Derby’s two Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) have announced that they will take a lead role in this summer’s Derby Ram Trail across the city centre.

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.

The Cathedral Quarter BID are the presenting partner and St Peters Quarter BID are the trail partner for the project.

Bearded Badger Publishing, a new company based in Belper, have made a sampler available from their new poetry imprint TRA(verse).

The sampler features work from poets with links to the East Midlands and can be accessed via this link.

Derby Poetry Festival will be running some online events in the coming months.

The first is Poems for a New World organised with Derby Libraries and Civic Leicester which will be based upon readings from last year’s Black Lives Matter anthology.

This free event will be on 5th March for more information, please visit the Derby LIVE website here.

There is a short, free poetry related workshop on the Get Creative on the BBC4 Front Row website along with lots of other interesting content.

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Derbyshire Writing School are offering a Memories to Memoir a three -week course starting on Tuesday 23rd February 10:15am-12pm (online via Zoom). 

You have a story to tell. It’s time to bring it to the page. The Memories to Memoirs course is perfect for those looking to start documenting their life through written stories. This introductory online course will give you an insight into life writing and you’ll be bursting with ideas ready to start your memoir.

Young people in South Derbyshire are being encouraged to reconnect with nature in a new project Whispers in the Woods funded by a National Forest Arts Grant. This new poetry project is being organised by Arts Melbourne and launches this month.

It’s your last chance to book this Writing Ambitions Celebration event as there is now only one place left on 27th February at 1.00 pm.

For more information or to book please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/one-to-one-sessions-with-poet-helen-mort-tickets-135311230533.

With a range of styles to choose from, Déda wants to help people to connect through online classes this February and March.

Déda is delighted to welcome people of all ages and abilities to join their growing online community for a programme of online dance, fitness and yoga classes, recommencing Monday 22 February 2021.

‘Walking Together’ is a significant mining memorial remembering 106 miners who lost their lives in 3 major disasters at Markham Colliery, Derbyshire. It is led by the voluntary Markham Vale Heritage Group and Derbyshire Council, who are seeking donations to help complete this important project whilst living relatives are still able to engage and benefit.