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MakerWorld wins best documentary at the Children’s International Film Festival of Wales

MakerWorld, the fantastic documentary by Máire Tracey, has won best documentary at the Children’s International Film Festival of Wales. Makerworld is a short documentary showing how artists are using an empty retail unit in Huddersfield to run free workshops for children, how this impacts the lives of the people who take part, and what this brings […]

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The Children's Art School Symposium

Symposium – Reanimating Huddersfield Town Centre, Friday 25 October 2024

The Children’s Art School is hosting a symposium on Friday 25 October, 2-6pm, aimed at bringing together key business and cultural stakeholders in the reanimation of Huddersfield town centre.   The symposium will take place at MakerSkate in the Piazza Centre. The event will see local businesses, cultural leaders and community members exploring innovative approaches to

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Family Arts Standards

We are proud to have signed up to the Family Arts Standards. The standards are there to recognise organisations dedicated to becoming more inclusive and accessible to intergenerational audiences. We’re always keen to hear from other like-minded organisations and industry experts who are working in this space so do get in touch to see if we can work together.

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A new skatepark for Huddersfield

As part of our commitment to cultural offers for young people in Kirklees, we are opening a skatepark in the former Toyland space in the Piazza Centre.  MakerSkate will offer summer sessions from 30th July and run every Tuesday from 12-4 until the end of August. On launch day skaters and non-skaters will be able

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“Tactical urbanism is all about reimagining and repurposing urban spaces to meet the evolving needs of communities”

The Children’s Art School founder Chloe Williams appeared in the Yorkshire Post yesterday with an article about reimagining town centres. In the piece, she spoke about Kirklees Council’s bravery in transforming otherwise derelict spaces into thriving creativity hubs. Read the full article here.

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The Children’s Art School is getting into the flow for Holmfirth Arts Festival 2024

We’re delighted to be involved in this year’s Holmfirth Arts Festival. We’ve been working with our regular art clubs at Holmfirth Tech to create costumes and puppets for the parade, which is being organised by 6 million + and uses the work of Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko as a reference point.  The theme of

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