Transitions Calderdale

Transitions Developing creative capacity in Calderdale ; Transitions – developing creative capacity in Calderdale Transitions was a year-long programme of workshops, discussions and mentoring for arts organisations, artists and people working with the...

Landlines & Watermarks

509 Arts‘ programme Landlines and Watermarks (a landscape and a people shaped by water) was a Calder Valley-wide creative response to the devastating Calderdale floods of Boxing Day 2015 and the extraordinary community responses that followed.   “A fabulous...

The Batley Variations

The inside story of a Northern town! The Batley Variations was a one-hour opera made with the people of Batley. Featuring a large cast of local performers, digital projections and live performance, it told stories collected from the people of Batley and premiered at...

Sing and louder sing

Sing and Louder Sing was a programme of work exploring men, ageing and mortality. It included a new one-act play for studio theatre spaces, written by Mike Kenny and directed by Alan Dix, with music by James Frewer, and a book, featuring testimony from older men in...

My Last Car

; My Last Car was an epic road trip that looked at our complex relationship with the car through a series of poignant, funny and uplifting tales.  Our voyage was part exhibition, part live performance and part community celebration. It explored all that the car means...