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Ceramic Clock: Time for Ourselves
We have now unveiled the lovely ceramic clock in the lounge of Charis House, made by residents, staff, volunteers and artist Angie Hardwick. The clock was unveiled by Councillor Jean Todd, as part of a celebratory morning with coffee and biscuits. Here it is – being installed, and covered; then unveiled! [foogallery id=”10641″] And
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Sheep to Craft
This project ran for two years, with a slight overspill caused by covid! This year, once the sheep were sheared, the best of the fleece was sent to Griffiths Mill to be spun into Aran yarn. This has now been returned, and together with one / two skeins of chunky hand spun wool from last
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National Writing Day
As part of National Writing Day, Bella Hardy (BBC Folk singer of the year 2014) ran a creative writing workshop with the women at Charis House. Everyone had a go at writing poems and song lyrics and also enjoyed a sneak preview rendition of a song from Bella’s new album, due out in November. Funded
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Ceramic Bird Bath.
Busy making an amazing ceramic bird bath with artist Caroline Chouler – Tissier. Funded by Santander Discovery Foundation.
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Weaving and Pritning
Weaving With artist Carol Wilson, the group enjoyed weaving, making small hangings for their own rooms in Charis House and Oldfield Farm. Printing With artist Sandra Orme, participants learnt a variety of printing techniques and used them to make cards, print onto aprons and bags.
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Tree of Life
We created a wonderful Tree Of Life in Ceramics for the Dining Room / Lounge of Charis House, which was unveiled in February by The Chair of Derbyshire County Council, Cllr Steve Freeborn and the Mayor of the High Peak, Cllr Sewart Young. We also made lovely tiles for the hallway, with flowers and the
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Local Landscape: Global Future
For their most recent project our 13+ young writers’ group wanted to look at environmental issues, and were fortunate to receive funding from the South West Peak Landscape Partnership, so chose the theme ‘Local Landscape: Global Future’ We started in October 2019 with three days of activity at White Hall Outdoor Education Centre. With an
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Upcoming events!
Our choral fundraiser from Duodecimo chamber choir was cancelled in spring 2020 – but it’s back again!! On the 9th October join us for the ‘We’re Beginning to See the Light!’ Choral concert fundraiser. Please join us to enjoy light music, folksongs and madrigals by Ellington, Rutter, Stanford, Monteverdi and Vaughan Williams. It’s our first
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Project eARTh @ home – Nurture Nature, week 4
Nurture Nature is led by artist Amanda Whewell. It will be collage and print based and inspired by the work of artist Mark Hearld. In week four, we are going to use the techniques learnt over the last three weeks to make a collaborative collage garland. You can join in the project, using the PDF
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