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Bates Mill Photographic Studio

Bates Mill Photographic Studio is a creative space in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
Bates Mill Photographic Studio is a creative space in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
See ‘Felicity Aylieff: Expressions of Blue’, an exhibition of monumental ceramic vessels in blue and white.
Free entryThe majesty of trees is celebrated in ‘Tony Wade: Keepers of Time’ a new show of beautiful digital drawings at the YSP Centre.
From £0.00YSP presents a new site-specific installation by Laura Ellen Bacon – a vast, immersive sculpture handmade using willow.
From £0.00Poetry at the Dusty Miller is a now regular night with invited readers, organised by Carcanet-published Carola Luther and Judith Willson in the Coiners’ Room in the Mytholmroyd pub.
Free entryYOU:MATTER is a spectacular audio-visual experience that explores our place in the universe and the invisible links between us and the cosmos
From £2.00The Hepworth Wakefield presents a retrospective from iconic artist Helen Chadwick, charting her artistic development and key works.
From £0.00‘Loops’ is a new collaborative exhibition of textiles at Sunny Bank Mills, connecting artists from across the Netherlands and Yorkshire.
Free entryBates Mill started life as a spinning mill founded around the turn of the century making woolen yarn. The Blending Shed is a 5,000 sq ft multi-purpose space.
Based in the town centre and easily accessible, Huddersfield Art Gallery is home to an extensive and stunning collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Part of the University of Huddersfield’s Music Department, Phipps Hall is an intimate concert venue hosting a wide variety of musical events.
Owned by The University of Huddersfield, St Paul’s Hall is a beautifully converted Georgian church that hosts a wide variety of concerts.
Chol Theatre are a powerfully creative company based in Huddersfield Yorkshire, but take their work all across the UK.
Smile Bar & Venue lives up to its name as a lively ‘jack of all trades’ in Huddersfield.
Boasting three floors of independent shops, designers, cafés and restaurants, Byram Arcade is a stunning Victorian shopping and business hub.
Located on the ground floor of the architectural gem that is Huddersfield’s Byram Arcade, Crafty Praxis is an arts and crafts shop that celebrates the handmade and unique.
Small Seeds is a live music venue in Huddersfield.
Hailed as the first independent, speciality coffee shop in the heart of Huddersfield, Coffeevolution is a hangout for locals of all ages.
What was once, in the 1950s, a family ran art shop, has since evolved through the generations into a successful series of galleries across the north.
Northern Quarter in Huddersfield is a small-capacity, grassroots music venue and bar that champions everything local.
Gigs are coming in hot this spring – from long-awaited returns to one-off happenings you’ll blink and miss if you're not careful.
From city-wide art festivals to open-air sculptural installations, we have exhibitions from all around the North, both indoors and out.
Eclectic as ever. You'll find inventive reworkings, world-class contemporary dance and Greater Manchester's inaugural Improv Festival in our guide.
With these lighter, brighter days and warmer temperatures, it's really starting to feel like summer here in the North West!
Books, beer and burlesque. Dive into a glorious tangle of joyful happenings.
The sun is shining in the North, so use our guide to get out there and eat, drink and be merry in it.
We've got laughs and we've got leftfield on the live literature radar this month. Something for everyone, from poets playing with form to short story writers looking long.
Read our latest highlights from the live classical music offer in Manchester and the North, taking in a number of the region's most cherished orchestral forces and venues.