Freecycle event
Hope Baptist Church
Saturday August 28th from 12 - 2pm.

After running a successful clothes swap party "Pimp My Closet" during this years Big Green Weekend, I have decided to hold another like event but this time include all items and not just clothing. I am asking people to put things aside if they are having a clear out or have things they no longer use. I can collect items if necessary and if people just want to donate that is more than fine. The event will be entry by donation (any amount but suggesting around 50p) and after that everything is free to take if you think you can provide someones unwanted items a new and loving home.

All I ask is that any items donated or brought to the event are in decent working order. Items may include household items such as plates, cutlery, glassware, bed linens, baby toys, tools, basically anything that you think someone else might benefit from.

Any monies raised will go to the funds to help the repair of Hope Baptist Church and/or another local charity to be decided.

If anyone has items that need collecting then I can be contacted on my email or by mobile 07928 177737.

Joanne Johnson

A Play on the lives of Martha Crossley of Dean Clough, Halifax
and Lavena Saltonstall, Hebden Bridge and Halifax Suffragette.

By Anna Carlisle.

A promenade event from Square Chapel to Halifax Minster.

Times: 2 pm daily 14-22 August (excluding 16 August)
Venue: starts at Square Chapel churchyard, 10 Square Road Halifax HX1 1 OG and continues to Halifax Minster, Causeway Halifax HX1 1 OL

Tickets: £10 (concessions E7, under 5s free) to include refreshments. Tickets may be purchased by telephone or in person from Square Chapel box office: 01422 349 422 (information: www.halifaxfestival.co.uk)

Promenade performances: own seating permitted. Wheelchair access feasible (enquire upon ticket purchase)

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A weekend of exploration of
ecology and spirituality with
Satish Kumar

Public Talk: Friday 20th August, Chapel Hall, The Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge

Weekend Retreat: Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd August, The Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge.

Satish Kumar is internationally known as a leading spokesperson for the emerging vision of a holistic, non-violent and ecologically sustainable society built upon the ideas of M.K.Gandhi and E.F.Schumacher. A former Jain monk, he worked alongside Gandhi's spiritual successor, Vinobha Bhave, in the movement for social and economic justice in India before undertaking an 8000 mile Peace Walk to Europe and the USA.

Satish has been editor of Resurgence magazine for over 35 years, was the founder of the Small School at Hartland and Schumacher College in Dartington, where he was Director of Programmes for 20 years. His books include Earth Pilgrim; Only Connect: Soil, Soul, Society; Spiritual Compass; The Three Qualities of Life; The Buddha and the Terrorist: The Story of Angulimala; and two volumes of autobiography - No Destination and You Are, Therefore I Am - A Declaration of Dependence.

The weekend will be a rare opportunity to work in depth with this inspirational teacher, and will seek to make the connections between the work of inner and outer transformation that is needed to bring about a balanced, sustainable and non-violent workd. It will include meditation and yoga, talks, discussions and small group work, cookery and walking in nature. The weekend will commence with a public talk on in the Chapel Hall starting at 7 pm on Friday 20th August.

Weekend Course Including Public Talk: £150 Concessions £100

Public Talk Only One Price Only - £5.00

Get outdoors and go wild!
Monday 23rd to Friday 27th August from 12.00 until 4.00 each day - family fun at Hardcastle Crags — come along and have a go at lots of activities from art and craft to den building! All the activities are free and suitable for all the family — but be warned you might get dirty! Ask for details at Gibson Mill or phone 01422 841023. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

COMEDY AT THE TRADES - Stand up comedy used to be a male preserve but a new generation of female stand ups are taking on the testosterone fuelled circuit led by the Laughing Calves comedy collective. Read more - 16 August

The Birchcliffe Centre, 8.00pm, £5 entry on the door

Hibernate celebrates it's first birthday with a night of static, decay and bursts of melody featuring...

Ian Hawgood - enjoys making music using piano, pump organ, mellotron, vibraphone, rhodes, guitar, old tube amps and other mostly vintage equipment.

Talvihorros - experimental composer from London, UK exploring the possibilities of the guitar. His compositions venture into the fields of ambient, experimental, drone, post-rock and folk but dont fall into the cliches associated with any of these genres.

Tom White - a sound and visual artist currently based in London. Working with found sounds, tape collage, mic feedback and fragments of instrumentation, to create composition, sound art and film sound.

Was Ist Das Soundsystem - Spinning a mixture of ambient & drone between sets.

Summer Boxing Boot Camp

Women Only - Hebden Hey
Fri 13 - Sun 15 Aug 2010 -

Residential Boot Camp - The first of its kind in West Yorkshire. Led by Box 4 Fitness, female ABA Boxing Tutors, Summer Boxing Boot Camp kicks is a 2 day, 2 night programme built on killer outdoor circuits, woodland runs, boxing and metabolic training. For more information visit www.boxingbootcamp.org or call Kate 077 3243 3243

500 Faces exhibition. Arts Festival shop, Albert Street. A collection of 500 portraits of local people – the largest photo project of its kind being undertaken in the UK. www.500faces.co.uk

TODSTOCK
Todmorden Centre Vale Park

Live Band Stage
House Music Tent
Dubstep Tent
Reggae Tent
Psytrance Tent
Acoustic Tent
Kids Activity Tent
Food Stalls
Craft / Market Stalls

Free admission. Donations collected on entry to support local charities

This event will showcase the best musical talent from around the region with a few names also. Please become a fan to support it.

More info

Rochdale Canal Festival 2010
24th July – 1st August

A walking, biking, wildlife-watching, canoeing, angling, boating, eating, relaxing week of fun!

Discover the Rochdale Canal through Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale and Calderdale and join a week of free activities including guided walks, bike rides, canoe and angling taster sessions, boat rides, wildlife safaris, lantern parades, story telling and much more.

A full programme available from www.thewaterwaystrust.org.uk

Crackers the Clown and his fun-loving friends will be crossing Hebden’s packhorse bridge 500 times over the weekend of July 31 and August 1 – dancing, telling stories and just being plain daft.

