Recently, Ruth George spoke in parliament about High Peak Community Arts in the Westminster hall debate on Arts and Health. Here is the clip!
Shortlisted for the Children & Young People Now Awards!
High Peak Community Arts have just been shortlisted for the Children & Young People Now Awards!
We are delighted to announce that our Film Cuts Club has been shortlisted for the The Arts and Culture Award of this national scheme.
This is a tremendous achievement against extremely tough competition this year, and we are up against just three other contenders – Great Ormond Street Hospital, Curious Minds’ north west programme and Rhythmix south east programme.
Congratulations to our extremely hardworking and deserving filmmakers, Mark & Benn Turton and yes our tickets are booked for the awards ceremony in November! Whatever the outcome this nomination brings a kudos which is sure to help the progress of Film Cuts Club and the whole of our youth programme!
Enchanted Gathering…
Take a woodland, 12 animations, 6 songs, 3 dramas and 1 magical market place and step into another world…
Tall Tales have hosted their Forest of Enchantment, where the normal rules don’t apply and the audience met the inhabitants finding shelter, trust and magic. Enchanted Gathering was our 4th annual youth performing arts show from the Tall Tales project.
Click here to see films from the Magical Market…
None of this would have been possible without the generous support of funders, Arts Council England, Tesco Bags of Helps, local Derbyshire County Councillors and the Music Education Hub.
We have been working with young people on Gamesley and Fairfield for the past 2 months, using stories and ideas from the Young Writers’ Camp. The groups have been learning instruments, jamming and singing together, and in August they joined forces for the 6 day summer school – finishing with our World Premiere public performance of Enchanted Gathering on 16th August at Longdendale Environmental Centre, Tintwistle.
Location: Longdendale Environmental Centre, United Utilities Bottoms Office, Woodhead Road, Tintwistle, SK13 1HS
Help fund creativity in nurseries!
We need your help through crowdfunder…
For the Love of Books is our much loved early years project, working with nurseries in Gamesley (Glossop), Ollersett (New Mills) and Fairfield (Buxton) and we need help to reach our target match funding. When we hit the target The Ragdoll Foundation will release £30,000 for us to run the project for two years.
PLEASE SUPPORT US IF YOU CAN!
We have recently launched an exciting, new Crowdfunding campaign. It aims to raise funds for HPCA’s ‘For The Love of Books’ programme, which works with children and their parents/carers, and staff, at three nurseries in the High Peak. These nurseries are located in Fairfield, Gamesley and Ollersett.
The project involves professional artists working with the nurseries using books and the arts to inspire a variety of fun, engaging, hands-on learning sessions for families. These will include CPD(training) for early years staff, so that creative techniques can become part of their everyday practice. The project will ignite the imagination, developing a love of books, increased literacy levels in the under 5s and even stronger familial bonds as parents learn with their children.
The Ragdoll Foundation have agreed to fund some of this project, on condition we raise £5,000 from other sources. That’s where our
Crowdfunding campaign comes in! We have a commitment of £1666 from local county council funds and other applications pending, but we need a minimum of £1,200 more to be able to run any of this programme at all.
Crowdfunding is all about engaging people to raise money via them making ‘pledges’ to help fund work. People are offered ‘rewards’ in return for their donations.
Our rewards range from HPCA key rings to poetry books, trips to artists studios and potted ornamental trees. A range of artists have
been very generous in their support of this fundraiser.
The nature of Crowdfunding is that it is quick. In our case, 8 weeks to be precise. We are aiming to raise £1200 from now until the end of August 2017. Time is ticking!
Please help us if you can! By sharing information about this campaign, donating yourselves, or encouraging others that you know have a
passion for our work, to do so.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Choose us for the Co-op Fund! Vote online!
Brilliant news! We have been chosen for the latest round of the Co-op Local Community Fund , which means that co-op members can choose to give 1% of what they spend on Co-op branded products and services to High Peak Community Arts!
So co-op members – log into their membership page and choose us, please! You don’t have to spend in New Mills co -op for it to count, as long as you have chosen us – and you can choose causes within a 15 mile radius of your address.
All money raised will go towards arts projects with isolated older people in the community.
Let’s Be Friends!
We would be so grateful if you can take 2-3 minutes of your time to complete our one-page online questionnaire. You’ll be in with the chance of winning a host of fantastic prizes if you do!
Your thoughts are important to us and will help us to shape our new Friends scheme….which will be launching soon. Watch this space!!
Many thanks for your support,
From all the team at High Peak Community Arts
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/JJ8X3QV
Yurt for rent!
Are you looking for a unique, characterful venue for an activity or event? Look no further! You can hire our yurt!
16 foot in diameter, it is fashioned from a hand carved willow frame, and comes with a canvas cover and ash trellis.
The yurt also comes with a man who can! He will put up and take down the yurt for you as part of the hire fee.
For further information, and to enquire about availability, please contact the team at High Peak Community Arts.
Go on…Yurt know you want to!
Arts Awarders – Success!
Vote for Creative Wellbeing!
Another chance to vote for us – for our ‘Creative Wellbeing’ project we run with Good News Family Care.
You can vote online in Aviva’s scheme…..so please help us! Still time left – till 18th November!
Creativity is a wonderful route for change. We have found our joint project, the ‘Creative Wellbeing Group’, has a profound effect in improving mental health and wellbeing. Through this project, 40 women and several children have enjoyed weekly half-day arts workshops led by professional artists in each of the last 2 years. The purpose is to improve mental and emotional wellbeing, confidence, life opportunities and community engagement, so changing lives. Please help our ‘Creative Wellbeing’ project to continue in 2017.
The project is for women living with us who are fleeing domestic abuse, homeless, or in recovery from substance dependency, as well as women who we continue to support in the community and others living locally including elderly, isolated women and some with learning disabilities or dementia.
At ‘Creative Wellbeing’, we work together to create works of art for our residential centres. Each professional artist works with us for between 4 – 12 weeks; the artistic projects are chosen by a steering group of participants. We have created a hand-felted wall hanging; a 5’ diameter ‘Welcome’ mosaic; a living willow arbour; a large ceramic ‘Tree of Life’; and mosaic plaques for bedroom doors and ceramic tiles with the words ‘Peace, Freedom and Flourish’.
The project is run together by High Peak Community Arts and Good News Family Care. We currently have funding to complete large scale willow sculptures this Autumn but need £25,000 to allow this project to continue and expand all through 2017
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