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So grateful for the year gone-by... thank you to everyone whose enjoyed a Story Trails' story, either live, through audio, or in game form! Thank you for being ready to play, for brilliant conversations, mighty walks, for your friendship and incredible knowledge!
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- We at Chol Theatre have two exciting opportunities for teachers to work alongside artists in schools between January and July 2023.
We are offering:
- One artist residency - involving a Chol artist working with teachers and children on a weekly basis in curriculum time, co-creating a new project in school, and providing CPD opportunities for all staff.
- Four whole school introductions - a chance for every child and teacher to work with an artist to explore Imaginary Communities and creative learning.
These opportunities are heavily match-funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation and build on Chol’s Imaginary Communities (IC) approach to story-making in the classroom. Please do get in touch with Carly if you are a teacher, an artist, or a senior leader and you would like an informal chat about the possibilities
[email protected]
More information about these opportunities can be found here:
https://wearechol.co.uk/imaginary-communities/
Really welcome that Yorkshire and the Humber is getting a 35% increase in Arts Council England funding with Chol Theatre, Mikron Theatre Company based in Marsden and Slaithwaite based Shabang Inclusive Learning benefitting in our area.
So much fun was had today in as children helped us to find the mythical , and began creating the card-game!
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Tonight we've been hosting the official premiere of Windrush: The Years After - A Community Legacy on Film! A huge thanks to Foxwood Panyard Huddersfield Community Gospel Choir , Gravy's Caribbean Cuisine, Chol Theatre and all the invited delegates for helping to make tonight such a wonderful success so far!
A reminder that Windrush: The Years After will be available online for everyone on October the 14th!
Keep your eyes peeled over the next few weeks for updates.
The Creative Kirklees website moves to a new improved platform next week on Monday 26 September. Take a look around the new site and be sure to sign up to our fabulous new-style newsletter on the pop up screen that will appear after a few seconds after you enter the site.
https://beta.creativekirklees.com/en-UK
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Days of Joy is a new arts engagement and youth voice project co-created with children and young people from across Barnsley. Catch the exhibition at Wombwell Library.
They’re asking: what arts, culture and heritage opportunities you would like to see available in Barnsley?
The exhibition showcases work from six classes across three schools who took part in workshops to develop knowledge and understanding of different arts activities, exploring common activities as well as the lesser known arts.
Chol Theatre Fusion - Barnsley’s Cultural Education Partnership Barnsley South Area Team
THE WHITE LINE CELEBRATION
The White Line Celebration took place on Sunday 21 August 2022 at St George’s Square in Huddersfield to mark the 75th anniversary of India and Pakistan’s independence.
First up was one of the INTERWOVEN films, a soundscape that was originally produced for the Woven festival in June 2021, and which combines Boliyan singing, brass bands, spoken word and traditional folk singing. The gathering audience included groups of older Indian ladies who were clearly recognising their own stories and experiences in the textile industry. The ladies’ reaction revealed how this film not only provided a space to meet and enjoy the film, but also helped stimulate conversations and evoke memories. It’s vitally important to recognise and communicate that the heritage of the textile industry in Kirklees isn’t just the traditional white working-class story. The vibrant colourful textile banner by Pavan Sembi also inspired conversations relating to partition and migration stories.
After the film came the first Boliyan performance by B***e B***e Sangeet, women singing beautiful and colourful traditional Panjabi folk songs, with a bit of contemporary Western pop thrown in for good measure. This is what the event did really well throughout the day; it combined poignancy and serious issues – the next film to be shown was A New Life in Huddersfield: Memories of Partition and Migration by Let's Go Yorkshire, exploring the immigrant experience and the horrors of the 1947 partition – and celebratory fun beautifully, recognising that it’s just as important to celebrate migration stories as it is to remember why people left their motherland after partition, a painful legacy that divided communities that once lived side-by-side.
