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Ten sessions of music making were spread across four different weeks, with sessions for Junior and Senior youth. They worked with musicians Mark Turton, Mike Davies and Yasmin Heathcote and lots of people of all ages came in to try out instruments and write their own songs. We made lots of recordings during the week and sent out CDs to everyone who came.
Here is a little taste of what we came up with:
Buxton Project eARTh did a project from January – March 2013, called ‘What’s in a Box?’ with artist Katy McCall. After exploring with a wide range of media, each participant started with an empty box…and then created anything they wanted.
To inspire us, we visited the First Cut Exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery, where we also held our own workshop in one of the gallery’s studios. We finished with a wide variety of art work – from a Dragon’s nest to pop up universe..
And here is a film of the boxes:
HPCA is currently working in Partnership with Leicester University to look at what people think about the community in Glossop. We are running arts workshops with groups and we are planning a couple of open sessions at Glossop Market. The market sessions are open to anyone , we will be creating cartoons and maps for the day and asking for your thoughts, the dates for this are October 19th and 20th 2012.
The idea is to gather stories, thoughts, feelings about Glossop and its community. If you have anything you want to contribute to the project then why not get in touch. There will be an exhibition in January 2013 for this project we are currently inviting people to contribute something to this project exhibition, it can be poetry, painting, drawing, photography etc. Please contact us for more information the deadline for submissions is November 30th 2012. email jan@highpeakarts.org for more details.
Here’s some of the results of Friday’s animation session:
Carla’s snowscene:
Lucy’s Dippy Duck:
Millie’s Flying Pig:
The seating outside the ROFA office – are they waving or beckoning?
The latest dance craze:
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Young people from the Dreamscheme in Fairfield worked hard all afternoon, to capture the spirit of Buxton on 29th June. They had prepared themselves with photography skills and interview questions to find out what people thought about the historic moment as the Olympic flame entered the town.
A reported 15,000 people flooded the town centre to see the International Market, High Peak Community Arts’ Yurt and highlights from the Buxton Fringe Festival.
The young reporters grabbed interviews with Olympic officials and local torch bearers. They were snapped with the mayor and gathered their own reflections on the day.
And here is the film they’ve made using the clips they collected:
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.
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
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.
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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