The event, part of the celebrations to mark the 500th anniversary of the bridge, will also be raising cash for mental health charities MIND and Soteria.

Weather permitting, Crackers, alias Tim Gibbons, will be attempting the 500 costumed crossings between 11am and noon and between 3pm and 4pm on both days.

Tim will also be running clowning workshops in the autumn. Would-be clowns can call him on 01422 842851 or email for more details.

Full details of all HB500 events are at www.hebden500.co.uk.

Vintage Car Weekend

The Hebden Bridge Vintage Weekend, organised by the Rotary Club of Hebden Bridge, will be staged at Calder Holmes Park on 31st July-1st August 2010. This popular family event attracts hundreds of vintage and classic cars, motorcycles, commercial, military and American vehicles as well as kit cars. For further information or for entry form contact Dave Bell on 01422 842597 or email

Jive Hop with Hebden’s own
TC and the Swingcats
Hole int Wall Hebden Bridge. 2pm
Sunday Aug 1st. absolutely Free!

Some Girls’ Mothers

5pm at Hebden Bridge Town Hall

One of the most successful and engaging literature tours of recent years will be arriving in Hebden Bridge in August with a very special performance. The event which takes place at the Town Hall, St George’s Street at 5pm, will be only the second time that all six featured writers will have performed together, and for Char March and Anne Caldwell, it will be a significant home town performance.

Best friend or bete noir? How does the mother/daughter relationship colour women’s lives? In Some Girls’ Mothers six authors share their stories on stage and in print.

"Touching, wounding and humbling," - Simon Armitage

Tickets: £3 on door

Comedy, Reggae and Strictly Come (Tango) Dancing at the Trades this week - 19 July

Hole In t‚ Wall

8.00pm, free entry.

Jasper TX is the musical moniker of Sweden‚s Dag Rosenqvist. Using electric and acoustic guitar, piano, pump organ, melodica, glockenspiel, voice and various other instruments as a foundation for his compositions.

Canadian artist Mark Templeton utilizes a background in acoustic music and instruments such as the guitar, banjo and accordion to compose electro-acoustic music using said instruments and a variety of effects processes.

Danny Saul (guitar, vocal) has been an active part of a largely undocumented Manchester music scene for nearly 10 years. After playing guitar with the now-defunct Tsuji Giri (whose self-released Steve Albini-recorded album came out in 2005), Danny began developing a more personal compositional and performance method.

Was Ist Das Soundsystem
Spinning a mixture of drone, ambient & folk between sets.

FOLKFEST AT THE TRADES - The inaugural Hebden Bridge Folk Festival kicks off this coming weekend featuring legendary The Men they Couldn’t Hang and folk royalty Robin Williamson. More info - 12 July

Hebden Bridge Folk roots festival. The Trades Club, Stubbing Wharf and Fox and Goose will host gigs, workshops and join-in sessions to celebrate the best of folk and roots music with a mixture of local, national and international talent on show. A celebration of Hebden Bridge’s creativity, especially in the field of music.

Heptonstall Festival
An afternoon of live music, magic and storytelling, featuring actress and storyteller Ursula Holden Gill, Hebden Hill Millies, TC & the Swingcats, the Fat Rascals, children’s entertainment and much more. 12-6pm in Weavers Square, and then at the Cross Inn.

Jill Liddington on writing suffragette: Lavena Saltonstall
Friday 9 July, Hebden Bridge Library, 7.30pm

Lavena Saltonstall, fustian tailoress from Hebden Bridge, is the most celebrated of all local suffragettes. We know about her through her vivid writing, in which she reflected back on her own confining growing-up. This evening, Jill Liddington, author of Rebel Girls, discusses Lavena’s own writing and the Votes for Women campaigns which took her first to Halifax, then down to London, then into Holloway. Tickets £2 (£1.50 concs) from Hebden Bridge Library

After the success of the first ever ‘Big Night In’ back in January 2010, popular demand has led to the event being held again on Friday 9th July. The event is a unique initiative designed to entertain all audiences, with various acts of entertainment scheduled in to take place throughout the evening.

Performing on the night will be a total of four live acts, with extremely talented Patrick McCallion opening the evening, local bands Pink Elephant Fish and Frontier Psychiatrists and headlining the act will be an unmissable band… There will be plenty of audience participation too with a round of ‘Play Your Cards Right’ and a family quiz. A bar and BBQ will also be present.

If you’d like to reserve tickets please email Billy or call 07768863233

Festival Bus: 2pm

Take the bus to Berringden Brow, not far from Hebden bridge, where truth really can be stranger than fiction, renew your acquaintance with Carnal Claire, Unreliant Robin, Man-With-Mother, and the dastardly Donald Patterson, plus Mash the Dog, whose amorous adventures and other cannine escapades have been known to bring the entire village to a standstill ...

Hotfoot from Glastonbury where they regularly headline the ‘Blazing Saddles’ Stage, Mundo Jazz are the world’s only Comedy World-Music band, and preach peace, love and understanding with all the subtlety of a brick hitting butter. Superb musical and comic improvisers with ridiculously catchy songs, awful dancing and thunderously crass philosophising.

"A sort of live, Latino Spinal Tap. Very, very, very funny." Daily Express

" …combine genuinely thrilling harmonies and killer songs with side-splitting gags. Their solution to Third World debt is the best joke I’ve ever heard. Period." The Times.

"Ludicrously brave and truly unique. Kill for a ticket (but not with guns)!" The Scotsman.

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Festival Bus

Saturday 10th July at 4pm and 6pm
Sunday 11th July at 6pm

The last weekend of the festival sees the first performances of the brand new Contemporary Dance Theatre Company, DankDance. Instigated by local Dance Artist Nicholas Keegan, DankDance aims to make exciting contemporary dance work that challenges perspectives of public spaces, and explores the potential of collaborative art work.

