Reviewed by Les Hurst of Scarthin Books Was it only at secondary school that we were herded into […]
Together Through Sound – a community project organised by Arts Melbourne – is painting a picture of lockdown […]
Just before lockdown began, Derby LIVE announced that the Derby Folk Festival would be back for October 2020 […]
Review by Les Hurst of Scarthin Books In 1935 George Orwell, a struggling writer working in a second-hand […]
Derby City Council has re-opened applications for phase two of its Top Up Local Authority Grant Scheme for […]
With theatres closed and social distancing still very much the order of the day, this year’s Buxton Fringe […]
Reviewed by Les Hurst of Scarthin Books Imagine taking your brush to write in Chinese – you make […]
High Peak Community Arts, a charity based in New Mills, brings people together to create art collectively, so […]
A Derbyshire art gallery has become a community champion during the lockdown by displaying paintings by the village […]
Cromford Studio and Gallery in the Market Place, Cromford is re-opening next Wednesday June 17. The featured artist […]
The countdown is now on for 52 Weeks Festival which will highlight art, music, dance, drama and heritage […]
Derbyshire County Council has cancelled the Woodland Festival, due to take place on September 19 and 20 at […]
Derby Theatre and leading cultural organisations in the city are asking young people to use their creativity to […]
Buxton Fringe has announced that it will be relaxing its entries deadline (formerly June 1) in order to […]
Students from the Leek School of Art have taken a creative approach to exhibiting their work following the […]
Furthest From The Sea Music, Comedy and Arts CIC have launched ‘Derbyshire Artisan Markets’, a new selling opportunity […]
A scrapbook showing how Florence Nightingale became a cultural phenomenon is going on display online in time for […]
The winner of the second Derby Children’s Picture Book Award from a shortlist of four, is Brian the […]
The world will be celebrating Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday on May 12 but many events planned for the […]
Melbourne Festival is taking part in LoveLit an Arts Derbyshire project funded by the Arts Council bringing Writers […]
Oddsocks Productions is staying connected across social media platforms and bringing entertainment to audiences (old and new!) during […]
If you are missing your fix of amateur dramatics during these strange times, then good news – the […]
LEVEL Arts Centre at Rowsley is launching a exciting new take on traditional life-drawing. In this remote, screen-based […]
Derby Book Festival is challenging children and adults to write a story in up to fifty words on […]
Nobody would dispute that David Brock is a fan of D H Lawrence. He has read most of […]
The winner of the Peak District Artisans’ first Emerging Artist Award, ceramicist Rebecca Perry (second left) has been […]
The story of a couple’s wartime romance has been recreated by their daughter who, at the age of […]
Like me, for the sanity of others, you may feel that the only appropriate time to be belting […]
Wirksworth Community Theatre is continuing its tradition of bringing first rate and original theatre to the town by […]
The Marlowe Players are turning to playwright Patrick Hamilton for the third time in just over seven years, […]
Rumpus is a well-established theatre company based in Chesterfield. Over a period of 25 years it has put […]
An image of Duffield’s Eyes Meadow in autumn was a near-winner for Milford-based photographer Ashley Franklin in the […]
A UNIQUE and exciting blend of music, step and clog dance, and song is how Stepling bill themselves. […]
All aboard for a spectacular adventure on the high seas as Derby Theatre presents an award-winning adaptation of […]
Internationally-acclaimed violinist Lizzie Ball, together with the talented singers Clare Lloyd-Griffiths and Andrew Ashwin, join the Derbyshire Singers […]
Eight cellists from the Hallé Orchestra are performing as an ensemble at Spring Bank Arts in New Mills […]
Newly-qualified doctor Stephen Ruggles has just arrived home on a stormy winter’s evening and is warming himself by […]
The Staffordshire Millennium Embroideries represent a thousand years of the county’s history and, following a hugely successful tour […]
A slick and assured production of Shakespeare’s blackest of fables, Macbeth, is currently being staged at Derby Theatre. […]
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