Artsbeat May 2019

FRE

E

artsbeatblog.com

n Ar tists ope g up for Sprin ays Bank Holid

May 2019

Studios in full bloom Event previews: Belper, Buxton, Little Ed and Derby Book Festival

Celebrating the arts in Derbyshire and the Peak District

OPEN CALL FOR PERFORMERS WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY Do you love to perform?

Are you aged 18+?

We are looking to meet people with a passion for performance who would be interested in creating new and exciting theatre for both learning disabled and mainstream audiences.

To book or for any questions please email imogen@levelcentre.com or call us on 01629 734848 LEVEL Centre Old Station Close Rowsley Derbyshire DE4 2EL

T 01629 734 848 www.levelcentre.com /levelcentre #celebratedifference

BUXTON OPERA HOUSE & PAVILION ARTS CENTRE

Tue 14 May

THE HORNE SECTION

Coming soon

Fri 24 May

MARY PORTAS

There'll be comedy, songs, enthusiastic dancing and a lot of mucking about

The retail expert, business woman and ‘Queen of Shops' discusses her new book Work Like a Woman

Fri 24 May - Sun 9 Jun

Thu 30 May - Sat 8 Jun

OLIVER!

Based on Charles Dickens' novel, the classic musical Oliver! is hailed as a true theatrical masterpiece

01298 72190

RENT

A group of bohemian friends in New York face the excitement and angst of the approaching millennium

buxtonoperahouse.org.uk

A great place to meet up with friends and family

Gallery – Tea Rooms Workshops – Shops full details on our website

Ferrers Gallery – Ferrers Frames – Green Man Ceramics – Janet Gibson Jewellery Kevin Shepherd Artist – B&J Blacksmiths – Crinoline Upholstery – Metal Manipulation The Victorian Model Workshop – Paint a Pot Craft Studio – Simon Price Furniture Staunton Hardwoods – Country Cottage Crafts – Russell Lister Artist and Craft maker Michelle Holmes Embroidered Textiles – Rituals Retreat – Tip Top Hair Design Breadfirst Deli – Staunton Stables Tea Room Most of the workshops and shops are open 11-5pm Tuesday to Sunday. Closed Mondays.

Please check website for individual opening times. Telephone 01332 864863.

Staunton Harold, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. LE65 1RW

www.ferrerscentre.co.uk

www.facebook.com/ferrerscentre

contents

9

49

27 In conversation

Music

9 Photographer Clive Booth captures the legendary Don McCullin on film 10 COVER STORY: Lynn Presland is blooming with her peers in the guild 35 Landscapes in the ‘wild west’ of Scotland captivate Matt Swift

53-57 Five packed pages of folk, pop, rock and classical concerts

6

Stage 61-64 Theatre, dance, comedy and story-telling on a stage near you artsbeat May 2019

editor’s letter

35

24 Festivals 21 Edgy entertainment at Little Ed 24 Forty years of culture at Buxton 27 Artists invite you to their studios 49 Ian McMillan returns to Belper 58 Best-selling authors revealed artsbeat May 2019

Reflecting on the content of this month’s magazine I suddenly realised that several of the features have an international angle.

It is heartwarming to see our young people linking with our overseas neighbours in a variety of arts projects and to hear of so many talented performers coming here to join our festivals.

Congratulations to Sunflower Thieves for representing Derby at a festival in Germany and to fashion designer Harriet Eccleston for stepping out for the UK at a catwalk event in Russia. (ĂĽSee details in arena) And in the next few Amanda Penman weeks we will welcome a Russia-born pianist to play in Belper and an Australian author to Derby. These are just the two I can remember off the top of my head. There are many more international guests being invited to Derbyshire throughout the year. Long may these wonderful links continue.

Please note the editorial and advertising booking deadline for June is May 10. email: advertising: advertising@arts-beat.co.uk editorial: editor@arts-beat.co.uk telephone: 07872 066719 post: 19 Nottingham Road, Belper DE56 1JG website: artsbeatblog.com While every effort is made to ensure listings are accurate and up-to-date, readers are advised to check with the venue before travelling, as no responsibility can be accepted for changes to programmes, errors or omissions. artsbeat2

@artsbeat

Putting Derbyshire first: artsbeat is published by Penman Publishing, 19 Nottingham Road, Belper and printed by Buxton Press

7

OP E RA WOR LD PR EM IER E: GEO R GIANA SCA N D A L OUS LIF E AND LOVES OF THE DUCHES S OF DEVONSHIRE WO M EN’S WR ITES F EMALE AUTHORS ON MAS S ACRES, MURDERS AND MUS ICAL RIOTS FUTUR E SH O CK W HAT NEXT FOR BRITAIN: UTOPIA OR DYS TOPIA? M USICAL H EART STR INGS M USIC FOR EVERYONE TO LOVE: CLASSICAL, F OLK AND ALL THAT JAZZ AM AND A FO R EM AN MELVY N B R AGG, SAR AH WAR D NIC K R O B INSO N, LUCY WO R SLEY MAX H ASTINGS, KATE H UM B LE MAX FISCH ER , TR ISTR AM H UNT ROBE RT SKID ELSKY, ALAN PO WER S & M AR K CO CKER BBC P HIL HA RM O NIC, ALISTAIR M CGO WAN C A P E T OWN O PER A, LA SER ENISSIM A RODE RIC K WILLIAM S AND MANY MORE

J o in u s fo r t h e 4 0 t h a n niv ers ary of B uxton Inte r n at i o n a l F e s t i v a l ! Celebrating o pera, mu sic, bo o k s , g u i d e d t ow n w alks , c o okery de mo n st r a t i o n s a n d e v en a Fes tiv al Tea G arden.

5 - 2 1 J U LY 2 0 1 9 BOX OF F ICE 01298 72190 B UXTO NFESTIVAL.CO .UK

BEHIND THE LENS

Ashbourne director Clive Booth talks about his short film on the remarkable work of legendary photo-journalist Don McCullin

I

‘

f such an accomplished of all this traffic. Health and For me, hand photographer and safety went out of the window. filmmaker as Clive At the end of it, Chris Clarke on heart, it’s the Booth was part of your and I agreed it was the most best piece of work community it would be foolish exciting day’s shooting we’d not to ensure he was part of ever had in our careers.”

I’ve ever done your annual festival.

“We are very fortunate to have Hence at this year’s Ashbourne been able to film him in his Festival you will element in one find him talking of his favourite about a film he cities. considers to be “There’s no the best piece of single aspect work he has ever of the film I’m done – a film of not immensely the legendary proud of. That photo-journalist includes the Don McCullin subject matter, behind the lens the cinematoin Kolkata, graphy, the capturing the plight of street music and the people. editing.

