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Contents ISSUE 13 0ct/nov 2015 5_a note from the editor 6_on the cover 10_paul barrett interview 18_saltaire festival in pictures 24_treble at t’mill 26_event reviews 34_event previews 42_what’s on 50_quick fire questions

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A note from the editor By haigh simpson

They say things get easier with time but as representation of Saltaire life that I hope we celebrate our first birthday with issue 13 you’ll agree looks fantastic on the front of the of the Saltaire Review, I’m still catching my magazine. breath from the most challenging One of the first people I went few days in the history of this to see when I decided to launch magazine. “With the this magazine was Paul Barrett Saltaire at the Kirkgate Centre. So it was But we have made it and I’m fantastic to read Mike Farren’s delighted to present the biggest Festival superb interview with him about and most content-heavy issue of finale falling the amazing work they are doing the Saltaire Review yet. there. just three With the Saltaire Festival finale We’ve tried to make sure you falling just three days before days before have plenty to do in our absence our print deadline, October’s our print next month, with six pages of issue will always be a challenge event listings and more event and I think it’s a great credit to deadline, previews than ever before. So, our contributors that we have October’s before you put this issue down, managed to produce such quality why not grab yourself a cuppa content in such a short space of issue will and make a date. It would be time. always be a great if we could encourage one or two readers to try something This is also the first bi-monthly challenge.” new and show their support for issue of the magazine, and our fantastic local institutions. the first to feature a specially illustrated front cover. Massive thanks to both Saltaire Inspired and Little Tail Design, who Enjoy the read and have a fantastic few months. have come up with a colourful and creative See you for the Christmas issue!

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The only limit is your imagination paul barrett discusses Shipley’s extraordinary Kirkgate Centre BY mike farren

When I visit the Kirkgate Centre Paul Barrett has a paintbrush in his hand. It’s not what you’d expect from a community centre development manager, but the Kirkgate is no ordinary community centre. Growing up in Cornwall, Paul unconventional path. “At 16, I Plymouth, homeless,” he tells me. “I fell in with a political squat scene with a real DIY culture, so I learnt a lot about empathy and looking after each other. I got involved in the Claimants Union, for people signing on. It was good fun, but it was all around a culture of helping people do things for themselves. It moved me and lots of people from being victim to being actors. This influenced how I approach my work at the Kirkgate Centre.”

The travellers’ scene was in a mess and going downhill fast. It suffered from people not really understanding what it needed to work.”

The escape route was to gravitate north, where Paul found a home from home in Bradford. followed an “The closest I got to being in Cornwall,” he ended up in claims. “When we came to Bradford, people wanted to talk to you. It was really friendly. People couldn’t help enough. Bradford’s like that. There’s no money, but “I learnt a people have other priorities about making sure they’re ok lot about and people around them are ok.”

empathy and looking after each other”

Paul briefly spent time in the 80s traveller community. “A friend and I had a bus – not a very good one! It only lasted one summer, and I realised, actually, there is no running away. Growing up in a rural area, I had a very close attachment to nature, and there was part of me that wanted to run away to that, but I realised that my favourite part of nature was people.

On arrival in 1987, Paul recalls, “I got involved at the 1 in 12 Club, I was volunteering at the Resource Centre. I had a child as well. I’d been unemployed since leaving school, but realised that I didn’t want to be unemployed any more. I went to college in my 20s, then finally got paid employment in the voluntary sector and have moved between organisations ever since.” Work for charities in funding advice gave him an awareness of the existence of the Kirkgate Centre in Shipley, the town he eventually adopted as home. “I got involved in this place in

A younger participant at the Ante May Day festival

Paul comments, “The town centre had no cultural offer, no community space other than this woefully underused building. I’m used to being a person who does stuff. If there’s something going on, I’ll go and see what it is and get involved, but there was nowhere. I heard this place was in trouble, so I popped in and spoke to the small group who were trying to keep it afloat.

2008,” he explains. “Because of the crash I had tried to set up a programme around resilience for places like this – community centres – and the Kirkgate caught my attention.” Paul emphasises the importance of such places. “In hard times, a lot of things disappear, but if there’s no space for people to meet, things become very difficult. To make things happen, space is really important - space where there’s resources and people to help and give confidence and encouragement.”

“A group of us got together to take on all liabilities and debts, and free the existing group from lots of worry and stress. We did a big consultation, opened up the building and tried to get everyone we could inside, show them around and ask, “What would you do with this space?” A new charity called ‘The Kirkgate Centre’ was formed in 2009 and we’ve been working hard to realise that vision ever since.”

Against the worsening economic backdrop, the Kirkgate Centre plunged into crisis. It lost staff, was underused and potentially owed money to funders, for which the volunteers in whose hands it had been left could have been personally liable, raising concerns that it might close.

This process of allowing the community to come up with their own ideas – and have a possibility of their being realised – derives in part from the cooperative, DIY culture of the radical 1980s, but Paul denies any theoretical background. “I’d gone through life on an instinctive basis. The things we learned as teenagers were refined and developed, but it’s not a formal ideology, it’s just what we did. The 1 in 12 Club, the Claimants Union and the squat scene were all like that.” However, the process of turning the centre into the place Shipley residents wanted was not an immediate one. Working together as a very committed group of trustees, volunteers and staff, it still took several years to get the place on a firm footing, and it was only around 2012 when the Kirkgate Centre was ready to become the vibrant place it is now.

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number of remarkable groups growing out of the centre. Once again Paul emphasises the organisation’s role as facilitator: “We don’t want to be the agenda setter. I, for one, am not imaginative enough.” He describes how they were approached by David Carpenter, who wanted to set up The Record Club. ”That was a great moment,” he adds, “because it was the first success of this idea of ‘pull’. We wanted to create enough interest – ‘pull’ – that people would come in and say, ‘I want to do this.’”

“When we’re asked what the priorities of the organisation are, we say it’s whoever walks in the door next, and we’re 100% serious.”

Among the challenges was the creation of a space that welcomed people and ideas. “If you can’t talk and listen to people, how can you possibly run this building?” Paul asks. “When we’re asked what the priorities of the organisation are, we say it’s whoever walks in the door next, and we’re 100% serious. Whatever we’re doing, if someone walks in that door we stop, because they’re more important. That’s the ethos of the organisation - give people time and listen to them and find out who they are and what they want. Our default position is ‘yes’. The only limit is their imagination! If we say no to someone, we have to totally understand why.” The effect has been to give license to a

Volunteers from Shipley Film Society had set up a bar, and that provided a means for this event and others, such as Front Room Disco and Irregular Roots, to get going. “One group inspires another. That’s how it’s come about. Most activities have no grants, no subsidies, just inspiration, common purpose and a ‘can do’ attitude.”

