Discovery Days Online Festival 2020
9th-11th OCTOBER 2020 - From 11am Daily
www.derwentvalleymills.org/discovery-days
The Discovery Days Online Festival includes videos, heritage, crafts, poetry, art and music.
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9th-11th OCTOBER 2020 - From 11am Daily
www.derwentvalleymills.org/discovery-days
The Discovery Days Online Festival includes videos, heritage, crafts, poetry, art and music.
Spoken word pieces by She Speaks UK poets
Friday 9th October 2020 17:30 - 18:15
Free, no need to book
Join us for the live launch of ‘Tales of Derby Women Past’, spoken word pieces by She Speaks UK poets, created exclusively for the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site online Discovery Days Festival 2020. Six poets working in collaboration with She Speaks UK, have taken inspiration from Derby’s rich heritage to create spoken word pieces that highlight women’s stories from history.
Junction Arts are offering a fee poetry workshop on 13 th October, there is also more information about their new online poetry project.
Burn Bright is a poetry-film created by Derbyshire writer Emma Pass in collaboration with the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site’s for the Discovery Days Online Festival taking place from 9-11th October.
Spend the evening with crime writer and poet Sophie Hannah at ‘Agatha, Poirot and Me’ on the evening of 27th October, for tickets and more information about this Zoom event please
visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agatha-poirot-and-me-an-evening-with-soph...
‘Sculptures of Hope’
In these very strange times, and as the nights draw in towards winter, I thought it particularly important to make some work that was optimistic.
Virtual Artisan & Producers' Market:
Make sure you support our latest Virtual Market, and don't miss out on a new botanical illustration course!
In these challeneging times, we're disappointed that we're unable to hold our Artisan & Producers' market this September as was originally planned. But thanks to the magic of the internetm you can still support some of our regular stallholders in our "Virtual Marquee".
Historic Buxton Crescent has opened its doors as a luxury hotel following a multi-million pound redevelopment involving us and High Peak Borough Council.
Derbyshire-born author, Ann Thorsson, has just released her second novel, Dark Dreams