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A celebration of 'collective joy and creativity' inspired by Emily Brontë and Kate Bush will feature as part of Bradford 2025's UK City of Culture programme.
Wondering Heights invites everyone to join a free, playful celebration
Inspired by Emily Brontë's imagination and Kate Bush's pop anthem 'Wuthering Heights', the event seeks to engage people from all walks of life in a simultaneous celebration of place, dance, and song.
People can participate from anywhere they choose - whether at home, in the workplace, or amidst the rugged beauty of the Bradford moors.
Wondering Heights is described as a 'tiny project with a big hopeful heart' focuses on togetherness through activities like walking, dancing, drawing, or simply imagining.
There will be two free workshops for people to learn the Kate Bush-inspired dance routines on July 5 and July 23.
The event encourages everyone to participate in their own creative way, be it dancing, drawing, waving a dramatic tea towel, or walking one of the mapped routes.
Artist Lucy Barker is the brain behind Wondering Heights.
The project aims to welcome everyone to create and share their own moments of 'collective effervescence', a term defined by modern sociologists to signify the joy of moving or feeling together.
Routes on the event map include Lucy's Dream, starting near Denholme Gate, Thornton Village, Ogden Water, and Denholme.
Full access guides are available for select routes on Lucy Barker's website.
The Wondering Heights map, designed by Chris Goddard, is available online or in limited-edition risograph print form at venues, including the Bradford 2025 Ticket Office, The Brontë Parsonage Museum Reception, and South Square Centre Café.
The map can be used as a guide for a walk on the moors, a prompt for a dance, or a 'spark for something entirely your own'.
When finished with it people can recycle it, pass it on, or repurpose it creatively.
The event is free to participate in and encourages everyone to share their creative responses on social media using a QR link or by tagging Lucy Barker on Instagram.
The initiative is said to be inspired by the words of Priya Parker, from 'The Art of Gathering', who said: "Gatherings have the power to temporarily transport us to a world created for a specific purpose—where we feel we belong to something larger than ourselves."
For more information, visit Lucy Barker's website or follow her on Instagram. (Gavin Engelbrecht)
From the outside, this modest stone cottage in England looks like the perfect escape for those seeking peace and quiet.
But the house is next door to a world-famous tourist site that attracts 70,000 people each year.
The Brontë Parsonage, located just 50 metres down the road, is a magnet for literary tourists.
It is here that Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë penned some of English literature’s most famous works, including Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.
In their day, the Yorkshire village of Haworth was a grim place where sewage flowed down the streets and sanitation was poor.
It was also a time when the average life expectancy in the village was just 25.
Today, Haworth is a peaceful country town with a bustling tourist trade.
There are two one-bedroom cottages, one two-bedroom cottage and a small studio on offer.
The cluster of buildings will go to auction at the end of July with a guide price of £350,000 ($732,000).
The listing by SDL Property Auctions suggests the cottages could be used as holiday accommodation.
“The building would lend itself to Airbnb or could potentially be redesigned, internally, to accommodate any number of functions, i.e. guest house,” the listing reads.
“This is all subject to the necessary consent.”
The cottages are ideally positioned between two of the town’s biggest tourist sites: the house where the Brontë sisters lived and the church where their father preached.
The idyllic ivy-covered buildings have traditional stone walls, chimneys and mullioned windows.
Three of the four cottages are currently rented out to private tenants, while the other is vacant. (Orana Durney-Benson)
A cash-strapped local authority is planning to offload more of its assets in order to bring in £6m.
Kirklees Council was faced with a £47m black hole in its budget in 2023-24.
The authority has already raised nearly £1m after four assets were sold off in May and June.
Seventeen new assets have been earmarked for disposal including a plot of land at Grasscroft in Almondbury, despite several objections. [...]
It has already auctioned off of the former Red House Museum at Gomersal, which sold for £650,000.
The Grade II listed property, which was once the home of Charlotte Brontë's friend Mary Taylor, was previously a museum which closed in 2016 and a plan to turn it into holiday accommodation and wedding venue fell through. (Abigail Marlow)
According to
TimesNowNews,
Jane Eyre is one of 5 books recommended by Benedict Cumberbatch.
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
‘Jane Eyre’ remains a timeless exploration of emotional strength, morality, and self-worth. Through Jane’s voice, Charlotte Brontë crafts a narrative that merges gothic drama with a profound inner journey. Jane’s resilience in the face of abuse, neglect, and heartbreak reflects a fiercely independent spirit determined to define her own value. Benedict Cumberbatch has expressed admiration for the character’s emotional depth and the novel’s enduring relevance. As someone who often portrays psychologically rich roles, it’s clear why he would be drawn to such a work.
There were several dance routines, which were very varied, almost none of which were appropriate for the Austen era and which made the scenes even more humorous. The cast were clearly well rehearsed in what superficially were chaotic scenes. In Sense and Sensibility, Emily and JR danced to Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights before Rosie pointed out that was by Emily Brontë, not Jane Austen. (Charles Essex)
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