The highest profile musical strand at the Kirkgate Centre has been Golden Cabinet, featuring frequently in the Guardian as the north’s premier DIY electronica club. Such fame, however, was never the objective. “We’d like the centre to be well known in Shipley,” he says. “Beyond that doesn’t really matter.” Members of Golden Cabinet had all been involved in the 1 in 12 Club, and most were involved with the Kirkgate Centre, as trustees, helping in the community cinema and volunteering for an older people’s group. One impetus to form the group came from a festival at the centre called Ante, which Paul describes. “We wrote this manifesto. It said, ‘The person you’ve always promised yourself you’d be – this is the day you become that

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bureaucracy that can stifle community action.”

person’. We had 30 exhibitors in one day. One of the highlights was the gigs. We ran it twice, and a member of the Ante group said it would be great to see more gigs. He went away with that idea, got together with the others and out came Golden Cabinet. For them, it was, ‘We’re going to put on the music we want to hear. We’re going to make it happen.’”

Activities range from a society showing slides of birds - and regularly getting an audience of 70 - to people who do counselling, children’s groups and many others. All are treated equally. “What’s the difference,” he asks, “between running a craft group and running Golden Cabinet? The difference is that Golden Cabinet’s really loud, but actually behind it in each case there’s a group of people working collectively, realising what they want to do.”

Events like Golden Cabinet subsidise things like the English conversation group for migrants and refugees. Around 65 groups use the building regularly, with over 170 in total, running over 1,900 activities annually. “We’ve done hardly any of that ourselves,” Paul points out. “Most of it is unfunded, a product of local residents’ passion and hard work. Many activities don’t have any income other than what they make themselves. They often informally operate under our umbrella, avoiding the

Paul sums up the vision for the Kirkgate Centre as being to provide “a space in which something we’ve never imagined happens.” However he adds, “It shouldn’t just be the Kirkgate Centre but everywhere - cafés and pubs and other places. If you live in a town where people can meet and have conversations, suddenly there’s a

lightbulb moment and they say, ‘Let’s do this.’” In the case of the Kirkgate Centre, the aim is to involve the whole of the community. “Shipley’s a really diverse place: class, income, ethnicity… You have people who have different needs and aspirations, and we should be able to accommodate all that.” Part of that community is, of course, Saltaire. We discuss to what extent Saltaire is integral to Shipley, or a separate entity. Paul’s view, in the first instance, is that “Saltaire’s a beautiful piece of Shipley. It’s got an incredible history and it’s full of really amazing people who have moved in there and they’ve wanted something and “You they’ve made it happen.”

has disappeared as more services are centralised in Bradford, while the wider district has strategic priorities that don’t necessarily suit Shipley. Additionally, there are the high rents and business rates that have stifled the life of the town centre. “One problem with Shipley,” he says, “is that everything’s pushed to the edges because town centre property is overpriced.”

However, around that centre he sees plenty of hope, in the form of people wanting to make a contribution to local life. “There are places like the Triangle and the Fox,” he acknowledges. “They’re trying to earn a living, but they’re also trying to make the world slightly different. I have really enjoy meeting people like that. There’s someone people with who has an idea that ‘I can make this difference to this different town.’ Both those projects are needs and really social and I like that. The Fox and Magpie and Shipley aspirations, Healthstore are the same. and we should They’re private businesses, but have a strong community be able to ethos, and there’s plenty more accommodate like them.”

However, there are potential dangers. He mentions that “Saltaire has had discussions about a parish, but personally I would find that a tragedy, because it would cut itself off from Shipley. ‘We’ll draw a line around our area because it’s special,’ but surely the people in Coach Road and Wycliffe Estate are special too.” all that.” With Paul’s focus on the One area’s well-being is as role played by independent important as the next. Your bin activity in Shipley, it would being emptied and your access to culture is as important as the next person’s. be easy to overlook the importance of the Kirkgate Centre itself, giving a social and “Whether it’s dealing with austerity and cultural heart to a community whose civic supporting those in need, or protecting our and financial heart has struggled for decades. green spaces and preserving our heritage, it’s However in furnishing that community space surely better that Shipley’s neighbourhoods I can’t help feeling that the Kirkgate Centre work together than set themselves apart? has been critical in establishing identity, pride We need to find a way to give every and positivity for Shipley. To me the town is part of the town a voice in its future.” suddenly a vibrant, exciting place to be, and much of that excitement can be traced back Within Shipley as a whole Paul acknowledges to the extraordinary community centre on the problems of a town whose independence Kirkgate.

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Treble At T’Mill ARTIST DIANE HOWSE’S IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION THE SILENT WILD EXPLORES LINKS BETWEEN SALTS MILL AND THE BRONTE SISTERS By Eddie Lawler and was part of the Saltaire Festival. Once again we had the opportunity to venture into the dreamy heights of The Lobby spinning room in the Mill, to experience what was the longest unsupported roof in the world. The machines and the racket have all vanished, along J.B. Priestley’s with the population of workers and overseers. And in 2014 we were surprised and to an extent stunned by the memorable exhibition Cloth & “Watching Memory.

In a recent article about Salts Mill I jokingly discussed the magic quality of the number three. But in September up popped the Mill in three differing creations – a TV film, an art installation, and a radio programme.

The film is the BBC1 version of An Inspector Calls, a welcome recall to prominence for the Bradford author. The compelling version is skilfully adapted by writer Helen Edmundson, it I could The 2015 Silent Wild event was showing strong empathy and appreciate by comparison a little puzzling to respect for the original but also with a flair for the small screen, the visitor, until the concept was the bells, the brilliantly cast, and supported grasped. This explores a direct ticking clock, link between the Brontë family by a subtle and superb musical and the Mill. James Roberts score by Dominik Sherrer. The some other credits say ‘Shot on location at came to work in the Mill as a haunting Haworth lad, eventually buying Scampston Hall’ which is true it, and in 1928 buying the Brontë of the drawing-room and some noises and Parsonage for the nation. external shots, but you can’t voices which mistake Scarborough beach, This installation, masterminded nor the Salt’s Mill gates adapted provided the for ‘Birling & Co’, nor a rainy by artist Diane Howse, involves soundtrack..” the projection of sounds and Albert Terrace with the chimney looming large in the background, images between the Mill and the nor the mill girls coming along Parsonage. A clear contrast is set the canal towpath from Shipley and crossing by placing the life-size plan, in white, of the the canal bridge to enter the yard, nor the lead Brontë drawing-room in the centre of this huge character walking under that bridge… Catch it space. This was the room in the Parsonage with on the BBC iPlayer up to 13 October. the table around which the siblings constructed their fictional worlds. The art installation is entitled The Silent Wild

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For me the most interesting element of the installation is the 11-minute film, in which a table is placed on the white living-room base and dancer Daniel Hay-Gordon reacts to a soundscape, including Haworth Church bells and the grandfather clock on the stairs which father Patrick would wind up very evening. The dancer’s movements take him around, under, on top of, away from the table and back again. I took his interpretation to represent the agony and frustration of brother Branwell, particularly through the choice of a male performer, but Diane Howse corrected me by saying the film has a more abstract import, reflecting the creativity (and real-life obsession and agony?) of all the siblings. The film will, I very much hope, be available on YouTube or the Bronte Society website.

