Derby to be escalated to ‘High’ Covid alert level
The Government has announced that Derby will be escalated to Covid alert level ‘High’ restrictions from Saturday.
The Government has announced that Derby will be escalated to Covid alert level ‘High’ restrictions from Saturday.
THE GREAT NORTHERN CONTEMPORARY CRAFT FAIR ONLINE
PROVIDES A MUCH NEEDED BOOST FOR DESIGNER-MAKERS IN RUN UP TO CHRISTMAS
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Derby train-maker Bombardier Transportation is celebrating after landing a contract extension worth almost £250 million, which will see it continue to maintain Arriva CrossCountry trains.
Just before lockdown we received a small £750 grant from East Midlands Airport for a sound project Together Through Sound and we had agreed to work with a writer & filmmaker as part of Lovelit an Arts Derbyshire project funded by ACE.
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Our community poem Ticket to Hope with poet Helen Mort is starting to take shape. A big thank you to everyone who has contributed, we will update you on progress in the coming weeks.
Joanna Courtney is offering two workshops in November on writing historical fictionand plotting a novel via Zoom. There are now only a handful of places left on 4th November workshop.
Owing to both members of The Lost Boys having to stay in quarantine until early November, Derby City Council’s Derby LIVE team has regretfully taken the decision to cancel the Hallowe’en Session and Quiz Night-mare, which was due to happen this Sat, 31 Oct.
We have been unable to find an alternative compère who could meet the expectations set by The Lost Boys, with their own inimitable style and humour, and feel the evening would not be the same without them.
Over the summer, Derby City Council’s Derby LIVE team have been working hard to rebrand and relaunch our third-party ticketing services to make selling tickets easier, quicker and more convenient.
A National Lottery Heritage Fund grant has been awarded to the Dronfield Heritage Trust for work on a campaign to attract more commercial users to Dronfield Hall Barn.
The High Street heritage building is home to a wide range of arts, cultural and community events, as well as having an outdoor and indoor coffee shop.
Dear Arts Derbyshire members,
Dear Writers,
Bondholder Derby City Council has announced the return of a competition to transform shop windows in Derby city centre and bring a bit of festive cheer to shoppers in the run up to Christmas.
Derbyshire Myths, Legends and History : Amber Band records Derbyshire’s rich heritage in their new album
Derbyshire’s remarkable and colourful history is the inspiration behind the new album from one of the county’s top bands. An unexpected benefit of lockdown was the opportunity the band had to research and write songs about our County.
Christmas is coming, and Derby City Council is working with partners to transform the city into Festive Derby, a bright and attractive place to visit in the run-up to the holiday season.
This year, while there won’t be the usual large-scale events to draw crowds into the city centre, there will be Christmas lights and two trails to follow – Window Wonderland and an Elf Trail - with surprises and delights to discover on street corners and in shop windows.
Plans are underway to transform shop windows on the streets of Derby city centre ready for Christmas, creating an outdoor festive trail for visitors to explore while they browse and shop safely.
Window Wonderland is returning to the city centre, with businesses invited to decorate their shop windows to bring some seasonal cheer to Derby and be in with the chance of winning up to £250. Anything goes when it comes to choosing decorations – although this year the display will include a Christmas ‘rainbow’ to thank NHS and key workers during the holiday period.
Derby Museums is delighted to share the news that the National Lottery Heritage Fund has generously agreed to extend the Derby Museums £1m Endowment challenge for a further 12 months until 30 September 2022.
Derby Museums is one of a small number of heritage organisations that has been awarded a grant of up to £1m by the National Lottery to help sustain its long term future. Every year it costs £1.8 million to run its museums, conserve the collections and put on an exciting programme of activities, exhibitions, talks and events.
Muse, the Rolls-Royce Art Programme, today reveals the four moving-image artists, shortlisted for its inaugural flagship initiative, the Dream Commission. |
Buxton Fringe will be holding its Annual General Meeting via Zoom for the first time following an extraordinary festival in which most of its performances were online.
THE INTERNATIONAL FOREST FESTIVAL FEANEDOCK THE NATIONAL FOREST 2-4th JULY 2021 / 3 DAYS OF MUSIC, FORESTS, ART, IDEAS
FIELD MUSIC, GRUFF RHYS, SAM LEE, SNAPPED ANKLES, THE UNTHANKS, HACKNEY COLLIERY BAND, ELIZABETH ALKER
SOUNDS OF THE FOREST FEATURING ERLAND COOPER, HINAKO OMORI AND JASON SINGH
LETTERS TO THE EARTH FEATURING RECORDINGS FROM YOKO ONO & EMMA THOMPSON
The results of Derby Libraries’ public vote to find the city’s favourite book are in – and the winner is the classic American novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Readers were asked to nominate their favourite adult fiction book, and the results show how personal books are. Classic novels old and modern and more recent works feature on the list, along with stories considered classics of their genre and two books by Derbyshire writers.
