The next round of Matinee screenings are under way. Please pass this on to anyone you know living with dementia, their friends, family and carers.

The next round of Matinee screenings are under way. Please pass this on to anyone you know living with dementia, their friends, family and carers.

The next round of Matinee screenings are under way. Please pass this on to anyone you know living with dementia, their friends, family and carers.

No. 28, Market Place, Belper, DE56 1FZ

Saturday 30^th November, 7.30pm for 8.00pm

Arts Derbyshire is looking to appoint 5 writers to write to commission working with Festivity and Derbyshire County Council in a project supported by Arts Council England.  

The commissions are open to poets and short story writers who will each work with a Derbyshire Arts Festival to produce a piece or pieces of writing. The project will run from December 2019 to February 2021. Successful applicants will receive a support package including a fee and materials expenses, places on related workshops with experienced writers, mentoring and ongoing support.

2019 Dronfield Annual Lecture
By PCC Dhindsa

Friday 18th October, 7:30pm
The Peel Centre

Celebrity bioarchaeologist Dr Cat Jarman kicks off this year’s Repton Literary Festival with a talk about the unique finds during her recent dig in the village, shedding new light on Viking life in 9^th century Repton.

Following up her BBC TV Digging for Britain and Channel 4 TV’s Britain’s Viking Graveyard programmes she explores the arrival of the Great Heathen Army of Vikings which settled for a winter in Repton in 873 AD.  She will talk about the legendary Repton Warrior buried next to another Viking in the UK’s most famous Viking grave.

'Where the bodies are buried' with Stephen Booth is a talk with Derbyshire crime writer Stephen Booth who explores the importance of Derbyshire and Peak District locations to his novels.  

Find out more and book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/where-the-bodies-are-buried-with-crime-novelist-stephen-booth-tickets-74810063915

Join this Networking and information Day for Writers on learning more from writers Rob Gee and Cathy Grindrod about how to write to commission. 

The Pump Room Wednesday 13 November 6 – 8pm