Wuthering Heights recorded in 12 different languages’. I’m naughtily tempted to ask “Na, und?”- German for “So what?”

Watching it I could appreciate the bells, the ticking clock, some other haunting noises and voices which provided the soundtrack. But not the babble which, according to the blurb, turned out to be ‘voices reading a passage from

I cannot at the time of writing find out when this will be broadcast, but no doubt you will look out for it along with me. Salt’s Mill - keep surprising us!

The third prestigious event is the recording in the Mill of a programme for the BBC Four Poetry season. This stars the two Yorkshire poets brought to us by the Mill – first Tony Harrison, whose amazing play The Trackers Of Oxyrhynchus was performed by Northern Broadsides in the weaving-shed, as was his Poetry Or Bust, the story of the Airedale Bard, John Nicholson. Tony has also given readings of his verse in the Mill. His conversationpartner is Simon Armitage, who presented his BBC Culture Show film - directed by Zoë Silver - about the Great War to an audience in the Mill last year.

Makers Fair SAT 12 - SUN 13 SEPTEMBER, VICTORIA HALL

If you weren’t one of the 3,000 people who headed for Victoria Hall on 12 and 13 September you missed a treat, as local artsbased charity Saltaire Inspired presented another of their popular and increasingly prestigious Makers Fairs. With 48 professional designer-makers offering an eclectic mix of high quality handmade goods for sale, ranging from creations made of World War 2 silk escape maps to stunning pieces of handmade jewellery, it was hard to know where to look first. Fortunately there was also a pop-up café offering refreshments so you could sit and contemplate the sheer skill and imagination on display. Some makers were doing demonstrations, and especially fascinating were Suzanne making glass beads and Lucy Elisabeth creating pictures from single strands of bent wire. A unique aspect of the Makers Fair - and the other Saltaire Inspired events - is that they are volunteer-run. Marie Blakesley, the volunteer coordinator, says, “The feedback from the makers and visitors about our volunteers has been fantastic. Some arrived at 8am to set up

By Denise Boothman the rooms, others did an hour or so greeting visitors. They made the event run smoothly and created a warm and friendly atmosphere. It just wouldn’t be possible without them.” Saltaire resident Marie helped out at events for a number of years and has recently joined the board of trustees for Saltaire Inspired (also a voluntary role).

Talking to people over the weekend got such responses as, “I’ve never seen a Craft Fair as good as that, ever!”, and “Beautiful building. Excellent work. A great day out!”. It was a fantastic couple of days. The next event to look forward to is the Saltaire Living Advent Calendar this December. Look out for the limited edition christmas cards available from Saltaire Tourist Information featuring some of the windows ‘greatest hits’ from years gone by. The next Makers Fair as part of Saltaire Arts Trail will be 28-30 May 2016. To find out more visit www.saltaireinspired.org.uk and if you’d like to get involved please get in touch by email volunteers@saltaireinspired.org.uk

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By David Boothroyd site yet is based in Shipley, but so what? The then boss, Tony Gartland, arranged for his brewery to be used as the site of the beer festival. Yes, there were Saltaire beers on but also many others. It worked.

Beer festivals are great. Started in the UK, in essence, by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) decades ago they’re now a source of revenue for many other organisations. Originally to educate the drinking masses about the beautiful thing that is real ale, they are now a celebration of that beauty. And of course of the huge choice of styles and flavours now available.

It gets better each year. This time there were well over 30 different cask ales, also real cider and perry, and those ‘craft-keg’ beers. Two levels of the brewing hall were put to use, as were the relatively new Brewery Tap, a big marquee, and the remainder of the open yard. Four busy bars in total.

When the good people of Saltaire decided to have a real ale bar at their annual September shindig they called upon CAMRA to arrange it. Very sensible. That bar in Vicky Hall became a prominent feature of the event, with part of its profit going to benefit the hall itself.

The choice of beers was just right, and the quality excellent. Good grief - even the weather behaved.

However, after a few years some of those good people decided against continuing with the bar, much to the disappointment of (dare one say) the greater number of locals. The Saltaire Festival was bereft of the best possible traditional refreshment. Tragedy.

My favourite beer from those I tried? Sorry Saltaire, but it was Red Willow’s Mirthless. A hugely tasty pale ale with bags of punch from its Simcoe and Citra hops. But I must mention Saltaire’s sweet’n’sour Cheeky Kriek - it shows what can be done with cherry flavour in a beer, and perhaps with a palate willing to accept the unusual. Next year? You bet.

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Another solid lineup including James, Labrinth and Super Furry Animals once again cemented Bingley Music Live’s position as one of the north’s best-value music festivals. The natural bowl of Myrtle Park was made to host this event and the awesome backdrop of St Ives belies the event’s conveniently urban setting. Over 12,000 music fans were treated to some fine weather for the three day event, which kicked off on Friday evening with Cast, Holy Esque and The Beat setting the tone for a fantastically nostalgic headline performance from James. The Manchester band were chosen after topping a poll of previous BML headliners and exuberant frontman Tim Booth gave a performance that justified every one of those votes. BML continues to cater well for all ages with a popular family area and a lineup that always offers something for everyone. However some of the younger visitors will have been disappointed to find the festival no longer operates a deposit on paper cups. BML just didn’t quite seem the same without it’s

enterprising clean up team with their giant paper cup snakes. Some things never change though.. groups of exuberant teenagers dressed for Benicassim rather than Bingley bounced along happily to tunes they had never heard before while the more mature festival-goers took up residence around the perimeter. Fancy dress has always played a big part at BML and this year was no exception, with a good turnout donning superhero-themed outfits and enjoying the festival spirit. My personal highlights were saved for Sunday night, with Peter Hook and the Light treating the crowd to a trip through Joy Division and New Order’s timelessly good back catalogue. Then, as the sun went down on a fantastic weekend, Super Furry Animals stole the show with a wonderfully theatrical and trippy performance featuring lots of smoke, lasers, robot heads and the best yeti costumes I’ve ever seen. Best of all I was back in Saltaire for last orders!

Made in the Great War 11 september, VICTORIA HALL

BY mike farren little relevance, other than being contemporary with Howard’s story. Even more baffling is an African folk tale about a dead hunter brought back to life, not by the magical powers of his children but by memory.

Made In The Great War deals with the short, tragic life of Leeds musician Richard Spencer Howard, his death in the First World War and the way he lives on through the violin he created, which found its way into the hands of Bellowhead’s Sam Sweeney, the show’s instigator.

This begins to make sense in the second half where narrative rather than music starts to drive the show. Howard’s life, moving from stonemason to professional musician, is evoked in story and in an over-long recreation of an evening in the music-hall. More touchingly his tenderness and craftsmanship in fashioning his violin is portrayed in loving detail. This makes the description of his call-up, his war service and his death at the Battle of Messines all the more affecting.

