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  • Grand Unveiling of Orchard Textiles

    Join us to celebrate and unveil Project eARTh’s   ‘Orchard Textiles’. Participants worked with artist Amanda Whewell to learn about pattern design and then inspired by New Mills Community Orchard, create beautiful textile panels with hand printing, appliqué and embroidery. These have been stitched together to produce lovely curtains for High Lee Hall . You will

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  • Film Cuts Club

        Lights, Camera, Action! The Film Cuts Club is our filmmaking club for young people with additional needs, run by filmmakers Mark and Benn Turton. Funded by BBC Children in Need, the group consists of young people from a broad range of ages and abilities. The club aims to teach the full process of film

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  • Film Night 2017!

    Film Night 2017!

    Never mind Hollywood…the High Peak is now the official centre for film! On Saturday February 11th 2017, over 50 people gathered at Hadfield Youth Club, popcorn and excitement abounding, to see  –  for the first time ever –  the completed films of the inspiring young people involved in the Film Cuts Club. A range of films were

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  • Unveiling, Celebration and Exhibition of Fused Glass Panels

    Join us to celebrate Project eARTh’s amazing large scale glass panels, made by participants with artist Alex Blakey. The New Mills group made a triptych of Glossop, High Peak and Derbyshire scenes and landmarks  for Manor House Surgery in Glossop, and the Buxton group created images of the four seasons, plus a summer seaside scene for

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  • Merry Christmas from everyone at HPCA

    Merry Christmas from everyone at HPCA

    And a special warm Merry Christmas from the folks of the Film Cuts Club – where do they find so much good cheer?? Please enjoy their video and brace yourselves for everything that 2017 has to throw at us!

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  • Glossopoly

    Glossopoly and the Digital Affective Histories project Part of the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities programme. Glossopoly began as a simple tool to engage children in discussions about the town in which they lived.  Their drawings were used to choose the places and landmarks of interest and the final board was created by

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  • Our Summer Programme 2016

    This year we have linked For the Love of Books to summer activities in New Mills, Gamesley and Buxton libraries and run our usual story telling with Creeping Toad for Buxton Festival.  We have also taken the Yurt to Whaley Water Weekend, with Vince Canning and Katy McCall putting on a pedal-powered paint workshop, and

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  • Ceramic and Felted Bird Boxes and Birds

    We had a fantastic celebration of this project, with an exhibition of the work before the collection is dispersed to its new homes. 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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