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Thurs 25th Nov – AGM!

The staff and trustees would like to invite you to our 2021 Annual General Meeting, on Thursday 25th November, doors from 7pm, at Providence Church, Mellor Road, New Mills.

We will open with drinks, chats and a slideshow of the year. At 7.30pm we will screen films from the adult and youth programmes and the meeting will start from 7.45pm.

Last year’s meeting was online via Zoom, so we are happy to be meeting face-to-face once again. To increase our Covid security we will serve drinks to cafe style tables, and we will ask people to wear a mask as they move around the building. We also aim to broadcast the meeting online at the same time (mobile hotspot permitting!), although you will not be able to vote if you join us remotely.

Click the PLAY button to watch!

We hope you can join us!

Please click here for the pdf report!

Things to do Feb Half Term onwards

Here are some tips to have a little creative fun over half term and later.

If you are doing an Arts Award at Bronze, Silver or Gold go to an event or performance and it will go towards your award – I’ve labelled these ARTS AWARD. Try to get into a quiet space where you can hear and see properly. Maybe use headphones. Popcorn? Maybe not.

I’ve also divided everything into age group interests.

Young families (early years)

Z-Arts in Manchester have a busy half term programme of children’s theatre & activities:

https://www.z-arts.org/see-whats-on/?category=childrens-shows&dm_i=4V00,GKDT,10ISZL,1YIHE,1#whats-on

Unicorn Theatre, London for online show (‘digital theatre’):

https://www.unicorntheatre.com/whatson

Children / young teens (or young at heart)

When ANYTIME (50 mins long)

Cost FREE

Who London Symphony Orchestra

Title Space! But not as we know it

Description ARTS AWARD

Billed as age 7 – 12 (but I think it sounds good, and I’m 45)

Find out what happens when an orchestra has to keep its distance!

Rachel Leach explores the separation of sounds, how music travels around an orchestra and what you can hear between the notes.

Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=814XZU32bRo&list=RD814XZU32bRo&start_radio=1&t=0

When ANYTIME

Cost FREE

Who Home Mcr / Oldham Coliseum

Title Poetry Health Service

Description ARTS AWARD

It’s a web app, asks you questions and then prescribes you a poem to hear and keep and you can write a haiku in response. Lovely.

Link

www.poetryhealthservice.com

When Friday 19^th February 12.30pm (45 mins)

Cost FREE

Who London Symphony Orchestra

Title Friday Lunchtime Concert

Description ARTS AWARD

Orchestral music – live-streamed

Link

https://lso.co.uk/whats-on/icalrepeat.detail/2021/02/19/1901/-/free-friday-lunchtime-concert.html

When Thursday 18^th Feb, 10.30am

Cost FREE (booking required)

Who Buxton Opera House

Title Intro to puppet making and puppetry

Description

Introduction to puppetry and puppet making, a hands-on session starting by looking at a variety of basic paper puppetry techniques and styles. It’s a practical workshop, so you will need to prep some basic materials beforehand.

Link

https://buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/event/sam-wilde-workshop

When From 12^th – 21^st Feb – Various events, mostly evenings

Cost FREE

Who Northumberland National Park

Title Dark Sky Festival

Description

Various events including Astrophotography for beginners, Stories of the Skies, Escape Velocity (about using a mobile phone to photograph the night sky)

Link

https://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/whats-on/

e.g. https://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/events/escape-velocity-with-kielder-observatory/event-4082/)

When ANYTIME

Cost FREE

Who Chester Zoo

Title Virtual Zoo Days

Description

Meet the animals!

Link

https://www.chesterzoo.org/virtual-zoo-2/

When ANYTIME, various

Cost FREE

Who Zooniverse

Title Citizen Science projects

Description

The Zooniverse enables everyone to take part in real cutting edge research in many fields across the sciences, humanities, and more. The Zooniverse creates opportunities for you to unlock answers and contribute to real discoveries.

Link

https://www.zooniverse.org/

When ANYTIME

Cost FREE

Who Explore Buxton

Title Capturing a Moment

Description

Do your own stories and drawings to contribute to a outdoor projection show. Deadline 28^th February.