The performance is a curious mixture of concert and drama, with elements of film and storytelling. It shouldn’t work – and there are times when the strands threaten to unravel – but in the end, the piece emerges as a coherent and poignant whole. The first half of the show is musically-based, opening with just Sweeney with the fiddle Howard made, amid a set that recreates elements of a musical workshop. Following a couple of solo violin pieces the other performers come on stage and join in, one by one. Robert Harbron initially adds concertina, while Paul Sartin contributes vocals to folk and popular songs from the time of the Great War.

The performance ends on an upbeat note. Just as the hunter of Lupton’s tale was resurrected by memory, similarly Howard’s unfinished violin was completed and lives on in this performance a century later. Thus Howard himself is granted immortality, despite his tragic death and unfulfilled career as a musician and instrument maker.

With the introduction of storyteller Hugh Lupton the performance becomes more than just a high-quality concert, even if it takes time for the overall shape to emerge. Lupton’s tales from a Lincolnshire village initially seem to have

Made In The Great War is a powerful and uplifting show, starting Saltaire Festival on a high note.

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Chris Wood Friday 2nd October from the USA, Harpeth Rising Sunday 11th October Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin Friday 30th October April Verch Trio Friday 6th November LAU plus support Simi Stone Friday 20th November The Melrose Quartet Sunday 13th December Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party Friday 5th February www.theliveroom.info t: 01274 594021 / 07855 164182

Eugene (Hideaway) Bridges 19 September, The Live Room, Caroline Club, Saltaire

by Keith Belcher

Larger than life Texas-born Eugene Hideaway Bridges - in tailored suit and matching hat - brought the blues to The Live Room during the Saltaire Festival. In his own words, “I’m here to have fun tonight, I didn’t come here looking for a good time, I brought it with me,” and so he did, spreading it infectiously throughout the room.

followed by searing blues licks on an extended introduction to I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me. Mean and gritty blues was the order of the first set, with Eugene switching to a classic Gibson guitar for the last song, the title track of his new CD, Hold On A Little Bit Longer. The second set started with Eugene solo on stage, and co-promoter Hilary was treated to what was probably the best version of Happy Birthday of her life. The man has charm! This set was perhaps more soul-flavoured with elements of funk for good measure. A Sam Cooke medley with full band proved a hit, with great audience vocals. Some very stylish dancing from audience members added to the soulful atmosphere. Eugene changed the mood often, never losing audience attention. After two encores he eventually left the stage leaving the band playing. Over two hours of awesome playing and even better singing had passed very quickly. Another great night at The Live Room, which keeps going from strength to strength.

He was celebrating 49 years in the business, having first gone on stage aged three with his dad. During that time he developed a powerful stage presence, and oozes charisma. The first set started with a very bluesy Woke Up This Morning, and his European touring band Arturs Reirs on drums, Gabriel Montell on keyboards and Kelpie McKenzie on bass provided driving accompaniment to his Fender guitar licks. Often described as somewhere between BB King and Sam Cooke he demonstrated aspects of both, with silky Sam Cooke-style vocals on She Just Wants To Dance

Cabaret Heaven 16-29 October, q20 theatre, Shipley

By tom taylor Following the success of this summer’s Shipley Street Arts Festival, Q20 Theatre are beginning the second phase of their festival programme - an evening of irregular entertainment at their Cabaret Heaven night, a four-day theatre school for eleven-tofifteen year olds, and a series of workshops and masterclasses so that those who were inspired by the Festival can try various street theatre disciplines themselves. On Friday 16 October drag diva and chanteuse Mysti Valentine will launch Q20’s autumn programme in style, presenting Cabaret Heaven, an evening of comedy, music and variety with sets from some of the cabaret circuit’s best performers. Maynard Flip Flap, as seen on Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny, appears alongside squashbased entertainer Madame Zucchini, with comedy plate spinning from Trevor Organ. Comedians Mike Hancock and Tom Taylor complete the bill, the latter recently crowned the Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year. Following Cabaret Heaven the Q20 base on Dockfield Road remains the place to be as they kick off their series of street theatre workshops

on Saturday 17 October with a musical hula hoop workshop led by hoop dance teacher Pete White. That’s just one of six masterclasses. Other sessions will explore improvisation, clowning, circus skills, stage fighting and cabaret, with classes running through October and November. Continuing Q20 Theatre’s aim of providing high quality theatre and education, all the workshop tutors are leaders in their respective fields and include such luminaries as Janice Connolly, who performs regularly alongside Peter Kay and featured in many of his shows including That Peter Kay Thing and Phoenix Nights. Catering for those a little younger, the Half Term Theatre School takes the topics of the adult workshops and makes them accessible for eleven-to-fifteen year olds. The Theatre School runs over four days, from Monday 26 to Thursday 29 October, each day is themed and students can book for the sessions that most take their fancy, whether circus skills, theatre arts, stage fighting or movement. For ticket prices or more information on any of Q20 Theatre’s autumn events please email info@q20theatre.co.uk or phone 01274 221360.

Viva Política! 22 november, kirkgate centre

By ludi simpson Tax evaders brought to heel? Austerity banished in favour of universal services? Free higher education? Community Councils with budgets and clout? A continent declaring itself free of nuclear weapons? This sounds like a roll call of the impossible, but our open event in Shipley will show how these policies have been implemented in Latin America and consider how we can learn from their experiences.

This year, with Fidel Narvaez from Ecuador, we learned how a substantial minimum living wage took hold quickly after parliament declared that companies need not pay it, but in that case they could not declare profits either. Ms Guisell Morales-Echaverry, Nicaraguan ambassador to the UK, will open Viva Politica! at 2pm. Nicaragua has moved from brutal dictatorship to socialist government, to neoliberal rule, and back to a Sandinista social democratic government. Perhaps we will revive Bradford’s community twinning with Tisma in Nicaragua that thrived in the 1980s.

Viva! Bradford has been bringing representatives of Latin American social change to speak in Bradford for the past three years. On our film nights we’ve Skyped to Latin America to talk to community activists. The link may not always be crystal clear but the emotion of communicating directly across continents never fails to impress listeners at both ends. One memorable evening at our home in the Kirkgate Centre in Shipley, we watched 11 year old Isabella play violin on a big screen from the El Sistema community music school in Merida Venezuela. In response, and to their delight, our own Omar Puente took out his fiddle and invited her to duet over Skype. Viva! seeks such links so we can understand how examples of strong community organisation can become beacons for the rest of the world.

Workshops on 22 November will learn of Cuba’s internationalist health support, and compare Cuba, Ecuador and Venezuela’s development. In the evening we invite a big crowd to dance the evening away in a fundraiser for the Andean community radio, Aldeas. Here’s the timetable for 22 November: 1.30pm6.15pm workshops, 6.30 food, and then 7.30pm until late dance with DJ Dave from Noche Latina. To book your place email BradfordViva@gmail. com £5 (£3 unwaged) for any or all of the day. Evening bar, handicrafts and bookstall.

Trainer Trouble 3 October, Merchants Quay, Shipley

By anthony deane

Golden Cabinet celebrate their second birthday this month, and they’ve tied up with long-standing promoters Trainer Trouble to extend the night from their usual 10.30pm finish to 4am for the first time. Billed as an after party, this pop-up event will be so much more. There’ll be a mustsee live audio visual show from Dronelock, DJs from the finest underground events in the area, street food from local chefs Street Eat, sound by the Dirtbox Sound System and a perfect venue, the canalside Merchants Quay right in the heart of Shipley. This night has got me more than a little excited.

