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Mind Your Head at Poole’s Cavern
The third year of Tall Tales has unsettled audiences in Buxton’s Poole’s Cavern with a journey into Poole’s Cavern they won’t forget… Young performers from Glossop and Buxton welcomed the audience to their book launch, only for proceedings to be interrupted by the book’s contents disappearing back into the cave where it came from! Luckily the
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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
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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
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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
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iPaddling for New Mills Festival!
We had a great time on Saturday 19th September as part of New Mills Festival. High Lee Hall was a-buzz with creative ideas and we made some beautiful little films and works of art! High Peak Community Arts invited everyone to dip toes into some cool and funky iPad apps. People used one of
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Tall Tales 2015 – The Summer School
The summer school began when the two groups met on a trip to Manchester International Festival, to see the international premiere of Wonder.land by Damon Albarn. This inspirational trip was followed up with another trip into Manchester to the Art Gallery, where they worked in one of their studios using physical materials and digital methods
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Are you 100% Wolf?
Come down to one of the two shows completing our second year of Tall Tales. This year we have been working with the book ‘100% Wolf’ by Jayne Lyons and in four months we have worked with young people from Gamesley, Glossop and Fairfield, Buxton to create another outstanding show to captivate you – The
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Tall Tales 2015 – The Workshops
Tall Tales 2015 launched in April on Tuesdays at the Fairfield Dreamscheme in Buxton and on Wednesdays at the Gamesley Community Café. More than 35 young people from the two estates have taken part, with 20 coming together for the summer school at the beginning of August. The young participants have picked up new musical
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Gamesley and Fairfield Music Sessions
New projects coming soon! The dates are set, the rooms are booked, the artists are warming up… Tall Tales starts again in Fairfield, Buxton from 28th April and in Gamesley, Glossop from 29th April. Follow the story from last year’s project: Click here for Tall Tales Year 1 It’s not the same as being there
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