Link

https://explorebuxton.co.uk/ms-building-in-buxton-to-feature-dramatic-video-illumination/?fbclid=IwAR362xup6BPeTLYWg6V8DIfDgNv2oR4Z-vdmFNeJe_Nj__OVKMYCjGsTj8c

or babblingvagabonds.co.uk

When ANYTIME until 21^st February

Cost £2.50 or pay what you feel

Who Cambridge Junction

Title The Snow Queen

Description ARTS AWARD

Drama performance – brand new family adventure straight into your living room!

Join Gerda on her quest to save her best friend Kaj from the Snow Queen in the frozen north.

From the makers of Snow White and Beauty & the Beast, a special online adventure featuring music, storytelling, action and animation.

Featuring a broken mirror, wild woods, a Mongolian yurt, helpful crows and a reindeer or two!

Get involved and play along with the film using the accompanying downloadable activity pack.

Suitable for ages: 5+

Link

https://www.junction.co.uk/the-snow-queen

When ANYTIME

Cost FREE, suggested donation £2

Who Little Angel Theatre, London

Title The Girl and The Raven

Description ARTS AWARD

Age 6+. A short adaptation of the Icelandic folk legend of The Girl and The Raven. The story is based on events surrounding a huge landslide in Vatnsdalur, Iceland in 1545, laying waste to the farm of Skíðastaðir. Thirteen people died, but tradition says that one girl survived in an extraordinary manner…

Link

https://littleangeltheatre.com/online-shows-and-activities/watch/the-girl-and-the-raven/

When Monday 15^th, Wednesday 17^th, Friday 19^th February, 11am, 1 hour

Cost FREE

Who Kindred Drama

Title Introduction to singing.

Description

Workshops with warm-ups and exercises. Free.

Link

https://fantasticforfamilies.com/online-events/13846/introduction-to-singing?StartDate=2021-02-15-1100&EndDate=2021-02-15-1200

When Thursday 18^th Feb 2pm

Cost FREE (booking required)

Who Showtown: Russ Brown

Title Magic Workshop

Description

Suitable for age 5+. Award winning magician Russ Brown is your host as he teaches you step by step how to make things transport, vanish and even float on a card’s edge!

Link

https://fantasticforfamilies.com/online-events/13860/showtown-presents-russ-brown-s-magic-workshop?StartDate=2021-02-18-1400&EndDate=2021-02-18-1445

When Friday 19^th Feb 11am.

Cost FREE (booking required)

Who Stamford Arts Centre

Title Children’s Creative Writing Workshop

Description

Release your imagination and find your voice, confidence and enjoyment throughout the process.

Link

https://fantasticforfamilies.com/online-events/13823/children-s-creative-writing-workshop?StartDate=2021-02-19-1100&EndDate=2021-02-19-1200

In fact there is a lot of stuff on Fantastic for Families – organisations all over the country post their events and activities there.

For events (ARTS AWARD) to watch:

https://fantasticforfamilies.com/online-events

For activities to do:

https://fantasticforfamilies.com/home-activities

Also much recommended this Youtube Art Club, from Olaf Falafel (is that his real name??)

https://www.youtube.com/user/OlafFalafel

Older teen / young adult:

When ANYTIME

Cost Various, pay as you feel, (if you are doing silver or gold Arts Award, HPCA can pay for tickets)

Who Home, Manchester

Title Homemakers Festival

Description ARTS AWARD

Homemakers is series of new commissions inviting artists to create new works at home, for an audience who are also at home. Various topics and genres, including 2 featuring sign language.

Link

https://homemcr.org/event/homemakers/

When Feb 25^th (and for 7 days after, on demand)

Cost £7.50 (if you are doing silver or gold Arts Award, HPCA can pay for tickets)

Who South Bank Centre, London

Title Raven Leilani in conversation

Description ARTS AWARD

The debut novel from Raven Leilani has won plaudits across the board – hear from the author in a broadcast conversation with novelist Diana Evans.

