What's On in Hebden Bridge
and the surrounding area - 2026
May Craft & Coffee Morning
Wadsworth Community Centre, 10am
Half-Term Craft and Coffee Morning:
Under 6 - "Something Blue" Story & Craft
6 to 10 yrs - "K'nex" Construction Challen
£2.00 each, including coffee/ juice/ snack
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Places Limited - So please email or phone 07980 536440
Suzi Ruffell
in conversation about her book, Am I Having Fun Now?
Hebden Bridge Town Hall Tuesday 26th May 7:30 - 9:00 pm Bar opens at 6.30pm until late. Followed by a book signing.
Tickets £10 online at hblitandsci.org.uk and at Hebden Bridge Town Hall Mon to Fri (cash/chq only)
Join comedian Suzi Ruffell for the launch of her new book, an honest and funny memoir, with signing and audience Q&A.
Pennine Spring Music
A Festival of Classical Music for choir and orchestra
All at 7:30pm, St Thomas the Apostle Heptonstall HX7 7NT
Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb
Clyne - Restless Oceans
Milhaud - Scaramouche for saxophone and orchestra
Schumann - Symphony No.4
Orr Guy - orchestral conductor and saxophone Keith Orrell - choral conductor
Robert Woods - assistant choral conductor and accompanist
Tickets: £12, free for 18 years old and under
Georgian Ensemble: Lalkhori
Birchcliffe Centre, Birchcliffe Road, Hebden Bridge HX7 8DG
6 – 7.30pm Workshop to learn Georgian Songs
8-9pm Concert by Lalkhori
Immerse yourself in the culture of the country of Georgia, with the Lalkhori enaemble from the wild, remote Svaneti region. Amazing harmonies, dances and rituals.
All welcome to attend both the singing workshop and the concert, or just one event. Previous experience and ability to read music are not needed for the workshop as songs will be taught by ear.
Sliding scale of prices based on what you can afford to pay:
Workshop only £18/15/12/10
Concert only £18/15/12/10
Combined £30/25/20/15
Becoming Other - Lula Braimbridge - Preview night
In a Land Gallery, Linden Mill
Join us for the preview night of our latest show by Lula Braimbridge.
Becoming Other explores cycles of growth searching for transformation and release, like a creature that builds its own shelter before re-emerging in a new form.
Preview will be from 6.30pm - 9pm
Pennine Spring Music
A Festival of Classical Music for choir and orchestra
All at 7:30pm, St Thomas the Apostle Heptonstall HX7 7NT
Beethoven - Victory Symphony from Wellington's Victory (wind ensemble)
Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 (saxophone solo and cello ensemble)
Rachmaninov - selection from Vespers (unaccompanied choir)
Orr Guy - orchestral conductor and saxophone Keith Orrell - choral conductor
Robert Woods - assistant choral conductor and accompanist
Tickets: £12, free for 18 years old and under
Healthy Lunch for People + Planet
The Celt Kitchen - Calderdale Ecological Land Trust
with Annie F Cooking us some Korean-inspired loveliness
12-2pm, monthly
Wadsworth Community Centre
pay as you can, £12 suggested
Shaggy Dog Storytellers present:
Stories from the floor
8-10pm, The Dusty Miller, Mytholmroyd, function room
It's time to gather again for old fables, fairy tales, folk tales, myths, legends, and just good old yarns.
Whether you've got a story to tell, or simply like to listen, join us for an enjoyable evening.
Recommended donation £5 p/p
WACA Ceilidh
Pennine Spring Music
A Festival of Classical Music for choir and orchestra
All at 7:30pm, St Thomas the Apostle Heptonstall HX7 7NT
Orrell - Four Rivers for mezzo soprano solo, choir & orchestra
Ravel - Boléro
De Falla - The Three-cornered Hat orchestral suite No.2
Rimsky - Korsakov - Capriccio Espagnol
Orr Guy - orchestral conductor and saxophone Keith Orrell - choral conductor
Robert Woods - assistant choral conductor and accompanist
Tickets: £12, free for 18 years old and under
The Lost Chord Ensemble
The Lost Chord Ensemble is a small group of musicians who support the Little Theatre. They meet about once a month usually on a Sunday evening to play light music. Musicians (with their music stand) are invited to come and play.
If you are coming for the first time, please contact chris.browne@tiscali.co.uk with details of your instrument so that a pad of music can be made available.
7:15 for a 7:30pm start
The Coiners Room, Dusty Miller Inn, Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd HX7 5LH
Three brilliant 'poets who edit':
Jane Commane
Peter Sansom
Michael Schmidt
Hat passed round for poets. Books to buy
Car park at rear - bus stop outside - station 5 minutes walk
Free. All Welcome
The Sap and Sinew I Held - Florence Hutchinson
Preview Night
In a Land Gallery, Linden Mill, 6.30 pm
Join us for the opening of Florence Hutchinson's exhibition 'The Sap and Sinew I Held'
Florence will be showing a sequence of abstract oil paintings, from 2025-2026. She works spontaneously, in a multi-layered process of visceral mark-making, often drawn by emotional release. She creates a material dialogue using heavy-handed oil paint, cold wax medium, charcoal and ink.
Ambient Bowling
Delighted to announce the first Ambient Bowling gathering of 2026, on Saturday 13 June, 2-8pm.
Come try your hand at crown green bowls, have a drink from the Blue Pig bar, unwind to the ambient sounds emanating from the pavilion, and wonder at the idyllic location.
All welcome, including well behaved dogs on leads.
Suggested donation £3 (cash only venue).
