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The Story So Far Impact Report 2014-2017 Putting North Kirklees HAVE YOU HAD in the Spotlight MAKING ART A PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE The story so far Impact Report 2014-2017 Putting north kirklees HAVE YOU HAD in the spotlight. Hello! YOUR ART TODAY? Since 2014, we’ve been working We are delighted to share with you our Impact Report. It tells the story so far of the making of Creative Scene, together with our partners and a thriving hot spot for fantastic arts and culture, in the people of North Kirklees to build and around the five towns of North Kirklees, right at a Creative Scene in and around five the heart of the West Yorkshire region. towns in West Yorkshire. What makes it so special is that it’s been created by and with the people here. Read on for some of the highlights – the ways people have got involved, what they got out of it, and how these great creative events are helping In a little over 3 years more than 110,000 people We know that to sustain the Creative Scene will bring communities together to celebrate and transform our places. have taken part in over 180 events in the places need continued leadership and support from the where they live, work, gather and socialise. people here to secure more investment. We’ll need new ways of working with partners from There’s been shows in pubs and chip shops, an outside the arts, more locally produced activity, artist in a biscuit factory, parkour performances programming and commissioning that feels right amongst the market stalls, children getting a for the place, imagination in finding the places fix of fantastic family friendly theatre, a poetic 2 Contents 16 Taking part in the arts that offer opportunities to create and present, performance on the streets viewed from an and the production skills to make it happen. open-top bus, fiery night time spectaculars in 3 INTRODUCTIOn 18 Idle women town squares and parks, even a game of digital We have a 10 year vision, and by 2024, we bingo, projected and played on buildings. We’ve want this part of West Yorkshire to be known 4 The story so far 19 Batley does opera hosted international artists, commissioned new as a place where taking part in great cultural theatre which has gone on to tour around the experiences is an every day occurrence. The country, and we’ve supported over 50 local Creative Scene will be a place where people 6 Map 20 Artists training support artists – including emerging young artists – are used to popping to the pub to see a play, with learning opportunities to develop their children have the chance to see a show every 8 Why make art a part 21 Inspiring artists, making skills, and get into further education, training half term holiday, families flock to festivals to see and work. the best of UK and international artistic talent, great places artists and producers from the area light up of everyday life? We’ve shown there is no such thing as ‘hard to town centres and lead community celebrations. reach’ when it comes to getting people involved 9 Meet the scenemakers 22 Complicité creative learning and developing audiences for the arts – artists It’s been a privilege to be part of establishing and companies just need to get a little closer the Creative Scene so far. Please read on to find On tour: the local 23 animating parks and gardens to where people are at. out more about some of the many highlights in 10 the first 3+ years of the programme; and do get Creative Scene has secured new funding of £1m in touch if you’d like to be part of the Creative from Arts Council England until December 2020. Scene over the coming years. 12 On tour: family theatre 24 Festivals This is a massive vote of confidence in what has been achieved so far. As we go into 2018, we 14 Refreshing the parts other 26 Thank you have our sights set firmly on the future, and on arts don’t reach creating a lasting legacy for the project. 27 Friends, partners, artists NANCY BARRETT Director, Creative Scene, May 2018 Creative Scene is one of 21 independent Creative People and Places projects across the country, funded by Arts Council England in areas where there are fewer opportunities to get involved with the arts. It is about more people choosing, creating and taking part in brilliant art experiences in the areas where they live, work and socialise. 91% of our audience come from neighbourhoods with low and medium levels of arts engagement. 