Family fun

On Saturday 24th May, a new art project was launched in Keighley. “Rombald’s Rocks” were unveiled at locations across the town centre and 100s people came along to celebrate the launch event enjoying lots of different activities and performances.

FREE craft workshops are being organised by our team as part of a major new arts project, Rombald’s Rocks: Keighley Sculpture Trail, which will see 10 unique creations on display across the town. Behind the initiative is artist, illustrator and sculptor Leonie Briggs, who is working on the venture with arts charity Keighley Creative. Inspiration […]

Keighley Creative are pleased to announced that 5 artists have been specially selected by a panel of local people to design sculptures for a new arts trail launching this May. Local artist, illustrator, sculptor and studio holder, Leonie Briggs is the founder of the sculpture and is working with the KC team to bring this […]

Just before Christmas Keighley Creative’s Pledges to the Landscape film, shared the bill with the Muppet Christmas Carol at the Keighley Picturehouse. A full-house enjoyed seeing the short film about our art and nature restoration project in which lead artist Naseem Darbey worked with Keighley primary school children to design and build a dam that […]

Well what a year! The last 12 months at Keighley Creative have been amazing and our team is proud that they have been able to bring so many arts and culture projects to town in 2024. We started the year carrying on our I Am Brill project celebrating our hometown and the talents of Keighley […]

This was the aim of a recent community walk organised by Keighley Town Council and Keighley Creative. The walk was organised as a part of Keighley Walking Festival and the theme was “Light Up The Night”. The walk welcomed anyone who would like to come along and together we walked 2 miles round town. The […]

On Saturday 24th August 2024, local engineer and STEM ambassador, Alisha Bell, ran a special event at Keighley Creative. The event was titled Engineering and Arts Exploration and Alisha and the team welcomed local families to come along and join in the fun activities exploring Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths through arts and crafts. A […]

On Saturday 17th August 2024, 100s of Keighley people came along to Cliffe Castle park and joined in some fun, creative sessions run by Keighley Creative that focused on learning about the environment. Families who attended were given the opportunity to join in with all sorts of activities and everyone was welcomed to get stuck […]

This weekend a big community event was held on Church Green in Keighley. The Eid on the Green event featured a host of activities including an arts and crafts stall hosted by our fab team as well as soft archery, rodeo football and face painting. There were also stalls by Keighley Lions and Pawperfection Rehoming […]

St. George’s Day celebrations came to Keighley on Sunday 21st April 2024 with a parade followed by lots of activities and goings-on inside the Airedale Shopping Centre. As well as lots of performers and entertainment put on by the shopping centre and Keighley Town Council, Keighley Creative were invited to run a themed craft workshop […]

Eid celebrations were a great success at Keighley Market this year. Local artist and experienced facilitator, Emily Parkin, designed and led a fun Eid themed craft activity on Saturday 13th April. The families who attended made Eid cards to pass on to loved ones. Lots of Keighley people got involved and it was a real […]

This April, Keighley Creative and The Unit welcomed some new movie-goers to its teeny Stockroom Cinema. Leeds Film contacted us about using our pop-up cinema to offer Keighley families a unique cinema experience over the Easter holidays. Screenings put on were part of the Leeds Young Film Festival (LYFF) and included 80s’ fantasy classic Labyrinth, […]

Saturday 30th March we welcomed lots of Keighley families to our market workshop. The Easter Craft Eggstravaganza was supported by the Keighley Creative team, Keighley Market and Bradford Council and our facilitators, Emily and Demi, helped lots of local children make some eggsellent Easter themed mosaics. The event was a great success with lots of […]