This October, In Derby has plenty on offer for families to fill up their October Half Term Holidays. From Saturday 24 October to Sunday 1 November, why not try some of our ideas below; there is something for everyone!
Hubbub Theatre Company and Déda, who share the same building on Chapel Street in Derby, have received funding as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF). Hubbub Theatre Company has been awarded £81,051 and Déda has received £202,000. The Cultural Recovery Fund aims to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure organisations have a sustainable future.
Providing more jobs and paid work experience.
A 19-year-old girl who has survived child exploitation and is now an ambassador for specialist local charity Safe and Sound has been recognised at the second annual Derby Youth Awards.
Louise Murphy-Fairclough has been presented with the Inspirational Young Person Award in the awards programme organised by Sporting Communities and sponsored by Derby City Council.
Wathall’s, which is Derby’s longest established independent funeral directors, has been shortlisted for two prestigious regional awards.
Helen Wathall MBE is the fifth generation of her family to run the company which has been established since 1858 and now has branches in Ashbourne, Derby, Alvaston, Borrowash and Burton. She is one of the few women to lead a funeral director business in the UK and has reached the final of the Institute of Directors’ Midlands business awards in the Family Business category.
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Dear All,
Autumn has arrived in spectacular style to Buxton, lighting up the twon with colour and bringing wonderful news for the Festival.
You will be pleased to know that the Buxton International Festival was awarded £101,895 from the Culture Recovery Fund which enables us to continue with our Outreach work in 2021 and ensure our financial stability during the pandemic.
Reacting to this week's announcement CEO Michael Williams said:
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Dear Arts Derbyshire members,
Dear Writers,
Washroom services and water conservation specialists HSG have been shortlisted for the East Midlands Chamber’s Derbyshire Business Awards.
HSG nominated its technical team for the ‘commitment to people development’ category of the prestigious awards which will be announced at a virtual ceremony on Thursday December 3.
The technical team is responsible for installing and servicing HSG’s Ureco system for which the company received The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation in 2018.
After a competitive pitch process, the winners of the 2020 Hatch initiative at the Derby Centre have been announced.
Grammy-nominated Sinfonia Viva, which is based in Derby and the only professional orchestra in the East Midlands, has secured support as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF).
The £72,123 grant, announced today (Saturday October 17) by the Culture Secretary, will enable the Orchestra to secure its future and the livelihoods of freelance artists that it works with by developing two key areas of its work onto digital platforms – concert giving and creative outreach programmes.
Throughout its history, the Chatsworth Estate has played a role in many aspects of life in Derbyshire as a key part of the county's natural and cultural heritage.
An Art & Design student at Derby College Group’s Joseph Wright Centre has won a £500 prize from the organisers of Melbourne Festival in Derbyshire and an invitation to stage an exhibition at next year’s event.
Chief Executive Officer of Bondholder Derby College Group (DCG), Mandie Stravino, has been awarded an OBE in recognition of her services to education.
Dear Arts Derbyshire members,
In QUAD Galleries, How We Make Meaning links two solo exhibitions by artists Memo Akten and Mimi Ọnụọha.
Join this special online version of Spire Writes, Chesterfield’s vibrant spoken word night!
This event is a Zoom spectacular, featuring open mic and not one but two guest poets.
Our guest readers will be performing work from their brand new, brilliant collections, both published since the lockdown: ‘Touched’ by Alan Buckley and ‘No Guiding Star’ by John Mills. Your hosts are Helen Mort and Bob Roberts.
The Framework Knitters Museum in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire have launched a new opportunity for creators to get involved with our museum through an Instagram Residency.
This autumn, join Derby Libraries for our Big Family Read. Taking place until 30 November 2020, you can rediscover the joy of reading and encourage all of your family to join in too. Enjoy reading together again and talking about all the great books you have read.
More entertainment and a second market has been confirmed for Derby Market Place in the coming weeks, after the first Autumn Sessions brought live themed music to the city centre alfresco venue last weekend.
As the weather cools, heating has now been introduced in the chalets around the edge, and early booking is advisable as these tend to sell first. But even though you may have to wrap up warmer for the outdoor picnic tables, you are closer to the stage to enjoy what’s on offer.
Derby Folk Festival at Home has been watched by viewers all over the world since it went live on 2nd October. From the USA and Canada, to Ireland, Denmark and Australia, Derby’s homegrown festival has had truly global reach this year.
Derby Book Festival organisers announce today their first ‘live’ children’s event at Déda on Tuesday 27 October. They will hold three sessions of a fun, interactive Collage Workshop with illustrator, Jane Porter for ages 5 – 8 years. Jane is the illustrator of Brian The Brave (written by Paul Stewart), winner of the 2020 Derby Children’s Book Award, sponsored by businesswoman Deborah Fern, which was announced in May.
