Derby College is offering a wide range of part time and short courses to support people’s job and promotion prospects under its innovative Career Learning Ladder programme for adults.

Giles Abbott with 50 Shades of Grimm and East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Games Development students at Derby College have designed a high quality video game as part of a project to give them real-life industry experience.

The students are based at the Joseph Wright Centre – the post-16 Academic and Arts college – and designed ‘Drive By Santa’ in just seven weeks.

The late wildlife artist Pollyanna Pickering has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Create and Craft TV.

The award recognises her excellence in wildlife art and her passion for conservation as well as the contribution she made to the channel during six years of regular guest appearances.

Derby LIVE and Little Wolf Entertainment invite Derby audiences on an awfully big adventure in Christmas 2019 as a brand-new swashbuckling pantomime sets sail for Derby Arena.

Peter, Tinker Bell, Wendy and a very odd looking woman, who refuses to grow up, are in for a high-flying action-packed adventure. The lost boys and musical mermaids will take on some very potty pirates and the most dastardly villain of them all – Captain Hook!

2018 has been a fantastic year of events at the Barn. From our maiden Arts Festival back in May, to the second Medieval Festival in September, and many other activities, exhibitions and workshops, it has been a very busy 12 months for everyone involved! We'd like to say a big thank you for your continued support of the project!

Saturday 26^th January 2018 - 7:30 pm

at

Crich Glebe Field Centre (DE4 5EU)

Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman have long established themselves as one of the UK folk scene’s most rewardingly enduring partnerships. Bonded by an unseen alchemy, they have entwined their professional and personal relationship into an enviable class act of imaginative, award winning song writing and musicianship.

CREATIVE WRITING TASTER SESSION
With Alex Davis
Tuesday 8^th Jan, 10:30am-12:30am
Tickets £5 from QUAD Box Office on 01332 290606 or from https://www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/adults/creative-writing-taster-session

On Friday January the 4th 2019 Matlock Storytelling Cafe Present

Ahead of beginning his new tour UNIVERSAL – World Tour 2019 at Derby Arena on Thursday 7 February 2019(sold out), Derby LIVE is pleased to announce he will be returning to Derby Arena on Tuesday 10 September, 8pm.

Holly Noble Company offers an exciting re-telling of Snow White this December using circus, ballet, and film alongside an eclectic soundtrack. The performance will take place at Déda, on Chapel Street in Derby, from Wednesday 19 December to Saturday 22 December.  

Mischievous and magical, ‘SNOW’ retells the story of Snow White using dance and circus, narration and film, all within a Victorian Travelling Circus.

Derby-based track cycling HUUB Wattbike test team will be travelling to the latest stage of the UCI World Cup Series on Friday December 14 sporting a newly-designed Derbados flag.

The team, who train at the Derby Arena, are currently the fifth fastest track cycling teams in the world.

They are aiming for Gold in the meet at London’s Olympic velodrome having already beaten some of the world’s top teams – including Team GB - at recent world cup series competitions in Germany and Canada.

Derbyshire based lead sheet manufacturer, Midland Lead, is proud to support seventeen colleges throughout the UK to help develop future skills within the construction and roofing industry.

Derby Market Place welcomes The Cathedral Quarter Christmas Ice Rink in partnership with Derby LIVE, Derby City Council and Christmas Ice Rinks and supported by Redrow Homes East Midlands to light up the City Centre this Christmas.

https://www.derbymuseums.org/news/objects-of-love-hope-and-fear-a-world-collection-opens-at-derby-museums

Our season continues on Friday with Piva performing

"Christmas Music from Shakespeare's time"

Piva were most entertaining on a previous visit so this promises to be an excellent concert.

As usual we are at Highfields at 7 30 pm, tickets available at the door. 

at

Crich Glebe Field Centre (DE4 5EU)

Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman have long established themselves as one of the UK folk scene’s most rewardingly enduring partnerships. Bonded by an unseen alchemy, they have entwined their professional and personal relationship into an enviable class act of imaginative, award winning song writing and musicianship.

International opera singer to star at Buxton concert

An internationally famous opera singer, who has been associated with Buxton Opera House for nearly 40 years, is looking forward to singing there again in January when she will be performing as a soloist with the Kinder Adult Chorus .

Yvonne Howard, who has performed in operas all over the world, first sang at Buxton in 1979 at a concert to promote the Buxton Opera Festival, which was the anchor event behind the regeneration and relaunch of the Opera House in that same year.

Buxton Festival Fringe has announced the winner of its recent competition to design the cover of next year’s printed Fringe programme.

Catherine Webb, a part-time teaching assistant at St Anne’s Catholic Primary School and formerly a graphic designer at The University of Manchester, says she was “thrilled and tickled pink and everything in between” to be awarded the £100 prize for her winning artwork, an eye-catching design entitled Roar Talent, celebrating 40 years of the Fringe.

(Steve Croot, centre, from Croots Farm Shop with Mark Barnes, left, and Steve Barnes, right from Tipi & Kata)

Popular award-winning Derbyshire farm shop Croots has expanded its services to offer a picturesque wedding reception venue at its countryside site just outside Duffield.

The farm shop has teamed up with events specialist and tipi hire company Tipi and Kata to host regular wedding receptions.

Sky Recruitment Solutions in Derby and Ripley have expanded its Employer Academy with Derby College to showcase the career opportunities available to students in the industry.

From 3-8 December 2018 Déda is offering a free Goody Bag to the first 50 visitors to the Derby Dancing exhibition at the venue in Chapel Street.

Déda is one of hundreds of participating National Lottery-funded visitor attractions across the UK saying ‘thanks’ to people who have raised money for good causes by buying a lottery ticket.

The organisation received £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to support the Derby Dancing project and exhibition which is open to visitors until December 22.

Derby College has been chosen by IT giants Microsoft as one of the first globally to become a Showcase College.

This is a new global education programme launched by Microsoft and is an extension to the company’s global network of institutions using technology to improve teaching and learning.

Derby and Ashbourne family-owned funeral directors Wathall’s have collected 615 shoeboxes of Christmas gifts, hygiene and school supplies which are now being shipped around the world to children in need.

Chameleon1802

Burton-based Ask the Chameleon director Rachel Hayward joined some of the UK’s top small businesses to receive special recognition at an exclusive House of Lords reception.

Ask the Chameleon was recognised as one of this year’s Small Biz 100 which ran ahead of Small Business Saturday, which was celebrated across the UK on December 1.

Derby College A level students Frederico Almeida and Sonja Sebastian are now half way through their year in office as Youth Mayor of Derby and Deputy Youth Mayor respectively and are relishing the opportunity to ensure young people in the city have a voice.