Welcome to the Easingwold Galtres Centre
Reception and Box Office, Tel. 01347 822472
Market Square, Easingwold YO61 3AE
The Galtres Centre is Easingwold's community centre. It is established in a large building at the south-east corner of the Market Square in the heart of Easingwold. The Centre is a registered charity run almost entirely by volunteers. Rooms in the Centre can be hired by the hour for meetings, functions or entertainments and there is a wide regular programme of events which are listed in the events section of this website and also in the Easingwold Advertiser available locally.
Newcomers to Easingwold are welcome to call at the Centre to see the facilities that are available. The office is open from 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday, while the Centre is normally available for use until 10 pm - or later by arrangement. Tea and coffee are served in the lounge on Friday mornings, and a full catering service and bar can be provided for functions if required.
Once a Victorian Manse, now significantly extended, redeveloped and revitalised over the years into a multipurpose meeting centre, a brand new entertainment centre for concerts, shows and presentations, a puropse built fitness suite and a large community sports hall.
With a rifle range, outdoor all weather floodlit pitches, landscaped gardens and a licensed bar, the Galtres Centre is truly a modern facility for which the Easingwold area can be proud!
A fuller history of the Galtres Cerntre can be found here.
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A Centre for Quality Entertainment!
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Theatre Productions
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2010 Spring Program
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Click here for the latest news from our Galtres Entertainment Centre!
The Galtres - A Centre for Sporting Activities and Keeping Fit!
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A Cinema on your doorstep!
The 14 feet square screen and superb sound has now made the centre a popular venue to come and see a film. Warm surroundings and the chance to leave your car at home. Because the aim is to bring the very latest films to the GEC, the dates and the film to be shown can only be seen by posters, flyers, and local newspapers, or contacting The Galtres Box Office, Tel. 01347 822472.
Most films are shown both at 2.00pm during the day and the same evening at 7.30pm
Latest News at the GEC! - March 5th 2010
The Galtres Entertainment Centre, Easingwold, is about to embark on a very busy week of varied events. Wednesday, March 10th at 7:30pm and TV producer of the BBC series "Life", Dr. Martha Holmes will present an illustrated talk on the making of this fascinating programme. She has worked on some of the best known natural history series, from "Life in the Freezer', "Blue Planet", "Nile", and for the past four years she has been leading the team producing the most ambitious animal behaviour series - "Life".
The talk will be about the programme and about the extreme behaviour and extraordinary ends that animals and plants go to in order to survive. It documents 'survival of the fittest' in their battle against daily life and her talk will be illustrated with superb footage on the large fourteen feet square screen. Illustrated with short clips, she describes moments in her career which have given her the most personal fulfilment, scenes which have been the most challenging technically. She will be signing copies of the "Life" book reduced to £15, and tickets are on sale from the Galtres box office £12 for adults and £8 for children. In complete contrast,
Saturday, March 13th at 7:30pm. and York Musical Theatre Company present "Some Sunny Day", a tribute to Dame Vera Lynn and Women in War. Dame Vera's spirit and verve, along with her ability to connect with the men fighting for their country and those left behind praying for their loved ones, made her the 'Forces Sweetheart'. Hear again the songs that she will always be associated with, such as "We'll Meet Again" and "Yours", re-live the many 'hits from the blitz' with heart rending songs, plus amusing monologues, sketches, and stirring speeches of the day. Tickets £8 for adults and £5 for children from the Galtres box office.
Sunday, March 14th at 7:30pm and the final event in the busy week is a new play "The Wreckers" written by Tom Needham, writer of TV series such as Silent Witness, Cold Blood. Clap Trap theatre will be presenting this four-hander ghost story and tells of a cottage by the sea built from a boat sunk deliberately by wreckers, but what if the ship's timbers still held the memory of what happened? Tickets for this play are the same as The Vera Lynn story.
March 1, 2010
"LETTICE AND LOVAGE"
The Easingwold Players are presenting Alan Ayckbourn's fascinating play for all ages "The Boy Who Fell in to a Book" at the Galtres Centre, Easingwold, Wednesday March 3rd to Saturday March 6th inclusive at 7:30pm. including a matinee on the Saturday commencing at 2pm. Tickets, adults £8 children £5, are available on the door or from the Galtres box office, telephone 01347 822472, open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Already plans are in hand for the Players next production, Peter Shaffer's "Lettice and Lovage", to be performed June 16th to 19th inclusive, and a read through where everyone is welcome is arranged for Tuesday March 9th at 7:30pm. and auditions will take place on Thursday, March 11th, same time in the Council Chamber room. The director is David Pike who has many years experience in drama and especially with the Players having taken many parts, but also directed plays in the past. The play, a comedy, was written specifically for Dame Maggie Smith who originated the title role of Lettice Douffet in both the English and American productions.
Staged initially in London in 1987, its two year run of 768 performances counts as one of the longer runs in London theatrical history. The author describes it as a "very English piece', and the play opens as Lettice is showing a group of tourists around Fustian House, an old, dreary, and (as the name suggests) fusty sixteenth century hall. The rain-drenched tourists are clearly bored and miserable, then the scene shifts to a few days later at the same spot where she suddenly becomes filled with inspiration and begins improvising a wildly untrue (yet entertaining) story about the staircase in the hall. The tourists are enraptured by her tale, and as the days go on, her tale becomes even more fanciful and grandiose, only to be summoned to the Trust to have her position reviewed. What happens next, well, either come along to the read through or book now for the play.
