ON Fri 10 Jun 2022 - Sun 12 Jun 2022
Long Division Festival is an award winning metropolitan festival that places the best emerging grassroots artists alongside legends of Indie and DIY....
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...
Free event
ON Sat 28 May 2022 - Sun 05 Jun 2022
Celebrate the Queen Platinum Jubilee in Wakefield! Expect 1950s style street parties, beacon lighting, craft sessions, workshops, tea dances and lots...
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...
Free event
AT National Coal Mining Museum
ON Sat 28 May 2022 - Sun 05 Jun 2022
Come to the National Coal Mining Museum for a whole week of activities and events during half term!
Get creative as we share the Queen’s...
Free event
AT Queen's Mill
ON Thu 02 Jun 2022 - Thu 02 Jun 2022
Come and celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Anniversary in the company of the magical Jessica Poole in our special jubilee concert. She will be per...
Free event
ON Fri 03 Jun 2022 - Sat 04 Jun 2022
Fri 3rd June 2022 – 7pm – 11pm
Beer Festival in Ossett Town Hall
Sat 4th June 2022
Beer cart Procession from 10.30am
Free event
ON Sat 04 Jun 2022 - Sat 04 Jun 2022
Get the flags out for a right-royal Jubilee celebration! Wakefield’s Coronation Gardens (and adjoining Wood Street) pay tribute to Her Majesty ...
ON Fri 10 Jun 2022 - Fri 10 Jun 2022
Join Poet Laureate Simon Armitage in conversation with Chris Madden of Chinwag for a unique evening of poetry and discussion. Armitage will also read...
AT Queen's Mill
ON Sat 28 May 2022 - Sat 28 May 2022
Create your own woven wall hanging in the company of multi-Media artist Kelly Umpleby using natural fibres and textiles that will look good anywhere ...
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...
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...
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...
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
ON Wed 25 May 2022 - Wed 25 May 2022
Artwalk is a bi-monthly evening celebrating all things art and culture in Wakefield.
Since launching in 2008, Artwalk has offered Wakefield’s ...
Free event
ON Thu 02 Jun 2022
Join us for a free ‘Drop-In’ Guided Tour of Wakefield’s magnificent cathedral and find out more about some of the incredible fabric and architecture ...
Free event
AT Queen's Mill
ON Sat 04 Jun 2022 - Sat 04 Jun 2022
Come and join us at our amazing free Street Party at Queen’s Mill in Castleford. Celebrate the Platinum Jubilee but just as importantly meet up...
ON Fri 10 Jun 2022 - Fri 10 Jun 2022
“What have I been doing this past year? Apart from sitting on the settee in my pyjamas, squeezing my ingrowing hairs whilst watching documentarie...