This was a chance for children and young people living in New Mills to get out and about in their local park and create a fantastic new area to wander around and enjoy!
Derbyshire Wildlife Team led workshops exploring an over-grown and neglected area of High Lea Park. Looking at the past, present and the future ecology and biodiversity of the area, children and young people worked with an Artist/Sculptor and created drawings and designs based on their interpretations. These were carved by the Artist onto several felled tree trunks that lay within the area. Then working with the wood sculptor, the group learned how to carve wood and design a seating area from the felled timber.
Travelling Light …
Our 360* Camera Obscura toured around High Peak this year engaging people with the wonders of science and the links between science and art. We hope to develop this unusual and engaging workshop to reach more areas. Watch this space for news of further developments!
Watts in the Yurt
Following on from our exciting Science meets Art workshops held in the yurt last year, we prepared yet another spectacle …….. this time exploring the physics of cycle power! Working with a group of young people from High Peak and the scientists at Fab Lab, an amazing fabrication Lab in Manchester, we designed and made a cycle power device for our yurt. Artist/Maker Julian Tate created an interactive installation to be placed inside the yurt that reflected the science of electro-magnetics in a fun and engaging manner…….
We launched our workshop Watts in the Yurt at:
Whaley Bridge Water Weekend at Whaley Bridge Canal on 11th June 2011
Watch this space for future events.
This project was funded by Institute of Physics.
Collaborate Project!
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.
Project of the Stars
The project began as a plan for a film project with members of the ‘Making Rainbows’ service at Grapevine Project, Buxton – a mental health support charity. It took a while to find funding and when the workshops ran over an intensive period in summer 2010, we drew young people from across Buxton.
Our project team worked in drama and creative writing, camera work, directing, animation, music, scoring and video editing – and created a 10 minute film called “What Have I Done?” – a thought provoking piece about tough choices, making mistakes and facing up to reality.
(They worked with professional artists: Actor and Theatre Worker, Tammy Foley; Film Maker, Mat Johns; Animator, Paul Devereaux; and Musician, Aidan Jolly.) Since the project, three people are now working towards their Arts Award (Silver), one has shot some short films at home and another has been offered a MediaBox Bursary to start a film group at his school – see “The Marcus Project”.
Marcus Project
The Marcus Project has been an opportunity for one member of the Project of the Stars team to use a MediaBox bursary to build a team of film makers at his school. They have written, directed, filmed and edited a short film about power and corruption. This has been good progression for Cameron, who had the support of Mat Johns again, but took on more responsibility for the direction of the film. He and the others, Matt and Dom, are now working towards their Silver Arts Award.
Full Arts Programme
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
Magazine Project
Our NEW Magazine project has just finished and we will be publishing the printed and online edition of the Magazine soon.
Watch this space !
Summer Stroll CD
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.