The Saltaire Review | Issue Twelve | September 2015

ISSUE twelve| september 2015

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elegant ladies| festival team interview| sheila lansdell

Contents ISSUE TWELVE SEPTEMBER 2015

5_a note from the editor 6_festival team interview 12_philosophy tour 16_elegant ladies 22_sheila lansdell 24_the man behind the sound 28_event previews 38_what’s on 42_quick fire questions This month’s cover was provided by SIMON SUGDEN 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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A note from the editor By haigh simpson

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irst of all I ‘d like to offer my thanks doesn’t go stale. to Mike Farren, who stepped into the editor’s role last month and produced I’m aware some may see this as a negative move, which is why we are going to make one of our best issues yet. It is sure that the new format Saltaire a great comfort to know there is Review will be bigger and better someone able to step in and run “I’m than ever. We will be increasing the show so ably. delighted to our distribution, adding extra pages of content and improving This issue is a significant one announce the design. I’m also delighted to in our history, not only it is a that we have announce that we have teamed up Saltaire Festival special, but it is with Saltaire Inspired, who will also the last issue in its current teamed up be curating a series of specially format. Eagle-eyed readers will with Saltaire illustrated covers. have noted that we have now reached issue 12 and are closing Inspired, We will continue to promote in on our first anniversary. One who will all the great things going on in of my aims when I started the and around Saltaire and remain Review was to ensure it does not be curating committed to allowing local become another here today, gone a series of writers and photographers the tomorrow publication so it is specially opportunity to showcase their fantastic to reach this milestone. talent. illustrated But it is also an opportunity covers.”

Thanks for all your support over to look ahead and ensure the the past 12 months and here’s magazine is still here in three, to a few more to come. In the four and five years time. That is why from October the Saltaire Review will be meantime I hope you enjoy our latest offering going bi-monthly. I feel this will help us improve and have a fantastic festival! the quality of content and ensure the magazine

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Saltaire Festival in good hands Festival committee plans to surprise, delight – and gobsmack – the audience!

BY mike farren

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altaire Festival has become such a fixture in the calendar that it’s easy to assume it just ‘happens’. Reflection makes it clear that hundreds of events, involving thousands and attended by tens of thousands couldn’t just spontaneously pop up in Saltaire in midSeptember, but the seamlessness of the operation almost makes it seem that way.

It’s all the more surprising that the people who put the festival together so professionally are a small group of volunteers. Ahead of this year’s festival I met three of them: Ros Garside, a semiretired education professional who is this year’s Chair; Deputy Chair Julie Hemmings who also leads on communications, with a day job as a PR manager; and Helen Swallow, a primary school assistant head and festival event organiser, specialising in children’s events.

where I do most of my stuff.”

The official board consists of five trustees, plus a treasurer. This group expands to around a dozen regulars to make up the events team, with up to 20 people volunteering during the festival. Ros emphasises that the board is constantly seeking volunteers. “We could still do with some people during the festival, but we’re always looking for talented people. We’re losing “I was our treasurer soon because he’s amazed moving, so we’re looking for a new one.” how it

was put together by such a small group.”

Helen says, “I was amazed how it was put together by such a small group.” She goes on to give a picture of the effort involved. “We meet from October every fortnight. With it being a volunteer role, aside from your full-time job, it’s quite tough trying to fit everything in. I’m lucky that I’ve got this six week summer holiday,

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Julie and Helen both talk of moving into the area and finding volunteering a great way to get involved with the community and meet people. Julie points out another reason why working on the festival is a good idea. “There’s a lot of research saying it’s good for people’s health and well-being to be part of a community, and we all develop skills through our involvement. People see volunteers with hi-vis vests during the event, but we have project managers, people with IT skills, people with communications skills, people from education with organising skills…”

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Plenty of work is involved to ensure the 30,000-plus visitors enjoy their festival experience

and the music, which has also outgrown its earlier location in the car park and moved to Roberts Park.

Of the trio, Ros has been involved longest.

She tells me, “I moved to the area in 2002 and went to the first couple of festivals. At the time Helen Kemp was chairing. I talked to her one day and said I wouldn’t mind getting involved.

And here I am. Still!”

There’s still a strong impulse to involve the whole village, not just the open spaces of Roberts Park. As Julie puts it, “We’re bringing a lot of people to a very confined space, but the USP is ultimately that those things happen in Saltaire.”

I ask the team what has changed between then and now. All agree the festival has grown considerably. “No children’s events, no activities in the park, they didn’t have the open gardens…” says Ros, while Helen comments, “It was more geared up to the finale weekend – it spreads more over the two weekends now.”

One intention is to have a thematic difference between the two weekends, with the first more orientated toward families and community, giving people the opportunity to explore the village. The second weekend has more ‘big ticket’ events, such as the Continental Market

Among the successes of the festival is the way it brings together different village organisations, and has even created some of them. Ros points out that Saltaire Inspired actually came out of the festival and now has its own event in May, plus the Advent Calendar. “There are lots of creative things going on in the village,” she says, “and it gives them an opportunity to showcase what they’re doing. If it’s high-end

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art, it fits with the Open Houses, but there are lots of other things that fit with pop-ups or Open Gardens. I think there are plenty of opportunities for people to use their talents creatively as part of the festival.”

photo by simon sugden

I get a strong sense from the team of a balancing act between a festival in Saltaire and one for Saltaire. Helen emphasises the community aspect. “I try to have people who provide activities for children in our local community. We’ve got Hirst Wood Nursery who have “You get a stall. We have Young Masters, chatting an art group in Idle, who are doing a stall where the kids to people can paint. In previous years who say, we’ve had schools involved but because of turnover of people ‘Oh, I must that changed. This year we really tried to get the schools come back, involved again. We did an art because competition where we asked schools to design Saltairethere’s so themed cards and we’re now much to using those to sell. All the winning designs are going to see.’” be exhibited in Shipley College, so the children can see their artwork.”

Heritage site in West Yorkshire, so it’s a massive shop window.”

The other side of the coin is the generation of tourism and the boost it provides for the In contrast to the financial impact of the festival local economy. Working on a projected 30,000 Ros draws my attention to more intangible to 40,000 visitors (depending on weather), a benefits. “We do a lot in terms of community considerable amount of money is spent in and cohesion because we bring a cross-section around the village. Almost as important is the of the community together. You can argue it increased awareness of Saltaire. Julie suggests, contributes to people’s mental health and well“You get chatting to people who say, ‘Oh, I being. You’ve got to have some nice things to must come back, because there’s so much to do, haven’t you?” see.’ There are people who love Saltaire and the festival and come back, and then there are With the current austere climate for the arts other people for whom it’s an opportunity to there are anxieties about funding. Ros explains, introduce them to Saltaire.” She adds that, “The “We start with a zero budget. We have to Council acknowledges it’s the best attended raise all the funding. It’s a combination of event in the district. Saltaire is the only World advertising, a grant from the Council, a grant

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Dozens of stalls provide a valuble source of income for the festival and offer visitors an eclectic range of food, crafts and local produce.