As a member “It’s really about of the Canon Clive Booth, right, with Don McCullin, centre, and Chris Clarke in Kolkata showing Don Ambassador in a way that Programme Clive was given most people won’t have seen intrusive. This was the key to the opportunity to direct making it work. Then we would him before and I’m grateful to and deliver Canon Europe’s cut the film.”

Canon for giving us the room first-ever HDR film of Don to do it as we wanted. For me, Despite Don’s 82 years, Clive working in India and it was a hand on heart, it’s the best says his reactions were still task he took on with relish. piece of work I’ve ever done.” phenomenally quick. “He was “Don is one of the greatest like a caged animal in the car, Clive will share the story of living photographers of our champing at the bit to get how the documentary was time. His work is second to started. Something would catch made at Ashbourne Town Hall none. his eye and he would say, ‘Stop, on July 1 at 7.30pm. For tickets stop, stop! We’ve got to get “We were going to an go to ashbournefestival.org this,’ and he’d be off. Don is environment that was rich in McCullin in Kolkata made its always looking, the radar’s on imagery for Don, and us too,” debut at the Camerimage Film the whole time. says Clive.

Festival in Poland in 2017.

“On the first day, we did a “He had chosen several places Watch the shoot at the market in the to shoot over a three- or four19-minute day period, and it was really morning, then in the afternoon film by about putting him in that we were thrown into a chaotic scanning the situation and enabling him to environment where Don was QR code. do his thing without us being photographing in the middle artsbeat May 2019

9

ST JOHN STREET GALLERY Contemporary Fine Art

GROWING GUILD

Lynn Presland chats to artsbeat’s Amanda Penman about her artistic journey

M

reflections on a landscape paintings and ceramics

by lewis noble ~May 18th to June 1st

the gallery's artist-in-residence will be working in his studio throughout the exhibition y paintings y prints y glass y sculpture y ceramics

50 St John Street, Ashbourne, DE6 1GH 01335 347425 Monday to Saturday 9.30am-5pm enquiries@stjohngalleryandcafé.co.uk www.stjohngalleryandcafé.co.uk

Sponsors of the Ashbourne Festival Art Prizes

any an artist has confessed to me that they have lacked confidence in their work at some stage – if not always. It definitely seems to go with the territory, which is why joining a like-minded group of their peers is such a great idea.

For Lynn Presland being part of the relatively-new Derbyshire Artists’ Guild is really important and she attributes it with helping her develop as a landscape artist in recent months.

The eight artists in the group, which is currently staging an exhibition at the Green Man Gallery in Buxton, and will be at Baslow Village Hall for the Derbyshire Open Arts event, all love to paint and spur each other on with ideas and encouragement.

“It’s not only that though,” says Lynn. “What being part of the guild has enabled me to do is take my art out into the community where people can just walk in and see it. It is wonderful to be in galleries, but a lot of people are shy of galleries and just won’t step inside.

“What we do as a group is take our work to them and, of artsbeat May 2019

‘

I am learning all the time – but I am enjoying every minute of it course, we are then there to talk to them about the paintings. “ It is really lovely to meet the people who buy your work and who are going to get enjoyment from it. And it’s also really useful for getting feedback,” she explained.

Lynn admits that she tried various techniques and styles in the 20 or so years she has been painting seriously but is still not sure which path to take.

“I draw inspiration from the magnificent Derbyshire landscapes – autumn skies, windswept heaths, winding lanes and woodlands. But while I love painting landscapes I also enjoy bold, colourful floral paintings,” she said.

She says her earliest memories are of holding a paint brush and she can remember being entranced by painting by number kits as a child.

“For my 16th birthday I was bought an easel, brushes and a canvas and it was my dream to go to art college but I was the daughter of a miner and one of seven children so that was never going to be. artsbeat May 2019

“It was much later in life that I decided I wanted to study A Level art and finally realise that teenage dream. Thanks to encouragement from tutors who helped me overcome my lack of confidence I am where I am today.

“I have my own studio and have paintings at Leabrooks Arts Complex, in Somercotes, and am regularly exhibiting with the guild. I am learning all the time but I am enjoying every minute of it,” she said.

The other artists in the Derbyshire Artists’ Guild are

Susan Tracey, Patricia Lane, Angus Stokes, Carol BartonJones, Arwyn Quick and Martin Davis, who have both been featured artists in artsbeat in the past and the newest member Mo Laycock.

Their exhibition, at the Green Man Gallery is on until May 22 and they will also be demonstrating their techniques at Baslow Village Hall from May 25-27 as part of Derbyshire Open Arts. n For more information about their work go to derbyshireartistsguild.com

11

12

artsbeat May 2019

STUMPED BY OUR SPORT

Overseas servicemen found the pace of English cricket far too slow

C

anadian soldiers braved the worst the trenches could throw at them – but found one thing about World War One hard to take: cricket!

By 1918, three large hotels and a hospital in Buxton were turned over to the rehabilitation of Canadian forces injured in the fighting.

And sport played a great part in getting them back to fitness, research in advance of Buxton International Festival’s book programme has found.

The Buxton Canadians even raised a scratch baseball team which put up a very creditable fight against a tough American side, losing 3-1 in front of a crowd of 8,000 in Manchester.

And they also showed their mettle at cricket against Buxton CC, holding the more experienced side to a draw.

But Lieutenant R Matthews, writing in The Canadian Hospital News’ August 1918 edition, wished the Brits would get a move on and bring their national game up to date.

“We love the game, nearly as well as we love baseball, but Saturday’s game was typical of that slowness which to our minds spoils the game,” he wrote.

“Cricket really must get a hustle on if it wants to stand up against baseball as a Summer artsbeat May 2019

Jenny Waldman

game. To put it mildly, more pep is required.”

The copy of The Canadian Hospital News was discovered

by Cynthia Jennings one of the Friends group which supports Buxton International Festival.

She spotted it during her work as a volunteer at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery.

The museum building itself was one of the hotels — then called the Peak Hydro — requisitioned to house the soldiers, and the town was referred to as No 1 Canadian Discharge Depot in military circles.

The festival will be featuring the First World War and how its centenary was remembered when Jenny Waldman, pictured above, who programmed the remarkable 14-18 NOW project of arts experiences

across the UK, speaks about her extraordinary five-year art project which involved more than 30 million people, at the Palace Hotel on July 15.

It was one of the largest public art projects ever, resulting in the creation of 350 million artworks, including painting, poetry and dance, as well as the amazing Peter Jackson film of soldiers’ reminiscences set against black-and-white footage which had been brought to new life in colour.

Buxton’s role in the Great War is explored in one of the Festival walks. For more details on walks and other events in the Festival programme, go to buxtonfestival.co.uk n Go to discoverbuxton.co.uk for For more about Canadians in Buxton.

