Karen's blog: Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, 21-30 June 2019

With full details of the Festival that starts this weekend:

Coming up this weekend...

STREET SUNDAY

23 June, St Georges Square & Marina, 1-6pm, Free
Join us in the centre of Hebden for street theatre by acrobats Black Eagles, Circo Rum Ba Ba Bicycle Bistro, Sid Bowfin, Old Time Rags, MC Mike Hancock and a rousing finale from New York Brass Band - North Yorkshire’s only contemporary New Orleans inspired brass band.

Digital Making Workshops

22 June, Big Tin Shed, 10am, 11.45am & 1.30pm Free

10am - Upcycled noise machines £FREE! (no take home)
Make the Robotic Chicken and the Entropic Agitator! Quirky circuits and mechanical sound machines built using upcycled computer junk and e-waste for components.

11.45am - Break-it drop-in: Un-making (dismantling)
Do you like making things? Unmaking is like that but the other way around. It’s gentle destruction. Drop in and have a go at dismantling electronic junk and scavenging the treasure inside for our own evil inventions.

1.30pm - Make a Bass Drive
£8 Materials costs (or bring your own) if you want to take your bass generator home. Hack an old hard drive into a powerful bass generator that you can take away with you. The finished bass generator produces a powerful bass tone when the disk is manually spun; the pitch decreases as the disk slows.

Calrec

22 June, Nutclough Mill, 12pm-4pm Free

For the last 20 years Calrec has developed a range of consoles and network technologies, working alongside broadcasters.

This is a unique chance to experience Hebden’s past and future in their Nutclough Mill, one of the last local textile mills to close.

Explore

22 June, The Egg Factory, 12pm-4.30pm Free / Explore bag £10

Log off, power down, pick up an Explore bag and head for the hills!
The Explore bag is a pack of creative ideas with individually designed activity cards: colour, drawing, sculpting, writing and map-making. All for you to take on a walk. Then share where you've been and what you've seen in a giant creative map.

Working Waters

22, 23 & 29 June, Hebden Bridge Town Hall, 12-5pm, Free
Arts Catalyst presents a touring programme of installations and participatory activities exploring ways of caring for the ecology and water systems in the Calder Valley, featuring new artworks by Ruth Levene and Invisible Flock

Free, everyone welcome!
Find out more at artscatalyst.org

Working Waters is an artwork by Yorkshire-based artist Ruth Levene that takes the form of a 3D model representation of the Calder Catchment. Workshops exploring the interdependent relationships within the water system will take place at 2pm on opening days, led by the Test Sites: Calder Valley co-inquiry team. These are free to attend and last around 1.5 hours.

Sign up to one via eventbrite:
22 June
23 June
29 June