See below for The Nature of Hope project information, but here are the beautiful results!
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Silk Painting
The group have just finished a lovely project with artist Sara Blackburn – creating beautiful silk painted banners and flags for The Buxton Festival Fringe, the Buxton Pride Picnic and Poole’s Cavern.
We will unveil these (along with banners made by the New Mills group) on June 8th – so look out for them this Summer!
2023 Creative Camp
Our Easter Creative Camp is open now for bookings.
As we are funded by the Holiday Activity & Food fund, we are prioritising bookings from young people in receipt of Free School Meals or with additional needs, so please do book on, but if you don’t meet these criteria we will email you to say you are on a waiting list.
Your booking will be confirmed no later than the first day of the Easter holidays – 3rd April.
Click here to book via Coordinate Sport. This is a new booking system – if you have any difficulty please email sophie@highpeakarts.org to book direct.
The 4 days of creative activities launch our 2023 season of out-of-school activity for children and young people aged 8+, this year the theme is Under the Ocean. Ideas produced at Easter will be part of the Summer School in August.
The plan for Easter is:
Day 1 – Tuesday 11th April
High Peak Under the Sea with Gordon MacLellan.
Help us build an immersive underwater world in RR (Real Reality).
Day 2 – Wednesday 12th April
Song writing & Music with Gareth & Lucy
Day 3 – Thursday 13th April
Stories & Characters with Lucy & Benn
Day 4 – Friday 14th April
Recording & filming with Mark & Benn
Time & Location
Sessions are 10.30am – 3pm at Buxton Community School 6th Form block, College Road, SK17 9AE
Food
You can book our healthy packed lunch, or bring your own – part of the booking process.
Book Sculptures
Participants worked with artist Kate Freeborough to make a wonderful set of book sculptures, now on display in the windows of Sett Valley Insurance in New Mills. [Read more…]
Light Within
We are about to start a photography project with Josh Tomalin. Using 35mm film, participants will photograph dancer, Courteney Cruse, and with the photos, create a ‘light sculpture’, lit from within. This will be shown, along with a short 5 minute dance at an event at Spring Bank Arts on Sunday 11th September, as part of New Mills Festival. Free admission.
Cyanotypes
We have just finished a project with artist Lucie Maycock creating cyanotypes and collages. It was a lovely artform to learn about and experiment with – and the resulting work is beautiful. We hope it will go to Arden House GP surgery in New Mills.
Longdendale Ceramics
We worked with artist Helen Newman to create ceramic tiles for Longdendale Environmental Education Centre. After a trip to the Centre to meet the rangers and get inspiration, everyone set about designing and making ceramic tiles. [Read more…]
High Peak Communi-Tree
We worked with artist Alison Evans to embroider felted leaves on a High Peak theme to create a unique High Peak Commui-Tree. Everyone created beautiful leaves in great variety and the finished tree looks splendid in its new home at Spring Bank Arts, where our participants can enjoy seeing it, too.
We had a joint unveiling event with the ‘Free Seed Exchange’ on March 24th, with the Mayor of the High Peak.
Seed exchange
We worked with artist Roisin O ‘Connor to create ceramic flowers, fruit and vegetables to decorate a Seed Exchange structure – for people to donate seeds ad seedling they do not need, and take those they wish to grow. We made this for Incredible Edible New Mills, and after the unveiling event, it went to a new home in The Community Pantry in the Indoor Market in New Mills.