Keep the bank holiday weekend free! 

To visit our fabulous artists around the county of course! There are over 200 artists exhibiting at 72 venues right across Derbyshire. We're sure you will find something you love and someone interesting to chat to. 

The event is on from Saturday 27th to Monday 29th May, 10.00am to 5.00pm each day. Many venues are also holding preview evenings on the Friday night. Look on our website or in the brochure for details of each one. 

Artists, creative practitioners, studios, galleries, educators, family and friends of the courses, you are invited to join us as we showcase the work of graduating students from BA and MFA Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. 

This year we are celebrating their achievement with a series of exhibitions as part of the Department of Art and Design’s Future Now Festival of Creativity.

The most awaited Holi Hai! exhibition is just around the corner! Take a look at the festival of Holi captured through the eyes of Masood Sarwer, Nikki Culley, Huw Davies and Phil Basi.

Producers, artisans and craftspeople based in Derbyshire are invited to showcase, promote and sell their products to thousands of visitors at Chatsworth Country Fair this summer.

Visit Peak District & Derbyshire, in partnership with Derbyshire County Council, is inviting local producers to apply for a place in the ‘Derbyshire Makers’ Marketplace’ at one of England’s most spectacular annual outdoor celebrations.

Leabrooks’ butcher Owen Taylor wins top accolades at national craft butchery awards

Leabrooks butcher, Owen Taylor & Sons, has scooped national awards for its Steak & Ale and Pork Pies.

Both pies won their respective categories (Best Steak Pie and Best Pork Pie) at this year’s Smithfield Awards, organised by the Q Guild of Butchers and widely recognised as the meat trade’s most high profile and challenging product evaluation.

Leabrooks' butcher Owen Taylor wins top accolades at national craft butchery awards

Leabrooks butcher, Owen Taylor & Sons, has scooped national awards for its Steak & Ale and Pork Pies.

Both pies won their respective categories (Best Steak Pie and Best Pork Pie) at this year’s Smithfield Awards, organised by the Q Guild of Butchers and widely recognised as the meat trade’s most high profile and challenging product evaluation.

CUTTING edge science is happening all around us here in Derbyshire. To mark British Science Week which runs until March 19, we speak to scientists working in companies right on our doorstep whose work is having an impact all over the world.

MORE and more of us are seeing the benefits of vitamins and supplements to maintain our health – but have you ever stopped to wonder how they’re made, and how each one is exactly the same?

Are you a local food producer, farmer or artisan? Or do you like to buy locally made produce? We’re holding our first Producers’ Market at County Hall in Matlock on Wednesday 24 May to support Derbyshire’s farmers, producers and artisans across the county.

The winner of Derby Book Festival’s fifth Derby Children’s Picture Book Award is announced today (30 March).  The winning book, from a shortlist of three, is Human Town by Alan Durant and Anna Doherty (Tiny Owl Publishing).  The children, in Years 2&3 at 51 Derby schools, voted for their favourite book on Voting Day, 28 March having read the three shortlisted books in their classes.  The book has a strong message about pollution and its impact on the natural world.