The Saltaire Review | Issue Ten | July 2015

ISSUE ten| july 2015

one day in shipley | bingley show| bradford voices

Contents ISSUE ten july 2015

6_photography at the kirkgate centre 12_bingley show 16_the first festival 18_vmbledon tennis tournament 21_book club 26_bradford voices 28_saltaire festival music lineup 30_LIVE MUSIC previews 34_WHAT’S ON 38_quick fire questions This month’s cover was provided by PAUL YOUNG whose stunning picture was among the many wonderful photos sent in this month. If you’d like to see your image on the cover send your entry to submissions@thesaltairereview.co.uk.

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Portraits from the Roles We Play exhibition, coming to the Kirkgate Centre later in the year

Portraits of life a look ahead to a series of thoughtprovoking photography exhibitions at the kirkgate centre this summer BY jenny zigzag

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owner, standing outside his newly modernised premises one day. Later I learnt he was planning to sell the business when he retired and with his consent I decided to photograph the last year of the salon. My first impression inside was that it was a fine example of late modern décor from the late seventies and early eighties.

ost of us take photographs today.

It’s a medium available to us all in some form or another. Let’s share those photos and share our views of life!

Back in January Vick from the Kirkgate Centre contacted me to ask whether I would like to be involved in organising a photography exhibition involving local people. I didn’t realise that it would basically be two of us organising it and that it would soon end up with all sorts of offshoots.

“As the work has progressed not only have I had the chance to acknowledge the hairdresser’s skill and expertise, I’ve also got to know most of his clients – over a hundred of them now. This body of work has become a record of a particular place and passing era.

I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to get to know Ken and his clientele. They’ve been truly inspirational for me.”

It’s been a very steep learning curve and a lot of hard work. However, with the support of the Kirkgate Centre staff, it’s coming together.

We’re taking photography out of institutions and into everyday life, bringing the gallery to the people. It’ll be like having a picture on your wall at home, a backdrop to the centre’s activities.

Also currently on the walls are photographic self-portraits by members of the Older People’s Day Service at Kirkgate. The photos reveal the fun this characterful group had in taking their self-portraits with local artist Caro Blount Shah. Great photos with lovely personalities shining through.

The Salon exhibition, currently on show, features some of the loyal customers of the Kenmore Salon in Toller Lane, run by Bradford’s Ken Moore. The portraits were taken by Nudrat Afza before the salon closed down in 2012 when Ken retired.

Then from 11 July to 16 October the Wide Angle exhibition will take over. This exhibition grew from the idea of involving local people using a wide variety of photography. 14 local people are exhibiting work on the theme of the four elements - Fire, Water, Air and/ or Earth, or non-digital work made using the

Nudrat’s interest in the Kenmore Salon came from growing up in Manningham, and passing it everyday on the bus to school. Nudrat explains, “I can remember seeing Ken, the

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older photographic processes such as film or cyanotype. Some are taken on camera phones, others on old film cameras or modern digital cameras.

Coming up at the centre in November and December is another photographic exibition, called The Roles We Play: Challenging Perceptions of Poverty. In this exhibition a series of portraits explore the roles played by There will be a Wide Angle opening event those living in poverty within their families, on Saturday 11 July from 11am-3pm, where communities and society at large. The aim visitors can see the exhibition, take a self- is to highlight their efforts, recognise their portrait in the photo booth, make a solar print contribution and challenge the negative and take part in the interactive One Day In attitudes often held towards vulnerable and Shipley event - details below. excluded families in the UK. There will also be opportunity To accompany the exhibition “We want to to chat to the photographers those appearing in the and browse their stalls. Coffee, photographs have written see everyday cake and delicious lunches short texts to explain their life, bizarre will be available at the café lives, their hopes and their throughout the day plus place in society as seen through life, mundane children’s creative activities. their own eyes.

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We want to see everyday life, bizarre life, mundane life and extraordinary life, people, buildings, environment, anything and everything whatever epitomises life in Shipley for you.

life and extraordinary life, people, buildings, environment, anything and everything - whatever epitomises life in Shipley for you.”

Just take a photo on 10 or 11 July and send it to us by email or Twitter or bring it in with you.

Come in and see your shared yet diverse view of life in Shipley! Throughout the day on 11 July we’ll be projecting the images onto the wall at the Kirkgate centre and printing some out to display too.

So when can you see all these photographs? The centre is open 9am to 4pm every weekday, so come in and look at the pictures and find out more about our other events, regular activities and the cafe at the same time.

Or come down on Saturday 27 June 11-3pm when the centre is open for the Shipley Alternative market with stalls, café, and children’s activities. More information at www.kirkgatecentre.org.uk/ shipleyalternative

If you’d like to get involved in developing some sort of photographic group or events at the Kirkgate Centre, please contact admin@ kirkgatecentre.org.uk.

