Cliffe Castle Park in Keighley is hosting an evening of festive art, music and performance.

The event at 4pm on Saturday, December 3 is to celebrate the launch of Keighley Photo Hub’s new exhibition, Photosynthesis, which will see Cliffe Castle’s glasshouses covered in photographic images created by the local community using plant based techniques.

The work on display has been created by groups such as the Cliffe Castle Support Group, Keighley Colleague, Highfield Community Centre, Lion’s Den Shed and Keighley Healthy Living who this year worked with the Photo Hub’s director, Lisa Holmes, to learn how to make anthotypes – a photographic process using just sunlight and eco-friendly solutions from different plants.

The result is a diverse range of images which will be transforming Cliffe Castle’s glass-houses into a glowing lighthouse of colour throughout December.

Visitors at the event will be the first to see the launch of the lightshow which will be accompanied on the night by a festive soundtrack from Haworth Brass Band and Keighley Rock Choir. Winter warmer refreshments will also be available raising money for Keighley’s Good Food project.

A unique projection display which had been created by the Hope Project will also be on display. The “Projections of Hope” display, supported by National Lottery Project Funding, and by Bradford Council and Bradford 2025, will use everyday objects to project community messages of hope across big distances and onto public spaces for everyone to see. The Festive Launch will run from 4pm – 6pm after which the glasshouses will be lit up every night throughout December.