To hear our delightful CD of music and poetry inspired by a walk in the Upper Derwent Valley, click on the image below.
Travelling Light. From our Yurt.
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.
Film Cuts Club
A lunchtime club at Glossopdale school – making a stop motion animation.Glossopdale Film Cuts Club started meeting on Friday lunchtimes in October 2010, in the Learning Support classroom. The group is made up of around 8 core members with others dropping in to help when needed, for instance giving feedback on our ideas.The project aims to provide activities including animation techniques, creative writing, acting, technical skills in camera work, directing and editing on computer.Employing a film maker who is experienced in community workshops, they have a good understanding of the issues the young people face. They structure the sessions to build on social interaction, peer support, team working and sharing a common goal.
In the early sessions we developed a storyline which included ideas from every member of the group, and worked on the groups dynamics.Squeezed into a lunchtime these sessions offered barely more than 30mins of productive time, so when we were given the chance to use a MediaBox bursary in December – thanks to Kim Johnson from Derbyshire County Council – we added a new session on a Tuesday afternoon with animator, Alex Kelly, from Stockport College. These sessions ran through to early February, with activities divided between fabrication of the scenery and characters, script writing, audio recording and shooting of the animation frames. Due to time constraints Alex took the footage, audio and chosen soundtrack and put it together into the finished film.
The group continued to meet on Friday lunchtimes to carry on with their Arts Awards, with Andrew working towards Silver, and Lee and Paige working towards Bronze.
Some additional sessions with extra participants were planned for Andrew to complete his leadership project.
At times it was stressful, I felt like we weren’t really going anywhere, people were holding everything up, but um, in the end after some swift and um discipline, as you can imagine, we eventually, well we didn’t manage to finish all of the 6 scenes that we planned to do, but we did most of them, which is generally enough to say that we’ve done it! This is something that we can show and be proud of.
Andrew, on his leadership project
The Dark Devil was screened, along with a few others, at “Short Cuts” on 17th March, 7pm at The Studio Theatre, Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre.
As part of the MediaBox bursary scheme it was also included on the Derbyshire County Council DVD ‘Parachute’, and screened at the Donut Centre, Chesterfield.
Archway Developments for eARTh
Project eARTh Buxton group – working on the curlew for the archway in Granby Road Park. To be cast in aluminium.
A Walk in TIme
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”.