Open 12-4pm, Thursday-Friday*
*selected dates and full event details below
The Inter-Arts Festival presents their 2023 exhibition: Invisible Made Visible and Hope Faith Belief.
The exhibition runs from 11 - 21 May, open 12-4pm Thursday-Sunday. There is also a full programme of events, which you can find out more about below.
The exhibition displays a variety of art and word pieces, including work by Pixie Biscuit, Keiron Higgins, Bex Chymycz, Victoria Shone, Elaine Hook, Skye Shadowlight, Dawn Bland, Nic Chapman, Michael Oakes, Eileen Wright, Socs, Paul Mac, Jane Pugh, Fiona Pattison, Linda Hodges, Julie Fiona Thornton, David Rusbatch and many more.
“Every festival is different, and brings a new energy and subject matters, this is a good time to come together. A time to pause and reflect on where we have been and where we are now.”
About the Inter-Arts Festival
Inter-Arts Festival was founded by Fiona Love Pattison and is a group of creative artists who like to do things a little differently. It is also creative people we meet on our travels and who connect with what we do. We formed in Autumn 2016 at Artsmill, Hebden Bridge, and we met up every first Wednesday of the month in Hebden Bridge and created 'Art Through Trauma' in 2018. Then in 2019 we did a #mentalhealthawareness festival in May and in August we did our Festival of Childhood. The covid pandemic happened in March 2020, so in May 2020, we did the whole Festival online including the performances via Facebook Live. Wellbeing and mental/physical/emotional health awareness is part of our work and it is important to hold a safe space, and a platform for people to create and enjoy sharing what they do.
This year’s festival has a varied programme of events with workshops, meditations and artists talks (see links below).
The festival is a reflection over 2019 - 2023. In 2019 we decided on the theme Invisible Made Visible and then in March 2020 the pandemic hit. It impacted all of us, in every way. Inter-Arts delivered the Invisible Made Visible online, but now it’s time for some of that work to be out into the gallery space. Our Hope, Faith, Belief theme came after and this is whatever you interpret it to mean, it is different for everyone.
For more about the Inter-Arts Festival, see www.interartsfestival.com.
Opening Times and Events
The exhibition is open 12-4pm, Thursday to Saturday (except for Thursday 11 May).
There are also a variety of events: please check out the calendar and click on the buttons below for more information.
