The Pledges to the Landscape event at Keighley Creative . Photo: Bob Smith Photography
Keighley children’s learning and creativity was celebrated this week as a major project comes to a close.
On Monday we hosted a special event to showcase the Pledges to the Landscape project, a collaboration between Keighley Creative and Yorkshire Peat Partnership.
The event welcomed lots of people who wanted to find out more about this project that uses art to teach local children about the importance of our local landscapes, plants and animals.
Naseem Darbey, artist and project lead on Pledges to the Landscape
Project leads, Naseem Darbey and Lucy Lee, welcomed children that had participated in the project and their families alongside some key members of the local community including the Principal of Keighley College, Kevin O’Hare, and the Mayor of Keighley, Councillor Gulfraz Hussain.
Attendees were also given the first viewing of a special film about the project that has been made by professional filmmaker, Finn Varney.
On Wednesday 16th October 2024, we opened our new exhibition “Nature and Imagination” but, following lots of interest, we are pleased to announce that the exhibition will continue for a month until Wednesday 13th November 2024.
Arts for Brain Health is one of Keighley Creative’s core programmes offers workshops to people that may benefit from a weekly group providing creative opportunities. The Wednesday group, runs drop-in sessions every week, from 10.30am till 12.30pm. It welcomes those that may be affected by loneliness or social isolation and offers a safe and welcoming space to anyone who may like to come along.
The project facilitators, Ailsa and Carine, recognised quickly that the work being produced by attendees showcased a range of skills and talents and that the artwork produced was worthy of its own exhibition so they asked attendees to shares their ideas on the themes of imagined outdoor spaces and personal maps and journeys. Many attendees of the Wednesday group submitted work illustrating what nature means to them and the “Nature and Imagination” exhibition was born.
The exhibition also features artwork made in Keighley Creative’s sessions at the Airedale Centre for Mental Health.
Artwork created by people from the Airedale Centre for Mental Health
The opening event welcomed lots of different people from around the Keighley and Bradford district and the exhibition has now been extended to open on:
Mondays from 10am till 12.30pm Wednesdays from 10am till 4pm Until Wednesday 13th November 2024
There is no cost to attend and no booking required.
This event has been made possible by Bradford Council Mental Wellbeing Fund.
Come along and enjoy this varied and thought-provoking exhibition and find out more about Keighley Creative’s Arts for Brain Health programme.
For more information please email ailsa@keighleycreative.org or call/text Ailsa on 07423 154855.
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Call-out for Keighley artists! Would you like to provide creative content for our Engineering and Arts Explorations project?
A new project has recently been launched in Keighley. Local engineer and STEM Ambassador, Alisha Bell, supported by The Leap organisations is on the hunt for local artists to engage the next generation of engineers.
Alisha is a passionate young female engineer at the heart of local manufacturing having worked for Teconnex for over 5 years and now working for Byworth Boilers.
With this project she is seeking creative contributions from artists, asking them to reimagine the images behind engineering and helping to celebrate Keighley’s manufacturing industry.
Therefore we are asking local artists to submit their ideas for artwork. The artwork should be designed to engage the local community with engineering and helping people see the manufacturing industry from a new perspective. The target audience is specifically the younger generation and women.
We are asking for artists ideally in and around Keighley to apply by doing a quick annotated sketch of their ideas and emailing it to alisha.bell@live.co.uk before 1st July 2024. 7th July 2024.
The team will then choose up to 10 artists who will be commissioned to turn their ideas into a final piece of artwork at A2 size that will be put on public display. This is an exciting and PAID opportunity and each successful application will be commissioned £50.
All successful entries will be displayed at our Engineering and Arts Exploration event at Keighley Creative on Cooke Lane on Saturday 24th August 2024, 10am till 4pm. Also the chosen pieces may be exhibited again publicly after this event in other settings but you will be informed and asked about this prior to other exhibitions.
The preference will be for the chosen artists and engineering to be associated with Keighley.
This project is being supported by The Leap in partnership with Keighley Creative, Arts Council England, Bradford Council and Creative Place Partners.
Deadline for applications is 7th July 2024. Please apply by emailing a sketch of your ideas directly to Alisha Bell at alisha.bell@live.co.uk