Glen, bringing the Tramway into the event.

“It was a lovely sunny day and the number of people that the tram got through that day, they made so much money. There were children with teddy bears all dressed up in costume.”

For this year Julie is excited about the festival’s drama programme. “We’ve got a very good spoken word offering, Made In The Great War, on Friday 11 September. We’ve got The Speech on Friday 18th, The 56 on the first Saturday and Hattie Townsend’s play, Three Nurses on Tuesday 15th.”

Ros is also enthused about Three Nurses, having regarded Hattie’s promenade production of Not About Heroes as a highlight of 2014.

She adds, “Because the concept was successful, we’ve commissioned a promenade performance featuring the river and the canal.” She also views the comedy night as a highlight, having booked Romesh Ranganathan last year just before he established himself on the comedy scene, and mentions a dance piece, Kapow, commissioned jointly with Shipley Street Arts Festival.

from the Arts Council and support from local businesses. There’s no core funding.”

Soberingly, she acknowledges, “The bottomline contingency would be no festival. We don’t make commitments we can’t honour before we know we’ve got the budget.” She adds, “I think we’re very good at doing deals,” and the fact that the festival has continued to prosper and grow bears this out, and confirms the skill of those entrusted with it.

Thanks to the festival team and the particular qualities of Saltaire we can be sure once again of plenty of opportunities to experience what the festival does best, allowing us, in Julie’s words, to “be surprised and delighted – and slightly gobsmacked that these things are happening!”

Still, the heart of the festival is not finance (though it couldn’t proceed without it), but entertainment, so I ask the team to pick their highlights in the past, and what they’re most looking forward to this year. Helen recalls a Teddy Bear’s Picnic she organised on Shipley

Saltaire Festival runs 11-20 September. Much more information including a full programme of events is available at www.saltairefestival.co.uk

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Joy Hart, manager at community art organisation Hive, who initially created the trail with New Mason Properties and Wycliffe Primary School, is positive about the tour. “It’s an amazing idea, combining science, art and philosophy,” says Joy “It will really bring the sculpture trail to life.”

“I was jogging along the river listening to a lecture on western philosophy and I passed Mick Kirby-Geddes’s sculpture of the cat in the bath” says Dan Carroll, the creator of the tour, “and that was my eureka moment. I thought ‘I’ll turn the sculptures into philosophers!’.”

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The tour incorporates each of the 15 sculptures on the trail and will assign a philosopher to each sculpture. The philosophers, who range from Thales to Galileo, will have 40 seconds to argue why they think they had the biggest influence and impact on science. “I wanted to make philosophy accessible,” notes Dan “I also wanted to take the initial idea of the trail further

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An elegant lady teaching Elegant Ladies Sammy Murray Brown’s dance classes bring TV and West End glamour to Saltaire By mike farren

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After all the sacrifices there was disappointment at the end of her second year, when the school decided she was too tall. Today though, Sammy is philosophical. “I was never good enough to be a principal ballerina. I don’t think I would have been content on a chorus line of beautiful swans.”

ammy Murray Brown describes herself as “a Yorkshire girl come back to my roots”, but her journey has been – and remains – a starry one, taking in the Royal Ballet School, appearances on the West End stage and work on major television series. The fruits of this experience are currently being shared in classes at the Victoria Hall - Ballet BeFit and Elegant Ladies.

Sammy’s own potential in ballet was spotted early, with a Royal Academy Dancing Scholarship at age nine followed by a successful audition for the Royal Ballet School. Although this was the fulfilment of a dream being wrenched from home at 12 led to intense homesickness. She says, “Much as I loved ballet I just hated being away from home.”

“No jazz. no modern, no tap, no horse-riding, no netball, no kicking any ball… I had to give everything up and concentrate on ballet.”

Boarding in the junior Royal Ballet School in London’s Richmond Park, the strictness of the regime must also have been hard on a young girl. “No jazz. no modern, no tap, no horse-riding, no netball, no kicking any ball… I had to give everything up and concentrate on ballet.”

She remained in the south, attending Bush Davies theatre school where the previouslyrestrictive curriculum broadened out before she moved on to the Guildhall School of Acting for two years.

Her first West End audition saw her land a role in 42nd Street, which starred Frankie Vaughan and had Catherine Zeta-Jones joining her in the chorus. Free of her homesickness, she says “I loved it - it was the best time.”

The list of Sammy’s subsequent shows is a roll-call of the West End highlights of the period. Long engagements, sometimes extended by UK-wide tours, kept her on the stage for 15 years, and her role continued to develop. Dance captain roles led into jobs as

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her because she needed to learn to tap. I had private lessons with Victoria for six weeks and we became good friends. I assisted on a couple of TV programmes for her. She gave me Ballet Shoes and I choreographed the whole of that. I then got Eric and Ernie, the story of Morecambe and Wise and that won an award.�

The move to principal choreographer came when she worked with a certain star (as seen on TV!). “Victoria Wood was transferring Acorn Antiques to a musical theatre version. I was assistant choreographer and I got to meet

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She confides that after a shy start Victoria Wood was great at tap-dancing.

She has found she can combine the classes with work on dramas that will not take her away for more than four or five days a month.

Sammy’s work on recent TV series such as The Hour and Mr. Selfridge not only involved The Saltaire classes are held in the Victoria choreographing dance sequences, but also Hall’s Glen Room. Of Ballet BeFit she says, “It’s more of the Mummies’ class apparently spontaneous dancing.

– a strong toning class,” while she She says, “I’ve just done Endeavour. describes the Elegant Ladies overThere was a 1960s party, and they “After a 55s ballet class as, “very simple, needed a specialist to make sure structured ballet. I do a little warmthat they didn’t start doing modern shy start up, then we pull the chairs in and moves. I was brought in to make Victoria do barre work. That’s where we do sure they were doing the right Wood the leg toning.” styles.”

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Drama, Music, History – and Cake!

Sheila Lansdell stars in Hattie Townsend’s new play Three Nurses

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By mike farren a nurse she points to an extensive CV spanning classical drama, light opera and belly dancing, as well as re-enactment roles. She is proud to claim, “My best performance was as Trusty the hedgehog! I was the National Trust mascot.”

