Calderdale is hosting a new festival – the Dreaming Valleys festival, a day of “engagements with history, topography and folklore” – at the Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge throughout Saturday 14 March 2020
Hear more about the festival from John Billingsley
Talks include:
Kelly Starling: Dancing with Ghosts: Journeys to Robinwood Mill
Alison Cooper: Geography of Grief: Pilgrimage through the Pennines
Dr Jennie Bailey: An Artery to a Heart: mapping the Rochdale Canal
Mark Valentine: Northern Soul: Lost weird writers of the North
Andy Roberts: The Demon in the Valley? Alan Garner, Thursbitch & the fiction of fact
John Billingsley: Stoodley Pike: The underlying narrative
Mark Williamson (Spaceship): Outcrops (musical performance with film)
Steve Goldman: Society for the Preservation of Boring Grid Squares
Email for more details of presenters and presentations
Reasonably priced vegan and vegetarian refreshments available at the event
The Birchcliffe Centre is 350 yds from the centre of Hebden Bridge, up a steep hill.
Bus 595 runs half-hourly (:20 & :50) from the station / Commercial Street
There is limited parking at (signposted) and on-street around the Centre.
Local information is available from the Hebden Bridge Visitor Centre (01422 843831)
Tickets £20 in advance until March 12
Available at https://northernearth.ecwid.com or by cheque (payable Northern Earth Mysteries Group) to NE address (enclose SAE if receipt needed: hard-copy tickets not issued – booking list at door)
On the door £22, cash only; no card payments