The piece, Bliss is Ignorance, has been specially created for Hebden Bridge Arts Festival as a site specific performance. It is a collaborative work made by a collective of Dancers and Actors; Amelia Cardwell, Jessica Hothersall, Lindy Nsingo, Christopher Keegan, Nicholas Keegan, Dwayne Simms. Brothers Nicholas and Christopher Keegan (Dancer and Actor) grew up in Hebden Bridge and have gone on to pursue professional careers. This is their first collaboration together and they are thrilled to be able to present it in their home town. The Company therefore plans to develop and present workshop opportunities within local schools and open workshops to the community alongside their performance work.

Relive the Battle of Heptonstall
The Battle of Heptonstall organised by Hebden Bridge Local History Society and Lt. Col. John Lilburne’s Regiment of The Sealed Knot.

Writers’ Roadshow
Sunday 11 July, Hebden Bridge Library, 9am to 5pm

A day of talks, readings, workshops and discussions with locally based authors. Stretch your creative muscles, meet publishers and learn from other writers. There is also a chance for a one to one session on your own writing on the Saturday.
£20/£15 concs (including lunch). Extra fee of £10 for one to one sessions.

For more information and a programme/booking form, please email Anna Turner or phone 01422 392606.

Ginger Genius and Festival events
at the Trades Club - Read more

Hebden Bridge Arts Festival

SATURDAY 26 JUNE TO SUNDAY 11 JULY

Website

Contemporary Art Photography by Paul Croft, Sarah Halstead, Lee Richardson Foster and Angie Rogers, exploring the themes of nature and the local environment.

30th June - 18 July Open daily 11-4
Earth Spirit Gallery, upstairs at Earth Spirit
23 Market Street, Hebden Bridge Tel: 01422 847770

The Stubbing Wharf will be hosting its 4th Cider Festival, from 2nd to 4th July 2010. As well as a range of over 70 different ciders from producers across the length and breadth of the UK and beyond; there will be canal boat cruises, live music from some popular local turns, a magician and children’s entertainment.

The Stubbing Wharf is located off the A646 on the west side of Hebden Bridge, sandwiched between the River Calder and the Rochdale Canal.

Festival Bus: 12 noon

Take the bus to Berringden Brow, not far from Hebden bridge, where truth really can be stranger than fiction, renew your acquaintance with Carnal Claire, Unreliant Robin, Man-With-Mother, and the dastardly Donald Patterson, plus Mash the Dog, whose amorous adventures and other cannine escapades have been known to bring the entire village to a standstill…

An afternoon of song involving 500 voices around Bridge Gate and St George’s Square. Pack Horse Bridge, Sunday, 4th July, 2pm. Spend an hour or so listening to songs in harmony and unison to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the packhorse bridge. Local choirs will sing a specially commissioned piece by Daniel Bath and charm you with songs from their own repertoire for this Festival event. Come and join in - be one of the 500 Voices!

Summer Music at Wainsgate
3pm

The acclaimed period performance group Arioso presents an exciting show of dance and vocal music to celebrate the opening of the Hebden bridge in 1510. This fascinating programme will include some of the best loved renaissance music from the first 100 years of the bridge’s life

More info

The Hepton Singers’ summer festival concert
Spanning 500 years: music from 1510 to 2010 in Heptonstall Parish Church at 8pm. A varied selection of sacred and secular music connected with the year 1510 by composers including Josquin des Pres, Clemens non Papa, and William Cornysh.  The programme will also include Delius’ To be sung of a summer night on the water and the premiere of Afresh, seven times by Alison West, which sets a sequence of haiku-like poems by Donald Atkinson in a musical composition of shifting moods – reflective, witty and watery! More info at www.heptonsingers.co.uk

Summer Music at Wainsgate: Strangeworld: A top class acoustic folk band, Strangeworld play what’s been described as haunting, energetic and exquisite music.- 1 June

Drawn to Art – Todmorden Art College summer show
6-8pm - opening night

Todmorden art college summer show – Drawn to Art – showcases work from two courses, Art and Design Access to Higher Education Diploma and the Art and Design Diploma.

There will be over 40 artists with diverse work on display.

The Opening Night is Thurs 1 July 6-8pm and will be opened by Mary Loney OBE and then the show is open weekdays from 10-4 between 4 and 7 July.

For more info you can email Holly

George’s Square

Flamenco music and dance performance of the Hebden Bridge classes as part of the Handmade Parade and Arts Festival.

See website

Handmade Parade 2010

SATURDAY 26 JUNE

Handmade Parade Open Workshops
Come along to make costumes, giant puppets and parade art ahead of the Handmade Parade on June 26. www.hebdenbridgeparade.org.uk

Go Dippy! at Hardcastle Crags 11-2

Come along and get involved with our pond surveys at Hardcastle Crags, help us to find and identify the bugs and beasts living in our old mill ponds.

We’ll be pond dipping from 11am at Gibson Mill so feel free to join us for as long as you like.

Admission to the event is free.
Gibson Mill is approx 1 mile walk from the main car park, disabled parking spaces available at the mill on request.

Location: Hardcastle Crags, Midgehole Road, Hebden Bridge

Contact: Gemma Wren on 01422 841020 or by email

The Bridge Birthday Bash
Get your glad rags on for the bridge’s 500th birthday party. The fun starts from 1.30pm – who knows when it’ll end!

• Packhorse procession over the bridge
• Madcap mediaeval capers with Will Tease the Jester and the dramatic, dancing King’s Troupe of local children
• Mediaeval music, dance and merriment
• A chance to swot up on bridge facts and fiction with snippets to fascinate even the unfascinatable
• A jolly big batch of birthday buns
• Some jolly loud bangs
• The Handmade Parade Samba Brigade
• And some jolly surprising surprises!

Hebden Bridge Band Heritage Weekend, beginning with a concert at the Picture House on Saturday evening featuring the Hebden Bridge Band and guest soloist Joe Cook on tuba. Sunday will see a whole host of traditional brass bands taking part in the third Hebden Bridge marching contest.

