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Come and join our small, dedicated team to fundraise for, develop and deliver Keighley Creative Presents, our year-round programme of community-focussed creative events.

A major charity has appointed a worker to help Keighley people celebrate their heritage through the arts. Lauren Kelly will work with community groups in a two-year project run by Kala Sangam. The Bradford-based organisation has appointed four arts and heritage officers, one of whom, Lauren, will be based in Keighley. She will work with […]

As part of an ambitious two-year engagement project, Kala Sangam and partners Keighley Creative, South Square Centre and Bloomin’ Buds Theatre Company have appointed four Arts and Heritage Officers to deliver a programme of activities with communities across Bradford district. The four partners will form a network of creative venues, with each organisation having an Arts & Heritage Officer embedded […]

Keighley Creative are currently looking for a new Executive Director to join our team. Could it be you?! With Bradford’s year as UK City of Culture on the horizon, and a transformational capital project ready to be delivered, Keighley Creative is looking for an exceptional individual to lead the organisation through to its next chapter. […]

Keighley Town’s Fund is seeking new board members and they are looking for more local folk to join the team and provide input on behalf of the people of Keighley. The board in charge of an ambitious multi-million pound plan to regenerate Keighley is looking for a new Chair and for new members to join them. As […]

Last Sunday, Keighley people were wowed by an event inspired by the work of an international women’s organisation. The Women of the World (WOW) Foundation wanted to bring their WOW Girls Festival bus to town; this has been designed to celebrate and motivate young women, girls and non-binary people with a range of interactive activities. […]

This Christmas, Keighley Creative hosted another successful Maker Faire and Open Artist Studios event. Saturday 16th December was the date chosen to welcome local artists and makers to come and sell their handmade wares from our premises on Cooke Lane in the centre of Keighley. We also opened the upstairs art studios to allow members […]

You may have noticed something illuminating in Keighley today. A quote has appeared on the front of Keighley Library that is taken from a document from the original Mechanics Institute that was on North Street. The idea of the Mechanics Institute was to educate Keighley folk, to let their brilliant talents shine forth, and bring […]

CLICK HERE: Job Specification for Festival and Events Director CLICK HERE: Job Application Form for Festival and Events Director CLICK HERE: Keighley Creative Equalities and Diversity Monitoring Form Festival and Events Director Full Time (37.5 Hours a Week) Job Shares Considered Come and join our small, dynamic team to lead and deliver a year round […]

We’ve just added the K-Town Shopper Video to our Youtube channel! Many thanks to filmmaker Danny Hardaker for this fantastic piece of work, it’s a great memory of a fantastic weekend.

Javed has joined our team as Keighley Creative’s new Cultural Heritage and Diversity Lead. He has a rich and varied career to date working to support community cohesion; building inter-faith partnerships; doing lots of work helping up-skill organisations about their Safeguarding practices; as well as helping Supplementary Schools to make sure they have all the […]

Whether you would like to exhibit your work, or join in with creative family activities, Our Hanover Street Gallery is open Wednesdays and Fridays, 10:30am – 3:30pm. On Wednesdays you can drop in to fun art and craft activities for all the family, and on Fridays you can bring one piece of your work to […]

Are you a Keighley-based freelance creative looking for more paid opportunities? We’re looking for artists, crafters and makers from Keighley who can run public, drop-in workshops around town. These will be mostly for children and families, but may expand to adults too. These will be action packed days that will give you the chance to […]

We are very excited to introduce you to our new Festival and Events Director, Madeleine O’Reilly and coordinator, Cathryn Murray! For the next two years, Madeleine and Cathryn will plan and develop our annual Keighley Arts & Film Festival, along with a full programme of other events. Having co-founded Hull’s Assemble Fest in 2013 and […]

We have a new set of sessions starting on February 14th, Yippee! This set of sessions is looking at, and making collages and papier mache. This amazing, year long programme is run by Ailsa Lewer and Carine Brosse, and its for people and their carers and loved ones who are living with dementia and other […]

The Trustees of Keighley Creative, an arts, creativity and cultural charity based in central Keighley, are recruiting for two new posts to plan, deliver and evaluate our annual Keighley Arts and Film Festival (KAFF) and other related events throughout the year. The two posts, a Festival and Events Director and a Festival and EventsCoordinator, are […]

Recognise this spot? Well get ready for a Summer Surprise! As a part of Summer Unlocked (a Bradford Council funded outdoor events programme happening in the district this summer), we are working with a group of artists and creatives to transform this amazing location. Why? Because the space is really interesting. The brutalist architecture inspires […]

We just want to say a massive CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who has been a part of Keighley’s successful bid to the government to secure a substantial amount of financial investment into our town. The projects that make this bid up look brilliant, and Keighley Creative is one of them! Such exciting times ahead! We will […]

What does culture mean to you? In the second half of last year, we held zoom sessions with lots of different people who live and work in Keighley to find out just that. These conversations were part of Bradford Council’s 10-year ‘Culture is Our Plan’ project. The aim of which is to re-imagine the whole […]

It has been a while (and sorry if you have enquired about a studio with us in the last few months- we decided not to take on anyone new until we can open up more fully post Lockdown 1… Lockdown 2… you guessed it- Lockdown 3!) but we are now on with building some more […]