13

gallerytop CONTEMPORARY ART Paintings, sculpture, prints, ceramics, glass and jewellery

www.gallerytop.co.uk

Gallerytop Chatsworth Road Rowsley Derbyshire DE4 2EH 01629 735580 info@gallerytop.co.uk The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday 10..00 until 5.00 and on Sundays from 11.00 until 4.00

ORIGINAL WORK BY LEADING INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS JAMES BRERETON, COLIN HALLIDAY, JAMES PRESTON, NICK WALKER, AND MANY MORE Open: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am-5pm and Wednesday 10am- 2pm. Closed Sunday and Monday.

7, Bridge Street, Belper, Derbyshire, telephone 01773 827508 mobile 07432 524 083 email jill.underwood59@gmail.com

www.duffieldartgallery.co.uk 14

artsbeat May 2019

arena

All the latest news from the Derbyshire arts community Digital businesses in the frame at annual awards

D

igital and creative people and businesses in Derby have been recognised for their work at the 2019 Mainframe Awards.

Start-ups and established businesses were among the 30 shortlisted to be in with the chance of winning an award in one of the ten categories.

The prizes were handed out at an awards ceremony at QUAD in Derby, from where the Mainframe networking organisation operates.

Drew Taylour-Davis of video marketing agency, Future Proof Films, won the publicly voted award for Digital Ambassador of the Year.

He said: “Every single person and business nominated, shortlisted and lucky enough to win, plays a massive role in our city’s creative and digital landscape so for FPF to be a recognised part of that is just incredible.”

Other winners were: Susan Nash from the marketing and brand agency, ThreeGuru who won the Putting Derby/ Derbyshire on the Map award and Mair Perkins from Mair Perkins Animation & Illustration who received the Creativity for Good award.

Louise West of Louise West Lace Design scooped both Best Digital/Creative Innovation

artsbeat May 2019

Pictured clockwise from top left, are Louise West, Lynne Hollingsworth (left) accepting her award, Susan Nash and the team from ThreeGuru, Claire Cutts and Joe Clark of V21 Productions, the Future Proof Films team and Mair Perkins (left) accepting her award

PICTURES: Richard Gardner of SmugMug.com

and New Product to Market for her wonderful work with lace which blends both old and new creative techniques. and Best Digital/Creative Start Up went to Darren Robinson for his company iScout, a football intelligence service.

This year saw three new categories in the awards – Digital/Creative Impact, Digital/Creative Unsung Hero and “Digital Creative Exceptional Growth.

V21 Productions became winners for a second year being awarded Digital/Creative Impact winners. Lynne Hollingsworth was honoured as the Digital/Creative Unsung Hero and Andrew Warner from Anchor & Crew took the Digital Creative Exceptional Growth award.

Finally, the Emerging Digital Star (Under 25) was presented to Elliott Davidson of Contrast Digital.

15

n arena Making a mark THE Derby Sketching Club Annual Trophy Exhibition will be opened by the Mayor of Derby on May 24.

It will be one of the Mayor’s first official duties having only been elected on May 22.

The exhibition is staged in the Community Rooms at Markeaton Park Craft Village and will be open from 10am5pm from May 24-26 and from 10am-4pm on the Bank Holiday Monday May 27.

Most of the work in the exhibition will be for sale and there will also be cards and other items for sale.

Members of the sketching club have competed for the annual trophy for a number of years and this year their judge will be Lucy Bamford, who is Derby Museum and Art Gallery’s Joseph Wright expert.

Prizes will be awarded at a private preview of the exhibition on May 23.

Village open arts HADFIELD Open Art Show will be staged on June 8 and 9 this year.

Now in its nineth year the event continues to grow and for 2019 the organisers have added a new children’s exhibition.

The work which is submitted by artists of all abilities, is exhibited at Hadfield Hall and at The Craft Barn in Station Road in the village.

The show has gained a reputation for displaying some fine work and the competition to enter is high.

If you would like to take part go to hadfieldhall. wordpress.com or email hadfieldartshow@gmail. com to get an entry form and details of the rules.

16

THE winner of the eighth Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award is artist Ed Burkes, pictured, who will take up his residency in Derby in October.

The biennial award organised

by Foundation Derbyshire brings a rising artist to the county to produce work inspired by our landscape, heritage and people.

Since graduating from Falmouth University in 2016 with a First in Fine Art, Ed’s work has been selected for a number of exhibitions, including Saatchi Invest in

Cafe-gallery open

Fine art award Art and FBA Futures 2017 – the UK’s biggest show of contemporary figurative art.

Ed will be based at Banks Mill Studios, Derby, from where he will produce a portfolio of work for exhibitions at Derby Museum and Art Gallery and Mall Galleries in London. Ed said: “I am going to produce a large, ambitious, and historically grounded body of work from the premise ‘sense of place’.”

A NEW art gallery and coffee shop has opened in Burton town centre and is showcasing the skills of 27 local artists.”

Graphic designer Michele McDonald and her husband Kevin are also offering an art store selling a range of materials.They have also started to host workshops such as willow weaving and paper cutting.

The coffee shop and gallery is open from 8am-5pm Tuesday to Saturday and 10am-4pm on Sundays. Go to messyharegallery.co.uk for more details. artsbeat May 2019

n arena Brakespeare sister SHAKESPEARE At The Mill is a new summer venture for Cromford Mills. For the first time you will be able to watch professional theatre groups performing in the Mill Yard.

Launching the shows will be the world’s first cycling theatre company, The HandleBards, who pedal from venue to venue with all the set, props and costume necessary to perform environmentally sustainable Shakespeare across the globe.

You can join their all-female troupe perform The Tempest on July 26. For more details go to cromfordmills.org.uk

Sunflower support THE SUNFLOWER Thieves aka Amy Illingworth and Lily SturtBolshaw, will be heading out to Germany this month to represent Derby at the Maiwoche (May Week) Festival which is staged at the city’s twin town of Osnabrück every year.

The duo, who met and went to school in Belper, were at the festival in 2017 and this year will be returning with a full band.

They have a GoFundMe page to help with costs. An invite to an intimate show when they return is promised to those who help.

Sitwell exhibition A NEW exhibition that focuses on the life, literature and legacy of one of Renishaw Hall’s family members; Sir Osbert Sitwell has been opened to launch the 2019 season.

The new displays in the Sitwell Museum have been developed by Christine Beevers, archivist at Renishaw Hall and expert on the lives and works of the artsbeat May 2019

Sitwell family – in particular the Sitwell ‘Trio’, of which Osbert was middle sibling.

“Osbert is perhaps less well known than his older sister, Dame Edith Sitwell, and yet produced many acclaimed poems, books and writings during the 20th century, as well as being a patron of many rising stars of the artistic world,” explains Christine.

