artsmatters winter 2014 - derbyshire dales · juggling freddy mercury, a sioux comedian, 7 ukulele...
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This Newsletter is for Voluntary Groups, Professional Artists and everyone interested in
the Arts.
Welcome to the winter edition of artsMATTERS. This edition features the regular Funding and What’s On sections including lots of things to
see and do this winter.
If you have any suggestions for the spring edition of artsMATTERS please contact us before 15 February 2015.
Join Brailsford Pantomime on their journey to Sherwood Forest as you watch, clap, sing and become part of the tale of Robin Hood, as this classic tale unfolds before your eyes. Packed full of action, adventure, local characters and an abundance of comedy as well as heroes and villains aplenty!
Winter 2014
Welcome
Robin Hood, Robin Hood Riding into Brailsford & Hulland
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The wicked Sheriff of Nottingham is ruling over the good villagers of Sherwood collecting taxes to pay for his own evil plans. The people need a hero! Can outlaw Robin Hood save the kidnapped babes, win the day and capture the heart of Maid Marian? Opening at neighbouring village hall for two days in Hulland Ward for performances on Friday 28th November at 7.30pm & Saturday 29th November at 2.30pm and 7.30pm before moving to Brailsford village hall at 7.30pm on Wednesday 3rd, Thursday 4th December and 2.30pm and 7.30pm on Saturday 6th December. Get ready for a sheriff-busting, arrow-shooting, tights-wearing, sing-songing extravaganza! Tickets are available at Hulland Ward post office or 01335371883 / 07729243139 and The Deli in Brailsford. £6 Adult, £4 Child (under 16’s). The perfect seasonal treat for everyone buy your tickets now to avoid disappointment. Robin Hood and the babes is an amateur pantomime performed by local residents and friends of Brailsford Social Club. The enthusiastic local ensemble cast and chorus are supported by a production team of helpers who could rival any full scale theatre crew. Including fantastic handmade / hand painted scenery, music and lighting, costumes, choreography and of course the essential rehearsal refreshments!
Every effort has been made to ensure that information contained in this publication is accurate. However, no liability will be accepted for any loss,
damage or inconvenience caused as a result of inaccuracy or error in the information contained in these pages.
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The timeless tale of Mother Goose is this year's offering from Youlgrave Village Hall for its 53rd annual family pantomime. Producer Jan Wilson and Director Nic Wilson (no relation!) have been beavering away through the summer months writing, re-writing and honing the a new script into shape. And since September the cast and crew of over 70 volunteers have been busy rehearsing, making costumes, hand painting back-drops, constructing props and getting on with the hundreds of back-stage tasks that go into putting on a village pantomime. Jan Wilson said "This year we have strong cast, lead by much loved favourites Nic Wilson as the Dame Mother Goose, Simon Edmonds as the baddie Squire Ferdinand Fox, Katie Henwood as the Fairy Feather and Tess Edmonds as the principle boy, but we are also joined by some new faces and excitingly we have six new youngsters joining the chorus for the first time". The team have also been joined by a new Choreographer, Kim Robinson - known to many across the Peak District for her popular Derbyshire Dales sponsored dancing and fitness classes - and she has a l ready been putting the cast old and new through the i r paces.
Youlgrave Welcomes Mother Goose
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Director Nic Wilson said "The great thing about a village pantomime such as this is that it's not only good fun and an opportunity for our many volunteers to learn new skills, both on and off the stage, but at the same time benefits the community as all the money raised is put back into our community projects " Everyone is most welcome at all the performances, but for 4th February 2015 we are making some small changes to the performance to create a welcoming, less formal atmosphere to help reduce anxiety levels, particularly for those with an Autistic Spectrum Condition, learning disability or sensory and communication disorders - this relaxed performance aims to give those who otherwise might feel excluded the chance to experience our pantomime. Mother Goose runs from 28th January 2015 - 31st January 2015 and 4th - 7th February 2014 every evening from 7.30pm with matinee performances on both Saturday afternoons from 2.30pm. Ticket prices have been kept low at £6.25 for adults and £3.25 for children. For the Wednesday and Thursday performances we are offering 1 free ticket with every 10 purchased. So, call the box Office on 01629 828 215 or buy your tickets online at www.yvh.org.uk/panto Expect larger-than-life characters, loads of laughs, beautiful costumes, stunning dance moves, live music and of course…… plenty of heroes to cheer and baddies to boo! Don't miss it!
