A group of Education Support Workers from Derby College have successfully completed a pilot study programme – paving the way for teaching assistants from a wide range of Derby and Derbyshire schools to further upgrade their skills.
Seven ESWs, who work across the College supporting students in the classroom, have completed the new Higher Level Teaching Assistants certificate which has been introduced by Derby College.
Thursday 10th March 2018 – Tuesday 3rd April 2018
The Recovery exhibition is a selection of artwork and text which has been created by people who are recovering from drug and alcohol abuse. They work out of Derbyshire Recovery Partnership drug and alcohol recovery services based at Erewash house in Ilkeston in partnership with Wash Arts CIC Horti-Culture Project.
The exhibition will include a variety of different mediums and techniques and will include: handmade prints, collage, mixed media, paintings, text art and films.
Hill is the story of one Derbyshire hill told in photography, film, sculpture, poetry and song.
The hill featured in the exhibit rises north from Wirksworth. It is home to families, wildlife, farming, quarries, mine shafts and wind turbines.
The museum worked with award-winning photographer Kate Bellis who has spent the last 20 years documenting the relationships between rural communities and the land around them. Kate's images feature the working life of the hill − farming and quarrying − as well as images of the community that lives in the shelter of the hill.
Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
It will explore the visual legacy of local suffragettes such as Marjorie Hamilton and how this contributed to the strong images used by women war artists in WW1. We will explore the link between Derbyshire and surrounding areas and the national suffrage campaign and how poorly educated women workers developed strong visual symbolism to promote their cause.
Research will be shared through development of a play with a visual artist providing images.
This project will give you and other groups the chance to
As part of the Dronfield Arts Festival, we are joining forces with Dronfield Musical Theatre Group to produce a musical/drama/documentary about the Dronfield lead merchants which will be performed at Dronfield Civic Hall in the week after the festival (starting May 14).
Hopefully 2018 is going well so far for you and believe it not February is here already! If you haven't had a chance to get to the studios recently now is the time to take a look, treat yourself and get booked in to get creative.
We are pleased to invite artists to apply to participate in WORK, an ambitious and innovative two-year practice development programme that will support animation and moving image artists to develop, produce and exhibit films in collaborative contexts.
Working with partners across the Midlands - Fermynwoods, Thrapston; Junction Arts, Chesterfield; Vivid Projects, Birmingham; and QUAD, Derby – the programme will explore ideas and the realities of what ‘work’ means for the way we live today, engaging directly with the experiences of contemporary working lives.
Don't worry though, our new address - 11 Old Blacksmith's Yard - is a stones throw away, just around the corner into the Yard and on the right. In fact we already share a stair case and our neighbours are the same!
Join us for your monthly fix of Designate! Craft workshops, food and drink as we celebrate the good things in life!
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Somercotes Girl Guides
St. Thomas’s Church, Somercotes – Saturday 10 March 2018 7.00 p.m.