Art trail & launch
Thursday 31st August
This festival promises to be better than ever and what better way to kick it off than to come to our grand launch, meeting up at the Methodist Church Hall, West Lane, 7:30pm on Thursday 31st August.
Enjoy the art and atmosphere with a guided tour of the Arts Trail, replete with refreshments, good company, a great atmosphere, and an artist or two. Then be welcomed to a reception at the White Lion, 9 till late, with a buffet and an opportunity to book tickets for the weekend‘s exciting events, while listening to The Lynch Mob, who play acoustic punky folky lyrical bluegrass-influenced songs.
ALL weekend events
Back by popular demand there will be a number of gardens in the village open to the public over the weekend. You can pick up your map of the Gardens Trail from Tourist Information.
Throughout the weekend watch out for by roaming buskers and street performers who will enthrall and entertain you all along the Main Street, Butt Lane, the park and the station forecourt. Fun and frolics provided by Steve & Dicky, Raphael, Spence, Abdul, Dodgy Geezer (don‘t be had!) and Free Sandwiches (the most fantastical band on the move, featuring T-chest bass) on Saturday; and on Sunday, costumed musical antics from Moon de Lune and street cabaret from Eggs On Sticks.
Exhibitions
Arts Trail
Follow a trail of art around the village viewing an eclectic mixture of local artists’ work exhibited in various venues. Including works by Phil Sheperd, Paul Hitchen, Kevin O’Connor, Sarah McHenry, Isobel Lee and others.
An exhibition of Bulgarian Fine Art will be on show in the Hall Green Methodist Church Hall. (Fri 1st, Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd 11am - 4pm)
Visit the garden of Chris and Sandra McCarthy for a display of their latest artwork. (‘Valentia’, 18-20 Oak Street, Haworth Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd 10am - 4pm)
Arts at the Park
Come to the Haworth Central Park and view artists’ work displayed on the railings and along Butt Lane and watch a unique wooden sculpture be created as chainsaw sculptor Ali Jeffery works throughout the weekend.
Website Here
Workshops
Saturday 2nd September
Beginners Flamenco Dance
See performance for Concert details
Parkside Club: 1-3pm
Patricia Skeet will be running a fun workshop for complete beginners or those who have done some flamenco and want to work on their basic techniques. The aim is to learn basic flamenco movements based on the flamenco style found in the gypsy ‘barrio’ of Sacromonte, Granada, Spain.
COST: £3 /£2
WEAR: loose clothing and comfortable shoes with heels
Beginners Flamenco Guitar Workshop
Parkside Club: 1-2pm
Mike Holland will be running this popular flamenco guitar workshop.
COST: £3 /£2
BRING: Guitar, preferably classical
‘So, you want to tell your children stories?’
West Lane Methodist Church Hall: 1pm
Storytelling workshop for Parents, by Taffy Thomas MBE.
COST: £3/£2
Website Here
Songwriting Workshop
West Lane Methodist Church Hall: 2pm
Bring along a word, a phrase, an idea... anything! and Tim Moon will help you turn it into a song. In a few days you will receive a full CD album of all the songs written at the Festival.
COST: £3/£2
Sunday 3rd September
Poetry Writing Workshop
Brontë Parsonage Museum: 3:30pm
Sue Wood, local poet and winner in the Fish International poetry competition, will lead a Brontë themed poetry workshop. Includes free entry to the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Cost: £3/£2
*Please Note The Revised Location And Time For This Event*
Voice Célèbre
See performance for Concert details
West Lane Methodist Church Hall: 12 - 6.00pm
Workshop tickets from £3 (cons), Rover tickets from £6. Booking recommended www.ydw.org.uk and Haworth TI (mid August on) 01535 642329.
12-1.30 / 2-3.30 Sacred Harp singing school with Cath Tyler
2-3.30 / 4-5.30 Bulgarian singing with Dessislava Stefanova
4 - 6pm Traditional English singing with The Witches of Elswick
Held In association with Yorkshire Dales Workshops
Family workshops
Saturday 2nd September
Specialist Circus Skills Workshop
Haworth Primary School: 11am
with Skylight Circus
Test your balancing skills on stilts and rola-bola.
Cost: £3/£2
Website Here
General Circus Skills
Haworth Primary School: 12.30 - 2 / 2.30 - 4pm
Drop-in workshop including juggling, diablo and poi
FREE
Community Textiles
Haworth Parish Church: 11 - 4pm
Come and make a figure for our 160-piece huge village textile artwork with Morwenna Catt
FREE
Website Here
Green Woodworking
Haworth Central Park: 1 - 4pm
Work with your hands and woodland materials. Drop-in green woodworking family workshop, suitable for ages 4 upwards.’