As promised last week I would share the link to the Discovery Days film I made for Derwent Valley Mills.
MUSE, THE ROLLS-ROYCE ART PROGRAMME TO ANNOUNCE DREAM COMMISSION SHORTLIST ON 21 OCTOBER 2020 |
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6th Annual Short Story Competition
Judge: Mark Henderson, local author and storyteller
Sponsors: Fred Pickering and Mark Henderson
Closing date: February 14th 2021
Title - Blue
There will be three age categories, judged separately: Junior school (7-11 years), secondary school (11-16years), and adult (over 16 years).
Derbyshire author Leonie Martin is offering a choice of two NOVEMBER dates on Zoom for her latest online Writing for Wellbeing workshop on the theme of HARMONY. Both workshops will include the same engaging writing activities and an opportunity to share your work within a safe and relaxing ‘virtual’ space. You’ll need access to Zoom along with writing materials. Early booking is advised as the number of places has been reduced to suit the online environment.
Wow! What a week of amazing announcements its been here at Mainframe.
From diagnostic sessions to CreativeMornings to training to the market and of course the Awards - hopefully we've got your creative needs covered! That said, we're aleady planning more new and exciting offers for 2021 so watch this space...
Join us for some safe, fun half term activities!
We're inviting Derbyshire businesses to attend our virtual Peak District & Derbyshire Christmas Market!
'Here' is where we stand now. 25 years and one global pandemic later 'Here' is the beginning of a new normal. Artcore celebrates a great milestone this year and on September 25th 2020, after 6 months of being closed, we were able to open our doors once again to the public and celebrate this occasion with a very fitting exhibition.
Derbyshire County Council’s Arts Service aims to increase participation in the arts, support a stronger arts economy and improve health and wellbeing through the arts.
Tue, 27 October 2020
Family-owned Wathall’s funeral directors, which has branches in Ashbourne, Derby, Alvaston, Borrowash and Burton, has helped a youth football team return to competitive
sports by sponsoring their new kit.
Albert Village Junior Football Club’s under-12’s Harriers team plays in the Burton Junior Football League is now sporting the new kit at matches based at local sports grounds.
Staff at a Belper firm helped their company achieve its volunteering total for the year when they carried out potentially life-saving work to help rescue teams operating in remote areas - without even leaving their desks. Fourteen workers at Lubrizol’s UK headquarters in Hazelwood gave up their day to help others by participating in the Red Cross’s Missing Maps project, a worldwide initiative designed to update free online maps by drawing in buildings, roads and natural features.
A Sports student at Derby College Group’s Broomfield Hall in Morley has clinched a coveted scholarship to study in the USA and play basketball for the college team.
Chartered surveyor Martin Langsdale, who is the long-standing chair of Derby Cathedral Quarter Business Improvement District (BID), has been awarded an MBE for his contribution to the city’s economy in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Derby College Group (DCG) Chief Executive Officer Mandie Stravino has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in recognition of her services to education.
Derby’s Economic Recovery Task Force has put forward ambitious plans which target vacant retail units in St James’s Street, Market Place and Iron Gate.
YOUR IDEAS WANTED PLEASE! SPEND TEN MINUTES HAVING FUN AND CONTRIBUTE TO A FABULOUS POEM!
The wonderful poet Helen Mort (former Derbyshire Poet Laureate) is writing a community poem called Ticket to Hope. She is looking for people who live, work or study in Derbyshire, of all ages, to contribute, and is looking for lots of ideas to weave into and to inspire the poem. Derbyshire is a county with hope in it, and that’s quite literal – with the beautiful Hope Valley and
the train towards Edale and the Dark Peak, where passengers ask for a ‘ticket to Hope’.
How do you capture a place through poetry?
7-8pm, Tuesday 13th October -
Burn Bright is a poetry-film created by Derbyshire writer Emma Pass in collaboration with the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site’s for the Discovery Days Online Festival taking place from 9-11th October.
Interested in the process of how a poetry collection gets put together?
Poet Helen Mort launched the 'Ticket to Hope' Community Poetry Project on National Poetry Day.
Spend the evening with crime writer and poet Sophie Hannah at ‘Agatha, Poirot and Me’ on the evening of 27th October.
For tickets and more information about this Zoom event please visit
9th-11th OCTOBER 2020 - From 11am Daily
www.derwentvalleymills.org/discovery-days
The Discovery Days Online Festival includes videos, heritage, crafts, poetry, art and music.
Spoken word pieces by She Speaks UK poets
Friday 9th October 2020 17:30 - 18:15
Free, no need to book
Join us for the live launch of ‘Tales of Derby Women Past’, spoken word pieces by She Speaks UK poets, created exclusively for the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site online Discovery Days Festival 2020. Six poets working in collaboration with She Speaks UK, have taken inspiration from Derby’s rich heritage to create spoken word pieces that highlight women’s stories from history.
