Tuesday	2 June	4-6pm and 7-9pm
Thursday	4 June	4-6pm
Saturday	6 June	1-4pm
Sunday	7 June	1-4pm
Tuesday	9 June	4-6pm and 7-9pm
Thursday	11 June	4-6pm
Saturday	13 June	1-4pm
Sunday	14 June	1-4pm
Tuesday	16 June	4-6pm and 7-9pm
Thursday	18 June	4-6pm

Adults, teenagers, families, all are welcome.
Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
Cost: £2 per participant/per session; or £7 "season ticket" (unlimited workshops)

Anyone can participate. Everyone is welcome to come to affordable public workshops where the materials and instruction will be provided for them to make their own costume, mask, puppet or banner for the parade or volunteer on a larger build led by a professional parade artist. We will also send artists to work with community organisations and school groups to make their own parade entry. This parade is for not just for kids—we encourage adults to bring their friends and neighbours to create their own parade ensemble.

 

Parade Art Classes

This year, we will offer advanced skills classes for adults and teens led by our team of professional artists. Participants will produce a project which they will then perform on the day of the parade on 20 June. All classes will take place at our workshop space listed above.

Stilting (with Andrew Kim)
Do something amazing...learn how to walk and dance on stilts. Each participant will learn to walk on wooden peg stilts 2 feet off the ground and help create ensemble stilt costumes. This will be the start of a Hebden Bridge stilt ensemble which will perform at this parade and other events with the Handmade Samba Brigade.
Age 12 and up; 12 participants max.
Class times (4 sessions): 4 June 7-9pm or 6 June 5-7pm (half the class will start on 4th, other half on 6th), 11 June 7-9pm, 13 June 5-7pm, and 18 June 7-9pm.
Cost: £25 (The Handmade Parade will lend stilts and stilt costume to class participants at no cost.) This class is no longer accepting new students.

 

Giant Papier Mache Sculptures (with Alison Duddle)

Create gorgeous giant flowers to be a part of the pollination section of the parade. Giant irises, foxgloves, calla lilies and orchids will show off their colours, attracting and thus being propagated by the pollinators. We will be working with cardboard, papier mache, fabric. Instruction will be given with all the processes we will use, but experienced artists and makers are also very welcome to use this resource as a springboard for their own creations. Parents with babes-in-arms are welcome to sign up for the class, but no toddlers, please - this is an adult class, and sharp tools will be used.
Age 14 and up; 10 participants max.
Class times (4 sessions): 10, 11, 17 and 18 June 12:30-2:30pm
Cost: £25

 

Kinetic Sculptures: Build a Mechanical Bug! (with Dave Young)
Learn how to craft a giant, moving creepy crawly using found and recycled materials. The sessions will include basic metalwork skills, engineering with scrap bicycles, willow and bamboo construction, hair styling for the mad inventor and some surprises.
Age 16 and up; 6 participants max.
Class times (4 sessions): 3 June 7-9pm, 6 June 5-7pm, 10 June 7-9pm and 13 June 5-7pm.
Cost: £25.

 

Giant Withies Sculptures (with Kerith Odgen)
Using mainly bamboo and withies (willow), we will be making a huge and marvelous spinning golden sun to head up the first section of the parade. Participants will all help to make the sun, and also make a smaller, individual piece to accompany the sun in the parade. The workshop will be a very good introduction to withies sculpture - from basic construction and simple forms, to making more complicated 3-D sculpture.
Age 16 and up; 10 participants max.
Class times (4 sessions): 3 June 7-9pm, 6 June 5-7pm, 10 June 7-9pm and 13 June 5-7pm.
Cost: £25.

 

Samba Drumming (with Mitch Oldham)
This is an ongoing community ensemble; join in at any time.
Age 14 and up.
Class times: Click HERE for details.
Cost: £3 per 2-hour session.

 

Inflatable Parade Art (with Jamima)
Join our artist-in-residence, Jamima of Spacecadets in some pattern cutting, sewing and testing of inflatable ladybird costumes. The new ladybirds will then be performed in the parade along with one of Spacecadets fabulous inflatables.
Times: Wed. 3 June 1-3pm and Tues and Weds, June 9, 10, 16 and 17 9:30am to 12:00
Cost: Free!

 

 

Sign Up Now!

Download the REGISTRATION FORM (Word document or PDF) Fill in, print and bring with you to the workshop with your registration fee.

Note: this form is only for the Parade Art Classes. It is not necessary to pre-register for the drop-in Open Workshops.