Kate Bush News was excited to announce that this year The Most
Wuthering Heights Day Ever would be taking place on the actual Haworth moors too on July 27th. It is a free event, but ticketed and seemingly sold out already.
A free, ticketed, event is happening on 27th July 2025 to celebrate the timeless connection between Kate Bush and Emily Brontë on their shared birthday with a ‘Mass Wuther’ dance at Penistone Hill in Howarth [sic] (the moors that inspired Wuthering Heights) in conjunction with the Brontë Parsonage musuem [sic] and as part of Bradford 2025 City of Culture.
The event will include a live reading from the novel performed by local writer and broadcaster Kate Fox, a series of practice sessions to perfect the iconic dance together in the open field, and an exclusive performance by Sarah-Louise Young – the acclaimed artist behind An Evening Without Kate Bush who will be joining in with the dancing and bringing Kate Bush’s greatest hits to life. The event will be filmed by the BBC.
Following the celebration on the moors, they’ll be heading to Parson’s Field at the Brontë Parsonage Museum for a communal picnic.
This event supports two causes; Women’s Aid, who help women affected by the kind of abuse depicted in Emily Bronte’s novel. A minimum of £427 million is needed to be invested per year to fund specialist domestic abuse services for women and their children across England (Women’s Aid, 2023), and raising money for Women’s Aid enables them to help meet this important goal. And secondly, Stronger Together to Stop Calderdale Windfarm, a local campaign aiming to preserve Top Withens and the surrounding moors from ecological destruction by encouraging windfarm development in less ecologically significant areas.
The event sold out 6 hours after releasing the free tickets. (Sean)
BBC News reports that eight new nature reserves have been designated in Bradford district.
Eight beauty spots across Bradford district have been designated as new nature reserves in a bid to boost wildlife and improve access to green spaces.
Sites in Keighley, Queensbury, Ilkley and Shipley have been selected as part of Bradford Council's bid for residents to benefit from spending time in nature.
The authority worked with friends of groups across the district, Natural England and Wharfedale Naturalists trustee Steve Parkes to secure designation for the sites.
Paul Duncan, deputy director for Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire at Natural England, said: "Creating these new local nature reserves is another step along the road of enhancing the biodiversity of Bradford."
He said the project would help make the city a "bigger, better and more joined up place for wildlife to thrive".
"These reserves will increase opportunities for leisure, recreation, and improved access to vital green spaces," Mr Duncan said. [...]
Carolyn Bowe, chair of the Friends of Littlemoor Park, said the designation would mean the group could "bring in funding and people to help us do even more".
It follows the announcement that a new nature reserve on the landscape that inspired the Brontë sisters would be created in Bradford.
The Bradford Pennine Gateway is the first of its type in the county and is part of the King's Series of 25 National Nature Reserves being developed across the country. (Adam Laver)
Yesterday marked the 200th anniversary of the death of Elizabeth Brontë, aged 10 years old and
AnneBrontë.org had a post about it.
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