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List of Contributors

List of contributors

 

Alistair Innes Macdonald (filmmaker)
  1. Woolovers(Sharing Memories group)
  2. 35. 37. 40. 52. Life in Our Towns series. (Creative Scene/ Brigantia Creative)
  3. 175 Years of Dewsbury Train Station- Riding West Riding, with Kevin Threlfall (Creative Scene/ Brigantia Creative)

Alistair Innes Macdonald, also known as Curlew Films, is an award-winning video and short film maker based in Marsden. Stories in Motion includes films made by Alistair for the Creative Scene ‘Life in Our Towns’ series, ‘Woolovers’ for the Sharing Memories Group.

 

Andrew Wicks / Media Preview (filmmaker)
  1. 175 Years of Dewsbury Train Station- Train of Thought, with Kay Douglas and Tim Copsey (Creative Scene/ Brigantia Creative)

 Andrew Wicks and associates as Media Preview make videos and screen media products for commercial, public sector and community clients. Stories in Motion includes the films

 

Beam (organisation)
  1. Tales from t’Mill by Harriet Lawson (filmmaker: Harriet Lawson)
  2. Tessella by Saba Rifat (filmmaker: Opal Films)

Beam is a cultural development organisation working across the North of England. They were the delivery organisation for the Dewsbury Creative Town Arts Programme on behalf of Kirklees Council. Two films from this project were selected to be included in Stories in Motion ‘Tales from t’Mill by Harriet Lawson’ and ‘Tessella by Saba Rifat’.

 

Bike Shed Media (filmmaker)

   53. Aerial Dance at Holmfirth Arts Festival (Urban Angels Aerial Circus)

 

Birstall Woodturners (organisation)
  1. Birstall Woodturning Club (filmmaker: MT Digital)

Birstall Woodturning Club is a group of enthusiastic woodturners, of all abilities, who meet regularly o get to know each other, exchange ideas and form friendships.

 

Clare Carter Osborne (filmmaker)
  1. Our Wider Flesh

Clare Carter Osborne is a practice-based researcher engaged in landscape and site-specificity, incorporating film, music composition, photography, ceramics, installation and creative writing.

Instagram: @claire_carter_artist

University of Leeds profile

 

Clear + Park (filmmakers)
  1. TOWNHALL

Professor Nic Clear and Dr Hyun Jun Park are the co-founders of experimental architecture studio, CLEAR + PARK. Professor Nic Clear is the Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Huddersfield; Dr Hyun Jun Park is Course the Director of Postgraduate Architecture at the Leeds School of Architecture, Leeds Beckett University.

 

Creative Scene/ Brigantia Creative (organisation)
  1. Celebration of Hope (filmmaker: Fly Girl Films)
  2. 175 Years of Dewsbury Train Station (filmmakers: Alistair Innes Macdonald and Kevin Threlfall; Tim Copsey, Andy Wicks and Kay Douglas; Nathan Towers; Simon Read)
  3. 35. 37. 40, 48. 49. 51 Life in Our Towns Series (filmmakers: Alistair Innes Macdonald; Simon Reed).

Creative Scene was the Creative People and Places project for North Kirklees. Brigantia Creative is an organisation that supports positive social change through arts and culture. Stories in Motion features two series commissioned by Creative Scene to celebrate the voices and heritage of North Kirklees: the ‘Life in Our Towns’ series focusing on local stories, and a series of 4 films to celebrate 175 years of Dewsbury Train Station from different perspectives.

 

Dark Horse Theatre (organisation)
  1. I Belong (film-maker: Eva McQuade)
  2. Connected Particles: (filmmaker Eva McQuade)

Dark Horse Theatre is an ensemble of highly trained actors with learning disabilities. Their work tours nationally and has a reputation for surprise, innovation, and the ability to reverse expectations in powerful and challenging ways. Appealing to a broad, general, and adult audience Dark Horse work is physical and visually impactful.

