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Spin A Silly Story
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Sunday 23 June
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Tuesday 25 June
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Thursday 27 June
Crow Nest
Friday 28 June
Kate Rawles
Sketch-O-Matic
Quercus
Andrew Weatherall
ow in its 20th year, Hebden Bridge Arts
Festival is one of Yorkshire’s longest
running festivals and 2013 is our most
ambitious to date with nine event-packed
days. Headlining: John Cooper Clarke, Daniel
Kitson, John Bramwell, Tracey Thorn, June
Tabor and Simon Armitage. There are even
Festivals within the Festival: YHBAF
celebrates local youth culture, and Uncanny
Valley presents an animation fest. There’s a
salon style art trail, pop up poet, a global
warming bike ride, a Coiners run with Boff
Whalley, new drama from Hebden Shorts
and Red Ladder and we bring Hebden to life
with two days of superb street
entertainment including Sketch-O-Matic
and Jude Wadley’s epic Wonderwear
bunting !
Saturday 22 June
Sunday 23 June
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Friday 28 June
Boff Whalley
Friday 28 June
Friday 28 June
Chris Mullin
Gamesfest
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Tracey Thorn
Saturday 22 June
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Thanks to:
Arts Council England, Calderdale Council, CapeUK, Co-operative Membership,
Hebden Royd Town Council, Hebden Bridge Town Hall, Thomson Reuters and all
the other individuals and businesses who have offered help in kind and a special
thanks to our volunteers without whom the Festival would cease to exist.
Box Office
The Box Office is at Hebden Bridge Town Hall and will be open daily from 8 June
10-4 (Mon-Sat) 12-4 (Sun). Outside these hours tickets are available online at www.
hebdenbridgeartsfestival.co.uk. (There will be a charge for online booking, levied
by the e-ticketing provider.) NB we do not accept telephone bookings.
• Tickets cannot be reserved without payment or exchanged/refunded except in the event of a show cancellation.
• HBAF reserves the right to refuse admission to latecomers.
• There are no numbered seats at any event and seating at the Trades Club is not guaranteed.
• Concessions apply to full-time students, the unemployed, disabled visitors (+ 1 helper), senior citizens and children U16. You may be asked to provide proof of status.
Festival Gallery
The Festival Gallery is located in Hebden Bridge Town Hall and is open 10-4 MonSat year round. If you are interested in hiring the space for an exhibition contact
[email protected].
Contacting Us
www.hebdenbridgeartsfestival.co.uk / [email protected] / Facebook @
hbartsfestival / Twitter@hbaf / 01422 417373
All information is correct at the time of going to press.
We are a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity (no. 1070600).
Cover & Graphic Illustrations: David Burnop
Design:Jerome Dineen
Printed by:The Print Bureau, Hebden Bridge
After The Flood
Saturday 22 June
Hidden Stories
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Saturday 22 June
Time Travelling Magicians
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Where We Begin To Look
Saturday 22 June
Sunday 23 June
22 - 30 June
Zeigen/Reveal
Simon Armitage: Wordstones
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Saturday 22 June
Crow Nest Free
Festival exhibition: Zeigen/Reveal
Islington Mill’s Maurice Carlin and Bill Campbell open
the doors of Crow Nest House for a series of informal
but edgy events and exhibitions including work by
Rachel Goodyear, Susie McMurray and artist in
residence Lorna Mollart. 12pm: A drop in discussion
with Bill, Maurice and exhibiting artists over tea and
cake. 2pm: Rachel Newsome’s dark tales in the woods.
Town Hall
22-30 June (Mon-Sun 10am-5pm)
Free
Shining a light in dark places, artists Blaffert/Wamhof
photograph ex-British army bases in Germany whilst
David Gledhill paints a family to life from a found
photograph album. Curated by Len Horsey.
Park Yourself!
11am-5pm
Art, Fashion, Dance, Drama, Music in a Youth Culture
fest in Calder Holmes Park.
Handmade Parade
12 pm Parade - 1pm Finale in the Park
www.handmadeparade.co.uk
Where We Begin to Look
After The Flood
Nutclough House Hotel Cellars
22,23,25 & 27 June 10am-5pm
Free
This mixed media show is a response to the 2012
floods. Artists include: brook & black, Keiko Kanda,
Wanda Bernadino, Andrew Beck. Sound installations
from Hibernate Records and Frame Missing + live
soundtrack for flooded piano.
Uncanny Valley - Animation Workshop
22 & 23 June
Town Hall 2pm-5pm (7+)
(20 places) £3
Delivered by artists Vincent James & Sam McLoughlin,
this zoetrope workshop explores the roots of
animation with a practical hands-on session.
Tracey Thorn - in conversation
Public Service Broadcasting + Baltic Fleet
Sunday 23 June
Street Sundae: come rain or shine!
St George’s Square, wavy duck steps, marina,
Town Hall courtyard and Market Street
12 - 4pm
Free
A feast of entertainment from some of the UK’s best
street acts topped off with a dollop of local talent too.
