keighley Arts (karts) n a bit of a rant

I have recently moved home, as I have no money or job as such, and have decided that it seems very silly for all these creative people to be living in the valley with no sort of really user driven on-line presence, hence Keighley arts.

I attempted to look at using basically any other platform than facebook but on reflection and after having searched around for some thing that would provide for all it became very apparent that unless it was Facebook, something that everyone uses already, then well no one would use it at all. So as it stands I have been to be totally honest the only one posting on the groups wall regularly and to no real avail (but this is probably just my impatient side shining through). So a new tact has to be undertaken, a project that might just possibly pull some people into working together, be it as some form of higgledy piggledy arts collective: enter stage from left, Yarn Bombing, a well rehearsed practice for artist, craft people, and general miscs.


Yarn Bombing " Improving the urban landscape one stitch at a time" http://yarnbombing.com/ :


Keighley is, in my humble opinion a perfect candidate for yarn bombing, it has been described as a hard town, and can seem very depressing if not looked at with curious eyes. Hopefully drawing some attention to Keighleys good point can be only a positive thing, creating a town centre wide yarn bombing installation will obviously not change anything really, but if it just takes a bit of interest away from the fact that all the shops are shutting down and we have more super markets than any town I know of then maybe maybe it will be a good thing too do.

I'm now going to take this opportunity to list what I love about Keighley:

• The people, pure and simple, there are a lot of lovely people. (I admit there are some nasty ones too, but they are inconsequential)   
• We have beautiful Victorian buildings the façades of which should be much more greatly appreciated than they are, all you have to do is look up.
• the most amazing Moore lands
• dramatic weather (we all wine about it, but sometimes when you see the weather falling off the hill tops its simply magnificent)
• rich literary heritage
• cliff castle, what an odd thing it is
• and finally amazing cities less than an hour away so we can easily leave every now and then.

Rant over....

here is the group on facebook .... http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_167063799998177&ap=1

if yarn bombing fails me im moving on to land art... ill probably move onto that anyhow....