Buxton Museum and Art Gallery is developing a programme to collect the stories, experiences and objects relating to everyday life in Buxton during lockdown for COVID-19 and the weeks afterwards.
LIVE STREAMING
7.30pm, Wednesday 17 June
A provocative, funny show about standing up for what we believe in. Can one person actually make a difference?
Acting Alone is inspired by people Ava met in Palestinian refugee camps. In her unique performance style, she weaves together these stories of fragile humanity, asking questions of us all.
Link on the day: https://youtu.be/JtuQYpL5MyE
Buxton Fringe (July 1-19) is enjoying a new surge of mainly online entries and has also come up with a novel idea of its own for those who may not have access to the internet.
Former Derbyshire Poet Laureate Helen Mort and LoveLit will be offering a limited number of online 1 to 1 sessions on Saturday 18th July 2020 via Zoom.
Pencil in your diary our next event - Wednesday 8th July 12.30pm-2.30pm
Connect with Artists and peers over an informal Zoom event.
Click here to join us.
The weekend 26 - 28th June would have been Exile Music Festival - sadly cancelled this year due to the pandemic. However, I am hosting an on-line zoom event Fri 26th June at 7.30pm in lieu of the Poetry Aloud presents: stage at Exile Music Festival.
Featuring two Derbyshire poets Mark Gwynne-Jones and Lucy Peacock, plus an open mic with slots bookable by email to: info@lytishapoet.co.uk
For more details email Info@lytishapoet.co.uk or see the FB event:
The Imagination Project. Helping kickstart creativity and banish writer's block. A collection of bespoke and unique creative writing prompts delivered to your door with workbooks and support to help get you unblocked and writing again. And just like no person or story is the same, no box of items is the same either. But there's so much more to the project too... Full details and tickets at https://peakdistrictevents.com/the-imagination-project
Not surprisingly, you can’t run a festival with six people from two households standing 2 metres apart. We‘ve assessed all the risks and there’s no way we could run (or afford) a safe festival in its usual form – not even if government rules were relaxed (or our name was Dominic Cummings). Sadly, this year’s Stainsby Festival, in the form you’ve grown to love it, won’t be happening (not even in Durham).
We’ll see you back on the festival field again in 2021.
Enterprise has gone digital in Derbyshire – The Prince's Trust is now recruiting for a free 2 day DIGITAL business programme within the city and county.
This programme is open to anyone aged 18-30, not in education, employment or training, and looking to learn new skills in self-employment.
Programme: 22 & 23 June 2020 9.30am-4.30pm
Location: Log in from smart phone, tablet device or computer.
If you or someone you know might benefit from this FREE course, please contact 0800 842 842, or the local team on 07919 221 443.
Despite the disruption to its 2020 plans caused by COVID-19, the team at the Derby Book Festival has created a series of online events to bring some of its programme to you at home.
A series of 'DBF at Home' author interviews, posted daily on the Festival website from 29th May to 6th June at 10am, gives a flavour of the breadth of the programme and to keep the joy of books and reading alive in the absence of the Festival.