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  • Tall Tales!

    Explore your creative ambitions! We are pleased to announce that our youth music and creative arts sessions are returning for another season in Fairfield and Gamesley.  Anyone aged 8+ is welcome to come along and try playing in a band, writing and performing songs and making art, animations and stories. These sessions are a lovely

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  • Recent events!

    Recent events!

    Leaf Release. On the 26th April, 2022, we had a lovely morning at Whitfield House in Glossop, for the celebration of Project eARTh’s artwork, ‘Leaf Release’ – made by participants, with artist Kay Stowell. As always, participants enjoyed tea, coffee and cake whilst there; and were pleased to meet some of the residents and staff,

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  • The end of an era at High Lee Hall

    The end of an era at High Lee Hall

    Yes the rumours are true, we have moved out of High Lee Hall which has been our home for the last 33 years+. Alison has sat at the same desk since 1990, so please think of her as she adjusts to new GPS coordinates! From 4th February we have taken up a short term lease

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  • Greetings from Kickstart!

    Greetings from Kickstart!

    Our newsletters are currently featuring articles by each of our three Kickstart workers, who started working with HPCA in July, August and September. Kickstart is a government scheme set up by the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) to create 6 month work placements for young people age 18-24 who were struggling to find work

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  • Film Cuts Club to premiere here!

    Film Cuts Club to premiere here!

    Our Film Cuts Club have been up to their old tricks again, making something Christmassy to celebrate the end of the year!  We premiered ‘The Man Who Bought Christmas’ on 21st December at 6pm. Visit our YouTube channel, or here, where it is be available for the rest of the festive season and beyond! Merry

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  • Blue John Weaving

    Blue John Weaving

    High Peak Community Arts, Project eARTh at home: This project is split into four weeks, two weeks creating a sampler to learn some different weaving techniques and two weeks to make your own design, using Blue John as a colour theme. (The two-week Easter break is ‘extra’ to this, so in reality you have more

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  • Memories from the Archives!

    Memories from the Archives!

    As you probably know, we at High Peak Community Arts have been celebrating our 40th Anniversary(!), and over the past year we’ve been sorting and cataloguing our archives so that they can be preserved at Derbyshire Record Office. We thought it would be good to share some of the things we’ve uncovered to give an

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  • Things to do Feb Half Term onwards

    Here are some tips to have a little creative fun over half term and later.  If you are doing an Arts Award at Bronze, Silver or Gold go to an event or performance and it will go towards your award – I’ve labelled these ARTS AWARD.  Try to get into a quiet space where you

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  • Ticket to Hope

    Watch and listen to the beautiful short poetry film, ‘Ticket to Hope’ by poet Helen Mort ( and spot Project eARTh’s collages , too …) Ticket to Hope is a community poem compiled in autumn 2020 by Helen Mort from the words of people who live, work or study in Derbyshire. They were asked to

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