Uncle Tacko’s Flea Circus, Maynard Flip Flap, the
Spurting Man and the return of the Grannies! Harpists,
violinists, choirs, hot flamenco and lots more.
Sketch-O-Matic
Town Hall Foyer
12-4pm (also on 30 June) Pay what you like
In association with Cornerhouse, sit for an instant
portrait inside the artist’s booth!
Sharing Stories
Foyer, Town Hall
10am-3pm Free
Come and sit in the Map Chair and share your stories
of Hebden Bridge.
Simon Armitage: Wordstones
Town Hall 2.30pm
Free
Wordstones is a new trail along the Calder Valley,
bearing words from young writers, carved by stone
artist Pip Hall. This special event will feature a short
reading from In Memory of Water by Simon Armitage
and some of Calderdale’s finest young writers.
Wordstones is an imove project and has been funded by Legacy
Trust UK, creating a lasting impact from London 2012 by funding
ideas and local talent to inspire creativity across the UK.
www.imovearts.co.uk
Uncanny Valley (see Saturday 22)
Key: hbaf’s Youth Festival
Libellule Theatre presents - Just a Bit of Paper
Wednesday 26 June
Riverside School
11am & 2pm
£5 (£3)
Join Scribble and Scraps for an extraordinary visual
and highly interactive theatre journey for 3-5 year olds
and their families in a playground of paper.
Cathryn Constable
Kate Rawles - Carbon Cycle
‘I can’t recall the last time my awe was so thoroughly struck!’ The
Scotsman
Book Case
4.30pm
Free
Reading and signing by children’s author of Wolf
Princess.
Town Hall
12.45pm Cycle ride (details on website)
6pm
Conversation with Kate Rawles £5
In 2006, ‘outdoor philosopher’ Kate Rawles cycled from
Texas to Alaska. En route, she talked to Americans
about climate change. Hear her conclusions.
Time Travelling Magicians
Trades Club
2pm & 5pm
£7 (£5)
Great Scott! Victorian magicians Morgan and West
present a magical extravaganza: dazzling deceptions,
and a genuine ability to travel through time.
Andrew McMillan Workshop
Hebden Bridge Library
4-5.30pm (12+) (20 places) Free
Create new work in an interactive poetry workshop
with one of Britain’s most exciting young poets.
Hidden Stories
Town Hall
6pm £5
Rochdale, Salford, Bradford, Birmingham: four emotive
monologues about ordinary people living hidden
lives. Written and performed by poet and scriptwriter
Anjum Malik.
Monday 24 June
Crow Nest 24-29 June 10am-5pm
Visit artist in residence Lorna Mollart.
Uncanny Valley - pop-up Zine archive
Town Hall
24-26 June 12-5pm
Free
The Towser Zine Archive, curated by Alice Bradshaw
and Vanessa Haley, features selected limited edition,
handmade and self-published books and zines from
artists across the world.
Ian McMillan + Luke Carver Goss
Trades Club
Doors 8pm
£12.50(£10)
Poet, broadcaster & comedian Ian McMillan and
Olympic composer Luke Carver Goss present a
hilarious night of poems, music & improv.
Red Ladder Theatre presents: Wrong ‘Un
Hebden Bridge Little Theatre
Doors 7.30pm
£10(£8)
A one-woman suffragette musical written by Boff
Whalley of Chumbawamba. A story in drama and
song of class, torture and war in Edwardian England
performed by Eliza Harris.
Uncanny Valley – launch screening
King Kong (1933) PG
Town Hall
6pm Free
Join us for the launch of animation festival Uncanny
Valley. The programme kicks off with the iconic stopmotion masterpiece King Kong. Special effects artist
Willis O’Brien created the animation for the film and
inspired a generation of monster movies.
Tuesday 25 June
Leslie Woodhead - How the Beatles Rocked the
Kremlin
Town Hall
6pm
£5
Award-winning documentary film maker Leslie
Woodhead talks about the Beatles in Russia. The
event will feature clips from his work including his
new film about the Kennedy assassination.
Bettakultcha
Trades Club
Doors 7.30pm
£5
Bettakultcha is a Powerpoint with a difference as
performers use up to 15 slides to tell their story in a
fun and quirky way. Open to anyone. All you need is a
laptop and some imagination....
Uncanny Valley – animation shorts 2013
Picture House
4.30pm- 6.00pm £3
Enjoy a feast of animated shorts from up and coming
filmmakers from the North of England and far far
away!
beautiful and surprising pieces of work I have heard in a long
time’ The Observer.
Reeps One + Major Triadz
The Trades Club
Doors open 6.30pm (12+)
£5
Reeps One is a walking, breathing sound system. He’s
toured with The Prodigy, Africa Express and won the UK
Beatbox Championships twice. Supported by youth
talent from the valley.
Daniel Kitson
Picture House
Doors 7.30pm
£10
Idiosyncratic Denby Dale funnyman Daniel Kitson
brings his brand new show ‘After the beginning Before the end’ to Hebden Bridge.
