News from producers around Derbyshire

Healthwatch Derbyshire, the local health and social care watchdog, is recruiting members of the public to join its Board and help steer the future direction of the organisation.

Healthwatch Derbyshire is part of the Healthwatch England network of over 150 local organisations across the country. As an independent, statutory body, it ensures that health and social care leaders and other decision makers listen to feedback from local people and improve standards of care.

Throughout September, to celebrate Friendship Month, the Derbyshire Peak Oddfellows are holding events to help bring friends back together and encourage new connections after 18 months of isolation and restrictions.

The Society, whose members meet up regularly in the Derbyshire/ Chesterfield area for social and fundraising activities, says it wants to extend a warm welcome to newcomers by offering a range of taster events specially designed to put them at ease.

Two apprentices, who started their construction training at Derby College Group (DCG) when they were still at school, have been recognised in the regional final of a national skills competition.

Don’t miss your chance to grab a ticket and even make a bid at auction to own your own!

It has been a ram-tastic summer of art in Derby with an amazing array of wonderfully decorated rams animating the city as people started to get out and about again. The Derby Ram Trail has been embraced by the people of Derby and visitors alike and now everyone will have an extra few days to enjoy them as the trail has been extended until the end of Wednesday 25 August.

WIRKSWORTH FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2021 PROGRAMME

Wirksworth Festival is thrilled to announce its 2021 exhibition and performance programme

Human Machines – an Exhibition of Kinetic Sculptures by Johnny White and Amanda Wray Photograph © Chris Webb www.chriswebbphotography.com

Somercotes Cineroom presents: Little Women at Somercotes Village Hall.

The film will be screened on Saturday 18th September and doors open at 6:30pm.

Tickets cost £5 and are available to purchase from www.somercotescineroom.com.

Don't miss your last chance to see the Derby Ram Trail

              Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Haunting Alongside Our Shadows - image courtesy of the Artist

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s Haunting Alongside Our Shadows will be on display at QUAD from September 2021.

Danielle’s work is based in historical happening’s, creating video-game inspired artworks that form part of her Black Trans archive to, as the artist states, “record the lives of Black Trans People in the present to imagine our existence in the past through immersive storytelling.”

Sophie Draper and Roz Watkins are running some live online writing courses in the autumn.  They're both bestselling authors, published by HarperCollins, and their spring courses sold out in no time, so sign up now if you want a place this autumn - https://www.sophiedraper.co.uk/l/autumn-writers-course-with-sophie-roz/

New Mills Festival 2021 brings you ... 

A newsletter!

The first of a 2021 series.

There is so much going on from 10th to 26th September that we've had to split the information across a few newsletters just so we can cover every type of entertainment that's coming to town this year. This newsletter is devoted to the big events, but we'll be covering (or trying to) everything as we go so you don't miss out on a thing!

New Mills Festival Weekender