For details about the exhibition and the other art you can at the hall go to renishaw-hall.co.uk

17

CLAIRE SIMPSON ARTIST PET PORTRAIT & WILDLIFE DRAWINGS

Award-winning traditional Peak District pub serving breakfast, lunch and dinner Telephone 01298 83288 Mobile 07866778847

see www.peakpub.co.uk for details

@clairesimpsonartist w w w. c l a i r e s i m p s o n a r t i s t . c o m clairesimpsonartist@gmail.com

DERWENT GALLERY

Falling Skies by Robert Twigg Quality framing service including sports memorabilia, medals, posters, prints and photographs Needlework and canvas stretching

Original art l prints l art materials l gifts

www.outframed.co.uk

n Tel: 01773 747251 n Market Place, Ripley, DE5 3FJ

Open Wednesday to Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 1pm-4pm

Main Road, Grindleford, S32 2JN Tel 01433 630458 www.derwentgallery.com

SCRIVENER’s SECONDHAND & ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS & BOOKBINDING 42 HIGH ST, BUXTON, SK17 6HB Tel: 01298 73100 Monday–Saturday 9.30am to 5pm Sundays 12pm to 4pm scrivbooks@hotmail.co.uk www.scrivenersbooks.co.uk

One of The Guardian’s 10 Best Bookshops

18

artsbeat May 2019

n arena TV art challenge A MAGAZINE-COLLAGE artist from Derby has featured on BBC One’s Home Is Where The Art Is. This 15-episode series, hosted by Nick Knowles, features artists and makers pitching for a commission from members of the public.

Viewers watched Giles Davies, who is a member of the Peak District Artisans, compete to secure a commission from a mystery buyer. With two other artists he went to the buyer’s house

to work out what sort of artwork they might like and prepared his pitch in the hope that he would be chosen to prepare a piece of work. Giles got his pitch accepted but the buyer chose his rival’s painting in the end.

Giles said: I loved being able to demonstrate my creative process – not only the physical aspects, but also the whole drama and emotion of the interaction between artist and buyer. I hope the programme inspires people to seek out unique and original art for themselves.”

Pollyanna tribute A WILD jaguar has been named after the late Derbyshire wildlife artist Pollyanna Pickering, in a touching tribute to her memory.

The Brazilian Pantanal is home to the highest density of jaguars in the world and there is a Jaguar Identification Project which is building a database of individuals.

Recently American wildlife photographer Mark Thomas observed a young female, who had never been seen before and he was asked

to name the jaguar. He chose to name her in tribute to Pollyanna, saying “Pollyanna devoted so much to wildlife around this

Young designer AWARD-WINNING fashion designer, Harriet Eccleston, who lives at Stanton in Peak, was selected to represent emerging UK talent at the recent Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Russia.

As one of ten designers from around the globe, Harriet showed her 25-look collection on the catwalk for Russian Fashion Council’s Global Talents, at the end of March. artsbeat May 2019

planet, it is only fitting that this beautiful cat bears her name.”

An exhibition of her final work will be staged in June.

She studied at Lady Manners School and Chesterfield College and then pursued her interest in fashion at Northumbria University.

Working with Palmer// Harding, All Saints and Paul Smith cemented Harriet’s interest in pattern cutting and traditional British fashion.

After graduating, she showed her work at London Graduate Fashion Week and went on to win Young Designer of the Year at Midlands Fashion Awards 2017.

19

ART BY LOR BIRD

Contemporary Artist

Paintings, commissions, workshops, tuition and jewellery Studio at Matlock open by appointment lorbird14@gmail.com 07914757134 http://lorbird.wixsite.com/artbylorbird Could you please include the following: Art by Lor Bird (title and logo) Paintings, commissions, workshops, tuition and jewellery Studio at Matlock open by appointment 07914757134 lorbird14@gmail.com http://lorbird.wixsite.com/artbylorbird

20

artsbeat May 2019

Smoking Guns Theatre founders, from left: Fatih Göksu, Andy Mandoiu and Harry Smith.

See page 23

MAKING SOME ED-WAY

‘Fringe festival’ returns to Derby for second outing of the unusual

L

ittle Ed, a fringestyle festival in its second year in Derby seeks to present performances which are new, edgy and a little bit different, in places you wouldn’t expect.

Last year saw poetry in a barber’s shop, comedy in a clothes shop and belly dancing in a café. This year there are bound to be plenty of surprises.

The acts already announced include scratch performances

by Aoife O’Connor, Alistair Lane and James Wallace at QUAD; comedy at The Lord Nelson, featuring The Manics and Improv Provocateur; as well as new work from Simon Caine and Tales of Whatever at Derby Cathedral’s new space The Sanctuary.

Little Ed’s Big Saturday will artsbeat May 2019

include pop up performances and interactive workshops plus the adult fringe at Bookcafe, and the kids’ fringe at Doughnotts featuring Leanne Moden, Ashley Lloyd Smith and The Edi Johnston Bit. The festival, organised by Furthest From The Sea, is a coming together of artists, businesses and organisations to create something really special for Derby.

As well as this, Little Ed is all about mental health – encouraging conversation (both from the stage and amongst an audience), holding workshops and engaging the community in raising awareness.

One of the event’s founding members, Matt McGuinness will also be getting involved in performing with his show

We Are What We Overcome which raises awareness of mental health issues.

Such issues are something Matt says he is unwilling to shy away from.

“I talk about anything with mental health, whether that be suicide or depression or whatever else,” he said.

He smiles as he speaks of his near bewilderment at the way people can sometimes skirt around the issue.

“I always think of it like Voldemort; don’t mention his name. If you don’t mention his name, he becomes more powerful than he should be.”

Interview: Kieran Eedy n The festival will be staged in Derby’s Cathedral Quarter from May 9-11.

21

le.

Derby Sketching Club

ART EXHIBITION Markeaton Park Craft Village Derby 24th-27th May 2019

OPENING TIMES Fri-Sat - 10am-5pm Sun-Mon - 10am-4pm

n Hundreds of keenly priced prints n A huge variety of artists n National Railway Museum posters

Scott Naismith

Jo Grundy

Iain Mackay

Railway posters

Sam Toft

Professional framer for 21 years offering expert advice.

Artists’ range of moulding available.

Monday to Saturday 10am-5pm, closed Wednesday 22 Market Place, Wirksworth, DE4 4ET

Tel: 01629 824994

wirksworthframing.co.uk 22

Aoife O’Connor

by Téa C. James Being asked by Little Ed organisers to perform for the 2019 festival in Derby has been a great achievement for university student and poet, Aoife O’Connor.

She was involved in the fringes of the festival last year, but Aoife knew she wanted to perform herself, in order to showcase her poetic talents to a wider audience.

She says that the festival is an amazing chance for the underdogs to have their work performed, as well as promoting the importance of positive mental health.

Focusing more on political and controversial subjects, Aoife plans to use her spoken word poetry to create an unforgettable experience for the audience.