Sadly, this doesn’t seem to have been quite as cosy a role as one might assume. “I grunted and sounded like Darth Vader. I was so hot inside the hedgehog and this little boy kept poking at me with a stick.”

attie Townsend’s plays have been highlights of many Saltaire Festivals.

I greatly enjoyed the promenade performance last year of Not About Heroes which I reviewed in the October 2014 magazine - so I was pleased to hear there’ll be another of Hattie’s plays at this year’s Festival. I seized the opportunity to discuss the production with Hattie and the play’s star, Sheila Lansdell.

The 2015 festival play is entitled Three Nurses and the sole performance will be on Tuesday 15 September at 3pm in Salts Mill’s Café in the Opera.

As the name suggests the play presents the story of three nurses, all played by Sheila, representing almost 100 years of nursing history. Sheila explains, “It starts with Crimea in 1854 then we jump 20 years to Sarah Turner, who was the first matron to be appointed at Salts Hospital.

Then we go all the way to 1944.”

“I grunted and sounded like Darth Vader.

I was so hot inside the hedgehog and this little boy kept poking at me with a stick.”

Three Nurses promises to be a more comfortable prospect for the cast and especially for the audience, as the show will incorporate music and what Hattie describes as “a delicious tea, with some very special almond cake,” in addition to the three dramatic pieces.

All the depictions of the nurses are based on true stories, researched

by Hattie. Sheila describes how the first nurse, Elizabeth Wheeler, found herself on the wrong side of Florence Nightingale. “She went out to the Crimea but things didn’t work out. She was appalled at the conditions and divulged them to the family at home. An uncle took the letters to The Times and they published to show what was happening over there.” For the crime of going against Nightingale, the public’s heroine, disgrace followed. “Florence Nightingale didn’t like to be crossed,” explains

Sheila is very accustomed to playing nurses.

She has appeared as Matron Turner in the guided tours conducted by the Saltaire Village Experience, and also played Nurse Beatrice Milson in last year’s Not About Heroes and After The War Was Over.

When I ask if she worries about typecasting as

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Sheila Lansdell will act out true stories researched and written by Hattie Townsend Hattie. “She had money, power, influence, which poor Elizabeth Wheeler didn’t.”

Music will also feature prominently. Kate Breeze, most often seen in Hattie’s plays as a liberated woman journalist, put the programme together and will be playing the flute, with David Burnett on the piano. Kate tells me, “We’ve chosen music written by women, which is quite unusual really. Lillia Boulanger wrote during the First World War but she died when she was 22. She’s little known but it’s the most beautiful music.

There’s also another piece by a living woman composer, Christine Green, with a bit of Elgar thrown in at the end.”

Hattie picks up the story of the second and third nurses. “Twenty years later there’s a very successful, competent, cheerful woman, running the health of Saltaire. Then we go on to a hundred year-old nurse in Australia, who has done fabulous work and is given a telegram from the King but actually has a dark secret.”

As well as depicting individual nurses the show is also about the development of nursing through a time of change, from 1854 when nursing, according to Hattie, “wasn’t a profession, it was just a very low, desperate thing to do,” through to 1874 when Saltaire’s Matron Turner finds it “encouraging that clean, respectable girls are wanting to become nurses,” in Sheila’s words.

The story continues through the Great War when nursing had started to become a fully respectable profession, and ends in 1944 when the retired Evelyn Kaye, who had nursed lepers and typhoid victims, is treated as a celebrity.

As an integrated piece of entertainment featuring drama, music, history – and cake!

– Three Nurses looks set once again to be a highlight of the Festival.

Three Nurses will be on in Salts Mill’s Café in the Opera on Tuesday 15 September at 3pm, as part of the Saltaire Festival. Tickets are £16, and can be obtained from www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/180851 or by contacting Saltaire Visitor Information Centre, Salts Mill, Victoria Road, BD18 3LA, 01274 437942.

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The man behind the sound while many of us enjoy a jig in front of the festival stage, paul nichols will be at the heart of the music

By bernie sheehan

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hen the last chord rings out and the encores are over at this year’s Saltaire Festival Bands in The Park, spare a thought for the people behind the scenes who make the sounds possible - the engineers.

The unsung heroes and heroines who mix, produce,and tweak every facet of a band’s live performance so we, the punters, can enjoy the show. And without whom there wouldn’t even be a show.

I caught up with Paul Nichols, who’ll be behind the mixing desk at the festival again this year, to find out what life is really like behind the buttons.

I asked him how he got started in the business. “I first started at school with a small home studio and experimented by recording different sounds and mixing them together. I was fascinated by the possibilities at my fingertips and it grew from there. I was actually eight years old when I rewired my first speaker!”

Paul’s ability to create the perfect sound comes from years of experience working in every kind of venue from small rooms to stadiums, and his work schedule is daunting to say the least.

Recent gigs have seen him in Poland, Lithuania and even Greenland, where he worked with Bradford pop legends Smokie. He’s currently on tour in the UK with the Chicago Blues Brothers Band featuring the Hollywood actor Paul Boocock, yet still finds time to fit in this year’s Bingley Music Live.

“I seldom have problems with musicians on stage. Once they know I’m on their side and working for them things generally go smoothly.”

I wanted to know what actually happens when the bands arrive and sound check. Can they sometimes be difficult to deal with? “I seldom have problems with musicians on stage. Once they know I’m on their side and working for them things generally go smoothly.

I think of myself as a band member rather than an engineer”. Paul, an accomplished bass player, continued, “I employ the gentle approach when soundchecking the bands and firmly believe in consulting with the musicians I’m working with to get the best sound both on stage and for the audience.”

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Surely all the travelling must get very tiring, and what about humping all the equipment? Paul just grinned, “Yeah, particularly when you have maybe four or five flights a day and stacks of gear to set set up at the venue, but at least nowadays digital equipment is a lot easier and lighter to transport.The equivalent analogue rigs weighed tons!”

Working with so many diverse musical styles seems to come naturally to Paul. He engineered the sound for an eleven piece orchestra at this year’s City Park Bradford Concert, working on a 75 channel mixing desk. I asked him if he had any favourites among the local band fraternity, and without hesitation he said, “Down Reno are brilliant and great guys to work with, likewise Anna and Laura - aka Waiting for Wednesday - are superb. Over the years Saltaire Festival has provided great bands and I’m looking forward to this year’s show as it promises to be the best yet.”

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Water, Water, Everywh-aire!

12th-14th september, Various locations in saltaire

By steve bottoms

It’s a fact too rarely acknowledged in the tourist literature but Saltaire’s story is all about water.