LUDDFEST 2010

Now in its third year, Luddfest offers a variety of musical performances in locations such as St Mary’s Church and the Lord Nelson Pub & Beer Garden. This year’s event is slightly smaller in size to last year but will still present around fourteen different musical performances.

Wednesday 16th at 2.30 till 4.30

RefuTea at the Trades Club

Tea is supportive warm and welcoming - just how we want refugees to feel in the UK. Come along to the Trades club for afternoon tea to discover and celebrate the contributions refugees bring to the UK. Refugee and asylum seekers from Halifax who run a social enterprise with Janet Oosthuysen (called Cafe Wednesday) at St Augustines Centre will be around for a chat and infromation. Donations to St Augustines to help continue their work with refugees.

Police and Communities Together Meeting (PACT)

The next police meeting will be part of Calderdale’s ward forum meeting on Tuesday 15 June, at 6.30pm for a 7pm start in Hebden Bridge Town Hall.

Troubadours, folk and blues at the Trades Club this week. - Orkestra del Sol, Brooks Williams, Steve Tilston and The Stations. Read more - 13 June

Ramble ‘N’ Rave

Throughout 2010 and 2011, various members of Mytholmroyd Scout Group will be carrying out a mixture of fundraising initiatives in order to take part in a variety of projects. On Friday 11th June our next fundraiser is scheduled to take place; Ramble ‘N’ Rave. This event will be taking place by popular demand due to the success of the New Year’s Day Treasure Hunt. The night consists of a family friendly treasure hunt, a barbecue and to finish the night off some live music from local talent. The evening will commence at 6.00 and the latest time for families wishing to take part in the treasure hunt will be 8.00. The barbecue will be available from 8.30, with the live entertainment starting from 9.00. Admission for this event will be just £5 per family or £2 per head. The treasure hunt starts and finishes at Mytholmroyd Community Centre.

Any questions; please email Billy Painter

England fans will have chance to watch the 1966 World Cup final at the Trades Club. Read more about what’s on at the Trades this week.

Read more about The Sam Crockatt Quartet at the HX7 Jazz Club this week.

HELEN OF FOUR GATES - film ‘lost’ for 90 years, used Hebden Bridge as a location. Heart-rending tale returns to its local roots. On June 10, local people will be flocking to the Picture House to watch the film - Helen of Four Gates - as it shows on a public screen for the first time in 90 years. More info

Hole In t’ Wall, Hangingroyd lane, Hebden Bridge

8.00pm, free entry.

Nicked Drake
Gareth Dickson is the tour guitarist for Vashti Bunyan and has worked with great musicians like Devendra Banhart, Juana Molina and Coco Rosie. In addition Gareth records under his own name and has releases on Drifting Falling, Slow Flow and Benbecula. Gareth will play Nick Drake‚s Pink Moon album, as close as possible to the way it was written.

Ian Hinton-Smith
Ian first made his name as the guitar player for Alfie [Twisted Nerve/Regal Records] but also played most of the drums on Badly Drawn Boy’s classic debut album "The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast". Since then, he went on to play with Jim Noir which lead to the formation of his last band The Beep Seals.

Johnny Powell
Deftly fingerpicked folk loveliness from a local favourite. During 2009, Johnny Powell began the creation of a large collection of alternative folk material for his new solo project using the harp, acoustic guitar, vocals and electronics. The songs also involve a variety of strange and unexpected recorded clips and the use of unexpected, yet meaningful objects (curtain rails, toy cars, high heels, graveyard noises etc…) all designed to have symbolic links to the lyrics, and add intentional atmosphere to the music.

Boundary Walk

More info

Hardcastle Crags - Balsam Bash

Come along and help remove the invasive Himalayan Balsam from Hardcastle Crags. Meet at Midgehole car park shed at 10am. Parking charges apply.

Information about how and why we remove the balsam will be given and work areas will be assigned. You are welcome to come for a short time and leave when you have had enough. Late arrivals are welcome to join the group, but we will be working throughout the site, so briefings cannot be given to late-comers.

More info: 01422 844518

Summer Music at Wainsgate, 3pm

Strange World play what’s been described as haunting, energetic and exquisite music. A top class acoustic folk band formed in 2005 – they’ve performed at all sorts of weird and wonderful venues including music festivals, folk festivals and arts centres, countrywide - with a marvellous mix of instruments including cello and medieval rauschpfeifen. Very atmospheric!

More info

Gala/Fun day at Salem Fields

The event starts at 11am and runs until approx 7pm in which there will be various activities. These are;

• Have-a-go Archery
• 6-a-side cricket tournament
• Various stalls
• Croquet
• Refreshments and food
• Grand Raffle - this is one of the largest prize funds we have put together yet.

The raffle prizes include a star prize of a Helicopter ride for 2 people, accommodation locally, £100 cash prize, an archery course for 2 people, a case of wine, various meals for 2 at local restaurants and many other great prizes.

Organised by the Archery and Cricket Clubs

Green Fingers and Question Time

Old Town Community Centre

• people will bring cuttings from their gardens to swap;
• plant stalls for people to by plants, cacti and succulents;
• gardening books and tools etc to sell as well as eco-friendly products.

Doors open at 6.30 p.m. a at about 7.00 we are going to gave our very own home grown Hebden Bridge Gardeners Question Time with three brilliant local gardeners.

They are: Steve Blacksmith - famous for his column - Ear to the Ground in the HB Times, Joel Robinson who is a cacti and succulents specialist whose passion lies in planting tropical exotics in the local Yorkshire landscape. Finally Phil Gomersall will be there to share his expertise as the Allotments Regeneration Initiative Mentor for Yorkshire.

If that isn’t enough, we will have a Painting competition for children to be judged by the Panel topped off with a pie and peas supper, bar and raffle.

