High Peak Community Arts

Youth and Community Arts for the High Peak

Music and Video from Music Arts Pod

 And here is our Youtube playlist – click the menu arrow on the top left to chose a film.

 

 

 

Enchanted films from the Magic Market

As the audience were lead down to the Enchanted Gathering they had the chance to visit the Magical Market, with a few clues to the stories of the forest…

 

 

And one from Kieran & Austin:

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

Waiting to open the Magical Market

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Help fund creativity in nurseries!

We need your help through crowdfunder…

For the Love of Books is our much loved early years project, working with nurseries in Gamesley (Glossop), Ollersett (New Mills) and Fairfield (Buxton) and we need help to reach our target match funding. When we hit the target The Ragdoll Foundation will release £30,000 for us to run the project for two years.

PLEASE SUPPORT US IF YOU CAN!

We have recently launched an exciting, new Crowdfunding campaign. It aims to raise funds for HPCA’s ‘For The Love of Books’ programme, which works with children and their parents/carers, and staff, at three nurseries in the High Peak. These nurseries are located in Fairfield, Gamesley and Ollersett.

The project involves professional artists working with the nurseries using books and the arts to inspire a variety of fun, engaging, hands-on learning sessions for families. These will include CPD(training) for early years staff, so that creative techniques can become part of their everyday practice. The project will ignite the imagination, developing a love of books, increased literacy levels in the under 5s and even stronger familial bonds as parents learn with their children.

The Ragdoll Foundation have agreed to fund some of this project, on condition we raise £5,000 from other sources. That’s where our
Crowdfunding campaign comes in! We have a commitment of £1666 from local county council funds and other applications pending, but we need a minimum of £1,200 more to be able to run any of this programme at all.

Crowdfunding is all about engaging people to raise money via them making ‘pledges’ to help fund work. People are offered ‘rewards’ in return for their donations.

Our rewards range from HPCA key rings to poetry books, trips to artists studios and potted ornamental trees. A range of artists have
been very generous in their support of this fundraiser.kids reading lying in a circle

The nature of Crowdfunding is that it is quick. In our case, 8 weeks to be precise. We are aiming to raise £1200 from now until the end of August 2017. Time is ticking!

Please help us if you can! By sharing information about this campaign, donating yourselves, or encouraging others that you know have a
passion for our work, to do so.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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.