ARTISTIC PROGRAMME – INTRODUCTION

Work over the past few years has been immensely varied: from intensive one-to-one arts programmes tailor-made for individuals, to a multi-dimensional interactive CD documenting the development of a new green-belt community.

These projects have made friends of strangers, forged new alliances between community groups, agencies and local authorities, and encouraged community development. The process has generated new artwork: unique, individual and powerful expressions of what can happen when people work together towards a common cause.

Our arts programme for 2008-2011 has the following priorities:

Arts and Well-being
Participatory arts projects with disabled adults; people with long-term medical conditions; people with mental health needs; elders in community and residentail settings.

Programme of ongoing arts projects and workshops including creative digital media workshops – film, photo collage, publishing, sound technology, animation and interactivity – which use the resources of the digital media centre at our base in New Mills
AND an open-to-all singing group that meets weekly, with visiting workshop leaders in different traditions

Youth Arts Programme
Over the next three years High Peak Community Arts will be turning its attention to finding new opportunities for young people to get involved in creative activity across the High Peak. We propose:

to draw a map of all the activity for young people that's taking place currently

to develop new work with young people who don't already take part

to champion long term, stable high quality provision

to pilot new projects in a wide range of partnerships

Responding to local and community needs
Projects that arise out of changing and emerging local and community needs