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Blue John Felted Panels – Unveiling

Blue John A5 LeafletThank you for joining us! This was a lovely event and we look forward to seeing you again soon!

PAST EVENT:

Come and celebrate the completion and unveiling of our ‘Made in Derbyshire’ project on Wednesday 30th September in Buxton  Library Children’s Area.  Participants from our Arts and Wellbeing programme worked with artist Carol Wilson to create a series of beautiful panels depicting scenes from the children’s book by Berlie Doherty, illustrated by Tim Clarey. Some of the wool used is from whitefaced woodland sheep from Elton, nr Bakewell, a breed indigenous to this area. FREE,. All welcome. 11am. See the artwork and photos from the project. Enjoy refreshements, Meet the author, Berlie Doherty.

iPaddling for New Mills Festival!

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We had a great time on Saturday 19th September as part of New Mills Festival.  High Lee Hall was a-buzz with creative ideas and we made  some beautiful little films and works of art!

 

High Peak Community Arts invited everyone to dip toes into some cool and funky iPad apps.  People used one of our iPads or brought their own, trying video, imaging and music apps & here is our fusion of sound and vision from the day:

And delving underwater:


Finding things you didn’t expect:

Roaming the High Peaks:

And accidents will happen on the farm!

These are the apps we used, if you want to have a go at home!  (some are free, some are cheap and some are a few pounds):

Art:  Paper53, Photoshop Express, Photoshop Mix, Photoshop Sketch

Music: Garageband (check you’ve downloaded all the features), Bloom, Beatwave, Morphwiz, Loopy HD, Propellerhead

Video: iMovie, Action Movie FX, StopMotion

 

 

Are you 100% Wolf?

100pc Wolf block smCome down to one of the two shows completing our second year of Tall Tales.  This year we have been working with the book ‘100% Wolf’ by Jayne Lyons and in four months we have worked with young people from Gamesley, Glossop and Fairfield, Buxton to create another outstanding show to captivate you – The Audience!

Don’t miss out on your chance to see and hear a show that combines humour, horror, music and visual treats to tell the story of Freddy the young werewolf, struggling to deal with some great expectations.

100% Wolf is the second show from High Peak Community Arts’ project Tall Tales, working in music and theatre with young people from Buxton & Glossop. The story comes from the book of the same name by Jayne Lyons, and takes us to the world of the werewolves who live among us. This first stage production tells the whirlwind tale of Freddy as he comes of age and transforms into a wolf for the first time.   All does not go according to plan when it turns out Freddy is not like the rest of his family. Can he overcome his fears and redefine what makes him and his kind 100% Wolf?

 

The show takes to the stage at the Geoffrey Allen Centre, Gamesley at 5pm on 7th August and at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton at 7.30pm on 9th August. The project has been funded by the Foundation for Youth Music and Arts Council England and more than 50 local young people have worked with professional musicians, artists and theatre makers since April to create the music and material for the performance.

 

In weekly workshops in Gamesley, Glossop and Fairfield, Buxton they have worked with instrumentalist and composer, Andy Smith, theatre maker, Paul Hine, and a host of other musicians with skills in vocals, digital music, song writing and instrumental playing. They have also worked with visual artist, Katy McCall and digital artist, Andrea Pazos to develop visual ideas for the final staging. Now the two groups will meet in an 8 day summer school to put all their ideas together and form the young company who will perform on 7th and 9th August. Audiences can expect a live band, singing, dance and drama, with a distinctive set and live projections to conjure up the world of a werewolf dynasty!

More information about the project and video clips from the workshops are available at www.highpeakarts.org, or find High Peak Community Arts on Facebook and Twitter (@HighPeakComArts).

 

Performances will be:

5pm, 7th August, Geoffrey Allen Centre, Winster Mews, Gamesley, SK13 0LU; Tickets £3 (£1 concessions), available from Gamesley Community Café, or on the door.

7.30pm, 9th August, Pavilion Arts Centre, St John’s Road, Buxton, SK17 6XN; Tickets £4 (£3 concessions), available from Buxton Opera House box office 01298 72190

 

Making Your Garden Grow

Making your Garden Grow A4Project eARTh participants, children from Art Box Art Club and Buxton Infants worked with artist Carol Chouler- Tissier to create 3D ceramics flowers, which will be installed in the Pavilion Gardens Conservatory, during Buxton Festival. The Unveiling and Celebratory event is open to all, and is on Thursday July 9th 11am – 12.30pm in the café and conservatory.