Hebden Shorts (see Thursday 27)
Rosie Garland – Palace of Curiosities
Upstairs @ The Birchcliffe Centre
5pm
£8(£6)
Roll up! listen to poet Rosie Garland read from her
bewitching first novel. Marvel at the delights of a
Victorian fairground curiosity sideshow.
Carol Morley - The Alcohol Years
Thursday 27 June
Trades Club
Doors 7.30pm
£10(£8)
Morley’s era-defining documentary about her lost
years in Manchester. Screening followed by Q&A.
Hebden Shorts
A Love From Outer Space
Little Theatre
Doors 7.30pm
£10(£8)
Back by popular demand! Hebden Shorts returns for its
3rd festival outing with 6 brand new plays written by
local writers and performed by local actors. Hebden
Shorts will also be performed on Friday 28 and
Saturday 29 June.
Trades Club
Doors 10.30pm
£10
Superstar DJ Andrew Weatherall & Sean Johnston’s
celebrated London club relocates for a Festival one-off.
Mark Doyle - Collecting Art Ahead Of The Curve
St George’s Square, wavy duck steps, marina,
Town Hall and Market Street
12-4pm Free
Second helpings! Stilted Elvis, Deramos acrobatics,
Suitcase Circus, Artizani, Astronauts Caravan and close
up magic. All this plus violinists, blues, brass, singing,
youth theatre and dance + Sketch-O-Matic will be
open for business.
Crow Nest 6pm–8pm
Free
Join Mark Doyle from Contemporary Art Society
North to discuss collecting and buying artwork.
The Devil’s Violin Company – A Love Like Salt
Upstairs @ The Birchcliffe Centre
Doors 7.30 £10(£8)
Slick and spellbinding, Daniel Morden one of the UK’s
most compelling storytellers lures the audience into
this haunting fusion of timeless tales, accompanied by
a trio of musicians on cello, violin and accordion. ‘An
enchantment, a work that walks the line between life and death’
TLS
John Bramwell
Trades Club
Doors 8pm
£12(£10)
An exclusive solo show from the Mercury-nominated I Am Kloot frontman.
Friday 28 June
Boff Whalley - Run Wild
Sunday 30 June
Street Sundae: come rain or shine!
Spin a Silly Story
Town Hall courtyard
Four intimate shows between 12noon - 4pm Free
Storytelling with Chol Theatre in a giant inflatable pod.
Writing Out Loud - Open Mic
Town Hall 3pm (12+)
Free
Young people of the valley perform their work.
Festival Finale: John Cooper Clarke
Picture House
Doors 8pm
£18(£16)
Legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke brings his
unique brand of rebel verse to Hebden Bridge.
Book Case 5.30pm Free
book signing followed by running event
Chumbawamba’s Boff Whalley did two things in 1981;
he started a band and did his first marathon. Join Boff
for a run through Coiners country. (Details on website)
Hebden Shorts (see Thursday 27)
Bigsmallnoise - Big Night Out
Town Hall
Doors 7pm £3
Bigsmallnoise is a new local artist development
agency. Come and join them for their first showcase
event where emerging UK stars will be performing
brand new music. Witness stars of tomorrow, today.
Chris Mullin - The Thatcher Legacy
Upstairs @ The Birchcliffe Centre
Doors 7.30pm
£10
Former Labour Minister, best-selling author and
journalist, assesses the Thatcher legacy.
Saturday 29 June
Gamesfest
Town Hall
12-4pm for children of all ages
Free
Board game day with giant outdoor games, games
tables and craft activities + the Hebden Monopoly set.
Four Northern Artists
May 22nd – June 23rd
George Grosz July 13th – August 11th
Both exhibitions
11am – 4pm
Closed Mondays
and Tuesdays
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Trades Club
Doors 9pm
£10
The band of the moment fuse public information
films, archive footage and propaganda material with
motorik soundscapes & stunning visuals. Dress WW2.
Rosie Garland workshop
Upstairs @ The Birchcliffe Centre
11am-1pm (12+)
(20 places) Free
Expert advice from top performance poet on
performing and staging your work.
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Upstairs @ The Birchcliffe Centre
Doors 7.30pm
£10
Tracey Thorn has been described as ‘the Alan Bennett
of pop Memoirists’. Bedsit Disco Queen chronicles
Thorn’s rise from indie singer to international superstar
in Everything but the Girl.
Upstairs @ The Birchcliffe Centre
Doors 7.30pm
£17.50(£15.50)
Quercus brings together multi-award-winning folk and
jazz musicians: June Tabor - voice, Iain Ballamy soprano and tenor saxophones, Huw Warren - piano,
to create exquisite chamber music. ‘One of the most
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Organic House
22 June to early September Free
Artwork by Zoe Benbow with poems by Sylvia Plath,
Alice Oswald, Sarah Corbett and Jo Shapcott.
In conjunction with the Poetry Society.
7pm discussion and reading.
Quercus
June Tabor / Iain Ballamy / Huw Warren