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Our events are special talks, workshops or tours that are available on specific days. They give you a chance to discuss, observe or take part in activities. Enjoy unique experiences at our museums and galleries.

  • Vintage Sewing Machines - Learn to use Attachments: Binders and Rufflers!
    Vintage Sewing Machines - Learn to use Attachments: Binders and Rufflers!
    Fri 26 Jun
    Bankfield Museum
    Friday 26 June, 10.30am to 1pm Learn how to neaten and enhance seam allowances, armholes, necklines etc, with commercial or homemade bias binding, and how to ruffle, gather, shirr fabric to give your projects shape and texture.
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  • Creative Connections: Free Family Drop-In Activities
    Creative Connections: Free Family Drop-In Activities
    Sat 27 Jun
    Bankfield Museum
    Help us celebrate Calderdale Schools Linking Programme with an afternoon of free, family-friendly fun.
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  • Kids Go Free This Summer At Shibden Hall (Ts&Cs apply)
    Kids Go Free This Summer At Shibden Hall (Ts&Cs apply)
    Multiple Dates
    Wed 01 Jul
    Shibden Hall
    Wednesday 1 July to Monday 31 August Enjoy a brilliant family day out this summer with our Summer Offer - one child goes free with every admission paying adult ticket.
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  • Saturday Art Club
    Saturday Art Club
    Multiple Dates
    Sat 04 Jul
    Bankfield Museum
    Discover your inner artist by joining our learning team for some creative family fun and produce your own masterpiece to take home each time. Our artists will be running creative making sessions on the first Saturday of the month, using a range of materials and techniques.
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  • Vintage Sewing Machines: Restoration and Repair - Vibrating Shuttle Machines
    Vintage Sewing Machines: Restoration and Repair - Vibrating Shuttle Machines
    Sat 18 Jul
    Bankfield Museum
    A full-day workshop dedicated to maintaining and restoring the beauty and mechanics of vintage sewing machines. This session focuses on vibrating shuttle sewing machines, including the much-loved Singer 127.
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  • Saturday Art Club
    Saturday Art Club
    Multiple Dates
    Sat 01 Aug
    Bankfield Museum
    Discover your inner artist by joining our learning team for some creative family fun and produce your own masterpiece to take home each time. Our artists will be running creative making sessions on the first Saturday of the month, using a range of materials and techniques.
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  • Saturday Art Club
    Saturday Art Club
    Multiple Dates
    Sat 05 Sept
    Bankfield Museum
    Discover your inner artist by joining our learning team for some creative family fun and produce your own masterpiece to take home each time. Our artists will be running creative making sessions on the first Saturday of the month, using a range of materials and techniques.
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  • Costume Study Session: Made in Halifax
    Costume Study Session: Made in Halifax
    Wed 16 Sept
    Bankfield Museum
    Explore a selection of fashion made and bought in Halifax and the surrounding local area. From the mid-19th to 20th century.
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  • Needle Felting: Foxes
    Needle Felting: Foxes
    Sat 19 Sept
    Bankfield Museum
    Create your own felted fox in our relaxed session, a wonderful, tactile craft that allows you to shape and sculpt wool into three-dimensional objects.
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  • From Loft to Oz : Adventures of a Mary Quant Dress
    From Loft to Oz : Adventures of a Mary Quant Dress
    Sat 19 Sept
    Bankfield Museum
    Join us for a talk with Jenny Fenwick about the exciting journey her 1964 Mary Quant dress went on after being rediscovered in her loft!
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  • Saturday Art Club
    Saturday Art Club
    Multiple Dates
    Sat 03 Oct
    Bankfield Museum
    Discover your inner artist by joining our learning team for some creative family fun and produce your own masterpiece to take home each time. Our artists will be running creative making sessions on the first Saturday of the month, using a range of materials and techniques.
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  • Vintage Sewing Machines Attachments – Tuckmarkers and Embroidery/Darning!
    Vintage Sewing Machines Attachments – Tuckmarkers and Embroidery/Darning!
    Multiple Dates
    Fri 09 Oct
    Bankfield Museum
    In this third installment of our attachment sessions we focus on fabric manipulation and decoration as we learn how to use tuckmarkers and embroidery / darning attachments.
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  • Vintage Sewing Machines Attachments – Tuckmarkers and Embroidery/Darning!
    Vintage Sewing Machines Attachments – Tuckmarkers and Embroidery/Darning!
    Multiple Dates
    Sat 10 Oct
    Bankfield Museum
    In this third installment of our attachment sessions we focus on fabric manipulation and decoration as we learn how to use tuckmarkers and embroidery / darning attachments.
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  • Supernatural Shibden
    Supernatural Shibden
    Multiple Dates
    Fri 30 Oct
    Shibden Hall
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  • Supernatural Shibden
    Supernatural Shibden
    Multiple Dates
    Fri 30 Oct
    Shibden Hall
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  • Exploring Fibre, Colour and Texture
    Exploring Fibre, Colour and Texture
    Multiple Dates
    Tue 03 Nov
    Bankfield Museum
    Join textile artist Jane Riley for an interactive workshop on the creative uses of yarn as she explores how weavers use colour, texture and fibres.
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  • Exploring Fibre, Colour and Texture
    Exploring Fibre, Colour and Texture
    Multiple Dates
    Tue 03 Nov
    Bankfield Museum
    Join textile artist Jane Riley for an interactive workshop on the creative uses of yarn as she explores how weavers use colour, texture and fibres.
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  • Saturday Art Club
    Saturday Art Club
    Multiple Dates
    Sat 07 Nov
    Bankfield Museum
    Discover your inner artist by joining our learning team for some creative family fun and produce your own masterpiece to take home each time. Our artists will be running creative making sessions on the first Saturday of the month, using a range of materials and techniques.
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  • Costume Study Session: Fans
    Costume Study Session: Fans
    Tue 17 Nov
    Bankfield Museum
    The ultimate fashion accessory! Explore our collection of fans from feathered to sequined, European to the Far East. This session will allow you to get up close to collections and include the opportunity to carefully handle objects with our curator.
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