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Ruth Fones' interactive art exhibition at St Swithun's Community Centre in Eastmoor

Have a look at the paintings you can touch on display in Wakefield

The Hepworth Wakefield

Wakefield's Hepworth gallery funding set to be cut by £50k

National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 2024

Brass Band Week 2025 brings the buzz of brass

Inside Wakefield Exchange

WATCH: Take a look inside the new Wakefield Exchange venue

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield has been awarded the silver Artsmark award, accredited by Arts Council England, for embedding arts, culture and creativity across its curriculum.

Wakefield school receives recognition from Arts Council England with award

The Cut Bridge in Yorkshire Sculpture Park is undergoing vital work to restore it, thanks to new funding.

Six-figure restoration project begins on Wakefield cast iron bridge

Coun Michelle Collins reading an original copy of Mathew Tomlinson's journal.

19th century manuscripts and diaries hidden from public to be digitised

Wakefield Theatre Royal and Opera House.

Cost of living inspired play takes centre stage at Wakefield theatre

Wakefield Council is set to receive £626,000 of funding to get more residents involved in their heritage.

Arts Council funding to help deliver Wakefield’s new museum and library

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) has been offered £4m of Art Council over the next three years.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Wakefield museums get Arts Council funding awards

Long Division festival in 2019.

Wakefield Live: New free one-day music festival coming to city centre next month

The attraction has had to make huge savings because of the pandemic.

More details on Hepworth Gallery redundancies revealed

Pontefract Civic Society is looking for your stories

Are you from Pontefract and over 45? The town's civic society is looking for you...

Around 16p was received per person of Arts Council England Project Grants in Selby last year - among the least in England. Picture: Gary Longbottom.

Wide disparity in Yorkshire communities receiving Arts Council England grants

National Poetry Day takes place on an annual basis, celebrating and embracing poetry in all its forms, encouraging others to do the same (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s when National Poetry Day 2020 will take place - and how to get involved

Why funding problems are now ‘massive’ for arts centres Peter Ormerod

Theatre company increases free podcasts of its hit plays

Louis Kasatkin.

Wakefield Literature Festival will go back to basics on its return to the city

Louis Kasatkin wants to revive Wakefield literature festival

Plan to revive Wakefield Literature Festival

Yorkshire’s art leaders hail sector as report says it adds £10bn to the economy

Luxury: An artists impression of the completed garden.

Work begins on £1.8m riverside gallery garden

Planning permission for the scheme was granted in March.

Hepworth Gallery garden 'will bring more people to Wakefield'

A musical visionary

The Membranes

LONG DIVISION: Brilliant music and a packed arts programme at Wakefield festival

Wool Stories: The Felted Mill features an eye-catching collection of textile creations inspired by and paying tribute to the citys industrial heritage.

Leeds Industrial Museum exhibits new material masterpieces inspired by the city'...

Interactive fun for the family at Sculpture Park

How the theatre's new centre will look.

COLUMN: Behind the Scenes...at Theatre Royal, Wakefield
It is a real pleasure to work at Theatre Royal Wakefield and witness hordes of people arriving to enjoy their night's entertainment.
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Barnsley stories are told inside Experience Barnsley

Barnsley Museums celebrates Â£1.8m of funding from Arts Council England

The Hepworth is unveiling a new gardens project. .
Jane Marriott deputy director.

Â£290k to improve art and heritage displays

An artists impression of the new visitor centre at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Yorkshire Sculpture Park secures major grant towards 'ambitious' new visitor ce...

An artist's impression of what a new visitor centre at Yorkshire Sculpture Park would look like.

Plan for £3.8m visitor centre at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Coun Les Shaw with Alexander Keirincx's painting.

Civil War exhibition at Pontefract Museum

Pontefract Museum, Salter Row, Pontefract. p1968b752

Pontefract Museum reopens after revamp

The Hepworth Wakefield

Birthday surprise for The Hepworth Wakefield

Henrietta Duckworth, executive producer of the Tour de France cultural festival in Yorkshire, March 27 to July 6

Ambitious Tour festival deadlines ‘will be met’

Henrietta Duckworth, executive producer of the Tour de France cultural festival in Yorkshire, March 27 to July 6

Ambitious Tour event ‘will meet deadlines’

Wakefield Theatre lose £150,000

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