performance, The Beach explores authorship, addressing the relationship between memories and their owner.

‘We aim to investigate whether memories can be lost and buried, or, if like the tide, they will always be there.’ – 59 Embers

York St John University | Theatre Studio 1 | 7:30pm

On Tuesday 8 May 2012 24 year-old performance artist Jacqueline Traide was dragged into a shop window by a man in a white suit. She was attached to a leash and kitted out in a skin-coloured body suit.

This wasn’t in Soho and it wasn’t some kinky attempt at titillating passers-by into a massage parlour however. This was on Regent Street and an attempt to raise public awareness about animal testing and reduce the apathy that has for the most part seen only special interest groups be actively involved in challenging it.

Part-way between a protest and performance art, the actress played the part of an animal, replaced by a human, who was subject to testing for the cosmetics industry. All the techniques on display were real representations of practice although for obvious reasons no real harm was caused to the actress. Subjected to force-feeding, saline injections and irritancy tests the 10-hour live ‘test’ was designed to shock people into action.

The shop responsible for this was Lush, a business no stranger to protest. In the past the chain of shops has directed and advised staff on the corporation’s latest protest and encouraged them to publicise it in their local branches. Lush in York has previously demonstrated about immigration restrictions where all staff handed out fake passports on Coney Street, and against fox-hunting where staff dressed as foxes and handed out leaflets in support of the Hunt Saboteurs.

A self-proclaimed socially responsible enterprise, Lush has been brave as a multi-national company to marginalise itself from many potential consumers by aligning with a number of minority radical groups and movements, and has been no stranger to criticism as a result.

Notwithstanding previous efforts this is perhaps the cosmetic shop’s most daring stunt yet, and aside from the commentaries about the role of women as marketing tools and submissive slaves (which arguably is far from the point in question), the debate has once again been reinvigorated via international and local media as to the role of animals in laboratory testing.

As ever the debate is a mixed-bag of opinions. There are those who argue that there is no place for multi-national corporations to test their cosmetic products on defenseless animals who suffer at the hands of human vanity, and there are those who support it as a viable alternative to horrendous potential effects on humans who use un-tested products. There are even those who criticise Lush’s own practice arguing that they can at times themselves be unethical and profit-focussed, and may be point-scoring against their nearest competitor The Body Shop.

Interestingly the EU banned the testing of cosmetics and cosmetic products on animals in 1993 but the final piece of legislation, that of banning the sale of any animal tested goods outright, still remains un-passed leaving European companies free to order their testing to be done outside the EU. Fighting Animal Testing, the campaign backed by Lush in this demonstration, aims to pressure law-makers into passing this final piece of statute.

An important point to note at this stage is that this campaign is specifically about cosmetic testing not medicinal testing, and whilst some justification could be made for the trialling of medicines on animals, the argument is harder to win when it comes to moisturisers and make-up.

We may all recall the ill-fated medical experiment of 2006 where six ‘human guinea pigs’ almost died when their bodies reacted violently to an anti-inflammatory drug that ironically had the reverse affect, and we may be aware that Nazi Germany ordered similar testing to take place on Jews. There are those who argue that this lends some credence to animal testing, but on the other side of the metaphorical coin there are those opposed to all animal testing entirely by arguing that cruelty against defenseless animals can never be justified. There are also those who haven’t tossed the metaphorical coin but sit on the proverbial fence in saying that animal testing is a necessary evil, or at best the lesser of two evils.

Why not join the debate here on One&Other and have you say on the matter.

The four learning disabled players, Laura Campbell, Matthew Wreglesworth, Emma Lindsay and Cameron Long, will train at York Tennis Club, Shipton Road under coach Bev Cairns, and will then compete against German and Swiss tennis teams in singles and mixed doubles.

York’s tennis team will be part of the Special Olympics Great Britain delegation led by Paul Ramskill, City of York Council’s Everybody Active Targeted Programme Co-ordinator. The players will leave York on Sunday 20 May to join team mates from Special Olympics Surrey who is sending a four-strong ten-pin bowling team of Jonathan Frett, Michael Lines, Scott Hastings and Hilary Thomas and their coach Alan Howe.

Councillor Sonja Crisp, City of York Council’s Cabinet member for Leisure, Culture and Tourism said, “I’m so proud of the skill, determination and achievement of York’s Special Olympics team: they’re fantastic ambassadors for York. I hope they have a wonderful experience and wish them every success.”

The Games will includes athletes from Austria competing in athletics and cycling, other Swiss teams competing in equestrian, tennis and judo sports, and from France who will be playing football.

Today is the first ever National Flash-Fiction Day. Most of us have never heard of Flash Fiction and that’s presumably why the movement is holding its first ever national day. First coined back in 1992 as the title to an anthology of very short stories, the name Flash Fiction has since stuck to a movement that specialises in very, very short stories.

The master of the pared down story, Earnest Hemingway once wrote a short story in just six words, ’For sale: baby shoes, never worn’. It’s a wonderful lesson in just how short a story can be, and with the age of 140 character Tweets squarely upon us, now surely is the ideal time to embrace the idea that length in literature surely isn’t everything?

