“Commemorating the historic strike in Derby Silk Mill, our Free Family Festival features live bands, stand-up comedy and rousing oratory. With food, drink, community stalls, kids activities- it’s for everyone!
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26 October 2019 is the second Wirksworth Wizarding Day.
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New Mills Festival and Spring Bank Arts Centre are very pleased to announce that The Askew Sisters, the acclaimed English Folk Duo making waves on the folk scene with their energetic brand of English folk music, will be performing at Spring Bank Arts Centre on Friday 12th April 2019. The gig will be the first in a series of collaborations between New Mills Festival and Spring Bank Arts Centre.
In a joint venture to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Buxton International Festival and the 40th Buxton Festival Fringe, we’re looking to commission a visual artist to work with our outreach team in delivering Explore Arts Awards in five junior schools around Buxton.
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Stars more used to singing in the world’s leading opera houses will soon be performing in a village hall near you as Buxton International Festival (BIF) takes a taste of its 40th anniversary programme on the road.
BIF is bringing the glitz and glamour of opera right to your doorstep in a rolling roadshow which will stop at venues in the Peak District and Derbyshire Dales with a grand finale in Buxton’s newly-restored Octagon.
“It’s a magical tour aimed at taking the mystery out of opera,” said Festival Chief Executive Michael Williams.
Four books have been shortlisted for the first Derby Book Festival Children’s Picture Book Award, which aims to celebrate picture books that children can relate to and in which the diversity and challenges of modern life are represented. A group of 12 Derby primary school teachers volunteered to select the books from the original longlist of nine.
FORMAT19 is delighted to announce the winners of the Open Call Awards.
It has been a difficult job to choose just one project as this year's entries to the festival Open Call have been of such a very high calibre but the decisions have finally been made and taking the top prize in the FORMAT19 Award is Casey Orr's portrait series Saturday Girl.
The prizes will be presented during the FORMAT19 Grand Award Night on Saturday 16th March at 7.30pm.
There are places still available with our expert reviewers, so make sure you book your review to have a chance of being selected for one of awards.
Applications are now open for this year’s Buxton Art Trail which will return during the first weekend of the Buxton Festival Fringe on Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
Organisers are hoping for an extra special event for this year’s 40th Fringe with plenty of applications from artists and venues before the closing date of April 22nd, 2019. An even wider variety of artists, designers and makers, both professional and amateur, look set to exhibit in their homes and studios as well as other venues in the town.
Russian born classical pianist SERGEI PODOBEDOV plays his second concert in Belper.
Following a sell out concert in September, Belper based Sergei Podobedov plays his second show in
his adopted home town at the Strutt Centre, Derby Road, Belper on 23 February.
The musical programme features
Beethoven's 'Apassionata', Chopin Sonatas and Liszt Sonata Number 6.