This year, the work from Project eARTh and the youth programme, as well as the results from our intergenerational holiday workshops will all feature in our Showcase, as part of New Mills Festival at Spring Bank Arts. Expect to see the building full of felted landscapes, felted and papier maché animals, a flock of doves, local landscapes on the move in the ‘Cranky’, poems inspired by the 61 bus route, collograph prints, ‘Film Cuts Club’ films, projections and live performance.
On September 29th we will take over Spring Bank Arts for a Celebratory Showcase of ‘It’s In Our Nature’. In our final intergenerational workshops in the Easter holidays, we painted a room full of signs to highlight places in the High Peak with artist Andrea Joseph; wrote short poems about every month of the year, to be included in our ‘Journal of the Year’ with poet Genevieve Carver; recorded the ‘Route 61’ poems with Mark Turton, so they can be listened to, as well as read in the book; and created the story for the Summer School Tall Tales with Benn Turton. The story involves an evil circus, but to find out more you will need to join in creating it (if you are aged 8-18); see the live show in August; or come on Sept 29th to see live highlights and a film at the ‘Its’ In Our Nature Showcase’. So watch this Space for exact timings and more details – and put it in your diary now.