High Peak Community Arts

Youth and Community Arts for the High Peak

Buxton Festival Storytelling weekend

On Saturday 20 July,  Pippa Pixley,  is a local author & illustrator of children’s books whose stories take you on magical adventures, she told her tales in the yurt at Buxton festival.  Thanks to everyone who joined her as she created original characters and bought  them to life in a lively, interactive storytelling session.

On Sunday 21 July, the Yurt was occupied by Christine McMahon, whose ready wit and warm manner, mixed with a dollop of Northern grit, made this event really special. Christine is a unique performer whose tales enthralled  young and old alike.

 

One World Festival 2013

What a lovely hot day in High Lea Park!
Nicky's recycled workshop
We had recycled stuff artist, Nicky Ward, with the people of New Mills making a 3D canvas of the town. The pictures speak for themselves!
The Human Fruit Machine from Shout Action

 

 

 

 

And just outside the yurt our Shout Action team were fundraising for their next film – with the Human Fruit Machine!

One WORLD festival 2013

 

One World Festival Event:  JULY 6TH 12Pm – 5Pm

High Lea Park off St Mary’s Rd, NEW MILLS

 

Rubbish into Art.

HPCA will be hosting a recycled arts event in the yurt, at the One World Festival 2013, led by Nicky from the Bowerwirks.

The event is free, open to all ages and we will be making a collage from scrap, so please bring your rubbish with you on the day

For more information; Call Jan at HPCA 01663 744516

jan@highpeakarts.org

 

Whaley Bridge Water Festival 2013

In a complete reversal of last year’s wet wet water festival, at this year’s event the sun cracked the flags and record numbers were recorded at all events.  Well done to everyone who organised the event and to everyone that came along.  Also well done to our artist JIM MEDWAY who created a great activity in the yurt, in the shape of Canal Boat lettering/printing.  We had hundreds through the yurt doors, lots of great art and a fantastic summer’s day.

 

 

Glossopdale Research Project

 

Some of the research from the  ongoing Glossop Research project is currently touring the local libraries and is also available for  any groups, schools etc, that want to use the display.  The exhibition has been to Gamesley Library already and was well recieved.  Its next outing will be at Glossop Library from Monday 10th June until Monday 24th June.  There are loads of photos, quotes and facts as well as the Glossopoly game made by pupils at Glossopdale Community College.  If your group would like to host the exhibtion please get in touch.

There are some films and  pictures related to this project that  we will post up soon, so keep an eye out for them.

 

The research is being conducted in partnership with Leicester University and is part of  project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project is titled

Revisiting the mid-point of British community studies

And the university are interested in exploring how communities, and community studies, have changed over the course of the second half of the twentieth century and into the 21st century, focusing attention on the town of Glossop. This town in north west Derbyshire is around 13 miles from the centre of Manchester, and was subject to a major study by staff from the University of Manchester in the 1950s, which was published in 1959 as Small town politics.

Whaley Bridge Water Weekend

The High Peak yurt will be out and about  again  this summer and if you have an event and would like us to be there, please get in touch.  We have already been out to Hadfield, where we had a great day despite the rain at Hadfield Train Station with the Hadfield Hall Group and local story teller Helen Appleton on May 12th 2013. 

This weekend 7th – 9th June is the wonderful Whaley Bridge Water Weekend and we will be there with the yurt and local artist Jim Medway who will be leading a  Canal boat letters workshop.  So why not come along and give it a go.  Here is a link for the event, hope to see you there.

http://www.whaleybridge.com/water-weekend/