Fascinating trip today with the @arts_zk group I’m working with to @NWfilmarchive - from the digitalisation room to the chilly temperature controlled vaults. Lots of inspiration for the oral history & sound art piece we’ll be crafting together.

And breathe.. Our first workshop of Phase 2, the participants enjoyed their first sound walk. Letting go and being at one with the sounds around us. This was an exciting start to this phase. Highlighting that art and wellbeing go hand in hand.

Phase two has now begun for the HAFA (HEALING ARTS FOR ALL) project and we are excited to announce the project title ORAL HISTORIES SOUND PROJECT. We will be delving into what sound is, how we record sound, how we use recording equipment, recording historical stories and editing

We are thrilled to announce creative practitioner for phase 2, Jo Kennedy. Jo will work with Participant’s to collect audio from the former cotton Millhand, relatives and south Asian community to comprehend and document how the mill shaped their day to day lives.

What's happening down there? In our latest episode we delve into the fascinating world of grassland #fungi with @nationaltrust expert Steve Hindle to discuss extra-ordinary interconnectedness, ancient niches, carbon storage, & Calderdale's globally important sites. @Love_plants

I'd like to be able to safely cycle into and out of my town, but plans for a cycle lane are causing controversy! I've just signed this local petition. If you live in Tod would like safer cycling please sign too🚲🚲 https://t.co/J1oJwHnCdp via @38degrees

The Restricted Winner in the Individual Class is Jo Kennedy with: West Sussex night song. Congratulations Jo! 👏👏 #wildlifesound #wildlifesoundrecording #naturesounds #birdsong

Nature Tripping's latest episode is a celebration of the curlew, a look at how breeding populations are hanging on in the South Pennines, and how a local restoration project @BRewilded is gonna help. Listen to them (curlews!) from your favourite podcast player @CurlewLIFE @_BTO

Ultra-processed food? 🥔🥔

Cut, cut, cut cut. The water companies can regulate themselves. Oops. Shit. Recruit, recruit, recruit, recruit. Oh the painful and eternal cycle of life as an environmentalist in the public sector.....

"Do what you can to help the insects, every little helps" 🐝🪲🐞😉

Field trips to estuaries and moors, & a collaboration with @sue_walpole & @johnvhbonner brings a 'Salon of Curlews' to @ioutheatre, Halifax, https://t.co/CnPuafxf7K. A room of light, shadow, sound, sculpture and love for curlews, their companions and their habitats. @CurlewLIFE

Thanks @AnjaJungmayr for visiting ‘the mountain’ in the pouring rain and writing this up😉. “Rochdale’s Breaking Barriers production company is raising the bar with new project ‘Elevation’” https://t.co/qw3FJUlzDb

Listen from bed 🛌 here

Civil Twilight and things are stirring in the park. Started with a lone robin, the rooks, an owl and a wood pigeon. Now all the birds are joining in.

If you'd like to chill out to a limpet slowly munching its way across a rock the latest instalment of Nature Tripping could be for you. We give humans a break and spend some time instead listening to other life and the elements. Available from your favourite podcast platform.

#NoMowMay officially begins! 🌼

Just sound-checking for tomorrow’s 4.30am live stream of the dawn chorus https://t.co/c1hVyWZqOY @soundtent #Reveil2024 All sounding good with our little Streambox🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🙂🐦‍⬛#calderdalesoundnetwork

@ukhousemartins

Jill and Kathryn make a discovery under their eaves: House martins have arrived! A summer of ups & downs follows & we track events over the year to learn more about these ‘epic’ little migrant birds, & how to love a ‘pile of poop’ 🙂. Available now from your podcast provider.