An Arts Council England project, created by photographer Tony Finsher, is hosting an exhibition this year at the Peak District Mining Museum, Matlock Bath.
The exhibition is open everyday from Monday 17th May - Sunday 27th June 2021, 11am - 4pm. Free admission, everyone welcome!
Here's this months round up of news and events from the region and beyond.
Projects & Events
Following the successful 3D virtual presentation of FORMAT21 International Photography Festival, selected exhibitions will be shown across Derby in the city’s cultural institutions and retail spaces.
If you are in or visiting Derby come and enjoy the face to face experience of seeing some amazing photography from 17th May - 5th September.
Exhibitions
We’re back! Our popular festival returns to Elvaston Castle on 18th and 19th September 2021. It’s a fantastic event celebrating traditional and contemporary woodland crafts. Look out for the updates.
The third Derbyshire Creative Heritage Conference will take place on Thursday 27th May 2021. Entitled 'Activism for Social Change', you'll be exploring the role of the arts and heritage sectors in making change, as a tool for protest and in helping to make our voices heard.
There are still a few days left to catch Victoria Lucas's online exhibition, The Entanglement, a Haarlem Periodical inviting us to the non-human world.
Our third Derbyshire Creative Heritage Conference will take place on Thursday 27th May. Entitled 'Activism for Social Change', we’ll be exploring the role of the arts and heritage sectors in making change, as a tool for protest and in helping to make our voices heard.
Anyone can participate (subject to committee approval) but it is up to you to find and book your venue. Once you are sure of your venue, dates, event description, times and prices then you are ready to submit your event using our online submission form. It's simple and the festival is fun!
IGNITE Radio have launched a writing development programme for UK-based 16-25-year-olds in partnership with RADA and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
So, what is the opportunity about? The Radio Drama Writing project involves six 16-25-year-olds who will be selected to develop 10-minute audio play over a series of zoom workshops with industry mentors, all of which will then recorded at RADA before being published as podcasts.
We are delighted to let you know that registration for Arts 4 Dementia Best Practice Conference 2021 ‘Arts for Brain Health: Social Prescribing as Peri-Diagnostic Practice for Dementia' is now open and will take place from Thursday 20th – Friday 21st May.