Join Yellow Goose Dance (featuring a few familiar HOOT faces!) at this year's Huddersfield Food & Drink festival - 'Not strictly Strictly, but .... a live 10 piece band, original songs,...
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Hacking Happiness with Breathing Space on BBC Radio 4
Back in January, BBC Radio 4 visited our Arts & Dementia group Breathing Space to speak to us about happiness for their programme 'Hacking Happiness'
The programme starts next week on...

"An escape from the mundane" Out of the Blue 17/18 Annual Report
At Hoot’s beginnings over 15 years ago, there was little credence or understanding that the arts had much to do with good mental health and wellbeing. Nowadays it is normal and usual to find...

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Hoot is open and sessions are running as normal.

HOOT December - Jan opening times
The HOOT office is closed for the festive period from Friday 22nd December 2017 and will reopen on Monday 8th January 2018 when all our sessions start again too.
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Words, Found - Poetry anthology launches
Today we launch The Write Stuff Anthology - words, found. A collection of works from Hoot's creative writing group, The Write Stuff, in 2017. Copies are £5 and extremely limited!
With many...


HOOT on BBC Radio 3 | Music Matters
On Monday we welcomed the BBC Radio 3 programme, Music Matters to our Breathing Space session in Huddersfield to discuss music making in Huddersfield and the arrangement of music...

Write Music | Record Tracks | Share Online
Off The Record offers people aged 16 to 25 the chance to explore music making, regardless of experience. Join us in the HOOT recording studio to write music, record your tracks with an experienced...

Build Up releases new track
Build Up was a Hoot project in partnership with the Yorkshire Childrens Centre and Mens Shed. A visual artist and musician worked with the men to build a beautiful sculptural display unit with...

The Art of Recovery & World Mental Health Day
As our Some Stuff Matters exhibition comes to a close, work by HOOT participants will continue to be exhibited at events in Leeds and Dewsbury next week.
The Art of Recovery
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