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The Creative Piazza Events 2025

2025 What’s On

Sat 19 April – Spring Garden at the Creative Piazza
WYPW print fair, drop-in workshops
Sat 7 June – Pride in the Creative Piazza
picnic, drop-in workshops, live music
Sat 28 June – WOVEN in the Creative Piazza
drop-in workshops and exhibitions
Fri 1 & Sat 2 August – Yorkshire Day in the Creative Piazza
10 Things To Do Away From Your Screens at the
Creative Piazza
Fri 24 & Sat 25 October – International Day of Climate Action events –
celebrating international day of climate action through arts and creative
workshops.
Thurs 30 October – Trick or Treat in the Creative Piazza drop-in workshops,
Halloween-themed activities
Sat 29 November (TBC) – Winter Worlds in the Creative Piazza drop-in
workshops, parade, storytelling

 

The Creative Piazza organisations

Thread Republic is a textiles reuse and skills social enterprise. We sell fabric and
haberdashery donations from across Kirklees at low prices (all fabrics are £2 per
metre!) and teach textile skills including repair, crochet and patchwork. We also run
sustainable fashion events including clothes swaps, community fashion shows and
film screenings.
Open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 10.30am – 3.30pm.
www.threadrepublic.co.uk

West Yorkshire Print Workshop is the largest open access printmaking workshop
in Yorkshire and one of the oldest in the UK, based in Mirfield and in the Piazza in
Huddersfield. We have traditional print facilities (think historic printing presses,
rollers, inks and squeegees!), artist studios, exhibitions, courses and school and
family activities and events. We love getting inky fingers and spreading the joy of
printmaking!
Open Thursday, Fridays and Saturday 10.30am-3.30pm.
www.wypw.org

Skate It Yourself We are a West Yorkshire-based Skateboard company, providing
everything skateboarding!
Find us in the old Toyland shop 5pm – 9:30pm Monday and Wednesday.
www.skateityourself.com

MakerWorld Gallery and Culture Hub is a creative space from The Children’s
Art School offering regular artist-led experiences, exhibitions and creative offers
for children and families, as well as street art, music and film for young people
in partnership with Skate It Yourself. Open every Saturday from 11am-3pm for
children of all ages, every Friday, 10am-12 noon for pre-schoolers with a year-round
programme of events for teens. www.thechildrensartschool.co.uk/makerworld
MakerWorld is a creative space from The Children’s Art School for children
and families in the centre of Huddersfield, offering artist-led experiences to
children from 2-16 yrs. Our regular drop in sessions are Saturday MakerWorld and
MakerNoise choir. Open every Saturday from 11am-3pm for children of all ages,
Little Makers, Huddersfield.
Every Friday, 10am-12 noon for pre-schoolers.
www.thechildrensartschool.co.uk/makerworld

CollaborARTi is a diverse and inclusive artist community where
creativity thrives, and every artistic voice is valued. Rooted in the
local community, we support each other’s growth through exhibitions, resident
artist spaces, workshops, and collaborative projects, fostering connections through
shared creativity.
Our Community Shop is open Monday, Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday (10am–3pm), providing a space to support and showcase local talent and
celebrate Huddersfield’s vibrant arts scene.
www.collaborarti.co.uk

The Creative Wellness Centre provides a home for a variety of local
groups including neurodiverse and low vision-communities, along with
hosting organisations and local artist exhibitions and delivering
creative wellness experiences. www.creativewellnesscentre.co.uk
Saving Grace Music is a creative imprint and talent development hub. It produces,
releases, markets, promotes and distributes creative works in music, video, art and
fashion, working with aspiring, developing and established artists. The Saving Grace
Collective is a social enterprise and non-profit organisation that engages people from
diverse backgrounds and circumstances, including young people and adults at risk of
exclusion.
www.saving-grace.co.uk

Shared Goods is a charity that supports asylum seekers and refugees
living in Kirklees with a clothing bank, free-of-charge clothing choices with dignity, to aid
the relief of poverty.

MakerWorld

A Symposium, Reanimating Huddersfield Town Centre, which will take place on Friday 25 October, 2-6pm at MakerSkate

This interactive event will bring together local businesses, cultural leaders, and community stakeholders to explore the transformative role of culture in revitalising our town centre.

Key themes include envisioning the future of town centres, the impact of culture on public spaces, encouraging better collaboration among town centre players and engaging communities and families in the town centre offer.

We are delighted to be able to include a screening of the recent documentary: MakerWorld, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Maire Tracey. The film is told through the lens of the parents who attend MakerWorld with their children and celebrates the benefits of joint creative endeavour – from stress relief to confidence and from social mobility to inclusivity.

With growing recognition of the impact that cultural activity has on the lives of people, communities and places, we are eager to share and discuss how our collaborative efforts are reimagining Huddersfield through a cultural lens – and how we can do more. Your insights and participation would be invaluable to us as we work together to shape a town centre that’s relevant to the people using it.

We would love it if you could join us in what we hope will be an engaging and meaningful discussion around how we can continue to breathe new life into Huddersfield town centre.

 

You are also welcome to a family screening of MakerSkate, a documentary by Maire Tracey – Saturday 26th October 2.00pm at MakerSkate, Piazza Centre

This short film tells the story of free drop-in arts sessions for children, held in an empty shopping unit in Huddersfield town centre. Set against the background of a town struggling to reinvent itself in a post-Covid world, Makerworld offers a utopian glimpse of how town centres
could exist if they replaced consumerism with community.

Told through the lens of the parents who attend the weekly sessions with their children, we hear about the benefits of community art – from stress relief to confidence and from social mobility to
inclusivity.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Maire Tracey. MakerWorld activities will be taking place from 11am to 3pm.

 

For more information visit: https://thechildrensartschool.co.uk/

Piazza Giving Tree

Help the Piazza spread some Joy this Christmas! 🙏🙏🙏 & Make a child’s Christmas Day one to remember, by donating a gift to our Piazza Giving Tree.
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HOW IT WORKS:
Here are 3 easy steps to the giving tree process:
1. Take a tag from the tree in our foyer, each tag represents a gender and age range of a child from birth to age 16.
2.Buy a gift suitable for the child of the chosen tag.
3.Bring it back to us by the 17th December, unwrapped with the tag and we’ll deliver all the gifts to Huddersfield & Dewsbury Hospitals and the Salvation Army in time for Christmas.

Should the gift be wrapped?

All gifts should be brought back unwrapped as the Salvation Army have an amazing team of helpers ready to wrap gifts and check each tag is suited to that age range.

What is there isn’t a tag for the age range I would like to gift?

We will endeavour to keep adding to our gifting tree with new tags, if there is a certain age range you would like to buy for and there isn’t a tag, we will of course welcome the gift with a piece of paper or contact the office on 01484 534594 and we can provide a tag.

Can I donate more than one gift?

Yes of course! If you can give more than one gift, that’s amazing – thank you. All we ask is that you only take the amount of tags that you’re definitely able to donate

Can I still donate after the 17th December?

Unfortunately not. We need all gifts to be back at our stores by 17th December so that the gifts have time to be delivered.