Creative Kirklees newsletter

Here is the latest Creative Kirklees newsletter with details of courses and workshops:

Top Rated This Week Individual: David Speight Photography / Yorkshire Photography Workshops Business: BatleySmile CIC / communityarts Place: Kirklees Libraries / Libraries News: WYPWcourses- Screen Printing Textiles June Event: Magical Creatures Family Storywalk Opportunity: Film Technician, Aesthetica Short Film Festival Space: Dewsbury Library Community Room Image: Marsh Blues Club stage. Marshfest 2017 Video: Dark Horse Workshop at Calderdale College Audio File: Resilience   Creative Kirklees Newsletter 7 June 2017 There’s plenty to get you ‘inspired’ this week - starting with the Inspired Huddersfield festival from 9 – 23 June.  The festival celebrates art, design and architecture and includes the Graduate Showcase, research-focussed events, public lectures and networking sessions hosted throughout the University campus and Huddersfield town. Also at the University, on Saturday 10 June, 11am-12.30pm, Sound System Culture presents Let’s Play Vinyl a free hands-on workshop that will introduce children to the magic of vinyl.  Suitable for 5-10 year olds the workshop will give them the chance to interact with a 60s Dansette record player and records as well as including a craft activity to design and create colourful decorations using vinyl records. Make sure you book your place before the day. In Marsden (near the Standedge Tunnel Visitors Centre), Making Tracks is running a series of free outdoor art workshops accessible to wheelchair users. Run by Experience Community you’ll learn drawing techniques, explore new ways of making maps and experience the local area in a novel way. You don’t need any previous experience, all materials are provided, and you can use one of their ‘Mountain Trike’ off-road wheelchairs for the session. In Dewsbury next week it’s time to hum along to those well-known songs from Annie, such as  'Tomorrow' and 'It's the Hard Knock Life'.  Dewsbury Collegians are performing the show from Wednesday 14 to Saturday 17 June, so get your tickets now.   Events Fri 09 Jun 2017 Adult Life Skills (15) The next film showing at the New Picture House, Dewsbury's not for profit volunteer led community cinema, will be the brilliantly funny offbeat British comedy “Adult Life Skills” about a woman who lives in a shed. Scre...   Wed 14 to Sat 17 Jun 2017 (4 days) Annie Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie. The show follows everyone's favourite red headed orphan , who finds that her luck changes when she is selected to live w...   Tue 06 to Sat 10 Jun 2017 (5 days) Bette & Joan Legendary Hollywood screen rivals Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s thirty-year feud had reached boiling point, but when the two screen icons were lured to appear together in a new movie – Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? –...   Tue 13 Jun 2017 Cornelia Parker: Artist Talk Join us for a wonderful opportunity to hear internationally renowned artist Cornelia Parker talk about her practice, influences and work, including the inspiration behind Neither From Nor Towards (1992), which can be see...   Fri 16 Jun 2017 Don Kipper live at Small Seeds 'Friday Night Jive' presents.... DON KIPPER Friday 16th June 2017 - Small Seeds, Huddersfield FREE ENTRY Don Kipper are a multi award-winning 7-piece ensemble playing and transforming a wide range of traditional mu...   Sat 10 to Sat 24 Jun 2017 (2 weeks) Final workshops The final workshops of our Byram Arcade residency. Come and join the fun! Creative hands on workshops for children aged 5-15years. Saturdays 10-11.30am. £8 per workshop. Booking essential 10th June: Printing 17th Ju...   Sat 10 Jun 2017 Free Pebeo Mixed Media Demonstration With Michelle Bomber Come along to this hands-on demonstration and learn hints, tips and techniques for successful results with oil based alkyd colours. After receiving Pebeo training in mixed media materials, Michelle is very excited to ...   Fri 09 to Fri 23 Jun 2017 (2 weeks) Inspired Huddersfield 2017 Join us for a two-week festival celebrating art, design and architecture which includes our Graduate Showcase, research-focussed events, public lectures and networking sessions led by industry professionals and esteemed ...   Fri 09 Jun 2017 John Ainsworth - Small Seeds, Huddersfield 'Friday Night Jive' presents..... JOHN AINSWORTH Friday 9th June - Small Seeds, Huddersfield FREE ENTRY A singer/songwriter from Manchester UK with a unique style ranging from heavy acoustic 12 string blues guitar ...   Mon 12 Jun 2017 Making Tracks - ART IN THE WOODS, Inclusive Outdoor Art Workshop Making Tracks is a series of FREE outdoor art workshops accessible to wheelchair users. You don’t need any previous experience, all materials are provided, and you can use one of our ‘Mountain Trike’ off-road wheelchairs...   Mon 05 to Fri 16 Jun 2017 (2 weeks) Sensory Story-times for children under 5 During Make a Noise In Libraries! Our Libraries will be specifically tailoring their story-times to be enjoyed by children with a visual impairment. All are welcome to these free, drop in sessions. Monday 5th June S...   Wed 07 to Sun 25 Jun 2017 (3 weeks) Sing for Water Walk and Workshops Sunday 25th June 1 til 4 : Walk from Milnsbridge to Marsden singing/busking and raising money for Water Aid Workshops to learn/practice the songs: Weds 7th, 14th, 21st June 7.30 to 9.30 pm Pure Heart Centre, 11 S...   Wed 14 Jun 2017 Sound Events @ the LBT / June Come and join Inclusive Sound Events for free improvised music - all instruments and abilities welcome. Sound Events is a regular (every month or so) improvisation night taking place in the Syngenta Cellar Bar at Lawr...   Sat 10 Jun 2017 Sound System Culture presents Let’s Play Vinyl: Free Kids Worksh Sound System Culture presents Let’s Play Vinyl: Free Kids Workshop Saturday 10 June 2017 11am-12.30pm Oastler Building, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH This free hands-on workshop will ...   Sun 11 Jun 2017 Summer Music in Greenhead Park - Golcar Training Band Golcar Training Band will kick off the Friends of Greenhead Park 2017 season of summer afternoon concerts on the bandstand – with a little help from senior members of the band - on Sunday 11 June, 2pm to 3.30pm, on the ...   Sat 10 to Sun 11 Jun 2017 (2 days) WYPWcourses - Lino Etching Weekend - June Lino Etching Weekend Weekend course Saturday 10th / Sunday 11th June 2017 Tutor: Jenny Thomas £135.00 Join artist and printmaker Jenny Thomas for this innovative course, exploring ways of making relief pri...   Opportunities Fri 16 Jun 2017 Call out for illustrators, designers, printmakers!! Are you a print maker/ designer? Do you love all things print? Then Join the Bradford Print Fair! As part of the exciting North Parade Festival, The Bradford Print Fair is welcoming applications for stallholders at th...   Mon 03 Jul 2017 Flourish Award 2017- call for submissions Flourish Award 2017 - Award For Excellence in Printmaking The Flourish Award was established in 2009 by West Yorkshire Print Workshop to champion and showcase excellence in printmaking across Yorkshire. The award now ...   Fri 17 Nov 2017 Near Neighbours Small Grants Fund Local groups and organisations, who are working to bring together neighbours and develop relationships across diverse faiths and ethnicities in order to improve their communities, have until 17th November 2017 to apply f...   Fri 14 Jul 2017 New Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy E-Learning As part of the Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy programme extension grant, generously funded by Arts Council England until March 2018, a new e-learning initiative is being piloted with digital partner, Proversity. ...   News Mon 05 Jun 2017 Queens Award for Voluntary Service given to GNUF! As a volunteer-run, non-profit ukulele festival, we are overjoyed to announce that we have been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. We beli...