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Creative Arts: Comics, photography and giant puppets – what will you create?

  

                      Shadow Puppet Workshop & Performance                                        Tim Quinn

 

Event Photography Workshop

Giant Puppet Making

Nature, Art & Stories in the Woodland

Cartoon Class

Shadow Puppet Workshop & Performance

Hebden Bridge Handmade Parade Workshops

Make a Collage Book & Write a Limerick

Patterns from the Past

Brass

Calderdale Theatre School 40th Anniversary Exhibition

Young Brilliance

 

EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

Tuesday 1 July 5.30-7.30pm

Tickets: £2

An opportunity to practice the art of photographing live events led by professional 'fast life' photographers Gracie Rogers and Caroline Michael of www.fotofillia.com and contemporary photographer Liz Ainge of www.lizainge.co.uk .  The workshops will begin with a study session on 1 July where you will collect your press pass that allows you photographic access to festival events from 2-13 July!  Cameras will be provided.

 

GIANT PUPPET MAKING

Ogden Water Classroom

2 July 5-7pm

8 July 5-7pm

9 July 5-7pm

10 July 5-7pm

11 July 5-7pm

12 July 10am-3pm

Tickets: £1 per session

Come along and have fun making a giant puppet ten feet tall or long!  The puppet will be paraded on the final day of the festival, 13 July.

Suitable for 11-19 year olds 

 

NATURE, ART & STORIES IN THE WOODLAND

Wednesday 2 July 6-7pm Ages 7-12

Sunday 11 July 5-6pm Ages 4-7 accompanied by parents

Luddendenfoot Civic Centre

Tickets: £1

Choose a story and create nature art sculptures around it. 

  

CARTOON CLASS

Q, Victoria Theatre, Halifax

Saturday 5 July 10.30am-12pm; 1.00-2.30pm; 3.00-4.30pm

Tickets: £3

Tim Quinn former editor of Spiderman, X-Men and The Incredible Hulk will lead a cartoon class including figure drawing, perspective, emotion, storytelling in pictures, character and story creation, and comic book history. 

 

SHADOW PUPPET WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCE

St Michael's Church, Mytholmroyd

Saturday 5 July, Workshop 1.30pm, Performance 2.30pm

Tickets: Free

A children-centred workshop that teaches to create shadow puppets. An introduction to puppets, lights and shadows.  A little old lady thinks her house is a squash and a squeeze... but throughout this shadow-puppet play full of humour and magic, she discovers that it is not as small as she thought.

Suitable for children age 6-11 

 

HEBDEN BRIDGE HANDMADE PARADE WORKSHOPS

Sunday 6 July 1-4pm

Saturday 12 July 1-4pm

Sunday 13 July 1-4pm

Tickets: £1

Unit 8, Pennine Industrial Park, Hebden Bridge

Join the funkiest event of the year! HEADS and Thingumajig Theatre will hold open workshops where you can work with professional parade artists to make your own costume, mask, banner or puppet to be a part of the Hebden Bridge Handmade Parade (19 July).  For more information, visit www.hebdenbridgeparade.org.uk

 

MAKE A COLLAGE BOOK & WRITE A LIMERICK

Sunday 6 July 4-6pm Ages 7-12

Luddendenfoot Civic Centre

Tickets: £1

Make a collage book from handmade papers and write a funny limerick to go in it!

 

PATTERNS FROM THE PAST

Sunday 6 July 10am-12.30pm; 1.30-3.30pm

Shibden Hall

Free entry

A workshop to link together words and the shapes in stone, wood and metal at Shibden Hall, Halifax.  Artist Vanessa Stewart and poet Sue Wood welcome children of all ages to explore the rich and complex shapes and patterns that surround a visitor to this wonderful heritage site.   A range of activities will be on offer such as stone rubbings, a Circles and Spirals Trail, word chains and poem-making.  Activities suitable for all ages. Parents welcome to participate. 

  

BRASS

1-5 July Piece Hall Galleries

6-13 July Square Chapel Centre for the Arts

Freelance photographer Ben McMahon used to play tuba in the Hebden Bridge Junior Brass Band. He returned to the fold to produce this series of ten powerful portraits, combining the modern with the traditional and highly polished brass with ragged Yorkshire landscape. 

 

CALDERDALE THEATRE SCHOOL

40th Anniversary

1-5 July Piece Hall Galleries

6-13 July Square Chapel Centre for the Arts

This year Calderdale Theatre School celebrates 40 years work with the young people of the region. Featuring photos from ex-members spanning this period this will be a fascinating look into 4 decades of youth theatre in Calderdale.

 

YOUNG BRILLIANCE

5-27 July

Halifax Visitor Centre and Art Gallery, The Piece Hall

A variety of vibrant artwork from Calderdale Schools to celebrate Young Brilliance.

 

5-27 July

Bankfield Museum

An exhibition of sculptures and photographs by Shelf Junior and Infant School to celebrate Young Brilliance.

 
 
 

 

Sponsors of The July Project are Eureka Museum, Square Chapel Centre for the Arts, Halifax, and Calderdale Council

Box Office | Square Chapel | Centre for the Arts | 10 Square Road | Halifax | HX1 1RE | Tel: 01422 349422
For enquiries about The July Project please contact Kathryn O'Doherty on Tel: 01422 353073 or email kathryn@squarechapel.co.uk

Eureka Museum Square Chapel - Centre for the arts Claderdale Council