More Upcoming Events!

One World Festival, New Mills! 4th July, Silent Disco in HPCA yurt. 12 – 4pm

Glossop Carnival! 4th July, 12 – 4pm, Glossop Digital Project stall with Leicester Uni

Buxton Festival! 25th / 26th July, Storytelling in the magical yurt, Pavillion Gardens. Saturday Shonaleigh, 10 – 4pm. Sunday Gordon MacLellan 10 – 4pm

100% Wolf! Performing arts show from our Tall Tales project 7th August, 5pm, venue TBC; 9th August, 7.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton.

 

More details on these events very soon!!!

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Grinlow’s Legacy

Grinlows Legacy A4New Diary events coming soon!

On May 18th – Come and see Project eARTh’s wooden sculptures, Grinlow’s Legacy, and hear the stories created about them. The group worked with sculptor Sarah Fiander and writer / storyteller Gordon MacLellan, (Creeping Toad) on the project. Yr 5 of Burbage Primary School also added to the stories, and on 18th, Gordon will tell the stories – and you can take away a lovely booklet of them too.

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Gamesley and Fairfield Music Sessions

New projects coming soon!

The dates are set, the rooms are booked, the artists are warming up…
Tall Tales starts again in Fairfield, Buxton from 28th April and in Gamesley, Glossop from 29th April.

Follow the story from last year’s project:
Click here for Tall Tales Year 1

It’s not the same as being there in the theatre, but if you missed the show here is the footage that captured it at Gamesley with stills from the performance at Buxton (courtesy of DMC Photographic).

Enjoy!

And we’re doing it all again this year. New story, same places, new and old participants – so if you want to join us get in touch!  Or call in to a session to find out more:

Fairfield SureStart, Victoria Park Road, Buxton

Tuesdays 6 – 8pm, from 28th April

 

Gamesley Community Cafe, Winster Mews, Glossop

Wednesdays 4 – 6pm, from 29th April

 

Some People Have Too Many Legs – Stage show

This was a great show! See feedback on our facebook page (see to the right!) Thanks for coming!

 

High Peak Community Arts are delighted to be continuing their work with Contact Theatre’s Rural Touring programme – this we are working in partnership with Glossopdale Community College to bring you the one-woman show by Jackie Hagan:

Contact & NRTF present 

Some People Have Too Many Legs

Jackie Hagan ready for her show
Jackie Hagan ready for her show

7.30pm, Glossopdale Community College, Talbot Road, Glossop, SK13 7DP

Written and Performed by Jackie Hagan
Directed by Rikki Beadle‐Blair

Suitable for 13+

What do you do when when your world is turned upside down? Keep laughing.

Don’t miss Jackie Hagan, Performing her debut solo show, Some People Have Too Many Legs, as it takes to the road in spring 2015.

Last summer Jackie Hagan went to hospital with a mystery disease, they told her she was going to die and cut bits of her off.  Luckily she didn’t die, but she did eat loads and loads of Kit Kats because she thought it wouldn’t matter if she got fat.  She also lost a leg, made BFFs with an old woman who looked like a threadbare tennis ball (with eyes), fell in love with a posh man called Miles, and found her Dad.

Some People Have Too Many Legs Is a show about facing your fears and throwing glitter at them.

 

Tickets available on the door, from school reception, from Bay Tree Books and from:

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/search/searchPerformance.asp?performance_id=159349

£5 (£3 concessions and £10 family ticket)

 

And here is Jackie Hagan being interview on Radio 4 Saturday Live:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05j92ly

The Fabric of our Lives!

A woven tapestry inspired by Spring Bank Arts Centre, formerly the Church of St James the Less. Made by participants of Project eARTh (a High Peak Community Arts project) with Sue Lawty, using recycled cotton clothing, collected fabrics and willow withies. Enjoy the artwork and a photographic display of the project whilst taking some refreshments! It’s free and all are welcome!

 

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