Spoilt for choice this festive season
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
An evening of old and new Christmas songs and carols, in Crich.
Join us at The Crich Glebe Field Centre for a Christmas Concert, performed by the acclaimed Fishpond Choir, which will feature Christmas songs and carols, old and new, to put us all in the mood for the festive season.
An evening of old and new Christmas songs and carols, in Crich.
Join us at The Crich Glebe Field Centre for a Christmas Concert, performed by the acclaimed Fishpond Choir, which will feature Christmas songs and carols, old and new, to put us all in the mood for the festive season.
A group of Derby College students have been appointed to champion the opportunities for technology to be embedded into study programmes under a new partnership with IT services and solutions provider Fujitsu UK.
Derby-based painter John McDonald has donated one of his striking creations for a silent auction to support the community engagement programme at Déda – the city-based organisation that aims to enrich people’s lives through dance and the arts.
John McDonald’s celebrated painting ‘Butterfly Cry’ is part of a collection of striking and majestic portraits of Frida Kahlo – arguably Mexico’s most iconic artist – portraying loss, brokenness and the indomitable resilience of the human spirit.
Copies of Great British Bake Off contestant Val Stones’ first book have gone on sale exclusively in Derbyshire at Croots Farm Shop near Duffield.
The shop, off Wirksworth Road, is run by Val’s brother Steve Croot and his wife Kay – and Val is a regular visitor.
Bright Friday at Croots Farm Shop to raise money for Derbyshire Children’s Holiday Centre
Staff at Croots Farm Shop in Derbyshire are naming this Friday Bright Friday and will donate 10% of takings to local charity Derbyshire Children’s Holiday Centre.
As many national and global retailers launch Black Friday sales, independent farm shop Croots has decided to mark the day by renaming Friday 23rd November as Bright Friday… and wants to raise much-needed funds for its adopted local charity.