For this new event in Shipley promoter and DJ Tony Safari explains they plan to mix their knowledge of club sounds with a larger arts input, specifically audio visual. This event in Shipley with Dronelock is the first step on this journey and hopefully a longer-term relationship with Golden Cabinet. I’ve watched the Youtube teaser video for Dronelock and I was blown away with what they’ve done. It’s obvious from the start that a lot of work has gone into their live show, with electronic sounds performed by Dronelock (Martin Cartledge and Alexander Church) using analogue hardware and surrounded by a purpose-built stage design acting as a blank canvas for the projection-mapped visuals from the Prefix Studio duo of Lewis Hackett and Nicholas Wright. Polygonal surfaces burst out of the static stage set, as Prefix bring the Dronelock sounds to life with layers of video projected onto the surfaces. Visually stunning, and I would recommend you seek out this event whether you’re attending Golden Cabinet earlier that evening or heading there direct. One night in Shipley not to miss.

Trainer Trouble and their alter-ego Original Heroes have a reputation stretching back 15 years in Bradford and Leeds, hosting such top acts as DJ Yoda, Quantic and the Scratch Perverts. More recently they’ve been hosting the Listen Up event with the Dig! Collective at the New Beehive in Bradford, a vinyl-only night playing vintage soul and funk to a full dancefloor each time.

Record Club 31 October, kirkgate centre, Shipley

By Rob Prior

With Record Club’s October event falling on Hallowe’en this year we thought we’d put our own spin on the ghosts-and-ghoulies theme by holding a Heaven & Hell night, as we set out to discover whether the devil really does have all the best tunes or, as the Pixies put it, “In Heaven, everything is fine…”

Inferno with everything that gets played we’re absolutely looking to you for suggestions and, of course, to bring along the all important vinyl to play on the night. Frankly, it’s up to you! And we love tenuous connections for our themes at Record Club, so get creative and please join the discussion on our website (recordclub.org.uk), Facebook page (facebook.com/therecordclub) or on twitter (@therecordclub).

We’ll be holding one of our popular free play nights for this battle of good versus evil, which means three and half hours of hugely diverse, entertaining music, all played on vinyl through nice loud speakers.

So, is Belinda Carlisle’s Heaven Is A Place on Earth your idea of music hell? Perhaps playing Bat Out Of Hell is Just Like Heaven? Maybe God Gave Rock’n’Roll To You? And did you heed Cliff ’s warning about the Devil Woman? We can’t wait to find out.

The success of Record Club free play events hinges on the fantastic range of records that folk bring along on the night. Some of them you’ll have heard before, some you won’t. Some of it you’ll love, some… well…! But you will definitely come away having heard something new that you’ll want to follow up.

Record Club’s Heaven & Hell night is on Saturday 31 October at the Kirkgate Centre in Shipley. Doors open at 8pm and there’s a suggested entry donation on the door of £3. Drinks and snacks will be available from the bar. To reassure you, please note that Robbie William’s Angels will not be played.

While we can’t guarantee to whip up a Disco

Movie Nights

Pulp Fiction (18) Friday 6 November

Beetlejuice (15) Friday 11 December

Doors at 7pm, Films start at 7.30pm Licensed bar & snacks All tickets ÂŁ5.50 from Victoria Hall

01274 327305

www.victoriahallsaltaire.co.uk Registered Charity 511978

Sixty Awesome Episodes. One Awesome Show. Yo!

The Unauthorised Parody

Over 1 Million YouTube Hits! onemanbreakingbad.com

SAT 31 OCT, 7.30PM Tickets ÂŁ20

(Inclusive of booking fees)

01274 432000 bradford-theatres.co.uk

Movie Nights 6 november & 11 december, VICTORIA HALL

By moira fuller

After a successful debut last year Movie Nights will once again see Victoria Hall transformed into a temporary cinema to show cult classics in an unusual setting. The idea was directly inspired by the local community. We noticed that when conversation turned to what events folk would love to see at the venue, cinema nights came up time and again.

6 November and Beetlejuice on Friday 11 December. The screenings take place in the grand Main Hall, set out in a cafe style so people can enjoy nibbles and a pint or glass of wine in comfort. Marie Walder, Event and Marketing Assistant at the venue, coordinates the movie nights and describes the comments we’ve received, “We like to be playful on Movie Nights and often dress the venue or ourselves up to get in the spirit. We’ve had a lot of really positive feedback about the evenings. People really appreciate that this is on their doorstep, and tell us they love the relaxed feel and setting.”

Around that time, in summer 2014, we heard of the excellent CineNorth project through the National Media Museum. It’s funded by the National Lottery, to bring high quality digital cinema to local communities. We leapt at the opportunity.

On the evening, doors open at 7pm and films start at 7.30pm. All tickets are £5.50 and available from Victoria Hall, or by post from the venue (£1 extra per order). www. victoriahallsaltaire.co.uk

Last autumn saw Movie Nights really take off. At each one we ask for audience feedback and ideas for future screenings. The response was wonderful, and we were told in no uncertain terms to keep going.

Cine North is a strategic partner of Film Hub North, part of the BFI Film Audience Network, supported by Lottery Funding through BFI Neighbourhood Cinema.

Using audience requests as inspiration Victoria Hall’s Movie Night Season continues this autumn, with Pulp Fiction screened on Friday

Irregular Roots Saturday 10 October, Kirkgate Centre

Best known for their mesmerising, high energy fiddle-driven music and set to perform at Kirkgate Irregular Roots on 10 October, Sarah Horn and James Cudworth have a growing reputation for their exciting musical arrangements, including interpretations of contemporary and traditional pieces from around the world alongside dramatic original compositions. Their natural style gives their performances a very instinctive feel, and they’ve been described as ‘brilliant’, with James ‘extremely skilful’ on guitar and vocals and Sarah ‘outstanding on fiddle’. When they opened for folk luminaries Spiers and Boden York Press said they ‘demonstrated an understanding of folk which belies their age’ and after supporting the legendary Fairport Convention, band member Ric Sanders said he was ‘knocked out by their tremendous energy and musicianship’. Our expectations for this duo are high and from reports of their performance at the Topic

By joe grint Folk Club earlier this year we’re not going to be disappointed!

Yan Tan Tether, who will be providing support for the evening, is a female close harmony folk trio from Otley consisting of Rosie Knighton, Tess Leslie and Lynne O’Malley. The trio have been singing together for almost two years and have already built up a reputation in the local folk clubs and festivals around Yorkshire and beyond. They play a host of instruments between them - piano, banjo, guitar, fiddle - but concentrate mostly on creating beautiful a capella arrangements of traditional and more modern folk songs. Their voices blend to create spinetingling harmonies interspersed with some immensely singable chorus songs. As always there’ll be a relaxed cabaret-style setting for the superb music and a bar will be available with a wide range of drinks, including organic beers and wines. We look forward to seeing you there!

