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Celebrating five years of ‘the Review’ By Haigh Simpson This issue marks five years since I published the very first edition of the Saltaire Review. And after 36 issues, over 1000 pages of content and over 50,000 letterboxes it will also be the last. The magazine has always been a passion project for me, but it’s also been my livelihood. Recently it has become increasingly difficult to maintain that balance and keep the quality where I’d like it to be. But as difficult as it is to call time on the magazine, I feel I can do so having achieved what it set out to do. I like to think that myself and everyone who has contributed to the magazine over the past five years has also left a small but meaningful legacy too.
In early 2014 I was made redundant from my first ‘proper job’ in the media. I’d spent two years carving out a niche for myself working on local magazines, albeit under the employment of a global media brand. The US-based board of this particular company had decided community magazines in places like Bingley and Wetherby were ‘not the direction they wanted to go’. It was difficult to argue with their logic but it wasn’t great news for me. I’d developed a real passion for hyper-local journalism and really enjoyed building relationships with all types of local organisations. A few short-lived copywriting jobs failed to excite me and I couldn’t shake off this idea that I wasn’t done with local magazines.
Every issue of the Saltaire Review is still available to read online (www.issuu.com/ festivalpublications) and researching this edition was a great excuse to revisit some of them. Perhaps it’s because I had so much invested in them, but they really do feel like little time capsules. Scrolling through early issues I’m reminded of events and interviews I’d completely forgotten about… and inevitably all the other things that were going on in my life at the time. I think that’s why I’ll always love print and I’m sure one or two of you have felt similarly having found an old edition at the bottom of a drawer of behind the sofa.
About 12 months previously I had tried to convince my employers that Saltaire would be a great place to launch a new magazine. They told me it was too small. Not enough businesses to sustain a magazine. As a resident I could see how much there was going on culturally and how many stories the village had to tell. I was convinced that if the content was good enough the advertising would follow. Now, a year on and without much else on the horizon, I had an opportunity to test my theory.
It also made me realise that I’ve never properly told the story of the Saltaire Review and its beginnings. So, seen as though this is the last issue, I’m taking this opportunity to do that. Hopefully you find it interesting and I can put across the gratitude I feel towards anyone who has read, contributed to or advertised in the magazine.
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So in April 2014 I registered as a business and set about launching a magazine. The idea was to create a monthly events and community magazine that included a mixture of reviews, previews, interviews and what’s on information. I’d been involved in the set-up of HowDo?! Magazine a few years previously and I had my experience editing magazines in my previous job. But it was still a huge leap into the unknown. I was particularly keen to make sure the magazine reflected different voices from within
the community. So the first job was to find a group of writers interested in contributing ideas and features. I also needed to make contact with key organisations such as Saltaire Inspired, Saltaire Festival, the Kirkgate Centre and Caroline St Social Club, who would be the basis of our what’s on content. I posted flyers around the village appealing for contributors to get involved in the magazine and received an immediate and positive response. Eddie Lawler, Chris Brook and Mike Farren expressed an interest at this early stage and went on to contribute many times over the lifetime of the magazine. Mike in particular has been an incredible support over the past five years. The launch date was set for 1 October and thanks to this early response I was pretty confident that I’d be ok for content. The rest was not so assured. I’d never sold anything in my life and now I needed to sell at least 10 pages of advertising for a magazine that didn’t exist yet... and that was just to cover the print costs. If I was serious about making this sustainable I needed to be making some sort of a living on top of that too!
The next six weeks were spent pacing around Saltaire and Shipley with a folder full of printouts, sharing my plans with just about every business I could find. Most of them politely declined, some were rude, some ushered me off the premises with my tail between my legs. But incredibly some did buy into my vision and signed up to advertise. In the end I managed to secure 16 pages of advertising for that first issue, some of which (Shipley College, The Live Room & Czajka Care) went on to advertise in almost every subsequent issue of the magazine. I sourced a good local printer able to produce the uncoated finish I was keen to go for and mapped out a distribution plan to determine how many copies were needed. At this early stage I also did all the design work myself, including advert designs and page layouts. This was something I really enjoyed but I do look back now and wince at some of my ‘handywork’. Nevertheless, as I sent issue 1 to print late in September 2014, I felt I had a funky looking magazine with some great content and respectable advertisers. Then the nervous weeklong wait for the print to arrive.
