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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
 

Recruitment Opportunity

High Peak Community Arts are recruiting a part time Business Development and Communications Manager on a 2 year temporary contract.

Salary: £25,693 - £27,394 pro rata, 2 days per week.

Based in: New Mills, High Peak SK22 3BW

Ideally, we would like a worker to join the team for 2 days / week. But we are open to a freelance proposal based on this fee.

Grist To The Mill, The Unknown Soldier by Ross Ericson at Derby LIVE's Guildhall Theatre

Derby LIVE is pleased to announce that The Unknown Soldier will be visiting the Derby LIVE’s Guildhall Theatre.

Audiences are invited to join Jack in the battlefield, where he stayed on when the guns fell silent, to search for the boys that could not go home, for the dead and the missing, for both enemy and friend.  Amongst the rusty wire and unexploded bombs, Jack is looking for something, looking for someone. He has a promise to keep and a debt to repay, and now there is this strange request from the generals.

Chinese State Circus

Get ready for some eye-popping entertainment in Buxton later this month, when the internationally acclaimed Chinese State Circus arrives. The famous circus troupe will be on stage with their innovatively spectacular new production Dynasty.

30 world class Chinese acrobats, aerial artistes and jugglers will tour to Buxton Opera House along with the legendary Shaolin Warriors, who are known as true masters of martial arts, stunning audiences with their super-human physical skills and dexterity.

Buxton Film launches young programmers project

Buxton Film is pleased and excited to announce that it is being funded by Film Hub North West Central to run a project to engage young people in the programming and marketing of films.

The project runs until March 2017 and will see a minimum of 10 films being selected for screening at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton, by groups of young programmers drawn from across the High Peak. There is no commercial cinema in the borough though a number of community cinemas screen a wide-range of films in halls in towns and villages.

An Evening of Burlesque

Leave your inhibitions at the door and prepare to experience the UK’s biggest burlesque extravaganzas. With a bevy of beautiful burlesque stars, speciality variety artists and fabulous costumes, "An Evening of Burlesque" is on its way to Buxton Opera House this October!

The Hollies

With their soaring, distinctive harmonies, brilliantly crafted songs and passionate performances The Hollies are one of the defining sounds of the sixties.

The group are back in Buxton this month with another two-hour celebration of classic hits from their long and successful career. Their big hits such as "The Air That I Breathe", "On a Carousel" and "He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother" will all be delivered with their usual zest.

JOHN IS 10,000 LIGHT YEARS AHEAD

TOWARDS the end of 1966, a young Birmingham-born bass guitarist joined the flagging Moody Blues around about the same time as a guitarist and singer called Justin Hayward. After that, the band never looked back as they became one of the most acclaimed rock bands in the world. They pioneered Progressive Rock and Arena tours, and for the most part have remained busy to this day.

Marcus Brigstocke will ask "Why The Long Face this weekend"

Syndicated interview by James Rampton
 
People have been asking the comedian Marcus Brigstocke, “Why the Long Face?” The answer? He has been looking so glum because of such troubling matters as Brexit, austerity, Donald Trump, cheese strings, Isis, tax avoiders and the inexplicable popularity of nail bars. You can’t really blame him for feeling down about any of those subjects, can you?

Seven of the Best from Derbyshire Recognised in Prestigious Awards

Seven Derbyshire businesses have reached the finals of the Rural Business Awards – the UK’s only dedicated national business awards for the rural community, run in partnership with the CLA and actively supported by the countryside sector as well as MPs across the UK. The Rural Business Awards are sponsored by Janine Edwards Wealth Management Ltd, Principal Partner Practice of St. James’s Place Wealth Management.
 

Dog Grooming Success For Local Apprentice

Derby College Dog Grooming apprentice Jessica Peggs (21) has scooped a top award in her first national competition.

Jessica, from Eastwood, is a former Derby College student and is now completing a level three apprenticeship at the College’s dog grooming salon at Broomfield Hall in Morley.

She entered Premier Groom at Stoneleigh, which also went towards the practical element of her International Certified Master Grooming qualification, and came away with first prize in the intermediate class.

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