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  •  Steel Sculpture Project

    In May we did a project with artist Tracey Cartledge to make a steel sculpture for Hayfield, near the DCC Countryside Services Centre at the end o the Set Valley Trail. The group worked on overall design, and elements to go in the sculpture. Tracey is pulling together the final design, which will be made

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  • Visit the Peak District by Train

    Working with artist Caro Inglis, we have created a series of 5 wonderful collages of Edale, Bamford, Hope, Hathersage and Grindleford. These have been framed individually and will be donated to community venues. (After appearing in New Mills Festival Art Trail in September) .

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  • Creative Writing / Shadows

    Working with writer and storyteller Gordon MacLellan, we explored writing and creating stories, using poetry, prose and shadow puppets. We had a fun trip to Bugsworth Basin, and then made shadow stories about it – including a true life Victorian era murder which took place on a narrow boat. Less gruesome, we also have lovely

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  • Lantern Making for Hadfield Lantern Parade

    We held a short lantern-making project with Gordon MacLellan, making lanterns for Hadfield’s Lantern Parade on Fri Dec 4th 2015. We also had 2 third-year medical students from Sheffield University with us on a community placement, learning about Arts and Wellbeing.

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  • Create a Song

    We completed an eight-week songwriting, singing and recording project with Singer-Songwriter Claire Mooney. 24 of us jointly wrote a song – ‘Seasons of Goodwill’, recorded it and performed it at our AGM on November 16th. As of week one only 2 people said they felt they could sing, this was a huge achievement. Everyone is

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  • Take Notice

    We had a five-week collage project with artist Caro Inlgis, focussed on the theme ‘Take Notice’ from the Five Ways to Wellbeing. [foogallery id=”11945″]

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  • The Fabric of our Lives

    We worked with artist Sue Lawty, weaving with recycled fabrics and using withies as the warp and loom. We made a beautiful wall hanging for Spring Bank Arts, unveiled on April 24th. [foogallery id=”11938″]

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  • Making our Garden Grow

    We made 3D ceramics flowers with artist Caroline Chouler –Tissier. Together with those made by the Buxton group in the Spring, and those made by children in Caroline’s artbox art clubs, the flowers were displayed in The Pavilion Garden Conservatory during the Buxton Festival 2015. The Celebratory Event was on July 9th, 11am – 12.30pm.

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  • Mosaic Trail

    On Thursday 12th June, we started 7 weeks of mosaics with artist Debra Tracey. We made mosaics for installation along the path in ‘Gamesley Woodlands’, once more in partnership with Derbyshire County Council Countryside Service. The path runs from near Broadbottom to Simmondley, and might be known as some by the name ‘Gamesley Sidings’. The

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