Creative Kirklees newsletter

Here is the latest Creative Kirklees newsletter for my followers to peruse:

Top Rated This Week Individual: Hepworth Church / Hepworth Village Business: Breaking Free Design / Breaking Free Design Place: Temporary Contemporary / Contemporary Art in Queensgate Market News: Seeing womens footwear designs come to market! Event: Easter Eggstravaganza workshop Opportunity: The Co-op Local Community Fund for local good causes Space: Office/Studio Space Available in Slaithwaite Image: Temporary Contemporary Video: Little One Sawing Audio File: Resilience Creative Kirklees Newsletter 3 April 2018 Have you heard about Temporary Contemporary?  Temporary Contemporary places contemporary art within vacant spaces in Queensgate Market and is transforming vacant stalls into gallery spaces. This initiative has emerged through a partnership between the traders at Queensgate Market, Kirklees Council and the School of Art, Design & Architecture at the University of Huddersfield. Two fabulous exhibitions will be on display from Friday 6 April. ‘Place, Space, Action’ is there for one week until 14 April and ‘Market Hardware’ will be showing for 3 weeks until 28 April. We hope you get chance to bob in and have a look! For those of you still enjoying the Easter holidays, there are lots of children’s activities around and the Page Turners Festival continues! The newsletter is full of ideas to feed your creativity, but remember, there’s only room for us to include a fraction of what’s going on now and in the weeks ahead – so do keep checking the site to see what’s on – content is added daily! Have a great week – whatever the weather! Events Mon 09 Apr 2018 Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Guided House Tours 1-1.45pm & 2.30-3.15pm Peep behind the scenes! Join us for a fascinating guided tour of the stunning Victorian Gothic building, featuring the history of the Sheard family and Wilton Park. Free. No booking required Sat 07 to Sun 08 Apr 2018 (2 days) Chicken Scratch The next instalment of Chicken Scratch at Small Seeds, Special guest artisan handmade vegan selector confirmed - all the way from London - Via Sheffield! Big selections guaranteed! Strictly Vinyl - Dub/Reggae/Dancehal... Tue 30 Jan to Mon 16 Apr 2018 (3 months) Creative Pie Share your visual art, craft, movement, theatre, sound art, music, words, digital art, experiments and ideas in a relaxed, friendly, and supportive space, or just sit back, have a cup of tea and enjoy. Visual artists are... Sun 01 to Sun 15 Apr 2018 (2 weeks) Easter Activity Trail During normal open hours, please see website for details. Pick up your family activity pack from the Visitor Centre Shop and your adventure around the Country Park and Gardens begins. £1.50 per pack Tue 10 Apr 2018 Easter Holiday Caterpillar Crafts 12noon-4pm Enter the wonderful world of Eric Carle and ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ with themed crafts and activities. £2 per child. All ages welcome. No booking required Mon 09 to Mon 30 Apr 2018 (3 weeks) Intermediate Crochet Course - April 2018 Intermediate Crochet Come along and develop your skills: we will cover pattern reading, crochet in the round, making shapes, seams and joining techniques. This course is designed for people who can already create stit... Thu 05 Apr 2018 Magical Family Storywalk - Birstall A magical Pageturners family storywalk, that includes potion making with natural objects found along the route. 2.00 pm Fri 06 Apr 2018 Mali Hayes - Small Seeds, Huddersfield 'Friday Night Jive' presents - MALI HAYES Friday 6th April - Small Seeds Huddersfield FREE ENTRY! Mali Hayes is a young singer/song writer based in Manchester/Leeds. Her songs stem from many experiences in her lif... Fri 06 to Sat 28 Apr 2018 (3 weeks) Market Hardware Exhibition, Queensgate Market, Huddersfield Market Hardware is an exhibition of current design research from the Department of Architecture and 3D Design at the University of Huddersfield. The exhibition shows a diverse approach to design research from analytical ... Wed 11 to Sat 14 Apr 2018 (4 days) Natural Causes ‘Do you find you need a little help with your life? Particularly the ending of it? My name is Vincent, and here at Exodus we provide the help you need to get on with your afterlife. We offer a swift and painless death wi... Fri 06 to Fri 20 Apr 2018 (2 weeks) Needle Felting Course (April) Needle Felting Course Using a variety of coloured wool roving and specialised felting needles, you’ll be taught basic techniques enabling you to complete your own, wildlife inspired, 3D felted creation. Friday 6th ... Sat 07 Apr 2018 Nervous Twitch - Live at Vinyl Tap On April 7th we are excited to welcome Nervous Twitch to the Vinyl Tap stage for an in store. Fresh off the press for 2017 is third album ‘I Won’t Hide’ from Nervous Twitch released on the much loved indie pop label O... Sat 07 Apr 2018 Pageturners Children's Reading Festival - Chloe Daykin: Fish Boy Our Pageturners Festival kicks off with a visit from Chloe Daykin who is very excited about her first novel ‘Fish Boy’. Dive into the deep and mysterious with Chloe as she takes you on a fascinating underwater journey wh... Tue 10 Apr 2018 Pageturners Festival - Comedy Club 4 Kid - Dewsbury Pageturners Children's Reading Festival - Comedy Club 4 Kids Think you're hilarious? Constantly cracking jokes? Then this is the workshop for you. Comedy Club 4 Kids teaches children how to write and perform comedy, ... Tue 10 Apr 2018 Pageturners Festival - Curly Tales - Birstall We are very excited to welcome back the brilliant Yorkshire based theatre company Curly Tales. This year, they have promised to thrill us with an all new magical adventure full of songs, live music and a bundle of audien... Mon 09 Apr 2018 Pageturners Festival - Theatre with Shabang! - Dewsbury Make your Monday go with a Shabang! and join this amazing touring theatre company to meet Ivy the Bag Lady and her good friend, Algie Moss. These two spend their days a-wandering and pondering the strangeness of life... Fri 06 to Sat 14 Apr 2018 (1 week) Place, Space, Action in Queensgate Market, Huddersfield This exhibition brings together artists and designers from the Department of Art and Communication in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, to explore the themes ‘place’ ‘space’ and ‘action’. Each piece on display... Mon 09 Apr 2018 Ross Montgomery - How to Write for Children Pageturners Children's Reading Festival - Ross Montgomery - How to Write for Children Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager when he should have been doing his homework. After graduating, he decided to ... Fri 06 to Sat 07 Apr 2018 (2 days) Rumplestiltskin Full of action and humour this emotionally rich fairytale is set in a rural world of sheep, straw, wool and spinning where the alchemist Rumpelstiltskin is outcast until he is revealed to be 'the true prince that he was'... Wed 11 Apr 2018 SCRAPtastic Easter Crafts 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm Join fairandfunky for some Easter themed crafts using recycled materials. £3.50 per child Tue 03 Apr to Sat 23 Jun 2018 (3 months) Tom Ratcliffe retrospective exhibition Images influenced by the theoretical writings of the philosopher Michel Foucault; hovering between figuration and abstraction hinting at their origins and creating a universal response to the world. Join us for the exhib... Sat 07 to Sat 28 Apr 2018 (3 weeks) Wire Jewellery Course- April 2018 Wire Jewellery Course During this Wire Jewellery Course we will be producing the following: ● A basic swirl ● A chain ● Rings ● Pendants ● Earrings ● Wrapped beads ... Sat 07 Apr 2018 Yellow Goose Dance 6 - A Spring Thing The best night out you will ever have. Yellow Goose Dance brings you a top-class 10-piece band made up of some of the regions finest musicians, quirky, original songs and real-time teaching of some simple dance moves. Th... Sat 07 Apr 2018 Yorkshire Art Fair & Crafts The largest Art & Crafts event in the area. FREE entry to over 40 artists and crafters selling an amazing variety of handmade items. Paintings, photography, woodcraft, handbags, soft furnishings, ceramics, toys, cards, ... Opportunities Tue 01 May 2018 Applications open for Holmfirth Artweek 2018 Applications to exhibit at Holmfirth Artweek are now open until 30th April 2018. Anyone and everyone is invited to apply for a place to exhibit in the main exhibition. Allocation is on a first-come, first-served basi... Mon 23 Apr 2018 Enablers (x3) - Eclipse Theatre Eclipse, UK’s foremost Black-led national production company is looking for visible and influential leaders who care about Black culture, artists and making ambitious new work to facilitate and support the independent Bl... Mon 30 Apr 2018 Executive PA - Community Arts North West Community Arts North West (CAN) is looking to recruit a highly-organised Executive PA to join our talented team at their city-centre base, in the thriving Northern Quarter of Manchester city centre. This is an excelle... Tue 17 Apr 2018 Technical and Premises Manager The role: Technical and Premises Manager We are looking for an experienced Technical and Premises Manager to provide technical and production requirements for all visiting companies and in-house productions at the LBT... News Wed 04 Apr 2018 DJ AFISHAL article in the Huddersfield Examiner You can read another great article in the Huddersfield Examiner on Huddersfield's musical talent - this time about the incredible percussion skills of DJ AFISHAL and his Huddersfield Roots. The article was featured ... Thu 29 Mar 2018 EASTER AT TOLSON SRAPtastic Easter-themed crafts using recycled materials Wednesday 11 April: 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm £3.50 per child; no need to book Easter Egg Trail during opening hours Good Friday 30 March – Thursday 12 April (incl... Wed 04 Apr 2018 New organisation connecting culture and health An alliance of cultural organisations from across England has launched a new national body to develop and promote the role of arts and culture in supporting the country’s health and wellbeing. The Culture, Health and Wel...