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Anxiety gave way to excitement seven days later as my housemate and I unloaded a huge pallet full of boxes into our living room. One thing people have always said to me about the Saltaire Review is how much they love the smell. The amount of times I have delivered the magazine and the first thing people do is open it up and give it a big sniff! The first thing I did was to furiously scan through looking for mistakes or misprints. Fortunately all was good. Cue relief, pride and more excitement as it was time to share what I’d been working on with the people of Saltaire. Eventually I would use a distribution company to deliver the magazine, but for the first 12 months I did it myself. I wanted to perfect the route and it was a great way to gauge people’s reaction, something I was particularly keen to do with this first issue. Besides which, I had no money to pay anyone if I’d wanted to. It was hard work but also enjoyable...except for the lethal letterboxes taking the skin off your fingertips in winter! The reaction, as far as I could tell, was great. Venues were happy to stock the magazine and feedback from contributors and advertisers was really positive. The best bit was sitting in a cafe
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or in a pub and seeing someone engrossed in the magazine. It still makes me proud to see that today but that first issue was particularly special. I know that feeling is shared by those who have written for the magazine too. Even better than that was finding out people had attended events, joined groups or tried out something new having seen it in the magazine. It gave purpose to the magazine and meant I could continue to push the magazine forward with the same belief and enthusiasm that had helped get it started. With all the magazine’s distributed and the smell of ink fading from our living room it dawned on me that there were just two and a half weeks until issue two needed to be ready for print. And thus began the ‘hamster wheel’ schedule of publishing that have defined my working life ever since. The Saltaire Review went on to be a fantastic platform for me to develop and grow a successful publishing business. In March 2015, sister magazine the Bradford Review was launched, followed by the Bingley Review and more recently the Harrogate Review. I formed partnerships with a number of local businesses,
most significantly HowDo?! Yorkshire who continue to distribute the magazines and FoxDuo Design, with whom we have launched the Eat Drink Guides series. I moved out of my home office and became a director of Assembly Bradford, now based on North Parade, Braford. Over the past few years I’ve also been lucky to be able to work on a number of exciting publishing contracts for a range of clients, many of whom were attracted to us through seeing the Review magazines. So I owe a lot to the people who supported the magazine in the beginning and helped me see out those difficult first few years in business. In 36 issues the magazine has helped promote 100s of events, over 100 local businesses and welcomed contributions from dozens of writers, photographers, poets and artists. I’d like to think it’s had a positive effect on many of these too. I’d like to thank Rob Walsh who proofed the copy on nearly every issue and had to deal with demanding deadlines and my deadline-day stress on many occasions. I’d also like to thank Martyn Johnson who gave me the opportunity to get involved with HowDo?! Magazine back in 2012 and has annoyed me ever since! A
huge thanks to Carl White who has managed the distribution of the magazine for the past four years and whose body bears the scars of lugging about close to 500,000 magazines. Thanks also to Matt Lamont from FoxDuo Design who has helped design 100s of adverts and improved the overall design of the magazines significantly. A huge thanks to everyone who contributed, advertised and stocked copies of the Review and to everyone who’s picked up and read a copy. While this is the end of the Saltaire Review in its current format, I do plan to keep the brand alive and come back with something fresh and relevant sometime in 2020. The Bradford Review will be continuing as normal and will be covering events and goings on in Saltaire alongside the usual content too...so you can still get your fix! In the meantime, feel free to take a trip down memory lane and read any of the back issues online at www.issuu.com/ festivalpublications Thank you!
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Inspiring Saltaire Saltaire Inspired is the volunteer-led charity that produce Saltaire Arts Trail, Makers Fairs and the Saltaire Living Advent Calendar. We talk to three of their trustees about being involved with this small but ambitious arts charity. Julia Calver has been Chair of Saltaire Inspired since 2017, alongside her full time job as course director at the UK Centre for Events Management, Leeds Beckett University; “It is truly motivating as well as a privilege to support the organisation’s vision – to inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the arts within the unique setting of Saltaire – working with a team of passionate and creative people. Living locally, I spent many years as a frequent visitor to events before becoming a Trustee. Getting involved is a really fabulous way to get to know people in the area, it may start from decorating a window for the Saltaire Living Advent Calendar, or becoming a volunteer at the Arts Trail or Makers Fairs, or you may wish to join the team of Trustees to support the planning and organising of the organisation as a whole. Either way, Saltaire Inspired is a fabulous vehicle to involve everyone who wants to do something creative within the community and contribute something a little bit special and fun!” “The biggest reward for me is knowing that as a team we are contributing to the cultural and economic vibrancy of Saltaire, in our own small way” says Julia. “We raise funds to create three freelance posts and provide a platform for artists and designers to exhibit and sell their work. We have strong partnerships with Bradford Council, Salts Mill, Shipley College and Bradford School of Art, as well as with local venues such as the United Reformed Church, Saltaire Methodist Church and Holding Space to name but a few,
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as well as many local businesses. We are always open to ideas and collaboration as ultimately, our events provide a fabulous opportunity to bring people together and celebrate creativity in dynamic and friendly way”. Frances Guy moved to Saltaire in 2011; “One of the reasons for relocating to Saltaire was the Arts Trail, which reminded me of the Artists Open Houses Festival in my home town, Brighton. But it was only when I finished a demanding full-time job to start studying for a PhD that I began to really appreciate how much was happening on my doorstep. I’ve taken part in the Living Advent Calendar almost every year since moving here, and was delighted when I was approached about becoming a Trustee. My PhD is about contemporary art in heritage sites so it’s a great fit with my interests”. “Being a Trustee gives me the opportunity to contribute to the cultural life of my local community and to continue to have a role in delivering artistic events now that I’m a full-time researcher” says Fran. “It’s also a great way of meeting people, not only the other Trustees and the team responsible for delivering the events but the many other volunteers who are vital in making them happen. And, of course, the best part is talking to other locals and visitors taking part in the events and sharing the enjoyment they get from them”. Dan Breeze is a teacher at Saltaire Primary School and is one of Saltaire Inspired newest
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trustees; “I have always had a strong interest in the arts and having grown up in Saltaire, I know how special the community here is. Being a Trustee for Saltaire Inspired is great fun - you get to meet a wide range of people and gain an insight into the world of the arts. I particularly enjoy meeting all our artists and home owners on the Arts Trail. Looking to the future, I am really keen to work with our staff and partners to develop the children’s and families activities,
and have been talking to the local schools and colleges to see how we can work in partnership to include their wonderful young people within our activities”. Saltaire Inspired are always delighted to hear from people who would like to get involved as a volunteer or a Trustee. If you are interested or would like to find out more, visit saltaireinspired.org.uk or email team@ saltaireinspired.org.uk.
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By Mike Farren
Saltaire Festival’s flagship exhibition this year is an exciting blend of different arts and science, using the history of the textile industry to shed light on the future. I caught up with locallybased photographer Tim Smith, whose work and ideas are at the heart of the exhibition, to find out more.
Companies, both based in Bradford. They’re looking at film clips I’ve shot of textile workers and machinery and using them as inspiration for a performance piece that’s going to be filmed and layered with footage from the mills themselves and projected onto fabric, alongside the exhibition.”
A long-term Bradford resident, Tim tells me how he moved here in the 1980s to work for Bradford Museums taking lots of photograph of different communities in the area, including many of those that came to Bradford to work in the textile industry.
The still photographs in the exhibition will also be printed onto textiles by Extreme Display, a company based in a former mill building in Keighley. However, what really makes this exhibition different, Tim tells me, is that “It looks at what the textile industry has become in the 21st century and looks forward in terms of how traditional textile technologies are being used not just to create materials and fabrics one would expect, but are also being used to manufacture just about anything!”