FREE
Instrument Making
Haworth Central Park: 2 - 4pm
Bagpipes and rainsticks a specialty
FREE
Sunday 3rd September
Raku
Haworth Central Park: 1 - 4pm
Glaze and fire your own pot in a fiery gas kiln
FREE
DJing Workshops
Parkside Social Club: 1 - 5pm
FREE
Drumming Workshops
Haworth Central Park: 1 - 5pm
FREE
Performances
Friday 1st September
Playback Theatre
West Lane Baptist Church: 7.30pm
Playback Theatre is a uniquely interactive form of improvisational theatre. Audience members tell their real life stories and then see them immediately created on stage in a variety of dramatic forms by the actors and musicians.
Cost: £5/£3
Flamenco Peña with guest
Parkside Club: 8.00pm -11.00pm
An informal flamenco party hosted by “La Peña Flamenca de Hebden Bridge” an evening of song, dance, and music, with special Arabic dance guest. Tapas available, everyone welcome.
Cost: £3/£2
Creepy Ghost Stories by Taffy Thomas
Haworth Church graveyard: 10pm
What better setting for ghost stories than a gloomy church yard at night, and what spookier church yard than Haworth’s? And who more likely to make your blood run cold than that master story teller Taffy Thomas MBE. Come and listen to his eerie tales and we guarantee he’ll have you looking over your shoulder...
Cost: £3/£2
Website Here
Saturday 2nd September
DAM Nights
The Idiot Hut (Oxenhope Social Club): Doors 6pm
A soulful rock night with a hint of acoustic.
Steve Tilston, Angel Chain Diaries & more bands (tbc)
Cost: £5 - Food Available
Bedtime Stories
Schoolrooms, opposite Haworth church: - 5pm
Bedtime stories for all children with Taffy Thomas MBE
Cost: £3/£2 Free to under 5s
bring teddies and comforters; cocoa will be served
Website Here
*Please Note The Revised Start Time For This Event*
Pennine Chamber Ensemble with special guest John Turner
Haworth Church: 7pm
A programme of 20th century Romantic and Modern Austrian
music played on recorders, violin, viola, guitar and lute.
Cost: £8/£6
Website Here
Arts Festival Party
Parkside Social Club: 10pm till late
Dance and party to The Breed, a six-piece band with male and female vocals and enough songs to keep you rocking into the small hours.
Cost: £2 on the door
John Cooper Clarke
West Lane Methodist Church Hall: 9pm
Haworth is the home of literary legends the Brontë sisters. Well, the Arts Festival brings you a living legend...the Bard of Salford, the punk poet extraordinaire, John Cooper Clarke. Not one to be missed...
Cost: £8/£6
Sunday 3rd September
Joolz
West Lane Baptist Church: 2pm
Joolz Denby is an award-winning, multi-nominated novelist and poet and is considered to be the UK’s premier woman spoken-word artist.
Joolz has an international reputation for excellence in all her creative fields including her work as an illustrator, photographer and exhibition curator.
Cost: £5/£3
Beware Rabbit Holes!
West Lane Baptist Church: 4pm
Q20 Theatre’s re-telling of the timeless classic “Alice in Wonderland” is a one-man show suitable for children aged 5-8 yrs.
Meet the Mad Hatter and enter a world of talking animals, invisible cats and a scary Queen of Hearts.
Cost: £5/£3
Guided Walk
Meet outside Haworth Railway Station: 3 till 5pm
A guided tour of the more obscure - a fascinating history of the village with Steve Wood.
Cost: tbc
Urban Voice Gospel Concert
Haworth church: 6pm
Urban Voice are an exciting gospel choir based in Manchester.
They will be performing a wide range of classic gospel songs as well as more contemporary music, in this very atmospheric setting. Cost: £5/£3
Voice Célèbre Concert
See Workshops for afternoon schedule
Methodist Church Hall, West Lane: 8pm (doors 7.30pm)
Dessislava Stefanova & Cath Tyler are leading exponents of their respective Bulgarian and American traditions. Both are powerful and passionate singers, and will each perform solo. Witches of Elswick & Grace Notes, collectively known as Witch Notes, provide their seven-part a cappella extravaganza. A storming end to an extraordinary day of song.
Booking recommended www.ydw.org.uk and Haworth TI
Cost: £8/£6
In association with Yorkshire Dales Workshops |
