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Creative Kirklees Newsletter 20 September 2022   Welcome back to our newsletter bringing you all the latest creative offerings in the area. This weekend we have the Onwards Festival coming up – an unusual event that leads audiences successively through grassroots music venues in Huddersfield town centre, showcasing a carefully curated programme of live music. Then, coming up on 6th- 9th October, Marsden Jazz Festival is back with a stellar line-up of electrifying world class jazz – be having a look through the programme and see what delights they have in store. There are numerous theatre and musical performances, films and workshops coming up and some interesting exhibitions to visit in the week/s ahead - some here in our newsletter and more on the website.   This week is the last week our newsletter will be sent out from the current website.  From next week it will be sent out on a Wednesday from our brand new Creative Kirklees website.  If you want to continue to receive the newsletter please do remember to sign up - simply visit the new site here and subscribe when the subscription screen pops up - have a look around the site while you are there! Hopefully see you next week with our new look newsletter!     Events Wed 21 to Thu 22 Sep 2022 (2 days) ALiCE ALiCE promises a sensory feast of arresting images, powerful performers and striking kinetic scenery. Following the internationally acclaimed success of her adaptation of Pinocchio, award winning choreographer Jasmin ...   Thu 22 Sep to Thu 17 Nov 2022 (2 months) Boozy Book Club Join our CEO Becky Atkinson for a monthly gathering to discuss a wide variety of novels over a glass of wine and a slice of cake. September’s title is Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. New novel selected each mo...   Wed 28 Sep to Sat 01 Oct 2022 (4 days) Ceramic Figure Sculpture, a masterclass Immerse yourself in the lifestyle of a figurative sculptor. In this course we will spend four days working from a live model to study the art of clay figure sculpture. At the end of the course you will have produced a ha...   Thu 22 Sep 2022 Comedy Cellar - September 2022 Join us for the September edition of Huddersfield's monthly comedy night. This month is a special edition as we host the Monarch Of Mirth Award. 8 of the finest emerging stand-ups will compete for a trophy, £100 and a...   Thu 22 Sep 2022 Dinky Disco - Pre-School Movers - September Gather up your little movers, shakers, ravers and disco queens for a daytime dance party with a difference. Our resident DJ will be spinning tracks specially chosen to be enjoyed by little tapping toes and also get th...   Sat 17 Sep to Sat 08 Oct 2022 (3 weeks) Drawing for Beginners (and Improvers) Join our Resident Artist Barbara Hellowell to explore your creativity and learn new skills. Drawing for Beginners (and Improvers) is a great introduction to the joys of drawing. In each workshop, Barbara will gentl...   Fri 23 to Sun 25 Sep 2022 (3 days) Friendsical Friendsical is an original and unique new parody musical inspired by the gang in Friends, the iconic TV show. When Ross’s wife leaves him for another woman, he fears he will never find love again. But then Rachel runs...   Sat 10 Sep to Sat 01 Oct 2022 (3 weeks) Huddersfield Art Society - 126th Annual Exhibition Huddersfield Art Society are holding their 126th Annual Exhibition at Unit 18 on the Piazza. There will be over 100 paintings on display by approximately 50 artists.   Sat 08 to Sun 09 Oct 2022 (2 days) Intro to: Etching Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th October 2022 10am – 4pm Spend a fun, hands-on weekend learning the basics of etching to create your own hand-made prints in our professionally equipped studios. Famously used by artists su...   Sat 24 Sep 2022 Intro to: Mordant Printing with Natural Dyes Saturday 24th September 2022 11-4pm Your tutor: Kirstie Williams Learn the process of screen printing using natural mordant pastes and natural dyes to dye and print cloth. This day workshop will give a basic overa...   Thu 06 to Sun 09 Oct 2022 (4 days) Marsden Jazz Festival 2022 On our 30th year, we're proud to be presenting a stellar lineup of electrifying world-class jazz in our picturesque Pennine village from 6th-9th October 2022. Have a flick through the digital programme on our website, ge...   Sat 24 to Sun 25 Sep 2022 (2 days) Onwards Festival A multi venue live music festival with a twist, Onwards as the name suggests leads audiences successively through Huddersfield town centre, grassroots music venues, showcasing a carefully curated programme of live music....   