Buxton voices in curtain-raiser for Festival preview

Students from local schools will give the first British performance of songs from Buxton International Festival’s 2019 production The Orphans of Koombu.

The pupils from Buxton Community School and St Thomas More School will present excerpts on April 4 from the show, which with its theme of reconciliation and redemption was a big hit across Africa where it was first performed as the Apartheid era came to an end.

Botanical Illustration Course - last chance to book!
with Rachael Dawson
£75 for six workshops (£60 for Friends)

 

New Mills Festival is delighted to announce the return of the festival Art Trail and Big Weekend for 2019. The Trail forms part of New Mills Festival which takes place across the town from the 13th to the 29th September 2019. Submissions are now open to artists wishing to take part in the two-week long trail and weekend finale and will close at midnight 5th May 2019.

AMENDMENT - Wirksworth Festival Call for Artists

Wirksworth Festival’s
Art & Architecture Trail 7-8 September

Saturday 6th April, 10:30 - 12:30, Chesterfield Library.  Taster Ticket £10.00

For further information and to book a place please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-for-wellbeing-tickets-59107365722

GlossopBookFest is going ahead and is now booked for the 6th July, from 2pm - 6pm at the Central Methodist Church, Glossop.

Here is a link to the Facebook Event: 

www.facebook.com/events/2134397643524529/

intu Derby has introduced a regular quiet hour for shoppers living with conditions such as autism and anxiety, the centre has announced.

The scheme, which will be rolled out from Monday 1 April, will see over 100 stores turn off music, reduce tannoy announcements, and dim lighting where possible, to help create a calmer and more peaceful environment in centre. 

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sing in a choir? Has TV’s choir superhero, Gareth Malone, made you think that you could enjoy it too?

Well now’s your chance to find out if it’s for you, as Kinder Chorus is holding a ‘taster session’ open to everyone, whatever their age or experience, on Wednesday 10th April at Whaley Bridge Uniting Church from 7.30pm – 9.30pm.

Musical Director, Joyce Ellis, is hoping that the event will encourage new members to join the adult choir.

Tickets remain available, but are selling fast, for when award-winning James Wilton Dance comes to Dronfield to perform their hit show "LEVIATHAN".

A LoveLit event presented by Arts Derbyshire and Derbyshire Libraries

There is the opportunity to perfect those sentences when author and Professor of English Joe Moran delivers a masterclass workshop at Chesterfield Library on 22 June 2019, 12.30 to 3.30 pm.  Tickets £19.45 includes light refreshments.