That industry is clearly a source of great fascination to him, forming the basis of several previous photography-only exhibitions. He goes on to say, “When I’ve been to textile mills, I’ve often thought about the repetitive movements the workers make. If you stripped out the machinery, it would be almost like they were performing a dance with expressive, graphic physical movements.” Thus, for the Festival show, “I’m working with Balbir Singh and with Gradient Dance 14
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This ‘anything’ covers applications from cartilage in artificial knees and heart valves made from silk to carbon for planes and space satellites – all being manufactured locally in miles such as Wyedean Weaving in Haworth. Tim points out, “Salts Mill was at the centre of the world’s first
As examples, Tim cites punch cards that were, in effect, the first binary programme system, to drive card looms and weave an infinite number of complex patterns, as well as the way the head of a digital printing machine moves, which is very reminiscent of the way a shuttle moves through a loom. It’s clearly a highly relevant concept to Saltaire and Bradford, as Tim explains, “The thing about textiles is that virtually every family in Bradford has a connection. You’ve only got to go back a generation and mills like Salts or Listers or Drummonds are churning out miles and miles of fabric. Textiles does not employ the vast numbers of people in Yorkshire that it used to do but if you
scratch below the surface, there is this vibrant ecosystem of companies still beavering away.” He adds, “It’s something that Salts Mill and Saltaire Festival are really keen on because Saltaire is a place that’s always re-inventing itself.” It’s inspiring to be reminded that the textile industry is not just ‘history’ or ‘heritage’ but something that feeds into the present and the future of Saltaire and Bradford. Factor in support from the Campaign for Wool organisation, who are working on sustainability and manufacturing industry’s impact on resources and waste, to add up to a deeply relevant piece. With the innovative interpretation promised by Tim Smith and collaborators, this seems like an unmissable part of this year’s Festival Weaving the Future will be on display in the roof space at Salts Mill throughout the Saltaire Festival on weekends afterwards into October
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industrial revolution, when the textile industry was taken from a village industry to a factory system. It’s also at the forefront of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’, coming together from digital technology, data and the hyper-joined-up world we live in. A lot of companies now based in Salts Mill are driving this digital revolution, which is an evolution from the early textile industry.”
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After almost a year in the planning, the 17th annual Saltaire Festival is just around the corner and the volunteer team behind the event is ready to greet thousands of visitors to the World Heritage Site. For ten days in September, the village of Saltaire will be alive with a feast of music, theatre, comedy, heritage, art, sculpture, food and drink, and so much more. As well as the usual family favourites and Festival staples such as the Open Gardens Trail and Pop-Ups, Comedy Night and Roberts Park weekend, there are some new activities and events for all, including a landmark exhibition by Tim Smith in the Salt’s Mill roofspace, entitled Weaving the Future. This exhibition will link Yorkshire’s textile trade past and present with its future, using a combination of photography, film and performance. Following on from the success of last year’s inaugural poetry competition, this year’s competition attracted nearly 100 entries from poets of all ages and from all over the UK and even further afield. The theme this year was Textiles, Technology and Time, reflecting the overall theme of the 2019 Festival, and the judges were impressed with both the number of entries and the standard across the two age groups. The judges were Lorna Faye Dunsire and Irene Lofthouse, both published poets who have experience of judging similar competitions.
