Throughout September, to celebrate Friendship Month, the Derbyshire Peak Oddfellows are holding events to help bring friends back together and encourage new connections after 18 months of isolation and restrictions.

The Society, whose members meet up regularly in the Derbyshire/ Chesterfield area for social and fundraising activities, says it wants to extend a warm welcome to newcomers by offering a range of taster events specially designed to put them at ease.

Don’t miss your chance to grab a ticket and even make a bid at auction to own your own!

It has been a ram-tastic summer of art in Derby with an amazing array of wonderfully decorated rams animating the city as people started to get out and about again. The Derby Ram Trail has been embraced by the people of Derby and visitors alike and now everyone will have an extra few days to enjoy them as the trail has been extended until the end of Wednesday 25 August.

WIRKSWORTH FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2021 PROGRAMME

Wirksworth Festival is thrilled to announce its 2021 exhibition and performance programme

Human Machines – an Exhibition of Kinetic Sculptures by Johnny White and Amanda Wray Photograph © Chris Webb www.chriswebbphotography.com

Don't miss your last chance to see the Derby Ram Trail

              Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Haunting Alongside Our Shadows - image courtesy of the Artist

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s Haunting Alongside Our Shadows will be on display at QUAD from September 2021.

Danielle’s work is based in historical happening’s, creating video-game inspired artworks that form part of her Black Trans archive to, as the artist states, “record the lives of Black Trans People in the present to imagine our existence in the past through immersive storytelling.”

Sophie Draper and Roz Watkins are running some live online writing courses in the autumn.  They're both bestselling authors, published by HarperCollins, and their spring courses sold out in no time, so sign up now if you want a place this autumn - https://www.sophiedraper.co.uk/l/autumn-writers-course-with-sophie-roz/

New Mills Festival 2021 brings you ... 

A newsletter!

The first of a 2021 series.

There is so much going on from 10th to 26th September that we've had to split the information across a few newsletters just so we can cover every type of entertainment that's coming to town this year. This newsletter is devoted to the big events, but we'll be covering (or trying to) everything as we go so you don't miss out on a thing!

New Mills Festival Weekender

Co-Lab (Collaborative Laboratory) is an opportunity for creative organisations, makers, artists, and practitioners from across the region to meet, network and learn more about the upcoming collaborative opportunities at Derby Museums.

We’ll be discussing, creating, and sharing ideas for ‘First Fridays’, a series of proposed monthly after-hours talks, workshops and performance-based events at the Museum of Making, which will be co-produced with local creative organisations, makers and artists.

Could this be your chance to tread the boards on the Art Theatre stage? Our next panto is Cinderella by Alan Frayn – a classic tale given the full pantomime treatment!

To find out more about our panto and meet the production team - come along to our Get-Together on Monday, 6 September at 7.30pm at New Mills Art Theatre, Jodrell Street, SK22 3HJ.