Community Arts in the High Peak
One of our recent projects has been creating some inspiring art for our celebratory tea parties. Our instagram feed is full of exciting work by our participants! Click on our instrgram feed or have a browse of the website, which includes a fabulous tea party gallery!
High Peak Community Arts exists to create opportunities for people to participate in the creative arts, focusing on those who have least access to them. Follow us on Instagram here!
Thank you for joining us! This fundraising concert from Whaley Bridge Choir included music from Byrd to The Beatles (via Simon and Garfunkle) with original compositions and arrangements by musical director Patrick Gundry-White and poetry from Linda Goulden.
Doors and licensed bar: 7pm.
Tickets £10 on the door, £8 under 18s, and in advance available from Springbank Arts and High Street Books.
2019 is High Peak Community Arts’ 40th Birthday!
Watch this space for our Events Calendar which will be full of events and activities to celebrate us being 40 years young!
There will be lots of opportunities for people to help us celebrate during the year…and it’s guaranteed that we will only ever be one event away from fun and cake!
This year the camp ran from 15th – 18th April and we launched our new theme of SPACE!!
23 Young people age 8+ came together from across our youth programme to spend 4 days focusing on generating ideas and stories to use throughout the year. On day 2 we had a trip to Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, and worked for the rest of the week at Victoria Hall in Glossop (the former library).
Feel free to browse our Collection of material, and look out for the show coming up in August which will conjure it all into an all-singing, all-dancing performance with music, drama, projections and plenty of surprises!
Down load the Space Mania Booklet here.
Thank you for attending our final film screening from Film Cuts Club on 11th May 2019.
With news of a new application to BBC Children in Need only expected in June, this may have been the last screening of work from HPCA’s notorious Saturday club. Over the last 3 years nearly 100 young people with additional needs have taken part in at least 140 film making sessions, making short film from animated Animals to tech-obsessed Zombies. This year’s screening provided the usual mix of the surreal and the sublime, and invited the after school club from Chapel en le Frith to screen their latest ‘Chapel TV’ instalment as part of our celebration of the club.
Refreshments were served from 2.30pm, with screening from 3pm.
All welcome to join us to unveil and celebrate Project eARTh’s three Rainforest Felted Wall hangings. The event is free, with tea, coffee and cake.
The colourful wall hangings were made by participants with artist Carol Wilson, especially for Fairfield Surestart Children’s Centre. For a change, we chose a theme further afield than the High Peak – to explore the natural life of Rainforests. We all know that these wonderful habitats are under threat across the globe, and that it is essential they are protected.
Thank you for joining us on Thursday 28th Feb to unveil the beautiful silk painted panels, inspired by the Charles Eamer Kempe stained glass windows in Spring Bank Arts Centre. These window and wall hangings were made by participants in Project eARTh ( Environmental arts and health) with artist Amanda Whewell. They will be displayed at Spring Bank Arts Centre, alongside a book of smaller silk painted pieces also inspired by the windows.
Well done to our 38 young people who passed their Arts Award during 2018! We’ve achieved 20 Explore level, 15 Bronze and 3 Silver; from the Music Arts Pod, Tall Tales and Film Cuts Club. Everyone’s work was inspired and of such high quality that the moderator was “very impressed”!
Arts Award inspires young people to grow their arts and leadership talents: it’s creative, valuable and accessible.
The Silver certificate is a level 2 qualification (Qualification Number 500/9914/0) giving 10 credits of learning. Click here for the Ofqual registration.
The Bronze certificate is a level 1 qualification (Qualification Number 501/0081/6) giving 6 credits of learning. Click here for the Ofqual registration.
The Explore certificate is an entry level (Entry 3) qualification (Qualification Number 600/3894/9) giving 4 credits of learning. Click here for the Ofqual registration.
About the project:
Participants of the New Mills Project eARTh are currently working with textile artist Amanda Whewell to create a series of silk painting window hangings, inspired by the stained glass windows at Spring Bank Arts Centre, New Mills. The stained glass windows at Spring Bank Arts were designed by the famed, Victorian stained glass artist Charles Eamer Kempe. The windows contain a stunning visual variety of spiritual and secular motifs, all of which have provided artistic stimulus for our project participants.
Charles Eamer Kempe
Charles Eamer Kempe was born in Brighton in 1837. 
Throughout the Victorian era, he was a famed designer and manufacturer of stained glass and church furniture.
Kempe studied at Oxford and wanted to be a Vicar, but he had a stammer which he struggled with so he decided to use his talents to decorate churches rather than to preach in them.
Kempe used the wheatsheaf as his trademark, this was a symbol that was taken from his family’s coat of arms.
Throughout his life, Kempe was a shy man who stayed single. He died in 1907 from a cold which had turned into congestion of the lung, for which he had refused to get medical help.
The Unveiling
The new silk panels will be unveiled on Thursday February 28th 2019 and will hang at Spring Bank Arts Centre for the enjoyment of all who visit it. For information on Spring Bank Arts, New Mills, visit:
https://www.springbankarts.org.uk/
