Community Projects – High Peak Community Arts

January 31, 2025

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SMART – Serious Makers of ART returns

the second Creative Training Camp is here! Click here to sign up for February half term.
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December 29, 2024

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Space to Explore – how we got here

We have planned and delivered a neurodiversity project led by and for neurodivergent adults, with accessibility built in. We considered how to make it accessible as possible by creating floor plans, the use of colour cards with moods on them, as well as information cards and videos explaining neurodiversity. We did a baseline questionnaire at
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March 2, 2023

Children and Families Community Projects For The Love of Books News

Pre-order the High Peak ABC here

We are excited to launch our beautiful ABC book made specially for the High Peak by our early years team, Karl Harris, Andrea Joseph and Lucy Jackson. Launch day has a special treat – celebrated poet, Helen Mort is coming to perform a poetry reading of her own work and lend her support as one
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July 28, 2020

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Flex your creativity this summer

We will post instructions on here at least once a week. To get notifications you can sign up for our newsletter or find us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If you would like to join the project as a full member you should email sophie@highpeakarts.org and she will get in touch. Click here
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May 15, 2020

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Family Fun Fridays! Marbling!

We hope you’re recovering from the blast of overnight freezes in the High Peak this week. To help you do that here is our third installment of fun creative activities for families with young children from Karl, Frances & Margit our Early Years specialists – something to explore together during these extraordinary times! This
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June 30, 2017

2017 Community Projects For The Love of Books News Youth Projects

Help fund creativity in nurseries!

We need your help through crowdfunder… For the Love of Books is our much loved early years project, working with nurseries in Gamesley (Glossop), Ollersett (New Mills) and Fairfield (Buxton) and we need help to reach our target match funding. When we hit the target The Ragdoll Foundation will release £30,000 for us to run
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November 4, 2016

Community Projects

Children and Families

In the last year we have been running For the Love of Books with children and their parents in 3 nursery settings across the High Peak, funded by The Clore Duffield Foundation and Awards for All. This was our first specifically focussed early years project which was managed by Katy McCall, a local artist who
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September 28, 2016

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For the Love of Books

More images from the first year of For the Love of Books!
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September 30, 2015

2015 Community Projects For The Love of Books News

For the love of Books!

High Peak Community Arts are proud to present their first early years arts project, For the Love of Books. The project aims to promote a joy of books with early years children and their families, who can sign up for sessions with professional artists. The artists have been asked to choose their favourite children’s book
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