She says that her poetry has been a work in progress since last year as she is always adapting it in order to create the best pieces she can.

Since she was 14 years old, Aoife has been involved in youth groups that perform slam poetry and has won many competitions.

“I have been very privileged with the support I have been

artsbeat May 2019

From left: Aoife O’Connor, who you can catch at QUAD on May 9; Furthest From the Sea founder Matt McGuinness; and Leanne Moden who is performing at Bookcafé on May 11 at 3pm

Artsbeat has agreed to print a selection of articles written by students studying Magazine Writing at the University of Derby.

As part of their course they were tasked with interviewing someone and writing a feature for artsbeat. Thirty students took part and three have been chosen to be part of this feature about the Little Ed Festival in Derby. More work can be found online at artsbeatblog.com

given,” she said explaining that it helped build her confidence with every performance.

This has enabled her to become competitive with her work and she says she is always excited to be centre stage.

“I write in order to perform for crowds. It is terrifying but also very liberating,” Aoife said.

She encourages the audience to click their fingers when they hear a line that they love during her performances.

“It creates an incredible atmosphere for the performers, as well as the audience,” she explained.

Aoife has already created her own YouTube channel and published journals and articles for various organisations and one day hopes to publish her own work.

For now, however, she is thrilled to continue performing her poetry.

Go along to watch Aoife artsbeat May 2019

O’Connor perform at QUAD on May 9, and click and cheer along with the audience.

Smoking Guns Theatre

by Lucy O’Sullivan As arts students, leaving university, Fatih Goksu, Andy Mandoiu and Harry Smith (pictured on page 21) chose to place their futures in their own hands and set up Smoking Guns Theatre Group in Derby.

Their shows tackle issues significant to modern men, such as men’s mental health, body dysmorphia, and toxic masculinity.

Their latest show, One Night of Dread, which they will be performing as part of the Little Ed Festival, plugs into a recent social surge in role-playing games, such as Dungeons and Dragons.

The Dread game involves pulling bricks from a Jenga block when vital decisions are made to see if your character

survives through the night.

In this collaborative storytelling adventure through the horror genre, the audience will make decisions that will affect the story, so no two performances will be the same.

Andy playfully describes it as “The Avengers of Theatre; you can watch it, be happy for an hour and a half and go back home”.

But how did the three of them get into theatre?

When Fatih joined a youth theatre group, he found that by being someone else, he could be himself.

“I always say that I didn’t choose theatre, it chose me,” he said.

For Andy, inspiration was actor Robin Williams in role as Peter Pan in the film Hook.

“Hook. I love the magic of it.

I watch it every year on my birthday,” he said grinning.

Smoking Guns have been working with Furthest from the Sea for a couple of years and credit the organisation with being helpful in their transformation from students to a theatre company.

They will be performing One Night of Dread at The Box, QUAD on May 9.

23

May Exhibition Steven McLoughlin | Karen Fawcett | Anuk Naumann Thomas Petit | Sue Riley Julie Wilson

The BBC’s Nick Robinson

Author Amanda Foreman

Ingleby Gallery 12th - 26th May

Preview Sunday 12th noon - 4pm

Ingleby, Nr Melbourne, Derbyshire DE73 7HW Telephone Gill Watson 01332 865995 e-mail gillwatson@ingleby-gallery.co.uk website www.ingleby-gallery.co.uk Open Wednesday to Friday 10am - 4pm Saturday and Sunday noon - 5pm

24

Broadcaster Melvyn Bragg

Top: members of the Cape Town Opera who will be opening the festival and above: Soraya Mafi, soprano, who will be accompanied by festival artistic director Adrian Kelly

artsbeat May 2019

artsbeat previews the 2019 Buxton International Festival

O

40 YEARS YOUNG

n July 30 1979 Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor opened the first Buxton Festival.

Now, 40 years on, the festival has become international in every sense and will be marking its special anniversary with a celebratory concert on July 5.

New Voices will be held in aid of the Buxton Festival Foundation – a fund for ensuring the future of the event.

Performing in the concert will be young artists from the Cape Town Opera pictured above, rising stars from the Royal Northern College of Music and the Buxton Festival artsbeat May 2019

Company. In the pit will be the Northern Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the festival’s new artistic director Adrian Kelly.

They will present a taster programme of excerpts from well-loved operas such as The Magic Flute and Carmen.

Apart from the operas (which were featured in last month’s artsbeat), this year’s music series highlights will include performances by The Victoria String Quartet; pianist Alistair McGowan; the British vocal ensemble VOCES8 and soprano Soraya Mafi.

The BBC Philharmonic are to perform at the festival for the first time in the newly refurbished Octagon.

The book festival has had a bit of a makeover under the guidance its new organiser Victoria Dawson and this year sees the introduction of some intimate literary salon evenings.

Authors and speakers heading up the programme include veteran broadcaster Melvyn Bragg and BBC journalist Nick Robinson as well as Amanda Foreman, whose best-selling book about Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire was turned into the film starring Kiera Knightley. The author is flying in from New York to be at the festival.

For details of all the events at the festival from July 5-21 go to buxtonfestival.co.uk

25

Picture Framing Made Easy

Derbyshire Artists Guild

Group Exhibition Martin Davis, Angus Stokes, Lynn Presland, Carol Barton Jones, Susan Tracey, Arwyn Quick, Patricia Lane and Mo Laycock

Baslow Village Hall Nether End Baslow DE45 1SR

May 25th-27th, 10am-5pm

framed in four simple steps you call - we collect, frame and deliver You can expect

Speacialising in

excellent customer service

working with artists

affordable prices

hand-painted frames

quality materials & finish

St Ives frames

free collection & delivery

float or tray frames

07974 138 347 sarah@themobileframer.co.uk All areas of Derbyshire covered. Will travel further to work with artists needing multiple frames in a single order.

Also, would consider working with artists in easy access of the M1 between J19 and J29.

New Art Courier Service Need your artwork transporting to an exhibition or gallery?

Ask me for a quote

High Stone GALLERY Fine art photography

Secret Places

Showing from 13th May Open for Derbyshire Open Arts 25th - 27th May

Michael Cook | paintings Bev Seth | pottery Juliet Forrest | stained glass

Manger Gallery The

Kings Newton Fields, Melbourne, Derbyshire DE73 8DD Apart from Open Arts please phone or email ahead: 01332 862365 www.mangergallery.co.uk

26

Spring Bank Holiday Weekend Saturday 25th - Mon 27th May Open 10 am - 5 pm each day.

Free parking. Refreshments. Toilets.

Also featuring Giles Davies, magazine collage landscapes.

2D, Via Gellia Mill, Bonsall, DE4 2AJ www.highstonegallery.co.uk artsbeat May 2019

ARTISTS OPEN THE DOOR

T

Designers and makers are ready to invite you into their studios

his year the Derbyshire Open Arts event is going to be more interactive online with some new exciting features on the organisation’s website.

