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Friday 7th, Saturday 8th, Sunday 9th December
Friday 14th and Saturday 15th December
CHRISTMAS WREATH MAKING WORKSHOPS
10am -12 noon or 2pm – 4pm
Location: Winster Room
Cost: £18 Limited places, advance booking essential.
Come and join one of our Christmas Wreath making workshops. Bring a friend or two and enjoy a festive couple of hours making your own unique Christmas wreath.
Children of Derbyshire are spreading festive cheer at intu Derby’s annual Christmas choir competition.
The popular competition sees talented pupils from primary schools across the region go head to head as they sing their hearts out to much-loved Christmas classics.
Participating schools will compete in three rounds of heats taking place on Monday 26, Tuesday 27, and Wednesday 28 December from 11am to 2pm, before concluding at a grand finale on Thursday 6 December at 11am.
An evening of old and new Christmas songs and carols, in Crich.
Join us at The Crich Glebe Field Centre for a Christmas Concert, performed by the acclaimed Fishpond Choir, which will feature Christmas songs and carols, old and new, to put us all in the mood for the festive season.
An evening of old and new Christmas songs and carols, in Crich.
Join us at The Crich Glebe Field Centre for a Christmas Concert, performed by the acclaimed Fishpond Choir, which will feature Christmas songs and carols, old and new, to put us all in the mood for the festive season.
A group of Derby College students have been appointed to champion the opportunities for technology to be embedded into study programmes under a new partnership with IT services and solutions provider Fujitsu UK.
Derby-based painter John McDonald has donated one of his striking creations for a silent auction to support the community engagement programme at Déda – the city-based organisation that aims to enrich people’s lives through dance and the arts.
John McDonald’s celebrated painting ‘Butterfly Cry’ is part of a collection of striking and majestic portraits of Frida Kahlo – arguably Mexico’s most iconic artist – portraying loss, brokenness and the indomitable resilience of the human spirit.
Copies of Great British Bake Off contestant Val Stones’ first book have gone on sale exclusively in Derbyshire at Croots Farm Shop near Duffield.
The shop, off Wirksworth Road, is run by Val’s brother Steve Croot and his wife Kay – and Val is a regular visitor.