Everyone can join in, whatever your age and experience. Photos from your phone welcome too!

More information on all the exhibitions and events can be found at www.kirkgatecentre.org.uk/exhibitions/ and more information about The Roles We Play is available at www.therolesweplay.co.uk.

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ingley has had one of the largest forget the marquees full of entries in the agricultural shows in the North for handicraft and horticultural competitions. many years. It all started in 1862 with a small ploughing event, then competitions With retail stalls and displays of cars old and for horses and dogs were added and the new there’s something for the whole family.

Airedale Agricultural Society was formed. With so much to see and do people can make More and more animal sections were added a day of it - the gates open at 9am. Don’t and with the introduction of worry about food - there are many horticulture and handicrafts the food bars, not to mention real event expanded into a major “This year bars for the thirsty. agricultural show attracting everything over 15,000 visitors annually. is in place Over the last 12 years the for a great Over the years the show has show has been beset with new show, changed to reflect the changing difficulties - a foot and mouth community as the Bingley area outbreak in 2002 caused the show now all has become more and more urban be cancelled, we’ve had a bird we need is to with less farming. Today the show flu scare, access problems, an some good enforced change of date, a change has stunt motorbikes, fairground weather attractions, bands and donkey of venue, and bad weather leading rides. However these compliment to poor attendance figures in 2014 and your the original agricultural traditions and a complete cancellation in support.” with marquees filled with cats, 2012. But this year everything dogs, rabbits, goats, cavies and is in place for a great show, now even mice, plus a large number of different all we need is some good weather and your birds - hens, chickens, cockerels and wild birds support. Please come down to Myrtle Park on such as owls, hawks and falcons. Down in the Saturday 25 July to enjoy a full day’s fun for bottom meadow you’ll find the larger animals, all the family - we need everyone’s support to including alpacas and cows, and in the main keep this show thriving as one of the best and ring the horse-jumping events. And we can’t biggest agricultural shows in the North.

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An institution is born with saltaire festival around the corner, we look back to the very first festival in 2003 to see how far it has come

By eddie lawler organisation in Saltaire and ask – do you want to be in it? Answer, almost universally yes.

Helen Kemp was a major figure and later chaired the Festival. Her shop - now the Saltaire Canteen - was smack in the middle of the village. Helen brought her long experience Looking back to the first Festival in 2003 we with the Bradford Festival, which had been didn’t know quite what to huge but was now under threat. expect. The Village Society She was quick to rope in Raise was aware that a big year was the Roof, the Bradford outdoor“The first coming - 150 years since the event outfit with a track record, Festival was a which is still involved today. opening of the Mill (not 200, great success as on Wikipedia) and the construction of our home The Festival had a packed in bringing village. We also thought the programme of events, some of Saltaire award of World Heritage status which were not well attended folk and the previous December was proving that, as today, it’s not organisations worthy of public celebration. easy to get the local public What were we going to do? Have to turn out on a weekday together, a festival of course. It wasn’t evening. They’re too busy and it raised conceived as an annual event. earning a living. But the second the profile weekend was a glorious success. of Saltaire The Village Society, chaired

by Elaine Gilligan, organised A genuine Festival highlight was locally and a meeting in Victoria Hall in restoration and opening of way beyond.” the October 2012. 100 people the six-bell chime in the United turned up to express an interest Reformed Church after over 80 and to say what they’d like years of silence. Maggie Silver to happen. A committee was set up and less had sought some way of commemorating her than a year later - there it was. The motto late husband Jonathan in the village, and this was Recreation And Re-Creation. What the was the right solution at a very appropriate committee did was knock at the door of every moment. Her generosity provided the funds to

September is on the way, and Bradfordians will expect – and get – another Saltaire Festival, thanks to massive personal commitment from the organisers and volunteers.

Thousands will attend and enjoy once again.

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Saltaire car park was the central hub of the festival until it eventually outgrew itself

cast the bells – two of which are named Titus and Jonathan - and the enthusiasm of the church members led to the training of a new team of local ringers, who carry on that tradition today.

and the Festival put on a day school about the founding of the village. The Salt family used the occasion to reunite 22 of their members, covering four generations. Oldest member Denys Salt, 85 at the time and only recently deceased, was to become an annual visitor to, and indeed a participant in, the Festival. Nick Salt was conscripted to be one of the judges at the mini-beer festival run by Bradford CAMRA in the York Room of Victoria Hall.

The Festival was also to give birth to the Arts Trail, which eventually chose to declutter September and make Saltaire a busy destination in spring.

Another memorable highlight was the Continental Street Market– stunning in its novelty at that time, today a feature we take for granted. Bradford Markets’ Nirmal Bassi took on the task, still does, and signed up enough stalls to fill the central section of Victoria Road. They arrived on a very grey Thursday afternoon, some stallholders questioning the reason for being there – ‘nobody around’, ‘not a city centre’ etc. As they packed up on Sunday evening they were heard saying in several accents ‘See you next year’. And the gala in the Park, organised by Bradford Council, proved under warm blue skies that if you put something good on in Saltaire - on a weekend the Bradford public will roll up in their numbers.

The first Festival was a great success in bringing Saltaire folk and organisations together, and it raised the profile of Saltaire locally and way beyond - as far as a two-page Guardian spread.

One or two residents were not entirely happy with this crowded event. But thousands were, and continue to be. This is to the credit of those who year on year put their back into running it. We just had to do it again.

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Charity tennis tournament set to raise money for airedale general hospital

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he Annual Charity Tennis Tournament at Victoria Mills returns this month and is set to be bigger than ever. Promising a full day of activities and entertainment, the Salts Mill Road venue will transform into a family fun day with everyone welcome.

VMbledon was started in 2013 following the tragic death of Hayley McDermott from a heart attack at 27. Her father David organised the very first VMbledon event with family and friends to great success, with everyone turning out in full support. David is hoping to move attention from Wimbledon to the tennis court at Victoria Mills (hence VMbledon), where he lives.

This year will follow on from the fantastic day in 2013, not only with the tennis tournament, but also family events such as boules and chess along with traditional favorites like one-legged races and sack races.

VMbledon will take place in the beautiful grounds of Victoria Mills on Saturday 4 July

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ook Clubs are a growing and vibrant part of the book scene.

They’re springing up around the country wherever there are more than one or two people who want to talk about reading and about books. I started Saltaire Bookshop in August 2007 with the idea that it would be a bookshop that engaged its readers, involved them with talking about books, gave readers the opportunity to meet writers and meet and talk with other readers. Our club meets on the first Wednesday of each month, at 7pm.

the Nazis in Vienna.

Our evenings are lively but if people haven’t anything particular to say about a specific book that’s fine – no need to feel obliged to contribute every time!

You don’t have to read the book either, just enjoy the flow of conversation!

We always welcome new people. Fresh perspectives and different views are always sought. No point everyone having the same view about a book! It works really well if some people love it and some hate it. It creates a lively debate.

Between six and a dozen people meet at every Book Club, with people either coming along each time or dipping in and out, depending on whether they have a particular interest in a book or whether they have the time on a particular month. Needless to say discussion doesn’t just involve the book in hand. It leads us to talk around the subject, and what’s exciting is the breadth of experience and knowledge. For instance, when we talked about The Hare With The Amber Eyes one of our members related how her late husband had been a refugee from

If you’re interested in coming along, just turn up on a first Wednesday in the month or contact David or Vanessa at the bookshop.

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In full voice saltaire-based community choir bradford voices can be seen singing loud and proud this summer

By sue brearley

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radford Voices are a mixed group of adults who meet once a week to sing, laugh, share and enjoy our love of music together. We vary from youngish to golden age and we welcome everyone, especially men!

over as MD in 2009. I began training in 2005 as part of a choir mentee scheme and also with the Natural Voice Network. Previously I’d trained in classical singing, and when I found community choirs and the natural voice network it was like a breath of fresh air. Now as a natural voice practitioner, I believe that singing is our birthright and that everyone’s voice is unique to themselves. I love Monday nights and always come away buzzing and on a high.”

We believe that everyone has a voice and can sing, so we have no auditions - take note, Gareth Malone! People sing where their voice feels most comfortable. Our repertoire includes pop songs, world songs, and songs of celebration, peace and freedom. We usually start the night off with simple rounds and then move on to more “I believe complex four-part harmonies. that singing Lots of our repertoire is taught using natural voice method, an aural tradition of call and response. Although we always provide words and sometimes music is available, it’s not essential that you read music, just follow the dots up and down.

Why do we sing? Because we love it! It allows us to express our joy, celebration, even our sorrow.

Never worrying if our voice is good enough, we just open our mouths and sing. Singing has many positive benefits, it raises our confidence and improves our health – and is a fantastic way of making new friends.

is our birthright and that everyone’s voice is unique to themselves.

I love Monday nights and always come away buzzing and on a high.”

We have a very active social side to the choir and frequently enjoy nights out - bowling, cinema, karaoke, walking, theatre, eating out, and going to the pub after choir. We also have an annual residential weekend away, which is great fun and a good way to get to know others in the choir.

