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As part of the project ENGAGE / CREATE, artist Izzy Dabiri and community members are creating textile art celebrating the place, the people and the stories of Wombwell. Have your say too!

Come and play with clay at Hoyland Market!

Sculptor Thomas Palmer is holding three free workshops where you can make a clay sculpture to be included in a time capsule. Join us on the 7th, 14th and 21st of Dec, no booking required.

LUNG are looking to talk to as many people as possible who live in Barnsley, to hear the stories our communities have to tell.

LUNG are currently developing their newest project Calling Barnsley, set to be launched early 2025.

*Programme now underway*

This programme offers the chance to co-create a new commissioned artwork with community groups in one of Barnsley’s six Principal Towns, with support from an experienced artist mentor.

*In Production*

This commission with Sam Batley aims to tell some of the stories that make up Barnsley, exploring the towns identity, landscape, culture and communities through film and photography.

*In Production*

A Walk Around Town is a collaborative project by Patrick Murphy and Ian McMillan, connecting the six Principal Towns through workshops, new writing, and the production of a series of interactive place guides. Come and get creatively lost with us!

*In Production*

Barnsley Council’s Cultural Development Fund team have commissioned 7 South Yorkshire-based artists with experience of community engagement to create the designs for ‘townscapes’, that will represent and give a flavour of Barnsley's Principal Towns.

A series of Black Bee Creative outreach sessions and business workshops. The workshops will support Barnsley’s creative practitioners in taking the next step in their careers and turning their hobby into a profession/business.

In 2023 CDF commissioned University of Sheffield (UoS) to map the creative and cultural industries sector based within Barnsley.

Invisible Flock welcomed Tala Lee-Turton, Ailish Treanor and Spencer Hughes into their studio at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in August 2024 for the ten-day Barnsley Artist Residency programme.

Lenny & Whale brought their latest artwork ‘Sanctuary of Colour’ to Principal Towns over the summer of 2024.

Barnsley Council, Collective Sense, and seven amazing local artists and creative facilitators facilitated workshops across the borough in May and June 2024 to find out what culture means to people.

Take a stroll through the Goldthorpe digital townscape and view artwork and images from Goldthorpe's young people.

Barnsley's Tala Lee-Turton brought her latest production 'parler femme' to Elsecar Heritage Centre's Ironworks building in November 2023.

Markmark Productions brought bespoke The Un-Naturalists performances to each of Barnsley's Principal Towns and Elsecar over the summer of 2023.

The Big Reveal in conjunction with Barnsley Council, The Dearne Playhouse and the schools and community of the Dearne Valley created a spectacular of dance, music, song and drama in December 2023 after 18 months of engagement.