BINGLEY ARTS CENTRE The Home of Bingley Little Theatre

Live Events This october all star comedy show Thu 8th, 8pm, £9/£8 (£7 conc)

Four top comedians performing cutting edge stand-up at Bingley’s premier venue.... Mitch Benn is widely acknowledged as one of the best writer/performers of comic songs in the country. He is joined by So You Think You’re Funny winner Rob Rouse, edgy South African stand-ip Cokey Fallow and Preston funny man Tony Vino.

Stage 84 present...

Starlight Express

Thu 15th - Sat 17th, 7.15pm, Saturday matinee 2pm. £14/£13 (£12 conc) Bradford-based theatre group Stage 84 perform Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic rock musical Starlight Express.

bingley little theatre present...

the ghost train Mon 26th - Sat 31st, 7.30pm, £9/£8

The Ghost Train is a theatre mystery thriller, written in 1923 by the English actor and playwright Arnold Ridley. It depicts a group of travellers stranded overnight at a remote railway station, reacting with varying degrees of credulity to the station master who tries to get them to leave, citing the local legend of a ghost train that dooms all who see it, to death. What is behind it? What is really going on? A classic thriller and entertaining piece of drama.

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

www.bingleyartscentre.co.uk

WHAT’S ON?

find out what’s happening in the area this month Friday 2 October An illustrated talk - The Extremely Far East by Tim Melling 7.30pm, The Kirkgate Centre Wildlife in remote Eastern Siberia, with special birds like the Spoonbilled Sandpiper and Steller’s Sea Eagle. Adults £3 (members & non-members), children free. TLR Presents...Chris Wood 8pm, Caroline Social Club Criticised by an art school lecturer for having “a remarkable eye for trivia” Chris Wood’s love of small things has made him one of England’s most vivid and arresting songwriters. With gentle intelligence he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parables.

Saturday 3rd October Field trip - Fairburn Ings & St Aidan’s RSPB reserves 8am, Shipley Train Station Car share - meet at Shipley Station 8am (return 6pm). Trainer Trouble present Dronelock 10pm-4am, Merchants Quay, Ashley Lane, Shipley Afterparty for Golden Cabinet and pop-up club event. Live AV show by Dronelock plus DJs from Golden Cabinet, Trainer Trouble, No Hands, Bosh!, BOPS and Dirtbox Soundsystem. Mixing funk, soul, hiphop and club sounds. Streetfood and bar. Free before 10.30pm/£2.50 after. Jewel of Yorkshire Saturday 3 - Sunday 4 October, Victoria Hall

The Jewel of Yorkshire returns to Saltaire, bringing you the best classes in dances from all around the world. Alternative Market 11am-3pm, Kirkgate Centre A popular indy market aimed at bringing something a bit different to Shipley. The market offers an eclectic mix of arts and crafts, clothing, jewellery, music, books, homemade cakes, locally produced food and fair trade goods, all set around a bustling pop-up café. Golden Cabinet 7-11.30pm, Kirkgate Centre Golden Cabinet - bringing exciting music to the streets of Shipley, includes Lakker (haunting experimentalism from Berlin on R&S Records, Necro Deathmort (punishing abrasive beats and lurching drone), Dead Fader (the first line between chaos and control from Berlin) and Bow and Lx (beats, bass and bangers from the local heroes).

best writer/performers of comic songs in the country. He is joined by So You Think You’re Funny winner Rob Rouse, edgy South African stand-up Cokey Fallow and Preston funny man Tony Vino.

Friday 9 October Saltaire Live Presents: Dervish 7.30pm, Victoria Hall Dervish are one of the great bands ever to have come out of Ireland. Featuring the distinctive vocals of Cathy Jordan – surely the finest frontwoman anywhere in Ireland – and an impressive instrumental lineup brimming with firepower, they’ve been travelling the globe flying the flag for authentic Irish music for over 20 years.

Friday 9 October Noche Latina featuring Bourbon Y Tequila and Sharon King 8pm, Caroline Social Club Caroline Street, Saltaire Live salsa band and dance class £8 on the door

Friday 9 October

Wednesday 7 October

Shipley Film Society 7.30pm, Kirkgate Centre A Prophet. Nineteen year old French Arab Malik is just starting a six year sentence – his first in adult prison. With no friends inside he just hopes to serve his sentence in peace. He is soon recruited by the head of the Corsican inmates, not only transforming his experience inside the prison but setting the scene for his continued life of crime outside.

Saltaire Decorative and Fine Arts Society 2pm, Victoria Hall The society aims to educate and inform in the Decorative and Fine Arts through lectures and outings. All lectures are approx 1hr long .

Thursday 8 October All Star Comedy Show 8pm, Bingley Arts Centre Four top comedians performing cutting-edge stand-up at Bingley’s premier venue.... Mitch Benn is widely acknowledged as one of the

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Saturday 10 October Irregular Roots 8pm, Kirkgate Centre Sarah Horn & James Cudworth + Yan Tan Tether: mesmerising, high energy fiddle-driven contemporary and traditional music from around the world. Dramatic, original and naturally instinctive, this brilliant duo is sure to entertain!

Saturday 10 October Kirkgate Irregular Roots 8pm, Kirkgate Centre Sarah Horn and James Cudworth / Yan Tan Tether: Superb fiddle and guitar duo playing music from around the world and their own compositions. Support from female close harmony folk trio from Otley. Saltaire Local Produce Market 10am-3pm Caroline Street Car Park, Saltaire Saltaire Local Produce Market is an event for everyone. Shoppers get to meet the producers and growers of the food they buy and even taste free samples!

Sunday 11 October Cinema Organ Society Concert 2.30pm, Victoria Hall Cinema Organ Concert, featuring popular music from film, television and radio on the world famous mighty Wurlitzer. The performer for this event is Simon Gledhill. TLR Presents...Harpeth Rising 8pm, Caroline Social Club Harpeth Rising chose to name themselves after a river because water is both dynamic and powerful. These words also describe the music created by the three women – Jordana Greenberg (violin, vocals), Rebecca Reed-Lunn (banjo, vocals) and Maria Di Meglio (cello, vocals). Unapologetic genre-benders, they fuse folk, newgrass, rock and classical into a sound that is organically unique.

Thursday 15 October Stage 84 present...Starlight Express Thurs 15-Sat 17, 7.45pm, Bingley Arts

PICK OF THE MONTH...october golden cabinet Kirkgate centre, 3 october Lakker fly over from Berlin to headline the Golden Cabinet second birthday blowout. The duo provide a mesmerising mesh of electronic and organic sounds and dark rhythms that break techno traditions and are further laced with introspective female choral sounds that blend together their unique aural masterpieces. To which, their most recent album ‘Tundra’ on R&S records is a most beautiful testament to this. www.goldencabinet.co.uk Centre Bradford-based theatre group Stage 84 perform Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic rock musical Starlight Express.