Junction Arts are offering a fee poetry workshop on 13 th October, there is also more information about their new online poetry project.
Burn Bright is a poetry-film created by Derbyshire writer Emma Pass in collaboration with the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site’s for the Discovery Days Online Festival taking place from 9-11th October.
Spend the evening with crime writer and poet Sophie Hannah at ‘Agatha, Poirot and Me’ on the evening of 27th October, for tickets and more information about this Zoom event please
visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agatha-poirot-and-me-an-evening-with-soph...
‘Sculptures of Hope’
In these very strange times, and as the nights draw in towards winter, I thought it particularly important to make some work that was optimistic.
Virtual Artisan & Producers' Market:
Make sure you support our latest Virtual Market, and don't miss out on a new botanical illustration course!
In these challeneging times, we're disappointed that we're unable to hold our Artisan & Producers' market this September as was originally planned. But thanks to the magic of the internetm you can still support some of our regular stallholders in our "Virtual Marquee".
Historic Buxton Crescent has opened its doors as a luxury hotel following a multi-million pound redevelopment involving us and High Peak Borough Council.
Derbyshire-born author, Ann Thorsson, has just released her second novel, Dark Dreams
Atomic Poems Workshop, 7-8pm, Tuesday 13th October
WRITING A NOVELLA
Tuesday 6th October, 6:30pm-8:00pm
We are holding a free, one-hour Zoom workshop ‘Atomic Poems’ to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day (13th October 7-8pm). We will be creating poetry through code.
Bondholder D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership is investing £850,000 in a new £1.75m research and innovation facility at fellow Bondholder the
We understand that this can be an uncertain time to recruit, and so to ease those concerns, the University of Derby can support Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire SMEs with £1000 support funding if they recruit any individual that has graduated within the last 3 years.
That's not all, the UoD team will handle all of the role promotion, application sifting, and shortlisting free of charge, along with providing value added on-boarding support.
1 October marks National Poetry Day and Derby Book Festival’s Shared Reading programme will celebrate the joy that poetry brings to our lives. Nationally, there has been a rise in enthusiasm for poetry, particularly online, over the lockdown period. On National Poetry Day the Shared Reading Co-ordinators plan to run a range of activities, both online and in the community.
London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds – The Hannells Darley Park Concert at Home was a truly national event this year.
After the pandemic put a stop to plans for this year’s live concert, a new programme was broadcast simultaneously on BBC Radio Derby, BBC Sounds and BBC iPlayer which blended video footage of the 2019 concert with new recordings by Sinfonia Viva’s 7-piece cabaret band, led by conductor James Holmes and featuring vocalist Andy Quinn, and Derby Jazz.
Haarlem Artspace
In September, 4 metre tall puppets from a Buxton project have been seen on TV screens across the world
If you went down to the woods a few weeks ago, you might have seen something very strange among the trees of Buxton Country Park as two tall tree puppets stepped out from behind their trees and waltzed slowly to the sad notes of a saxophone echoing through the woods.
We'd like to let all customers know that from Thursday 24th September, it will be mandatory to wear a face covering when visiting the Barn unless you are exempt*.
Fused Glass 18th Oct or Printing on 25th Oct.
Which workshop do you want to book? Why not both!? Socially distanced, limited and bookable now!
Workshop One:
Join Stevie Davies at The Anvil so she can guide you to create your own unique fused glass design. You will create art panels full of colour and texture which could be hung, placed in a stand or mounted in a frame.
The countdown has started to The Derby Folk Festival 2020 At Home, which takes place online from 2 - 4 October.
Celebrate National Poetry Day on Thursday 1 October with award-winning poet Daljit Nagra in an online event hosted by Derby Libraries with Derby Poetry Festival.
Daljit is a Forward Poetry Prize winner, the first BBC Radio 4 Poet in Residence and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His poem Singh Song! is on the curriculum for English Literature GCSE.
Derby College Group (DCG) has teamed up with Places Leisure to launch a new Employer Academy for Sports students based at Broomfield Hall college.
Derby College Group (DCG) will hold its first virtual open day of the new academic year on Thursday October 22 as part of organisation’s activities to mark Colleges Week 2020.
Derby-based Déda has announced the first stage of its road map to fully re-open the cultural venue in Chapel Street and its community-based work which enriches people’s lives through dance and the arts.
A networking group set up to support women in all walks of business life has inspired a Derby entrepreneur to share her branding expertise.
Derbys Finest was formed in 2017 to celebrate and support women across Derbyshire who make an impact in their business or who make a positive contribution to the wider community.
The group recently held a virtual coffee morning to enable businesswomen to share experiences during lockdown and provide mutual support.