New Mills Project eARTh enjoyed a great Comic/Cartoon project with artist Jim Medway exploring the local history of New Mills through making our own comic strips – here is the result.
To view the comic in a new window, click here.
Out of this World
High Lea Hall has never felt so cosey! With the bubble-fest happening in the park just outside and the weather (sort of) smiling on us, the hall was packed out with families and young people. Everyone left with their own 3D cosmic landscape and a thin covering of glue, and we were so busy we couldn’t get all the portraits processed quickly enough!
So now the dust has settled, and the tables scraped clean we’ve been emailing out the pictures we didn’t finish on the day.
After they had made their landscapes we used the greenscreen to photograph portraits, and computer-trickery to place people in their landscapes!
Going from this:
To this:
Thankyou to everyone who took part, for being patient when there was a queue and for giving permission for us to use your photos! We’ll have to think up a new digital / design combo for next year!
Moorland Panorama at The Moorland Centre, Edale
New Mill’s Project eARTh group created a beautiful felted art work, which was on display at The Moorland Centre, Fieldhead, Edale S33 7ZA. However, since the exhibition are has been turned into offices for Moors for the Future, we are looking for a new home…
Music Sessions in Gamesley
Ten sessions of music making were spread across four different weeks, with sessions for Junior and Senior youth. They worked with musicians Mark Turton, Mike Davies and Yasmin Heathcote and lots of people of all ages came in to try out instruments and write their own songs. We made lots of recordings during the week and sent out CDs to everyone who came.
Here is a little taste of what we came up with:
Messy Arts in our Summer Programme 2013
Transform junk materials into priceless artwork and musical instruments.
8th August, 1 – 4pm, all things Egyptian at Fairfield Sure Start, Victoria Park Road, Fairfield, Buxton, SK17 7PE
14th August, 1 – 4pm, Junk4Funk at Springbank Arts Centre, Springbank, New Mills, SK22 4BH. £5 per child (or 2 children for £6). Springbank Arts Centre, 01663 308 202
20th August, 10am – 4pm, Nicky Ward in the Yurt at Buxton Library, Kents Bank Road, Buxton, SK17 9HW
29th August, 11am – 1pm and 2 – 3pm, at Gamesley Library, Grindleford Grove, Gamesley, Glossop, SK13 6GB
Story sessions for our Summer Programme 2013
Choose from three story sessions in two different libraries. Helen Appleton will weave you into another world and send you away to write your own tales.
15th August, 1 – 3pm at New Mills Library, Hall Street, New Mills, SK22 4AR
21st August, 2 – 5pm at Gamesley Library, Grindleford Grove, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 6GB
22nd August, 10:30 – 1pm, at New Mills Library, Hall Street, New Mills, SK22 4AR
And click here for details of our full Summer Programme.
Film & Digital Arts in our Summer Programme 2013
We’re getting all our gadgets out at sessions in New Mills and Buxton, and you can come and make a film in an afternoon, or make fantasy landscapes and have your portrait taken in you new world (as if by magic!).
7th August, 1 – 4pm, Matt Kowalczuk film taster at Springbank Arts Centre, Springbank, New Mills, SK22 4BH. Make a film in an afternoon. £5 / child (or 2 children for £6). Springbank Arts Centre: 01663 308202
20th August, 1 – 4pm, Fantasy portraits from Brazil at Fairfield Sure Start, Victoria Park Road, Fairfield, Buxton, SK17 7PE . FREE
Summer Programme 2013
We’ve got lots on all over the High Peak this summer – click the links below to find out more.
Story sessions with Helen Appleton (New Mills & Gamesley).
Buxton Festival Storytelling weekend
On Saturday 20 July, Pippa Pixley, is a local author & illustrator of children’s books whose stories take you on magical adventures, she told her tales in the yurt at Buxton festival. Thanks to everyone who joined her as she created original characters and bought them to life in a lively, interactive storytelling session.
On Sunday 21 July, the Yurt was occupied by Christine McMahon, whose ready wit and warm manner, mixed with a dollop of Northern grit, made this event really special. Christine is a unique performer whose tales enthralled young and old alike.