From Chekov to Cheever, there are so many excellent short stories published in various lengths and the Flash Fiction movement doesn’t seem to specify an exact word limit but instead seems more a celebration of the shorter end of fictional writing. From six words to 1,000 they don’t seem too fussed, it’s the idea of telling a story in as few words as possible that appeals.

So to do our bit in the cause of celebrating the medium of short fiction we’d like you to submit your own short stories in the comments section below. We’re not looking for any half million War & Peace style behemoths, but more like Hemmingway’s six word masterpiece.

You can take a look at the Flash Fiction Facebook page here and please let us know if you are holding any Flash Fiction events tomorrow.

To celebrate National Flash Fiction Day here are some of our favourite short stories below.

The Swimmer by John Cheever – A wonderful short story of off-kilter realism set in suburban America that plays on the Greek myth of Narcissus.  Cheever writes about a young man who sets off one boozy Sunday afternoon on a mission to swim home via all the swimming pools on route.  There is a luminous sadness that remains long after the story has ended and the Autumn leaves are gathering on the pool: “In the space of an hour, more or less, be had covered a distance that made his return impossible.”

The Lady With The Little Dog by Anton Chekov – Possibly the master of the form, Chekov couldn’t write a bad short story if he tried and this is no exception. A Russian banker meets a young lady he while on holiday in Yalta and their relationship grows into an affair. Separated after their trip they pine for each other before eventually meeting again in Moscow. The story ends with the realisation that they are in love but the story is ultimately unresolved as to how their love will survive reality: ”It was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog.”

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – A startling piece of early feminist fiction this short story revolves around a woman confined to her bedroom due to her nervous depression and eventual psychosis. The room is decorated with the yellow wallpaper of the title and the narrator slowly descends further and further into madness while confined in the room. The novella has been interpreted as a critique of mental health treatment, a feminist work, and even a ghost story: “It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw – not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. But there is something else about that paper – the smell! … The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell.”

Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly by David Eggers -  A woman climbs Kilimanjaro to improve her self-confidence after an unexplained personal crisis, as the weather on the mountain turns ugly the story of how her children were taken away from her slowly comes through the  narrative. Eggers’ prose is technically superb and his ear for dialogue is at times incredible. A piece of sad beauty this story alone show’s there is more to Eggers than stylistic game playing: “Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.”

The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James – Perhaps the scariest short story ever, this gothic masterpiece by the American master is a classic. When a young nanny arrives at a country pile to look after two young children, all seems well. But as with any great ghost story things gradually turn increasingly sinister as the evil seems to surround the nanny and two children. The story is open to various interpretations, but the one thing that is without dispute is the growing sense of unease and dread as James slowly turns the screw: “No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear.”

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemmingway – One of the masters of the form, Hemmingway excels in this very short story of absolute simplicity. Two characters, one man, one woman, are on a platform in Spain, waiting for a train to Madrid. The story is basically made up of their conversation in which they seem to be discussing an abortion without ever using the word ‘abortion’. It’s a masterclass in not revealing too much about the characters but instead letting the reader use their imagination. Not a lot happens but it works its way into your subconsciousness over the few pages it lasts: “Yes,” said the girl. “Everything tastes like licorice. Especially all the things you’ve waited so long for, like absinthe.” 

The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges – A multi-layered story, this short work is an excellent way to get acquainted with the Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet. The story involves spies, a novel that is also an infinite labyrinth, the forking of time, and a mediation on the reality that every action we take slightly alters the course of everything. Described as an elaborate hypertext Borges was so far ahead of his time that we haven’t even got close to catching up with him yet: “This web of time — the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries — embrace every possibility.”

A Small, Good Thing by Raymond Carver – An eight-year-old boy dies three days after being hit by a car as he walks to school. In beautifully clean and minimalist language utterly free of pretence Carver shows the grief of the parents and their argument over a misunderstanding with a baker who was baking a birthday cake for the boy. As Carver himself said, the story revolves around ‘dialogue between people who aren’t listening to each other’, and like the very best short stories, it contains multitudes and is deeply affecting while seemingly dealing with the barest of surface details. Short stories don’t come much better than this: “Then he began to talk. They listened carefully. Although they were tired and in anguish, they listened to what the baker had to say. They nodded when the baker began to speak of loneliness, and of the sense of doubt and limitation that had come to him in his middle years.”

Three Sides Theatre Presents The Create 12 Experiment

King’s Square, York | Tuesday 15th May | 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Community Theatre Company Three Sides Theatre are holding a live event in the heart of York City Centre. They invite you to join them on one of their many sofas, so make yourself comfortable and be part of this unique experience. Their work is cathartic with no gimmicks or underlying purpose other than to give back to the public.

‘Whether you want to have a chat with us, a friend or relax and have a daydream everyone is welcome.’ – Three Sides Theatre.

For information or to book tickets for of the shows featured at Create12 visit here.