Creative Kirklees newsletter

With events, opportunities and more, here is the latest Creative Kirklees newsletter:

Top Rated This Week Individual: Creative Economy Team / Arts Team Business: Marsden Jazz Festival / Jazz Festival Place: Yorkshire Sculpture Park / YSP News: Voluntary Arts: Big Conversation 2017 Event: The Hogwallops Opportunity: Creative Leadership for Business Session Space: Co Up. Coworking / Events / PopUps Image: Exhibition Video: The Interchange networking event Audio File: Resilience   Creative Kirklees Newsletter 3 October 2017   This weekend brings us Marsden Jazz Festival, with a fantastic line-up of artists and free gigs in pubs, clubs and cafes all over the village, a Saturday street parade and an artisan market in the Victorian park. Hope you can find time to pop along to this fabulous Festival!  Do read on for a selection of creative events, news and opportunities in the district over the next week or so - you will be spoilt for choice!  And remember there's even more on the website!   Events Thu 05 Oct 2017 "Cosmic Manners" by Nicolás Núñez 7pm - 9pm In this research presentation, international theatre director, Nicolás Núñez explores relationships between mindfulness, breath, vibration and the environment. Find out more and book your tickets at https...   Thu 05 Oct 2017 Arts & Crafts CLEARANCE DAY We are opening our doors to arts and crafts businesses, schools, nurseries and educational companies to come and grab our clearance stock at clearance price! Let us know you are coming so we can be ready to welcome yo...   Sun 08 to Sun 15 Oct 2017 (1 week) Dancing Around the World Students from Pennine Academy of Dance provide an evening of fun, high energy entertainment in their third annual show. Experience influential dance styles and music gathered from around the world. Students from three...   Thu 05 Oct 2017 Fishing for Compliments play their original, melodic, catchy so Fishing for Compliments will be playing two sets of their original songs from 8.30-10.30pm.   Sat 07 Oct 2017 Fun Palace @ Dewsbury Library We're taking over the library for a day of fun for all the family! Every Fun Palace will be different but expect hands-on art, music, storytelling, and literature activities for all ages. All Fun Palaces are drop in a...   Tue 10 Oct 2017 Jam Jar Tealights Workshop Create tealight holders using vintage photographs, glass pens, fabric trimmings and lots more! Perfect for the winter months. This session is led by Kim, a Huddersfield based artist with a degree in textile crafts an...   Mon 09 to Sun 15 Oct 2017 (1 week) Local Democracy Week Events - 9 - 15 October 2017 Local Democracy Week is a way of helping people to be more aware of, and more involved with, the issues that really matter in our local communities. An extended programme of events have been organised across Kirklees to...   Fri 06 to Sun 08 Oct 2017 (3 days) Marsden Jazz Festival 2017 A nominee for this year’s Mercury Prize will be among the jazz artists heading to Marsden this October for the 26th Marsden Jazz Festival. Dinosaur’s album ‘Together, As One’ has been nominated for The Hyundai Mercury...   Wed 04 to Sat 07 Oct 2017 (4 days) Musical Showcase Longwood Amateur Operatic Society are pleased to announce that they are putting on a Musical Showcase for you at the Longwood Mechanics Hall, Longwood, Huddersfield, 4th to 7th October 2017. We are going to entertain ...   Tue 10 Oct 2017 Partition, 70 Years On – a creative writing workshop The National Archives in collaboration with Let's Go Yorkshire presents Partition, 70 Years On – a creative writing workshop Tuesday 10 October 2017, 1-3pm Oastler Building, Room OA5/10 University of Huddersfield...   Thu 05 Oct 2017 Sarah Yaseen Concert 1.15pm - 2pm Sarah Yaseen aka Sarah The Sufi is a Manchester-based Sufi singer/songwriter. With a soulful voice and accompanied by a guitar or darabouka, Sarah's raw a cappella/cantata style takes the audience into h...   Thu 05 Oct 2017 Sole Trader Social @ Co Up Slaithwaite Are you a sole trader, freelancer, start-up business or nomadic worker who needs to get out more and likes the idea of meeting up with other people like yourself? This is a friendly social event held once a month in the ...   Sat 07 Oct 2017 Speakers' Corner: A Living Wage (spoken word workshop) Speakers’ Corner: A Living Wage SPOKEN WORD / Poetry workshop (free lunch provided) Have you heard about the McDonald’s workers striking over pay? How about the debates over zero-hour contracts? Did you know tha...   Fri 06 Oct 2017 Terri Shaltiel live at Small Seeds 'Friday Night Jive' presents.... TERRI SHALTIEL Friday 6th October, Small Seeds - Huddersfield FREE ENTRY Funk & soul queen/singer-songwriter and guitarist Terri Shaltiel has diligently been honing her craft across...   Sat 14 Oct 2017 Thinking With Print SAT 14 OCTOBER 2017, 10:00 – 16:00 £60.00 Facilitators from Thinking Space CIC and WYPW Join WYPW for something a little bit different! Spend a day making prints and reflecting on this process with the help of com...   Thu 05 Oct 2017 Wilson's Republic Conference 2017 #WRConf From designing textiles to engineering gearboxes, Huddersfield has a rich history of world class design running through it. Wilson's Republic #6 aims to celebrate these roots by looking to the future. Set ove...   Sat 07 Oct 2017 Wrong Move Bill plans to buy a holiday home and spend his retirement in Jamaica but his wife is not happy. She’d rather he bought his holiday home somewhere else, but nothing she says or does can make him change his mind. Bill’...   Sat 07 Oct 2017 WYPW Print Run! Sat 7 October WYPW Print Run! Coming up on Saturday, 7th October Launch of our first Future Proof event - Print Run. A sponsored 5k run, leaving WYPW at 10.30am and returning along East-thorpe in time for Coffee and Cake, in th...   Opportunities Fri 20 Oct 2017 Board Member Vacancy Do you have a passion for the arts? Would you like to contribute to the cultural life of Kirklees? Do you believe that creativity can enrich the life of individuals and communities? Would you like to join a Board and mak...   Fri 13 Oct 2017 Festival Director at Holmfirth Arts Festival Applications are invited for the freelance post of Festival Director at Holmfirth Arts Festival. Fee: £17,500 Based on 100 days work Holmfirth Arts Festival is ten days in June of music, theatre, art, comedy, lit...   Tue 03 Oct 2017 We're looking for writers We’re looking for new writers to contribute fortnightly or monthly articles (thought pieces, reviews, interviews) to publish online on either or all of the following topics: contemporary culture, music, cultural, art, de...   News Wed 20 Sep 2017 Baring Foundation new publication on arts & older people & LAs The Baring Foundation has just produced a new report on local authorities, arts and older people entitled “The Role of Local Authorities in Creative Ageing”. The report contains a number of case studies from around t...   Wed 20 Sep 2017 How to ensure your social media posts are effective If you promote your work on social media it's well worth taking the 22 minutes needed to listen to this video from The Audience Agency. Katie Moffat, Head of Digital, gives a really clear explanation about how to approa...   Profiles Co Up. Creative Coworking Spaces / Co Up. Co Up. is a unique co-working, event and pop-up space in a characterful textile mill in the centre of Slaithwaite. We have a wide array of workspaces - desks, studios, breakout areas, event spaces and meeting rooms. If y...