Raising funds for the Community Centre

Hole In t’ Wall, Hangingroyd lane, Hebden Bridge

8.00pm, free entry.

The Declining Winter
The Declining Winter are a U.K. band based in Leeds, led by Richard Adams, the co-founder of Domino Records group Hood.

Fieldhead
Also from Leeds, Fieldhead is P. Elam. He produces ambient/electronic music that delights in tape hiss, geography, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops.

Johnny Powell
Deftly fingerpicked folk loveliness from a local favourite. During 2009, Johnny Powell began the creation of a large collection of alternative folk material for his new solo project using the harp, acoustic guitar, vocals and electronics. The songs also involve a variety of strange and unexpected recorded clips and the use of unexpected, yet meaningful objects (curtain rails, toy cars, high heels, graveyard noises etc…) all designed to have symbolic links to the lyrics, and add intentional atmosphere to the music.

‘Bridges’ is a photographic project celebrating 500 years of history by local photographer Craig Shaw, in collaboration with members of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society. Commemorating the building of the old packhorse bridge in Hebden Bridge in 1510, the project brings together a collection of photos of the historic bridges in the area as they are today, their history and folklore, and old photos from the past.

‘Bridges’ can be found online at www.hebden500bridges.co.uk and will also be exhibited at Hebden Bridge Trades Club on Holme Street from June 3rd to July 31st 2010

Warstein 15th anniversary twin town visit
Celebration at the bridge and civic presentation. Thursday, June 3 at 10.30am, performance by the Warstein choir.

Big Green Weekend

and Transition Town launch

7th Annivesary Beer Festival
Fox and Goose

Friday 28th to Monday 31st May.

Each session starts at 12 noon and finishes at 12 midnight. The theme for this year’s festival is The People’s Choice, and will feature around 50 beers as voted for by our regulars earlier this year. Food is available at all session, and with our lovely hillside beer garden open it is set to be a great weekend.

Tuesday 25 May (from 9.4am to 2.00pm)

Keep Safe and Keep Well

20 organisations, including Fire, Police and Ambulance services, Pennine Housing, Dept for Work & Pensions and Calderdale Council’s Home Energy, Home Improvements, Adaptations and Handyperson service, join forces at the old Council Office building, Hebden Bridge on Tues 25 May (from 9.4am to 2.00pm) to provide advice, information and freebies. 50 carbon monoxide detectors on offer.

First aid demonstations throughout event.

Free admission, hot drink and entry to prize draw.

FAIR FOR YOUTH - has been arranged for Saturday. 22nd May. Calder Holmes Park will see exhibitions, demonstrations and workshops from some of the many providers of youth activities in the area. Read more - 13 May

How we used to live

Little Theatre, 7.30 pm

£4 (£3)

with Freda Kelsall, writer of the series. A mixture of intriguing and funny stories with extracts from the programmes.

Wednesday May 19th

Hole In t’ Wall,

8.00pm, free entry.

Simon Scott is the former Slowdive drummer. Through Simon‚s dimly-lit soundscapes, we encounter shimmering melodies that gather and disperse through apocalyptic rhythms, surrounded by layers of harmony that hover over found-sounds.

Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuyderveldt from Rotterdam, Holland) is amongst the finest experimental/electronic artists of recent years ˆ his ultra-prolific back catalogue showcases his ability to perfect classical ambience, organic drone soundscapes, electronic minimalism and cathartic noise, and he has been hailed as one of the most interesting new experimental musicians by the Wire magazine.

Clem Leek creates a beautiful mix of piano melodies and subtle instrumentation, all set to the crackle of a 78" record.

Relmic Statute is Leeds-based artist David Horner, who assembles lulling, grainy soundscapes based on the splicing of field recordings collected from cassettes and old 1/4-inch tape.

Hardcastle Crags - Noah Dale
Meet Robert at 10am at Clough Hole car park for an 8 mile moderate circular walk in the Upper Colden valley. Visit Greenland, Scotland and Egypt in a day! Packed lunch and stout footwear required. More info: 01422 844518

Saturday 15th May
Hardcastle Crags - Bluebell Walk
The walk starts at 2.30pm from Midgehole carpark
A three mile walk following the riverside path to Gibson Mill. There will be time for drinks and a rest at Gibson Mill before returning along the main track. The riverside path is steep and rocky in places and if we have rain may be muddy. Stout footwear and waterproofs essential. Call the estate office to book a place (01422 844518) - Adult £2.50, child free. Car parking charges apply. There’s a 906 bus from HB station at 13.45pm, arriving at 13.55 at Hardcastle Crags.

Tales from Gaza, 7.30pm.
Tickets cost £2 concessions are £1.50.
Hebden Bridge Library

Author Sharyn Lock will be at Hebden Bridge library on Friday 7 May to tell her gripping story of Gaza: Beneath the Bombs.

Travelling with the Free Gaza Movement, Sharyn believed that the greatest danger she faced would be making it past the Israeli sea blockade in a fishing boat.

Plunging into a nightmare as Israel attacked Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants by land, air and sea, Sharyn volunteered with Palestinian ambulances, assisting them as they were faced with overwhelming casualties.

Her story provides a view of Gaza difficult to glimpse from outside — of a people who face their oppression not only with courage but with humour.

Join Sharyn as she tells her story at Hebden Bridge Library .

Vote!

Calder Valley Election Forum

As well as the general election, on 6th May each of the 17 wards in the Calderdale area will have the opportunity to vote for a Calderdale councillor. Read more about local council candidates.

General Election night
Trades Club

After our usual quiz and frivolity, down to the serious business. Our big screen will show the election results as they come in, food will be available, as will any number of silly games, (participation entirely voluntary) and our license permits our bar to be open till 2. By which time will Saint Nick Clegg be prime minister? Or will it be business as usual?

International workers day lunch and discussion
Trades Club

Start: 12.30
In celebration of International workers day, the Trades club is hosting a community lunch and discussion. After a hearty lunch, Paul Holmes, left wing candidate for Unison general secretary will speak, followed by our own Pete Lazenby and a green activist.