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Lorna is part of Yaffle Five whose latest venture is Reel Bradford, an anthology which is a joint production with Bradford City of Film, due for release on 16th August. Also look out for Lorna at a Pop-up poetry event in William Henry Street during the first weekend of the Festival. Irene performs and teaches poetry workshops locally. She recently won a competition herself with a piece entitled Transforming Me which appears in an anthology called Cat and Mouse published by Brighouse Publishing. Irene is appearing at the Festival as Miss Connection at the Children and Young People’s event in Roberts Park on 14th and 15th September. She is also performing Margaret Graham: Balloonista Extraordinaire at St Peter’s Church on 18th September. The under 18 winner was Nana’s Saltaire Blood by Anya Trofimova age 14. The runner up was Unjust System by Suhani Ahuja and third place went to My Outfits by Claire Gee. In the adult category, first place went to Salts Mill 1853 Gallery by Isobel Thrilling. Second place was awarded to Saltaire Souls by Alison Hughes and the third placed entry was Engagement by Emma Storr. The winning poems will be published on the Festival website. The Festival runs from the 13th to the 22nd September and the full Festival programme is now available online and in local and regional outlets. Tickets are on sale online and at Saltaire Wines. www.saltairefestival.co.uk
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Find out about Saltaire’s hidden heroes and heroines with activities for all the family and grab the chance to see some of the Saltaire Collection. The collection does not have a permanent exhibition space, so this is one of the few opportunities for the public to be able to see some fascinating historic artefacts and learn about unsung heroes. Saltaire Collection and Saltaire History Club are working together this year to tell the stories of unsung Heroes and Heroines. Sir Titus Salt’s story and influence on the building of Saltaire is well known. However, there are many others who made their mark on Saltaire and those ‘Saltairians’ who made their mark in public life. This exhibition will give the visitor new information about powerful people who are, nonetheless, unsung. The exhibition will feature the engineer who designed the vast interior of Salts Mill, the men who built Saltaire, the women who influenced educational provision in Saltaire and others who used their wealth and/or social position for good and worked to make life better in myriad ways for others. The exhibition will be held in the Salt Building, opposite Victoria Hall, open from 10 am to 4 pm, for the last two days of Saltaire Festival. It includes a chance to see inside one of the original buildings in Saltaire, explore our new web site and ask questions of local historians. You can also be one of the first to use our self-guided tours of Saltaire. and see the village in a different light. There are Children’s activities – Two guided sessions for children to make their hero or heroine trump card will be held each day 11am - 12 and 2 – 3pm. There will be help-yourself activities for children throughout both days. If you don’t have chance to visit the exhibition, there will be an online version of the exhibition so watch out for updates on social media or sign up to the Saltaire Collection newsletter to find out when the exhibition will start. For more info visit www.saltairecollection.org 19
om r f d r a c t s o Ap h g u o r o b r a c S Some three years ago I wrote on Salt and Scarborough for the Review. We’ve now been living (happily) on the coast for over 18 months, and editor Haigh gives me the chance to send this “postcard”from Scarborough to Saltaire to all my friends there – and thank Haigh and team for enriching Saltaire culture with their publication. Salt was brought as a boy to the town, had a deep affection for it, and as a rich man funded many ventures, notably the towering St Andrews Congregational Church, and the Sea-Bathing establishment, later St Thomas Hospital on the foreshore – now semi-derelict with an aksingprice of £2m-plus. St Andrews was built by Bradford’s (and Saltaire’s) Lockwood and Mawson, as was the slightly older Albemarle Baptist Church (also with Salt as a donor). Close to St Andrews stands the more modest exterior of St Martin’s-on-the-Hill. No Saltconnection that I know of, this is High Church Anglican, inspired by the Oxford Movement and funded by the daughter of a Hull surgeon. The architect Bodley also came from Hull. The plain construction belies an interior of such stunning content (Pre-Raphaelite devotees forgive the pun) that it must rate as a national treasure. All the windows, and much of the décor, are the work of William Morris and contemporaries too long to
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list here, see www.friendsofstmartins.co.uk. Fill a minibus and visit this very English jewel. The third steeple in this suburb of Ramshill is South Cliff Methodist Church, built by architects Morley and Woodhouse, the former born in Heaton and articled with Lockwood and Mawson. So here’s another West Riding connection. Salt was not the first person from inland to be fond of Scarborough. One of his “predecessors” was Anne Brontë, who visited as governess for the Robinson family of Thorpe Green, loved the seaside and chose the town as the destination of what was to be her final journey. The youngest of the four famous siblings has her 200th birthday in January 2020. She is loved and semi-adopted by Scarborough, as will be evident on the birthday-weekend of 17th January. My own “Tracking the Brontës” forms part of the celebrations. Full details of that weekend will be given on a special page on my website. There’s already a webpage on Facebook Anne Bronte p.200, inviting artists to take inspiration from her Tenant of Wildfell Hall. As I write, this project has already attracted over 100 proposed submissions, so sign up sharpish if you are interested!
