Creative Kirklees newsletter

Here is the latest Creative Kirklees newsletter, including events, opportunities and news, for my followers to peruse:

Top Rated This Week Individual: New Orleans Wiggle / New Orleans Wiggle Jazz Band Business: 6 million+ / Charitable Trust Place: Co Up. Creative Coworking Spaces / Co Up. News: Applying for a Council grant? Make sure you're on GAP Event: Sleeping Beauty Opportunity: Freelance Practitioners Opportunities, Stephen Joseph Theatre Space: Co Up. Creative Coworking Spaces Image: The Alex McKown Band live at Marsh Blues Club Video: University of Huddersfield Brass Band, 7 Dec 2015 Audio File: Resilience   Creative Kirklees Newsletter 6 January 2016 Hello 2016! You may feel that the new year has come and gone but this is our first newsletter of the year and we hope that you all enjoyed some of the creative events that took place in Kirklees over the festive season. Already there are some great events and opportunities on Creative Kirklees - take a look at the site for a taste of things to come and add yours if it's not already there! Fancy startarting 2016 off with something new? Join Inclusive Sound Events for a free improvised music session at the LBT on Tuesday 12 January, 8 – 9.30pm - the atmosphere is friendly and supportive; abilities range from accomplished musicians to enthusiastic beginners and any instruments are welcome. If you have a profile on the site why not give it a new year update and refresh with some new images and information about yourself, group or organisation? It will push your profile up the listing and we can help promote what you're doing to audiences in the area. Let's keep sharing the many artistic and creative events and talent in Kirklees in 2016!   Events Fri 20th Nov 2015 to Sat 30th Jan 2016 (2 months) 'Retrospective' - Sculpture and Drawings by Melanie Wilks A retrospective exhibition of the work of highly regarded local sculptor Melanie Wilks will open to the public at Batley Art Gallery on Saturday 21st November. Showcasing a range of Melanie’s artwork and also including d...   Sat 23rd to Sun 24th Jan 2016 (2 days) Beginners screen printing- January 'Beginners Screen Printing' with artist Clare Caulfield!(http://clarecaulfield.co.uk/) Learn all the basics for ‪screenprinting, from preparing your artwork for print and getting your image onto a screen using the ph...   Mon 11th Jan 2016 Gordon Stewart with Tom Osborne (Trumpet) Gordon Stewart is again joined by the Hallé Orchestra’s co-principal trumpeter Tom Osborne in a programme which stretches from the glory of the Baroque to an arrangement of Rachmaninov’s beautiful Vocalise, and the virtu...   Thu 14th Jan 2016 January Comedy Cellar: Ian Cognito & Jay Hampson Intimate, atmospheric and relaxed, our perennially popular monthly Comedy Cellars are the perfect way to experience stand-up in all its spontaneous, electrifying glory. IAN COGNITO Outspoken, opinionated and totally ...   Mon 11th Jan 2016 Katherine Bryan - flute Pippa Tunnell - harp (HMS) Katherine Bryan made her concerto debut at the age of 15 with Daniel Harding and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London and later made her US concerto debut at the Lincoln Centre with the Julliard Orchestra. S...   Sat 23rd Jan 2016 Needle Felting Workshop - Needle felt your own pooch! Create your own needle felted pooch for the New Year with Von Allen of Heartfelt Dogs. Learn the basic techniques of needle felting and take home your very own dog! Saturday 23rd January 2016 10.30am to 4pm. Venue: H...   Thu 7th Jan to Sat 27th Feb 2016 (2 months) Still Crazy ... after all these years! Rare and unseen gig photography, featuring a roll call of stars from the 1970s to the present day Launch event: Friday 8th January 7pm to 9pm A new exhibition of concert photography at Mirfield’s Creative Arts Hu...   Sun 27th Dec 2015 to Sun 31st Jan 2016 (1 month) The Coffee Kabin Exhibition An exhibition of original limited edition framed prints of landscape and wildlife photography at the Coffee Kabin, perfect for presents which are both affordable and unique. Also on sale is a variety of greeting cards, ...   