Creative Kirklees newsletter

The latest Creative Kirklees newsletter has a callout for artists for Halloween and more:

Top Rated This Week Individual: Love Without Sound / audiovisual artists Business: Huddersfield Music Society / Huddersfield Music Society Place: Yorkshire Sculpture Park / YSP News: In the Guardian Event: Story Boat Workshop with Lisa Stubbs Opportunity: iAMDigital funding deadline extended (England excl. Gr London) Space: Creative Arts Hub Studios Image: Poster for Sept 1st Video: Pat Fulgoni & Keeno "As One" Audio File: Goblin Market   Creative Kirklees Newsletter 15 August 2017 We’ve highlighted a number of workshops and courses for you this week – some are one-off workshops, others are weekly courses, but either way there’s a great range to choose from.  Perhaps you’ve always fancied making clay pendants, trying pyrography, or creating your own book cover – you can find these workshops at Create Space in Huddersfield.  If you enjoy photography take a look at David Speight Photography’s one day courses taking place across Yorkshire.  Or if you’ve never drawn or painted before or would like to improve your art technique go along to the weekly Art Club at Crafty Praxis starting on 16 August.  You can find more workshops, courses and events on our What’s On page. Remember, items in the newsletter are picked out from the Creative Kirklees website and these are added by artists or creative organisations with a profile.  If you find an event is missing information or the information isn’t clear please let them know by contacting the profile owner.  If you have a profile and add events make sure you include as much detail as possible so your audience can find all the information they need.   Events Thu 17 Aug to Thu 14 Sep 2017 (1 month) (1) Improve Your Well-being Through Dance This class is an introduction to different styles of dance including basic warm up exercises, hip hop routines and coordinating body movement to music. The sessions will show that dance is a really fun way to get fit an...   Thu 14 Sep 2017 Abstract Florals: Mixed Media with Miriam Laville Workshop Details Abstract Florals Creating floral designs with the expressive fluidity of watercolours, picking out detail with pen and ink. In this workshop we shall be drawing from fresh floral arrangements, focusing...   Wed 16 Aug to Wed 20 Dec 2017 (4 months) Art Club /Artist in Residence If you have never drawn or painted before or you would like to improve your art technique do come along. All are welcome of any age. Each individual can pursue whatever subject or media they desire: water colour, acry...   Wed 23 Aug 2017 Clay Pendants & Decorations Workshop For this session we'll be working with oven dry and air dry clay. We'll be decorating them with stamps, textured rolling pins, inks, metallic powders and more. As well as working with a wide variety of cutter shapes...   Tue 26 Sep to Tue 05 Dec 2017 (2 months) Discover and Develop Watercolour Discover and Develop Watercolour short courses, 5/10 weeks 10 week Evening course Tuesday (26 Sep, 3 Oct, 10 Oct, 17 Oct, Half Term 31 October, 7 Nov, 14 Nov, 21 Nov, 28 Nov, 5 Dec) Cost £180 To book please email...   Sat 02 Sep 2017 Experimental Aluminium Etching – CREATE! Workshop Day workshop Saturday 2nd September 2017 11 – 3 £40.00 Tutor: Kate Desforges Come and do some experimental etching! This short day workshop is all about getting away from the idea of etching as a long, labour-in...   Fri 04 Aug to Fri 08 Dec 2017 (4 months) Giddy Aurora Young People's Theatre FRIDAYS Mini Actors (reception - yr 2; 4 -7yrs) 6 - 7pm Junior Theatre (yr 3 - 7; 7-13yrs) 7 - 8.30pm Drama groups working on acting technique and putting on shows and plays   Tue 22 Aug 2017 Inky Fingers - Print Club - 8-12 years Tue 22 August 2.00pm - 3.30pm Ages 8 -12 years £6 - Children’s Summer holiday workshop Artist: Kim Searle Summer holiday children's workshop exploring Monoprint and relief printing Layering and combining p...   