Tutor - Nicki Dennett
£100 for 4 sessions
Mondays 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th April
6pm to 8pm   
Venue: 8 Albert Street, Osnabruck Square, Derby DE1 2DS  
Click here to book your place.

Oily Cart presents

JAMBOREE

7-8 April: Derby Theatre, Derby

For young people (12+) labelled as having profound and multiple learning disabilities

IT’S TIME TO MAKE SOME NOISE WITH OILY CART’S JAMBOREE

Jamboree is a vibrant and fully interactive experience, created for and with young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. The show features Balkan-inspired tunes that can be heard in surround sound and a series of sensory events, all within a colourful Spiegeltent-inspired set.

Art Jam launches next Friday, 20th March, 5pm-7pm and will happen every other Friday of the month.

Art Jam is an initiative to create new platforms of sharing and experiencing and we have some unique and exciting events planned for you!

The first is a talk by John Walmsley exploring 'The Essentials Of Surviving As A Freelancer’. We will also have an open mic and urge you to sign up if you are a poet, musician or performer!

The much-loved Derby Folk Festival is back in full this year, with weekend tickets on sale from today giving access to ALL the events ALL weekend. And very early birds can buy a discounted weekend Super Supporter ticket! 

This year’s festival, produced by Derby LIVE, runs from Friday 2 October to Sunday 4 October with Derby Cathedral, The Old Bell Hotel and QUAD playing host to artists including Lucy Ward, John Tams and Barry Coope, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, and Kitty Macfarlane. 

Matlock Storytelling Café returns on Friday the 3^rd of April with tales from two excellent tellers. Rachel Murray, resident storyteller at the Cafe and well known to our regular audience members, and Lucy Lill a new teller to Matlock who’s making the journey north from London to share her mesmerising story.

Award-winning professional orchestra Sinfonia Viva has developed a ground-breaking performance of two well-known narrated children’s classics that is fully integrated to make it equally enjoyable for audience members who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Sinfonia Viva’s matinee performance of ‘Paddington Bear’s First Concert’ and ‘Peter and the Wolf’ at Derby Theatre on May 3 will take accessibility to a new level thanks to a collaboration with actress and writer Rebecca-Anne Withey who is, herself, profoundly deaf.

Apply to exhibit at one of the UK's leading rural arts festivals with over 4,000 visitors over one weekend in our beautiful and buzzing Derbyshire market town.

This year's Art & Architecture Trail is taking place on Sat 12 - Sun 13 September 2020.

We're looking for artists and designer-makers from all disciplines to show their work during our trailblazing event.

Fabric of the North brings together works by members of the British Tapestry Group, in a range of styles and techniques, large and small, with a single theme: our Northern heritage. The exhibition is in two fabulous locations: Cromford Mills in May; and Kirkleatham Museum in October. 

• Cromford Mills, Derbyshire, 7 - 23 May
• Kirkleatham, Teesside, 3 - 30 October

Find out more about this exhibition over on the Fabric of the North website: https://www.fabricofthenorth.org/ 

As the sun rose over Derby this morning, Bo Peep and her flock of lambs (and a crew of Derby Museums staff!) waited expectantly for their first delivery of ram sculptures to arrive at the intu centre, ready to be painted by artists for the Derby Ram Trail, coming to the city in June.

The Derby Ram Trail is a spectacular free discovery trail coming to Derby in the summer of 2020. From 19th June to 28th August, a flock of fabulously colourful and unique ram sculptures, each decorated by a different artist, will take you on a trail around the beautiful city of Derby.

April 2: Sue Lewis-Blake 'Art Appreciation talk - Materials and Processes' 5:30-6:30pm.

April 9: Wendy Darker 'Chickens'

April 20-22: Lewis Noble ‘Painting & sketching the Derbyshire Landscape’ 

April 28 & 29: John Connolly 'Trees, Woodlands and Forests Workshop'

 

A brochure with all our workshop dates for 2020 is available at the gallery, make sure you collect one next time you visit!