RECENT PROJECTS
Home is Heritage
Well dressing Project.
Home is Heritage - Well dressing and Heritage crafts.
A Tactile, sensory and assessable project, learning, teaching, passing on heritage crafts and techniques, while sharing our personal roots, the place we live the plants that grown there and the homes where we lay our head. All explored through heritage crafts and techniques made assessable at all. Looking at ‘well dressing’, flower pressing, printing using local flowers and plants.
During this project we worked alongside adults from The Bridgewood Trust Armitage Bridge and Enfield Down Honley. We also work with the fab kids from Holmfirth Junior, Infant and Nursery School and Hepworth Junior and Infant School.
We finished this project with a week of well dressing at Holmfirth Parish Church which was open to the public for any one to come and have a go. We exhibited our final well dressing on the wondow sills at the from of the church.
A big Thank you to our funders - Awards for All - lottery, Common Good, Central England Coop and Darkwoods coffee.
Sing your soul Sunny Project
Sing your Soul Sunny Project.
Sing your soul sunny: a project dedicated to bringing joy and singing in the sunshine.
Community Choir leader Dan Price of 'Soul Choir Holmfirth and Slaithwaite work with our core group to write our fabulous 'Sing your soul sunny' Song. This song was passed on to four local community choirs. Soul Choir, Amazing Acapella/Far Cry, Meltham Community Choir, True Talent.
With help from Dan Price and Soul Choir and Jenny Goodman and Amazing Acapella/Far Cry we went into Schools with our core group to pass on our fabulous song to children from South Crosland, School & Shepley First School. And also to the wonderful adults from The Mission Huddersfield
We put on an incredible community concert at Holmfirth Church to bring people together to showcase and promote wellbeing through song and the fabulous choirs we have in our local area.
We also created wonderful decorations informed by the lyrics of our songs for the final concert.
All Choirs involed came to perform and showcase their incredible talents.
The
Paper Making
Project
This little project made good use out of our beautiful paper coral reef, made during our 'In Deep' project. We began this project with an open session at Lawrence Batley Theatre Huddersfield, one of many activities which were part of #JoCox #GreatGetTogether in June
2023.
We recycled most of our coarl reef and turned it back into the most beautiful paper with help from the faulous adults from Enfield Down Honley and Ponderosa Day centre Heckmondwike. Together learning the art of paper making.
This project was funded by One community, Magic Little Grants & Holme Valley South Members local project Fund.
IN DEEP
An Exploration of Materials
In Deep Project
In Deep was an eighteen month long project, we attempted to tackle two very large topics. 'In Deep' in terms of the vast beauty of our wonderful oceans and 'In Deep' trouble as a planet if we dont all think about our use of everyday materials.
And in particular where these two topics collide!
This project was produced in collaboration with the wonderful kids from ten different fabulous schools...
Netherhall Learning Campus,
Holmfirth Junior, Infant & Nursery school,
Meltham C E Primary School,
Brockholes CE School,
Netherton Infant and Nursery School,
Upperthong Junior and Infant School,
Helme C E Academy,
Shepley First School.
Holme Junior & Infant School
The Creative Media School.
And the incredible adults from...
Bridgewood Trust Armitage Bridge,
Enfield Down Honley,
The Mission Huddersfield,
Ponderosa Day Centre Heckmondwike.
We used the project as a way of exploring materials, to help us think about the materials we use, reuse and recycle.
This wonderful project was punctuated with a interactive and informative public exhibition in the centre of Huddersfield.
More exhibition photos and info to come, but for now please enjoy these process pictures.