Dark Horse is also a leading vocational trainer of actors with learning disabilities and develops skills in preparation for work in the industry at the highest level. Dark Horse's Actor Training & Young Company create progression routes for people who want to pursue a creer in the creative industries and allow for actors to viably work in all performance media, creating opportunities for them to defy expectations and show audiences just how capable and talented they are.

The film “I Belong” was awarded Honorary Award for Efforts in the Social Filmmaking by the Activists without Borders film festival and was part of Manchester Health Film Festival official programme. 

Instagram: @dark_horse_uk
TikTok: @dark_horse_uk
Facebook: @darkhorsetheatreuk
YouTube: @darkhorsetheatreuk

 

Dwell Time
  1. Train Ticket Thoughts
  2. Unprescriptive

Dwell Time is an award winning, not-for-profit publication reflecting on mental wellbeing, established in 2018 by Alice Bradshaw, Vanessa Haley and Lenny Szrama.

 

 Eva McQuade
  1. I Belong (Dark Horse Theatre)
  2. Connected Particles (Dark Horse Theatre)

Eva McQuade is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, videographer and video editor based in Leeds. They collaborate with a wide range of clients including charities, events and independent businesses - to craft unique stories that capture audiences and make change happen.

 

Fettle Animation
  1. You Me and Those Who Came Before (Animators: Zane Whittingham/Ryan Jones Fettle Animation; Producer Kath Shackleton for Counterpoints Arts/Refugee Week)
  2. Making Strides; Refugees; Employment Trajectories (Animator: Zane Whittingham; Producer Kath Shackleton for IPPR and Migration Yorkshire)

 Fettle Animation is a multi-award-winning 2d animation studio working nationally but based in Marsden.

Facebook: @fettleanimation

 

Fly Girl Films
  1. Celebration of Hope (Creative Scene/ Brigantia Creative)

Fly Girl Films is a female-led, Yorkshire-based film production company founded and run by filmmaker Katie Harriman.

 

Huddersfield Literature Festival
  1. Huddersfield Literature Festival 2014 Review (filmmaker: Leagus Video)

Huddersfield Literature Festival is an award-winning Festival taking place annually in May, with community, accessibility and inclusivity at its heart. 2026 marks Huddersfield Literature Festival’s 20th anniversary.

Facebook: @HuddersfieldLiteratureFestival

Instagram: @huddlitfest_official

BlueSky: @huddlitfest.bsky.social

TikTok: @hudd.lit.fest

 

Kay Douglas (filmmaker)
  1. 175 Years of Dewsbury Train Station- Train of Thought, with Andrew Wicks and Tim Copsey (Creative Scene/ Brigantia Creative)

 

Kevin Threlfall (filmmaker)
  1. 175 Years of Dewsbury Train Station- Train of Thought, with Andrew Wicks and Tim Copsey (Creative Scene/ Brigantia Creative)

 

Harriet Lawson
  1. Tales from t’Mill by Harriet Lawson (Beam/ Kirklees Council)

Harriet Lawson is a Dewsbury based drawer, painter and digital artist. In 2022 she was commissioned through the Dewsbury Creative Town arts programme to create a temporary artwork on Union Street.

Instagram: @harrietcolours_

 

hoot creative arts
  1. hoot creative arts Spotlight (National Centre for Creative Health)

hoot creative arts is an arts and mental health charity based in the town centre of Huddersfield, England. They offer a diverse range of creative activities that support mental health and emotional wellbeing.

 

Huw Wahl
  1. For What We Have to Do (Creative Adaptive Solutions for Treescapes of Rivers (CASTOR), University of Manchester)

Huw Wahl is an artist and filmmaker whose work has been screened internationally at film festivals, art galleries, museums, universities, documentary art centres, and by sea onboard an engineless Thames sailing barge touring the South East coast of England. He has won several international awards with his films, and they've featured in publications like The Guardian, Sight and Sound, and The Wire, and received funding from organisations such as Arts Council England, The Henry Moore Foundation, and the Royal Photographic Society. From 2022-2024 Wahl was a Research Associate for the Creative Adaptive Solutions for Treescapes Of Rivers (CASTOR).

