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Tall Tales 2020

Thankyou, well done and congratulations to everyone who took part in the Tall Tales project this year.  Here are some pics to remember everything we did…

And here are the three episodes, in case you missed any of them:

 

 

 
From 24th – 28th September artwork featuring in the films were installed in New Mills Festival – for the Light Up New Mills weekend.  Here are the two soundscapes that went with the artwork:

DYSTOPIA: Imagine the worst version of 2070:

HighPeakArts · Dystopia Soundscape – imagine the worst vision of 2070

 
UTOPIA: Imagine the best version of 2070

HighPeakArts · Utopia Soundscape – imagine the best vision of 2070

 

Click here if you are a member of the project looking for information and instructions.  UPDATE 3rd August:  Kris shows us how to collect sounds to use later.

Click here if you are interested in joining the project, or making things to send us.

Click here for the Risk Assessment for face-to-face workshops – things you need to know.

If you are a member of the project you will get a text message telling you when there is new info on here.
If you would like to join the project you should email sophie@highpeakarts.org and she will get in touch.  Click here for sign up info.

First up here is a mindfulness exercise from Frances Walker, which is designed to go with her Tree of Life exercise, but can equally be useful on it’s own. Feeling stressed? Wound up? Mind racing? Listen to Frances…

THEME ANNOUNCED for Tall Tales 2020

It’s not as we know it – but we will still use the project to generate new original creative ideas and then work together to make a finished ‘show’ to share with the public.

This year’s THEME is:

Voices of a Changing Earth

We are thinking about different points of view on our natural world and the changes that we see, that we don’t see and that we’d like to see!

 

 

Over the next 13 weeks we will run workshops twice a week:

Mondays from 4th May; 6pm – 8pm

Wednesdays from 6th May; 3pm – 5pm

We aren’t tied to our own towns any more, so you can sign up for either session, but there will be limited places on each SO YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP.

Bear in mind:

  • We encourage younger participants to come to the Wednesday sessions, and older to the Mondays.
  • We encourage siblings in the same household to either sign up to different sessions, or to use different devices, so you can be in different breakout rooms during the session.

If there are spare places you can come to both sessions.

 

Weeks 1 – 4: Generating ideas (a bit like we used to do at the Young Writers’ Camp) and getting used to working online & finding out what people want.

Weeks 5 – 13: Focusing on skills and choosing things to work on. These sessions could include song writing, script writing, online music, filming, art, instrumental tuition – give us ideas in the first 4 weeks and we will plan from there.

 

Summer School??

At this point we have no idea if we can run a ‘normal’ Summer School, so we are keeping an open mind. We may be able to meet for workshops, but not open a show to an audience. We may be out of lockdown, or still living with bits of it – we will have to think creatively to work out what this year’s ‘show’ will look like…

 

If you didn’t come the taster session on Friday 17th April you will need to sign up to our online workshop guidelines before you can join the project.  Click here to see the guidelines.

 

Also click here to see the video from last year’s Come Here, Stratosphere!

Stick together and Stay Safe!

Staying safe online

Because this is a new way of working we have thought carefully about a new set of guidelines / ground rules to make sure these online spaces are just as safe as the physical spaces where we normally meet.

This is all new to us – so if you have any thoughts, worries or ideas please get in touch so we can work this out together!

Also click here to see our full safeguarding policy and guidelines.

 

 

 

The challenges

Collaborating online will be harder than working face-to-face. Georgia told me that when she has used Skype before to connect with friends if there are too many people everyone just talks over each other and quieter people don’t get heard.

We will all have to be (even more!) disciplined when connecting online to make sure everyone gets a say.

We will start with smaller group sizes and shorter sessions to gather information about what works and what is difficult.

This will only work if people keep to their time slots. Again, more discipline!

 

We are refining our rules for how our staff and freelancers can connect with young people online. We don’t want you to have bad experiences on there through having learned about it with us. So we have come up with some guidelines which we hope will prevent that.

 

The Guidelines for young people

Signing up:

  • You must be signed up by a parent / guardian who has seen this page and spoken directly to Sophie.

