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Vote for Creative Wellbeing!

Another chance to vote for us – for our ‘Creative Wellbeing’ project we run with Good News Family Care.

You can vote online in Aviva’s scheme…..so please help us! Still time left – till 18th November!

Creativity is a wonderful route for change. We have found our joint project, the ‘Creative Wellbeing Group’, has a profound effect in improving mental health and wellbeing. Through this project, 40 women and several children have enjoyed weekly half-day arts workshops led by professional artists in each of the last 2 years. The purpose is to improve mental and emotional wellbeing, confidence, life opportunities and community engagement, so changing lives. Please help our ‘Creative Wellbeing’ project to continue in 2017.

The project is for women living with us who are fleeing domestic abuse, homeless, or in recovery from substance dependency, as well as women who we continue to support in the community and others living locally including elderly, isolated women and some with learning disabilities or dementia.

At ‘Creative Wellbeing’, we work together to create works of art for our residential centres. Each professional artist works with us for between 4 – 12 weeks; the artistic projects are chosen by a steering group of participants. We have created a hand-felted wall hanging; a 5’ diameter ‘Welcome’ mosaic; a living willow arbour; a large ceramic ‘Tree of Life’; and mosaic plaques for bedroom doors and ceramic tiles with the words ‘Peace, Freedom and Flourish’.

The project is run together by High Peak Community Arts and Good News Family Care. We currently have funding to complete large scale willow sculptures this Autumn but need £25,000 to allow this project to continue and expand all through 2017

VOTE FOR US – #BagsOfHelp

Vote Now! Finishes 13th November! Our Hayfield Sculpture project has been shortlisted for a grant in this initiative. We will get either £8,000, £10,000 or £12,000 depending our your votes in store. So please vote for us to win top prize.

We plan to design and create a steel sculpture, working with artist Tracy Cartledge , adults from Project eARTh and pupils and families at Hayfield Primary School . The sculpture will go on the bus turnaround at Hayfield. DCC Countryside Service will also work with volunteers to clear the are and sew wildflowers seeds there , together transforming the neglected and overgrown area to create a beautiful welcome to the village.

So please, Vote in Whaley Bridge Tesco store 31st October to 13th November to help us secure a Tesco #BagsofHelp grant.

Tesco has teamed up with Groundwork on its Bags of Help initiative in hundreds of regions across England and Wales. The scheme will see three community groups and projects in each of these regions awarded grants of £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 – all raised from the 5p bag charge.

Bags of Help offers community groups and projects in each of Tesco’s 416 regions across the UK a share of revenue generated from the 5p charge levied on single-use carrier bags. The public will now vote in store from 26 September to 9 October on who should receive the £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 awards. In total, there is over £12.5 million up for grabs.

www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp

Here are a few pic of Tracy’s other work with schools..

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 assembled public were willing to help find the characters and get the book back on sale. Setting out in four search parties they entered the cave to find the Water Goddess, the Fire Goddess, ghosts, bats, Roman soldiers and a Bronze Age man and at the very foot a medium trying to communicate (badly) with the former inhabitants of the cave.
When they met NoName they found someone forced into the limelight and shrinking from the crowds attracted to the book launch. He was so uncertain of his place in the world he couldn’t take part, taking all the characters with him. But along the way the audience had found letters which seemed to hold a clue, and together they worked out his name. Back at the visitors’ centre everyone called for Norman and he returned to take up his new identity. With all the characters gathered around him he found that “True friends will always be there for you!”
A cast of 22 performed to a sell out audience, with people coming from across the High Peak… And here is a first peek at what it looked like:

The young people from Glossop and Buxton created the show during a 6 day Summer School. Now in its third year, Tall Tales is High Peak Community Arts’ performing arts programme for young people across the district. Each year the project starts in April with evening creative sessions in Gamesley and Fairfield. People can come along to try new skills in musical instruments, vocals, writing or music production, and they sign up for the August Summer School.

In the first two years of the project we worked from published books to create the show. In 2014 audiences saw Blue John, from the book by Berlie Doherty, and in 2015 we staged 100% Wolf by Jayne Lyons. But now the young members of the project have demanded they create their own story, and so we launched the Young Writers’ Camp in April 2016, where young people from all our projects and others from Manchester came together to be inspired at Poole’s Cavern. They created characters and stories to fill our Young Writers’ Camp Collection, ‘Mind Your Head’. Tall Tales has been working with these ideas ever since and now they have been able to set their show back in the caves that inspired it!

Please mind you head on the way out...