Saturday 17 October Day of Dance All day, Victoria Hall Music and dance workshops, family ceilidh and evening events. The Weekend Gardener: Winter Hanging Baskets 10am-3pm, Shipley College Create your own seasonal basket and learn the basics of good basket design, planting and maintenance. £56 ww.shipley.ac.uk 01274 3272227 Bingley Local Produce Market 10am-3pm Market Square, Bingley Bingley Local Produce Market is an event for the everyone. Shoppers get to meet the producers and growers of the food they buy and even taste free samples!

The Sinners 7pm, The Hop, Saltaire Created on the sabbath, an unholy alliance between rock and soul, The Sinners are a five-piece band looking for redemption.

Sunday 18 October Saltaire Cricket Club Table Top Sale 10am – 1pm, Victoria Hall A wide variety of stalls selling small collectable antiques and toy cars, books, good quality secondhand clothing, handmade jewellery, scented candles and much more!

Wednesday 21 October Shipley College Open Day 4.30-7pm Exhibition Building, Saltaire Open Day for full-time courses, part-time courses, apprenticeships and traineeships. Drop in anytime to find out more about our wide range of courses. ww.shipley.ac.uk 01274 327222

WHAT’S ON?

find out what’s happening in the area this month Friday 23 October Shipley Tramway / Cinema Organ Society Fundraiser 7pm-10pm, Victoria Hall An evening of musical entertainment featuring David Lowe on the Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ and Hot Aire Concert Band with music from films, stage shows, TV, pop classics and traditional airs.

Saturday 24 October Front Room Disco 8pm, 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 (Love to Boogie). A bar serves local ales, quality wines and soft drinks.

Sunday 25 October Yorkshire Craft Fair 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! Falling Leaves Event 11am-3pm, Cliffe Castle, Keighley Craft activities for children (and adults!); guided bird walks in the grounds - bird seed and RSPB goods for sale.

Monday 26 October Bingley Little Theatre Present...The Ghost Train Mon 26 - Sat 31, 7.30pm, Bingley Arts Centre The Ghost Train is a theatre

mystery thriller, written in 1923 by the English actor and playwright Arnold Ridley. It depicts a group of travellers stranded overnight at a remote railway station, reacting with varying degrees of credulity to the station master who tries to get them to leave, citing the local legend of a ghost train that dooms all who see it to death. What is behind it? What is really going on? A classic thriller and entertaining piece of drama.

Thursday 29 October Victoria Hall Wedding Open Evening 5.30pm-9.30pm, Victoria Hall Whether you’re thinking of choosing us, are already booked in to hold your special day here, or are yet to decide if we’re the venue for you, pop-in to see how we can provide the perfect canvas for your wedding day in Saltaire.

Friday 30 October TLR Presents...Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin 7pm, Caroline Social Club Hailing from Lancashire, Phillip Henry is a slide guitarist and harmonica player. Over the past decade he has immersed himself in the music of the deep south of America, traditional music of the British Isles, and Indian classical music. Hannah Martin is a singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Devon, writing mainly on fiddle, viola, and banjo, and drawing on the traditions of the British Isles. Saltaire Brewery Beer Club 6pm-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.

Saturday 31 October The Record Club 7.30pm, Kirkgate Centre Bring tunes that deserve to be heard by others. A suggested £3 donation can be made on entry to help cover costs.

Sunday 1 November Saltaire Cricket Club Table Top Sale 10am-1pm, Victoria Hall A wide variety of stalls selling small collectable antiques and toy cars, books, good quality secondhand clothing, handmade jewellery, scented candles and much more! Saltaire Live Presents: Aly Bain, Ale Moller & Bruce Molsky 7.30pm, Victoria Hall Aly Bain, Scotland’s supreme traditional fiddler, multiinstrumentalist, Ale Moller from Sweden, and old-time singer, fiddler and banjo-player Bruce Molsky combine the music of their Celtic, Nordic & Appalachian cultures.

Wednesday 4 November Saltaire Decorative and Fine Arts Society 2.pm, Victoria Hall The society aims to educate and inform in the decorative and fine arts through lectures and outings.

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This week’s lecture is by Dr Nicholas Watkins and is entitled The Horse, Modernity and Modern Art.

Friday 6 November Victoria Hall Movies Nights Present: Pulp Fiction (Cert 18) 7pm, Victoria Hall Our second film of a fantastic autumn line-up for you to feast your eyes on. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Illustrated talk - Islay - Queen Of The Hebrides, by Gordon Yates 7.30pm, The Kirkgate Centre £3 for members and non members (children free).

PICK OF THE MONTH....November

TLR Presents...April Verch Trio 7pm, Caroline Social Club Fiddler, singer, and stepdancer April Verch knows how relevant an old tune can be. She grew up surrounded by living, breathing roots music—her father’s country band rehearsing in the ‘Newpart’, the beloved Verch family room, the lively music at church and at community dances, the tunes she rocked out to win fiddle competitions—and decided early she wanted to be a professional musician. She took that leap, and has been quietly leaping into new, nuanced places for more than two decades.

The Live Room are very proud to present one of the great bands of any genre of music that the UK has ever produced, and one of their personal favourites. Since their debut album in 2007 Lau have picked up four awards for ‘Best Group’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk awards and the individual members have all won multiple awards and recognition for their acclaimed solo works. www.theliveroom.info

Saturday 7 November FREE guided walk 9am, St Ives Estate, Bingley Meet at car park near children’s play area, 9am For more information 01274 582078 or email abrspb@ blueyonder.co.uk Snakecharmer 7.45pm, Bingley Arts Centre Six of the UK’s most highlyesteemed and experienced rock musicians have joined forces to create Snakecharmer. Original Whitesnake members Micky Moody and Neil Murray have teamed up with Laurie Wisefield (Wishbone Ash), Harry James (Thunder,

tlr present...lau caroline street club, 20 november

Magnum), Adam Wakeman (Ozzy Osbourne) and Chris Ousey (Heartland) to bring you classic twin guitar-based rock as it should be played. Alternative Market 11am-3pm Kirkgate Centre A popular indy market aimed at bringing something a bit different to Shipley. The market offers an eclectic mix of arts and crafts, clothing, jewellery, music, books, homemade cakes, locally produced food and fair trade goods, all set around a bustling pop-up café.

Sunday 8 November Cinema Organ Society Concert 2.30pm, Victoria Hall A Cinema Organ Concert featuring popular music from film, television and radio on the world famous mighty Wurlitzer. The performer for this event is Robert Wolfe.

Friday 13 November Noche Latina featuring Mambo Con Rumbo 8pm, Caroline Social Club Live salsa band and dance class. £8 on the door. www.facebook.com/ nochelatinasaltaire

Saturday 14 November Yorkshire Craft Fair 14-15 November, 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! Saltaire Local Produce Market 10am-3pm Caroline Street Car Park, Saltaire Saltaire Local Produce Market is an event for everyone. Shoppers get to meet the producers and growers of the food they buy and even taste free samples!

