Welcome to The NASH - a studio space in Hawes in the glorious Yorkshire Dales National Park. We host a Saturday dance school and run a small programme of arts and heritage projects including theatre, puppetry, film, poetry, talks and summer schools. We work with a range of dynamic partners: Janet Seymour School of Theatre Dance, Rural Arts, Eden Arts, Swaledale Festival, Lempen Puppet Theatre Company and Dales Countryside Museum. Keep up-to-date on Facebook @TheNashHawes.
Click here for news of our latest project The Story of Schools in the Upper Dales, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Yorkshire Dales National Park's Sustainable Development Fund.
The NASH is short for ‘National School Hawes’: the building dates from 1845 and was originally a school, then a church-run community space, until it fell out of use. Emily Rowe Rawlence and Andrew Fagg bought the building in 2014 with the aim of bringing it back to life and The NASH re-opened in March 2016. The space is approx 10 x 8 metres and has a sprung wooden dance floor as well as tables, chairs and an accessible toilet.
Thank you to our funders: Richmondshire District Council, Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority’s Sustainable Development Fund, The Fore, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust and The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
12 October 2020
News, Story of Schools
I went to Muker School. I was born in 1939, so in those days I would’ve started in January 1945 when I was 5 wouldn’t I, yeah. There was no kitchen at Muker, we came home for...
23 September 2020
Enid Lundberg was a teacher at Arkengarthdale School for 25 years. On a sunny but windy summer’s day we met in her garden looking onto Calva Hill. Enid has an energetic spirit,...
14 September 2020
Images for a giant community photo mosaic celebrating youth and schools in the Upper Dales will be collected over eight weeks, starting on Monday 21 September. The mosaic of Dales youth is...