2024 funded projects
About our 2024 funded projects
Please find on this page a list of the Made in Wakefield and Culture Everywhere projects that we have supported so far in 2024. They are arranged by the following categories: Access, Community events and festivals, Crafts, Film, Heritage, Literature, Music, Performing arts, and Visual art and sculpture.
More projects to come throughout 2024!
Access
- Open Country’s ‘Wild about Water’ is a full year programme of creative outdoor activities. It will enable local disabled residents to enjoy blue spaces around the district
Community events and festivals
- Salvation Army (Castleford) will partner with the Hong Kong Community Hub to run a one-day programme. Including events and activities celebrating Chinese culture and customs for the Lunar New Year.
Crafts
- MHA Communities Wakefield and District will create a calendar keepsake with their service users. It will show monthly events with a focus on crafts, costumes and foods from the past
- Pontefract Calligraphers will work with tutors to run 3x calligraphy workshops. There will also be two open-access beginners taster sessions for the local community
- Portobello Community Forum’s ‘Portobello Creates 2024’ is a full year programme of cultural and creative workshops and events at Portobello Community Centre
- Well Women Centre will run ‘Women, Wakefield and Wellness’ with artist Tony Wade. Six silk painting workshops for 15 service users, with a final display at Wakefield Cathedral
Heritage
- Russell Brammer will create an exhibition at Queens Mill, Castleford. It will mark the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike
- Wakefield and District Society for Deaf People will develop a permanent display of their history to preserve their 102-year heritage
Literature
- Getting Gobby in the Lobby’s Spoken Word Programme will include 11 spoken word performance evenings and 3 writing workshops. There will be a final showcase and published anthology
Music
- Zambezi Sounds CIC will run 2x participatory walking events for the local community along Waterton’s Wall in Walton. Artist Ali Bullivent will create a new song inspired by discussions on the walks.
- Wakefield Quaker Meeting will run 8x creative drumming workshops. For families and individuals who are seeking asylum, refugees, and the wider community.
Performing arts
- Natalie Bellingham will showcase a new production of ‘Look After Your Knees’ to Wakefield district audiences at CAPA College. Part of a wider tour in the North
Visual art and sculpture
- Friends of Fitzwilliam Station and Edgelands Arts will run a series of community workshops. They will develop a new public artwork for Fitzwilliam Station bridge
- The Friends of Sandal Library and artist Beth Morgan will run 2 workshops with the local community. They will create a new public artwork for the Sandal Library Dementia Garden