UPDATE: 100 FREE TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT! A free, ticketed, event is happening on 27th July 2025 to celebrate the timeless connection between Kate Bush and Emily Brontë on their shared birthday with a ‘Mass Wuther’ dance at Penistone Hill in Howarth (the moors that inspired Wuthering Heights) in conjunction with the Brontë Parsonage musuem and as part of Bradford 2025 City of Culture.
The event will include a live reading from the novel performed by local writer and broadcaster Kate Fox, a series of practice sessions to perfect the iconic dance together in the open field, and an exclusive performance by Sarah-Louise Young – the acclaimed artist behind An Evening Without Kate Bush who will be joining in with the dancing and bringing Kate Bush’s greatest hits to life. The event will be filmed by the BBC.
Following the celebration on the moors, they’ll be heading to Parson’s Field at the Brontë Parsonage Museum for a communal picnic.
This event supports two causes; Women’s Aid, who help women affected by the kind of abuse depicted in Emily Bronte’s novel. A minimum of £427 million is needed to be invested per year to fund specialist domestic abuse services for women and their children across England (Women’s Aid, 2023), and raising money for Women’s Aid enables them to help meet this important goal. And secondly, Stronger Together to Stop Calderdale Windfarm, a local campaign aiming to preserve Top Withens and the surrounding moors from ecological destruction by encouraging windfarm development in less ecologically significant areas.
The event sold out 6 hours after releasing the free tickets, and organisers are making another 100 tickets available today, exclusively to katebushnews.com and HomeGround readers!
This is the link to the event to get free tickets:
[With thanks to Dr. Suzanne Triggs for letting us know!]
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