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Ceramic and Felted Bird Boxes and Birds

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The New Mills Project eARTh group have worked in ceramics with Caroline Chouler-Tissier and felting with Carol Wilson, and have created these enchanting homes, which will be located across the High Peak.

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For the Love of Books

More images from the first year of For the Love of Books!

 

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Pop-ups and Mechanical Cards!

If you joined us on 17th September, you’ll be looking for your animated gifs of everything you made…

Thanks for coming along and making it an absorbing and creative session!  And thanks to the bubble man for entertaining the throngs of people outside!!

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Alison and Sophie were joined by artist, Katy McCall and people had come from as far away as Saddleworth.  Youngest person, aged 2 tried out some simple pop-up, and others browsed our books to design something more mechanically challenging!

 

Music Arts Pod

recording lyricsOur schools programme has been running since 2015 with funding from the National Foundation for Youth Music matched by Derbyshire Music Education Hub and contributions from the schools.

This year (2018/19) we are working in Glossopdale Community College, Buxton Community School and New Mills School, to provide weekly music and arts activities for pupils who needed a boost in their learning.

joint workEach year we launch with a trip to Manchester to work at Band on the Wall for the day, where the young people work with their technician on the sound and lighting desk and with professional musicians with different backgrounds.  In the sessions that followed the young people work with Lucy LeClaire, Eskay and G-kut  to learn new skills, such as programming music on software such as Garageband, Logic and Ableton Live; writing lyrics about their lives, and using this to talk about ‘life in general’ in an open way; Researching their musical influences and art and design used by recording artists; and instrumental skills.  They also gain in self confidence and dialogue with staff and teachers who see them achieving and working together.  Since 2015 64 young people have gained an Arts Award from Trinity College London at Bronze or Explore level.

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“It has given me the chance to express myself and I enjoyed doing something without be judged.”  Young participant

 

We also sign post participants into our out of school activity, like Film Cuts Club and Tall Tales.

“The best bit was being creative with music in a chilled atmosphere where we can talk about life in general.”  Young participant.

Click here to see and hear some of their original material.

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Mind Your Head at Poole’s Cavern

Mind Your Head poster less info webThe third year of Tall Tales has unsettled audiences in Buxton’s Poole’s Cavern with a journey into Poole’s Cavern they won’t forget…

Young performers from Glossop and Buxton welcomed the audience to their book launch, only for proceedings to be interrupted by the book’s contents disappearing back into the cave where it came from! Luckily the assembled public were willing to help find the characters and get the book back on sale. Setting out in four search parties they entered the cave to find the Water Goddess, the Fire Goddess, ghosts, bats, Roman soldiers and a Bronze Age man and at the very foot a medium trying to communicate (badly) with the former inhabitants of the cave.
When they met NoName they found someone forced into the limelight and shrinking from the crowds attracted to the book launch. He was so uncertain of his place in the world he couldn’t take part, taking all the characters with him. But along the way the audience had found letters which seemed to hold a clue, and together they worked out his name. Back at the visitors’ centre everyone called for Norman and he returned to take up his new identity. With all the characters gathered around him he found that “True friends will always be there for you!”
A cast of 22 performed to a sell out audience, with people coming from across the High Peak… And here is a first peek at what it looked like:

The young people from Glossop and Buxton created the show during a 6 day Summer School. Now in its third year, Tall Tales is High Peak Community Arts’ performing arts programme for young people across the district.  Each year the project starts in April with evening creative sessions in Gamesley and Fairfield.  People can come along to try new skills in musical instruments, vocals, writing or music production, and they sign up for the August Summer School.

In the first two years of the project we worked from published books to create the show.  In 2014 audiences saw Blue John, from the book by Berlie Doherty, and in 2015 we staged 100% Wolf by Jayne Lyons.  But now the young members of the project have demanded they create their own story, and so we launched the Young Writers’ Camp in April 2016, where young people from  all our projects and others from Manchester came together to be inspired at Poole’s Cavern.  They created characters and stories to fill our Young Writers’ Camp Collection, ‘Mind Your Head’.  Tall Tales has been working with these ideas ever since and now they have been able to set their show back in the caves that inspired it!

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This year Tall Tales has been funded by Arts Council England, the Derbyshire Music Education Hub, Derbyshire County Council and Buxton Festival.  For more information contact Sophie at High Peak Community Arts on 01663 744516 or sophie@highpeakarts.org

‘The Buxton Story’ – Mosaic for The Cavendish Hospital

This mosaic is in the Fenton Ward lounge of The Cavendish Hospital, Buxton

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Visit The Peak District By Train

This poster was on display at  Manchester Piccadilly  Station for about a year. We have some in stock, as well as lovely postcards, if you would like your own. 

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These images are on the Hope Valley station platforms:

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These framed collages  have been donated  donated to community venues in each village:  Edale Village Hall,  Bamford Memorial Hall, Hope and Hathersage GP surgeries; and Grindleford Station cafe. 

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This collage was donated to the High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership

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Grinlow’s Legacy – sculptures for Poole’s Cavern

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Visit The Peak District By Train – Unveiling Event

visit_the_peak_district_by_trainFree event. All welcome to Project eARTh’s Unveiling of:
* 5 collages of the Hope Valley – Edale, Hope, Bamford, Hathersage and Grrindleford
* Posters – Visit The Peak District by Train’ featuring all 5 collage images, to encourage train use into the Hope Valley
*Di bond prints of each collage to be diplayed at each station.
There will be a photographic exhibiton of the project and how the collages were made, and refreshments.
After the Unveiling at the Moorland Centre, we will vist Edale Station to see the site of one of th di-bond prints.

Participants worked with artist Caro Inglis on this project.

Project eARTh is funded by The Big Lottery Fund.
The posters and di- bond images are being printed courtesy of The High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership.

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4:00 pm Tall Tales @ Fairfield
Tall Tales @ Fairfield
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10:45 am Space to Explore @ St Matthew’s Village Hall
Space to Explore @ St Matthew’s Village Hall
Jun 3 @ 10:45 am – 1:15 pm
Adult creative arts session to explore neurodivergence. For more info please click here!
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3:00 pm Tall Tales @ Gamesley
Tall Tales @ Gamesley
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11:00 am Film Cuts Club @ The Vineyard
Film Cuts Club @ The Vineyard
Jun 7 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Filmmaking club for young people with additional needs. Click here for more info and how to join!
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4:00 pm Tall Tales @ Fairfield
Tall Tales @ Fairfield
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10
Tue
10:45 am Space to Explore @ St Matthew’s Village Hall
Space to Explore @ St Matthew’s Village Hall
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Adult creative arts session to explore neurodivergence. For more info please click here!
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