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Opening night of the Saltaire Festival brings together Jim Greenhalf and Michael Stewart: two very different writers who have nevertheless been good friends for years. “The friendship goes back 18 or 19 years,” Michael tells me. “Jim was covering arts in the Telegraph and Argus and interviewed me. We got chatting and hit it off. By coincidence, when I had moved to Bradford, I read Jim’s book, ‘It’s a Mean Old Scene’, so I’d already come across him and we had a meaningful connection.” Jim spent 38 years working for the T&A, in the city while Michael is best known as a novelist, dramatist and academic, and for being the person behind the Brontë Stones. However, that’s the ‘everything else’: what they have strongly in common is poetry.
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Jim has published poetry for many years, including 7 volumes with Bradford’s muchmissed Redbeck Press. His books are a fixture on the shelves of Salts Mill bookshop: his most recent publication, ‘Breakfast at Wetherspoons’ (Smokestack Books) launched at the Mill and has been a poetry bestseller there ever since. “After the last show,” Jim says, “Maggie Silver came up to me and said, “More of that!” I was preparing another show when I thought, “I don’t want to do a poetry reading, I want something more of a show”. I asked if Michael was interested and he said “yes!” Michael’s work covers all literary genres. A former writer-in-residence at Bradford’s Theatre in the Mill, he’s the author of several plays for stage, TV and radio, to accompany his four
to explore the co-dependency of couples,” he explains, “as they talk to each other, like over a breakfast table – then as you close the book, the couples come together in darkness.” After selling out its first print run, ‘Couples’ is about to emerge in an expanded form for its second edition and the event at Salts Mill will serve as a launch of this. True to the spirit of the book, the event will take the form of a poetic dialogue between a couple of literary old friends – and collaborators. Michael continues, “I’ve followed Jim’s poetry career over the years and with the last few collections, I’ve been quite involved in the selection. ‘Breakfast at Wetherspoons’ is more about personal relationships than most of his other work and I’d like to think that’s partly the influence of editing ‘Couples’. I think we’ve sparked off each other as writers.” For those who haven’t read ‘Breakfast at Wetherspoons’, Jim describes himself, saying, “I think of myself as a reporter. I don’t mean a journalist: a lot of the pieces I write are almost like reportage.” books of fiction. In terms of volume, his poetry output – a chapbook entitled ‘Couples’ (Valley Press, 2013) – is small. However, the innovative format, has been widely praised, with admiring comments from Ian McMillan and Alan Bennett, among others. Jim says, “I think the best of Couples is among his best writing. The poems are almost dramatized short stories.” The book explores the nature of couples’ relations through paired poems that sometimes present the two sides of a shared story – and sometimes pointedly stare in opposite directions. “It struck me that the facing pages of a physical book would be the perfect way
We talk a lot about poetry and its audience, with Jim adamant that it needs to communicate with ‘real’ people, rather than just with other writers. He says, “The thing that pleased me about the reading last year to launch Breakfast at Wetherspoons was that a lot of people who turned up, I didn’t recognise and they weren’t writers. It was a real event for real people.” Given the nature and quality of the writers involved, this performance will be equally enjoyable – by all. The Difference Between Poetry and Everything Else: Jim Greenhalf and Michael Stewart read at Salts Mill, Friday 13th September 2019. Tickets £10 including nibbles & a glass of wine, on sale from 1853 Gallery, Salts Mill / 01274 531163 / email enquiries@saltsmillbooks.co.uk
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t Oktoberfes comes to Saltaire
On the 27th - 28th September an Oktoberfest with a difference will be coming to Saltaire. SALT Beer Factory, will be transformed into a Bavarian Beer Hall for two days, providing the perfect backdrop for guests to take in the atmosphere of a German Oktoberfest with a distinct Yorkshire twist. The event will see over 20 of the most influential and highly regarded international craft breweries descend upon the popular venue, from U.S. craft beer legends Sierra Nevada and Firestone Walker to Magic Rock, Wild Beer Co, Brew York and Thornbridge from the UK. Each brewery will be specially creating a German-inspired beer to showcase at the event, along with another of their choice. Alongside great beer and cider, guests will also be able to enjoy an array of Germanic style street food throughout the festival. Leeds’s based Hyde Park Brass will also be bringing their unmistakeable party style to the
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festivities, performing at both the Friday and Saturday evening sessions. Nadir Zairi, Director of SALT Beer Factory said “We’re big fans of Oktoberfest here at SALT Beer Factory, the beer, the atmosphere, the live music, but there are a few things we’d do differently and we will be putting this in to practise on the 27th - 28th September by bringing some of the UK and USA’s most innovative craft breweries to the area”. The event will be split over 2 sessions on each day, with tickets starting from just £10. Each ticket includes a commemorative glass, 4 half pint beer tokens and a goody bag. Tickets for the event are available online via Eventbrite (search for Salt Beer Factory), telephone 01274 582111 or over the bar, with no booking fee, at Salt Bar & Kitchen, 199 Bingley Rd, Saltaire, BD18 4DH.