WHAT’S ON?

find out what’s happening in the area this month Rule the World - Take That Tribute 7.30pm, Bingley Arts Centre Rule The World have been recognised as the number one Take That tribute act in the world. They’ve been featured on ITV1′s Daybrea’ and have had rave reviews from many people, including TV personality Ricky Tomlinson, Denise Van Outen, Jason Orange’s mother and now Mr GARY BARLOW himself. The ONLY Take That tribute show in the land to have ever been praised by Take That’s lead singer! Irregular Roots 8pm, Kirkgate Centre Barcode Zebra + Philip Cockerham - dynamic Yorkshire-based fourpiece band fronted by stunning vocalist Jess Gardham, writing and playing original material (imagine the love-child of Tracy Chapman and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers to get some idea of their sound), crafted from a unique blend of jazz, funk and folk influences, the band are already getting rave reviews from artists, promoters and venues. Support from popular local singer and songwriter. £6/£4

Friday 20 November TLR Presents...Lau 8pm, Caroline Social Club Since their debut album in 2007 Lau have picked up four awards for Best Grou’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk awards and the individual members have all won multiple awards and recognition for their acclaimed solo works.

community radio in Venezuela. Book by email to BradfordViva@ gmail.com

Shipley Film Society 7.30pm, Kirkgate Centre Two Days, One Night - on being released from hospital, young Belgian mother Sandra discovers that her workmates have opted to accept a pay bonus in exchange for her losing her job. She only has one weekend in which to convince them to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job.

Friday 27 November Saltaire Live Presents: Cara Dillon 7.30pm, Victoria Hall Born in Dungiven in 1975, surrounded and infused with the rich cultural heritage of her native County Derry, Cara has risen to become one of the finest exponents of traditional Irish song anywhere in the world.

Saturday 21 November Front Room Disco 8pm, 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 (Love to Boogie). A bar serves local ales, quality wines and soft drinks.

Saltaire Brewery Beer Club 6pm-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.

Sunday 22 November Saltaire Cricket Club Table Top Sale 10am-1pm, Victoria Hall A wide variety of stalls selling small collectable antiques and toy cars, books, good quality secondhand clothing, handmade jewellery, scented candles and much more!

Saturday 28 November

Viva Política! What’s to learn from Latin America? 1.30-6pm, Kirkgate Centre Come and join Viva! Bradford for a stimulating day of debate and lively entertainment. Opened with a report from Guisell Morales-Echaverry, Nicaraguan Ambassador to the UK. Evening Bar. Handicrafts from Venezuela and Cuba. Bookstall. £5 (£3 unwaged), plus donation for food, fundraising for the Aldeas

Yorkshire CND Peace Fair 10am-4pm, Victoria Hall Includes over 80 stalls, a huge variety of quality crafts, delicious veggie food from the PeaceCake Cafe, live music and singing, children’s activities and ethical Christmas presents galore! The Record Club 7.30pm, Kirkgate Centre Bring tunes that deserve to be heard by others. A suggested £3 donation can be made on entry to help cover costs.

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Myths and reality: A new series of books offering fresh perspectives on the history of Bradford football challenging the traditional version of events. A History of Bradford City AFC in Objects John Dewhirst (pub 2014, on sale in Waterstones)

Acclaimed by Hunter Davies as “the best illustrated history of any club I have ever read”, it provides an alternative history of the Bantams through surviving artefacts and memorabilia. Also includes comparative Park Avenue programmes and relics.

Re-Inventing Bradford City AFC Jason McKeown (pub March, 2016)

The last 30 years of Bradford City have featured a rollercoaster highs and lows. From promotions, relegations, the Premier League, almost going bankrupt, reaching a major cup final, and becoming the pioneers of affordable football. Featuring interviews with players, managers, directors, journalists and fans, RE-INVENTING BRADFORD CITY tells the inside story of how City emerged from tragedy in 1985 and evolved through modern times. How they have continued to reinvent themselves, in both good ways and bad.

Room At The Top: The origins of Bradford football & the rivalry of Bradford FC and Manningham FC John Dewhirst (pub June, 2016)

The story of all the pioneering clubs, the military heritage and the origins of claret and amber as well as the red, amber and gold. The author’s research and analysis provides a new interpretation of the rugby schism of 1895 as well as the conversion to soccer at Valley Parade in 1903 and at Park Avenue in 1907. Above all it explains the antagonism between the two Bradford clubs which set the tone for the twentieth century relationship. The final volume in the series, WOOL CITY RIVALS, an illustrated history of the twentieth century Park Avenue / City rivalry will be published in 2017/18 Further details from Amazon ; widthofapost.com ; johndewhirst.wordpress.com Join the mailing list and get subscriber details from glorious1911@paraders.co.uk history revisited | bantamspast publications

Weekly events

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

The Ring Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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 Park

7pm

Club training and beginners sessions

Bradford Chorale

Northcliffe Church Shipley

7PM

Leading choral society practice session

Taekwondo

Victoria Hall

4.30pm

Self-defence class for all abilities

Ki-Rin Karate

Victoria Hall

6pm

Karate classes for all ages and abilities

SLIMMING WORLD CLUB

Caroline Street Social Club

9AM

Weight-loss support group

General Knowledge Quiz

VM Lounge, Victoria Mills

8.30pm

General knowledge quiz with prizes

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

9.30am Dancing and coordination games for children

VM Lounge

7pm

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Gavin Hird and Harry Wheeler quick fire questions

Who are you and what do you do? We are Gavin Hird and Harry Wheeler from the Triangle. What made you set up in the Shipley/ Saltaire area? Gavin: I’ve lived here all my life. I love the area and the people, and we wanted to create a community space to host events and sell amazing art, beer and food. We thought Shipley was the place to be. You sell curiosities, what’s the most curious thing you’ve ever sold? When we first opened we had a stash of the big letters that used to adorn the back of Shipley market hall, they flew out. What’s your favourite beer? Gavin: It changes weekly, the British craft brewing scene is on fire at the moment. I love Magic Rock’s Cannonball and Northern Monk are putting out some really great seasonal beers with their Pear & Hawthorn Wit and Rhubarb & Rosemary Blossom Saison. Harry: I really enjoyed the Bayerischer Gose recently, a salt beer from Leipzig that’s lip-

smackingly refreshing. You also do events at the Triangle, can you tell us about a few of those? In the past we’ve had everything from musician Richard Dawson singing a cappella, our neighbour Tim Rowbotham talking about his Guinness Book Of Records entry, and Chinese calligraphy classes. We try to mix it up a bit so there’s something for everyone, and we’d like to involve more people in the community at future events as there are so many great folk around. Anything planned for the next few months? Yes, we have a Beer & Cheese night at the Fox & Magpie on 8 October. On the Halloween weekend we’re launching our improved record shop and curiosity space with artist Oliver Neilson on the first floor along with a new exhibition by Rachael Elwell. We’ve also been working with the Burnel Rooms at the Playhouse and of course Jez and Lisa from the amazing Edward Street Bakery who supply us with exceptional cake and savouries every day to complement our coffee.

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