Link

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/raven-leilani-luster?eventId=864144

When March 4^th (and for 7 days after, on demand)

Cost £7.50 (if you are doing silver or gold Arts Award, HPCA can pay for tickets)

Who South Bank Centre, London

Title Skin in conversation

Description ARTS AWARD

‘You’ve got to keep moving forward, keep striving for everything you want to be.’ Skin

The lead singer of rock band Skunk Anansie, solo artist, LGBTQI+ activist and all-around trailblazer launches her memoir in a broadcast event.

I’m going to this – Skin was my total hero in the 1990s.

Link

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/skin-it-takes-blood-and-guts?eventId=863521

When March 19^th, 7.30pm

Cost £10 (if you are doing silver or gold Arts Award, HPCA can pay for tickets)

Who South Bank Centre, London

Title London Contemporary Orchestra

Description ARTS AWARD

The innovative ensemble presents orchestral versions of new electronic masterpieces and a UK premiere.

Link

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/gigs/london-contemporary-orchestra?eventId=864197

When Various 28^th March – 4^th April, generally 7.30pm

Cost £7.50 (if you are doing silver or gold Arts Award, HPCA can pay for tickets)

Who South Bank Centre, London

Title Out Spoken Festival

Description ARTS AWARD

Bringing the cream of UK writing talent to you, our resident poetry and music night goes online for the very first time.

Link

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/out-spoken?eventId=863518

When 1^st – 7^th March, anytime (35 mins long)

Cost From £7.50 (if you are doing silver or gold Arts Award, HPCA can pay for tickets)

Who Oldham Coliseum / Thickskin

Title Petrichor

Description ARTS AWARD Immersive Theatre in VR.

Welcome to Petrichor.
Thousands applied and you have been selected.
This is a new beginning, a clean slate, a second chance.
You are an important part of this machine,
And that’s all you need to think about.

Step into a new world.

“PETRICHOR is a 360-degree experience with action happening all around you. The experience can be viewed on smartphones and tablets, with or without a VR headset and you can move your device to follow the action around the space, for this reason we do not recommend you watch on a computer, laptop or smart TV. We also recommend wearing headphones as PETRICHOR uses sound to direct you where to look. This means it’s best to watch individually rather than as a group.”

Link

https://www.coliseum.org.uk/shows/petrichor-online-3401ar/?utm_campaign=269281_Petrichor%20online%20-%20Feb%202021%20announcement&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Oldham%20Coliseum%20Theatre&dm_i=6M6V,5RS1,1HOMP1,O52R,1

Annual General Meeting 2020

Tuesday November 24th at 7.30pm!

This year’s Annual General Meeting will be held online via Zoom & broadcast on Youtube & Facebook Live.

We are excited to announce that celebrated poet, Helen Mort, will be joining us to read some poems and chat about our year.

Anyone can attend the Zoom session to ask questions about our work. Members of the organisation (which is project participants, Friends of HPCA, volunteers and anyone who has signed up for membership) will be able to vote on the annual items for the agenda.

Non-members can still join the zoom and will be able to ask questions, but not vote. But why not sign up and become a member? Register for the meeting below and we will send you a membership form.

To join the zoom session please register here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpfuqoqz8pGtWJsARIZnchDAX4we0Yn55S

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Download our membership form here, which can be sent back by email to:

susie@highpeakarts.org

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.

Programme changes due to COVID-19 virus

Hello to all our wonderful participants. Here are details of the current status of HPCA programmes (updated 9th April):

Project eARTh:

We are sadly cancelling Project eARTh until further notice, due to the need for social distancing with covid 19. However, we want to make every effort to keep in touch with everyone through the post and phone, and for those that have it, some online contact. We are busy thinking of creative ways to keep connecting with each other during these very difficult days. The first idea will be winging its way through the post this week (as long as I stay well and in work)!

-Alison

Film Cuts Club:

After a 2 week stop due to social distancing and lockdown, we re-launched Film Cuts Club on Saturday 4th April using Zoom and Miro tools. We will now continue each Saturday for the time being, but there is a new signing up process to get consent from parents / guardians to take part in online group work. Click here to find out more about this signing up process.

Young Writers’ Camp and Tall Tales:

We are working on ways to re-launch this programme, but given the unknown length of the social distancing / lockdown period it is more difficult to set aims for this work. We were planning to use a trip to our 40th Anniversary Archive Project as the starting point, so our first task now is to choose a new theme.