More celebratory fun was brought to the event with a screening of classic songs from Indian cinema and a Bhangra dance workshop from Hardeep Sahota, which had a large group joyfully dancing and clapping around the Square.
The high energy dance and singing activities were well balanced with calmer and slower events, giving audiences moments for reflection and opportunities to sample the excellent Indian street food and chai on offer. These included Chol Theatre’s performance of Three Pounds in my Pocket, featuring live bansuri flute and violin by Vijay VenkatVenkat and tabla and santoor by John Ball, and the final film of the afternoon, INTERWOVEN The Story of Shoddy in Song.
Looking around at the diverse mix of people in the audience having fun, joining in and celebrating together in the sun felt like genuine connection and community! Feedback from audience members was overwhelmingly positive, with the atmosphere being described as positive, relaxing and welcoming.
“The event is bringing people and the community together.”
“Inspiring and fantastic.”
“There should be something like this happening every week.”
“It’s a reminder that you’re Pakistani and I’m Indian, but we speak the same languages, we eat the same food, we’re the same – it’s only the politicians saying we aren’t.”
The White Line Celebration was curated by Let's Go Yorkshire and contributed to this year’s ‘Arrivals’ theme of the Huddersfield High Street Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) cultural programme. It was funded by Arts Council England and the HSHAZ cultural programme, a government funded scheme led by Historic England, in partnership with Kirklees Council.
View The White Line Celebration short film HERE:
https://www.yfanefa.com/record/68045
Laura Mateescu Photography
Days of Joy is a new arts engagement and youth voice project co-created with children and young people from across Barnsley. Catch the exhibition at Hoyland Library until the end of August. They’re asking: what arts, culture and heritage opportunities you would like to see available in Barnsley?
The exhibition showcases work from six classes across three schools who took part in workshops to develop knowledge and understanding of different arts activities, exploring common activities as well as the lesser known arts.
Chol Theatre Fusion - Barnsley’s Cultural Education Partnership Barnsley South Area Team
This Afternoon, Huddersfield’s St George’s Square will be filled with music, dance, theatre and film with a special event to mark the 75th anniversary of independence in India and Pakistan.
Historic England Arts Council England Chol Theatre
Songwriter Sam Hodgson (aka Samh) and Pedlaz Cycling Club will be cycling from Dewsbury Train Station to Huddersfield Train Station on 21st August to commemorate the arrival of the first train to Huddersfield, 175 years ago. They aim to arrive at the station by 1pm, just in time for the White Line Celebrations at St. George’s Square. Samh will be using this cycling experience to write songs about cycling for a new project entitled Making Tracks.
For more information visit:
www.samhsong.com/makingtracks
Samh Pedlazcc Cityconnect Manasamitra Chol Theatre Kirklees
We have an extra treat this coming Monday at the Museum!
As well as fantastic free wellbeing and community activities, Maker World on Tour are joining us!
Visit our friends Chol Theatre and Children's Art School in the Cholavan for Art and Creative Activities for all ages.
Join Let's Go Yorkshire as we commemorate the and mark the 75th anniversary of independence in and through music, dance, theatre and film!
SUNDAY 21 AUGUST, 1-4pm
St George’s Square, Huddersfield
★ 1-1:15pm INTERWOVEN Soundscape Woven in Kirklees
★ 1 :15-1:30pm Giddha Boliyan Part 1 (traditional Punjabi folk songs) by B***e B***e Sangeet
★ 1.30-2pm A New Life in Huddersfield: Memories of Partition and Migration documentary
★ 2-2:30pm Classic songs from Indian cinema
★ 2:30-3pm Chol Theatre’s play ‘Three Pounds in my Pocket’ featuring live music
★ 3-3:30pm Bhangra by Hardeep Sahota
★ 3:30-3:45pm Giddha Boliyan Part 2 by B***e B***e Sangeet
★ 3:45-4pm INTERWOVEN Round and Around: The Story of Shoddy in Song
For further information
[email protected]
Illustration by Peter O'Toole