Artcore's Creative Summer has been a fantastic time, from a variety of pop up sessions to successful exhibitions. There will be loads of exciting stuff coming up this September, with the STEM projects starting back up and new programmes for adults too. We are also very excited to campaign and support the bidding for Derby to be chosen as the City Of Culture 2025!

Derby is one of the 20 cities that are running for the prestigious UK City of Culture 2025, and as Artcore we want to show the culture of arts in Derby and the true spirit of our creative scene!

Exciting regional arts project re-creates the first live-linked satellite broadcast to celebrate the people and places of the East Midlands.

Junction Arts, in association with six arts organisations from across three counties, are thrilled to be taking part in ‘Our Place’ which showcases the people and places of the East Midlands, through the arts.

Arts Trail & Light Up New Mills

As the town becomes a free gallery again this year, you have a daytime and an evening option. It's a simple thing, a walk around town, looking at what's in the windows.

Firstly, the Arts Trail where local businesses are hosting the work of various artists all around town, take your time between 10th and 26th September to pick out your favourites.

The closing date to apply for the 2022 Tourism Awards is 23:59 Sunday 19 September, does your business have what it takes to win gold?  In addition to the business category specific awards there are a number of additional cross sector awards such as Team of the Year, Tourism Young Achiever, Unsung Hero, Accessibility, Sustainability and Innovation and Resilience.  The awards as free for members to enter, so what's stopping you?

Marketing Peak District & Derbyshire are excited to announce that they will be hosting a ​Visit Peak District & Derbyshire Travel Trade Show

Masterclass in Nature Writing with Mark Cocker. This is a four-hour masterclass, split over two consecutive Saturdays, exploring some of the techniques of nature writing. Paying careful attention to language, and to the power and importance of your initial observations.

Language and the Imagination with Aoife Mannix. A 6-week poetry exploration using imagery and imagination, this course will help you develop your poetic voice.

Each week you will focus on a different aspect of using language and the imagination in poetic writing. You will read a poem closely for inspiration, undertake practical and fun writing exercises, share your work and receive constructive feedback on what you have written.

Ghosts of the Landscape is a new nature writing competition for young and adults writers, run by ourselves in partnership with Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.

The prize is designed to raise awareness of the plight of Derbyshire’s moorlands, and the practices that have stripped the land of its wild inhabitants, including its crucial ability to capture carbon.