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  • Arts and Well-being

    The Arts are good for your health! High Peak Community Arts runs participatory projects which impact on people’s well being. Arts projects can build self confidence, enable self expression, unleash creativity, build friendships, enable people to learn and develop arts and interpersonal skills and create art works to be proud of. High Peak Community Arts

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  • Project eARTh, environmental arts and health

    This is an exciting five year project for people experiencing mental distress, funded by the Reaching Communities programme of the BIG Lottery Fund. The project is run by HPCA in partnership with the local mental health teams and High Peak CVS. Project eARTh holds weekly creative arts sessions, led by experienced artists and supported by

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  • Painted Umbrellas for the Olympic Torch Relay

    The Olympic Torch Relay comes to Buxton on  Friday June 29th – passing through from 5pm to 5.30pm. The New Mills Project eARTh group are busy with artist  Ruth Marsden and fabric paint on white umbrellas , and on the day will line the route near the Pavilion Gardens to  ‘twirl’  the colourful results as the

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  • Free Posters and Postcards

    Free Posters and postcards on the five ways to well being! Project eARTh’s posters and postcards on the five ways to well being are now available. We have a limited supply, so if you would like a set, for you school, youth club, community group, office etc  please get in touch. The five ways to

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  • Arts Award

    All our projects offer the Arts Award, from Explore level through Bronze, Silver and Gold.  The award is accredited by Trinity College London, with Silver carries 10 credits at Level 2 on the Regulated Qualifications Framework – the same level as a GCSE grade A-C.  The Gold award, at level 3 also carries 16 UCAS

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  • Handmade Cards

    Participants have made a series of stunning greetings cards from lino prints the Buxton group did in Autumn 2011. These can be bought for £2 each or three for £5. They are on sale at New Mills Original, or can be bought at our events.

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  • Fairfield Archway and Seating

    The group has been working with artist Caroline Chouler -Tissier and Leander Architectural to create sculptured aluminium and steel seating for outside the shops in Fairfield, and an archway for the Granby Road Park in Fairfield.  The design for the ‘banner’ of the archway  and the five seats (in plasticine to be cast in aluminium) are

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  • Ancient Landscapes Project

    Ancient Landscapes Project. The Buxton group are  working with artists from ‘Stone and Water’, to explore the geology of the Peak District and create an installation from crochet, knitting and building coral reefs out of wool, and other reef fauna using a variety of textiles.  The project is in collaboration with Borderland Voices, an arts

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  • Human Sundial and Time Capsule

    The ceramic and aluminium human sundial can be found in High Lee Park, off St. Mary’s Road, New Mills, Sk22 3BW. The sun dial is just outside High Lee Hall, near the giant horse chestnut tree, with a plaque that explains how to use it to tell the time. The time capsule is buried nearby,

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