We will then see where the discussion takes us. As the election is only 3 days away Im sure that will crop up, but the most important subject under discussion is how best to promote workers’ rights in a time of recession.

All welcome - even if only for the lunch!
£3

BATS - Join us for a batty evening to learn more about bats and how you can help. Thursday 29th April, 7pm at The White Lion Hotel, Hebden Bridge. For further information contact us on 01422 844518 or email

Walking with Women’s Suffrage.

Feeling disenchanted with the coming Election? Perhaps thinking you may not even vote? Then step out into the beautiful Calderdale countryside this Sunday - and walk in the footsteps of the local suffragettes who fought so hard for women to win the right to vote.

‘Walking with Suffrage’ is an 8-mile circular walk skirting round the Upper Calder Valley hillsides. It visits the homes of local suffragettes, the clothing factories they worked in, and the Hebden Bridge square where Emmeline Pankhurst addressed a packed Votes for Women meeting in January 1907. Follow in the steps of Lavena Saltonstall, fustian clothing machinist - and Calderdale’s most celebrated suffragette.

The walk starts at 10.30 am on Sunday 25 April, meeting on the Manchester platform of Mytholmroyd Railway station. It finishes about 4.30 pm back in Mytholmroyd for a cup of tea, and is organized by Mytholmroyd Walkers’ Action. The walk is led by suffrage historian Jill Liddington, author of Rebel Girls: their fight for the vote (Virago).

Booking advisable - please email Julie Swift or phone 01422 393273 to reserve a place.

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Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!

Town Crier needed for Big Green Weekend

Big Green Projects are searching for the most vocal person in Hebden Bridge to act as Town Crier during the Big Green Weekend (May 29 - 31), the search is on and a competition to find our Crier will be held in St. Georges Square on Saturday April 24th at 2pm.

Do you think you have what it takes? Come along and join in the fun, write a short 100 - 200 word piece on why Hebden Bridge is the best town in the country and come out and test your loud voice!!

The winner will be our Big Green Weekend Town Crier (so must be available over the weekend of May 29 - 31) and expenses will be paid for the role. For more information contact Joanne

Friday April 23rd from 8 till late

An evening of Traditional Roots

Live Music at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge.
Featuring PAPAJACA, a Brazilian led (Claudio Kron Do Brazil) ensemble kicking out fantastic Latin Vibes,THE KAJAMOR FAMILY, who will showcase the traditional rhythms and songs of the Casamance region of Senegal and DJ John Tree a Beatherder and Solfest regular who will see out the night with a set of fabulous Global Grooves.
£5 Trades members £7 Guests
See You There.

9 pm,
The Trades Club

Benefit for the Cambodia Youth Music Fund
with Gaia + Electric Brains + Revolver
A night of 60s & 70s rock and garage punk featuring the soaring psychedelic brilliance of rock trio Gaia - Hawkwind / Floyd for 2010! Irresistible garage punk pop mayhem from the Electric Brains ˆ „superlatives are in order - go see them‰ - Last FM. With superb covers band Revolver playing classic rock from the Beatles, Hendrix, the Stooges, the Stones and more. All proceeds to the Cambodia Youth Music Fund, a project to support and promote access to music, performance and the arts for disadvantaged children and young people in Cambodia.

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Police and Community Meeting

Town Hall

FRIENDS OF CALDER HOLMES PARK - More members are always needed. Come along to the AGM on 8 April. All welcome. Read more - 29 March

Duck Race: Bank Holiday

3pm

Heptonstall Pace Egg Play

Midgley Pace Egg Play

Shed Your Tears and Walk Away showing at the Picture House on 28th March as part of the Bradford Film Festival.

Wednesday March 24 at 7pm

HANDMADE PARADE: HELP DECIDE THE THEME - at an open community consultation meeting to which everyone is invited. Organisers are asking people to bring their ideas and enthusiasm to the meeting, which will be held in the upstairs room at Hope Baptist Church in Hebden Bridge next Wednesday March 24 at 7pm. Read more - 15 March

Methodist Hall, 7.30 pm

Issy Shannon
Infamy, Infamy, They’ve All Got It In For Me

Issy’s talk is based on research for her popular book Infamous Yorkshire Woman and her time as editor of Milltown Memories magazine.

Hebden Bridge Local History Society

Spring Clean around Hebden Bridge

Nutclough Woods: Saturday 20th March, 10.30-4

The Delph Allotments, Windsor Road, Saturday 20th March, 11-2pm
Open Day and Spring Clean, soup, biscuits, veggie sausages.
Planting potatos on community plot.

Mill Pond and Delph - Sunday, 21st March 2pm

More info and skip locations

All sponsored by Hebden Royd Town Council

Library Talk on Palestine - Author Rich Wiles will visit Hebden Bridge Library on Wednesday 17 March at 6.30pm to promote his new book about life in Palestine. Read more - 10 March

Sunday 14th March, 7.30pm

Group Acapella singing
Come to listen or sing
all welcome

upstairs at the Stubbing Wharf Pub
More info

Exhibition at ArtsMill
Wednesday 10th February – Sunday 14th March

12 Artists From the West Yorkshire Print Workshop

A selection of work by artists from the West Yorkshire Print Workshop showing a great variety of printmaking approaches and subject matter. This exhibition is conceived as a rich celebration of the versatility of print.

ArtsMill Gallery, Linden Mill, Linden Road,
Hebden Bridge, HX7 7DP
Open Wed-Sun 11am – 4pm
Admission Free

Pennine Horizons

Consultation event for a new South Pennines project

Saturday 13 March 2010,
1pm to 5pm (drop in any time)
Erringden Room,
St Michael’s Church,
Mytholmroyd

Read more

Saturday 13th March

UK BIG FREEZE, HEBDEN BRIDGE - The UK Big Freeze is the largest flashmob ever to hit the UK, taking place in 25 UK towns and cities at the same time. Read more

Saturday 13th March
Doors open 7.30pm, first set around 9 pm

OuterZeds do benefit for Old Town Community Centre

Tickets are priced at £6/£4 for concessions and available now by emailing Wadsworth Community Centre, or through the Community Centre Facebook Group. All money raised will go directly towards keeping the centre open, whilst we continue to secure longer term funding.

