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The Spine

We are delighted to be hosting the award-winning theatre company, 20 Stories High, from Liverpool, who are bringing us their brand new show, The Spine. We are working with Glossop North End Football Club to bring the show to Bradbury Community House, Glossop on Wednesday 19th February, 6.30pm.

The Spine is a new play about goals, brotherhood and the football academy system

Kyle, Liam and Hakeem dream of football, fame and fortune… after spending most of their teenage years being the spine of the team, the premier league is now at their fingertips.

But as they all reach for that golden contract, the cracks begin to appear as years of institutional racism, and hyper-masculinity begin to take their toll. Will the boys be strong enough to stick together, or will they elbow their way to the top?

The Spine is an explosive new show that shines a spotlight on a system that promises the world but leaves over 99% of young men on the side-lines.

With heavy beats, raw performances and silky football skills The Spine is not only a play about football but one which explores what it really means to be a man in the 21st Century.

Age Guidance:  13+

Click here for tickets.  Tickets also available without booking fee from Bay Tree Books in Glossop.

Upcoming Events!

We are working on our 2020 events programme and will advertise all events on the website – with highlights posted on our homepage – in the meantime please see our calendar pages for regular and pop up events happening now or coming soon!

Happy New Year!

From all of us here at High Peak Community Arts!

Please check back soon for our exciting 2020 programme of events!

7th December – High Peak Orchestra in Concert!

Thank you for joining us for this end of year event!

This event has now passed.

This fundraiser concert from High Peak Orchestra includes Mozart’s Overture, La Clemenza di Tito, Brahms’ St Anthony Variations and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (Eroica). New Mills Town Hall, Spring Bank, New Mills, SK22 4AT. Tickets here or on the door 7.30pm.     

Thanks for coming!

To our musical AGM on Nov 13th from 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Our Annual General Meetings can be used to quiz staff and trustees about our work, find out about our Friends Scheme and be entertained by local music after the business is complete.  Join up as a member for free to be able to vote.  As always – a free event with free refreshments, and all are welcome. Providence URC Church, Mellor Road, New Mills, SK22 4DP

Sunday 22nd Sept – New Mills Final Tea Party Celebration!

Join us! All welcome!

Here is a peek at our Tea Parties Gallery – don’t miss out on free tea, cakes and good company, for this fun and memorable occasion!

Buxton Tea Party
Buxton Tea Party
Buxton Tea Party
Buxton Tea Party
Buxton Tea Party
Buxton Tea Party
Two ladies with chaaccter tea cosy
Lady with character tea cosy
Alison and Ruth with a tea cosy!
Original drawing
Original drawing
Original drawing
Original drawing
Original drawing
Original drawing
Original drawing
Hand made character tea cosies
Awaiting guests for the tea party, tables and chairs set up.
Hand made character tea cosies
March hare willow sculpture
Willow sculpture of the march hare with arms in the air!
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Work in progress! For more images click the picture to follow link!

After 40 years, High Peak Community Arts asks – Do you take sugar?

To celebrate the last 40 years and the 40 years to come, we invite you to our final 40th Anniversary Tea Party:

New Mills – Sunday 22nd September

You will be welcomed to the Tea Party by life size willow sculptures of the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, a Tea Pot with a Dormouse in it, and Alice from ‘Alice in Wonderland’.  Free cakes and hot beverages will be served in our handmade ceramic 40th Anniversary Tea Service.

Drink from our own hand made ceramic mugs, and eat cake from our own plates, all commemorating High Peak Community Arts’ projects of the past 40 years, and made by Project eARTh participants with artist Caroline Chouler- Tissier.  The willow sculptures  have also been made by Project eARTh with artist Juliette Hamilton. We also have tea cosies representing staff and projects, made by our own Sophie!

Everyone is welcome, but we especially want to meet anyone who has taken part in a project in the past, because we are on a mission to collect stories and memories from as far back as possible. Perhaps you were in our first major project, Suitcase Circus, or Kick One and They All Limp in 1982? Or the Buxton Community Play, The Heart of the Stone, in 1990? Alison Bowry, Arts, Health and Wellbeing Programme Manager has worked for the organisation since 1990, and she explains “We have worked all over the High Peak with lots of other organisations, like youth clubs or community groups, so people don’t necessarily realise that projects they took part in were part of our work. We’d love people to have a look at some of our project names and see if they ring a bell!”

