The magnificent archway is in Granby Road Park, on Granby Road, Fairfield, and the quirky seats are on the shopping parade on Victoria Park Road in Fairfield.
Whaley Bridge Water Festival June 8th-12th 2012
The Whaley Bridge Water festival is a fantastic opportunity for families with children of all ages and makes for a great weekend that includes local bands, dance, stalls, animal and bird shows, a traditional Punch and Judy show, traction engine displays and fairground rides.
This year HPCA took its wonder yurt out to add to the entertainment with local artist Jim Medway who specialises in comic book making and cartoons leading a great workshop getting everyone drawing their very own Whaley Bridge Water Festival Cartoon Character.
The rain came down, but the yurt held up and Jim helped over 150 children and adults create cartoon creatures great and small.
Whaley Bridge Water Festival Gallery
Some of the creatures created at Whaley Bridge, well done to all the budding artists and many thanks to Jim Medway.
HPCA and the Little Giants
If you go down to High Lea Park today, you’re in for a CHAMPION surprise!
Little GIANTS theatre present a special pre Olympics theatre event for children in collaboration with High Peak Community Arts.
Rehearsals for this year’s show “Going for Gold” are taking place in High Lea Park, St Mary’s Road, New Mills, SK22.
We extend a warm open invitation to come along to watch live theatre in the making.
9 professional actors will be creating animal characters in preparation for the show at the Buxton Festival Fringe in July. Charlie Cockerel, Derek the Dog, Liliana Llama, Shirley Sheep, Pippa Pony, Puppy Blaze and Farmer Jack and his wife Jill, and a puppet show.
“Going for Gold” is the inspirational story of Derek the sheepdog’s dream of winning the “Derbyshire Dales Olympics” and introduces the enthusiastic but unfocussed sheepdog puppy Blaze as he learns the skill of good attention, how to be focussed, overcoming obstacles, teamwork and a show stopping puppet show of “The Hare and the Tortoise.”
The theme for the show is how to be a champion.
We will be rehearsing in the open sided ‘Yurt’ tent from 10am – 5pm on Friday 22nd June, Saturday 23rd June and Sunday 24th June and again on Wednesday 4th July, Thursday 5th July and Friday 6th July.
We invite you to join us, just come along and watch or bring paper and draw pictures, a great opportunity for creating stories. No need to book, just turn up.
Little Giants Theatre create logical, engaging, interactive stories enabling children to make sense of their lives and the world they live in, delivered with great care, comedy, music and songs, theatre for children age 3-7.
Nominated for the “Best for Families” award at Buxton Festival Fringe in 2011.
We do hope you will come and visit us at what promises to be a unique opportunity to see live theatre in the making.
For further information telephone 01663 740993 and ask for Kate or Call HPCA on 01633 744516
Buxton Olympic Torch Celebration
The Olympic Torch Relay comes to Buxton on Friday June 29th – passing through from 5pm to 5.30pm.
We will have a high profile presence and have organised a number of events.
The New Mills Project eARTh group have been busy with artist Ruth Marsden and fabric paint on approximately 30 white umbrellas , and on the day will line the route near the Pavilion Gardens to ‘twirl’ the colourful results as the runner goes by! Afterwards, the painted umbrellas will be on display in thePavilionGardens, near our Yurt.
We will also have our Yurt in the Pavilion Gardens in the afternoon to join in the Olympicnic – with free arts activities to make your own hand held ribbon twirler beforehand, and to provide story telling afterwards (from 5.30pm to 7.30pm)…look out for details
We are also launching a project to capture the moment that the Olympic Torch comes through Buxton. We asked ourselves how many people will be shooting video footage on their phones or digital cameras, to remember the moment in years to come?
‘Peak Inside’ Magazine
‘Peak Inside’ magazine is now available for you to enjoy, free of charge.
To view ‘Peak Inside’ in a new window click here
Or pick up a copy in High Peak Libraries, Volunteer Centres, other community venues, and High Peak Community Arts’ base in High Lee Hall, New Mills. There are also audio CD versions available, kindly recorded by Glossop talking Newspapers, – so get in touch if you would like one.
Peak Inside is the result of six months of workshops in creative writing, illustration, photography and desk top publishing by members of our magazine project, and reflects their passions, interests and experiences.
Tales in the Tent
Tales in the Tent
Fairfield and Hadfield 2012
Tales in the tent took place in Fairfield and Hadfield on May 12th and 19th, with story tellers Gordon MacLellan and Christine McMahon.
Both events were part of the Derbyshire Literature Festival and were ran in partnership with the Libraries service and with the Children’s centre at Fairfield.
The sessions were funded through Derbyshire Community Foundation, so a big thank you to them, the funding allowed families and children of all ages to enjoy great entertainment, get involved in their community and hear some fantastic stories.
In Fairfield parents and children were transfixed by stories of goblins and monsters, giant rocks and great quests to be won. Outside the yurt the Children’s Centre staff ran cake decorating activities, seed planting and boxercise for children and adults. The Libraries staff helped parents and children create re-cycled books and later on in the day some of these were filled with stories.
In Hadfield, the yurt drew quite a crowd, children of all ages,mums, dads, grannies and grandads and even a curious dog all took part, spellbound by stories old and new. The crowd heard about kings with horses ears, babies that beat up ghosts and fairies who cast magic spell, children asked questions and many added their own ideas and made up similar stories of their own,
So a big thanks goes to everyone who came along to listen take part and be inspired by stories. The events were made extra special by children and young people adding their own ideas, making up their own stories and making books for their own tales with Libraries staff. In all over 100 people came to the two events, everyone had a great time and everyone went home with a tale or two to tell.
