Dewsbury’s exciting free festival returns, featuring street theatre, live music, workshops, demonstrations and stalls.

Saturday 9th NovemberDewsbury Town Centre

11am - 4pm

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Town Hall - 1st floor Demonstrations & Workshops

Victoria Hall - stage

11am - 1pm

2pm - 4pm

Knit & Natter - drop-in session. Purl together with knitters new and old to improve your skills. Try your hand at new stitches or patterns and get expert advice. (16+ years, on stage please access using the stairs)

First Floor Foyer

11am - 4pm Snow Families - clay shape model-making with Pennine Camphill Community

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Why not take a break at the town hall cafe by the main hall?

Town Hall - 2nd floor Demonstrations & Workshops

Council Chamber, Town Hall 2nd Floor

11am - 4pm SCRAPtastic - drop-in, interactive workshop hosted by fairandfunky. Children of all ages can make paper jewellery, light catchers and musical instruments all from recycled materials! Children can then play their instruments with The Moot, who will provide live outdoor music

11am - 4pm Free face painting for children - Book a slot and avoid the queues!

Reception Room, Town Hall 2nd Floor

11am - 11.30am Pop Sweet - A demonstration how to make a variety of Cake Pops and Push Pops available to buy on their stall.

11.30 - 12noon Cookery demo - Coddys Farm will cure bacon and make chorizo, followed by a cookery demo by local chef Pam Mollan (Your Secret Gourmet) who will make a delicious butterbean and chorizo stew.

12 - 12.20pm Real ale tasting - Hosted by Bier Huis

12.30 - 1.30pm Utterly Unique, gift wrapping demo - Fantastic and unusual ways to wrap a box, bottle or CD – amaze your family this Christmas!

1.30pm - 2.30pm Utterly Unique, gift box workshop - Make your own triangular gift boxes and bows

2.30pm - 4pm Crafty Praxis’ jewellery making - Create your unique piece of jewellery to take home.

Second Floor Foyer

11am - 4pm Henna painting - free henna painting for all ages

11am - 4pm Love Food Hate Waste - useful tips and ‘left-over’ recipe cards - reduce waste and save money.

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Victoria Hall

First-floor foyer

Council Chamber

Reception Room

Second-floor foyer

Indoor Stalls Victoria Hall Stalls

Busy Bees Apiaries Honey and hive products, jams and chutneys

Iduns Orchard Handmade jewellery, Christmas decorations and gifts, and chocolates

Butterfly Bakery Handmade cakes, tarts, brownies, meringues, muffins and scones

Created by Colleen Handmade jewellery

Handmade Hippie Patchwork bags, rag dolls, fimo jewellery, knitted hats and paintings

Hazel Gerdziunas Handmade silver, button, beaded and vintage jewellery

Healey Lane Cakery Homemade cakes, giant cupcakes and celebration cakes

Heathers Cookies Ready to make and bake dry cookie mixes layered in cookie jars

Iduns Orchard Handmade jewellery, felt purses, Christmas decorations and chocolates

Leeds Bread Co-op Handmade artisan bread

Mimi Misfits Upcycling old clothes into toys and bags

Celebration Cakes Non-edible nappy cakes, towel wedding and Christmas cakes

Out of Africa Gifts Ethically sourced home and fashion accessories from East Africa

Phoenix Cards Greeting cards, gift wrap and tags

Pop Sweet Handmade cake pops and sweet flowers

The Vintage Cakery Takeaway Afternoon Tea on vintage cake stands

Yorkshire Drizzle A range of seven flavoured rapeseed oils and gift boxes

Yvonne Rigg Unique wood-turned items

Dewsbury Sports Centre

Information and demos on the services they offer

Outdoor Stalls Outside the front of the town hall

Bier Huis A wide selection of bottled and draught beers, real ales, cider, Yorkshire chorizo, crisps, mustards and pickles

Blitzed Soups Seasonal healthy soup and homemade bread

Farnley Fayre Christmas puddings and decorated/iced fruit cakes, seasonal chocolate novelties and cakes

French Crepes Freshly made authentic sweet and savoury crepes

Ka Plonk Italian wines and spirits sold by the glass, bottle or case and mulled wine

Ostrich Direct Ostrich, bison, kangaroo, wild boar, venison, zebra, wildebeast and camel burgers

Really Indian Fresh curry cook-in sauces and Samosas

Snowden Water Buffalo Water buffalo burgers ready to eat and raw burgers to cook at home

The Porkery Hog Roast served with stuffing and apple sauce

Your Secret Gourmet Ready-made meals, soup, pastries and cakes

Look out for street entertainers including The Moot and Bread & Butter

Market Place Stalls Dewsbury Market Place

Be Happy Kitchen Salts and peppercorns

Cocoa Chic Handmade Belgian chocolates and hot chocolate stirrers

Coddy's Farm Locally reared meats including beef, lamb, pork, bacon and sausage

Green Olives Olives, Turkish Delights, Nuts, Baklava

Hepworths Deli Cheese, chutneys, savouries, cakes, biscuits, dry pasta and rices

Lancashire Fudge Fudge, truffles and confectionary

LTH Charitable Foundation

Handcrafted baby bedding, aprons, peg bags, laundry bags, cushions and hand knitted goods

Longwood Blankets Beautiful woven blankets

Malcolm Oates Handmade artificial door wreathes made from locally collected pine cones, nuts, acorns, artificial berries and leaves

Salts Catering Artisan pastries and cakes

Sesh Handcrafted jewellery, accessories and art made from broken, recycled skateboards

The Porkery Pork pies, scratchings and free range eggs

Podge Speciality quiches, frangipane, tarts, pastries, cekes, brownies, ciabatta, focaccia and pizza

Tori Designs Unique fabric crafts

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Church StreetDewsbury is situated:

8 miles south of Leeds and Bradford 9 miles east of Huddersfield 6 miles west of Wakefield.

Getting thereThe Town Hall is linked to the bus and rail stations by a free town bus which runs every ten minutes between 8.30 am to 5.00pm on Saturdays.

Bus - connections to the local area are frequent with bus stops and taxi ranks next to the Town Hall.

Train - Dewsbury is on the Huddersfield Line with services from Manchester/Huddersfield and York/Leeds.

Car -The town centre offers a range of parking options with over 700 spaces including on-street, short and long-stay car parks.

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