Were you in any of these projects – or any others  – in the past 40 years?

If so, we would love to hear from you. Do join us at one of our tea parties for a chat and to celebrate our anniversary! Can’t make it?  Give us a call on 01663 744516, email alison@highpeakarts.org, or send us a message on facebook….

Some projects…..

Suitcase Circus   1980                                            

Mug in progress!

Kick One and They All Limp  1982                              

Commutiny on the Bounty 1983

Silk, Satin. Cotton, Rags 1983                               

Mrs Higginbottom’s Bridge 1984                               

Merry Christmas Mr Trash 1985

Chamber of Horrors 1986

Tin Hats and Telegrams  1986                         

Firefox  mid 1980s

Whitfield GRIDs play scheme 1986

BROC – road opposition video 1988/9??                           

Willow in progress!

Dice and Vice 1980s

Human Race Video 1989

Buxton Community Play 1990   

Youth 600 – The River is Pink and Other Colours 1991

Me with No Imagination 1992                                

Glossop Chimney 1992         

New Mills Value Map 1993  

Willow in progress!

Peak People and The Peaks 1993/95

Names project and HIV awareness 1994/96       

Whaley Bridge Women’s Week 1994                     

Millie The Giant Rambler 1994                                

Quarries and Lorries  1994/5

Hope Valley Arts and Crafts – Value Map; Look Again & Women’s Voices  1995 onwards 

Fairfield Mural 1995

Build on Buxton 1996

Arts Exchange 1997 – 2007

Rural Art Project (youth) late 1990s

Lighting The Peak  2000

Willow in progress!

Peak Performance Music 2002

Living Here Now (Chinley) 2003 – 4

Arts Exchange Plus  2001 – 2

Exchanges:  2003 – 2005 (Ceramic Clock, One in Eight magazine, Bamford Sculpture)

Peak 11 Summer School  2004 – 2009

Positive Images – Coaster Art 2007/8

Messy Arts – holidays – children’s art days 2000 onwards 

War Road, Glossopdale School 2006                       

Gamesley 1968 – 2004 CD Rom

Mug in progress!

Woolly Stories and the Yurt! 2007/8 and onwards

On Common Ground 2007

Project eARTh 2010 – ongoing – many projects!

Creative Wellbeing :  2014 to now: Mosaics, Felted wall hangings, ceramic bird bath, ceramic tree of life, willow arbour and angel; Sheep to Craft

A Walk in Time – Totem in High Lea Park  2012

Peak Inside Magazine  2012

Blue John Felts for Buxton Library 2015

Glossopoly 2013 – 15

Tall Tales: 2012 onwards

·      Darkness

Willow in progress!

·      Blue John

·      100% Wolf

·      Mind Your head 

·     Enchanted Gathering

·     Join The Fight

Shout Action  2013/14

Film Cuts Club 2013 onwards

Music Art Pod 2013 onwards

 

…And Many More!

 

Sat 14th Sept! Macbeth in the Park!

After acclaimed reviews for a Midsummer Night’s Dream in Buxton Fringe Festival in 2018, The Three Inch Fools bring their UK tour of the Scottish play to New Mills, in their inimitable fast-paced, musically driven style. Bring camping chairs and a picnic! High Lea Park, St Mary’s Road, New Mills, SK22 3BW. £10 adults on the door, £8 under 18s or adults in advance, under 10s free. Tickets available from Eventbrite (small booking fee applies) or at cost from High Street Books, New Mills.

Sat, 14 September 2019 – 16:00.

Event location: High Lea Park, Saint Mary’s Road, New Mills, SK22 3BW

‘Our Window on the Valley’ Celebration and Unveiling

With relief that Whaley Bridge is once more safe and all are returned home, we are pleased to invite you to the Unveiling and Celebration of ‘Our Window on the Valley’, at Whaley Bridge station – etched glass artwork created by project eARTh participants with artist Andy Comley. Join us in Fri 13th September, 11am – 12 noon to see the artwork, and photos of the project in progress. Free event. Refreshments. 

 

 

Mad Hatter’s Artwork Exhibition – 18th July!

Our tea parties have drawn quite the crowd! Yet it’s difficult to see all the incredible artwork as people are drinking and eating from part of the exhibition! Hence an evening to see all the pieces in their full glory!

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