Tuesday 10 October 2017

Hebden Bridge Arts Festival

Hebden Bridge Arts Festival events for October and November:

This Autumn with Hebden Bridge Arts Festival...

All the latest Arts Festival news here...

'How to be a Craftivist – the art of gentle protest' Book Launch

We are proud to welcome Sarah Corbett back to The Egg Factory on Saturday 28 October for an evening of lively discussion with Helen Meller, Director of the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival and to launch her new book 'How to be a Craftivist'. Tickets are £5 (or £15 to include the book) and can be booked here. On Sunday 29 October the brilliant Helen Baron at Ribbon Circus will be will be running a 'Positive Note-Craftivist Workshop with Sarah Corbett' with all funds going to MIND, more info here places are limited so be quick!

Local giving – Grow Your tenner

Alongside our annual arts festival, we work year round to deliver projects for the over 65’s (Cafe Culture), for young people (Nova Collective) and to support local artists, businesses and community groups, keeping our town vibrant, inventive and exciting. With a tiny core team we are seeking new ways to develop our work all year round with our diverse community and we need more funds to make this happen. Could you help? Donating a small amount - £3, £5 or £10 a month could make a massive difference and if you donate on Tuesday 17 October your donation could be doubled. Localgiving’s Grow Your Tenner 2017 campaign is focusing on monthly giving – to help local groups like Hebden Bridge Arts Festival attract more long term supporters. It would be great if you could support us - find out how here.

Cafe Culture

This months popular Cafe Culture event will be on Thursday 12 October and be led by John Wallis who'll be bringing us live music to accompany his talk about 'Variety in the Wartime'. Tickets are £3 and £5 and refreshments and homemade cake are served.

Other news...

We're really excited to share that the Nova Collective have just got funding from HRTC for their first big project ‘Disparate Youth’ – an immersive youth community theatre project using real life stories to illuminate the challenges facing kids growing up in Hebden Bridge. The meet up is 7pm on Thursdays at Arts Mill for anyone aged 18 - 30 keen to get involved.

The next installation to animate the Town Hall Courtyard will be Hannelora Johansen’s Ballerina – look out for it from 15 November.

If you've not seen it already, do watch our lovely HBAF 2017 trailer (below) filmed by Sarah Mason - thanks to Sarah for a lovely reminder of a great festival!

And finally not forgetting HBAF 2018 which will run from 22 June until 1 July, our theme will be Nonconformism (Martin Parr already booked!) and the ideas are coming in thick and fast so drop us a line if you'd like to get involved.

Until next time...