Yoga vision I started Heather Yoga just over five years ago, around the same time as The Saltaire Review’s first publication hit the streets of Saltaire. After a music industry career in London and studying/teaching Yoga in Goa, I was back to my roots and recognising my purpose..the need for a Yoga community to be built in the Saltaire/Shipley area. After humble beginnings hiring space, mats, and props at various locations in the local area the business has now grown to be a well-established affair with a collective of teachers, regular guest teachers and a choice of classes, courses and workshops. Plus an annual retreat taking people to my beloved Goa and outdoor events in Roberts Park including a charity event which this year raised a whopping £750 for our chosen organisations. With a vision and passion to provide the community a dedicated centre for Yoga and wellbeing, my partner Dan (aka Dandelion Café)
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By Heather Gregg
also shared a similar dream. Having run a a well received vegan pop up for a couple of years it was time for us to bring them together and take a big leap. A year and a half ago we found a suitable location and embarked on major work to renovate and transform a beautiful converted Victorian warehouse building in Shipley which we named Holding Space, the home for Heather Yoga, Dandelion Cafe, and now also Saltaire Therapy. The Beast from the East had hit Yorkshire at that time, we were cold, grubby, tired, skint, nervous and excited, working all hours without heating in the building that was colder inside than out with just an electric generator to give us some power! But we had a fire in our bellies and a lot of Love in our hearts to fuel us create and offer this place for others to enjoy. It provides yoga, vegan food and holistic health alongside gallery area for photography exhibitions and multi-use events space for people in our community as well as
from far and wide. Our hope was that the space would be a fabulous addition to the Saltaire scene and make a major contribution to local health and wellbeing. Fast forward to today and the place is thriving, people loving whats on offer and them feeling very much at home, and benefiting from whats provided. We are excited to continue and grow our wellbeing offerings for the community here. We thank everyone who has supported us so far and a huge thank you to Saltaire Review who have been a massive supporter throughout our journey to this point. What a great job they have done with the publication to represent our lovely local area. We will miss it greatly. Best wishes for their next venture which we look forward to hearing about it. Find out more about Heather Yoga at www.heatheryoga.co.uk or Holding Space at www.holdingspacesaltaire.co.uk
Upcoming Workshops A Day Of Workshops With Adam Husler Sunday 8th September | 1 – 7pm Sound To Silence Kirtan Afternoons Sunday 15th September | 3 – 4:30pm Introduction To Aerial Yoga Sunday 22nd September | 11:15am – 1:15pm Yoga Unplugged: Restorative Yoga Friday 27th September | 7:45pm – 9:15pm Chaturanga – Updog – Downward Dog: Yoga Unwrapped© Workshop Saturday 5th October | 2 – 4:30pm Live More Offline: An Introduction To Digital Wellbeing Sunday 6th October | 2 – 4pm Bathing In Stillness: Yin Yoga & Yoga Nidra Workshop Saturday 12th October | 2 – 3:30pm
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Saltaire Festival Highlights Saltaire Brewery Beer festival 13 - 14 September, Saltaire Brewery Saltaire Brewery opens it’s doors for for two days of beer, street food and music festivities. This year sees the return of the wine and prosecco bar, along with the popular gin bar. But most importantly beer! There will be cask, keg, bottles, cans plus you can take your favourite beers home from the bottle shop in the Brewery Tap. The beer list will be released nearer the date so keep an eye out for updates!
