Projects

See what we’re up to at Keighley Creative

Rombald’s Rocks – Keighley Sculpture Trail

May 2025 saw a big community art project come to town. The all new Keighley Sculpture Trail involved 100s of local people and took it’s inspiration from local legend, Rombald the Giant.

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Arts and Heritage Community Project

The Arts and Heritage Community project is a two year partnership programme run by Kala Sangam.

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Young Creative

A friendly and supportive 8 week creative art course for young people aged 12-16 (Referrals only)

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Pledges to the Landscape

The Pledges to the Landscape project is bringing art workshops into local primary schools to help children learn about our local peatlands and the importance of their conservation whilst being creative and having fun! Local artist, Naseem Darbey, is working alongside the Yorkshire Peat Partnership and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to bring specially designed workshops to Keighley schools.

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The Stockroom

Keighley Creative is home to the Stockroom, an intimate performance space and cinema, which is now available to hire. In 2023, Keighley Creative and The Unit were approached by the Leeds International Film Festival team as they were looking for a small cinema space in the Bradford district in which to screen a few films for that year’s event. The team put their heads together and the idea of a secret cinema was born.

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The Drawing Box Project

Taking place in October 2023, the MEGA Drawing Box was an explosion of creativity and delight that welcomed nearly 1000 people into an unused department store in Keighley to make, dance and draw.

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Urban Interventions

Projects that celebrate Keighley’s Urban Heritage & Regenerate our High Streets Keighley Creative has developed this body of work with creative producers Gemma Hobbs and Aimee Grundell, graphic designer Lee Goater, and a host of other local creative people.

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Arts for Brain Health

A FREE social prescribing opportunity for Keighley residents. Arts for Brain Health is one of Keighley Creative’s core programmes. We run creative sessions especially designed for people who are looking for ways to manage challenging times in their lives such as health or mental health conditions, visible and invisible disabilities, feelings of loneliness and isolation, feeling stressed or overwhelmed, or just wanting a bit of space to relax and switch off.

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KEIGHLEY CREATIVE

News

Commissioning Keighley’s creatives

In order to facilitate the Rombald’s Rocks themed art workshops, we needed a strong team of practitioners that could inspire and guide attendees to get creative and engage with the project.

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How Rombald’s Rocks began?

Rombald’s Rocks: Keighley Sculpture Trail is a project created and implemented by artist, Leonie Briggs, and ourselves, Keighley Creative. It is the brainchild of Leonie who thought Keighley deserved it’s own sculpture trail and she wanted to create a community art project that involved local people and would bring something positive to town.

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Enter the Rombald’s Rocks colouring competition

To give everyone a chance to contribute to the Rombald’s Rocks project, we are also running a colouring competition. Just grab a Rombald’s Rocks colouring sheet from the Airedale Shopping Centre or download one here.

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Big Crafty Doo-Dah Facilitator Opportunities

We are looking for freelance creatives for our BIG Craft Spectacular workshop series taking place throughout 2025. This project is funded by The Leap.

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EVENTS

What’s On

Crafty Cars Workshop- Big Crafty Doo-Dah

07/06/2025

Join our crafty mechanics on Saturday 7th June 2025 for a family workshop filled with mechanical activities at the Big Crafty Doo-Dah Crafty Cars workshop!

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“The Making of Rombald’s Rocks” exhibition

02/06/2025

Visit the latest exhibition at Keighley Creative – “The Making of Rombald’s Rocks shows the people and the idea behind the Keighley Sculpture Trail running until 29th June.

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Rombald’s Rocks: Keighley Sculpture Trail

02/06/2025

Running until the 29th June, the Keighley Sculpture Trail runs around the town centre where “Rombald’s Rocks” have popped up in local businesses and venues. Grab or download your free trail map.

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Eid Mini Mela at East Riddlesden Hall

21/06/2025

Celebrate Eid in the sunshine with a community picnic on the lower fields at East Riddlesden Hall. Enjoy dhol drummers, crafting, games, henna and beautiful food made by the Highfield Centre.

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