The village is named after the River Aire - as well as Sir Titus Salt - and grew up here because of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, which gave Salt a highway for his goods to east and west. Salts Mill was never a water mill, but it did siphon water from the river to fuel its steam engines.

Then on the evening of Tuesday 14 September we have an intimate soiree at the Half Moon Café titled Salt’s Waters. This is an evening of locally-focused stories and songs presented at dusk by myself and the Bard of Saltaire, singer-songwriter Eddie Lawler. Eddie will present both traditional material and original compositions.

For a couple of years now I’ve been running a research project called Multi-Story Water, which is exploring people’s past and present relationships with the various watercourses in the Saltaire and Shipley area. We’re then presenting what we’re learning back to the community, in the form of various events and performances.

Salt’s Waters is also the title of a downloadable audio tour that will finally go live online this month. We’ve been working on this for over a year - last year’s Half Moon event was originally conceived as a work-in-progress – hence the shared title. The audio will guide walkers on a circular journey, from the bottom of Victoria Road all the way up to the remains of Titus Salt Junior’s Milner Field House and back again – via the Aire, the canal, Loadpit Beck, and Little Beck, with Eddie’s The Ballad Of Little Beck as a centrepiece. Working with sound designer Jon Tipler and actor Rob Pickavance, we’ve made a sort of cinematic adventure - the audio is the soundtrack, your eyes are the camera…

It’s designed to be experienced any time you like, summer or winter…

For the Saltaire Festival we’re presenting Pleasant Valley Saltaire on 12 and 13 September. Billed as a magical mystery tour, this is a collaboration between myself and local poet and storyteller Irene Lofthouse – and also features various guests along the way. We’ll be taking a gentle circular walk through Saltaire village and out into some of the nearby Aire valley neighbourhoods. There’ll be some nonthreatening audience participation, and some surprises both natural and supernatural. The performance begins outside Saltaire Visitor Information Centre at 2pm.

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We hope that one or more of these watery experiences will be of interest for you, and we’re really keen to hear feedback on them too.

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The Maker’s Fair 11th september, VICTORIA HALL

By June Russell

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he Makers’ Fair at Saltaire Festival is a chance to meet some of today’s best designer/makers, and to buy or commission original pieces direct from them.

Exhibitors have been chosen because their work is truly unique - original in concept and created entirely by hand. You won’t find anything here on the High Street.

Samantha Pickard, event coordinator for the Fair, said: “Competition for places at the September Makers’ Fair is always strong, and this year we’re delighted to present an exceptional range of exhibitors, some returning with new collections, others showing at Saltaire for the first time. There’s an emphasis on jewellery and textiles this year, but a good range of art forms nevertheless, with some really special, unusual treats.”

The fair welcomes back favourites such as Yeun Jewellery, a contemporary designer and maker specialising in bespoke precious metal jewellery, with her new Flora collection inspired by the Yorkshire Dales, and Keith Shorrock, a furniture maker with a passion for boxes, tables and chairs. Keith is from South Cumbria and works creatively in wood, making unique and individual items, and he’ll be showing some of his larger handmade furniture.

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Almost half of the 47 exhibitors are new.

They include Rachel Nettles from Manchester, with her amazing three dimensional stitched sculptures of vegetables. Rachel is passionate about Free Motion Machine Embroidery and over the weekend will be demonstrating how she works. There’ll be free demonstrations by exhibitors on both days, and visitors will be able to discover more about wirework, handloom weaving and glass bead lampwork, as well as Rachel’s embroidery.

This year for the first time Bradford College’s School of Art and Media has selected two of the best graduates in textiles to show at the Fair, and we’re very much looking forward to seeing the work of new talents Aimee Nichols and Manisha Rob. The catalogue with all artist details and contacts is available on the door, created this year by designers Little Tail who have recently moved to the village to live and work.

The weekend also features the Saltaire Open Gardens Sculpture Trail, started as a collaboration between Saltaire Inspired and Saltaire Festival in 2014. Once again this will showcase sculpture, ceramics and glass specially selected to enhance the individual exterior spaces in which they are presented.

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Made in the Great War 11th september, VICTORIA HALL

This year’s Saltaire Festival opens with a unique production, playing at Victoria Hall as part of a major national tour. Made In The Great War is the result of a chance event which uncovered a remarkable story appealing to those interested in music, theatre and the history of the First World War alike.

In 2009 Sam Sweeney of folk big band Bellowhead bought a new violin. Despite seeming brand new, its label carried the words ‘Richard Howard 1915’ and it turned out to be the last fiddle made by Leeds musician R.S.Howard. When he was called up to fight in WWI the fiddle remained part-finished in his workshop and his daughter kept the pieces in memory of her father. Over 90 years later they found their way into the hands of Roger Claridge, who finally assembled them.

Sam soon realised that Richard’s story as a musician and family man in Leeds - and a soldier in France - deserved to be told. He has devised a show combining music, theatre and original WWI film footage to tell the deeply moving true story of the man, the last instrument he ever made and how his life was overtaken by the events of the Great War, like so many others.

The spoken-word element of the show depicts a fascinating narrative, while Sam draws on

BY Simon Heginbotham a rich vein of styles for the music, much of it played on Richard’s actual fiddle. The music hall songs of the time often gave a rose-tinted view of the trenches – a contradiction which the show clearly highlights - and are used as a counter-balance to scenes showing the reality of life at the front. Original wartime music of the trenches is also used to bring to life the words of WWI soldiers themselves.

Film footage from WW1 is shown to powerful effect, at times a backdrop giving historical context, at others right in the forefront, conjuring the terrifying atmosphere of a full-scale onslaught. The show builds to an extraordinary climax, capturing all the poignance of Richard’s story while carefully avoiding any cheap sentimentality. For anybody with an interest in WWI or simply the sharp realities of human life, Made In The Great War promises to be a richly rewarding evening.

Made In The Great War toured in 2014 to great audience acclaim and led to Sam receiving the BBC Folk Musician of the Year Award. It makes a final tour this September, with Richard Howard’s fiddle being played onstage exactly 100 years after he first started work on it, visiting Saltaire’s Victoria Hall on Friday 11 September.

Tickets £15 (Conc. £7.50). www.saltairelive.co.uk.