Beer & Food pairing experience 12 September, Salt Beer Factory Head to Salt Beer factory for an entertaining evening comprising of six delicious courses of Salt Beer and freshly prepared gourmet dishes. The evening will be hosted by award-winning beer and food sommALEier Melissa Cole who will be guiding you through her choices.
Saltaire Inspired Makers Fair 14 September, Victoria Hall Saltaire Inspired present their autumn Makers Fair. Expect to see contemporary artists to designer-makers who work in ceramics, jewellery, glass, silver, metal, books, paper, leather, wood, plastics, furniture, fashion textiles and accessories, interior textiles printmaking and photography.
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Shakespeare In The Park: The Tempest 14 September, Roberts Park In their fifth year, Saltaire Shakespeare in the Park presents The Tempest. Prospera, exduchess of Milan who was marooned twelve years before with her daughter Miranda, by magic and helped by her spirit slave Ariel causes her enemies to shipwreck on her island, sets up Miranda with one, foils an assassination plot by two more and reconciles with the rest, allowing her to return home and give up magic.
Unruly Theatre Company presents: Talking Heads by Alan Bennett 19 September, Caroline Street Social Club Unruly Theatre presents Alan Bennett’s iconic Talking Heads pieces. Although appearing to be desperate and sad, both plays offer an insight into the workings of the female mind.
TLR Inside Out 21-22 September, Caroline Street Social Club Two afternoons of free live folk and roots music on an outside stage in Caroline Social Club car park. Hosted by The Live Room, there will be four acts on each day showcasing the best in live music. Plus DJs and a real ale bar.
Music Highlights
Glasvegas 17 October, Salt Beer factory One of the most successful Scottish musical exports in recent times, known globally for their unique sound and powerful lyrical content, they are a band that have never compromised; never conformed; commanding respect from their peers and critics alike and enjoy a fiercely loyal worldwide fan base. This performance will be a two piece acoustic set.
Topic Folk Club present... Ranagri 12 September, Glyde House Ranagri are a contemporary folk and world music band featuring Dónal Rogers, Eliza Marshall, Ellie Turner and Joe Danks. Dónal Rogers’ vocals are forcible and fresh with influences from folk to world music and a powerful message to boot. A band who exude good times and happiness but are not afraid to tackle serious issues like homelessness and the current trend for fake news which surrounds us.
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TLR present... Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra 17 September, Caroline Street Social Club
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra don’t care what genre you choose to put them in – western swing, country blues, ragtime hokum or whatever else– as long as you understand that they’re 100% sincere and 100% immersed in this stuff. This is no lazy pastiche, no dressing up box. They live and breathe this music and want you to get immersed with them. The Tea Pad are seven years into a remarkable story that began with four friends studying at Newcastle University and now sees them playing venues and festivals across the UK and mainland Europe. Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne but with members hailing from Orkney to Warwickshire, the Tea Pad sound draws on myriad influences – from Bob Wills to Django Reinhardt, George Jones to Tom Waits – yet ultimately sounds like nobody else, that North Eastern Swing style that’s utterly their own and changing all the time.
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SUNDAY 8TH SEPT FRASER ANDERSON
SUNDAY 15TH SEPT SALTAIRE FESTIVAL THE LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND (CAN)
THURSDAY 17TH SEPT HILARY’S 70TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FEATURING THE MAES (AUS)!
SATURDAY 21ST SEPT SALTAIRE FESTIVAL ROB HERON & THE TEA PAD ORCHESTRA
SUNDAY 13TH OCT ARCADE: FEAT. HEIDI TALBOT & ADAM HOLMES
MONDAY 21ST OCT ROBERT ELLIS
FRIDAY 18TH OCT CATRIN FINCH & SECKOU KEITA (WALES & SENEGAL)
SUNDAY 27TH OCT POOR NAMELESS BOY (CAN)
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