Preparing to take part:

  • Your parent / guardian will take time to think about what part of the their home can be seen through the webcam. Set it up so that as little can be seen as possible, with as neutral or blank a background as possible.
  • In collaborative sessions this view will be visible to other participants who you don’t know very well.
  • Make sure your household know you don’t want to be disturbed – anyone interrupting will also be visible to other participants. Your siblings need to stay out of shot unless they are signing up for the project, because we don’t have legal consent to show their image.
  • Check the session plan in advance for any online tools you need – you may need to sign up in advance. Ring Sophie if you need support to do this…

 

During sessions:

  • When you take part in sessions, there must be a parent or nominated adult in the house.
    • For under 13s – this adult must be in the room with you.
  • When you ‘enter’ the session treat it like you are entering the normal physical space where we normally meet, i.e.:
    • Dress appropriately (don’t wear your pyjamas!)
    • Treat session leaders and other participants with respect
    • Enjoy the activities, take part, encourage others
    • You are a member of High Peak Community Arts and these sessions are our new project space.
  • Recognise the differences between online connection and physical connection.
    • Working together will take more effort than usual!
    • Take time to listen to others
    • If anything worries you about these connections please tell us straight away, or get your parent to phone Sophie afterwards.

 

After sessions:

  • Tell us if you have any great ideas to make it better.
  • Tell us or get a parent to ring Sophie, if anything worries you about what has happened online.
  • If you plan to carry on a connection with another group member outside of the sessions, please let us know, and definitely tell a parent.

Click here to go back to the previous page

How to stick together!

Our two main projects which we are re-launching remotely are: Film Cuts Club and Tall Tales. All current participants are welcome to take part in either or both – Some people already take part in both.

 

 

 

We will be using online tools to keep connected and we are keen to keep people working together / collaborating – because the work we make together is ‘greater than the sum of its parts’, it’s a kind of chemical reaction, like alchemy!

 

Tools

I will sign up each young person for online sessions through a parent or guardian who will have to speak to me directly to give consent for you taking part, and confirm an email address to link to.

 

To take part in sessions you will need:

Essential:

  • Internet access
  • Any kind of device that connects to the internet – preferably a computer, but a tablet or mobile phone will do.
  • A quiet space where you won’t get interrupted and an adult in the house (more detail on this under Staying Safe Online).
  • Pens / pencil & paper and a flat surface to lean on (table, clipboard, whatever).

Bonus extras:

  • A camera that you can download pics from (could be a mobile phone).
  • Other art supplies – whatever you like using.
  • If you have a very plain or blank background behind you, you will be able to change your background to any picture you choose.
  • Check the session plan before each session for extra things.

 

We are going to start sessions using Zoom – group video app:

  • You don’t need an account and it won’t cost you anything.
  • I will ‘host’ sessions and send a link to your nominated email address.
  • Click the link and the session will launch.
If anyone has heard about security concerns for Zoom – we are keeping track of this story and would definitely prefer not to change to a different provider.  Click here to read an article about what Zoom are doing to improve security.

We are also using a website called Miro – which is like an online whiteboard, and we will use this to replace the physical ‘project box’ where we store everyone’s work.

  • I will send an ‘invitation’ to join the Miro board to your nominated email address.
  • You will have to sign up to Miro and create an account, but this is free and quite quick.
  • Don’t worry if you haven’t got this sorted on week 1, you will still be able to take part via Zoom and you can forward pics of your work direct to me to store on the board.

 

All the tools we have chosen are FREE, but they do have ‘pay for’ options, so if you accidentally find yourself at a pay wall just cancel and go back to the free version.

 

Now click here to see the Staying Safe Online guide.

Sticking together!

Re-launching our youth programme through the COVID-19 emergency of 2020.

 

Welcome to High Peak Community Arts’ youth programme.

This is a complete re-design of how we work with young people – so we can keep connecting and supporting young people who take part in our work.

 

 

 

We hope this new way of connecting will be a voyage of discovery into new tools and new skills – we all need some fun right now, and there are ideas waiting to get made… by US!

 

Our priority is to provide for our current participants, but we are working on ways for new people to join in.

If you are new to our programmes please get in touch with Sophie directly by email: sophie@highpeakarts.org, or get someone else to email her with your contact details and she will get in touch.

 

 

Current participants click here to find out how to sign up.

Workers, Volunteers & Over 18s click here for guidelines.

Come Here, Stratosphere!

