The latest news from producers, makers, venues and events organisers from around Derby and Derbyshire. If you have news to add to this page, then email us to let us know about it: editor@madeinderbyshire.org
Join us this November for the UK Ghost Story Festival in collaboration with QUAD. The Sunday will be taking place at the Museum of Making - expect talks, writing workshops, author interviews and a sinister live performance!
Image: Pirates – automata by Wanda Sowry, image © Steve Tanner
Get inspired to make your own automata at a Cabaret Mechanical Theatre workshop, where you'll join our special guest artist Stephen Guy to design and make your own automota. First Friday workshops are available for all ages.
Create and design your own automata with Cabaret Mechanical Theatre artist Stephen Guy.
Image: Mermaid of Zennor – automata by Carlos Zapata, image © Steve Tanner
Derby Museums is delighted to be bringing Cabaret Mechanical Theatre to the Museum of Making for a new interactive exhibition! Marvel at the ingenious mechanisms and learn more about this wonderful art form. Perfect for all ages.
A caring Derbyshire housing trust manager who has spent years helping many people in tough life situations get back into employment is up for a major national award.
Julie Howells, head of employability services at Derventio Housing Trust, is one of only five shortlisted in the Frontline Manager of the Year category of the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) awards.
Revive Healthy Living Centre in Chaddesden has launched an ambitious crowdfunding appeal with the target of raising £10,000 to help some of the most disadvantaged people in the city cope with the crippling cost of living crisis.
Due to the issues that people requiring the Charity’s help are experiencing, including domestic violence, poverty, suicide and ill health, Revive applied to the National Emergencies Trust for support, and this has been recognised with an additional boost.
Derby College Group (DCG) student Bhavandeep Bains (18) has been named a finalist of the Association of Colleges’ Student of the Year awards.
The annual awards celebrate students who stand out from the crowd, have gone above and beyond, whether in college or their local community.
Bhavandeep (18), who is studying A Levels at DCG’s Joseph Wright Centre, is a finalist in the Young Student of the Year category of the national awards in recognition of her work as the driving force behind the College’s Student Mental Health Society.
Arts Derbyshire became a registered charity in 2019 and we are looking to recruit new Trustees and Advisory Board Members to help support and steer our work.
Could you help support Arts Derbyshire in delivering its charitable objectives, or share these opportunities with friends and colleagues?
Trustees
Derby Live is excited to announce The Official RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Series Three Tour will be sashaying to Derby Arena Thursday 22nd September 2022 at 8pm!
As the tour visits theatres and arenas across England, Scotland and Wales, expect a night of endless extravaganza as your favourite queens from Series Three of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK werk their way to Derby. This means audiences in Derby can witness the charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent of their favourite queens LIVE on stage at Derby Arena next year!
The night out of the year that you need more than ever, is back on tour! Derby LIVE is delighted to announce that Lost In Music - One Night at the Disco will be boogieing on down to Derby Arena on Saturday 24th September, 8pm.
Chesterfield Theatres and Chesterfield Museum have received a further funding boost to help support them to recover from the impact of the pandemic.
This funding, received through the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund, is worth £153,000 which will be shared between Chesterfield Borough Council’s museum and theatres. In total the venues have received £720,000 through this fund over the last 18 months.