 

Jed Rocco Bartholet (filmmaker)
  1. Currents in Passing

 

Kirklees Local TV (filmmaker)
  1. Windrush: The Years After - Untold Stories
  2. Marshian Arts Trail 2025
  3. Soundfest: A History of Soundsystem Culture in Huddersfield
  4. Deighton Carnival 2025: A celebration of Community 

Established in 2011, KLTV is a social enterprise media production and news resource. They work with local communities and businesses to showcase local voices and stories.

Facebook: @kirkleeslocaltv 
Twitter/X: @kirkleeslocaltv 
Instagram: @kirkleeslocaltelevision 

 

Lawrence Batley Theatre 
  1. Sharing Stories Standing Strong (filmmaker: Studio Bokehgo)
  2. Lawrence Batley Theatre Makes a Lasting Impact on Young Lives (filmmaker: Towers Film & Media)
  3. Theatre 30- Lawrence Batley Theatre (filmmaker: Studio Bokehgo)

Located in Huddersfield town centre, the Lawrence Batley Theatre presents a wide ranging year-round programme of in-house and visiting productions, from drama and contemporary dance to circus and pantomime.

Instagram: @lawrencebatleytheatre

Tiktok: @lawrencebatleytheatre

 

Leagus Video
  1. Huddersfield Literature Festival 2014 Review

Leagus Video is a video production company based in Huddersfield.

 

Local Services 2 You
  1. Deighton Carnival 2025: A Celebration of Community (filmmaker: Kirklees Local TV)
  2. Mondays at the Museum (filmmaker: University of Huddersfield)

Local Services 2 You is a group of community businesses creating success, delivering excellent services and generating opportunities for local people in Deighton, Ashbrow and Huddersfield. They organise Deighton Carnival and are a partner on the Mondays at the Museum project with Kirklees Museums and Galleries and Tolson PCN.

 

Kirklees Museums and Galleries
  1. Monday at the Museum (filmmaker: University of Huddersfield)

Kirklees Museums and Galleries are a partner on the Mondays at the Museum project at the Tolson Museum with Local Services 2 You and Tolson PCN.

 

Marshian Arts

Making all kinds of arty things happen in & around Marsh. The Next Marshian Arts Trail 6-21 June 2026! Join our craft group or our film screenings group and help make lovely things happen.

 

Men’s Talk Digital
  1. Birstall Woodturning Club
  2. Anti-Stigma Kirklees
  3. Five Ways to Wellbeing

Men's Talk Digital is a film making group for men who have experienced mental health issues. Run by Clear, the project is open to men over 18 who live in Kirklees.

Supported by Creative Frame CIC – MT Digital provides participants with training, equipment and support. MT Digital uses film-making to aid recovery, enabling men to come together in a safe space to learn new skills and create original material. As well as creating their own short films, the men work together on commissioned work.

Co-produced programmes of work have involved the men working alongside local community groups including - Andy's Man Club, Luke's Lad's, Platform One, Working Together Better Partnership, Kirklees MDC, Public Health, Community Cohesion, Clear, Anti-Stigma Kirklees, Brain in Hand, Kirklees Involvement Network, Create and Bloom.

 

Ministry of Colours
  1. Holi Festival

Ministry of Colours is a Huddersfield-based company that specialises in producing non-toxic colour powder using centuries-old traditions. They have created a unique range of bright and vivid colour powders that are ideal for celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi and using in colour runs and colour parties in general. They are working to spread the word about Holi to schools, colleges, universities and across the communities.

 

 Music in Kirklees
  1. Yorkshire Sound Women’s Network (filmmaker: Studio Bokehgo)
  2. Mrs Sunderland (filmmaker: Studio Bokehgo)
  3. Beowulf (filmmaker: Studio Bokehgo)

Music in Kirklees commissioned a series of films for Kirklees Year of Music 2023. A selection of these films were selected for the Stories in Motion exhibition but all the films can be found on the Music In Kirklees youtube channel.

