Film Screenings & Live Music: Life in Kirklees & Its Textile Industry

Following our Textiles of India study day, we’re showing a trio of films about Kirklees’ textile heritage – and the people that worked in the industry. There will also be live music from local musician, Satnam Galsian, who sings Punjabi folk and Punjabi language songs.

Drop-in for some of the programme or stay for the whole event.

4:30pm – Live musical performance: Satnam Galsian
Leeds-based vocalist Satnam performs music exploring the interplay between north Indian and western music traditions.

5:30pm – Film screening: “A New Life in Huddersfield”
Developed by Let’s Go Yorkshire, “A New Life in Huddersfield – Memories of Partition and Migration” documents Huddersfield’s survivors of the Partition of India in 1947, a significant event in history, and their subsequent migration to Huddersfield..

6:15pm – Film screening: “INTERWOVEN”
Through music, film and oral histories, the INTERWOVEN project has explored the history of Shoddy & Mungo – the recycled woollen fabrics that made Dewsbury and north Kirklees into an industrial powerhouse.

6:30pm – Film screening: “Round and Around: The Story of Shoddy in Song”
The INTERWOVEN Ensemble perform a new piece of music written for the INTERWOVEN project in 2022, to celebrate the rich heritage of North Kirklees’ Shoddy and Mungo industry and its connections to present day environmental issues in modern textile manufacture.