Sun 20 Aug 2017 Making Tracks - PATTERNS IN NATURE Making Tracks is a series of FREE outdoor art workshops along the narrow canal at Slaithwaite, accessible to wheelchair users. You don’t need any previous experience, all materials are provided, and you can use one of ou...   Fri 25 Aug 2017 Marbling & Book Binding Workshop During the Marbling & Book Binding Workshop you will create unique swirling patterns with brightly coloured marbling inks on a variety of papers and cards. These will act as a cover for a hand bound book, we’ll be usin...   Tue 12 Sep 2017 Masterclass in Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) in Metals Additive Manufacturing (AM or 3D Printing) in metals is becoming a method of choice for some major manufacturers, particularly in high-value, low-volume industries such as specialist automotive, motorsport, aerospace, me...   Sat 19 to Sun 20 Aug 2017 (2 days) Open Studios Open Studio weekend Meet the makers at the Loft Space from 10.30am until 5pm on 19 & 20 August.   Fri 01 Sep 2017 Photography Course - South Pennines Sunset West Yorkshire Photography Course/Workshop - Sunset in the south pennines This location in The Southern Pennines is a stunningly dramatic boulder strewn landscape in an elevated position above Rochdale. It is only a s...   Sat 26 Aug 2017 Photography Course/Workshop Yorkshire Dales The Yorkshire Dales are rightly renowned for their amazing and distinctive Geology. The Yorkshire Dales area was carved from the land some 350 million years ago by massive retreating slabs of melting ice. These Glaciers ...   Tue 22 Aug to Tue 12 Sep 2017 (3 weeks) Pyrography (Wood Burning) Course Discover new ways to personalise and decorate wooden items using pyrography ‘wood burning’ tools! *All equipment and some materials will be provided but please bring with you any other items you would like to work on...   Tue 22 Aug 2017 Socktopus Socktopus is a sunny 45min summer show for young children and their families. Grandy the Pirate performs amazing magic tricks and plays hornpipes on his accordion. He tells a magical story with a puppet mermaid and a pe...   Sun 20 Aug 2017 Summer Music in Greenhead Park - Slaithwaite Band Slaithwaite Band bring the Friends of Greenhead Park summer season of free concerts on the park's bandstand to a grand finale on Sunday 20 August, 2pm to 4pm. As usual limited seating will be available and you are a...   Sat 02 to Sat 16 Sep 2017 (2 weeks) Wire Jewellery Course (September) During this Wire Jewellery Course we will be producing the following: ● A basic swirl ● A chain ● Rings ● A coil and double coil of wire to be used within jewellery. ● Pendants ● Earrings ● Wrapped beads Pleas...   Tue 22 Aug 2017 Wood Engraving in Illustration – Printmaker’s Toolkit Session Morning session Tuesday 22nd August 2017 10.30 – 11.30 £10.00 Tutor: Gillian Tyler To complement our summer exhibition ‘Frogs, Bears and Unicorns: The Art of Children’s Illustrations’, we’re really excited to w...   Sat 09 Sep 2017 WORKSHOP: Chasing The Whale WORKSHOP: Chasing The Whale as part of the 4TH WORLD CONGRESS OF PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY 15.00 - 16.00 By: Gopal Dutta “Whale” is a graffiti artist active in Manchester. I do not know the artist. I have seen his/her/their...   Opportunities Wed 23 Aug 2017 Gift Aid, Grants and Government Bods – FREE workshops Third Sector Leaders Kirklees and Business in the Community bring you a morning of FREE workshops for charities and community organisations to get valuable, practical information from those in the know. Workshops will b...   Mon 11 Sep 2017 Halloween Artist Opportunity HALLOWE'EN HAPPENING CALL OUT FOR ARTISTS Performance date - Saturday 28 October, 7pm - Late Huddersfield's biggest Hallowe'en event is resurrected once again: a frightful feast of all things outlandish and macab...   News Mon 14 Aug 2017 Can success on the pitch revive Huddersfield’s fortunes? Really interesting and honest article by Julian Coman in the Observer recently about Huddersfield and how promotion of the Terriers into the Premier League might revive the town's fortunes and bring more prosperity. For...