Posts Tagged ‘Spring Summer 2023 newsletter’

The Artery (Karen Merrifield), GPLD and Virpi Kettu of Kettu Studios were delighted to be invited to present at the Screen Industries Growth Network (SIGN) conference, the Future is Northern: Skills and Training Conference on 27th March 2023. Held at The Studio, in Leeds, to help enable creative industry professionals, policymakers and educators to explore…

SIGN Funding has allowed The Artery to run two very different business support programmes for young creatives in Craven and Scarborough, using screen storytelling and AR and Animation as the vehicle to deliver business skills. Young people they targeted were those who tend to get overlooked, from less affluent backgrounds, from rural backgrounds, or those…

Skipton HAZ, in partnership with Skipton BID, GPLD, Skipton Town Council and Skipton Town Hall are thrilled to announce the launch of their first heritage and culture event ‘Skipton Now Festival’ happening across Skipton throughout the whole of August. This exciting new festival will feature multiple cultural projects HAZ have recently funded culminating in a…

Back in September 2022, GPLD, in partnership with Skipton Town Hall, were asked by Skipton HAZ to run a series of small commissions in conjunction with their Skipton Now Festival taking place in August 2023. The first ‘design commission’ was all about the festival brand and design, where applicants submitted existing design portfolios profiling their…

GPLD, in partnership with the Cultural Services Team based at Skipton Town Hall is facilitating a brand new creative network. We had a fantastic launch and first meet-up for the new Creative Craven Network (CCN) in January at Skipton Town Hall. It was great to meet or reconnect with creative practitioners and other cultural organisations…

Hinterlands kicked off the festivals for 2023 in March with a plethora of exciting and engaging activities with themes of travel and adventure highlighted throughout. The programme included an eclectic mix of films, talks, family activities and events including den building at Skipton Town Hall, an intimate viewing of Sightseers in a small caravan, a…

The Knotted Project’s Forge Festival 2023 took place on the 29th and 30th April 2023 at Windermere Jetty Museum. This year’s festival was hugely ambitious and unique with pop-up performances from performance companies, early career artists and professional companies taking place every half hour across the weekend in outdoor and unusual spaces across the museum.…

Back in September 2022 we ran two focus groups with young people aged 18-35 in Salford and Headingley as part of our Marketing to Younger People project to get a better sense of how the Lakes and Dales are portrayed outside the area to and to help us understand how we can develop inclusive marketing…

Throughout 2022/2023 we have run the third iteration of our Watch This Space project with funding support from Skipton Heritage Action Zone. Although the main premise of the project remained, with creatives being placed in unusual spaces for 48 hours, other smaller projects were formed including Humans of Skipton. This collection of photographs, inspired by…

Lakeland Arts have some exciting news – after a long-awaited redevelopment, Abbot Hall has re-opened! Abbot Hall is one of Britain’s preeminent small art galleries, set in a beautifully restored Grade I-listed Georgian building on the banks of the River Kent in Kendal, Cumbria. The gallery holds an outstanding collection of 18th-21st century fine art and…

Elsworth Kitchen are delighted to announce their brand-new venture called EK at the Mill. They have taken over the top floor of the beautiful heritage site of High Corn Mill in Skipton to make it into a top Skipton venue for weddings, personalised events, photoshoots, away days, corporate meetings and creative workshops! They are also…

Hinterlands kicked off the 2023 festival season back in March, with a strong programme covering a range of activities, events and screenings in unusual places including a showing of the film ‘Sightseers’ in an old caravan and a dog-friendly screening of Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’. Following in Hinterland’s footsteps was the second year of…

Craven Music Match has a new project manager for its final year! Previous project manager Sarah Smout has just launched her inspiring UK tour at the Hay Festival with various other dates and venues planned for the autumn including London and Birmingham. Stepping into her shoes is the very capable Billy White who has a background…

We’re extremely lucky to live in an area filled with such talent, inspiration and creativity, which is especially prevalent through our Creative Champions. Emerging multi-disciplinary artist and founder of Folded Zine Marisa Crane currently has two exciting exhibitions happening, ‘Soft by Shine’ at Farfield Mill which ran until 28th May and ‘Lost’ at Theatre by…

GPLD Creative Champion Melissa Davies has just launched her first published book, The Arctic Dairies. Melissa is an insightful poet who writes about both the Norwegian and Lakeland landscapes – asking who gets to speak for them, and why? As well as her own creative practice, Melissa works with local communities to create collage poems…