Our MD Ana Hayrabedian says: “I’ve been singing with the choir for 18 years, and took

Bradford Voices love to sing in their local community and often busk at local events such as Saltaire Arts Trail, Saltaire Sing, part of the Saltaire festival, and the Peace Fair in Victoria Hall and the Bandstand in Roberts Park.

We also look forward each year to the annual Community Choir event, this year to be held in lovely Whitby.

And we’re delighted to say that this year we performed at the One City, Many Voices event as part of Bradford Festival and hosted by Bradford Festival Choral Society. Very often whilst we’re busking we pass round a bucket for our adopted charity Water Aid, and this year we’re very proud to have raised enough to pay for two toilets as part of the twinning toilet scheme.

We meet on Monday evenings from 7pm to 9pm during school term-times at Saltaire Methodist Church, Saltaire Road, Saltaire.

Visit www.bradfordvoices.org.uk for contact details, then come along! And we’re performing as part of the Saltaire bandstand events in Roberts Park on 26 July 2-4pm.

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The stage is set we reveal the eclectic musical lineup for saturday afternoon on the saltaire festival main stage

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ne of the highlights of this year’s Saltaire Festival in September is undoubtedly the main stage event, Bands In The Park. Having grown from a small stage on the Caroline Street car park it now occupies pride of place in the idyllic surroundings of Roberts Park.

BY bernie sheehan by agents and acts from across Britain and beyond, all keen to play at this superb event, “We’ve even had a request from a band in Norway! But with so much exceptional local talent to choose from there’s really no need to book bands from outside the area.”

This month we’re taking a look at the acts On the weekend of 19-20 September some appearing on Saturday 19 September. Opening of the district’s finest musicians the show will be The Bric-a-Brac will be performing for the delight Band featuring Bella Gaffney, of festival goers. Last year over whose lilting and original folk“We’re forty thousand people were inspired songs have received always estimated to have attended over wide acclaim, providing the looking to the final two days and this year perfect start to the festivities. organisers think it could be even Blue Star Tattoo follow next with broaden higher, making Saltaire Festival their hi-octane rock set and a the musical one of Yorkshire’s most eagerly great opportunity for all the air styles and anticipated community events. guitarists out there to show off this year their talents. BST have a large Rob Watkins heads the events local following and are sure to we think team, who have the unenviable mix it up! we’ve done task of selecting the acts for the just that.” main stage. I managed to catch Up next come the undisputed up with him and asked how they rising stars of the festival circuit, reach their final decisions: “As Nervous ‘Orse, a four piece who working musicians ourselves we have a good write and perform beautiful original songs. understanding of the local music scene and Will Sexton, the Grammy-award winning we regularly go to see bands throughout the songwriter from Austin, Texas, described year in the hope we’ll spot some gems for the Danny Sapko, ‘Orses’ bassist, as ‘..the best next festival. We’re always looking to broaden musician I’ve come across on this tour!” Praise the musical styles and this year we think we’ve indeed, and you can see why when they take done just that.” the stage at 2:30pm.

Rob went on to say that the team are approached

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photo BY simon sugden

The Saltaire Festival main stage is expected to draw huge crowds once again this September

what you’ll get as we welcome one of the most exciting dance bands around..The 309s! With a mix of western swing, jive and Americana you’ll see why they are in constant demand wherever good time music is wanted. And check out their clothes too. Yessiree, a fine and dandy sight indeed!

During the band turnaround on the main stage the atmosphere will be kept cooking on the newly refurbished Bandstand, where the stars of the future can be seen and heard keeping us all in the festival spirit, albeit under the watchful eye of Sir Titus Salt whose statue stands imperiously overlooking proceedings from his vantage point on the promenade. If only we could look beyond those dark saturnine features and glimpse a smile of approval. What would he make of all this joviality?

Well, as long as he likes classic pop, soul, blues and funk he’d love the next act on the main stage. Ladies and gentlemen let’s hear it for

The Ruby Stone Sound Collective! Fronted by the enigmatic Dawn Stebbings and backed by four of the tightest musicians on the circuit, they really know how to put on a show and get those festival feet moving.

Closing the show on the Saturday we’ll have one of the most dynamic, outrageous and charismatic bands ever to prowl a stage.. Craig Brauns. Expect to be rolled, rocked, shaken and shocked by this fabulous three piece who combine cutting edge originals with brilliant versions of classic rock and blues. And guess what? They’re acoustic. A fitting finale to Saturday’s show.

In next month’s issue we’ll meet the Man Behind The Sound and get the lowdown on the fantastic acts appearing on the main stage on the Sunday. Final word from Rob Watkins, “We thought last year’s show would be hard to beat..but whisper it quietly.... we might just have done it.”