 

Nigel Cudjoe (filmmaker)
  1. Where We Come From (Nigel Cudjoe with Thomas O'Donoghue)

Nigel Cudjoe aka Savvy aka Asaviour is a multidisciplinary artist with a creative background in music production, songwriting & performance. Over the years he has released various singles, EPs & albums to commercial success & critical acclaim touring the UK and Europe under the moniker Savvy & Asaviour. He is founder of Saving Grace Music a creative imprint & The Saving Grace Collective non profit talent development hub

YouTube - @savinggracestudios 
Instagram - @iam_savvy @tomod_  

Opal Video (filmmaker)
  1. Tessella by Saba Rifat (Beam/ Kirklees Council)

Opal works closely with brands and businesses to discover their untold stories and bring them to life through film.

 

Oran Rose O’Sullivan (filmmaker)

 

  1. Cesspit of Freedom

Oran Rose O’Sullivan is a non-binary animation director and printmaker born in Huddersfield, UK. Their animation Cesspit of Freedom was painstakingly screen printed on fabric to link the animated visuals to Huddersfield's strong history in the textiles industry.

Instragram: @oranroseo

 

 Our Creative Connection/ Chris Chinnock (filmmaker)
  1. Shared Journeys

Our Creative Connection uses creative participation to bring stories to life and spark social change through participatory photography, portrait and event photography, and creative workshops.

 

Queen Jolene
  1. Reprezenting Huddersfield on Tour

Queen Jolene is the volunteer manager, curator & promoter of Huddersfield On Tour. The Huddersfield on Tour website came about due to Jolene’s desire to support the incredible, local, independent Artists of Huddersfield. The site gives fans and the wider public access to Artistic Creations such as Music, Art & Stories, in many cases for free, as well as promoting events to the people of Huddersfield and beyond.

The film Reprezenting Huddersfield on Tour created for Stories in Motion features music by Harlem Gem and Thabo and the Real Deal. 

Instagram: @huddersfield_on_tour

Facebook: @huddersfieldontour 

YouTube: @HuddersfieldOnTour

Follow Queen Jolene on Facebook: @joleneraewalsh

 

 Radio Sangam (filmmaker)
  1. A Quest for Roti

The official Kirklees Asian permanent community radio station, Radio Sangam has become the most followed Asian community radio station in the UK and listened to in 54 countries worldwide. The organisation has won a number of awards and is also the only radio station in the UK that broadcasts rugby league and premiership football matches in Urdu and Punjabi.

 

Saville Creative Communications (filmmaker)
  1. Hepworth Feast

 Saville Creative Communication provides a wide range of professional services to the industrial, commercial, education, charity and public sectors.

 

Sharing Memories Group (organisation)
  1. Woolovers (filmmaker: Alistair Innes Macdonald)

Sharing Memories is an intergenerational arts and wellbeing group for adults that aims to alleviate social isolation and loneliness and foster a coherent, connected community, through creating high quality artworks, inspired by members memories of their lives & the locality.

 

Simon Reed (filmmaker)
  1. On Dewsbury Market (Creative Scene/ Brigantia Creative)

 Simon Reed Productions is based in Dewsbury and has a passion for filming and history.

 

Studio Bokehgo (filmmaker)
  1. Growing Colour Together (WOVEN in Kirklees)
  2. Sharing Stories Standing Strong (Lawrence Batley Theatre)
  3. MakerWorld: Creativity and Community on the High Street (The Children’s Art School)
  4. Yorkshire Sound Women’s Network (Music in Kirklees)
  5. Mrs Sunderland (Music in Kirklees)
  6. Theatre 30- Lawrence Batley Theatre (Music in Kirklees)
  7. Beowulf (Music in Kirklees)

Studio Bokehgo is an artisan film and photography storytelling studio focused on shining a spotlight on the inspirational, spectacular and talented people, places and moments around the world.