Project eARTh, environmental arts and health
This is an exciting five year project for people experiencing mental distress, funded by the Reaching Communities programme of the BIG Lottery Fund.
The project is run by HPCA in partnership with the local mental health teams and High Peak CVS.
Project eARTh holds weekly creative arts sessions, led by experienced artists and supported by mental health workers and volunteers. Participants can meet people, learn new skills, have fun, build confidence, and contribute towards their built and natural environments with works of art. There is no need for any previous arts experience, and we want to encourage people who don’t think of themselves as ‘arty’. Groups meet at New Mills Youth Club on Thursdays from 10.30am – 1pm, and at Fairfield Community Centre on Mondays from 12.30pm – 3pm. The project is free of charge.
How to join in:
Participants can be referred through their GP, Mental Health Team, other statutory or voluntary agencies or simply refer themselves. You can self referral, complete and post to the FREEPOST address on the form.
There are also opportunities for volunteers, participants’ families, neighbours and friends and other community members to get involved. If you are interested, please call Alison at High Peak Community Arts on 01663 744516, Sarah at the High Peak Community Mental Health Team on 01298 22321, or Paula at Glossop Mental Health Project on 01629 532686.
Painted Umbrellas for the Olympic Torch Relay
The Olympic Torch Relay comes to Buxton on Friday June 29th – passing through from 5pm to 5.30pm.
The New Mills Project eARTh group are busy with artist Ruth Marsden and fabric paint on white umbrellas , and on the day will line the route near the Pavilion Gardens to ‘twirl’ the colourful results as the runner goes by!
High Peak Commnity Arts will also have our Yurt in the Pavilion Gradens in the afternoon to join in the Olympicnic – with free arts activities to make your own hand held ribbon twirler before hand, and to provide story telling afterwards…look out for details.
We Make Our World
The first collaboration of the Youth Arts Network High Peak, We Make Our World brought together music, drama, movement and film into an interactive performance at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton.
The Background
Discussion at the Youth Arts Network meetings of February 8th and May 10th developed an idea to invite groups to join together and collaborate on a performance. Buxton Opera House offered to provide the Pavilion Arts Centre as part of their Children’s Festival, Octoberfest. Groups from across the district were invited to join the programme, and through the Grants for the Arts budget, High Peak Community Arts was able to fund a series of workshops with a film-maker/VJ, musician, and drama practitioner as Creative Director.
The timescale was tight, so a theme of Water was set by the Youth Arts Network, and a loose storyline came from workshops lead by Sian Dudley of Buxton Opera House, with young people at Harpur Hill Children’s Centre. This storyline was shared with the groups as they came on board, but with the understanding that nothing was set in stone.
The Aims
- To bring together at least 4 different groups of young people, from a range of backgrounds and places.
- To use at least 3 different artforms in a final performance.
- To bring the elements of performance from the different groups together into one narrative.
- To re-imagine the performance space at the Pavilion Arts Centre and challenge convention.
These are the groups who got involved in creating material and performing on the night:
ROFA Dreamscheme
I would say that I enjoyed it all, I would say the first thing I remember was the boats, because they were so big! And it was like if you turned round, you could knock someone over with them!
Julia Roos
New Mills School
We wrote down stuff to do with Water and we did little drama games to kind of like get some ideas and then we started to come up with the story… and then we kind of gradually got a story together and like worked, like we all put different things that we wanted to put in
Rosie
our thing we had all the physical theatre in it and stuff, which was really funny
Ben
Hope Valley College
we went through general plan and how we were going to… and where we actually wanted to go. We kind of split up the workshops as well. We had really little time, we had one section two of us doing percussion, and two of us doing music, and we kind of – so we kind of lead different areas, and swapped round.
Joss, HVC
Chapel Jam Night
I enjoyed working with the young people at Chapel Jam Night and I feel that the one young person who did join in with the performance found it very rewarding.
Laurie Agnew, Musician
Chinley
I was just swimming, in front was it green-screen?
Oh they edited it, to make it look like she was actually drowning in water, as opposed to just drowning in air.
Emma, Chinley
Children’s Centres
We enjoy making the lantern, it was very interesting and very messy! The children are looking forward to Friday, and going for a spooky walk!
Parent, Fairfield
The final week
In the final week there were three days of rehearsals, first the two drama groups and the two music groups, and second the drama and the film group.
It was in this time that ideas were shared and cross over between the groups was possible.
- Some of the ROFA drama group joined the Hope Valley College musicians, to learn their drumming parts, allowing them to play the instrumentals over the top.
- The lead character from the New Mills drama group was filmed to be edited into the pool of water projection made at Chinley.
- All the groups got involved in the opening scene of the performance, lying under the waves, or helping to round up the audience.
- Joss from Hope Valley College got involved with the track from Chapel Jam Night, as most of the group couldn’t come on the final week, they had to re-shape the track for the performance.
On the third and final day, everyone met at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre from 2pm for dress rehearsals and last minute nerves.
We came in there was lots of drama rehearsals going on again, and then we sorted out some more drumming, like then everyone practiced the drumming bit, and I talked to Joe and Laurie, to ask them to do it too. That was fine – I just literally went “bah bahbah bahbah” for the rhythm, and then they played it – so they played it
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