High Peak Community Arts

Youth and Community Arts for the High Peak

Musical Evening Sneaky Peak!

A sneak peak at some of the musical programme for our Musical evening

Performed especially for HPCA by The Amarone Ensemble.

For High Peak Arts AGM on Nov 28th! 

Victoria Daniel – Flute

Karen Mainwaring – Violin

Rebecca Aldersea – Cello

 

Bach – Polonaise, Minuet & Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No.3 in D Major

Elgar  – Chanson de Matin

Handel  – Hornpipe from The Water Music

Delibes  – Flower Duet from Lakme

 

The Amarone Ensemble was formed by members of the BBC Philharmonic in 2011. They perform regularly on BBC Radio 3 and BBC television, as well as touring internationally and appearing at festivals all over the UK, including the BBC Proms.

Combining busy careers as professional musicians and parents, the Trio are passionate about performing music in a variety of community settings and engaging and inspiring children through bespoke project work delivered directly into schools. 

November AGM!

SAVE THE DATE!

High Peak Community Arts AGM

Tuesday November 28th, 7.30pm

 

Providence URC Church, New Mills

With a very special performance by a trio from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

 

Hope to see you there!

An Evening With… High Peak Community Arts

What a great evening! Thank you to so many of you for coming along and supporting our work. We hope you enjoyed the poetry, singing, displays, drinks, nibbles and the raffle! Thank you also for those who became ‘Friends of High Peak Community Arts’ on the night. You can still do so by using the blue donate button just at the side of this page! We appreciate the support of our community to continue our valuable work.

 

A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY!

DON’T MISS….

Wednesday 13th September  2017, 7 – 9pm, New Mills Town Hall.Helen Mort

Come and be inspired by the work of High Peak Community Arts and celebrate the launch of the new ‘Friends of High Peak Community Arts’ scheme. Hear more about our Friends scheme (with membership starting from just £2 per month), see our participants’ work, listen to music, drink wine, eat cheese, win some fantastic artwork in our raffle, and be captivated by the poetry of our special guest, the renowned Derbyshire poet (and ex-Derbyshire Poet Laureate) Helen Mort.

Described by Carol Ann Duffy as “among the brightest stars in the sparkling constellation of young British poets”, we are delighted to announce that Helen Mort is now one of High Peak Community Arts’ Ambassadors. Helen will be reading extracts from her writing during the evening.

“As a Derbyshire writer inspired by the county’s varied landscape and rich heritage, I admire and value the work charities like High Peak Arts do to make people aware of how art and place intersect and to support local artists. The High Peak is a rare, unique part of the world and it will always be at the heart of my poetry. We need to celebrate Derbyshire’s artistic life however we can.” (Helen Mort)
 
The evening will also involve a silent auction of captivating work by a range of talented High Peak artists.

Do hope you can join us for what will be a very special evening.

This event is FREE and is being presented as part of the New Mills Festival 2017.

For more details, please contact Caroline at caroline@highpeakarts.org or on 01663 74516.

Do hope to see you there!

Enchanted Gathering…

Take a woodland, 12 animations, 6 songs, 3 dramas and 1 magical market place and step into another world…

Tall Tales have hosted their Forest of Enchantment, where the normal rules don’t apply and the audience met the inhabitants finding shelter, trust and magic.  Enchanted Gathering was our 4th annual youth performing arts show from the Tall Tales project.
Click here to see films from the Magical Market…

None of this would have been possible without the generous support of funders, Arts Council England, Tesco Bags of Helps, local Derbyshire County Councillors and the Music Education Hub.

 

We have been working with young people on Gamesley and Fairfield for the past 2 months, using stories and ideas from the Young Writers’ Camp. The groups have been learning instruments, jamming and singing together, and in August they joined forces for the 6 day summer school – finishing with our World Premiere public performance of Enchanted Gathering on 16th August at Longdendale Environmental Centre, Tintwistle.

Location: Longdendale Environmental Centre, United Utilities Bottoms Office, Woodhead Road, Tintwistle, SK13 1HS

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Waiting to open the Magical Market

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Sky, Rock, Lake, Earth

Thank you for attending this event, to watch the short animated music video created by Project eARTh participants, with musician Aidan Jolly. This was a free event with refreshments. 

Poster for Sky rock lake earth

painting of a lake

Monday July 17th

Buxton URC Church

1pm – 2.30pm

Free entry

 

Buxton Art Trail

Thank you for comng along to ‘Art From The Caves’  on Sat 15th and Sunday 16th July 11am – 5pm.

Responding to Poole’s Cavern, with art from wooden sculptures to film, from music to interactive paintings which talk, we experienced the fruits of our community’s imagination. 

Tall Tales – The Music Sessions!

Music Sessions Poster Tall Tales starts again with 8 music sessions from this Monday 15th May (Fairfield) and Thursday 18th July (Gamesley) through to 17th / 20th July (with 2 weeks off at half term).

Come down to learn some instrumental or vocal skills, write some music, use some music tech – have fun, make friends and all the rest!

Grand Unveiling of ‘Hidden Worlds’

All welcome to the Celebration and Unveiling of  Project eARTh’s  ‘Hidden Worlds’ – a silk painting and tie dye project to create a wall hanging for the URC church in Buxton.

Participants worked with artist Lesley Ann Withers to produce this artwork, based on the idea of looking through a microscope at organic forms.

Join us to see the wall hangings, and photos from the project.

Tea, coffee and cake. FREE event. 

1pm – 3pm Monday 15th May at URC Church, Hardwick Square East, Buxton Sk17 6PT