News from producers around Derbyshire

A New Original Print, by Jeremy James -  'Nightwalk'

We are inviting image makers around the world to participate in documenting the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic charting the time before, during and after the lockdowns. The images can express your thoughts, feelings and the world around you at this extraordinary moment in our collective lives.
 
Take part by uploading your images and captions on Instagram, using the tag #massisolationformat. Follow @massisolationFORMAT to see the highlights so far.  
 

Whilst theatre companies across the world have responded to the current lockdown by posting past productions online and hosting Zoom box readings of plays, Derby based theatre company Oddsocks Productions have taken an altogether more ambitious route in order to keep in touch with their audience and are attracting new and unusual ones in the process.  

This year, in light of the current situation, Dronfield Arts Festival is now hosting its popular Open Art Exhibition as an online event!

Although the exhibition is not currently able to take place in the Barn's gallery, we are now sharing the artwork online on the Dronfield Arts Festival website, so you can still enjoy a fantastic selection of unique pieces created by some of our most talented artists, living and working in and around Dronfield.

We're focusing this month on some of the excellent children's books we have available from our eBook and eAudiobook collections, which are great choices to share with your family.

Throughout June, we're holding a special #bookaday challenge over on the Derbyshire Libraries Twitter feed. We'll be asking you a different question about books every day, and we'd love for to join in and share our challenge!

From the 15th to the 21st of June it is Men’s Health Week. This is a period used to highlight particular issues that affect men’s health specifically and also more generally and to try and both highlight and offer advice, support and encouragement for men in dealing and coping with these. One of these areas in particular over the last couple of years has been mental health.

We’re counting down to Empathy Day on June 9, celebrating how reading helps us all to understand other people better. The more we empathise with the great characters we read about, the more we understand how others think and feel.