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Theatre, music, food, workshops, special events; under the stars or tented gigs! We are passionate about creatively nourishing our local community and nurturing our artistic community through crafting, developing, curating, and hosting live entertainment, culinary events, and special gatherings here At The Mill. In addition to our big, beautiful Summer At The Mill seasons, numerous individual artistic productions have been created in our studio and performed in our gardens, and we’ve devised and hosted a number of unique pop-ups and special events, including one-off gatherings, shows, and gigs. And we’re always daydreaming, planning, and looking forward to more!
Please scroll down for current and past events, including Summer At The Mill 2023! We look forward to seeing you soon!
Summer At The Mill 2023. Our third annual season of live entertainment, creative and culinary delights, community gatherings, and good times. We’ve had a blast over the last couple of years and we’re so happy to welcome you back to our gardens this year - 2023 Style! With music, theatre, comedy, family entertainment, supper clubs, and special events - and our Café/Bar and delicious fresh-cooked wood-fired pizzas - Summer At The Mill 2023 runs from 29th April to 9th September 2023! We programme our Summer Seasons on a rolling basis, so stay tuned across the warm months, for updates: click on the event title for more info, and be sure to follow our Instagram and Facebook pages (linked in the footer of our website)! You can also join our mailing list by clicking “subscribe”, in the footer of our website too! We look forward to seeing you soon!
Summer At The Mill 2022. Our second-ever full season of entertainment, arts, food, community gatherings, and festival-style fun. Last year’s Summer At The Mill was so incredibly wonderful, we cannot wait to welcome you here again for a gorgeous and eclectic programme of creative and culinary delights. Theatre, children’s shows, music, supper clubs, a whole host of special events; and our pop-up Bar/Café to keep you sustained! Summer At The Mill 2022 runs from 9th April - 4th Sept 2022. Click on the event title for all the info and be sure to follow our Instagram and Facebook pages (linked in our website footer)! We look forward to seeing you very soon!
A small collection of cosy and creative special events to engage in throughout the winter months. Gatherings, food, crafting, live performance. Unique days and nights of festivity and community! Click the event title to find out more about Winter At The Mill 2021!
summer at the mill 2021
Welcome to our inaugural “Summer At The Mill”! A warm season of pop-ups, special events, theatre, music, food, entertainment, and community gatherings. There’s a café, supper clubs, a host of live shows - theatre, music, and more - all accompanied by a pop-up bar and café stocked with local suppliers. It’s all about creative community engagement, with a whole lot of big, big love. Everything is outdoors and run with covid-safe measures in place. We’re so excited to be sharing this season with you! Find out more about Summer At The Mill 2021 by clicking the title above, and by checking out our Instagram and Facebook pages linked in our website footer.
Ollie, Phil + Alex record HM||HB
Crooked Room Studio
HALF MAN || HALF BULL
Created in the studio At The Mill in Stillington and recorded down the road at Crooked Room Studio in Strensall, Half Man || Half Bull is a theatrical listening experience by Alexander Wright and Phil Grainger (the two local creatives who performed Orpheus and Eurydice in the Glade At The Mill in 2020) and their London pal Oliver Tilney. Along with a host of amazing collaborators, they created a narrative-led double-album of music and spoken word, accompanied by a beautiful listening pack. For more info and to purchase the experience, head to the Half Man || Half Bull website linked in the event title.
Phil + Alex | Dell At The Mill |
Charlotte Graham Photography
ORPHEUS & EURYDICE
“Orpheus” and “Eurydice” are two internationally award-winning retellings of Ancient Greek myths, created and woven together by a couple of proudly locally-grown talents: Alexander Wright and Phil Grainger. For a lovely window of time in summer, At The Mill invited our local community to hear the interconnecting stories, told through Alex’s searing spoken word and Phil’s soaring vocals. Gathered in the Glade At The Mill, we shared some beautiful evenings of story-telling and community. There’s definitely more of this to come. You can check out Wright & Grainger on their Instagram page, by clicking the event title.
The Famous Five production poster
The famous five
An adaptation of Enid Blyton's classic stories, this was the first fully-professional cast to perform At The Mill. The show was created, developed and performed in our gardens, before the cast and crew set-off to tour venues and literary festivals across the UK.
A scene from The Tempest
Round the Mill Fire Pit
THE TEMPEST
Our first production At The Mill was a part-professional, part-community promenade performance of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Featuring a cast of 22 local performers and 4 professional actors, the show was made entirely on-site and performed for a week around the gardens.