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The Live Room @Caroline Club 'The best all round roots music club in West Yorkshire'

From Nashville, Buddy Mondlock 6th September From Texas, Danny Schmidt with special guest Carrie Elkin 27th September

Saltaire Festival From Eugene, Oregon, Betty and The Boy 13th September From Texas, Eugene ‘Hideaway’ Bridges Band 19th September

TLR Inside Out Two days of free music in the car park of Caroline Club Saturday and Sunday 19th & 20th Sep from 2 – 7pm Featuring: Dear Friends • Jinski • New Car Smell • Otra Kath Reade • Ten Fields • Jim Ghedi • Fred’s House Coming up in November – multi BBC Folk Award winners, LAU www.theliveroom.info t: 01274 594021 / 07855 164182

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Acoustica

12th july, The Live Room, Caroline Club, Saltaire

By Bernie Sheehan Acoustica, a wonderful evening of country, gypsy jazz and blues comes to Shipley on 15 September. Part of this year’s Saltaire Festival programme, it features an amazing line up of acts from the burgeoning acoustic music scene, and promises an evening of top class music and entertainment.

Acoustica takes place in the atmospheric Ring O’ Bells pub in Shipley, and will feature gypsy jazz from the Nancy Varo Allstars, a five-piece dedicated to keeping the spirit of Django alive and guaranteed to delight with their infectious rhythms. There’ll be a special appearance from our nationally-acclaimed local heroines Waiting For Wednesday - with their beautiful harmonies and original songs the girls have built up a huge following both at home and abroad, and include amongst their fans Matt Malloy of The Chieftains who was blown away when they appeared at his venue in Westport County Mayo.

The proprietors of the Ring O’ Bells, Mick and Linda Capper, have championed the local music scene for many years and welcome the opportunity to extend this to the Saltaire Festival, which has seen the number of new venues increase this year due to the popularity of the event.Thinking ahead to next year Mick believes his natural stage area in the enclosure outside the pub would make an ideal setting to accommodate an even larger audience under a marquee in case of bad weather.

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But back to continues with folk at its best, Brian Wylie

this year, and the evening Craig and Wylie playing Irish featuring multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Mike Craig.

Mention the word poet and most of us would head for the bar ...but not when Tony Bolton aka Boltini ambles onstage! Waxing lyrical about shovels and spades, worms, flies and bugs, he’ll have you hooked and shouting for more.

Talented singer/guitarist Rob Holden makes a guest appearance and adds a true acoustic feel with his fine voice and sensitive playing.

Acoustica celebrates the human voice and acoustic instruments so don’t expect drums and stacks of amps, just a great PA with engineer George Quinn, the man on the buttons.

The evening takes its lead from the popular BBC series Transatlantic Sessions and aims for an intimate atmosphere with candlelit bar and tables and the musicians stepping in to jam with each other for a grande finale. But not before we welcome a force of nature, the awesome Tom Attah, arguably the top blues artist in the UK. Once seen, never forgotten, Tom brings the true blues sounds of Chicago to his mesmeric performances and has played worldwide and headlined blues festivals all over Britain.

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Song for the Tramway 19 & 20 September, Shipley Glen Tramway

By sue denim Song for the Tramway is a fascinating music event taking place on the final weekend of the Saltaire Festival. A collection of sixteen two minute songs by different and carefully selected musicians written for the much-loved Shipley Glen Trams and performed hourly from 1.30 to 4.30pm on the trams themselves.

Why two minutes? Because that’s the length of time it takes from station to station and the performances will take place on the front seat as the trams make their way up and down.

Local musician, tramway fan and sometime Saltaire promoter Gus Bousfield has managed to secure a fantastically varied lineup, including globally-acclaimed jazz pianist and analogue synth sorcerer Matthew Bourne, Bradford dustbowl Americana from DMA and violin and loop pedal explorations from Alice Gilmour.

Andy Abbott will construct soundscapes via his Elizabeth project, blues musician of the year Alex Eden from Crosscut Saw will play, plus there’ll be spellbinding vocals from Emily Levy, postpunk drive from Jenny Jet Harris,

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effortless blue notes from ex-Dunwells guitarist Dave Hanson and lyrical Drakeian spirals from Gerrard Bell-Fife.

The superb Fuzzy Jones and Sarah Widdup will feature acoustic pieces and the Bard of Saltaire, Eddie Lawler, will perform. Rough Fields’ James Birchall will be using the actual sound of a tram itself in his piece, and there are still a number of fantastic performers to be confirmed.

Many great musicians have given up their time to contribute to the project and some may perform after their spot at one of the stations. Song For The Tramway will also be recorded for an album, with sales going towards the Tramway’s upkeep.

Times will be confirmed on the website, www. songforthetramway.co.uk and on a departure board at both stations. Remember - audience sizes will be limited by the number of tram seats so don’t miss your tram!

Shipley Glen Tramway, Saturday 19 September and Sunday 20 September. Hourly at top and bottom stations from 1.30-4.30pm.

BINGLEY ARTS CENTRE The Home of Bingley Little Theatre

Live Events This SEPTEMBER Bingley little theatre presents..

The Decorator by Ronald Churchill Mon 14th - Sat 19th, 7.30pm, £9/£8 (£7 conc)

Marcia is cheating on her older husband Reggie; the man decorating their study knows all about her adultery, as he can’t help overhearing the two wives arguing, when Jane, wife of Marcia’s lover Brian, confronts Marcia in her own house about her misbehaviour with her husband.

Thoughts ‘n’ All-Tony Wright The Voice of Terrorvision

Fri 25th, 8pm, £10

In his first solo album following on from his success as Terrorvision frontman, Tony Wright demonstrates his impressive song writing credentials beautifully. A marked change of direction from both the bouncing rock sound of Terrorvision and the slightly heavier alternative sound of Laika Dog, Tony indulges the listener with a stripped down, acoustic, heartfelt journey through the darkness and out the other side.

Rave On - A Tribute to Buddy Holly Sun 27th, 7.30pm, £16 (£15 conc)

Marc Robinson from ‘Stars in their Eyes’ , and ‘Buddy’ The Musical, will celebrate the music of the man himself, Buddy Holly along with the Counterfeit Crickets they will give an accurate performance of Buddy Holly and the Crickets, including authentic attire , horn-rimmed glasses , and the famous Stratocaster guitar.

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 WED 2 SEPT

SUNDAY 6 SEPT

SALTAIRE DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETY 2PM, VICTORIA HALL

AIREDALE & BRADFORD RSPB LOCAL GROUP INVITE YOU TO A FREE GUIDED WALK 9AM, MEET RODLEY NATURE RESERVE, SIGNPOSTED (BROWN SIGN) FROM RODLEY TOWN STREET

The society aims to educate and inform in the decorative and fine arts through lectures and outings. All lectures are approx 1 hour long .

