The poster for Navigators Art’s Back To The Garden event at The Basement, City Screen Picturehouse
NAVIGATORS Art has invited York performers to celebrate and explore the 2026 York Festival of Ideas theme of Place and Space with a focus on the peaceful, wild, mythical, inspirational green worlds of gardens.
Original words and music feature alongside well-loved works by familiar names in the company of storyteller Lara McClure; Mike Amber & Lola-Mae, taking on Joni Mitchell’s Woodstock; poet and novelist Janet Dean and performance poet Carrieanne Vivianette, exploring words and sounds.
Sofa Sofa: Songs rooted in nature and people, woods, weather, long walks, short thoughts, longing and love
Taking part too will be alt folk band Sofa Sofa (Charley, vocals, guitar, harmonium;
Rich, guitar, vocals, bells, synths; Ayse, violin; Filipe, cello, and Adam, drums/percussion), whose songs are rooted in nature and people, woods, weather, long walks, short thoughts, longing and love.
Box office: ticketsource.com/navigators-art-performance or on the door from 7pm. The venue is fully accessible.
Back To The Garden headliner Lara McClure