Saturday 13th March 7.30pm
Ted Hughes Theatre, Calder High School

Brass band fans in for a treat this weekend with Hebden Bridge Junior Band teaming up for a one-off concert with the Cambridge University Brass Band. Read more - 9 March

Jazz with Andy Sheppard and a barn dance with attitude courtesy of the Last Chance Saloon Band (see above) are among the offerings this week at the Trades - Read more - 7 March

10th March 2010
Methodist Hall, 7.30 pm

John Spencer
The Civil War in Calderdale

In December 1642 Sir William Savile of ‘Calder Dale’ attempted to take Bradford for the King. Halifax men rallied to its defence, but the fortunes of war turned and by the summer of 1643 the West Riding had fallen to the Royalists. A small Parliamentarian garrison held out at Heptonstall - this is their story.

Since 1990 our speaker has been curator of Military Collections for Calderdale Museums Service with responsibility for the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment Museum at Bankfield.

Hebden Bridge Local History Society

Saturday 6th March

LET US NOT WALK AWAY. Let us walk together. The recent deaths of brothers, Liam and Sam Jones, both to drugs and alcohol has prompted their sister Belinda, to hold a charity walk for Lifeline Calderdale. Read more

Sunday 28th February at 5pm

Poetry reading with Anne Caldwell and Sally Baker at Artsmill

28th February, 2010
8pm-10pm, Trades Club

Come along to help raise money for Rethink - a national charity providing support and services for people with severe mental illness and their carers. There’s food for your brain with a quiz, for your belly at a cake stall, and a books and bric-a-brac sale too. Contributions for sale are welcome too.

If any local businesses would like to donate a prize for the Quiz, please get in touch: Pandoras Pages

Saturday 27th February 2010

Potato Day 2010 will take place on Saturday 27th February 2010 from 10am to 3pm at Church of the Good Shepherd, Royal Fold, New Road, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge HX7 5DZ. Admission £1 includes entry to Potato Raffle. There will be 41 varieties of seed potato 20 of which are organic @ 14p per tuber with a pre-order service for most varieties. In addition there will children‚s activities, information displays, crafts, plant sales plus food and drink at the Potato Café. More info on the Calder Valley Organic Gardners website

Thursday 25th February at 7.30pm
Council Offices - Council Chambers

P U B L I C   M E E T I N G : ALLOTMENTS ARE GROWING AND GREENER 

Organised by Calder Civic Trust

Chris Sawer, chair of the Hebden Royd Town Council Allotments committee, who will talk about the new allotment projects that the council are presently engaged in.

Mark Simmonds, mastermind of the new Heptonstall Allotment.

Kerry McQuade, long-time allotment holder, and chair of Birchcliffe Allotment society.

This will be followed by a general discussion with the three speakers. The meeting should be of interest to new and old allotmenteers.

Calder Civic Trust can be found online at www.caldercivictrust.org.uk

Or email: Calder Civic Trust

24th February 2010
Methodist Hall, 7.30 pm

Ian Dewhirst
Victorian & Edwardian Leisure

A not entirely serious look at how some of our forebears passed their leisure time, using quotations from minute books and other ephemeral sources.

We are delighted to welcome back this most entertaining speaker who has received an Hon.D.Litt. from Bradford University and an M.B.E., both for ‘services to local history’.

Hebden Bridge Local History Society

Hibernate present:

Friday February 19th 2010, 8.00pm, free entry
Hole In t’ Wall

I Concur formed in Leeds at the tail end of 2006 thanks to a shared love of American indie, slowcore and post rock

Former members of Hebden Bridge hereos Widykeff and Cool Piano Roll merge to create Hidden Bek, a slowcore inspired sonic paradise, where reverbed melodies effortlessly melt away into the ether.

Metonym are a refreshing pair of youngsters who take a less-travelled approach to the whole folk-pop thing, with acoustic guitars or pianos and soft voices drowning in a sea of noisy drones, hazy synths, glocks, horns, field recordings and whatever else they can get their hands on.

18th February

PROJECT X CALDERDALE - after successful launch evening, a workshop/ drop in day is planned for 18th February from 2pm to 6pm, aworkshop/drop in day has been scheduled for the 18th February from 2pm to 6pm at Salem Ground Floor Project. Project X would like to extend an open invitation for residents to come and share their ideas and get involved. Read more - 15 Feb

Tuesday 16th February

Parent/Family Support Group – Branching Out, Lifeline, Calderdale

Are you concerned about a loved one’s drug/alcohol use?

Please join us at the Halifax Fire Station Community Room on Tuesday 16th February 7 — 8pm and every fortnight afterwards.

We provide access to advice & guidance, information/education on drugs & alcohol related issues and peer support from others with your concerns.
Sessions will include guest speakers from different services, success stories, learning the relaxing technique of Indian Head Massage and much more.
For further information please contact Eleanor — 07889 250986

Alternative Valentine’s Day at the Trades
14th Feb 2010

CUPID ON THE CHEAP - If you’re fed up with the cynical price rises every Valentine’s Day but still want to celebrate Cupid’s day with your loved ones then the Trades Club is the place to go on Sunday night. Read more

This week at the Trades - Northern Soul with Johnny Boy, folk with Bob Fox and local recording artists The Steals.

Read more - 8 Feb

10th February 2010
Methodist Hall, 7.30 pm

Paul Weatherhead
More Weird Calderdale: From Robin Hood and the Kirklees Vampire to the
Grim Reaper at the Square Chapel

Paul Weatherhead presents more ghastly chapters from his book Weird Calderdale, including the day Death visited Halifax Square Chapel for a carol concert, the bloody death of Robin Hood and subsequent Vampire infestation of his grave and more unpleasant local legends.

