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Top Rated This Week Individual: Feltartisan / Jill Hayfield Business: The Poetry Village / thepoetryvillage Place: coffeevolution / events News: True Value of Creative Industries Exports Event: A Scratch Night Opportunity: Networking Brunch: Getting Back to Business Space: Create Space Image: Park Lea Design Services Video: A look back at Huddersfield Literature Festival 2017 Audio File: Resilience Creative Kirklees Newsletter 20 March 2018 Hi everyone, Do you ever look at the Resources Section on Creative Kirklees? We just wanted to remind you that we’ve included a few of our favourite resources here and ones we think are handy to know about – we hope some of you might find them useful! Here are just a couple of ideas for the week ahead - the LBT’s A Festival offers lots of performances, events and workshops to get involved in and runs until 31st March.  And if you're looking for a short trip out, why not visit one or more of the fabulous exhibitions currently on show in the district – we think they’re all great and there are lots to choose from!  Whatever you do - we hope you find time to get creative! Events Mon 19 to Sat 31 Mar 2018 (2 weeks) A Festival We are having a festival. It’s about who we are and things that matter right now. It’s about new ideas, hearing different voices and celebrating talent. We have chosen these performances because they are artistically ... Wed 21 Mar 2018 A Shoe Full of Stars What can you do when you're under attack? Exploring identity and the threat of terrorism as seen through the eyes of young people, secondary school pupils from North Huddersfield Trust School present their groundbrea... Thu 29 Mar 2018 Across the Atlantic:Bernstein, Gershwin, John Adams, Rachmaninov To celebrate the Bernstein centenary, we close this year's Kirklees Concert Season with a concert of American music, including his iconic Symphonic Dances from the ground-breaking, award-winning musical West Side Story. ... Thu 22 Mar 2018 Artist Toolkit Start-up skills for artists including an introduction to budgeting, accounts and cashflow with Lynda Hornsby of Dark Horse Theatre; how to create a technical rider and other common queries with producer Porl Cooper and c... Sat 24 Mar 2018 Dewsbury Library Code Club Coding fun for young people. Meet like minded people and learn about Raspberry Pi and micro:bits and how to code games, animations, and websites in programmes like Scratch and Python. We'll also have robots like Sphero a... Sat 24 Mar to Wed 04 Apr 2018 (2 weeks) Easter Eggstravaganza workshop This Easter holidays our fabulous family workshop returns with one of our favourites... come along and create your own bejewelled faberge-style egg. You can have a go at blowing your own egg, making egg-tempura paint ... Tue 20 Mar 2018 Family storytelling session with Ursula Holden Gill Join us for this family storytelling session with Ursula, a shape-shifting scallywag who can make you laugh and cry, think, reflect and roar again, all in the space of half an hour! 1pm - 1.45pm 2.30pm - 3.15pm Sat 24 Mar 2018 Huddersfield Raspberry jam A monthly hands-on coding and digital making event for all ages and all abilities. There's no set programme - come learn how to code with Raspberry Pi, micro:bit, and anything digital. Bring your own equipment our use o... Wed 10 Jan to Fri 23 Mar 2018 (2 months) Knot What It Seams : Textile Exhibition Knot What It Seams An exquisite textile art exhibition by Hillstone Fibre Arts displayed in the new Community Art Space. From 10th January to 23rd March 2018. FREE entry - visit the Conference Suite. About t... Fri 23 Mar 2018 Lucy Mae - Small Seeds, Huddersfield 'Friday Night Jive' presents LUCY MAE Friday 23rd March - Small Seeds, Huddersfield FREE ENTRY! Joined by her live band to create Jazz infused Soul and RnB. Lucy Mae’s sound is unique, with lyrics about life and th... Thu 08 Feb to Sat 24 Mar 2018 (1 month) Mindful Drawing Workshops at Huddersfield Art Gallery Join Artist, Maggie O’Keeffe for a 2 hour Mindful Drawing Workshop, using the collections at Huddersfield Art Gallery as inspiration. The session takes a mindful approach to drawing and provides a welcome break from th... Sat 24 Mar 2018 One Thousand Mindreaders One Thousand Mindreaders is a year-long collaborative artwork during which the artist Stuart Nolan will train one thousand new mindreaders. Everyone is welcome to come and be a part of it. Through empathic touch and sens... Mon 26 Mar 2018 Organ Concert: Gordon Stewart - 26 March Gordon Stewart ends the season with a varied programme including pieces by three Yorkshire composers, Andrew Carter, Alan Spedding and Alfred Hollins. Bach's Toccata in F is famous for its pedal solos, and Liszt's tribut... Sun 25 Mar 2018 Quality Folk & Champion Brass Roger Davies & Hepworth Band The Brighouse based Yorkshire singer songwriter Roger Davies joins forces with the award winning Hepworth Brass Band for ‘Quality Folk & Champion Brass’ at the Picturedrome, Holmfirth, Sun 25 March 2018, 7pm Roger is a ... Wed 21 Mar 2018 TAWAI-a voice from the forest - A film by Bruce Parry We are delighted to be able to show Bruce Parry's latest film TAWAI- a voice from the forest, on the 21st March 2018 to celebrate 'INTERNATIONAL FOREST DAY' This beautifully made docu-film is to be shown in our indoor-... Sat 24 Mar 2018 The Ribble Beck Band Join us for a fun evening of music and dancing with the Ribble Beck Band in support or Holmfirth Arts Festival. The Ribble Beck Band is a five-piece ceilidh band who play a mix of traditional English, Irish and Scotti... Tue 20 Feb to Sat 24 Mar 2018 (1 month) WYPWexhibitions - 20:20 Print Exchange 20 February – 24 March 2018 West Yorkshire Print Workshop is again delighted to be hosting the 20:20 Print Exchange during February and March. The 20:20 Print Exchange started in 2009 as a project between Hot Bed Pres... Opportunities Mon 26 Mar 2018 Creative Kirklees Networking & SEO Event Do you have an online presence showcasing your work as an artist, arts organisation or creative business? Have you ever wondered how search engines like Google and Bing decide which information to show? Would you like so... Wed 11 Apr 2018 The future of arts and culture in England - Have your say! Arts Council England have launched a public conversation around the next ten-year strategy for 2020-30. The online platform, which will be live until 11 April, invites views on a range of topics, including how ACE can s... News Tue 20 Mar 2018 Culture is Digital The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport have launched a report that is the culmination of the Digital Culture Project with the #CultureisDigital online consultation. There are three key themes: •Audiences... Mon 19 Mar 2018 Dewsbury Lunchtime Concert season goes out with a bang! Last week saw the last concert of the 2017/18 Lunchtime Concert Season at Dewsbury Town Hall and what a finale! We had a whistle-stop tour through the percussion section of the Orchestra of Opera North with Chris and El... Mon 19 Mar 2018 How vinyl is helping revive the high street: Sky News report Five years ago a team of retail experts published a report for Westminster about the future of Britain's high streets. Now, they say, is the right time to do it again. For years out of town retail parks and online sho... Mon 19 Mar 2018 Huddersfield to Oz – how Bhangra is set for the world stage Huddersfield’s very own Bhangra expert, full-time teacher of art and research fellow at the University of Huddersfield, Hardeep Sahota, is taking his passion for the culture to the other side of the world, to spread its ...

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