All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the green and pavilion.
Hebden Bridge Bowling Club (along Hebden Water past the archery and cricket clubs).
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Charlestown Open Gardens
A group of local gardens opening for charity 11 am - 4 pm
Refreshments are available in some gardens, and visitors are encouraged to travel by foot and by bus.
Full details and a map of the gardens can be located at charlestownopengardens.wordpress.com
Hobson's Choice for Hebden Bridge:
Hobson's Choice, is a darkly comic tale about a stubborn 1880s Salford based cobbler and his three headstrong daughters.
This northern classic, penned in 1916 by Harold Brighouse, is being staged at the Little Theatre from 15-20 June.
Passports, Assasins, Traitors and Spies
A talk by Martin Lloyd to the Todmorden U3A. 2pm
Todmorden Learning and Community Hub (Tod College)
In this talk Martin will reveal how three passports have played and influential role in the course of history. He will will explain about an attempted assssination which altered the regulations for issuing passports, the capture of a spy which caused a worldwide modification to the design of the document; and, for one person, the passport itself which turned into a killer.
The meeting start at 2pm at Todmorden Learning and Community Hub (Tod College) and is open to paid up members of the Todmorden u3a, but if you would to attend you can enquire by going to www.u3a,org.uk or by contacting membership@u3atod.org.uk
Healthy Lunch for People + Planet
The Celt Kitchen - Calderdale Ecological Land Trust
Tezza B of Nelsons Notoriety
12-2pm, monthly
Wadsworth Community Centre
pay as you can, £12 suggested
Hebden Bridge Open Studios - Window Trail
70 venues in Hebden Bridge
As part of Hebden Bridge Open Studios (3-5 July), artists are displaying their work in the windows of 70 local venues in the run up to, and during the event.
Todmorden Orchestra
Summer Concert
Before Dawn
Todmorden Orchestra with soloist Claire Marsden
Saturday 27 June, 7:30pm
Todmorden Town Hall
£14 adult / £12 concessions / £3 under 16s
Book here
Programme
Mendelssohn - Ruy Blas
Reinhold Glière - Horn Concerto
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
Info
Two Russian works showcase the rich orchestral tradition of the late Romantic era.
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade weaves tales from One Thousand and One Nights, while Glière's lyrical Horn Concerto features talented young soloist Claire Marsden.
A BBC Young Musician brass finalist studying at the Royal Academy of Music, Claire has performed with orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic.
Hebden Bridge Vintage Fair
Hebden Bridge Town Hall, 10.30 am
Vintage Fair featuring independent vintage fashion & homeware sellers with a café and live music!
£2 entry, under 16s free
In a Land 1st Birthday
In a Land Gallery, Linden Mill, 12pm
Join In a Land for Open Studios and to celebrate our one year birthday, we will have cake!
In a land Gallery and studios hold monthly workshops and exhibitions so come and say hey and get involved!
Open Studios
The Methodist Church in Hebden Bridge (near the Co-op on Market Street) will host 28 different artists this summer. In addition, visitors can explore 12 shared studio venues and 20 individual studios across Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd and Heptonstall.
Heptonstall Hilltoppers Summer Concert
St. James The Great, Church Lane, 2-4 pm
Heptonstall Hilltoppers Community Choir will be singing a summer concert to support Shared Harmonies in a relaxed family-friendly and dementia-friendly atmosphere.
Tickets available at the door. Under 16s free.
Mytholmroyd Repair Cafe
Mytholmroyd Repair Cafe is on at St Michael's Church Hall HX7 5DS
1pm to 4pm
We mend electricals, garments, bikes and will have a go at most things! Repairs by donation only.
Refreshments and our famous cakes!
All welcome.
Classic and vintage cars weekend
Hebden Bridge Vintage Weekend is the Hebden Bridge Rotary Club's main fundraising event and is held at Calder Holmes Park in Hebden Bridge. It features classic and vintage cars, live entertainment, stalls of every description, a children's play area, food court and much more.
Running over the first full weekend in August, this event provides great entertainment for all the family attracting visitors from all over the North as well the residents of HX7 and surrounding area.
See website for more info
Mark Thomas:
40 In Stand Up Years
8pm Trades Club
What?! Mark Thomas has been 'standing up' for 40 years? Impossible!! But how old does that make you…? Alas it is true; one of our oldest surviving alternative comics celebrates 40 years at the mic as he takes his brand-new show on the road this autumn.
So, here's what he has done so far in numbers; performed comedy for 40 years, won 8 awards for performing, 4 for human rights work and 1 he invented for himself, made 6 series of the Mark Thomas Comedy Product (Channel 4), written 6 books and 5 play scripts, made 5 series of the Manifesto for Radio 4, made 3 Dispatches for Channel 4, sued the police (and won) 3 times, curated and authored 2 art exhibitions with artist Tracey Moberly and had 1 Guinness World Record for holding 20 protests in 24 hours.
If that's not enough, he's also walked 724km around the length of the Israel Wall in the West Bank, been credited with changing the law on tax avoidance, started a comedy club in Palestine with Dr Sam Beale and campaigned successfully for things like trade union recognition for cinema workers and getting multinationals to change their practices. You're right, there's more, but your attention is running out and we're running out of space. So, let's just say he's generally mucked about trying to have fun and upset the right people…which he is really, really good at.
This is a taster menu of political and personal mayhem, jokes, rants and a state of the nation broadcast as he tries to turn 'what the hell is going on' into a cogent evening of stand-up.
Graphic: Tracey Moberly and Greg Matthews