SALTAIRE BOOKSHOP BOOK CLUB 7PM, SALTAIRE BOOKSHOP Please contact bookshop for more details enquiries@saltairebookshop.com http://www.saltairebookshop.com/contact/ Tel. 01274 589144

FRIDAY 4 SEPT BINGLEY MUSIC LIVE 3-9:30 PM, MYRTLE PARK, BINGLEY

April. The show is now taking to the road for a second and final tour this September.

NOCHE LATINA 8PM, CAROLINE SOCIAL CLUB

For further information 01274 582078 Email abrspb@blueyonder.co.uk

SALTAIRE CRICKET CLUB TABLE TOP SALE 10AM–1PM, VICTORIA HALL A wide variety of stalls selling small collectible antiques and toy cars, books, good quality second-hand clothing, handmade jewellery, scented candles and much more!

BINGLEY MUSIC LIVE 11:30AM-9:30 PM, MYRTLE PARK, BINGLEY

SATURDAY 12 SEPT

Back by popular demand will be fans’ favourite James. Since forming in Manchester in 1982 James’ enduring creativity and musical legacy has made them one of the most influential British indie bands. Amongst 20 Top 40 singles in the UK, James’ anthemic hits include She’s A Star, Laid, Born Of Frustration, Sometimes, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), Come Home, How Was It For You and Sit Down.

Super Furry Animals and Idlewild will be the first co-headliners at Bingley Music Live.

SFA, who formed in 1993, have recorded nine albums. They are probably best known for singles such as Rings Around the World, the Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder-inspired Juxtaposed with U, Phantom Power, Radiator and If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You. After five years away, Scottish alternative rock band Idlewild return with new album Everything Ever Written.

ILLUSTRATED TALK: IMMERSED IN NATURE: A WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNEY BY PAUL MIGUEL 7.30PM, KIRKGATE CENTRE, SHIPLEY

PENNY & THE SAUSAGES 2.30-4PM ROBERTS PARK BANDSTAND, SALTAIRE

Airedale & Bradford RSPB local group.

Images of wildlife (mostly birds) from Yorkshire, plus how shots were achieved.

Paul’s work has evolved over the years, his love of nature influencing his approach to capturing natural-looking images. £3 (children free), members and non members.

SATURDAY 5 SEPT BINGLEY MUSIC LIVE 11:30AM-9:30 PM, MYRTLE PARK, BINGLEY Headlining Saturday is the multi-talented Labrinth. Bingley Music Live has rarely had a headliner with so many strings to his bow.

Singer, songwriter and producer Labrinth does not conform to one music genre.

He straddles R&B, dance, soul, hip-hop, electronic, gospel, drum and bass, dubstep, grime and garage to name a few.

Caroline Social Club’s little slice of Cuba.

Come and listen to a live salsa band and learn how to dance. Every second Friday of the month Noche Latina brings you class live salsa bands from around the country. Each night features a live salsa band and DJ, plus a dance class for both beginners and more advanced dancers. So why not join us for the hot latin vibe deep in the heart of Saltaire. £7 entry on the door.

Free event with collection.

THE LIVE ROOM PRESENTS… BUDDY MONDLOCK 8PM, CAROLINE STREET CLUB Born in Chicago, now living in Nashville, Buddy Mondlock writes songs. He does it so well that some great songwriters have recorded his songs on their own albums.

Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith, and Janis Ian, to name a few.

SALTAIRE LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET 10AM-3PM, CAROLINE STREET CAR PARK 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!

SALTAIRE ARTS TRAIL & MAKERS FAIR 11AM–6PM, VICTORIA HALL The Makers Fair is back for a fantastic two-day event! There’ll be a beautiful array of fresh, contemporary art, craft and design, carefully chosen for its quality and originality.

Saltaire Arts Trail has a growing reputation for showcasing some of the best contemporary craft available for sale or commission in the north of England and, increasingly, further afield. If you love local, original and quality handmade arts and crafts, this is truly not to be missed.

STRANGE TALES IN THE DALES 2PM, SALTAIRE BOOKSHOP

FRIDAY 11 SEPT SALTAIRE LIVE PRESENTS: SAM SWEENEY’S MADE IN THE GREAT WAR 8PM, VICTORIA HALL Written to coincide with the 100th anniversary of World War I, Made In The Great War is a unique performance combining music, theatre and original WWI film footage to tell an extraordinary true story. It toured to critical acclaim in 2014 and led to Sam Sweeney being voted BBC Folk Musician of the Year this

Irene Lofthouse reads from her book for children, Strange Tales in the Dales, a spooky event for the first Festival weekend. Free event. Further info Saltaire Bookshop, 01274 589144.

LAST ORDERS 7-9PM ROBERTS PARK BANDSTAND, SALTAIRE Second Saturday Sunset Dancing. The Half Moon Cafe is open for food and drink, and the bandstand shows off its lights. Free event.

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IRREGULAR ROOTS: JACK’S RAKE / JOHNNY CAMPBELL 8PM, KIRKGATE CENTRE, KIRKGATE, SHIPLEY A lively night of high-energy traditional music and well-chosen contemporary songs and tunes.

SUNDAY 13 SEPT LIFE DRAWING WEEKEND 10AM, THE HIVE, KIRKGATE, SHIPLEY This Workers’ Education Association class starts today. There’s a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and it’s a great way to learn stuff and meet other lively minds. Anyone can sign up, no previous knowledge or experience is needed. Courses are free to those on benefits.

To enrol just go to www.wea.org.uk or phone 0113 245 3304 / 0114 242 3609.

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SALTAIRE ARTS TRAIL & MAKERS FAIR 11AM–5PM, VICTORIA HALL

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The Makers Fair is back for a fantastic two-day event! There’ll be a beautiful array of fresh, contemporary art, craft and design, carefully chosen for its quality and originality.

Saltaire Arts Trail has a growing reputation for showcasing some of the best contemporary craft available for sale or commission in the north of England and, increasingly, further afield. If you love local, original and quality handmade arts and crafts, this is truly not to be missed.

The autumn season at Kirkgate Irregular Roots kicks off with what will be a lively night of high energy traditional music and well chosen contemporary songs and tunes from Sheffield based six-piece band Jack’s Rake. Formed a decade or so ago the band has gone on to play a wide range of venues and festivals with an instrumental lineup that includes guitars, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, flute, piccolo, whistles, melodeon, piano accordion, English concertina, bodhran, saxophone, nyckelharpa and violins.

THE LIVE ROOM PRESENTS… BETTY AND THE BOY 8PM, CAROLINE STREET CLUB Now based in Eugene, Oregon, the band that grew around them like an all-embracing vine features violinist Michelle Whitlock who likes to play her instrument in a lower register to add an intriguing layer or colour, classicallytrained cellist Nanci McDonald who also plays ukulele and guitar, and Jon Conlon on bass, a deft hand in the studio from working on the garage rock and punk scene.

