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Arts Award success!
We’ve just had our first moderation of the new Arts Award Explore level accreditation, with 26 young people from Chapel en le Frith and New Mills receiving the award! Sophie Mackreth, our Arts Award Advisor, is trained in Discover and Explore levels and is using it in the Film Cuts Club and Tall Tales project.
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Watch Blue John here!
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
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Watch our Super Hero Film from New Mills Festival!
Every year we open our doors for New Mills Festival and this year it was 20th September, for character creation and a special story for the festival. We were showing films in the back room and the hoards came and created more than 30 characters to star in a super hero film like no other!
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Our Summer Programme 2014
We had a summer programme full to bursting with different arts and creative activities to suit any interest! Libraries In Gamesley, Buxton and New Mills libraries we had free sessions in creative drawing with Paul Gent, junk percussion with Junk4Funk and digital animations with Andrea Pazos. Festivals At Buxton Festival Gordon McLellan was
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Blue John at Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton
Following on from its brilliant success at Gamesley, Blue John had his second outing to the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on 2nd September. The young performers loved the excitement of a professional venue and to top it all they played to none other than the author herself, Berlie Doherty. She said “I’m really, really impressed.
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Stop the Press!
High Peak Community Arts – new patron! A New Mills arts organisation has a new patron, Dame Joan Bakewell. High Peak Community Arts, based on St Mary’s Road, are delighted Baroness Bakewell is their new champion. Dame Joan, who was born and educated in Stockport, is one of the country’s foremost journalists and broadcasters
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Blue John premieres to critical acclaim!
On 5th August thirteen young people from Glossop and Buxton joined forces to perform the World Premiere of their interpretation of the popular children’s story by Berlie Doherty. Here are some thoughts from the audience: And here is the lovely piece on High Peak Radio, put together by Izaac Cole: listen to ‘Blue John
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Blue John second show 2nd September
Blue John is the first performance from our music and theatre project, Tall Tales. Funded by the Foundation for Youth Music, local young people have been working with professional musicians and singers since April and the final work will be performed in Glossop on 5th August and Buxton on 2nd September. The story, Blue John,
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Trail Tales on the Sett Valley Trail
Project eARTh and Hayfield Primary School invite you to their celebratory launch of Trail Tales! These solar powered audio benches are on the Sett Valley Trail and in Bluebell Wood, Hayfield and at the press of a button you can hear a tapestry of music and spoken word on the theme of nature, changing
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