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It’s BYOVinyl today from 3pm. Come and have a spin x

Tonight @ Rise we’ll have you Jammin all night long to sweeeeet sweet reggae sounds. Doors 6pm x

We’ll be strapping on our world famous time travelling wheeeels and zooming on down to Manchester town in the 90s!!!! Buckle up and get ready to boooogie! It’s resurrection indie night! Doors 6pm

(Disclaimer: the rise arena will not actually be moving through time to Manchester…. You will not have to buckle up… you will have to boogie though!!!!)

We’ve got a couple of sweeeet free entry events this weekend for all you lovers of the disco ball:

Friday —— Resurrection Indie Night
Saturday —— Jammin Reggae Disco

Doors 6pm — tunes from 7pm — dancing from… ALWAYS!!!

Well September has been more than a little eventful at Rise! Wonderful times. But no time to pause for reflection... It's October and we have sooo much more for you to sink your teeth into. Check out everything that's coming up and find tickets at www.bluebirdbakery.co.uk/rise x

What a wonderful week we’ve had at rise! Thanks for supporting all of our events. We’ve got Bring Your Own Vinyl to finish off the month. Today from 3pm

Tomorrow night - follow the call of the disco ball 🪩✨

TOMORROW! Dusko No.3 in Acomb, Olde City. Join our laid-back cafe vibe Saturday night of chat and dance to great all night long till 11pm. We’ve got local DJ’s, one coming out of retirement and the return of Perseus Traxx to end the night on a high.

Then we’re off dance more at the Horse Meat Disco to celebrate their 9th birthday. There’s talk getting a Duskobus. :)

Set list from 6pm................................
Paul Beckett (Dusko.)
Yeastie Boy (Dusko.)
DJ Eric Jensen
DJ Sola
Perseus Traxx


Bring some coins — ‘Donations on door’ all go to support great cause to help local young people find accommodation.

Just look at our walls! Aren’t they beeeeautiful! We had such a blast last night unveiling these spectacular pieces. They will be residing on the rise gallery wall for the next few weeks, so come and see them in all their splendour… you may find yourself walking away from with more than a loaf of bread…

The Rattlers treated us to a proper after show party with their amazing blend of rip roarin folk tunes from around the earthly universe.

Beautiful things happening at rise xx

We’ve got a really exciting week ahead at rise. At bluebird we’ve got more than just bread for you to sink your teeeeth into!

Wednesday we’ve got Rise Up! Our amazing evening of poetry and spoken word. We bring the best poets to our little stage to make you think, drink, laugh and listen. We loooove words! And you will too after a healthy dose of Rise Up!

Thursday 6pm sees the rise wall makeover, as we welcome in some amazing new art for your perusal from .art. This is followed by a live music after party with

Friday we’ve got the amaaaazing baps ‘n’ buns burlesque show. Which has SOLD OUT!

Saturday sees the return of for a night of sweeeeet sweet house music to keep you grooooving (almost) all night… on the door donations to SASH York. 6pm

Sunday it’s BYOVinyl. Take your chance to take the bakery by storm with your breathtaking selections.

Then the bar staff sit down for a moment before we do it alll over again (but different) next week! X

It’s Sunday! So remember to bring your own vinyl down to rise and spin your favourite records. Free drinks for the day’s DJs.

Shout-out to Mat & Ed for a brilliant turn on the decks at last night’s ‘Under the Influence’ (Massive Attack) - we’re looking forward to welcoming them back soon for more musical journeys inspired by bands we love. 👌✨

Tonight is the night! Doors from 6pm. Free entry.

We’ve got our monthly poetry and spoken word evening - Rise Up! - coming on Wednesday 25th September. Tickets go fast for these, so get booked in! Tix @ www.bluebirdbakery.co.uk/rise

Next Thursday (26th) we’re wishing a fond farewell to the current art adorning the bakery walls and welcoming new incumbent Robin GJ. He’s presenting an amazing new body of work. Come and hang out on the opening night (26th) and check out our new walls. 6-9pm.