By registering on the site you will be able to save names of artists you don’t want to miss to a folder and then plan your own routes for the three day event.

You can also fine tune your search to make your personal requirements such as disabled access or location.

The social media team will also be extra busy this year as they will be posting updates on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the lead up to the

artsbeat May 2019

event and throughout the weekend.

So with all that, artbeat magazine and the DOA brochure you have no excuse for missing anything!

There are 205 artists taking part in 132 venues this year so there is a lot to see.

If you are determined enough you could travel from the Brook Street Studios in Glossop in the north of the county to The Ferrers Centre for Arts and Crafts where you will be able to see one of the

many new faces taking part this year – Leigh Wood – who creates industrial style lighting and sculptures as Metal Manipulation.

Over the next few pages artsbeat has picked out some of the new and interesting venues you might want to visit as well as places where you can see artists in action.

We haven’t put in all of the details, as there simply isn’t room, but don’t forget everything is available online at derbyshireopenarts.co.uk

27

ROB WILSON MIXED MEDIA

SPRING SHOW 25 / 26 / 27 MAY 10am-5pm

Lockside Mill, St. Martins Road, Marple SK6 7BZ Invigorated by travels to China, Rob explores new methods and mediums bringing together an exciting collection of contrasting subjects.

Brand new paintings of oriental and local scenes alongside inspired figurative studies.

BANKS MILL STUDIOS

DERBYSHIRE OPEN ARTS 25-27 MAY 2019 OPEN 10AM-5PM

BANKSMILL.CO.UK 71 BRIDGE ST, DE1 3LB

www.robwilsonart.co.uk

ANISHA PARMAR LONDON

CURIOUS INKY ME

FELICITY JACKSON

JAMES PETTINGER

KIRSTIE ADAMSON

SARAH SKINNER ART CHAIRS

STEVIE DAVIES

ZAZA LEWIS

28

artsbeat May 2019

If you like all your

new

venues

eggs in one basket – go for a group If you haven’t time to travel all over the county hunting down the more remote studios on the list then you might be better off finding a venue with a group of artists.

One of the new groups for 2019 is Peak Vision Arts. Six artists are joining creative forces with the aim to put Chapel-en-le-Frith on the map.

“Chapel is a lively, beautiful and cultural place but hitherto under-represented in the annual Open Arts event. This is about to change,” said one of the team mixed-media artist Ingrid Katarina Karlsson.

The others joining her at the Chapel Scout Hut just off the High Street are Julia Brownsword, mixed media 3D/2D; Elizabeth Challinor, illustration; Yuka Jordain, jewellery; Lynne McPeake, photography and Louise Neilson, of The Peak Potter, ceramics.

The group will offer a little Peak Vision Arts’ Cafe for visitors’ refreshments with donations going to the local Blythe House Hospice.

Leigh Wood industrial style creations are at the Ferrers Centre for Arts and Crafts

Holymoorside Village Hall and the nearby United Reformed Church will host between them 17 artists.

Tansley Village Hall will be home to 11 artists for the bank holiday and Baslow Village Hall will be taken over by the Derbyshire Artists’ Guild, which you can read about on page 10.

One of the most beautiful spots to drive out to though is Beechenhill Farm, Ilam Moor Lane, near Ashbourne where 11 of the Peak District Artisans will be exhibiting.

You will be able to see the modern simple stone sculptures of Carly Grice at The Loft, Valley Road, Hayfield, which is a new venue this year

artsbeat May 2019

n GALLERY 23, 12 UNION ROAD, NEW MILLS The travel photography of Peter Aitchison and mixed-media paintings of Christine Ormsby. n HIGH STONE GALLERY, UNIT 2D VIA GELLIA MILL, BONSALL Fine Art Photographer Ian Daisley is joined in his studio by artist Giles Davies, who works with recycled magazine cuttings. You can read more about him in Arena. n PEAK POTTERS, CADSTER MILL, CHAPEL ROAD, WHALEY BRIDGE Helen Jacobs, who is beginning her journey into an obsession with porcelain is sharing her studio with her friends stained glass artist Sarah Brelsford, artist David Lowther; potter Andrew Grantham and Sue Ward who works with leather. n ISLA FINE ART, THE COLONNADE, BUXTON A joint exhibition by wildlife illustrator Charlie Collins and textile artist Kate Aimson. n 189 BLENHEIM DRIVE, ALLESTREE Three painters will be at this new venue. Richard Allen, Sue Heale and Emma Jane Hough.

29

Spring Bank Holiday Arts Weekend Free 25 - 27 May, 10am-5pm

Entry

Peak District Artisans are opening their studio doors right across the county over the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend.

Here’s a list of venues well worth visiting!

PDA Members will also be exhibiting at the following venues: Bonsall

A large group of PDA members will be exhibiting at Beechenhill Farm, Ilam, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 2BD • A delightful event in a warm, beautiful stone flagged barn at an organic farm.

• Plenty of parking • Refreshments available

Ian Daisley Giles Davies

Buxton

Natasha Braithwaite Sandra Orme Pam Smart Alison Wake

Chesterfield

Beechenhill Farm Exhibitors: Joanna Bunbury Steve Elliott Sue Gorman Mark Langley Sue Prince Maggie Robinson Tim Rose Gary Sampson Karin Sheldon Ray Sylvester Roger Waterhouse

Roger Allen Vivienne Sillar

Chapel-en-le-Frith

Ingrid Katarina Karlsson

New Mills

Joanna Allen Lin Cheung Cath Dunn, Michela Griffith, Emma Sidwell

Matlock

Rachel Emmerson Thomas Petit Liz Wellby

Romiley

Sarah Morley

See website for location map of exhibitors www.peakdistrictartisans.co.uk

new

faces

Jo Harratt creates needle-felted animals, flora and fauna and displays them with recycled vintage items. She will be at 17 Hogshaw Drive, Buxton

First-timers join the growing band of artists It’s the 13th year that the DOA event has been staged in the county and it is always amazing that every time there are more new artists taking part. They will be looking forward to inviting you into their homes or studios and talking to you about their work.

Some of those new to the event join forces with someone who has taken part before and others take the plunge and fling open their doors on their own.

Among those going it alone for the first time this year are

Geraldine Darbyshire, who works with glass and ceramic tiles to create vibrant coloured pictures, she will be at her home at 14 Lower Bank, Glossop, and abstract artist Suzanne Bethnell, who you can find at 21 St Martin’s Road, Marple.

Joining the very experienced team at The Willows in Darley Dale will be multi-media artist Cass Rawlings.

Changing from a group venue to opening up in her own studio is ceramicist Lesley Nason who this year will be at Hot House Ceramics, in the Subyr Shopping Courtyard at Sudbury.

