Author: Ada

This morning Ada had the pleasure of visiting the Children’s Centre at York Hospital.

We also visited St Leonard’s Hospice to do an interview with YO1 Radio.

We pre-recorded a second interview last week on BBC Radio York for the Daytimes show with Joanita Musisi, and today it was broadcast. Ada invited artist Lincoln Lightfoot to attend as he is the guest artist at the opening event (Tuesday 18th February 11AM). We love Joanita, she’s so full of energy and got the…

The article by Alice Kavanagh, was published in print and online today.

Today the YorKAOS committee headed into the city centre for an interview with York Hospital Radio. Sharon Ward hosted an amazing conversation with Ada, Seth and Mabel.

We’ll be ending YorKAOS with excitement! Famous children’s book artist Emily Sutton is joining us for our closing day celebrations.

Ada could think of no better artist to open YorKAOS than Lincoln Lightfoot (lincolnlightfoot.com), his work shows dinosaurs fighting over the Angel Of The North, King “Geordie” Kong attacking York Minster – images that young artists can be inspired by! Back in July 2024, Ada went to see Rise Of The Vandals exhibition, she loved…

This afternoon we met Matty Lewis the head of Fortus Foundation, it was a great opportunity for Matty to talk Ada and the committee to understand how the idea of YorKAOS started and all of the effort put in so far. Ada, Seth and Mabel work well as a team, answering Matty’s many question about…

Ada met with the fundraising team at St Leonard’s Hospice to chat about the exhibition. St Leonard’s Hospice is one of the three charities that the sale of the artwork is supporting. The hospice will be holding a raffle for two hampers on Saturday 22nd, the last day of the exhibition. Ada is no stranger…

Today Ada and Seth were interviewed by Alice Kavanagh for York Press.