Sun 25 Sep 2022 PARALLEL MOTHERS (film) Directed by Pedro Almodovar and starring Penelope Cruz - a lively melodrama about two single women who meet in a maternity ward - with a twist. Two mothers (a brilliant Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit), of differing a...   Tue 27 Sep to Tue 20 Dec 2022 (3 months) Playreading Playreading Fun, friendly and informal, our playreading group is open to all, whether you’d like to read for a character or simply listen and enjoy. Meeting monthly at 11am, we will be sharing a variety of popular ...   Tue 27 Sep 2022 Red Sky at Night 7.30pm Pay what you feel Through the chronicles of history, people have gazed up and marvelled at the mysteries of the weather. Generations have tried to master the elements, and understand the magic of the skies. Hayley’s sunny, beloved dad ...   Sat 17 Sep to Sun 23 Oct 2022 (1 month) Samantha Bryan: The Adventure So Far Working from her garden studio in West Yorkshire, the designer, maker and illustrator Samantha Bryan creates a delicate, humorous yet industrious species of fairy. Often growing out of her eclectic hoard of beautiful b...   Thu 06 Oct 2022 Simon Armitage and LYR - Pre-festival fundraiser gig This individual pre-Marsden Jazz Festival gig is both a celebration of National Poetry Day and a fundraiser for St Barts and Marsden Jazz Festival. LYR (Land Yacht Regatta) comprises author and current British Poet ...   Thu 15 Sep to Thu 15 Dec 2022 (3 months) Storytime Join us at 10:30am every Thursday during term time for stories, songs and activities in collaboration with Kirklees Libraries. Sign up for your first library card and pick out some books to take home with you. Free...   Thu 29 Sep to Sat 01 Oct 2022 (3 days) The Tempest After the success of Henry V, our ★★★★ (The Stage) A Christmas Carol and Macbeth, our community production returns for 2022! It’s a hot August and thunderstorms are brewing. All summer, the drama club from the Nationa...   Mon 19 Sep to Sat 22 Oct 2022 (1 month) Tom Ratcliffe - Reflection This Autumn we are proud to exhibit Reflection, by the very accomplished Dr Tom Ratcliffe. A private viewing will be held on the 17th September for family, close friends, and Friends of Globe, and open to the public f...   Opportunities Sat 01 Oct 2022 Lantern making workshops with Holmfirth Arts Festival Holmfirth Arts Festival has announced its last outdoor event for 2022, with an evening lantern trail around Magdale Dam, Honley. Before the event, (taking place on October 15, 2022) there is an opportunity to attend fre...   Thu 20 Oct 2022 Marketing & Communications Lead - East Street Arts Salary: £31,000 the role is offered full-time at 37.5 hours a week. East Street Arts are looking for someone to lead their marketing and communications, grow the organisation’s reach with audiences, and support their ...   Fri 14 Oct 2022 Researcher (Freelance), WIRED, Yorkshire Sound Women Network Contract Profile Researcher, WIRED Yorkshire Sound Women Network Role: Researcher (Freelance) Contract: 20 days, between December 2022 – September 2023 Fee: £300 per day; total fee £6,000 Reports to: WIRED Co...   Thu 22 Sep 2022 Volunteering Futures Project Co-ordinator This is an exciting opportunity to join our volunteer services team to support a new Volunteer Programme for 16- 24 year olds working in partnership with Kirklees Year of Music and Lawrence Batley Theatre. The post is 30...   News Mon 19 Sep 2022 Autumn 2022 Long Weekend of Film As Autumn closes in, Holmfirth Film Festival continues bringing an eclectic mix of monthly Sunday evening screenings to the Holme Valley. September's offering, next Sunday, Pedro Almodovar's Parallel Mothers (starring P...   Tue 13 Sep 2022 Beethoven and ballet gems to open Dewsbury Lunchtime Concerts The Orchestra of Opera North’s Associate Leader Andrew Long will be joined by Ian Buckle on piano to open a new season of Lunchtime Concerts in Dewsbury Town Hall on Wednesday 21 September, with a famously difficult Beet...   Tue 20 Sep 2022 David Pipe to replace Jonathan Scott at organ concert - 26 Sept Unfortunately, Jonathan Scott, Associate Artist of The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester has had to cancel his organ concert at Huddersfield Town Hall on Monday 26 September due to a wrist injury. This is very disappointin...   Fri 09 Sep 2022 Light up Magdale Dam with Holmfirth Arts Festival Holmfirth Arts Festival has announced its last outdoor event for 2022, with an evening lantern trail around Magdale Dam. Before the event, on October 15, 2022, there is an opportunity to attend free (or pay what you dec...   Tue 20 Sep 2022 Re-subscribe to the NEW Creative Kirklees newsletter We'll be going live and making the switch over to our new website next week (26 September). To keep getting your fill of creative news don’t forget to sign up for our new newsletter on the new Creative Kirklees website....