Paul was born in Hebden Bridge and now teaches at Calderdale College in Halifax. He has spent the last few years documenting the weirder aspects of the Calder Valley.

Hebden Bridge Local History Society

Monday, 8th February

Enterprise Conference in Mytholmroyd - free, friendly and informal event for confidential advice on becoming self-employed, starting a business and growing your business and much more. Read more

7 February

Hebden Bridge Library’s LGBT Day - This Sunday (7 February), Hebden Bridge Library is hosting a series of events in celebration of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) month and Anne Lister’s life. Read more - 3 Feb

Saturday, 06 February 2010 9pm

Palestine evening with music, food and book launch

Fitting events around her midwifery degree, author and ISM volunteer Sharyn Lock will be at the Trades Club for a special night, including Palestinian music and food, as well as a silent auction

5th February, Trades Club

PROJECT X CALDERDALE
we will be celebrating our launch with a benefit night including DJs and local Moroccan fusion band "Maghribibeat." The door price is £5 to all and proceeds will go towards the development of the project.

Read more

Thursday 4th February

Hebden Royd Town Council Working Party
on Youth Provision

The next meeting has been planned for Thursday 4th February.  This will be an open meeting to which members of the public and young people are invited to attend and the venue and time will be publicised nearer the time. 

More info

Public meeting with the Parliamentary candidates
for the Calder Valley constituency

Tuesday 2nd February at 7.30 p.m.
Lightcliffe C. of E. Primary School.
Coach leaves Hebden Bridge: 6.30 pm

More info

Friday, 29th January
The Big Night In
Ted Hughes Theatre

JAZZ CLUB
28th January 2010

Grand Opening of HX7 Jazz Club

Rod Mason’s Elements
Rod Mason: Saxes, percussion
Richard Hammond: bass
Richard Wetherill: piano/keyboards
Dave Walsh: drums

Trades Club
8.30pm  (doors open 8pm)
Ends midnight (band finishes around 11pm)
£10.00 (full)   £7.00 (concession)

More info

27th January 2010
Methodist Hall, 7.30 pm

David Nortcliffe
Akroyds and Ecroyds

The Akroyd family spread far and wide from Wadsworth. The talk looks particularly at the Lancashire Ecroyds (as they became), and the Halifax Akroyds ending with Col. Edward Akroyd. It will include a comparison between the activities of those two branches in the textile industry. Our speaker this evening will also include something about the family in North America stemming from the Lancashire line, looking at the period from approximately 1790 to 1920, though the earlier period will be included as background.

With a B.A. in History of Science & Technology, David has been a member of the Halifax Antiquarian Society for over 35 years, past Chairman of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society’s Industrial History Section and is Secretary of Calderdale Heritage Walks.

Hebden Bridge Local History Society

Hibernate Recordings of Cragg Vale present an evening of modern classical ambience, with Library Tapes, Relmic Statute and Woodchucker

Wednesday January 27th 2010 @ Hole In t‚ Wall

Doors 7.00pm, free entry.

Monday 25 January 2010, 4.30pm–6.30pm
Alternative Technology Centre

Sense and Sustainability. Come to a fast paced briefing and dialogue with Ken Webster on Education for Sustainable Development. Read more

22nd January 2010

Paintings of Hebden Bridge: exhibition by William Rofe. At Festival Shop in Albert Street from 22-24 January. Read more

Wednesday 20th January, 7.30pm, White Lion

Disaster at Copenhagen! What exactly happened, who’s to blame and what do we do next to rescue a fair and tough international climate change deal? Come along and find out from the Friends of the Earth perspective.

19th January 2010 at 6:30 pm

POLICE AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER MEETINGS (PACT)
(Formerly known as Ward Meetings)

PACT Meetings are open meetings for you to attend. They last for approximately 1 hour and this is your opportunity to be informed of what has occurred over the last 6 weeks in your area, what your local Officers have been doing and what the planned activity is for the next 6 weeks. You will also be given the opportunity to air and discuss any concerns you may have. Young people and teenagers would be particularly welcome.

See report of last meeting, and links to previous reports.

Trades Club on Saturday 16th January at 3pm

Book launch

Arthur Dolphin remembered - Hebden Bridge author, Tom Greenwood, launches book about the legendary rock climber Arthur Dolphin at the Trades Club on Saturday. Read more

13th January 2010
Methodist Hall, 7.30 pm

Alan Petford
The Buildings of Hebden Bridge

We investigate the rich variety of building in Hebden Bridge, from 18th century chapel to late nineteenth century railway architecture, including the fascinating diversity of houses built for ordinary people.

Our speaker tonight is a part-time Lecturer in Local and Regional History at the University of Leeds and a WEA lecturer.

Hebden Bridge Local History Society

Calder Ward Forum

Thursday 7 January - at 7pm (refreshments from 6.30pm)

Riverside Junior School, Holme Street, Hebden Bridge

Up for discussion

• Hebden Bridge conservation area
• Traffic, parking and the pedestrian experience
• Open Forum discussion

Creative Writing at Hebden Bridge Library

From Thursday, 6th January

More info

The New Year’s Day Treasure Hunt! - Lose those festive calories!

The New Year’s Day Treasure Hunt is a gentle, brisk walk around the scenic countryside of Mytholmroyd, suitable for all the family. Families will receive a sheet of clues and a basic outline of the route to follow.

The route starts and finishes at Mytholmroyd Fire Station where tea, coffee and cakes will be served.

The walk will start at 10.30, but families can start whenever they arrive, the latest start time is 12.30.

Funds raised go to The Great Generation Project, with a donation also being made to the Firefighter’s Benevolent Fund for kindly allowing us use of their grounds. For more information visit www.calderhigh.org.uk or email Great Generation

Adult (£2), Child (£1), Family (£5)