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On Friday 5th December, The Matlock Storytelling Cafe is proud to present Winter Tales - a Collaboration. This month our well established cafe teams up with the year old Stafford Knot storytelling club to bring a Christmas Cracker of a night to the good folk of Derbyshire. As well as 7 tales from 7 tellers, we invite the audience to share their own Christmas memories with us...joyful, humorous or nostalgic, we won't know until the night itself. So come and join us in this seasonal celebration. Tickets cost £7 and can be bought by calling Storytelling Cafe on 01629 580023. Or you can pay on the door. Delicious cakes and savoury snacks available. BYOB. The Café is in The Imperial Rooms, Matlock DE4 3NL. Doors open 6.45, show begins 7.30. Matlock Storytelling Cafe - bringing storytelling back to adult audiences…
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The next Land Art Workshop is right in the realm of The Winter Solstice time. This is a very special time, particularly in Derbyshire, where the depth and stillness of the Solstice can be keenly felt. We are all starting this journey now, moving down to the point of stillness, to darkness, to holding, before we emerge again, with new jewels to bring out into the growing light. The workshop will be on 18th December and start at the studio in Matlock, 9.30am to 2.30pm. See www.vivekabowry.co.uk/workshops for more information.
Land Art Workshop For Winter Solstice in The Peak District—Thursday 18th December 2014
Victorian Christmas Weekend
5—7 December 2014 Over 150 stalls in two marquees in Hall Leys Park in the centre of Matlock an impressive Victorian Spa Town. The market will see the widest variety of goods from both local producers and stall holders from all parts of the country. Street entertainers, marching bands, James Mckay and his famous owls. Funfair, Santa's grotto and fireworks display on Sunday at 5.15pm. 01629 583042 [email protected]
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Wirksworth choir Raise Your Voices commemorates the remarkable events of Christmas Day, 1914, when guns fells silent and opposing armies met in No Man’s Land, exchanging tokens of goodwill, sharing food, drink and cigarettes, some even playing a “friendly” game of football around the trenches. The performance will take place in St Mary’s Church, Wirksworth on 8 December at 7.30. Tickets £5 each are available from Traid Links, Market Place, Wirksworth from Saturday 8th November, at a cost of £5.00. Profits will go to charity. Music includes Christmas carols, some as sung on the day of the truce; German, French and English songs reflect the global nature of the conflict, while others deal with eternal themes of loss, memory, longing, war and peace Marion Heasman 01629 821 816 [email protected]
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The Christmas Truce
C h r i s t m a s Baroque by
Candlelight with Adam Summerhayes and 21st Century Baroque. Featuring BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist, Charlotte Barbour-Condini. 21st December, 7.30 pm. St John's Church, Buxton Road, Ashbourne. Including Vivaldi's recorder concerto and music from the Four Seasons, Corelli's Christmas Concerto and Bach’s popular Suite in A minor. Free mulled wine and mince pies! For further details see www.londonconcertante.com/concerts
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20 June - 6 July 2008
Forget Edinburgh, choose
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Where you find three collies, a juggling Freddy Mercury, a Sioux comedian, 7 ukulele players, grand opera in the open air and a contortionist this summer? Edinburgh or Glastonbury? No need to travel that far – these and many other diverse and brilliant acts will be appearing at the ninth Ashbourne Festival . Ashbourne Arts, which organises the Ashbourne Festival, has really pulled out the stops this year. The festival has established a great local reputation for a high quality and eclectic programme. Last years sell out performances were inc red ib l y popu l a r w i th audiences and this year is set to be even better. The favourite events will still be there. The popular open air opera at Tissington Hall will be Donizetti’s light hearted Don
Pascale from the garden Opera Company. Other brilliant music events include the magnificent Kings Consort on 20 June with a programme of 18th Century choral music; the unique Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain on 21 June with a repertoire that extends from Bach to Nirvana; the legendary Robin Williamson one of the founder members of cult Incredible String Band on 2 July and the beautiful soul and gospel a cappella style of Black Voices on 5 July. Visual arts will be represented by local professional artists and talented amateurs, plus the Red Square Collective and local galleries. One of the most successful new events of last year was comedy and since then Ashbourne Arts has been putting on successful comedy nights. The comedy treats in store for this year include the popular Ian McMillan’s ‘A Cartoon History of Here’ (25 June); Steve Day’s ‘Deafy Island Discs’ (27 June); and Ashbourne’s own Not a Dry Seat in the House night with another great line up of British
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Europe's Number One Western Swing Band - back by popular
request - again! The Swing Commanders is a stunningly vibrant and versatile group that performs an exciting mix of thirties to the fifties from American Songbook classics, boogie-woogie, western swing, 50’s jump jazz and more! They overlay them with lush vocal harmonies and hot solos. The rhythms, varying from ballads to jive to quicksteps. 20 December 2014 at The Whitworth Centre, Station Road, Darley Dale, Matlock, DE4 2EQ Cost: £15 Contact details 01246 860022 For further details see www.peakconcerts.co.uk
A pantomime for all the family in the Ballroom at the Whitworth Centre. By the Dream Team Theatre Company. Tickets available from the Terrace Café. 22 December 2014 at The Whitworth Centre, Station Road, Darley Dale, Matlock, DE4 2EQ
Visit www.thewhitworthcentre.co.uk/dick-whittington-comes-to-town for more information.