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The Record Club 25th july, kirkgate centre

By tony painter

This month the Record Club goes all Merseybeat in the Kirkgate Centre! On Saturday 25 July we’ll be enjoying some of the finest music to come out of Liverpool in exactly the way it was intended – on VINYL! Obviously we’ll be looking back at some of the legendary groups and solo artists of the sixties such as The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers and Cilla Black. But we’ll also make sure we get to listen to some of the more recent music produced by various scousers over time such as Teardrop Explodes, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Dead Or Alive. We may manage to sample some Zutons, Atomic Kitten and Sugarbabes and even possibly Frankie Vaughan and a few of the many sea shanties that namecheck the illustrious city.

As usual, we can’t predict everything because a BIG part of the evening is based on the records that people bring in with them. The

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more people come, and the more stuff they bring, the better the evening! So, scout around your spare room for that old cardboard box of singles, or even search out the handmade crocodile leather record box you’ve not looked at for decades. Sort out some of your favourite tracks that link with Liverpool and the Mersey, no matter how tenuously. Bring them in and we’ll try to give them a spin!

The Record Club meets, mostly, on the last Saturday of each month in the Kirkgate Centre from 8pm and entry is by optional donation. The atmosphere is relaxed, with a bar and snacks available.

Anyone interested can get more details and make their own contribution to the conversations at www. recordclub.org www.facebook.com/therecordclub or @ therecordclub on Twitter.

Cabaret Saltaire 17th july, caroline street club

By sue denim

Friday 17 July sees the welcome return of Cabaret Saltaire to the Caroline Club. If you’ve not managed to catch any of these yet - and I have to ask why not - they’ve been running for over four years now. Make this a must-see for a local night out. And if you’ve never stepped inside the Caroline Club concert room you’re in for an extra treat. Often described, and rightly so, as the jewel of Saltaire, the venue is a step back in time to the days of clubland and the heyday of variety, complete with its own glitterball, organist (Mike ‘Snakefingers’ Nicholas), a star dressing room and optional bingo for those so inclined. Even the drinks are historically priced with a pint of bitter coming in around the £2.50 mark, and cheaper if you become a member (£8 per year).

meat raffle (apologies to the vegetarians out there). This month’s helping promises to hit the comedy mark with acts such as Cockeyed Kenneth (a ventriloquy act with a difference), regular funnyman Billy Button, Bradford’s own rising stand-up star Jane Steele, a pint-size version of Johnny Cash, local performance poet Maggie Chilvers, billed as the Bard of Saltaire, a scandalous dance troupe, local singer-songwriter Vanessa Maria (pictured), spotted by Steve whilst she was busking her own songs in Bradford, and finally Full English Breakfast, a top dance band to finish the night off.

This is the first of three monthly cabarets to be staged at the club. The next will be on 21 August with legendary blues guitarist Steve Phillips and his Rough Diamonds headlining, then a Cabaret Saltaire Festival Special on 18 September with the welcome return of the Cajun Aces and the world champion accordionist Pearl Fawcett-Adriano.

Hosted by Squinty McGinty - aka Steve Huison - Cabaret Saltaire manages to pull together an eclectic mix of musical comedy and variety, ranging from the brilliant to the downright absurd and including the obligatory

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The Railsplitters @the live room 14th june, Caroline street club

By Keith Belcher

“Is the standard here usually that high?” A question overheard at Saltaire between sets of The Railsplitters sixteenth gig of 21 dates in 23 days on their first UK tour.

Formed in 2012, The Railsplitters are currently Colorado residents. Their music has bluegrass roots but goes way beyond the bluegrass genre. On stage they jokingly list the various offshoots they encompass Newgrass, Popgrass, Sambagrass, Rockgrass, Countrygrass, Doo-Wop Grass, and as one person in the audience shouted out “Laughing Grass”. Guitarist and lead singer Lauren Stovall, described as ‘the tiniest person on stage’, has a huge voice delivering powerful and very soulful vocals. All members take on vocal leads as well as providing great harmonies. Dusty Rider (his real name!) is a seriously mean banjopicker with licks up there with the best. Peter Sharpe matches him on mandolin throughout. Striking moves and bass playing from upright bassist Leslie Ziegler and the great fiddler Christine King complete the very talented lineup.

Opening with an upbeat Sweet Little Miss from their new CD The Faster It Goes gave

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the audience a good taste of the treats ahead, with great vocals from Dusty and Lauren and instrumental licks from all members. Spray followed, a bluegrass instrumental from The Railsplitters, their first CD. In true bluegrass style all members got to show their individual skills throughout this tune. Most of their material is original. A notable cover in the first set was Buck Owens Act Naturally, given a great revamp. The show was well-paced, with great vocals, driving rhythms and dance tunes and slower delicate instrumentals such as The Estuary.