Tricia Rice uses materials she finds on the strandlines of Britain’s beaches to create place specific collections of found objects and colourful beach plastic art. None of the material is altered she uses it as she finds it.

You can find her at Pitch Blue in Wirksworth

artsbeat May 2019

n CHRISTINE EMCK, 67 MELLOR ROAD, NEW MILLS A sculptor and ceramicist who works in a variety of media. n HARRY FROST, WOODBOURNE HOUSE, WOODBOURNE, NEW MILLS Landscapes in oil. n REBECCA CLITHEROE, 34 CHAPEL ROAD, WHALEY BRIDGE Illustrations of iconic buildings and landmarks created by a layering technique. n BERNARD CARTER, ANGLER’S COTTAGE, MILLER’S DALE, NEAR BUXTON Bernard paints finely detailed watercolour of plants, flowers and fruit. n MO WALTON, THE WILLOWS, STATION ROAD, DARLEY DALE Handcrafted simple and stylish silver jewellery. n KAREN WILLIAMS, IVY COTTAGE, UPPER LUMSDALE, MATLOCK Sculptures made from recycled material treated with a special resin so that they can be disiplayed outside. n JEAN ROSS, 15 WINDMILL LANE, ASHBOURNE Wildlife portraits and landscapes.

31

Contemporary Art and Crafts by 6 local artists.

Derbyshire Arts Co-operative

Courtyard Gallery, Dronfield Hall Barn, S18 1PX April 27th – May 12th Open 10am to 4pm

Cromford Studio and Gallery Featured artist for May

Lesley Linley

Watercolour landscapes

Open: 10am-5pm Wednesday to Sunday Market Place, Cromford, DE4 3QE 01629 826434

STUDIO WITH A VIEW

Art workshops with artist Pam Smart Garden Impressions May 11th v Fabulous Flowers June 22nd Seaside Sketchbook July 23rd v Glorious Gardens August 10th and 11th All materials and lunch included

To book go to www.pamsmart.co.uk Originals v Workshops v Commissions v Tuition 32

artsbeat May 2019

working

You will be able

studios

to watch weaving and glass-blowing Some of the most enjoyable places to visit are those where there is some work going on and/or demonstrations.

And it is even better if there are refreshments available. The three artists who will be at Brookfold, The Wash, Chapelen-le-Frith have one of the best spots on the trai.. There you will be able to see the fused glass of Kay Stowell, and the textiles and paintings of Linda Moss and Maggie Preston.

Brookfold is a smallholding in a beautiful setting and you will be able to see weaving and spinning in action. There are also lambs!

Another venue with a surprising view and refreshments is Pam Smart’s

Studio with a View, at 86 Nunsfield Road, Buxton. Those are her cakes in the picture above.

If you want some excitement then it is definitely worth a visit to Lumsdale Glass and Thomas Petit at Unit 18 of the Lower Lumsdale Mills in Matlock. You will be able to admire the beautiful glass and watch how it is done.

n BROOK STREET STUDIOS, BROOK STREET, GLOSSOP Adrian Holt, scultural ceramics; illustrator Karen Heywood and watercolour artist Denise Heywood. n EARTH PIG POTTERY, 1A FAIRFIELD ROAD, THE ARCHES ARTISAN MARKET, BUXTON Showcasing the work of Geoff Chilton and Amanda O’Neill who produce functional and decorative ceramics, paintings and prints.

Church Farm Art Gallery CHURCH STREET, BASLOW, NR BAKEWELL

John Connolly Art Commissions, workshops and one-to-one tuition

A tiny gallery packed with work featuring flora, fauna, landscapes and seascapes

Ormscliffe Studio – Gallery

open by appointment 16 Langwith Road, Bolsover S44 6HQ 07967-316622 email: john@connollyart.com

www.connollyart.com artsbeat May 2019

We also offer a framing service with a wide choice of mounts and mouldings OPEN THURSDAY-SATURDAY 10.30AM-5PM WHEN CLOSED RING THE BELL TEL: 01246 582334

www.churchfarmgallery.co.uk

33

n bookshelf

n All Among the Barley

By Melissa Harrison (Bloomsbury, £8.99)

The autumn of 1933 is the most beautiful Edie Mather can remember, though the Great War still casts a shadow over the cornfields of her beloved home, Wych Farm.

When charismatic, outspoken Constance FitzAllen arrives from London to write about fading rural traditions, she takes an interest in fourteenyear-old Edie, showing her a kindness she has never known before. But the older woman isn’t quite what she seems.

As harvest time approaches and pressures mount on the whole community, Edie must find a way to trust her instincts and save herself from disaster.

Bookshelf this month features a small selection of the many titles that will be talked about at the Derby Book Festival.

Go to derbybookfestival.co.uk for more details of all events

everything he needs to be.

This is a young life in search of greatness, seeking the ultimate cure for his memory and tragedy.

Ahead of him lies the bridge, the vision that will save both his family and himself.

It’s his attempt to transcend humanness, to make a single, glorious moment. It will be a miracle and nothing less.

n The Doll Factory

By Elizabeth Macneal (Pan Macmillan £12.99)

n Black Car Burning

By Helen Mort (Vintage Publishing £14.99) n Bridge of Clay

By Marcus Zusak (Transworld Publishers £18.99)

From the author of the globalbestseller The Book Thief comes the story of triumph over extraordinary adversity.

Bridge of Clay is about a boy caught in the current, a boy intent on destroying everything he has in order to become

A climber, she fixates on a brutal route known as Black Car Burning and throws herself into a cycle of repetition and risk. Meanwhile, an ex-police officer compulsively revisits the April day in 1989 that changed his life forever.

Trapped in his memories of the disaster, he tracks the Hillsborough inquests, questioning everything.

Black Car Burning is a brilliant debut novel of trust and trauma, fear and falling, from Helen who is a former Derbyshire Poet Laureate.

How do we trust each other?

Alexa is a young police community support officer whose world feels unstable.

Her father is estranged and her girlfriend is increasingly distant. As she patrols Sheffield she senses the rising tensions in its disparate communities and doubts her ability to keep the peace, to help, to change anything.

Caron is pushing Alexa away and pushing herself ever harder.

London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment – forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, it marks a new beginning.

When Iris is asked to model for artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint.

Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love.

But Silas has only thought of one thing since their meeting, and his obsession is darkening...

Bookshelf is sponsored by Scarthin Books, of Cromford 34

artsbeat May 2019

W

WILD WEST HERO

ild edgy landscapes and the rusting metal that comes with industrial decline are magnets to photographer Matt Swift.

He is a man who likes to capture the more rugged, unpolished side of the landscape and present it to us oozing with atmosphere.

