From DIY TV programmes to current trends and ‘hacks’ on social media, this hands-on exhibition showcases DIY through the decades, reflecting the changing attitudes to our homes and encouraging a new generation of DIY-ers. It showcases objects associated with DIY and explores how DIY is changing as we learn more about the importance of sustainability and healthy living spaces and materials.

You’re invited to share your own DIY disasters on our ‘Bodge-ometer’ and make a medal for your home improvement heroes! 

This year’s programme has over 70 events.  You can find full details of all the events on our website: www.derbybookfestival.co.uk/whats-on/events with booking links or details about how to book. 
 

ANNA THOMAS

Bringing Back the Light on Saturday April 23rd from 2:00-6:00pm
The exhibition will be on until May 14th

Musical based on the famous 1988 film starring Tom Hanks is coming to New Mills Art Theatre. Josh Baskin, a 12-year-old boy, makes a wish into a mysterious ‘Zoltar Speaks’ machine at a carnival. Josh wakes up next morning to find he is no longer a boy but a man! Then, with help from his best friend Billy, he tries to cope with his newfound adulthood, whilst searching for the machine so that he can wish himself back - and more. BIG is a funny, heart-warming musical, a show for all the family. Is being BIG all it’s cracked up to be? If you had one wish, what would it be?

We are running an online event about A Parcel of Patterns, the children’s classic novel about the Eyam Plague by the late Jill Paton Walsh. We have invited four authors, who have also written about Eyam, to discuss the legacy of Walsh’s book and why the story continues to inspire writers, especially following the Pandemic. Tickets can be booked via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-parcel-of-patterns-tickets-276919723347

SUMMER BBQ SERIES


GENNARO CONTALDO 
 FRIDAY 24^TH JUNE 


MATT PRITCHARD
SATURDAY 25^TH JUNE & HOSTED BY JOE HURD

This week Derby Museums have launched our call out for makers for ‘Assemble: Derby’s Making Festival’ returning to the Museum of Making on Saturday 22nd October.  

Produced by Derby Museums, Assemble is a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, which aims to celebrate making in all its shapes and forms. Bringing together artists and makers from varied disciplines to share their passion and skills with the public and to encourage others to have a go at making themselves. 

FORMAT22 Presents includes six new exhibitions as part of FORMAT International Photography Festival’s off year programme. Established in 2004, FORMAT is the UK’s leading international contemporary festival of photography and related media. It organises a year-round programme of international commissions, open calls, residencies, conferences and collaborations in the UK and Internationally and welcomes over 200,000 visitors from all over the world to its biennale editions.

The Cultural Evolution: Identity, Performance and Fashion

SATURDAY 11 JUNE 2022

Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire

New festival promises a Grand Day Out in an English best-kept-secret tourist spot – with The Charlatans, The Cribs and This Is The Kit, alongside hand-picked new artists and -- vintage trams!

New artists represent a blossoming new midlands music scene in Nottingham, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire

Do you like folktales? If you do there is a folktales evening happening in Glossop.

Traditional Peak District tales - and their counterparts in our culture and others

presented by Dr Kathryn Starnes and Dr Mark P. Henderson

at Howardtown Brewery

Thursday 21^st April and Thursday 12^th May

7.30-9.30 pm