Sat 10th Oct 2015 to Sat 9th Jan 2016 (3 months) Thought Positions in Sculpture Exhibition Thought Positions in Sculpture Curated by Rowan Bailey This exhibition presents ten artists whose work draws on and responds to archives. These archives include art from Leeds Museums and Galleries Sculpture Collec...   Sat 16th Jan 2016 Thumbelina There was once a girl so small that she could float on a lily pad and ride on the back of a dragonfly. Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of a girl no bigger than a thumb, and her encounters with a frog, mouse, mole and ...   Sat 16th Jan 2016 Wharf Street Galaxy Band - Live at Vinyl Tap The Wharf Street Galaxy Band | Live In Store at Vinyl Tap Saturday 16th January 2016. 2PM | FREE ENTRY | ALL AGES WELCOME Dave Procter (message) Laurence Huntington (pulsation) [to 09/2015] Mike Evans (propuls...   Tue 19th Jan 2016 WI Sew Crafty - Mosaic Making! Running from 7pm - 9. I'll be bringing lots of smashed up tiles, plates, buttons and bits and bobs, but if you have anything sparkly you want to bring along do! Shells look fab! Also I'll be bringing coasters, plaq...   Opportunities Fri 19th Feb 2016 Arts Council England’s Catalyst: Evolve Programme The Arts Council England’s Catalyst: Evolve Programme will open to applications on 14 January 2016. The Evolve programme is a new £17.5million initiative designed to support organisations with a limited track record...   Mon 11th Jan 2016 Call Out for Artists: Barnsley Civic Scratch Each season Barnsley Civic programme a scratch evening to enable artists and companies with work in progress shows to perform short excerpts of their work in progress to a live audience. The next scratch evening will be...   Thu 31st Mar 2016 Ceramics Tutor wanted in 2016 We are looking for a talented ceramicist who has experience (or the desire) to run a ceramics course from our Studio. Initially, this would be one evening per week during term time, but has the potential to grow based...   Fri 8th Jan 2016 Co Up. January 2016 Hot Desk Offer Pep Up. with Co Up. January is that time of year when you know you need to get off your "!*& and make that move you've been promising to yourself for the past few months! However, you've probably just spent a load...   Thu 3rd Mar 2016 Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme for support of Video Games The 2016 Call for Support for the Development of European Video Games under the MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe is now open. European video game production companies which have been legally constituted for at l...   Mon 18th Jan 2016 HOOT IS RECRUITING: MANAGER, Creative Arts & Mental Health Servi HOOT IS RECRUITING MANAGER, Creative Arts & Mental Health Service/ Out of the Blue Starting salary £25,440 (pro rata) + pension contribution; 0.6 fte - 22.2 hours Hoot is looking for an experienced arts & health Pro...   News Tue 5th Jan 2016 DBS checks for organisations and individuals in Kirklees Are you a group, organisation or individual wanting a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check for yourself, a volunteer or member of staff? Kirklees is a registered Umbrella Body with the Disclosure and Barring Se...   Wed 6th Jan 2016 Helping Creative start-ups, freelancers & practitioners in 2016 As a creative freelancer, consultant or sole trader you might be looking for the next stage in developing your creative business. A place to get your head down, to meet clients and work alongside other like-minded creati...   Wed 6th Jan 2016 Stravinsky and his Classical heroes at Dewsbury Town Hall The Royal Northern Sinfonia perform a neoclassical masterpiece by Stravinsky alongside works by Haydn and Mozart that inspired the Russian composer at Dewsbury Town Hall on Thursday 28 January, as part of the Kirklees Co...   Tue 5th Jan 2016 TULIPS by Miss Tofelees (music for media) THE ARTICLE ABOUT TRACK TULIPS BY MISS TOFELEES - WRITTEN BY RAPPERS IQ - GAINED 9995 IMPRESSIONS ON TWITTER DURING JULY 2015 More original music available for exclusive and non exclusive licenses Pls email hypoman...