Facebook: /bokehgo

Instagram: @bokehgo

 

The Children’s Art School (organisation)
  1. MakerWorld: Creativity and Community on the High Street (filmmaker: Studio Bokehgo)
  2. Our Biennale (filmmaker: Towers Film and Media)

The Children’s Art School has art spaces in Holmfirth, Huddersfield town centre, and Dewsbury, offering regular art clubs and drop-in sessions for children and young people from 2-18 years. MakerWorld is a place where extraordinary creative encounters happen though. The weekly free, drop-in sessions in Huddersfield’s Piazza Centre and Dewsbury Princess of Wales precinct (Saturdays 11am-3pm), (Little Makers, Huddersfield Fridays 10-12) offer interactive experiences that encourage hands-on engagement with art and extraordinary creative encounters.

Instagram: @childrensartschooluk, @makerworldhudds, @makerworlddewsbury

Facebook: @artschoolholmfirth

 

Thomas O’Donoghue
  1. Where We Come From (Nigel Cudjoe with Thomas O'Donoghue)

 Thomas O’Donoghue is a filmmaker and photographer, collaborating with Savvy on Where We Come From.

 

Tim Copsey
  1. 175 Years of Dewsbury Train Station- Train of Thought, with Kay Douglas and Andrew Wicks (Creative Scene/ Brigantia Creative)

 

Tower’s Film and Media (19, 22, 5)
  1. Arrivals
  2. Our Biennale
  3. Lawrence Batley Theatre Makes a Lasting Impact on Young Lives

Nathan Towers is a West Yorkshire- based filmmaker and photographer, and founder of Towers Film and Media.

Instagram: @towersfilmandmedia

 

Urban Angels Circus
  1. Urban Angels Aerial Dance at Holmfirth Arts Festival

Urban Angels Circus create aerial and cross art form performances to watch or participate in.

 

WOVEN in Kirklees
  1. Growing Colour Together 

WOVEN is a biennial festival in Kirklees that celebrates textiles, place and creativity. Launched in 2019, it brings together community groups, textile businesses, artists, heritage sites, and cultural and educational organisations across the district.

Instagram: @woveninkirklees

X: @WovenInKirklees

 

Yorkshire North East Film Archive
  1. The Brook
  2. Huddersfield International Club Opening Night
  3. Extract from Home James

Yorkshire and North East Film Archive preserves, curates, and provides access to the region’s screen heritage collections. Covering Yorkshire and the North East of England, the archive holds films made by amateur and professional filmmakers for over 130 years.

 

Yorkshire Youth and Music
  1. Developing Tracks at the Safe Space Studio

Yorkshire Youth and Music is a community music and arts education company working across Yorkshire, creating music making opportunities that change the lives of children

Instagram: @yyandmusic

 

Other projects/events featured:

 

Beowulf (Proper Job Theatre featuring Supriya Nanjaran) (47) was a site-specific event and performance created for Kirklees Year of Music 2023 by Proper Job Theatre Company. The oldest known English poem has been adapted by five Yorkshire-based poets Ian McMillan, Michelle Scally-Clarke, Joel Simmy, Chris O'Connor and Franc Chamberlain, working with composer Leighton Jones (Beware of Trains) and Supriya Nagarajan (Manasamitra), on an original score telling the story of a female Beowulf with a visually arresting, musical celebration.

 

Celebrating 175 Years of Dewsbury Train Station (5), Creative Scene commissioned 4 rail-themed films to celebrate different stories and interpretations of Dewsbury Train Station. Films were curated and edited by Andy Wicks, Media Preview.

 

Celebration of Hope (21) was a special family friendly event at the Bagshaw Museum to mark the celebration of a new season, including craft activities indoors and outdoors, play, walkabout performance, savour some lovely food, join in with communal prayer and view the beautiful lantern display at sunset. Including artists Ranya Abdulateef, Helaina Sharpley and Cecil Green Arts, produced by Creative Scene.

 

Counterpoint Arts (30) is a leading national and international organisation in the field of arts, migration and cultural change.

 

Deighton Carnival (8) took place on Saturday 28 June 2025 from 12 noon to 7pm, bringing an afternoon full of fun, with lots of fabulous family activities complete with stage show and DJ, and the much-loved Carnival Procession.

