Singing Together
Lawrence Batley Theatre,
10 Queens Street,
Huddersfield
Blue
Creative Flow: Singing
Where we are
This session takes place at
Cleckheaton Library,
Whitcliffe Road,
Cleckheaton
BD19 3DX
Welcome Taster Session
Where we are
hoot is located in Bates Mill not far from Huddersfield town centre on the corner of Queen Street South and Milford Street.
We have a 1-step accessible entrance on Milford Street with a ramp available. We also have a wheelchair friendly toilet and a hearing loop available to use.
hoot creative arts
Bates Mill,
Milford Street
Huddersfield, HD1 3DX
Speak Our Music at the national Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance conference
07 September 2023
Thursday 12th October at 6pm
The Lightbox @Barnsley Libraries
We're thrilled to be running our October Speak Our Music session at the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance’s national conference
Speak Our Music is a relaxed space to talk about all things music, mental health, and wellbeing. If you’re interested in music and the music industry, you’re welcome to come along.
Sessions are hosted by an experienced artist who demonstrates their speciality and hosts a discussion about how music impacts our mental health and wellbeing.
Alongside our artist hosts, some of our regular session attendees will also be on hand to facilitate the event bringing their personal knowledge and experience from previous discussions in the programme.
The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance conference is a three-day conference for people who are interested in creativity/ culture, health and wellbeing and working collectively to bring about social change.
This could include those with lived experience, freelancers, arts, culture and heritage organisations, as well as researchers, health professionals and those from the local authority, voluntary and community sectors.
If you think you might be interested in attending the conference visit the Eventbrite to read more and book tickets.
Creative Space - Young People
hoot's Creative Space project partnered with Northorpe Hall Child and Family Trust (who deliver an element of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services CAMHS offer in Kirklees) to provide a creative drop-in session where children and young people could take part in creative activities to support their mental health and wellbeing.
This drop in is a safe space where young people can come and relax, meet others and have the opportunity to engage in creative activities as a way to express themselves and explore the use of creativity as part of self-care.
The space is hosted by two experienced community artists and Mental Health Workers who explore the available artistic resources with young people. Young people are able to participate as much or as little as they wish to and arrive and leave throughout the session.
Creative Space was featured in the Baring Foundation blog "Children’s Arts and Mental Health Services? CAMHS and the arts working together" as one of the inspiring examples of CAMHS/arts partnerships working together for the benefit of children and young people's mental health.
Click here to read the blog from Baring Foundation (opens in new window)
For more information on this project contact Kelly: kelly@hootcreativearts.co.uk
The Big Draw Festival 2022
04 October 2022
The Big Draw Festival 2022
Come back to colour
Make your mark and draw with us on a giant piece of paper using natural materials, home made inks, and a plethora of inspiring plants. Together we'll create a huge communal drawing celebrating coming back together and using colour.
Wednesday 26 October
1 - 3pm
West Yorkshire Print Workshop The Piazza Centre, Huddersfield, HD1 2RS
FREE entry
Welcome to the team, Sharleen
20 June 2022
hoot creative arts welcome new health & wellbeing co-ordinator ahead of Kirklees Year of Music 2023
hoot creative arts has welcomed Sharleen Shaha into the team as a Health and Wellbeing Co-ordinator and Producer for Kirklees Year of Music 2023 (KYOM23).
hoot is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation and in 2020 were appointed as the Health and Wellbeing lead for Kirklees Year of Music 2023 - a unique, place-based, cultural change year-long programme of major events and durational initiatives, which will strengthen the music ecology of Kirklees from its roots.
The recent appointment will initiate and bring together the production of music events and wellbeing activities for KYOM23. Sharleen will focus on developing activities and events with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of those across the region who take part through engagement with music.
Collaborating with stakeholders in the health and care sector and practising musicians and cultural organisations, Sharleen will be developing a working programme, securing funding and liaising with the KYOM23 team to strategically link all the strands together, such as the community and educational work and celebrate innovative practice in the Kirklees.
Sharleen is a qualified Independent Mental Capacity Advocate and Independent Mental Health Advocate. She has worked in Mental Health for 12 years across South and West Yorkshire, with experience in mental health and art therapy, research and project management as well as producing events for festivals.
Commenting on her new appointment, Sharleen said: “Mental health and wellbeing are very important to me so working with the people of Kirklees to promote music as a tool for wellbeing is very exciting. I am an advocate for choice and working-class storytelling. I feel that theatre, music, and the arts can be used as a tool to make changes for individuals and communities”.
Find out more about Sharleen and other members of the KYOM23 team here: https://www.musicinkirklees.co.uk/our-team/
hoot is open as normal today
29 November 2021
hoot is open as normal but please take care on your journeys today and let us know if you can't make it.
Stay safe & warm - the hoot team
