Castleford Heritage Festival
We co-ordinate
the annual Festival celebrations of Heritage, Arts, Exhibitions
and Events. Many volunteers and professionals provide hands-on activities
for over 1,000 children to learn about the history of local industries,
the archaeology, archives, environment and lives of our people and
communities.The work of local and national artists are displayed
with workshops and demonstrations. An exhibition of children's art
is displayed alongside the local pit banners. Art workshops and
a musical evening celebrate the work of pupils from our local schools.
Alison Drake: The older members of our community provide hands on activities for
young people and all the schools take part, delivering what is considered
good quality, educational, and cross-generation experiences. There
are dance and musical events and performances by adults and children,
art exhibitions of children's work and local adult amateur and professional
artists and sculptors. We work with children helping them to learn
about life in the local industries the long history of the area
through providing activities. These include, working with mining
equipment, dressing up as miners and crawling through tunnels; examining
local pottery, making pots and painting pottery; making clipping
rugs; examining model boats and model machinery; visiting local
factories; working with local Archives and museum collections using
photographs, maps, artefacts and activities with stone-age Roman
re-enactment groups.
This
Year's Event 2008
Just a few of the images from this year's 1940s Day
event
Even the
dogs dressed up for the day
'George
Formby' entertains the crowd
The home
guard strut their stuff
'Wendy's
Kids' perform on the Festival stage
