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If you would like to join a tour of the virtual galleries we are running four special festival guided sessions next week. Click on your preferred date to book your free slot.
Enjoy our new online seasonal activities during the holidays.
Join us live from your home to Experiment with Art. In this free workshop for families, we'll be trying out different creative techniques to make artworks, using Anglo-Saxon and Viking sculptures from our collection as inspiration.
One of Britain’s best loved TV actresses and former Eastenders icon, Rita Simons, is to star in Derby’s pantomime this year.
Best known for playing Roxy Mitchell in the long-running BBC series, Rita will be taking to the Derby Arena stage as wicked fairy Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty from Friday 10th December 2021 to Saturday 8th January 2022.
Beyond The Spectrum was a pilot project connecting professional, autistic poets and authors with autistic people from age 11 upwards across the East Midlands.
The project began with a series of eight free, weekly creative writing workshops, which ended in March 2021. The workshops were for autistic writers from beginners upwards, with separate groups available for younger writers and adult writers living in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, all workshops were online.
We are holding some Easter events despite the ongoing restrictions. Many of these are online and all our activities are COVID-secure and follow the latest Government guidance.
Countryside events
If you’re local to our country parks at Elvaston or Shipley, you might want to join one of the self-led trails we have organised for the Easter weekend. There’s the Golden Egg, Hopping Mad Trail and Odd Egg Trail to choose from.
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FORMAT21 is delighted to announce the winners of this year's Portfolio Review Awards. Our thanks go to all the reviewers and reviewees who participated in this truly global event. We are also extremely grateful to all our award givers who make the FORMAT Portfolio Reviews so special.
Both the Spring Wellbeing Activity Packs and Supported Volunteering Opportunities at The Wild Thyme Garden, Matlock, form part of the wider Connecting Communities Project, funded via the Derbyshire Dales Social Connectedness Fund. All activities/opportunities within the Connecting Communities Project are free for people living in the Derbyshire Dales.
Hot on the very high heels of Season 2 of the must-watch TV show, Derby LIVE is delighted to spill the T and announce that the RuPaul’s Drag Race UK: The Official Tour is coming to Derby on Friday 25th March 2022 at 7.30pm!
Join the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK for an evening of endless eleganza extravaganza, and witness all the charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent of your favourite queens LIVE on stage as they sashay into Derby Arena.
After a year of disruption to live events, Derby’s famous Hannells Darley Park Concert returns on Sunday 29th August and for the first time, it will be the highlight of a Bank Holiday weekend of outdoor family entertainment.
Long-established law firm Timms Solicitors have expanded their relationship with the University of Derby by teaming up with a former graduate as part of The Derby Ram Trail.
Timms are sponsoring one of the ram sculptures which will create a walking tour of the city centre this summer. Rescheduled from last summer, The Derby Ram Trail is being brought to the city by Derby Museums, in partnership with Wild in Art and is an amazing public art sculpture event with 30 individually painted 5ft tall Rams, threading through the city centre between May 27 and August 22.