The sixth annual youth show from our Tall Tales programme brought us not your usual space adventure as part of High Peak Community Arts’ 40th anniversary celebrations!  There were Cosmic tales for all the family, with live music, drama, dance and stella projections!

We had added a seconded showing at 6pm and sold out both shows so a cast of 27 young people played to two full houses at Victoria Hall in Glossop.  Come Here, Stratosphere! followed the fortunes of a TV Crew from the hit show ‘Limitless Travel’ as they broadcast from across the universe, meeting Space Horses, and unlucky cruise ship on planet Earth and encountered Aries, Gemini and Leo.  

They discovered that the universe was being sucked through a black hole, and were arrested by SIRA (The Specialist Interplanetary Regulation Authority).  On the prison planet they pulled together as a team and finally starting listening to their Sound Technician, who worked out how to call the Space Horses to the rescue!  And don’t worry, the Black Hole has now been plugged up by a mysterious stranger using his ship to manoeuvre a ginormous space rock!

Work started in April at the Young Writers’ Camp when nearly 30 young people from across the High Peak came together for a trip to Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, inspired by the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings.  

In the space of 4 days we had a dozen stories and an army of characters from across the universe.  More young people joined the project from April to July, in workshops in Gamesley in Glossop and Fairfield in Buxton and signed up for our August summer school. 

Now they have worked up their song writing and performance skills and spent 6 days in August creating the final show which includes music, drama, dance and film to be projected into the blacked-out semi-circle of Victoria Hall’s ground floor.

High Peak Community Arts couldn’t provide this fantastic range of youth programme without their range of funders; from a Derbyshire Youth Action Grant for the Young Writers’ Camp to National Foundation for Youth Music, Arts Council England, local Bingham Trust and Derbyshire Councillors’ Initiative Funds have all helped fund workshops on Gamesley and Fairfield and the 6 day summer school.

 

Thursday 15th August, 6pm and 7.30pm at Victoria Hall, Talbot Street, Glossop.

A full theatre
Performers with shining stars
Prop star
Performer
scene from play
Logo used in performance
scene from play
Scene from play
Performer with prop camera
Two youngsters performing
Young performers being drawn into a black hole
Girl with horns
Judge Biggybottom
Scene where people are in prison on another pllanet, kids behind bars
Acting as prisoners
Acting as a prisoner
Girl in play looking off camera
On the prison planet
Girl performing in science fiction outfit
Performing a visually exciting show
Group of kids in costumes
Young people performing on stage

 

Summer School
Summer School
Prop making
Summer School
Tin foil hand
Summer School
Paper cat
Summer School
Music Rehearsal
Summer School
Rehearsal
Summer School
Rehearsal
Summer School
Prop making
Summer School
Prop making
Summer School
Prop making
Summer School
Rehearsal
Summer School
Rehearsal
Summer School
Workshopping
Summer School
Kids designing
Summer School
Animal head props
Summer School
Props
Summer School
Set and prop designers
Summer School
Props
Summer School
Boy sitting at drumkit
Summer School
Lanterns
Summer School
Rehearsal
Summer School
Kids rehearsing
Summer School
Kids rehearsing

 

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Join the Fight – film!

From 29th September 2018, in New Mills:

Click here for more about the project.

Young Writers’ Camp 2019

This year the camp ran from 15th – 18th April and we launched our new theme of SPACE!!

23 Young people age 8+ came together from across our youth programme to spend 4 days focusing on generating ideas and stories to use throughout the year.  On day 2 we had a trip to Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, and worked for the rest of the week at Victoria Hall in Glossop (the former library).

Feel free to browse our Collection of material, and look out for the show coming up in August which will conjure it all into an all-singing, all-dancing performance with music, drama, projections and plenty of surprises!

Down load the Space Mania Booklet here.

 

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No tall tales in our latest evaluation report!

‘Join the Fight’ was the 2018 performance from Tall Tales and we now have our latest evaluation report which you can read here! For more info about the project, see our ‘Tall Tales’ posts!

Have a read of the previous evaluation report from our ‘Tall Tales’ young peoples project.

We are chuffed to bits that everyone finds the projects so inspiring and worthwhile. We’d love you to get in touch if you’d like to know more about our projects.

Right now, we are busy planning further Tall Tales so….. watch this space!

Votes for women girls with banners

 

 

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