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This year Tall Tales has been funded by Arts Council England, the Derbyshire Music Education Hub, Derbyshire County Council and Buxton Festival. For more information contact Sophie at High Peak Community Arts on 01663 744516 or sophie@highpeakarts.org

Visit The Peak District By Train – Unveiling Event

Free event. All welcome to Project eARTh’s Unveiling of:
* 5 collages of the Hope Valley – Edale, Hope, Bamford, Hathersage and Grrindleford
* Posters – Visit The Peak District by Train’ featuring all 5 collage images, to encourage train use into the Hope Valley
*Di bond prints of each collage to be diplayed at each station.
There will be a photographic exhibiton of the project and how the collages were made, and refreshments.
After the Unveiling at the Moorland Centre, we will vist Edale Station to see the site of one of th di-bond prints.

Participants worked with artist Caro Inglis on this project.

Project eARTh is funded by The Big Lottery Fund.
The posters and di- bond images are being printed courtesy of The High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership.

AESOP National Arts in Health Conference and Showcase for Health Decision Makers

We will be appearing at the Royal Festival Hall on 5 February at the first ever National Arts in Health Conference and Showcase for Health Decision Makers. Leading speakers include Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health, Sir Malcolm Grant, chair of NHS England, and Professor Kevin Fenton, Director of Health and Wellbeing for Public Health England. We are of one of 23 selected by innovative charity Aesop to demonstrate at the Royal Festival Hall the effectiveness of arts interventions in healthcare that could save the NHS and local authorities money, while improving the health and wellbeing of participants.

We will be talking about Project eARTh.

High Peak Community Arts will also feature on a new online ‘dating site’ to match health commissioners with arts organisations aesopmarketplace,org, to be launched at the RFH.

The complete programme is here

You can book tickets here here

More information: ae-sop.org, email: info@ae-sop.org

Twitter @AesopHealth #AesopRFH.

Support our Christmas appeal – Download Seasons of Goodwill

We have launched Seasons of Goodwill for our Christmas / New Year appeal – available to buy now on Bandcamp:

<a href="http://highpeakcomarts.bandcamp.com/track/seasons-of-goodwill">Seasons of Goodwill by The Comrades, Project eARTh</a>

And watch the video:

Listen to Project eARTh’s newly created song – working with Singer / Songwriter, Claire Mooney.

For the love of Books!

High Peak Community Arts are proud to present their first early years arts project, For the Love of Books.

The project aims to promote a joy of books with early years children and their families, who can sign up for sessions with professional artists. The artists have been asked to choose their favourite children’s book and develop fun, creative and open ended activities that animate the book further.

Our first sessions will be running at Gamesley Early Excellence Centre in October, where artist Tony Hall will be making drawing robots with the families. Artist Katy McCall, who has a background in early years learning, will be bringing a range of unusual materials for children to play and experiment with. The session will be based on the book “Robots, Robots Everywhere” by Sue Fliess.

We are thrilled to be planning this early years work, supported by Awards for All from the Big Lottery and also the Clore Duffield Poetry and Literature Awards. All of the sessions will be designed to enable families and children to develop confidence in their creativity and nurture a love of books through playful and enjoyable activities.

This programme of workshops will be rolled out in New Mills, Fairfield and Gamesley between October 2015 and July 2016. For more information call Sophie on 01663 744 516, or email Katy McCall on katymccall@mac.com.

High Peak Community Arts to be new charity partner for White Stuff, Buxton!

We did it!

Thanks to all our supporters who got online and voted – we have been selected by White Stuff to be their charity partner for their new store in Buxton.

Everyone at High Peak Community Arts is thrilled to have been chosen and we are looking forward to meeting their staff and using the opportunity to raise our profile in Buxton.

Sophie, our Youth Arts manager, said “Almost half our programme is based in Buxton, but we don’t have a base there – so it will be great to become a bit more visible to the general public and shout about the benefits of taking part in the arts!”

Alison, our Arts & Wellbeing manager, said “This partnership has come a critical time for us, as we are still replacing the revenue grant that we used to get from Arts Council England. Working with White Stuff will bring us in-kind support of more volunteers, and funds to support the organisation as a whole – We can’t wait!”

For more information on White Stuff’s charitable foundation click here.

Vote for US!! Deadline 30 August!

‘White Stuff’ is opening a store in Buxton, and choosing a local partnership charity. If High Peak Community Arts is chosen, ‘White Stuff’ will fund raise for us and volunteer at events. We would very much welcome this opportunity as funding is so scarce and funds from them would be unrestricted – this means their support benefits the whole organisation and all our work across the High Peak, not just in Buxton. We will be able to continue to create exciting, high quality projects in our Youth and Arts and Wellbeing programmes, using participation in the arts as an agent for positive change in people’s lives.

Click here to VOTE FOR US NOW!!

Please share with all your friends – we need your support!!
Voting is open till midnight on Sunday 30th August!

Many thanks!
VOTE NOW!!

Alison, Rick & Sophie