HEBDEN BRIDGE ARTS FESTIVAL IS TAKING A YEAR OFF IN 2020

We are taking a year out in 2020 and are busily working away on future plans.
​If you are missing us take a trip down memory lane & visit our gallery of festivals gone by.
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NEWS: Helen Meller steps down as Festival Director: READ MORE 

VISIT HEBDEN BRIDGE

With non-essential shops now allowed to trade, there has never been a better time to support small independent businesses and visit our charming high street.
Find out more about Hebden Bridge here.

VIRTUAL MUSEUM

Media consumption has increased since lockdown has forced us all indoors. BUT do you remember your first digital encounter? Check out 'My First Time Technology' memories from our Virtual Valley festival.

A Blast From The Past...

Who Lived In Your Street In 1916 was Hebden Bridge Arts Festival's hugely popular Heritage Lottery Funded project which took place in 2016/2017. The local community was invited to find out who lived in their house a 100 years ago at the midpoint of the First World War

Using the 1911 census, the names and occupations of households were discovered and over 300 vinyl blue plaques were printed to be displayed in windows throughout the town.

In addition to the blue plaques we worked with local primary schools to create a 1916 classroom, portraits were taken in period clothing using a 1910 Houghton and Butcher Ensign camera, and a Heritage Story Walk was narrated by Ursula Holden Gill. In addition, the After Alice Project made an online photographic exhibition of the project shot in black and white.  
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