Begin your journey here,
at The Piece Hall

As part of our commitment to supporting the future generation, The Piece Hall Academy is proud to offer two free courses – Live Production Arts and Music Performance & Production – delivered in partnership with Calderdale College and accredited by University of the Arts London. Both are designed to help adults take their first steps into employment in the live events, music, theatre and production industries.

Gain hands-on experience in real-world environments and develop the skills needed for today’s creative industries, all while working towards a recognised qualification.

If you’re ready to develop in-demand skills and bring live events to life, this could be your next step

The Grade I listed Piece Hall, Halifax is a rare and precious thing, an architectural and cultural phenomenon which is absolutely unique. It is the sole survivor of the great eighteenth century northern cloth halls, a class of buildings which embodied the vital and dominant importance of the trade in hand woven textiles to the pre-industrial economy of the West Riding of Yorkshire, from the Middle Ages through to the early nineteenth century.

Dating from 1779, when it was built as a Cloth Hall for the trading of ‘pieces’ of cloth (a 30 yard length of woven woollen fabric produced on a handloom), The Piece Hall was the most ambitious and prestigious of its type and now stands in splendid isolation as the only remaining example. It is one of Britain’s most outstanding Georgian buildings.

It is impossible to overstate the scale and importance of this trade, not just to the history of Halifax and the West Riding, but to the nation as a whole over some 800 years between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries.