Gemma Gibb

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside … this free artist-led festival of making, performance and inspiring creativity is a tip top day out on the coast.

Each Wednesday activities will take family visitors back in time to when the Gaskell’s daughters would have played in the House. Roll up for juggling fun and games with Circus House at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House.

Hear colours, view the world as a dragonfly and discover how the London Underground tastes in a series of outstanding experiences at this major new exhibition.

Get ready for some top performers, incredible food and arts and crafts galore in the largest South Asian festival of its kind in the north.

Using projected images, creative play & your imagination, make new pieces of immersive performance based on famous images from books we all recognise, creating new characters & stories around them.

A truly magical night-time show in the skies as the grand finale to The Piece Hall’s Welcome arts festival.

Be among the first in the UK to experience the newest monumental structure from Nottingham based Architects of Air who create unforgettable, large-scale walk in “luminaria” around the world.

A host of international street theatre and performers run riot within The Piece Hall’s restored stunning Georgian courtyard. Witness extremely silly behaviour, eccentric characters and spectacular feats.

Over one hundred saxophonists perform a world premiere visual and sonic sensation as the first major event celebrating the re-opening of Halifax’s historic Piece Hall.

The Piece Hall is back with a bang. Three weekends of world-class live music, outdoor theatre and arts spectaculars celebrate the restoration and redevelopment of this historic building into an exciting new cultural and social destination.

Have a go on a trapeze, walk a tightrope, witness living toybox dolls and absorb yourself in 1920s ragtime for two special evening events celebrating The Lost Carnival’s arrival at Dunham this summer.

Hold. The. Front. Page. The Wolf is good? Experience a retelling of Red Riding Hood like no other which celebrates little independent and creative spirits everywhere.