We will be in attendance at the Inspire Festival – 23rd August, 10am – 5pm, Bankswood Park, Hadfield, Glossop – Junk4Funk are making sweet music out of recycling and all sorts. Just come along – it’s free!
Dinting Station in Ceramics
An amazing time was had at the celebratory unveiling event on Wednesday 18th June. These large-scale ceramic pictures were created by Project eARTh for Dinting Railway Station, with artist Adrian Holt.
We met at Dinting Station, 11am to see the artwork, and then went on to Bradbury House for refreshments and photographic display of the project, from 11.45am.
Here are some pictures we’d like to share!
A taster from the early Tall Tales sessions…
There is some exciting work going on in the Tall Tales workshops – we have groups running in Gamesley and Fairfield and they have got stuck in to all sorts of music activities, learning about the story of Blue John by Berlie Doherty and putting their own stamp on the ideas for the sounds of the final performance.
But don’t take our word for it – have a look at some of work in progress:
In Fairfield:
and in Gamesley:
Contact’s The Novice Detective – New Mills, 3rd June 2014
High Peak Community Arts is embarking on a new partnership with Contact Theatre in Manchester, starting with the hosting of a show from their Rural Touring programme funded by the Arts Council. On 3rd June 2014 Contact, NRTF & Sophie Willan presented:
It was aimed at audiences young (13+) and old, preferably together – and this is what we all thought:
“It was absolutely brilliant!”
“Really, really funny!”
“I thought the writing was really profound, the performance was just hilarious…”
“I cried laughing!”
The Novice Detective
3rd June 2014
Providence Church, Mellor Road, New Mills
7.30pm, doors from 7pm
Tickets £6 (£3 under 18s and over 65s, and £12 family ticket), available from High Street Books or on the door.
Phone 01663 744 516 for more information.
We are keen to develop more links with Contact, as brand new, original theatre aimed at a teenage audience is rare in rural towns such as ours – so spread the word and the bigger the audience the greater the chance of more shows coming this way!
Celebrating Arts for Wellbeing
Friday 16th May at Blythe House Hospice, Chapel en le Frith.
All are welcome to the ‘switch on’ of the beautiful hand- made paper globe, made by High Peak Community Arts’ Project eARTh with artist Caro Inglis, for Bythe House Hospice. The Lighting of the Globe will be from 12 noon – 2pm, with light refreshments and music. FREE.
There are also morning and afternoon arts workshops run by Blythe House (£15 per workshop, funds to Blythe House) , booking through Blythe House 01298 875080 or 07977 751304
Tall Tales – the Music Sessions
Brand new music sessions are running in Gamesley, Glossop and Fairfield, Buxton.
Gamesley sessions run from 23rd April and the next 12 Wednesdays at 4 – 6pm at the Gamesley Community Cafe, Winster Mews.
Fairfield sessions run in the Fairfield Dreamscheme sessions from 29th April and for the next 12 Tuesdays, 6 – 8pm at Fairfield Sure Start on Victoria Park Road.
This programme is funded by the Foundation for Youth Music for two years and there will at least one performance each year. Anyone aged 8+ with an interest in music (you don’t need loads of skills) should come along to see what we are doing. You don’t have to perform at the end just come along and give it a try!
We are working with composer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Smith who will be leading the activities; Sarah Atter, flautist and percussionist and Caro Churchill, digital and spoken word musician. They are all there to help start off the creativity and everyone will work towards brand new original music for the final performance.
Watch this space for the performance details!
Glossop Project Images
Some images from the Glossop Project film event at Bradbury House
November 2013
Artist: PAUL GENT
Glossop Film Event
The Glossop research project had another outing in November 2013, this time at Bradbury House where the films from the project were shown to some of those that took part.
The Community companions group and volunteers from Glossop Volunteer centre had all taken part in the making of the film giving their ideas, opinions and telling their stories and memories of Glossop and how it has changed over the years, what community life is like and what people think are the good and bad bits about the town.
We have the films here at HPCA and if anyone want a film night then please get in touch, also we still have the Glossopoly game if anyone wants to make use of it for their event.
The research conducted by Leicester University and HPCA was really interesting, the outcomes were positive and so to were people’s experience of living in Glossop, most people we spoke to thought there was still a strong sense of community. Research details can be found at the university website: