Free event
AT National Coal Mining Museum
Now - Sun 02 Oct 2022
Coal has been powering Britain in one form or another since 1200 BC. Follow the rise and fall of this energy source as we delve into the nation’s evo...
ON Sun 22 May 2022 - Sun 29 May 2022
Have you heard the word about Pontefract International Festival of Ale? It’s a Sunday to Sunday series of sessions at
Now - Sun 01 Jan 2023
This exhibition is drawn from the Sherwin Collection, arguably the most important privately-owned collection of British Surrealism. The collection ha...
Now - Sun 04 Sep 2022
Emii Alrai (b.1993), will present a new commission at The Hepworth Wakefield this spring.
Alrai, who lives in Leeds and has a studio in Wakefi...
Free event
Now - Tue 12 Jul 2022
My Story is like any other Course
8 Free Sessions-please note, these are not consecutive weeks.
See dates for details.
Booking E...
Free event
ON Sat 21 May 2022 - Sat 21 May 2022
This interactive storytelling performance will take children 3+ and their grown-ups on an imaginative interactive journey using science experiments t...
AT Queen's Mill
ON Sat 21 May 2022 - Sat 21 May 2022
STREET FOOD | CRAFT ALES | ACOUSTIC LIVE MUSIC + DJS | ARTISAN STALLS
Yonder is back for 2022! Street food, cold drinks and a collection of vi...
Now - Wed 31 May 2023
Charity (2002-2003), Myth (2010), The Hat Makes the Man (2004-2007) and The Virgin Mother (2005-2006) came to YSP as part of Yorkshire Sculpture Inte...
Now - Sun 05 Jun 2022
David Nash has dedicated his artistic life to an evolving study of trees and wood. This exhibition in The Weston Gallery is dedicated to his drawings...
AT Yorkshire Sculpture Park Shop
Now - Sun 29 May 2022
Working from a furniture maker’s workshop in Huddersfield where he is surrounded by the natural world, Yukihiro Akama creates beautifully intricate m...
Now - Sun 04 Sep 2022
This exhibition will explore how, after initially finding success with figurative carvings in the 1920s and early 1930s, Barbara Hepworth developed a...
Now - Sun 08 Jan 2023
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is pleased to announce the first major UK exhibition of sculpture by American artist Robert Indiana (1928-2018). Spann...
Free event
Now - Fri 23 Sep 2022
Two years on from the first Covid-19 lockdown, explore the lockdown artwork of Pontefract-based artist Rachel List.
The Covid-19 lockdowns mea...
Now - Sun 25 Sep 2022
Sheila Hicks (b.USA, 1934) is one of the world’s foremost artists and sculptors working with textiles, fibre, colour and form.
Drawing together...
Free event
AT Wakefield District Libraries
Now - Tue 31 May 2022
This May, local libraries and other venues across the Wakefield district are celebrating words by holding a wide range of free, exciting events and a...
Free event
AT Wakefield District Libraries
Now - Mon 30 May 2022
“The Case of the Phantasmagorical Railway” and Travelling Craftorium by Empath Action CIC.
Professors G and J are a crime-fighting...
Free event
AT National Coal Mining Museum
Now - Sun 05 Jun 2022
Explore the Hope Pit with our volunteer former miners and understand the functions of giant mechanical machinery, then handle real mining equipment a...
ON Tue 17 May 2022 - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Love jazz? Want to hone your skills or have a go at improvising? Then this is for you!
Wakefield Jazz presents a jazz workshop led by jazz mus...
ON Fri 20 May 2022 - Fri 20 May 2022
Emily Brown is an experienced jazz singer with a gift for harmonic risk-taking and for accessing emotional depth in a song, with a fantastic band of ...
Free event
Now - Sat 09 Jul 2022
A World of Good is a new exhibition based around the work of pioneering 19th century environmentalist Charles Waterton, who built the world’s f...
Free event
AT West Yorkshire History Centre
Now - Sat 21 May 2022
Join the West Yorkshire archive service to celebrate and showcase elements of the John Goodchild Archive Collection which show interesting aspects of...
Free event
AT National Coal Mining Museum
Now - Sun 05 Jun 2022
Could you imagine walking home from work damp with sweat and mine water and covered in coal dust in this weather? You get home and your wife/mum has ...
ON Sat 21 May 2022 - Sun 22 May 2022
A step up from our taster sessions, this two-leg workshop is an introduction to the start-to-finish process of analogue black and white photography. ...
ON Sat 21 May 2022 - Sat 21 May 2022
Explore the traditional printmaking process of linocut on our one-day workshop.
Linocut is a relief printing technique where a print is taken ...