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Get the latest scoop on concerts and gigs, festivals, family events and everything else that’s happening in Calderdale. Browse our events guide to discover what’s on today, what’s on this weekend, and more things to do this month.

Sat
27

27 May 2023 - 24 May 2024
Heptonstall Museum
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Cragg Vale Coiners & The Gallows Pole, Culture & Heritage, CultureDale, Galleries & Museums, Galleries & Museums, Heritage

Criminal Coiners: Life and Death in Wild West Yorkshire

Heptonstall Museum is open Thursday to Sunday 11am till 4:30pm. Our opening exhibition explores the lives of the Cragg Vale Coiners, the notorious band of local counterfeiters who produced fake gold coins in the late 18th century to supplement their small incomes from weaving. On entering the 17c building, the first room brings to life

Price: £3

Sat
24

24 Jun 2023 - 30 Nov 2024
Bankfield Museum
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Culture & Heritage, CultureDale, Galleries & Museums, Galleries & Museums

History Wardrobe Presentations

Linked to the ‘Opening the Wardrobe’ exhibition at Bankfield Museum in 2023, you can enjoy four evening presentations by History Wardrobe.   The Frock Shop Thursday 20th April 2023 Fashion shopping in the sixties. Celebrate the decade’s brilliant designs - from mini to maxi - in a riot of Lurex, Bri-nylon, crisp cottons and Crimplene!

Price: £20

Sat
30

30 Sep 2023 - 09 Apr 2024
Smith Art Gallery
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Culture & Heritage, Family, Galleries & Museums

Calderdale Open Art Exhibition 2023

The Calderdale Open Art Exhibition returns for its 10th year, showcasing the best paintings, photos, textiles, and drawings as chosen by our panel of judges, all submitted by artists from the region and beyond. To mark Calderdale’s Year of Culture in 2024, the theme of this year’s exhibition is the landscape, people, history, and heritage

Sat
13

13 Jan 2024 - 06 Apr 2024
Calderdale Industrial Museum
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Accessible, Culture & Heritage, Family, Galleries & Museums, Heritage

The Story of the Wainstall Waifs

13th January to 6th April 2024. Our brand new exhibition opens in the museum on Saturday 13th January 2024. It is titled “The Story of the Wainstall Waifs – how the ragged strands of 200 young lives were woven into the fabric of a village”. Entry to the exhibition is included in the admission charge

Price: Free – £5

Thu
21

21 Mar 2024 - 21 Mar 2024
Booth Cricket Club,
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Arts & Crafts

k2togcrafts workshops

This is a call out to all crafters, who wish to learn new knitting and crochet skills, meet other crafting enthusiasts and make new friends. We, Kate, best selling Author of ‘The Knitter’s Bible’ and ‘Style Your Own Kids Knits’ and Kaya, a self taught artisan knitter, run workshops covering different topics like sock knitting,

Fri
22

22 Mar 2024 - 22 Mar 2024
Victoria Theatre Halifax
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Comedy, Comedy, Culture & Heritage, CultureDale, Theatres & Entertainment, Theatres & Entertainment

Dick & Liddy’s Comedy Club March 2024

8:30pm Laugh your way into the weekend with the return of the Victoria Theatre Halifax's regular and hugely popular Dick & Liddy's Comedy Club. One of West Yorkshire's premier live comedy shows, Dick & Liddy's Comedy Club has hosted legends of stand up comedy and laughter such as John Bishop, Alan Carr, Ross Noble and Michael

Price: £13.25

Sat
23

23 Mar 2024 - 23 Mar 2024
Halifax Borough Market
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Arts & Crafts, Easter in Calderdale

Easter activities at Halifax Borough Market

Visit Halifax Borough Market from Saturday 23 March - Saturday 30 March for free Easter crafting activities and competitions, including: - Colouring-in activities - Craft your own bunny mask. One mask will be randomly selected and will win an Easter Egg - Guess the name of the bunny to win a bunny teddy Pop into

Sat
23

23 Mar 2024 - 06 Apr 2024
Brighouse
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Easter in Calderdale

Brighouse Easter Egg Trail

Have lots of family fun finding the 25 letters displayed on the Easter Eggs in shop windows around Brighouse. Work out the Easter words they make, and find the Golden Egg then enter our Easter Competition! Collect your FREE trail map from Brighouse BID office or visit our website to find more map pick up

Sat
23

23 Mar 2024 - 19 May 2024
Folklore Centre
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Arts & Crafts, Culture & Heritage, Galleries & Museums

Tzipporah Johnston – The Museum of Monotropism

Door in the Wall Arts Access CIC presents The Museum of Monotropism - an exhibition exploring autistic experience, by embroidery and mixed-media artist Tzipporah Johnston. Booking is required for the artist talk and private view. Please note that the exhibition will be open to the public from 10am on Saturday 23rd March. The Museum of

Sat
23

23 Mar 2024 - 23 Mar 2024
Victoria Theatre Halifax
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Accessible, Culture & Heritage, Family, Theatres & Entertainment

Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out

10am Peppa Pig is back at the Victoria Theatre Halifax in her oinktastic brand new live show, Fun Day Out! Join Peppa, along with her family and friends as they go to the zoo and also the beach for a special party- it’s going to be an exciting and fun packed day. Prepare to sing

Price: £18.25

Sat
23

23 Mar 2024 - 23 Mar 2024
King Cross Library
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Arts & Crafts, Talks, Poetry & Literature

Rhapsodies In Blue – creative writing workshops with Gaia Holmes

Join local writer, Gaia Holmes, at King Cross Library, Halifax, for a series of creative writing workshops on the theme of the colour BLUE... Where: King Cross Library, 151 Haugh Shaw Rd, Halifax HX1 3BG When: Saturday mornings, 10.30- 12.30 from the 24th of February to the 30th of March. How much: 6 sessions= £50

Price: £50

Sat
23

23 Mar 2024 - 23 Mar 2024
Victoria Theatre Halifax
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Accessible, Culture & Heritage, Family, Theatres & Entertainment

Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out

1pm Peppa Pig is back at the Victoria Theatre Halifax in her oinktastic brand new live show, Fun Day Out! Join Peppa, along with her family and friends as they go to the zoo and also the beach for a special party- it’s going to be an exciting and fun packed day. Prepare to sing

Price: £18.25