Over the course of six months, artist Mishka Lesayova embarked on the Green and Blue Residency , a collaborative project delivered with Everybody Arts and the University of Huddersfield, exploring how our interactions with natural environments shape our wellbeing, creativity, and sense of place.

Delve into Mishka’s beautifully crafted publication, offering a window into her findings and reflections. Discover insights and creative responses gathered and take a moment to consider your own relationships with nature and place.

Whether you're a researcher, artist, wellbeing practitioner, or someone who simply enjoys time outdoors, this publication offers a thoughtful resource grounded in lived experience and creative exploration.

In partnership with CultureDale and local venues across Calderdale, we launched an Artist in Residence Programme which took place throughout 2024 and 2025.

The programme brought local visual artists to venues across the borough throughout the Year of Culture, so local communities could see and interact with their creative practice.

The residencies celebrated the culture and creativity of Calderdale by allowing each artist to explore new ideas while engaging with people living near their residency venues.

Communities had the chance to work with the artists in a variety of engagement activities, providing space for the exchange of ideas between artists and their communities.

A unique paid traineeship empowering emerging artists in Calderdale to earn, learn, and create over six months—gaining skills, mentorship, and inspiring local communities through new cultural projects.

To support people through difficult times during the Covid-19 pandemic, we shared a weekly wellbeing email with activities, ideas and inspiration to help people relax, rewind and recharge.

Calderdale’s Creativity for Wellbeing Network brought together people from organisations involved in delivering creative and cultural activities that supported wellbeing.

Calderdale’s Thriving Communities partnership has come together to develop and map ‘Thriving Pathways’ between people, organisations, services and activities and in doing so create a ‘Living Database’ of community mental health and wellbeing provision developed by and for its communities.

A project where young people from Calderdale worked together with socially engaged artists to depict their current realties and utopian visions for the future.

During the winter we gave people the chance to access our spaces and art activities for free throughout.

Over summer 2022 people living in Calderdale joined us across a series of free creative sessions where they collectively created pictures of the challenges we face as a community, our visions for a better world, then worked together to co-create proposals for a Utopian Calderdale.

Over the Summer of 2022 Halifax Opportunities Trust, Halifax Panthers, artist Puy Soden and Everybody Arts have got together to enable young people to enjoy a really special and exciting art-making experience.

Over the course of a year, students were invited to consider how they can use art to affect positive change in their own lives and the lives of others, now and in the future.