Events and projects produced for Hebden Bridge Arts in 2024, for ‘The Man Who Planted Trees’ for Calderdale’s Year of Culture. The project comprised three exhibitions, a new stage play (with a film of the play and education pack being produced for schools), community creative days, workshops, creative courses, walks, volunteering days and a lecture event by puppet-, mask- and theatre-maker, Alison Duddle.
Events produced for Hebden Bridge Arts in 2023, for Open Space 70: a four day environmental arts festival with special guests, a community based and co-produced arts trail, alongside creative workshops, environmental philosophy walks and short craft courses, and a launch party day in 2022.
Land Marks and Crossings, 2022, Hebden Bridge Arts
Hebden Bridge Picture House: Manager years 2012 – 2021:
In June 2021 we reopened the cinema after the Covid-19 pandemic. We had installed a new online and computerised box office system (a sad day for our automaticket machine, above right) with selectable socially distanced seating. Our centenary in July 2021 involved producing a range of merchandise (above left) and a 20+ event centenary year-long programme of film seasons, special events, and silent film with live music, including the commissioning a new live score of Helen of Four Gates, played by a quintet.
I project managed the total refurbishment of the Picture House in my time as Manager. This occurred in stages, taking the listed building from this in 2012 (above left) to this by 2019 (above right).
Below is the foyer, seen post Boxing Day 2015 mega-flood in April 2016 (left) and restored (including restored 1921 plaster cornice) and refurbished, on its re-opening in June 2016 (right).
Above left, and below, front of house managing at the first Hebden Bridge Film Festival, where I was on the roaming mic during the opening night film premiere’s Q&A in 2019, and above right, the post film Q&A session I hosted with the makers of aerial photography film, Astrofax, in 2021.
