Grinlow’s Legacy – sculptures for Poole’s Cavern
Visit The Peak District By Train – Unveiling Event
Free 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.
We’re spinning musical yarns again!
We are launching our Tall Tales programme for a third year and looking for new young people to join in the exciting programme to write stories and songs, play instruments and create visual art. The first 10 sessions are based on Fairfield in Buxton and Gamesley and are open to anyone aged 8+ and free to take part.
For the last two years the programme has made a final show from a published book, which was Blue John by Berlie Doherty in 2014, and 100% Wolf by Jayne Lyons in 2015. This year the ideas for the final show will be created by the groups themselves, starting with ideas formed at the Young Writers’ Camp in the Easter holidays. Project Manager, Sophie Mackreth, said “anyone who wants to feel creative for 2 hours a week should come along and find out what we’re doing – you can write a song, form a band, make a giant pop-up book and work with everyone else in drama and music.”
We are able to offer the programme for free as it is funded by Arts Council England, the Derbyshire Music Education Hub and with contributions from two local councillors, Caitlin Bisknell and Dave Wilcox. Previous years have shown young people develop in areas such as confidence, resourcefulness and team working – skills which contribute to their progress outside of the project. The final performance will be part of the Buxton Family Festival – so the whole community can share in the achievement of our local young people.
For more information phone Sophie on 01663 744 516 or click here to check out what happened on last year’s project.
Sessions are:
Fairfield: Wednesdays 6 – 8pm at Fairfield Sure Start, Victoria Park Road, Buxton, SK17 7PE, from Wednesday 27th April to 13th July (no session 1st or 8th June).
Gamesley: Thursdays 4.30 – 6.30pm at Gamesley Community Café, Winster Mews, Gamesley, SK13 0LU, from Thursday 28th April to 14th July (no session 2nd or 9th June).
‘The Buxton Story’ Unveiling
Join us to celebrate and unveil this glorious mosaic made for the Fenton Ward of the Cavendish Hospital in Buxton. Project eARTh participants have created this mosaic featuring much loved and familiar Buxton landmarks, with artist Debra Tracey. There will be tea and cake. FREE . All welcome.
Young Writers’ Camp
Our first Young Writers’ Camp to brought together all lovers of ideas, stories and words, with 23 young people joining four days of creation.
Designed for all our participants on youth projects, including: Tall Tales in Gamesley and Fairfield; Film Cuts Club in Hadfield; Music Arts Pod in schools.
It wasn’t about pens and paper – it was about ideas, stories and lyrics!
Click here to download the PDF book.
At the end of the fourth day the Collection became ‘Creative Commons’ and anyone is free to use, adapt, change and give ideas a new life when they return to the real world.
And here are the filmed stories to watch:
White Stuff instore fundraising campaign
Thanks to everyone at White Stuff and to all the entrants of the ‘Are you Thready’ event in Buxton. The standard was incredibly high and shows what a really clever lot you are. Also thanks for all the money raised by the event which as ever we are truly thankful for and can assure you it will be put to all sorts of good uses. 
100% Wolf!
On 7th August we staged our world premiere of 100% Wolf, from the book by Jayne Lyons. The show opened to the public at the Geoffrey Allen Centre, Gamesley and then two days later at the 
Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton.
“It was hilarious, it was amazing – and the talent!”
This was the culmination of year 2 of the Tall Tales programme, which began at the end of April in workshops at the Gamesley Community Cafe and Fairfield Dreamscheme in Buxton. The two groups came together in this year’s summer school – and created the final show in just over a week.
“I know like, when you’re on stage, you might feel a bit worried and sick, but then when you get a bit closer to the end, you might feel a bit relieved that you’ve managed to get through it and not like had a breakdown!”
Watch the show here:
“and why is it you get more confidence?”
“Because it makes you much happier in yourself
Because it gives you better experiences…”
“I got stage fright – and I felt bit scared, like I couldn’t do it… but then I remember I felt alright, so then I could carry on…”
“and why is it you get more confidence?”
“Because it makes you much happier in yourself
Because it gives you better experiences…”
“Yeah – It’s like you look at how many chairs it roughly is, and you think there’s people are going to be sitting there later – and that scares you a bit”
Our Summer Programme 2015
This year included 3 days story telling in the yurt at Buxton Festival, and Whaley Water Weekend, with story-tellers Shonaleigh and Gordon MacLellan; our usual featured arts workshop for Chernobyl Childrens’ Project with artist Nicky Ward; a ‘silent disco’ in our yurt, for the One World Festival; and we opened our doors for another Open Day at High Lee Hall in New Mills, inviting people to join us for ‘iPaddling’ workshops for New Mills Festival. These events are an important part of our core programme, despite many being un-funded. We recognise the important part this work plays in the lives of our communities.
For the love of Books!
High Peak Community Arts are proud to present their first early years arts project, For the Love of Books.
The project aims to promote a joy of books with early years children and their families, who can sign up for sessions with professional artists. The artists have been asked to choose their favourite children’s book and develop fun, creative and open ended activities that animate the book further. 
Our first sessions will be running at Gamesley Early Excellence Centre in October, where artist Tony Hall will be making drawing robots with the families. Artist Katy McCall, who has a background in early years learning, will be bringing a range of unusual materials for children to play and experiment with. The session will be based on the book “Robots, Robots Everywhere” by Sue Fliess.
We are thrilled to be planning this early years work, supported by Awards for All from the Big Lottery and also the Clore Duffield Poetry and Literature Awards. All of the sessions will be designed to enable families and children to develop confidence in their creativity and nurture a love of books through playful and enjoyable activities.
This programme of workshops will be rolled out in New Mills, Fairfield and Gamesley between October 2015 and July 2016. For more information call Sophie on 01663 744 516, or email Katy McCall on katymccall@mac.com.
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