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From 6th January 2017 we will be moving to:

All Saints Parish Church Hall, Godfrey Road, Skircoat Green, Halifax.  

Our meeting time is also changing to Friday mornings 10:30am to 1:00pm.

We currently have an exhibition of member works at the Hebden Bridge Visitor Centre.

We are taking a coach party to visit Crosby Beach on the 7th September to see the 100 cast iron sculptures of Anthony Gormley “Another Place”. From there we will travel on the Lady Lever Gallery in Port Sunlight, which is home to many eighteenth and nineteenth paintings, Wedgwood Pottery, tapestries and embroideries. The Gallery is in the heart of the picturesque architectural village of Port Sunlight built in the 1920’s for the workers of the Lever factory.

We will be leaving from St Jude’s Church at 9.15am and picking up down the valley if necessary and returning home from Port Sunlight around 4.30pm.

If any members or friends would like to join us or have any further inquiries please contact Janet Gledhill (Secretary) on 01422 360726.

One of our members, Janet Gledhill, has had a piece accepted for an anonymous online art exhibition which is raising funds for a multiple sclerosis charity.

Over 470 works of art are up for grabs in the MS Trust’s Secret Art Show, covering a wide range of topics and techniques.  Each piece measures 12cm x 12cm and is sold anonymously, with the artists signature on the back so the buyer will not know who the artist is until they receive the artwork.

The show has been runing for the last seven years and have raised over £100,000 for the charity.  As all pieces are sold without the artists’ name being known it is possible to pick up a CD case sized work of art by an internationally acclaimed artist or by an up-and-coming new artist for the same price.

The gallery will be revealed at www.mstrust.org.uk/secretartshow on Monday 11th April and sales will open at 9am on Monday 18th April.  Each artwork will be on sale for £45.