OPEN SPACE 70: FESTIVAL 2023

Our full-to-the-brim programme of Open Space 70 festival performances, talks, literary events, walks, films and workshops indoor and out took place across the weekend of 13-16 July 2023. 

The Arts Trail programme, which consisted of installations, exhibitions, sound art, short films and happenings in Open Spaces in and around Hebden Bridge, ran 10AM-5PM on 15 & 16 July 2023. 

Find out more about Flight through the new podcast: all episodes available here: https://propellorflight.buzzsprout.com/2165914

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

PROPELLOR: FLIGHT // IN CONVERSATION
SAT 15 JULY  |  HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH, HEBDEN BRIDGE
3PM AFTERNOON MATINEE: Relaxed performance
8PM EVENING PERFORMANCE: plus post show Q&A 

Propellor director Jack McNeill will take the audience on a journey that traces the connections between astounding bird migrations, how we listen and why it matters, electronic reconstructions of imagined and real soundscapes, and the science in between. 
  
Alongside a chamber version of the ensemble, members Delia Stevens (percussion), Robin Beatty (guitars and live visuals) and Jack McNeill (clarinets and live electronics), Flight // In Conversation weaves music from the Flight podcast, through live conversations with writer and naturalist Mark Cocker and sound artist and acoustic ecologist Linda O'Keeffe. 

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HIGHLIGHTS

DRIFT // PAPER // TENDER // STONE //
THURS 13 JULY  |  WAINSGATE CHAPEL

Interdisciplinary performance by CHARLIE FORD & LUCY SUGGATE.
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DARA MCANULTY: IN CONVERSATION
FRI 14 JULY  |  TOWN HALL

Dara is a naturalist, conservationist and activist from Northern Ireland. 

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JULES BLAINE DAVIS: THE KITCHEN HEALER
SUN 16 JULY  |  TOWN HALL

Join Jules as she chats with writer and illustrator Java Bere. 

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We've got some great festival partners, including the Environment Agency, The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge Lit & Sci Society, Hebden Bridge Picture House, Hebden Bridge Film Festival, Wainsgate Chapel, Wainsgate Dances, Hebden Bridge Community Association, Walkers Are Welcome, National Trust Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge Bowling Club, IOU Hostel, Inna Nature, Arvon Centre at Lumb Bank, Heptonstall Museum, The Local Motive, Redacre Growing Project and Hope Baptist Church, to name but a few.  

We thank them all most heartily - it truly takes a community to make a festival like Open Space 70 happen. 

FUNDERS AND SUPPORTERS

We're grateful for support from the National Lottery Community Fund which has supported Open Space 70 via an award from the Queen's Platinum Jubilee fund. 

We weree able to offer 9 students paid opportunities to work on Open Space 70 as Creative Project Assistants with Art Fund support. 
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Hebden Royd Town Council funded an environmental arts project for all Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd allotment plot holders, with their artistic creations being shared as part of Open Space 70 Arts Trail.

The Rotary Club of Hebden Bridge funded an environmental zine project for all users of Cloud Youth Club in Hebden Bridge. The art work made and the zine was publically shared. ​