The Buxton and New Mills group both worked with poet and writer Leanne Moden on creative writing, along with some drawing, on the nature of Hope. The groups enjoyed a wide variety of writing exercises and conversations. From their writing, Leanne has created collective poems, which will be transformed into posters. The Buxton group began

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We meet Mondays 12 noon – 2.30pm  at St. Anne’s Parish Hall, Hardwick Square West, SK17 6PX . To enquire about joining, please email  alison@highpeakarts.org or call Alison on 01663 744516 0r 0752 815 9283 (See  ‘Project eARTh at home’ for distanced projects, and all the projects that were done in lockdown. )

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Buxton Project eARTh finally unveiled their Seed Exchange and Bilberry Bees on Dec 5th – an event postponed due to the Queen’s funeral. We were pleased to invite the Mayor of the High Peak, Cllr Ollie Cross to the event, who unveiled the artworks for us. [foogallery id=”11426″]

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We had fun in the summer, with shadow puppets with artist Tara Saunders of The Babbling Vagabonds Theatre Company.   Both the morning and afternoon groups created collective stories and made the puppets and landscapes to go with them – ready for our last week of term when they acted out all of the stories! 

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We worked with artist Roisin O’Connor making ceramic fruit, vegetables and flowers , for a ‘Free Seed Exchange’ . The Seed Exchange structure is for the Serpentine Community Garden, and it is now installed in the Pavilion Gardens . The idea is for people to be able to donate seeds and seedlings they don’t need

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With artist Deb Rogers, participants designed and made their own aprons to wear for our messy arts activities. They were all very individual, and looked great – as well as being very useful ever since!

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With artist Mir Jansen, participants made paper from pulp and leaves, and then illustrated the paper with silhouettes of leaves on a white background. these stylish pieces were framed and given to the Zink Project for their cafe – specially designed to fit in with their decor. We had a celebratory event on February 28th

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With artist Deb Rogers, we created two fused glass clocks – which we started before the first lockdown in March 202, and put on hold till Autumn 2021. The morning group had a blue design with lots of cogs; the afternoon group, a design based on trees throughout the seasons.

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