Youth and Community Arts for the High Peak
Sunday 8 July
from 11.30am – 3.30pm
Come and see our amazing 360 degree Camera Obscura at the old Bowling Green in
Buxton Pavilion Gardens, Buxton
Linking in with the Buxton Art Trail
See live projections of the world outside from inside our Camera Obscura.
Our beautiful yurt provides the setting for this wondrous experience.
This event is FREE and has been part funded by the Institute of Physics.
Project eARTh Buxton group – working on the curlew for the archway in Granby Road Park. To be cast in aluminium.
We are in the middle of planning our first collaborative project for the Youth Arts Network – so please get in touch if you and your group would like to work in drama, creative writing, music, recording or visual arts to produce an element of our live event being planned for October 2011. Go to our YAN blog for more info.
Our arts programme f has the following priorities:
Arts and Well-being:
Participatory arts projects with disabled adults; people with long-term medical conditions; people experiencing mental distress; elders in community and residential settings.
For more details click on Project eARTh and Creative Wellbeing.
Youth Arts Programme:
Projects to find new opportunities for young people to get involved in creative activity across the High Peak.
For more details about our current
“Youth Arts” projects click here
Children and Families:
Projects that arise out of changing and emerging local and community needs.
This includes our yurt based projects summer, and a current early years project, ‘For The Love of Books’.
For more details about our current
community projects click here
Please contact us if you are interested to hear more about about our current projects.
Either email mail@highpeakarts.org
or phone 01663 744516
Our NEW Magazine project has just finished and we will be publishing the printed and online edition of the Magazine soon.
Watch this space !
Art work to enjoy
We have made an oak bench and living willow arbour in the new wildlife garden at Granby Road Park, Fairfield, for all to use. A second bench is in the Glossop Mental Health Project Garden for their members and their neighbours’ use.
To listen to our delightful Summer Stroll CD of music and poetry,
click on the image to the right.
For your own copy, call Alison on 01663 744516.
Click here for more details about our human sundial project that we completed in July 2011.