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Holmfirth Arts Festival

Creature Carnival Parade

WOW! What an amazing day! We are so proud to have been a part of the Holmfirth Arts Festival Creature Carnival Parade.. The Children’s Art School provided the ‘Bird’ section of the parade- here they all are pre-parade but ready to go!! Little Art Club and Juniors were ducklings hatching out of eggs: Whilst their

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Creature Carnival

Creature Carnival- Holmfirth Arts Festival 2016 The Holmfirth Arts Festival is nearly here! We are so pleased to be part of it again this year We will be helping to create a Creature Carnival inspired by the story of Holmfirth’s Fenella the Tiger. This carnival will see wild and wonderful creatures on the streets of

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Holmfirth Arts Festival-finale!

Big thanks to Holmfirth Arts Festival! The Owd Towser was the perfect place for the installation of  The 180  Boggards and Jenny Green teeth puppets made by local 8-14 year olds! The project has not only engaged children with the Arts through making, music and poetry but has also engaged them with local history .

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Sound track for Holmfirth Arts Festival

Holmfirth Arts Festival Installation update Wow! wow! wow! I heard the sound track today which Charlotte Watson has created for the installation at the Owd Towser……its amazing!! Made entirely of recordings  of the children at the schools we visited the soundtrack layers the children’s voices saying words and phrases they have used to describe their

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Holmfirth Arts Festival

‘WANTED ‘ for HOLMFIRTH ARTS FESTIVAL 2015 This project sees 200 local children imagining local folklore characters, Jenny greenteeth and the Holmfirth boggard. Artist Chloe Williams,  musician Charlotte Watson and poet Victoria Garbutt have  worked with 5 local schools and children at The Children’s Art School to create 200 puppet heads and to write and record

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