 

Dewsbury Creative Town (42, 46) was delivered by Beam on behalf of Kirklees Council as part of the town’s 10-year blueprint vision. Over three years, the programme commissioned temporary and permanent public art installations, with opportunities for residents, businesses and community groups to contribute to the commissioning process, connecting Dewsbury’s heritage with future development.

 

Growing Colour Together (10) is a community-led initiative in Kirklees, UK, developing a district-wide natural dye garden to support sustainable textile practices. It enables individuals and groups to grow, harvest and use dye plants through workshops and shared resources. The project connects local, low-impact dye techniques with community learning and wellbeing.

 

Hepworth Feast (44) is an annual community event in Hepworth, West Yorkshire, held on the last Monday of June to mark the end of the 1665 Great Plague. It includes a brass band-led parade, a public tea, a united sing, local sports and a relay race.

 

Holmfirth Arts Festival (53) is an annual arts festival in the Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, established in 2007. The festival commissions new work, supports diverse artists, and presents events in alternative spaces inspired by the Pennine landscape, with activity that engages communities, connects arts and heritage, supports environmental aims, and builds local, regional and international links.

 

Honley Male Voice Choir (24) is a Huddersfield based choir founded in 1936, performing repertoire from traditional Male Voice Standards to popular and musical theatre, with regular charity and community concerts.

 

Life in Our Towns (33, 35, 37, 40, 49, 52) was a series of films commissioned by Creative Scene to celebrate  the diversity of the people and places that make up the towns of North Kirklees.

 

Makerworld (14), run by the Children’s Art School, offers free drop-in sessions for children and their families in The Piazza Centre Huddersfield and Dewsbury Princess of Wales precinct, offer interactive experiences that encourage hands-on engagement with art and extraordinary creative encounters.

 

Marshian Arts Trail (11) is a showcase of artwork created by people who live in and around Marsh which will be on display in shop windows and businesses in Westbourne Road in Marsh from Saturday 5 July - Sunday 13 July 2025. As well as the Arts Trail, there will be other events including a psychogeography walk, a craft group, a photography exhibition and open studio afternoons. For more details visit the Marshian Arts Facebook or Instagram page.

 

Mrs Sunderland Festival (20): is an 11-day performing arts festival at Huddersfield Town Hall, bringing together over 5,000 performers across music, speech and drama, with workshops for a wide range of ages and needs. It includes showcase concerts, popular dance events, and a national Young Musician of the Year competition.

 

Our Biennale (19) was a festival of arts and culture made with children and young people in Kirklees that ran in 2018, 2020 and 2022. Produced by the Kirklees Local Cultural Education Partnership, Evoke, Our Biennale was led by The Children's Art School. Partners from Evoke collaborate with young people, artists, cultural organisations, and teachers in Kirklees to co-create this amazing festival for the whole community.

 

Refugee Week (30) is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Established in 1998 in the UK, Refugee Week takes place every year around World Refugee Day (20th June) and has since grown into a global movement

 

Sangam Festival (3) is a community festival celebrating South Asian arts, culture and heritage. Events and activities take place online, in indoor venues and at outdoor locations across Kirklees.

 

Sharing Stories, Standing Strong (12) was a collaborative project between the Lawrence Batley Theatre and Kirklees Libraries, taking a team of multi-disciplinary artists out into some Kirklees Libraries to work with residents in Ashbrow, Batley, Birkby, Dewsbury, Rawthorpe and Ravensthorpe to collaboratively create a new artwork, inspired by their stories. It was supported by Arts Council England.

 

The Safe Space Studio (16), run by Yorkshire Youth and Music, is a unique music production space in the heart of Huddersfield designed specifically to offer a safe place for young people to collaborate and make music together.

 

Yorkshire Sound Women’s Network (17) was established in 2015 by women working in sound technology who sought to use their skills and influence to address gender and racial inequality. The network aims to support an industry that welcomes, encourages and advances the inclusion of women and people of minority genders at all levels, from studio floor to boardroom, and that reflects the diversity of the communities involved.