The Whaley Bridge Water festival is a fantastic opportunity for  families with children of all ages and makes for a great weekend that includes local bands, dance, stalls, animal and bird shows, a traditional Punch and Judy show, traction engine displays and  fairground rides.

This year HPCA took its wonder yurt out to add to the entertainment with local artist Jim Medway who specialises in comic book making and cartoons leading a great workshop getting everyone drawing their very own Whaley Bridge Water Festival Cartoon Character.

The rain came down, but the yurt held up and Jim helped over 150 children and adults create cartoon creatures great and small.

Whaley Bridge Water Festival Gallery

 

Some of the creatures created at Whaley Bridge, well done to all the budding artists and many thanks to Jim Medway.

 

 

If you go down to High Lea Park today, you’re in for a CHAMPION surprise!

Little GIANTS theatre present a special pre Olympics theatre event for children in collaboration with High Peak Community Arts.

 

Rehearsals for this year’s show “Going for Gold” are taking place in High Lea Park, St Mary’s Road, New Mills, SK22.

We extend a warm open invitation to come along to watch live theatre in the making.

9 professional actors will be creating animal characters in preparation for the show at the Buxton Festival Fringe in July. Charlie Cockerel, Derek the Dog, Liliana Llama, Shirley Sheep, Pippa Pony, Puppy Blaze and Farmer Jack and his wife Jill, and a puppet show.

“Going for Gold” is the inspirational story of Derek the sheepdog’s dream of winning the “Derbyshire Dales Olympics” and  introduces the enthusiastic but unfocussed sheepdog puppy Blaze as he learns the skill of good attention, how to be focussed, overcoming obstacles, teamwork and a show stopping puppet show of  “The Hare and the Tortoise.”

The theme for the show is how to be a champion.

We will be rehearsing in the open sided ‘Yurt’ tent from 10am – 5pm on Friday 22^nd June, Saturday 23^rd June and Sunday 24^th June and again on Wednesday 4^th July, Thursday 5^th July and Friday 6^th July.

We invite you to join us, just come along and watch or bring paper and draw pictures, a great opportunity for creating stories. No need to book, just turn up.

 Little Giants Theatre create logical, engaging, interactive stories enabling children to make sense of their lives and the world they live in, delivered with great care, comedy, music and songs, theatre for children age 3-7.

Nominated for the “Best for Families” award at Buxton Festival Fringe in 2011.

We do hope you will come and visit us at what promises to be a unique opportunity to see live theatre in the making.

For further information telephone 01663 740993 and ask for Kate or Call HPCA on 01633 744516

 

   

Tales in the Tent

Fairfield and Hadfield  2012

Tales in the tent took place in Fairfield and Hadfield on May 12th and 19th, with story tellers Gordon MacLellan and Christine McMahon.

Both events were part of the Derbyshire Literature Festival and were ran in partnership with the Libraries service and with the Children’s centre at Fairfield.

The sessions were funded through Derbyshire Community Foundation, so a big thank you to them, the funding allowed families and children of all ages to enjoy great entertainment, get involved in their community and hear some fantastic stories.

In Fairfield parents and children were transfixed by stories of goblins and monsters, giant rocks and great quests to be won.  Outside the yurt the Children’s Centre staff ran cake decorating activities, seed planting and boxercise for children and adults. The Libraries staff helped parents and children create re-cycled books and later on in the day some of these were filled with stories.

In Hadfield, the yurt drew quite a crowd, children of all ages,mums, dads, grannies and grandads and even a curious dog all took part, spellbound by stories old and new. The crowd heard about kings with horses ears, babies that beat up ghosts and fairies who cast magic spell, children asked questions and many added their own ideas and made up similar stories of their own,

So a big thanks goes to everyone who came along to listen take part and be inspired by stories.  The events were made extra special by children and young people adding their own ideas, making up their own stories and making books for their own tales with Libraries staff.  In all over 100 people came to the two events, everyone  had a great time and everyone went home with a tale or two to tell.