MONDAY 14 SEPT SHIPLEY YOUNG ADULT FICTION WRITERS GROUP 6PM, SALTAIRE CANTEEN, VICTORIA ROAD Writers of young adult fiction are more than welcome to come along just to listen and meet the team to see if our group meetings are the right thing for you. We understand that every writer is different, and we work collaboratively with our members to make sure that our meetings are as helpful, productive and enjoyable as possible. If you’d like to attend or find out more about the meeting, please get in touch via Facebook or Twitter, or email us at shipleywriterscircle@gmail.com https://shipleywriterscircle.wordpress.com/ get-in-touch @ShipleyYA

MONDAY 14 - SATURDAY 19 SEPT BINGLEY LITTLE THEATRE - THE DECORATOR 7.30PM, BINGLEY ARTS CENTRE A lively comedy with a smattering of farce.

Kirkgate centre, 12th september

FRIDAY 18 SEPT CINEMA ORGAN SOCIETY DANCE 7.30PM, VICTORIA HALL

Baked delights with proper ace coffee and amazing beer.

Hosted 50/50 ballroom and sequence dancing to the sounds of the mighty Wurlitzer! The performer for this event will be Phil Kelsall MBE.

LEGO FUN DAY 1.30-4PM KIRKGATE CENTRE, SHIPLEY

CABARET SALTAIRE 8PM, CAROLINE SOCIAL CLUB Cabaret Saltaire’s biggest event of the year is here. As part of the Saltaire Festival we’ll be putting on our Festival Special Cabaret Saltaire with an astounding line up of musicians, comics, contortionists, dancers, and not to forget our now legendary Meat Raffle, the proceeds of which will go again to www. bradfordfoodbanks.com

SATURDAY 19 SEPT SALTAIRE VINTAGE HOME & FASHION FAIR 9.30AM–4PM, VICTORIA HALL Rose and Brown are back with their well-established fair. Nearly 50 stalls of genuine vintage fashion - dresses and gowns, accessories, vinyl, toys and more, all from the 1920s to 1980s. With refreshments served

by Interlude Tea Room & Emporium, and music from the 20s to the 60s, it’s a day full of vintage greatness!

Edward Street Jamboree 10pm-9PM, 6 Edward Street Edward Street Bakery is throwing open the doors and warmly welcoming you to our first ever Edward Street Jamboree!

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Once a month the main hall of the Kirkgate Centre is filled with Lego, K’nex and Meccano for children (and parents) creating all kinds of amazing things. A cafe serves affordable hot drinks, fresh crepes and healthy homemade savouries and cakes. £2 per family.

THE LIVE ROOM PRESENTS… INSIDE OUT 2PM, CAROLINE STREET CLUB CAR PARK This will be our third annual instalment of what has now become an integral part of the Saltaire Festival final weekend. This year we’re featuring eight completely new artists, including singers, songwriters and full bands.

Do come along, enjoy the weekend and find out more about The Live Room, Caroline Club and our fantastic folk and roots music programme!

FRONT ROOM DISCO 8PM KIRKGATE CENTRE, SHIPLEY Front Room Disco brings you an eclectic alternative mix of music. Covering indie, alternative, ska, reggae, punk, disco and 80s pop. With Wil Oddsox. Local ales, quality wines and soft drinks. £3

THE LIVE ROOM PRESENTS… EUGENE ‘HIDEAWAY’ BRIDGES BAND 8PM, CAROLINE STREET CLUB If you like your blues laced with soul,

WHAT’S ON?

find out what’s happening in the area this month funk and the spirit of B.B. King and Sam Cooke combined, then the towering figure of Eugene ‘Hideaway’ Bridges is the man.

Eugene Bridges is a huge man with a huge voice, playing an unparalleled brand of blues, oozing enough charm to light up a small city.

SUNDAY 20 SEPT SALTAIRE VINTAGE HOME & FASHION FAIR 9.30AM–4PM, VICTORIA HALL Rose and Brown are back with their well-established fair. Nearly 50 stalls of genuine vintage fashion - dresses and gowns, accessories, vinyl, toys and more, all from the 1920s to 1980s. With refreshments served

by Interlude Tea Room & Emporium, and music from the 20s to the 60s, it’s a day full of vintage greatness!

THE LIVE ROOM PRESENTS… INSIDE OUT 2PM, CAROLINE STREET CLUB CAR PARK This will be our third annual instalment of what has now become an integral part of the Saltaire Festival final weekend. This year we’re featuring eight completely new artists, including singers, songwriters and full bands.

Do come along, enjoy the weekend and find out more about The Live Room, Caroline Club and our fantastic folk and roots music programme!

MONDAY 21 SEPT BEGINNERS JOINERY 3PM, THE HIVE, KIRKGATE, SHIPLEY This Workers’ Education Association class starts today. There’s a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and it’s great way to learn stuff and meet other lively minds. Anyone can sign up, No previous knowledge or experience is needed. Courses are free to those on benefits.

To enrol just go to www.wea.org.uk or phone 0113 245 3304 / 0114 242 3609.

CERAMICS FOR ALL 7PM, THE HIVE, KIRKGATE, SHIPLEY This Workers’ Education Association class starts today. There’s a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and it’s great way to learn stuff and meet other lively minds. Anyone can sign up, No previous knowledge or experience is needed. Courses are free to those on benefits.

To enrol just go to www.wea.org.uk or phone 0113 245 3304 / 0114 242 3609.

TUESDAY 22 SEPT

THOUGHTS ‘N’ ALL - TONY WRIGHT, THE VOICE OF TERRORVISION 8PM, BINGLEY ARTS CENTRE

PAINTING AND DRAWING 10AM, THE HIVE, KIRKGATE, SHIPLEY This Workers’ Education Association class starts today. There’s a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and it’s great way to learn stuff and meet other lively minds. Anyone can sign up, No previous knowledge or experience is needed. Courses are free to those on benefits.

To enrol just go to www.wea.org.uk or phone 0113 245 3304 / 0114 242 3609.

POTTERY FOR ALL 10AM, THE HIVE, KIRKGATE, SHIPLEY This Workers’ Education Association class starts today. There’s a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and it’s great way to learn stuff and meet other lively minds. Anyone can sign up, No previous knowledge or experience is needed. Courses are free to those on benefits.

To enrol just go to www.wea.org.uk or phone 0113 245 3304 / 0114 242 3609.

The frontman of 90s rock band Terrorvision, who has recently released his first solo album Thoughts ‘N’ All.