Robin’s work is a visual diary of his raw experiences exploring the landscape and the power of the elements he encounters. His work also takes inspiration from the indefatigable way in which theelements have shaped the landscape over millennia and how the landscape is at the mercy of the wind, rain and sea.

Robin’s artistic practice can be likened to the 18th century Romantic movement, led by artists such as J.M.W.Turner and John Martin. The Romanticism artists advocated for the appreciation of nature and argued that passion and intuition were crucial, and an artist’s emotions should dictate their artistic approach. They also believed that the natural beauty of the landscape captured on canvas is more than merely an affair of form, but rather something that should evoke a strong emotional response, something that Robin’s work achieves on many levels – don’t forget to bring your umbrella!

In this new body of work, created especially for the RISE gallery, Robin has adapted his approach to explore a very different side of his artistic style.

Whilst retaining the energy that sits at the core of all his work, Robin has been able to express his vision of landscape in a more technically constrained form of expression.

This Saturday we’ve got the fantastic Steve Wynn playing a show for us. Get your tix before they go! Please Please You

We have an evening with Ren Harvieu & Romeo Stodart to look forward to next month - and still a handful of tickets left.

Great Salford singer Ren Harvieu is joined by The Magic Numbers singer-songwriter Romeo Stodart for an intimate duo show at rise in York.

They will be playing much loved songs from their respective catalogues, new songs yet to be heard, perhaps a cheeky cover or two and are open to wherever the night takes them.

>> http://www.pleasepleaseyou.com

BYOVinyl cancelled today due to unforeseen circumstances. Many apologies to those preparing their record collections for the big moment. Back next week x

Tonight! We’ve got the finest Northern Soul in alllllll the Acomb universe tonight from 7pm. Doors at 6pm. Come strut your stuff. Then it’s Tropica vibes on Saturday and BYOVinyl to the bluebird stage on Sunday x

We’ll be welcoming Reg Meuross Music to the bakery stage 08/10/24. Make sure you get booked in for an evening of amazing songs. tix £12adv @ www.bluebirdbakery.co.uk/rise

Wednesday 25th September we have our monthly poetry and spoken word evening RISE UP! We’ve got the amazing Malika Booker, Lillian Akampurira Aujo & Rachel Bower joining us this time. Tix @ www.bluebirdbakery.co.uk/rise

Malika Booker, a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage, lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University, and co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (A writer’s collective). She is published with the Poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in The Penguin Modern Poet Series 3 (2017). A Cave Canem Fellow, A Complete Works fellow, inaugural Poet in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company, awarded the Cholmondeley Award (2019) for outstanding contribution to poetry and elected a Royal Society of Literature Fellow (2022). She is the first woman to win the Forward Prize for Best Single poem twice: The Little Miracles (2020) and Libation (2023).

Lillian Akampurira Aujo is a poet and fiction writer from Uganda, currently based in Leeds. She is the recipient of the Jalada Prize for Literature. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Gerald Kraak Award and the 2018 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award, and longlisted for the 2018 Nommo Award. Her writing has been published by Adda (the Commonwealth writers website), HarperVia, New Internationalist, Prairie Schooner, Transition Magazine, Jalada Africa, Jacana Literary Foundation, among others.

Rachel Bower is a poet and fiction writer based in Sheffield. Her debut novel, It Comes from the River will be published by Bloomsbury in January 2025. She is also the author of two poetry collections and an academic book on literary letters. Rachel's poems and stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including The London Magazine, The White Review, Magma and Stand. Her work is represented by Curtis Brown.

We’ve got Tropica this Saturday, bringing sunshine sounds to your weekend. It’s the last Tropica set of the year so make sure you get down to Acomb to get down! Doors at 6pm

We’ve got our ever popular Northern Soul/Motown night coming up this Friday. Get yourself to old Acomb town and hit the rise dance floor. Doors from 6pm x

Remember it’s bring your own vinyl day at rise. Come and hide from the grey skies in our ever blue bakery. Extra points for playing Bobby D’s Shelter From the Storm!

Bring back the summer with some sweeeet sweeeet reggae vibes TONIGHT at rise from 7pm. Doors at 6pm x