The second set opened with Please Don’t Leave Me Any More Darling, a beautiful acapella five-part harmony, and sambagrass instrumental Goosetown followed. Jackson, a song about Lauren’s home town, finished the night, which flew by all too quickly for a very enthusiastic and receptive audience.

Answer to question at the start. A resounding “Yes”. Saltaire standards are high and getting higher as both The Live Room and Saltaire Live shows put Saltaire firmly on both audience and artists’ maps.

BRADFORD BREWERY YORKSHIRE DAY WEEKEND BEER & FOOD FESTIVAL 1ST & 2 ND AUGUST

—50 YORKSHIRE BEERS —A YORKSHIRE CIDER BAR —STREET FOOD —LIVE MUSIC & NO HANDS DJs —YORKSHIRE QUIZ

WHAT’S ON?

find out what’s happening in the area this month Wed 1 July Saltaire Bookshop Book Club 7pm, Saltaire Bookshop Friendly book club this week discussing The Bees by Laline Paull. All welcome.

Contact David at the bookshop for more info 01274 589144

Saltaire Decorative and Fine Arts Society Victoria Hall, 2-3pm

Saltaire Cricket Club Table Top Sale Victoria Hall, 10am – 1pm A wide variety of stalls selling small collectible antiques and toy cars, books, good quality secondhand clothing, handmade jewellery, scented candles and much more!

Dru Yoga 5.30pm, Kirkgate Centre Dru Yoga can be practiced and enjoyed regardless of your age or fitness level.

It includes classical postures and powerful flowing sequences.

SATURDAY, 4 JULY

Sponge Tree’s Saplings Tots and Parents 10am-12 noon, Kirkgate Centre

Everyone welcome to the Local Heritage Exchange event with about 25 local history, heritage and Friends groups celebrating the heritage of the local area - Saltaire, Baildon, Bingley, Cottingley and Shipley. Light refreshments available. lclheritage@outlook.com or 01274 580875.

Collectors & Record Fair.

10am - 3.30pm, Caroline Social Club.

Up to 20 stalls of cool collectables for film fans, vintage design buffs, music lovers, nostalgia geeks, retro-futurists & more. 50p entrance. Contact: roseandbrownvintage@yahoo.co.uk or 07933 671303.

Sunday 5 July Hot Aire Concert Band 2.30pm-4pm, Roberts Park Bandstand, Saltaire Bingley-based concert band live in Roberts Park. Free event.

Noche Latina 8pm, Caroline Social Club, Caroline Street, Saltaire Live salsa band and dance class featuring Salsa Como Loco and Alan from the Latin Quarter. £7 on the door.

Tuesday 7 July

This months lecture is – Edwardian Opulence: the Portraiture of John Singer Sargent Speaker: Dr. Claire Walsh.

Celebrating Our Community Heritage 10am - 4pm, St Pauls Church, Kirkgate, Shipley

Please call in or phone us on 01274 500735 or visit www.my-vibrant-home. co.uk for more details.

Child-led sensory arts discovery and natural play inspired by colour and nature, with a nice café for the parents on the side. £2.50 per family.

We love Shipley!

All day, Shipley town centre Take a photo capturing some aspect of life in Shipley on 10 / 11 July & email to onedayinshipley@kirkgatecentre. org.uk or tweet to @onedayinshipley.

The photos will become part of the pop-up projection and gallery growing throughout the day at the Wide Angle opening event on Saturday 11 July.

Saturday 11 July

Shipley College Adult Guidance Evening 4.30-7.30pm, Salt Building

Wide Angle Photography Event and Exhibition

An excellent way for mature learners to meet tutors and find out about the potentially career-changing part-time courses we offer. www.shipley.ac.uk

Friday 10 July Painting Workshop TBC, My Vibrant Home, 13a Victoria Road, Saltaire Come and learn how to create a range of different techniques using Chalk PaintTM. By the end of the workshop you will have all the skills you need to be able to create your own beautiful painted furniture. Workshops cost £65 and places are limited to five per workshop. All materials, refreshments and homemade cake provided and 10% off all paint and related products on the day. Next dates 10 and 18 July 2015.

Free event 11am -3pm Kirkgate Centre Take photos and send them in for the One Day In Shipley exhibition, make solar prints, meet local photographers exhibiting their work. Also a great café and photo booth fun. Send pics on the 10/11th July to onedayinshipley@ kirkgatecentre.org.uk

Film Event - Salad Days: 1980-90 a Decade of Punk in Washington DC 8pm, Kirkgate Centre Exciting event, director Scott Crawford will be at the Kirkgate Centre introducing his cult documentary about the early DIY punk scene in Washington DC, bar will be available. £7.

Second Saturday Sunset Dancing

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7pm-9pm, Roberts Park This month it’s Saltaire Breakfast Disco. It’s free, and there’s a bar and food at the Half Moon Cafe. See the bandstand in lights as the sun goes down.

Saltaire Local Produce Market 10am to 3pm - Exhibition Road Car Park Pop-up market selling a range of local produce.

Sunday 12 July Love to Boogie 2.30pm-4pm, Roberts Park Bandstand, Saltaire

PICK OF THE MONTH

Family disco in Roberts Park. Free event.

bella gaffney & roger davies

The Live Room Presents...Dick Gaughan 8pm, Caroline Street Club

As the composer of Bradford Born n’ Raised, Brighouse On Saturday Night, Peter Brook’s Paintings, The Beerbelly Blues and Into The Sun, Roger Davies is one of today’s most engaging singer-songwriters. Folk and acoustic singer Bella Gaffney hails from Bradford and writes folk inspired songs which she performs along with her own original arrangements of traditional pieces.

One of the truly great folk voices allied to a dazzling guitar technique, Gaughan is well known for his forthright and oft-expressed political views and has never been attracted by the current vogue of consensual, pragmatic and equivocating politics.

Friday 17 July Cabaret Saltaire.

7pm, Caroline Social Club.

Hosted by Squinty McGinty (aka Steve Huison) Cabaret Saltaire manages to pull together an eclectic mix of musical comedy ranging from brilliant to downright absurd, including the obligatory Meat Raffle. Turns on 8pm.

Tickets £10/£8.50 from the club or Saltaire Bookshop.

Cinema Organ Society Dance 7.30pm, Victoria Hall Cinema Organ Society Dance featuring Phil Kelsall MBE playing music for dancing.

Saturday 18 July Front Room Disco 6pm-midnight, Kirkgate Centre Front Room Disco brings you an eclectic alternative mix of music.

Covering indie, alternative, ska, reggae, punk, disco and 80s pop. With Wil Oddsox. A bar serves local ales, wine and soft drinks. £7.

Sunday 19 July Bella Gaffney/Roger Davies

roberts park bandstand sunday 19th july

2.30pm-4pm, Roberts Park Bandstand, Saltaire Two fantastic local singer songwriters perform live in Roberts Park. Free event.

Friday 24 July The Live Room Presents...The Coal Porters 8pm, Caroline Street Club The Coal Porters claim to be the world’s first alt-bluegrass act, demonstrating the power of fiddle, mandolin, banjo, acoustic guitar and doghouse bass when matched with four-part harmonies and memorable melodies.

Saturday 25 July Record Club 8-11.30pm Kirkgate Centre Bring and listen to vinyl in a relaxed setting with great company and a bottled beer/wine bar.

Sunday 26 July Bradford Voices and Ukelele Band 2.30-4pm, Roberts Park Bandstand, Saltaire Saltaire-based choir Bradford Voices

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and Ukelele Band perform live in Roberts Park. Free event.

Yorkshire Craft Fairs 10am – 4pm, Victoria Hall A regular and popular event, showcasing a vast variety of crafts and gifts not available in standard high street shops. If you’re looking for a gift with a difference, you’re sure to find it here!

Friday 31 July Saltaire Brewery Beer Club 4pm-10pm, Saltaire Brewery Saltaire Brewery’s famous monthly Beer Club! A mini-beer festival with 13 hand pulled real ales, great atmosphere and a hog roast for the peckish. Tickets are £5 each, guarantee entry and include a drink. Buy them from Eventbrite.co.uk or Saltaire Brewery Tap and Shop. Visit www.saltairebrewery.co.uk for more details.

The Live Room Presents...Lisa Mills 8pm, Caroline Street Club An old friend of ours from our Live at the Talbot days in Wales, we’re delighted to welcome Lisa to The Live Room for the first time.

Weekly events

YOUR GUIDE TO ongoing events in and around saltaire MONDAYS General Knowledge Quiz

The Ring O’ Bells

8PM

General knowledge pub quiz with prizes

URC Bell Ringers

United Reformed Church

7PM

Bell ringing club practice session

Rainbow Morris Dancers

Shipley Resource Centre

7pm

North West tradition morris dancing club

ZUMBA

Victoria Hall

7pm

Latin-inspired dance fitness party

Bradford Voices

Saltaire Methodist Church

7PM

Friendly community choir

Line Dancing

Caroline Street Social Club 7.30pm Line Dancing classes, anyone welcome

SALTAIRE STRIDERS

Caroline Street Car Patk

7pm

Club training and beginners sessions

General Knowledge Quiz

The Shipley Pride

9PM

General knowledge quiz with open the box

Bradford Chorale

Northcliffe Church Shipley 7PM

Taekwondo

Victoria Hall

4.30pm Self-defence class for all abilities

Ki-Rin Karate

Victoria Hall

6pm

SLIMMING WORLD CLUB

Caroline Street Social Club 9AM

General Knowledge Quiz

VM Lounge, Victoria Mills 8.30pm General knowledge quiz with prizes

TUESDAYS Leading choral society practice session

Karate classes for all ages and abilities Weight-loss support group

WEDNESDAYS ROLL BACK THE CARPET

Victoria Hall

8.15PM Appalachian clog dancing group

BuddhaLand

Kirkgate Centre

7.30PM Drop-in meditation session

YOGA

Kirkgate Centre

6.10pm Class based on Ashtanga Vinyasa flow yoga.

Shipley Acting Workshop

Kirkgate Centre

7pm

Workshops exploring acting techniques

Owlet Dance

Kirkgate Centre

1pm

A tea dance for the over 50s

General Knowledge Quiz

The Rosse, Saltaire

9PM

Pub quiz with open the box raffle

SALTAIRE STRIDERS

Outside Nuffield Health

7PM

Club training session for distance runners

Diddi Dance

Kirkgate Centre

9.30a

Dancing and coordination games for children

tHURSDAYS

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Delius Lived Next Door, 8-10 Claremont, Bradford, BD7 1BQ Phone: 01274 394 439

The

Bingley Show Saturday July 25th 2015 at Myrtle Park Bingley

Showjumping • Cattle & Sheep Handicrafts • Horticulture • Dogs Cats • Goats • Poultry Rabbits Cavies • Mice • 10km Race & more!

On The Gate Ticket Prices

Adults £10.00 • Children (5-14yrs) £5.00 Chlidren (Under 5yrs) FREE Family (up to 2 adults + 3 children) £28.00 Seniors £8.00

Tickets bought before show day cost less.

See the web site for further details. ( i.e. Prices + outlets.)

www.bingleyshow.co.uk

BINGLEY ARTS CENTRE The Home of Bingley Little Theatre

Live Events This july Bingley little theatre presents..

the ladykillers

Mon 6th - Sat 11th, 7.30pm, £8 (£7 conc) The Ladykillers, written by Graham Linehan, is the classic black comedy; a sweet little old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a gang of criminal misfits who will stop at nothing.

Bradford Metropolitan Concert Band Sun 12th, 7.30pm, £8 (£6 conc)

The Bradford Metropolitan District Council Band are a concert band of woodwind, brass and percussion, with a long history in the Bradford area, attracting members from all over the metropolitan districts of Bradford who come together twice a week (Sunday AM & Thursday PM) to rehearse a wide and varied programme of music ranging from formal overtures and marches to light classics and hits from the musicals, right through to popular numbers of today.

stage 84 presents...

oliver

Wed 15th - Sat 18th, 7.15pm, Saturday Matinee at 2pm, £13 (£12 Conc) Musical based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Oliver is a lonely orphan boy born in the workhouse who falls in with a group of street-urchin pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and masterminded by the criminal Fagin. When Oliver’s intended mark, Mr. Brownlow takes pity on the lad and offers him a home, Fagin’s henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy to keep him from talking.

Main Street, Bingley, BD16 2LZ | Tel: 01274 567983 Box Office Open 11am - 3.30pm Weekdays

www.bingleyartscentre.co.uk

BRADFORD a city redefined

l T he Broadway shopping centre will open on 5 November with lots of high street names signed up, many new to Bradford. 2,500 jobs are expected to be created, recruitment and training is being supported by Skillshouse – Bradford’s new retail academy. l T he City Centre Growth Scheme has helped over 200 businesses across the city centre by providing business rate rebates and capital grants for premises improvements and machinery purchases. Around 70 vacant units have been brought back into use and 800 jobs are forecast to be created. l Public realm improvement programme continues across the city centre. Works to the West End area

and new visitor signage will be completed by late summer. The £10 million programme of works has already seen massive improvements to Kirkgate, Market Street and around the two stations. l Business Rate Rebates are still available to businesses in the Growth Zone that are creating jobs. l T he Priority Streets Scheme offers further incentives to businesses bringing vacant premises in Darley Street, Kirkgate, Rawson Place and Rawson Square back in to use. This scheme aims to address the impact of business relocations and will offer a package of funding for premises improvements, machinery purchases and rates rebate.

To find out more about the Priority Streets Scheme contact Invest in Bradford

Invest in Bradford Team 01274 437727 info@investinbradford.com www.investinbradford.com