SATURDAY 26 SEPT SHOWTIME DINNER AND SHOW 7PM, THE HOP SALTAIRE It’s showtime! Dinner and show featuring Take That Live. £26.95 p/p, tickets include a welcome drink, three course dinner and show, VIP seats upstairs and table service all night.

The bar will be open as usual.

RECORD CLUB 8-11.30PM KIRKGATE CENTRE, SHIPLEY Bring and listen to vinyl in a relaxed setting with great company and a bottled beer/wine bar. £3.

SUNDAY 27 SEPT

WEDnesday 23 SEPT

SALTAIRE CRICKET CLUB TABLE TOP SALE 10AM–1PM, VICTORIA HALL

DREAMS OF ITALY: A THOUSAND YEARS OF CULTURE, HISTORY AND FOOD 2:30PM, THE CELLAR TRUST, FARFIELD ROAD, SHIPLEY This Workers’ Education Association class starts today. There’s a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and it’s great way to learn stuff and meet other lively minds. Anyone can sign up, No previous knowledge or experience is needed. Courses are free to those on benefits.

To enrol just go to www.wea.org.uk or phone 0113 245 3304 / 0114 242 3609.

FRIDAY 25 SEPT THE END OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY. AMERICAN SOCIETY FROM THE 1970S 10AM, THE CELLAR TRUST, FARFIELD ROAD, SHIPLEY This Workers’ Education Association class starts today. There’s a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and it’s great way to learn stuff and meet other lively minds. Anyone can sign up, No previous knowledge or experience is needed. Courses are free to those on benefits.

To enrol just go to www.wea.org.uk or phone 0113 245 3304 / 0114 242 3609.

A wide variety of stalls selling small collectible antiques and toy cars, books, good quality second-hand clothing, handmade jewellery, scented candles and much more!

RAVE ON - A TRIBUTE TO BUDDY HOLLY 8PM, BINGLEY ARTS CENTRE Marc Robinson from Stars in their Eyes , and Buddy The Musical will celebrate the music of Buddy Holly, along with the Counterfeit Crickets. They’ll give an accurate performance of Buddy Holly and the Crickets along with authentic attire , horn-rimmed glasses , and the famous Stratocaster guitar.

THE LIVE ROOM PRESENTS… DANNY SCHMIDT 8PM, CAROLINE STREET CLUB Named to the Chicago Tribune’s 50 Most Significant Songwriters In The Last 50 Years, Austin, Texas-based singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt has amassed a cult following for his stunningly poetic, poignant imagery. With lyrical depth drawing comparisons with Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, and Dave Carter, Schmidt is considered a preeminent writer, an artist whose earthy poetry manages to somehow conjure magic from the mundane.

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makers fair Sat12 & Sun13 September 2015

Contemporary craft and design in the unique setting of Saltaire World Heritage Site.

Victoria Hall, Saltaire West Yorkshire BD18 3JS

Ceramics, jewellery, glass, textiles, printmaking, handmade furniture and more, with 45 selected artists and designer/makers from across the UK. Part of Saltaire Festival, an annual celebration of art & music.

www.saltaireinspired.org.uk @SaltaireArt Jane Duke

Reg, charity no.1150701

SALTAIRE WORLD HERITAGE SITE

June Russell quick fire questions

Who are you and what do you do?

the Festival, 12th and 13th September.

I’m Chair of Trustees for Saltaire Inspired, the charity that organises the Saltaire Arts Trail, two Makers Fairs, and the Living Advent Calendar. I do this voluntarily, being a retired workaholic. I used to be CEO of Fabric Bradford, then Manager of The Art House in Wakefield. I’m a printmaker with a studio at South Square, Thornton. I exhibit regionally and nationally, but still love arts management, and believe in the arts in Bradford.

How did Saltaire Inspired get started?

Saltaire Inspired events started around 2007.

It was set up by local artists, principally David Worsley, of Dove Street Pottery, who left in 2010 to concentrate on his own practice, and now has a studio at Dockfield Road. The Arts Trail was originally part of Saltaire Festival, but moved to May in 2011. The Board of Trustees was set up to manage the whole annual programme, and we became a charity in 2013.

When can we see the Makers Fair?

What’s the best thing about staging the Makers Fairs?

Watching the exhibitors unpack and set up. We’ve seen images of their work, but finally seeing the real thing is thrilling. The artists are so creative at dressing their displays too. This year we started including artist demonstrations, and these add to that special excitement for us, as well as for visitors.

What else are you looking forward to at this year’s Festival?

I like the first weekend best, not just because that’s when the Makers Fair is on. It has a relaxed, community/arts feel. I’m looking forward to getting a couple of hours off to look round the Open Gardens, which will have sculptures again this year. I’d also love to catch Three Nurses by Hattie Townsend. I’m a big theatre fan, and it looks really interesting.

Full details of the event can be found at www. saltaireinspired.org.uk

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Lego fun day

Saturdays: 19th September · 24th October · 21st November · 19th December 2.00pm – 4.00pm. £2.50 per child

Every a month, the main hall is filled with Lego, Knex and Meccano for children (and parents) creating all kinds of amazing things. *ALSO CONSTRUCTION CLUB FOR HOME SCHOOLED CHILDREN ON THE THIRD FRIDAY OF THE MONTH 1.30PM TO 3.30PM!

sponge tree

Saturdays: 10th October · 14th November · 12th December 2.00pm – 4.00pm. £2.50 per child

Lets get creative with Sponge Tree! Nature art and traditional craft skills for all the family. From textiles to printmaking with a little bit of Sponge Tree magic thrown in...

doodle club

*ALSO SPONGE TREE SAPLINGS EVERY TUESDAY MORNING 9.30am to 11.30am DURING TERM TIMES!

Saturdays: 26th September · 28th November

2.30pm – 3.30pm. £4 per family or £2 per individual.

Learn to draw or improve your doodling skills – all ages welcome. Each session has a theme, with plenty of support and inspiration available!

CAFE OPEN FROM SEPTEMBER Tuesdays and Wednesdays 9.30am to 3.30pm Every Saturday 10-4pm Freshly made food & drinks

39a Kirkgate, Shipley BD18 3EH www.kirkgatecentre.org.uk Tel: 01274 580186 Twitter: kirkgate_centre

British Science Festival Bradford 7-10 September

Celebrate the best of British science.

Expand your horizons with four days of free events, talks and performances from across the scientific spectrum.

Join leading academics to discover, discuss and debate the latest ideas and innovations set to change our future.

britishsciencefestival.org BritishScienceFestival @BritishSciFest #BSF15 BritSciAssoc

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