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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

Wed
06

06 Mar 2024 - 01 Jun 2024
The Everybody Gallery, Everybody Arts
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Culture & Heritage

New Creatives: Everybody Arts Exhibition

Over the past 6 months, 2 artists have been trainees at Everybody Arts. This exhibition acts as a showcase for their work. Afe Bi Yε Esan, 'The Year of Great Misfortune', is an immersive multisensory installation by the artist and lived experience storyteller Adelle A'asante and invites participants to delve deep into the heart of

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

Fri
29

29 Mar 2024 - 30 Mar 2024
Hebden Bridge
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Arts & Crafts, Culture & Heritage, Easter in Calderdale, Markets & Shopping

Mill Town Arts Easter Fair

Mill Town Arts proudly presents their Easter Arts Fair, Fri 29th & Sat 30th March at Hebden Bridge Town Hall. Over 20 amazing artists showing the best of their work, from Fine Art, Ceramics, Photography, Printing, Textile art, Jewellery, and Sculpture, there really is something to please everyone. Mill Town Arts will also be hosting

Sat
30

30 Mar 2024 - 30 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
30

30 Mar 2024 - 30 Mar 2024
The Mill
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Food & Drink, Theatres & Entertainment

Bottomless Drag Brunch with Just May, star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

Saturday 30th March 2024 12-4pm TICKETS INCLUDE Performances from RuPaul's Drag Race UK's Just May A cast of local drag stars including GenErika, Diana DoGood and new to brunch Charra Tea. 90 Minute Bottomless Bar! Drag Bingo with Diana DoGood. Venue and Accessibility: The Mill, Hollins Mill, Rochdale Road, Walsden, Todmorden. OL14 6SA The Mill

Price: £30 – £39.99

Sat
30

30 Mar 2024 - 30 Mar 2024
Victoria Theatre Halifax
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Accessible, Culture & Heritage, Music, Theatres & Entertainment

Beyond the Barricade

7:30pm Beyond the Barricade, the UK’s longest running Musical Theatre Concert Tour features past principal performers from Les Miserables and delivers over two hours of the best of Broadway and the West End, ending of course with a stunning finale from Les Mis. This brand new show will include many of the best numbers that

Price: £28.50

Sat
30

30 Mar 2024 - 30 Mar 2024
Halifax Playhouse
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Accessible, Culture & Heritage, Theatres & Entertainment

Can’t Go Back (An original Comedy Musical)

Thursday 28 to Saturday 30 March 2024 at 7.30pm Can't Go Back is set in the glamourous, showbiz world of Yorkshire's working men's clubs James McCann (Book & Lyrics) and Mark Baker (Music) are bringing their lifetimes of gigging and writing experience to the stage and pulling out all the stops to give audiences an

Price: £22