2 3 THE STORY SO FAR 2million 185,000 180+ 100+ investment from Arts Council England Total population of Batley, Cleckheaton, Events including theatre, Different artists and companies – from across Dewsbury, Heckmondwike and Mirfield circus and Indian dance Kirklees, from Yorkshire, from the UK and from Tunisia, Slovenia, India, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Serbia £300,000 + 110,000+ 70+ 3000 Raised in matched funds, earned Local audience members, participants, Local groups involved, from Volunteer hours of managing, interviewing, income and in-kind support performers, artists and more primary schools, women’s groups stewarding, creating and welcoming and choirs to dance studios, rugby clubs and tenants groups 4 5 Dewsbury Dewsbury Town Hall Sensory World Batley Town Hall The Corner Café Mirfield Birstall & Birkenshaw Dewsbury Train Station The Leggers Inn Batley Train Station The Mill Outlet Acorn Studios Battyeford Primary School Birstall Community Centre Greenwood Centre The Old Turk Blenheim House The Taproom Birstall Town Centre Blue Fish Howlands Centre Thornhill Sports & Central Methodist Church Wilton Park Brooks Deli Brigantia Mirfield Town Centre Oakwell Hall Kirklees College – Batley Community Centre Fox’s Biscuits The Cobbles Cloggs Café Cleckheaton Northorpe Hall Barn School of Art Healey Community Centre The Venue Cocoa Lounge Mims Restaurant Batley Howden Clough Community Aakash Selina Cooper in Shepley Bridge NORTH KIRKLEES Connect Housing Marina New Picture House Alfreds Way Shopping Centre Centre Cleckheaton Library Heckmondwike Crow Nest Park The Navigation Tavern Orchid Rooms Bagshaw Museum IMWS Cleckheaton Shopping Centre Blue Moon Café IN THE COUNTY OF WEST YORKSHIRE Dewsbury Arts Group Prince of Wales Shopping Batley Bulldogs RLFC iou bus Cleckheaton Town Hall Dewsbury Library Liversedge & Gomersal Firth Park Community Centre Centre Batley Girls High School Memorial Gardens Cleckheaton Town Centre Heckmondwike Indoor Market Dewsbury Market Batley Library and Art Gallery Matthew’s Coffee House Gomersal Primary School Savile Town Wharf & Marina PKWA Red House Museum Heckmondwike Town Centre Dewsbury Minster Sea Urchin Batley Town Centre Reunion Café Memorial Park Dewsbury Town Centre Roberttown Community Centre Green Park Where it's all happening Tesco Mill Valley Brewery Tap Westgate 23 The Wickham Arms 6 7 Make art a part MEET THE Why of everyday life? SCENEMAKERS The Creative People and Places programme was set up by Arts Council England to encourage more Creative Scene thinks that people should people to experience be inspired by the arts in areas have a say in the kind of arts they want to where participation and audience numbers are see and take part in, and that inspirational significantly below the national average. art and stories are created when artists work together with communities. Here at Creative Scene we believe that accessible and relevant to the people Here vibrant cultural traditions from around taking part in the arts is about more than that live here, and the arts will help to the world create a unique heritage and One of the ways we do this has been to develop a entertainment or a leisure activity; the arts shape a positive future for our towns culture, with handsome former industrial group of community commissioners and advocates. in all their forms are vital for the wellbeing and communities. towns, historic villages and newer suburbs. They are an active group of people from all walks of life of people – they develop skills, open up Parts of this area are semi-rural, and some About the Creative Scene – from students to homemakers, solicitors, café owners, opportunities, promote cooperation and decidedly urban. It has the strong character connect people. Arts and cultural events The Creative Scene area of North Kirklees of Pennine Yorkshire, with warm stone health workers, retired teachers – with a passion and make vibrant, attractive town centres and is home to 180,000 people, yet these buildings, steep hills, canals and rivers. commitment to what the arts can achieve in their area. cohesive communities. The stories that 5 towns – Dewsbury, Batley, Cleckheaton, Part of the Leeds City region, it is artists tell – whether through dance, drama, Heckmondwike, and Mirfield are often connected by motorways (the M62 to the Philip Ashleigh poetry, music or light – can give us new over-looked and can struggle for attention west and the M1 to the South) to Leeds and arrowsmith Beattie perspectives, understanding and empathy. and investment. the larger towns and cities of Huddersfield, Wakefield, Halifax and Bradford which are We believe that if people are involved in It’s an area with a distinct history born A huge thank you to all the SceneMakers past and present, who, from all within a 15 mile radius. leading, choosing and creating the cultural out of the heavy woollen industry that the start, have helped set up the Creative Scene in North Kirklees. Sian Rebecca experiences they take part in, they become was once the main source of employment. Volunteers, who live or work in the area from a wide range of ages, jobs Dawson FOster and backgrounds have put on events in some unusual and unexpected places at the heart of their communities. They’ve commissioned new plays and outdoor shows, they’ve visited Gayna Harriet events, theatre and festivals around the country to bring great new Goalby Lawson things to our area.
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