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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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Jun
14
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11:00 am Film Cuts Club @ The Vineyard
Film Cuts Club @ The Vineyard
Jun 14 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Filmmaking club for young people with additional needs. Click here for more info and how to join!
Jun
16
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4:00 pm Tall Tales @ Fairfield
Tall Tales @ Fairfield
Jun 16 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
 
Jun
17
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10:45 am Space to Explore @ St Matthew’s Village Hall
Space to Explore @ St Matthew’s Village Hall
Jun 17 @ 10:45 am – 1:15 pm
Adult creative arts session to explore neurodivergence. For more info please click here!
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18
Wed
3:00 pm Tall Tales @ Gamesley
Tall Tales @ Gamesley
Jun 18 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
 
Jun
21
Sat
11:00 am Film Cuts Club @ The Vineyard
Film Cuts Club @ The Vineyard
Jun 21 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Filmmaking club for young people with additional needs. Click here for more info and how to join!
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23
Mon
4:00 pm Tall Tales @ Fairfield
Tall Tales @ Fairfield
Jun 23 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
 
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