This year included 3 days story telling in the yurt at Buxton Festival, and Whaley Water Weekend, with story-tellers Shonaleigh and Gordon MacLellan; our usual featured arts workshop for Chernobyl Childrens’ Project with artist Nicky Ward; a ‘silent disco’ in our yurt, for the One World Festival; and we opened our doors for another Open Day at High Lee Hall in New Mills, inviting people to join us for ‘iPaddling’ workshops for New Mills Festival. These events are an important part of our core programme, despite many being un-funded. We recognise the important part this work plays in the lives of our communities.
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.
Blue John Felted Panels – Unveiling
Thank you for joining us! This was a lovely event and we look forward to seeing you again soon!
PAST EVENT:
Come and celebrate the completion and unveiling of our ‘Made in Derbyshire’ project on Wednesday 30th September in Buxton Library Children’s Area. Participants from our Arts and Wellbeing programme worked with artist Carol Wilson to create a series of beautiful panels depicting scenes from the children’s book by Berlie Doherty, illustrated by Tim Clarey. Some of the wool used is from whitefaced woodland sheep from Elton, nr Bakewell, a breed indigenous to this area. FREE,. All welcome. 11am. See the artwork and photos from the project. Enjoy refreshements, Meet the author, Berlie Doherty.
iPaddling for New Mills Festival!
We had a great time on Saturday 19th September as part of New Mills Festival. High Lee Hall was a-buzz with creative ideas and we made some beautiful little films and works of art!
High Peak Community Arts invited everyone to dip toes into some cool and funky iPad apps. People used one of our iPads or brought their own, trying video, imaging and music apps & here is our fusion of sound and vision from the day:
And delving underwater:
Finding things you didn’t expect:
Roaming the High Peaks:
And accidents will happen on the farm!
These are the apps we used, if you want to have a go at home! (some are free, some are cheap and some are a few pounds):
Art: Paper53, Photoshop Express, Photoshop Mix, Photoshop Sketch
Music: Garageband (check you’ve downloaded all the features), Bloom, Beatwave, Morphwiz, Loopy HD, Propellerhead
Video: iMovie, Action Movie FX, StopMotion
Tall Tales 2015 – The Summer School
The summer school began when the two groups met on a trip to Manchester International Festival, to see the international premiere of Wonder.land by Damon Albarn. This inspirational trip was followed up with another trip into Manchester to the Art Gallery, where they worked in one of their studios using physical materials and digital methods to create themes and images for the show. Then they went to the open day at the Bridgewater Hall, tried out instruments, toured the building and had the chance to conduct part of the Halle Orchestra!
“When we went to Manchester Art Gallery we like got a word and we had to find pictures that summed that up – like the Prison Yard, and Like me and Leo found one, and it was like really foggy, like pirates on a ship.”
After the fun the rest of the summer school was at Hope Valley College music department, where the hard work began – with just a week to create their finished show!
“You had to writing bits with the instruments and people were singing it.”
“Yeah – we did the whole run through and it was actually great!”
Click here to see how it went!
Are you 100% Wolf?
Come down to one of the two shows completing our second year of Tall Tales. This year we have been working with the book ‘100% Wolf’ by Jayne Lyons and in four months we have worked with young people from Gamesley, Glossop and Fairfield, Buxton to create another outstanding show to captivate you – The Audience!
Don’t miss out on your chance to see and hear a show that combines humour, horror, music and visual treats to tell the story of Freddy the young werewolf, struggling to deal with some great expectations.
100% Wolf is the second show from High Peak Community Arts’ project Tall Tales, working in music and theatre with young people from Buxton & Glossop. The story comes from the book of the same name by Jayne Lyons, and takes us to the world of the werewolves who live among us. This first stage production tells the whirlwind tale of Freddy as he comes of age and transforms into a wolf for the first time. All does not go according to plan when it turns out Freddy is not like the rest of his family. Can he overcome his fears and redefine what makes him and his kind 100% Wolf?
