We made wonderful willow sculptures of Alice, The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, a Teapot and Dormouse – all for our 40th Anniversary Tea Parties this summer – and then a permanent home in the gardens of Primrose Court ( sheltered housing in Hayfield). We worked with artist Juliette Hamilton and had great fun – it was very addictive and hard to stop weaving at 1pm. [Read more…]
Making our Garden Grow
We made 3D ceramics flowers with artist Caroline Chouler –Tissier. Together with those made by the Buxton group in the Spring, and those made by children in Caroline’s artbox art clubs, the flowers were displayed in The Pavilion Garden Conservatory during the Buxton Festival 2015. The Celebratory Event was on July 9th, 11am – 12.30pm.
The flowers are now on display in the windows of Sett Valley Insurance in Market Street, New Mills.
Trail Tales on the Sett Valley Trail
Project eARTh and Hayfield Primary School invite you to their celebratory launch of Trail Tales! These solar-powered audio benches are on the Sett Valley Trail and in Bluebell Wood, Hayfield and at the press of a button you can hear a tapestry of music and spoken word on the theme of nature, changing seasons and memories. [Read more…]
Dinting Station in Ceramics
An amazing time was had at the celebratory unveiling event on Wednesday 18th June. These large-scale ceramic pictures were created by Project eARTh for Dinting Railway Station, with artist Adrian Holt.
Fairfield Archway and Seating
The group has been working with artist Caroline Chouler -Tissier and Leander Architectural to create sculptured aluminium and steel seating for outside the shops in Fairfield, and an archway for the Granby Road Park in Fairfield.
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A perfect show!
Heart of the Stone
Heart of the Stone was a community play initiated by High Peak Community Arts which traced the history of the Empire Hotel and was researched by members of the local community in Buxton. Historic documents from local archives and personal reminiscences were combined to produce the script, and the play was performed on 18-20 October 1990 at The Octagon in Buxton.
Support Worker Role
Mental Health Support Worker Needed
High Peak Community Arts needs a mental health support worker for Project eARTh, its programme for adults experiencing mental distress.
The role includes supporting participants attending Project eARTh workshops on Mondays in Buxton, 10am – 12 noon and 1pm – 3pm during term time; and conducting baseline and review interviews with participants for project monitoring ( telephone or face to face).
In the workshops, the worker provides general help and support to participants to engage in the arts activities, as well as a listening ear and emotional support as required.
Pay is at £15 per hour with 40p per mile travel, on a freelance contract, so ideal for someone with a portfolio of employment.
For more details contact alison@highpeakarts.org, 01663 744516.
Closing date: March 14th.
Mental Health Support Worker person specification
HPCA Freelance Diversity Monitoring
Freelance Application Coversheet
Application for Mental Health Support Worker
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 educational session with a Peak Parks Ranger, Jackie Wragg, young people experienced their local environment and did group research into the local natural world. We have found out about flora and fauna, our oceanic climate and our role in the global picture.
“We walked around White Hall and other walks to places that are new – it makes a change and it feels exciting, especially somewhere – like a woods with a really good atmosphere. It made us have some really good ideas”
In sessions with M6 Theatre’s Caroline Kennedy we watched clips of young climate activists from all over the world speaking at global events in defence of nature, and trying to influence the decisions of international agreements.
In October and in April 2021 we walked through a range of locations, from Corbar Woods, to Solomon’s Temple and Fairfield Low to increase appreciation for and knowledge of local walking routes.
“It would be nice to encourage more young people to go to these places if they’ve not been there themselves – maybe they would get ideas from it”
We found examples of Britain’s ‘Lost Rainsforests’ and tagged them to Guy Shrubsole on Twitter, who is mapping these examples of our oceanic climate at work.
“Mark spoke a lot about UK rainforests and mosses and lychens and that’s sparked an interest”
The young people involved used this information to design characters who interact with the local environment in different ways, with different motivations. These characters were then written into a story which animates the landscape and brings a range of issues to light. Over 4 Saturdays in January 2020 we devised dialogue between the characters which tells the story, before the project was brought to an abrupt stop in March 2020.
During the pandemic we met over zoom four times to refine and edit the dialogue into a script, now called ‘Gone to Ground‘, and finally in June 2021 we shot the scenes.
The older young people then met for ‘edit parties’ over 4 Fridays, working on graphics, sound design, and other video and audio effects.
“For the audience the theme overall gives a warning – an ‘act now’ warning”
One of the adult (amateur) actors we roped in said
“It think it’s brilliant. The young people have done so well – great storyline and some top acting! Well done to everyone and I think they had great fun!”
One of the first people to see the film said
“the end is quite dark, because although we find out what’s happened, it’s not a clear positive message. It’s a complex story”
Huge kudos goes to the core group who stuck with the project to the end and especially the editors who put a lot of time into getting the final result just right!
The finished film now seeks opportunities to screen, get in touch if you want us to bring it to your event!
The dialogue contains some mild swearing, and the content is probably not suitable for a young family audience.
Watch the film here:
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