13+ Young Writers:

We will be able to complete the writing for this year’s theme of Local Landscape: Global Future and our funders have agreed to extend the grant until we can get back together to complete the filming. I will be in touch with members of this group to set up some group writing sessions over Zoom.

Music Arts Pod:

This programme is suspended while the schools are shut, but we hope to return to the existing groups and complete some finished work with each group, even if this has to be in September. We have classic pieces such as the ‘Pen Down the Radiator’ music video which cannot be left unfinished!

Take care all!

-Sophie

Film Cuts Club Re-Launch for 2020!

Our Film Cuts Club re-launches in 2020 with new funding from the National Lottery Awards for All.

The project is our filmmaking club for young people with additional needs, run by filmmakers Mark and Benn Turton. It all started back in 2013, but we had to take a break last year to looks for more funds.

Now we are back offering a welcoming and inclusive environment for anyone with a passion for films. The group starts from age 8, and has a fantastic mix of abilities and a few older young volunteers.

The club aims to teach the full process of film making to all participants, and in the past we’ve made documentaries, dramas, comedy spoofs, animations and news shows.

Everyone takes a turn at the different roles including writing and planning, directing, camera work, acting and then editing and post-production. With an overview of how these roles work, people then specialise in an area that suits them most and they form teams where each person’s strengths support the others in the group.

More experienced and older members are encouraged to become more independent and to support new starters.

“It’s been amazing – working with everyone, working with all the people who make it work – get our heads together, make a good film and we’re just enjoying ourselves basically – I love it”

Anyone interested in joining the group should get in touch with Sophie on 01663 744516 or sophie@highpeakarts.org

This is our Youtube Playlist – click on the top right hand menu to choose a film!

Paddington World Book Day Event!

Calling all families with a love for bears and marmalade!

Our friends at Lymefield Garden Centre are doing another screening for World Book Day. This is what they have to say:

Paddington loved nothing more than his marmalade sandwiches. As it’s Real Bread Week, on Saturday 29 February from 11am, we have invited Cowburn’s Bakery to host a bread-making demo and tasting of our weekly stocked artisan breads. We will also have our own Homemade Lymefield Marmalade Tasting.

Throughout the day on 29 February, we will be hosting a children’s bookstall supporting the amazing work of Cascade Baby Bundles and at 1.30 there will be a messy workshop local artist, Frances Walker.

Then at 3:30pm on 29 February (doors open at 3pm) there’ll be a pop-up screening of Paddington the Movie in our Glass House.

Cinema tickets are on sale in the Garden Centre, (£5 each, under 3’s are free). All proceeds to High Peak Community Arts project ‘For the love of books’.

DON’T FORGET YOUR DECK CHAIRS, WARM CLOTHES & BLANKETS!

(IT GETS CHILLY IN THERE!)

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Come and join in the fun and introduce your little ones to the pleasures of reading and bringing books to life!

The Spine

We are delighted to be hosting the award-winning theatre company, 20 Stories High, from Liverpool, who are bringing us their brand new show, The Spine. We are working with Glossop North End Football Club to bring the show to Bradbury Community House, Glossop on Wednesday 19^th February, 6.30pm.

The Spine is a new play about goals, brotherhood and the football academy system

Kyle, Liam and Hakeem dream of football, fame and fortune… after spending most of their teenage years being the spine of the team, the premier league is now at their fingertips.

But as they all reach for that golden contract, the cracks begin to appear as years of institutional racism, and hyper-masculinity begin to take their toll. Will the boys be strong enough to stick together, or will they elbow their way to the top?

The Spine is an explosive new show that shines a spotlight on a system that promises the world but leaves over 99% of young men on the side-lines.

With heavy beats, raw performances and silky football skills The Spine is not only a play about football but one which explores what it really means to be a man in the 21st Century.

Age Guidance: 13+

Click here for tickets. Tickets also available without booking fee from Bay Tree Books in Glossop.

Upcoming Events!

We are working on our 2020 events programme and will advertise all events on the website – with highlights posted on our homepage – in the meantime please see our calendar pages for regular and pop up events happening now or coming soon!