The show takes to the stage at the Geoffrey Allen Centre, Gamesley at 5pm on 7th August and at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton at 7.30pm on 9th August. The project has been funded by the Foundation for Youth Music and Arts Council England and more than 50 local young people have worked with professional musicians, artists and theatre makers since April to create the music and material for the performance.
In weekly workshops in Gamesley, Glossop and Fairfield, Buxton they have worked with instrumentalist and composer, Andy Smith, theatre maker, Paul Hine, and a host of other musicians with skills in vocals, digital music, song writing and instrumental playing. They have also worked with visual artist, Katy McCall and digital artist, Andrea Pazos to develop visual ideas for the final staging. Now the two groups will meet in an 8 day summer school to put all their ideas together and form the young company who will perform on 7th and 9th August. Audiences can expect a live band, singing, dance and drama, with a distinctive set and live projections to conjure up the world of a werewolf dynasty!
More information about the project and video clips from the workshops are available at www.highpeakarts.org, or find High Peak Community Arts on Facebook and Twitter (@HighPeakComArts).
Performances will be:
5pm, 7th August, Geoffrey Allen Centre, Winster Mews, Gamesley, SK13 0LU; Tickets £3 (£1 concessions), available from Gamesley Community Café, or on the door.
7.30pm, 9th August, Pavilion Arts Centre, St John’s Road, Buxton, SK17 6XN; Tickets £4 (£3 concessions), available from Buxton Opera House box office 01298 72190
Tall Tales 2015 – The Workshops
Tall Tales 2015 launched in April on Tuesdays at the Fairfield Dreamscheme in Buxton and on Wednesdays at the Gamesley Community Café.
More than 35 young people from the two estates have taken part, with 20 coming together for the summer school at the beginning of August.
The young participants have picked up new musical skills in the first workshops and then brought them together in song writing, drama and set design with our team of professional performing arts practitioners. They have worked with composer and instrumentalist, Andy Smith, song writer and digital musician, Caro Churchill, song writer and poet, Lucy Jackson, opera singer, Daisy Barker, instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, Aidan Jolly and music technologist and sample maker, Kristian Gjerstad. Then later on drama practitioner, Paul Hine and digital artist, Andrea Pazos joined in to create the other elements of a performance!
“I think my favourite session was the part where, me Ruby and Jack and Jess and her friend, we did like a song and it’s got like a hand clap in it, like a little beat with our hands, and we did it all ourselves with a bit of help from Caro, and then like we keep on getting the tune wrong, but then we soon got used to it, and then we had to perform it to everyone – and we were just like facing the table to not look at everyone, and some people was just videoing each group, and like yeah it was okay and so we were trying to think of a part for where Ruby could play flute in, but it didn’t actually quite fit…”
“I remember that I worked with Kristian, I brought my violin and we made all noises and made sounds, so when we did that, he put them on this cardboard piece attached to this wire, so when we press it it plays our sound we made.”
Next they all go on to meet at the Summer School and create the final show!
Making Your Garden Grow
Project eARTh participants, children from Art Box Art Club and Buxton Infants worked with artist Carol Chouler- Tissier to create 3D ceramics flowers, which will be installed in the Pavilion Gardens Conservatory, during Buxton Festival. The Unveiling and Celebratory event is open to all, and is on Thursday July 9th 11am – 12.30pm in the café and conservatory.
More Upcoming Events!
One World Festival, New Mills! 4th July, Silent Disco in HPCA yurt. 12 – 4pm
Glossop Carnival! 4th July, 12 – 4pm, Glossop Digital Project stall with Leicester Uni
Buxton Festival! 25th / 26th July, Storytelling in the magical yurt, Pavillion Gardens. Saturday Shonaleigh, 10 – 4pm. Sunday Gordon MacLellan 10 – 4pm
100% Wolf! Performing arts show from our Tall Tales project 7th August, 5pm, venue TBC; 9th August, 7.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton.
More details on these events very soon!!!
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