Swing Commanders + GI Jive
Dick Whittington Pantomime
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You will learn to make beautiful and original sculptures for your garden from woven willow. The course is for anyone who wou ld l i ke an introduction to the principles of using willow to make structures in natural settings. You will learn properties and sources of willow and how to select for a particular purpose, building structures and learning tying techniques, decoration, features and finishing techniques, how to maintain your sculptures. DERBYSHIRE ECO CENTRE, Porter Lane, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, DE4 4LS Cost: £48 / £44/ £29 7 February 2015 10am - 4pm Contact Carol or Shelley on 01629 533038 or [email protected]
This year's Youlgrave Village Hall traditional family pantomime is the timeless tale of
Mother Goose. Youlgrave Village Hall 53rd annual family pantomime, with 10 performances, this is one of the largest and longest running amateur community fundraising pantomimes in the county. Expect larger-than-life characters, loads of laughs, beautiful costumes, stunning dance moves, live music and of course… plenty of heroes to cheer and baddies to boo! Don't miss it! Youlgrave Village Hall, Holywell Lane, Youlgrave, DE45 1UT £6.25 adults, £3.25 child. Sessions 28 January 2015 to 7 February 2015 Mike Baitup, 01629 828 215 or [email protected] www.yvh.org.uk/panto
Willow Sculpture
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If so, they could be eligible for a grant of up to £75,000 to help boost the local economy and generate jobs. More than 40 local firms are already benefitting from a share of the £3million from Government available through the Global Derbyshire Small Business Support Programme. To find out more, including how to apply, visit w w w . d e r b y s h i r e . g o v . u k / g l o b a l d e r b y s h i r e , e m a i l [email protected] or call 01629 539325 or 01629 538245. Mark Tomblin, Global Derbyshire Programme Manager, Derbyshire County Council 01629 539325 [email protected]
D e a d l i n e : 2 5 F e b r u a r y 2 0 1 5 The Idlewild Trust is a grant making trust
that supports registered charities concerned with the following: encouragement of the performing and fine arts and crafts; the advancement of education within the arts; the preservation for the benefit of the public of lands, buildings
and other objects of beauty or historic interest in the UK. The Trust makes grants of up to £5,000. Recent grants awarded include £3,000 to Scottish Opera’s Emerging Artists Programme to help nurtures talented young opera singers into professional performing arts careers. For more information, visit www.idlewildtrust.org.uk
Do you know someone who runs a small business in Derbyshire?
FUNDING
The Idlewild Trust
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National Archives has launched a competition to get
aspiring filmmakers to put its First World War files on film. Ten First World War documents reflecting different experiences of wartime have been selected from the archives and put online and entrants must use one or more as the starting point for a three-minute short film. Documents include: Songs from a Women's Land Army booklet Siegfried Sassoon's famous war protest letter Mata Hari's security service file. The three winning entries will be featured on the National Archives website and get cash prizes of £500, £200 and £100. The deadline for submitting entries is Wednesday 7th January 2015. Read more at: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/get-involved/files-on-film
Deadline: 6 March 2015 The Clore Duffield Foundation is open to applications as part of its £1 million programme to fund poetry and literature initiatives for children and young people across the UK. Through the programme, schools, FE colleges, community groups, libraries and other arts/cultural organisations can apply for grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 to support participatory learning projects and programmes focused on literature, poetry and creative writing for under 19s. Read more at: www.cloreduffield.org.uk.
First World War Film Competition
This information is available free of charge in electronic, audio, Braille and large print versions, and in other
languages on request. For assistance in understanding or reading this document, please call 01629 761390.
Clore Poetry & Literature Awards
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3, 4, 6
Dec
Robin Hood Brailsford Village
Hall
07729243139
5 Dec Matlock
Storytelling Café
Imperial Rooms,
Matlock
01629 580023
5-7 Dec Victorian
Christmas
Weekend
Hall Leys Park,
Matlock
01629 583042
www.matlock.gov.uk
8 Dec The Christmas
Truce
St Mary’s Church,
Wirksworth
01629 821 816
18 Dec Land Art
Workshop
Matlock www.vivekabowry.co.uk/workshops
20 Dec Swing
Commanders +
GI Jive
Whitworth Centre,
Darley Dale
www.peakconcerts.co.uk
21 Dec Christmas
Baroque by
Candlelight
St John’s Church,
Ashbourne
www. londonconce r tan te . com/
concerts
22 Dec Dick Whittington Whitworth Centre,
Darley Dale
www.thewhitworthcentre.co.uk/dick-
whittington-comes-to-town
28-31
Jan & 4-
7 Feb
Mother Goose Youlgrave Village
Hall
www.yvh.org.uk/panto
01629 828 215
7 Feb Willow Sculpture Eco Centre,
Middleton by
Wirksworth
01629 533038
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Edited by Nicola Wildgoose, Community Events Officer, Derbyshire Dales District Council, Town
Hall, Matlock DE4 3NN Tel: 01629 761390 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk