Healthy minds Hebden, Royd & hilltop areas in partnership with Wadsworth Community Centre.

Lunchtime club 12.15 – 1.45 and then….

ART FOR SELF AWARENESS 2- 4 pm starting 18th March and running for 6 weeks.

This is a free course that takes place at Wadsworth Community Centre, Hebden Old Town.

To book call 01422 417357 or email christine@healthymindscalderdale.co.uk

Starting 10th Apr 2020

Healthy minds Hebden, Royd & hilltop areas in partnership with Wadsworth Community Centre.

Lunchtime club 12.15 – 1.45 and then….

ART FOR SELF AWARENESS 2- 4 pm starting 18th March and running for 6 weeks.

This is a free course that takes place at Wadsworth Community Centre, Hebden Old Town.

To book call 01422 417357 or email christine@healthymindscalderdale.co.uk

Hello All, We’re delighted to announce that this year’s World Dock Pudding Competition will be held at Mytholmroyd Community Centre on Sunday 19th April.

There will be stalls and a bar, along with the all-important Dock Pudding Competition. If you’d like to enter, or would like to have a stall at the event to sell your locally-produced goods, just message us via Facebook or give us a call at the centre on 01422 883023. Pop it in your diary!

Dock Pudding is a local delicacy little-known outside the Calder Valley area of Yorkshire and the Competition was founded in 1971 to help preserve it. The Pudding is made from the leaves of Polygonum Bistorta (which is not the same as Common Dock ,though they look alike) mixed with nettles, oatmeal, onions and seasoning, and served with bacon and eggs.

Competitors cook a whole cooked breakfast including the Dock Pudding and the winner receives a cup, the judging takes place behind closed doors so that the competitors are unknown to the judges, while the audience can watch the cooking on stage in the hall. Expect traditional Yorkshire brass band accompaniment.

Date: 19th April
Time: TBC
Venue: Mytholmroyd Community Centre

Healthy minds Hebden, Royd & hilltop areas in partnership with Wadsworth Community Centre.

Lunchtime club 12.15 – 1.45 and then….

ART FOR SELF AWARENESS 2- 4 pm starting 18th March and running for 6 weeks.

This is a free course that takes place at Wadsworth Community Centre, Hebden Old Town.

To book call 01422 417357 or email christine@healthymindscalderdale.co.uk

The famous annual Hebden Bridge Piano Festival is in it’s eighth year. Each year, over the three days, we present afternoon and evening concerts, plus lunchtime recitals, given by performers of national and international renown.

It is also important to us to showcase talented local amateur pianists and to put on events aimed at people of all ages, including an annual children’s concert. The Festival also has a firm commitment to promoting new talent whenever possible, and to staging free, accessible events.

Headlining the weekend festival, which all takes place in Hebden Bridge Town Hall, are Joanna MacGregor and Martin Roscoe – distinguished classical pianists who have graced concert halls all over the world. They are joined by the young American pianist Eric Lu, who was the overall winner of Leeds International Piano Competition in 2018, the 2010 BBC Young Musician Lara Melda and highly-praised Chinese virtuoso BingBing Li.

Hebden Bridge Piano Festival has never been exclusively about Classical piano music and this year there are performances by Sheffield-based pianist and singer Dale Storr who is regarded as probably the greatest exponent of New Orleans jazz in the UK, and the sensational award-winning jazz pianist, composer, songwriter, poet and author Robert Mitchell.

The Festival has always had a strong commitment to programming contemporary music and this year has commissioned Beauty and the Beast, a new multi-media work exploring the juxtaposition of industrial heritage and the natural world, written and performed by West Yorkshire pianist and composer Phil Taylor.

These high-calibre concerts are interspersed with events intended to involve the whole community. Alongside the headline performances, the Festival programme features a children’s concert given by the astounding Harry the Piano, recitals by local pianists and students, free concerts featuring non-classical piano music, and impromptu al fresco performances by anyone who enjoys playing.

“The programme launch is always great fun”, said David Nelson.

“The Town Hall bar will be open so come along, have a drink, enjoy some live jazz piano, take time to absorb the excellent programme we’ve put together and secure tickets for what will undoubtedly be another sell-out weekend.”

Tickets go on sale both at the launch and online at 7pm on March 13th, and the Festival box office opens at the Town Hall reception desk on Monday March 16th.

Alternatively, postal bookings can be made via the booking form available from the Festival website.

For in-person booking, the Town Hall box office will be open Monday to Friday, 9am-4pm, right up to the Festival weekend. There is a quick link for online booking and much more information about the recitals and performers at www.hebdenbridgepianofestival.com

The festival guide can be found here https://www.hebdenbridgepianofestival.com/festival-programme-2020/