arts and well-being programme

High Peak Community Arts has worked with disabled adults for over ten years. Its present projects (see below) are built on the foundations of the experience and learning gained through this work.

Group projects - Current Work

Coaster Art

This project is the latest in High Peak Community Arts’ programme of arts projects with disabled people. With seventeen participants, two artists, support staff, and volunteers, the room has been buzzing each session! There were twelve workshops from October to January, covering a variety of visual arts – monoprinting, painting, feltmaking, drawing and silk painting. Sessions took place in New Mills Youth Club, with participants from across the High Peak –Hadfield, Glossop, New Mills, Whaley Bridge, Buxworth, Chapel, and Buxton. From the hundreds of pieces of work that have emerged, the group had the difficult task of choosing their favourite designs to make a series of double sided, full colour, beer mats /coasters. There will be twelve different coasters with a run of 250 of each, totalling 3,000 in all to be distributed across the borough’s cafés. The coasters will provide a positive image of disabled people to the wider community.
Participants have planned a Celebratory Launch and Exhibition on 30th May 2008. Check the home page for details, and after that, check out the cafés in your area.
This project is funded by Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales.

Elders' Project

We will be working with elders with mental health needs in nursing homes in Buxton
Funded via West Derbyshire Mental Health Forum

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