Creative Kirklees

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Top Rated This Week Individual: The Curious Creative Club / The Curious Creative Club Business: Grand Northern Ukulele Festival / More than just a ukulele festival! Place: VinylTap / VinylTapLive News: A Journey in Colour, new exhibition at Globe Arts Studio Event: GNUF 2019 - A Grand Northern Ukulele Festival Opportunity: A Celebration of Us Space: Vinyl Tap Records Image: WOVEN in Kirklees Video: DVEC - Automated Alice Audio File: Lullaby - Sonic Cradle Creative Kirklees Newsletter 7 May 2019 We are featuring lots of music in Kirklees this week.  As well as regular music events May brings us to festival time with a musical mix of annual festivals - Grand Northern Ukulele Festival, Shepley Spring Festival, Love 4 Music Festival and Holmfirth Festival of Folk.  You can see some of the regular local festivals on our new music festivals page on Creative Kirklees.  There will even be music at this month’s Temporary Contemporary Happening on 17 May from 5 – 7.30pm in Queensgate Market.  And while you’re there find out about Jean McEwan’s ‘Growing Cultures’ project – Jean is setting up stall from 10 May to the end of July and invites you to imagine, dream, talk about what tomorrow’s culture in Huddersfield could be and look like. Be sure you don’t miss out on all these exciting events in Kirklees this month! Events Thu 09 May 2019 Comedy Cellar: Nige & Jack Carroll Intimate, atmospheric and relaxed, our perennially popular monthly Comedy Cellars are the perfect way to experience stand-up in all its spontaneous, electrifying glory. NIGE (KEITH CARTER) As seen on Jason Manford’s ... Fri 03 to Fri 31 May 2019 (1 month) Friday Night Jive - May 2019 Quality live bands & artists representing music styles such as funk, soul, reggae, jazz, world, balkan, afrobeat, blues, hip-hop, swing, electronic, jump and jive. FREE ENTRY. May 3d - X-Ray Cat Trio Mixing Surf, Roc... Sat 11 to Sun 12 May 2019 (2 days) Grand Northern Ukulele Festival Voted, ‘Best Ukulele Festival’, Britain’s quirkiest, boldest and most welcoming festival is back! GNUF – A Grand Northern Ukulele Festival is one-of-a-kind featuring ukuleles and so much more – there is truly something f... Fri 10 to Sun 19 May 2019 (1 week) Holmfirth Festival of Folk Holmfirth Festival of Folk - Great music, great venues A lively weekend of music, concerts, street events, workshops and children's events, plus the spectacular Morris parade. The festival hosts free bands in almost ... Sat 11 May 2019 JB Barrington at Small Seeds, Huddersfield Fresh from his Channel 4 Dispatches commission about the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link project, cult performance poet JB Barrington is bringing his hard-hitting show to Huddersfield. Barrington, who names Jon... Sun 12 May to Sun 18 Aug 2019 (3 months) Music in the Garden A number of musical events will be taking place in the Heritage Memorial Garden, including: Honley Sax Choir Sunday 12 May 2pm - 4pm An afternoon of music from a community music group of adult players, most of whom ... Wed 08 May 2019 One Night Only Join us for One Night Only, a high energy show demonstrating the huge range of dance talent at Huddersfield New College. Guests will be able to enjoy a range of styles including contemporary, jazz, musical theatre and... Sun 19 May 2019 Piano Divas at Huddersfield Jazz PIANO DIVAS Wendy Kirkland: piano & voice Pat Sprakes: guitar Mike Green: double bass Caroline Boaden: drums Sunday 19 May 2019 at 2pm Cafe Society Byram Street Huddersfield www.huddersfield-jazz.co.uk Ti... Sat 18 May 2019 Roger Davies & His Band Roger Davies & His Band are guaranteed to please with their positive, upbeat, celebratory self-penned songs. Not quite folk, not quite rock, not quite pop, but somewhere in-between with great songs expertly performed ... Fri 17 to Sun 19 May 2019 (3 days) Shepley Spring Festival 2019 Kick off the 2019 festival season with the usual line up of festival favourites and tomorrow’s folk stars, dancers, children’s festival and more. Exiting new site, less than two miles from Shepley, in the beautiful 40 ac... Thu 02 May to Thu 18 Jul 2019 (3 months) Tall Tales | Music, Comedy & Poetry for older adults Join us at Tall Tales for tea & happy chatting. A variety mix of music, comedy, poetry, music hall and our mystery tour box. Come along to play, be entertained and learn new, easy skills in drama without even leaving ... Fri 17 May 2019 Temporary Contemporary Happening 17 May Join us for our monthly Temporary Contemporary Happening event on Friday 17 May, 5 - 7.30pm in Queensgate Market. Come and meet other artists, creatives and those involved in the Temporary Contemporary initiative and be... Tue 07 to Fri 10 May 2019 (4 days) University of Huddersfield Drama Festival Join us for the Common Grounds 3rd Year Drama Festival. There will be 15 plays being performed over 4 days by our talented final year students. To book tickets to any one of the performances please contact dramaevents@... Thu 09 to Fri 10 May 2019 (2 days) University of Huddersfield Pop Ensembles Wednesday 9th & 10th May 7:30pm Phipps Concert Hall Second and final year students perform original songs and covers from a variety of genres including blues, funk, prog and reggae. Opportunities Tue 28 May 2019 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The 4th World Congress of Psychogeography Would you like to lead a walk or give a talk about about some little-known or intriguing aspect of Huddersfield, Dewsbury or Marsden - or give a fresh or novel slant on a very familiar place? Welcome - you are invited t... Fri 31 May 2019 Exhibit at Batley Art Gallery Would you like to exhibit your work at Batley Art Gallery? We are inviting submissions from visual artists to display their work in this stunning grade 2 listed building. The exhibitions are six to eight weeks in duratio... Fri 10 May 2019 Job Vacancy: Festival Manager, hcmf// £25,000 (full time, fixed term 2-year contract to cover staff sabbatical) Based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) is looking for an outstanding Festival Manager to ma... Fri 10 May 2019 Job Vacancy: Learning & Participation Officer, hcmf// £22,000 (pro rata) Part time (0.5), permanent Based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) is looking for an ambitious Learning & Participation Officer with experience ... Fri 10 May 2019 Job Vacancy: Young Curators' Programme Coordinator, hcmf// £22,000 (pro rata) Part time (0.4), fixed term contract until 31 January 2021 Based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) is looking for an outstanding candidate for a... Fri 10 May 2019 Volunteer Board Members The Lawrence Batley Theatre is currently seeking new members to join the Board of Trustees. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and sectors but would particularly encourage applications from the following – ... Fri 31 May 2019 WOVEN - Volunteers wanted WOVEN is a celebration of innovation in textiles across Kirklees from 8-16 June that has been initiated by Kirklees Council in partnership and collaboration with festival curators HATCH, cultural organisations, artists,... News Sun 05 May 2019 Seeking investors Seeking investor to open local fashion boutique..village high street shop..selling especially sourced clothing lines for the 30 to 60 year old girl about town!