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York Beer Festival 2008?
Beer Festival Blues
York CAMRA Beer Festival WON’T be held this year at the Priory Street Centre off Micklegate. We’ve been informed that a meeting of key members of staff and York Council for Voluntary Services (CVS) managers decided that “the beer festival had outgrown the venue and the event was no longer suited to the core work of York CVS or the direction that Priory Street Centre has taken in recent years”. This is a very disappointing decision for us, especially as the centre’s manager goes on to say “I have found CAMRA members to be extremely co-operative, with events that have been very well organised and managed, and I would not hesitate in offering positive feedback to any future host venue”. While the Centre wasn’t ideal, it had a lot going for it and this decision puts us in the all too familiar position of trying to find somewhere else in good time for this year’s event. We need somewhere with a capacity of over 300, ideally in a central location, that we can hire at a rea-sonable rate for the best part of a week; if you know anywhere that might be suitable, please contact our chairman Stuart Barkworth.
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