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
Inspirative Development unexpectedly has one place available on our training course running over the summer months (Start Date 24th May).
The course is a BTEC level 2 in Supporting Activity Provision for Health and Social care. It covers key skills in person-centred care, including using therapeutic and creative techniques for developing interactive skills with others.
Déda is delighted to announce Company Chameleon will perform their latest production, Witness, at Déda on Thursday 18 May at 7.30pm as part of their second UK tour of the work.
The booking deadline for the conference is 5pm on 31st May!
Full to bursting draft programme here:
http://culturehealthwellbeing.org.uk/page.aspx?p=112
Tuesday 16 May - Sunday 28 May 2017
As Ian McMillan announced at the 2015 festival, there is a poetry renaissance happening in South Yorkshire, and we’re inviting you to come along and be a part of it.
Deadline for submissions: Friday 2nd June 2017
At Indietracks, we are pleased to announce the day splits for many of the artists playing at Indietracks this year, including our headliners and evening bands. On the last weekend in July, you can look forward to:
FRIDAY 28 JULY:
Martha + Chorusgirl + Kid Canaveral + Sweet Revenge DJs
SATURDAY 29 JULY:
The Wedding Present + Frankie Cosmos + Joanna Gruesome + Special Guests (TBA) + Shopping + The Hayman Kupa Band + Peaness + Cola Jet Set + The Pooches + TeenCanteen + The Hearing + How Does It Feel To Be Loved? DJs
Derbyshire-based digital marketing agency, Gravity Digital, is celebrating again today after being named the Federation of Small Businesses & Worldpay UK Microbusiness of the Year for the East Midlands. The five person strong firm will now wait to hear if they will scoop the National Award, when all the regional winners in the UK compete for the prestigious title, at a ceremony on May 10 2017.
emporium, in association with Lichfield Festival invites emerging and established artists countrywide to participate in their annual visual arts competition.
Under the exhibition title Dreams and Extremes artists are invited to creatively interpret this year's competition theme which focuses on America; a land of hopes and dreams, and extremes of terrain and temperature, of colour, creed, culture and colonisation.
The Jenson Button Trust Triathlon, which will be held for the third consecutive year in Derby this July, have announced their charity partner for the event as leading children’s charity, Barnardo’s.
More than 700 people are expected to enter the event at Markeaton Park on Sunday July 23 with hundreds more families joining the mini-triathlon during the lunchtime break.
A team of Agriculture students at Derby College’s Broomfield Hall campus have won a bronze medal in the regional final of the annual Great Farm Challenge.
The competition is organised by Natural England’s Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) Team alongside Seven Trent Water, Anglian Water and the Environment Agency.