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  • Upcoming events!

    Our choral fundraiser from Duodecimo chamber choir was cancelled in spring 2020 – but it’s back again!! On the 9th October join us for the ‘We’re Beginning to See the Light!’ Choral concert fundraiser. Please join us to enjoy light music, folksongs and madrigals by Ellington, Rutter, Stanford, Monteverdi and Vaughan Williams. It’s our first

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  • Blue John Weaving

    Blue John Weaving

    High Peak Community Arts, Project eARTh at home: This project is split into four weeks, two weeks creating a sampler to learn some different weaving techniques and two weeks to make your own design, using Blue John as a colour theme. (The two-week Easter break is ‘extra’ to this, so in reality you have more

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  • Artists Call Out!

    Call Out for Artists : Project eARTh , for projects September 2021 and onwards High Peak Community Arts is looking for freelance artists to send in project ideas for Project eARTh, its programme for adults experiencing mental distress. We encourage and welcome applications to broaden the diversity of our pool of freelance artists, to include

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  • Memories from the Archives!

    Memories from the Archives!

    As you probably know, we at High Peak Community Arts have been celebrating our 40th Anniversary(!), and over the past year we’ve been sorting and cataloguing our archives so that they can be preserved at Derbyshire Record Office. We thought it would be good to share some of the things we’ve uncovered to give an

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  • Ticket to Hope

    Watch and listen to the beautiful short poetry film, ‘Ticket to Hope’ by poet Helen Mort ( and spot Project eARTh’s collages , too …) Ticket to Hope is a community poem compiled in autumn 2020 by Helen Mort from the words of people who live, work or study in Derbyshire. They were asked to

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  • Coasters for World Kindness Day Fri 13th November!

    World Artists for World Kindness Day: With artist Amanda Whewell, we had activities inspired by a different artist each week, for seven weeks. Participants received a hand delivered Art Bag of activity sheets, sketch book and all the materials needed for the project. The colourful sheets had artwork and information about the artist, with two

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  • Community wide bunting project!

    Community wide bunting project!

    There is a High Peak wide community project that EVERYONE can join in – to make bunting on the 5 ways to wellbeing. The idea is for everyone to make bunting to hang in our own windows and remind us of how to keep well for winter. ‘High Peak has a fantastic community spirit and

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  • Photos!

    Photos!

    OUR GALLERIES We have so many exciting projects running at present, and over the years we have been so proud of what our participants have achieved. Here you can find photos from a selection of our projects! Some favourites! [foogallery id=”7773″]     It´s In Our Nature Showcase 2024 [foogallery id=”13253″]   Shadow Puppets 2024

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  • A coronavirus update from Robert the archivist

    A coronavirus update from Robert the archivist

    The coronavirus pandemic has certainly changed my archiving project for High Peak Community Arts. Since November I have been going through boxes, cupboards and filing cabinets at High Lea Hall and recording their contents on my computer. Last week I was due to take the first batch of boxes to Derbyshire Record Office in Matlock

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