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  • Alison Bowry at HPCA – 1990 to 2024

    Alison Bowry at HPCA – 1990 to 2024

    Alison Bowry started working for High Peak Community Arts in 1990 and has tirelessly spearheaded the organisation’s work in both disability arts and creative health. Early projects included youth and community drama, such as The Heart of the Stone – a Buxton community play in 1990 – and The Water is Pink and Other Colours

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  • Film Cuts Monthly Update – November Review 2024

    We are thrilled to announce that thanks to continued funding from BBC Children in Need, Film Cuts is set to run until 2027! This generous support enables us to keep offering young people with additional needs a creative space to explore and develop their filmmaking talents. Kicking Off the Year with New Ideas and Activities

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  • ‘It’s in Our Nature’ Showcase

    We had a fantastic afternoon on 29 th September at Spring Bank Arts with the ‘Final Showcase’ for ‘It’s In Our Nature’ – celebrating all the work done in the past year by Project eARTh, Tall Tales and Film Cuts Club. We filled the Mackie Hall with visual arts, poetry and live performance; and showed

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  • Audio track test download

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  • Photography

    In the Spring, and luckily with sunny days, the Space to Explore group had a series of photography workshops with artist Mark Turton. With ‘attention to detail’ as our theme, participants explored the gardens and surrounds of St. Matthew’s Church and took lots of lovely photographs- including many of the beautiful flowers. Some people then

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  • Creative Writing and Shadow Puppets

      As a way of celebrating and enjoying participants’ special interests – including trains, ships, planes, Berlin, dragons, dogs, otters, octopi, penguins and planets – participants worked with artist Gordon MacClellan to create a splendid array of shadow puppets which we then wove into fun stories in our final session before the summer break. [foogallery

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  • River Corridor Project

    Participants worked with artist Liz Wewiora on a River Corridor Project focussing  on the Rivers Goyt and Sett that run through New Mills. Participants created  gel prints and lumen prints using found natural objects from the rivers, and recorded memories,  thoughts and feelings about the rivers. These have all been used to create a beautiful

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  • Ceramic Planters and more!

    Participants worked with ceramicist  Sue Blatherwick to make planters. In the final week, everyone filled them with compost and succulents to take home, to mark the end of our final project until more finds are secured. [foogallery id=”13060″]

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  • Route 61

    Route 61 – poetry inspired by the bus route from Buxton to Glossop: Both groups worked with poet Genevieve carver on a creative writing project inspired by the 61 bus route to create a book which is a journey over hill and dale, through history, memory, landscape and laughter.  [foogallery id=”12983″]

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