2010-2014 — Page 2

Inspire Festival Glossop

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!

Inspire Website here!

Sharing evaluation with our peers

Last year we had great pleasure in visiting the Shout project in Swadlincote during some of their creative days at People Express. We helped them with some evaluation and learned about their approach to providing activities for young people with additional needs and their families – and we made this short film for them at the end!

We’ve now used some of what we learned to guide the direction of the Film Cuts Club and start some sessions outside of school with family groups.

See the results here:

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!

The Film Cuts Club celebrates

The Film Cuts Club celebrates its first year of support from Children in Need

It’s been a busy year for the Film Cuts Club. We have set up three weekly film making clubs at local high schools, with a staggered start of one starting each term. The first to start was in Glossopdale Community College, in April 2013, where they have now had three terms of activity. Next we began in New Mills in September and then the last club to start, Chapel en le Frith, began in January 2014.

Each club began with a pilot term, where we worked with school staff to try out the project with new groups. Sometimes we have gone back to the drawing board after the pilot and started with a new group – because in every place there is a different situation and the pilot is a time for us and the school to learn about the methods and the best direction for the work.

Each club has worked with film maker, Mark Turton, who has introduced a range of practical film making activities and through practical work has developed the club members understanding of the theory of film making; i.e. the different roles on set and the stages of pre-production, production and post-production. He has tailored the structure of sessions according to the different needs of each group, with some working in small groups to produce short pieces, some working in larger teams.

We have worked with a total of 59 young people with a range of additional educational needs and have seen some real changes in the confidence and social skills of the young people involved. For example, a young woman with speech and language impairments who now instructs her teachers on how to use equipment, and a young man with severe physical disabilities who takes a lead in story writing and supports others in coming up with ideas.

And here are some of the results:

So what’s next for the development of the clubs? After their pilot term of work in school time we are moving each club into an out of school slot – originally all of these were going to be after school club – but now we are planning a mixture of after school in Chapel en le Frith and New Mills and some holiday time activity in Glossop and Buxton. And these holiday sessions will invite the whole family, parents, siblings and friends of children with additional needs to take part in the filmmaking clubs. So watch this space for new partnerships and new opportunities to get involved.

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.

HPCA Celebrate Arts

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!