“I like creating dark, gritty environmental portraits and most definitely don’t like pictures that are static. I like to be taking something that is alive and moving,” he said. artsbeat May 2019

Hence if you scroll through the images on his website you will spot a lot of ethereal seascapes, swirling mists of spray, rivers and waterfalls and if you visit his newly-opened gallery that’s what you will see on the walls.

But don’t assume that the Peak District photographer will be limiting his inspiration to his home turf as many of his pictures are from the Isle of Skye and Glencoe, a part of Scotland he calls The Wild West.

“I never tire of being there. But I am also going to be adding new images from the Peak

District into the gallery,” he said while clarifying firmly that he is a photographer who happens to live in the Peak District not a Peak District photographer.

Matt and his wife Georgie live with their two sons aged nine and six, at Little Longstone and the gallery has been painstakingly built by Matt, with the help of a professional builder.

He wanted the building, which is also his studio, to look and feel as if it had been built at the same time as their cottage and admits that he became a bit

35

of a control freak while it was going up.

The result of his tenaciousness is that it does, indeed, look like a renovated barn and sits comfortably within its surroundings. “I knew what I wanted and although it took longer than it might have done I am pleased

36

that I insisted on getting it,� he said, standing back to admire the building.

The success of the project may have a little to do with the fact that Matt studied engineering fbefore he was lured into the world of photography.

He has been an advertising, landscape and location

photographer for more than 20 years and started out in London creating food photography for the books of the likes of Nigella Lawson and Nigel Slater.

Romance saw him follow Georgie, whom he had only known for a few months at the time, out to Ghana where he artsbeat May 2019

found plenty of work taking commercial shots for agencies dealing with big name clients.

On their return to England the couple came to live in Matt’s home county where, using the contacts and confidence he built up in Africa, he has earned himself a reputation as a photographer with a instinctive artsbeat May 2019

knowledge of light and composition, and a distinctive style of his own.

As well as his cinematic, painterly landscape images, he also takes intimate portraits of people as diverse as foundry workers and chefs. Alongside commercial assignments Matt says its important to

have personal projects, he is currently working with Peak Rail taking environmental portraits of volunteers.

If you want to see more of Matt’s work either go along to his gallery or online to mattswiftgallery.co.uk.

There is also a link there to his commercial work website.

37

OSBERT SITWELL ExHIBITIOn nOW OpEn

Spend your day at Renishaw Hall & Gardens • acres of award winning gardens to explore

• tours of 400 year old Hall, home to the Sitwell family • Café at Renishaw Hall & outdoor courtyard dining • on site Sitwell Museum

• historic vineyard tours and wine tasting • visitor centre and plant sales

Open Wednesday to Sunday & BH Monday

visit www.renishaw-hall.co.uk or call 01246 432310

Gallery in the Gardens Featuring original work by 40 High Peak artists & makers Paintings, textiles, contemporary jewellery, ceramics, photography, etchings, linocuts, glass, wood & more Open daily 9.30am – 5.00pm Tel: 07849 673058 Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, High Peak, Derbyshire SK17 6BE

High Peak Artists w w w. g a l l e r y i n t h e g a r d e n s . c o. u k

38

Don’t miss a single issue FREE

artsbeatblog.com

FREE

February 2019

May 2019

artsbeatblog.com

Join Henry at Chatswoof dog show Derbyshire’s Crags painted with passion On location with Mary Queen of Scots

open Artists g up for Sprin ays Bank Holid Celebrating the arts in

Studios in full bloom Event previews: Ed Belper, Buxton, Little and Derby Book Festival Derbyshire and the Peak

District

Music, theatre, galleries, film and have-a-go workshop listings

Why not join our growing band of subscribers and have the magazine delivered to your door?

To subscribe for all ten issues simply send your name and the address where you would like artsbeat delivered (Mainland UK only) to: The Editor, artsbeat, 19 Nottingham Road, Belper, Derbyshire. DE56 1JG enclosing a cheque for £14.00 payable to A Penman.

Your independent magazine celebrating the arts in Derbyshire and the Peak District

artsbeat May 2019

gallery

artsbeat previews this month’s stand-out exhibitions St John Street Gallery and Cafe, Ashbourne

T

he gallery’s artistin-residence Lewis Noble is staging a solo exhibition entitled Reflections on a Landscape, from May 18- June 1.

He will be available in his studio at the gallery throughout the exhibition, which includes paintings and ceramics –a new medium for Lewis – and he is always happy to talk to visitors.

“I have lived and worked in Derbyshire for over 20 years and it is now very much home to me and my family,” he said.

“For this exhibition, I have painted and sketched from the diverse landscape of the Peak District.

“The river flowing over the weirs at Milldale and Bradford Dale are particular favourites of mine, as well as Kinder, Edale and Mam Tor.

Exhibitions and galleries

Anvil Gallery, 11 Old Blacksmith’s Yard, Derby n This gallery owned by artist April Young features work by, among others, Andrew Macara, Mark Gordon and Steven McLoughllin. Go to anvilgallery.co.uk for more details.

Gallery in the Gardens, Buxton n The Gallery at the heart of the Pavilion Gardens is the home of the High Peak Artists group. artsbeat May 2019

“Working outside is a key part of my work,” he explained.

“Painting from the landscape allows a freedom to experiment in a painterly way while retaining a solid foundation in observation.

“I try to make paintings which stand in for the landscape itself. The process of building many layers of paint over time, eroding, scratching and repainting, has echoes in the way the landscape is made.”

It contains the work of 43 artists and craftspeople from the High Peak. They have just welcomed three new members, textile artists Royal Edge and Anne Davies and wildlife artist Laura Slade. Go to galleryinthegardens.co.uk for details.

Banks Mill, Bridge Street, Derby n Emily Smalley – Spirited Away, an exhibition of Japanese inspired wall hangings, until May 17. For more details go to banksmill.co.uk Baslow Pottery, Ivy House, Nether End, Baslow

n The ceramics gallery displays original work from more than 20 local artists. Wednesday to Saturday, 10.30am-5.30pm and 11am-5pm on Sundays and bank holidays. More details at baslowpottery.co.uk.

Belper Open Houses, various locations in the town n Belper Open Houses is now in its nineth year with many venues across the town taking part. May 25, 26 and 27 May from 10:30am -4.30pm (Saturday and Sunday) and from 10.30am-4pm (Monday).

39

n gallery Venues will be clearly signed with black and white bunting and balloons. Visit www. belperopenhouses.com for more information.

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery n The Legacy of Radio Buxton – 20 Years On! until June 2. Meet the artists May 21, 2-4pm. Steve and Paul Jenner, the two brothers who founded the station curate an exhibition featuring reconstructions of the original Radio Buxton studio.

Chatsworth House, Chatsworth n The Dog: A Celebration at Chatsworth, until October 6. A display of paintings and objects; from letters, snuff boxes, jewellery, sculpture and ceramics to tapestries, drawings and painted ceilings which celebrate the Cavendish family’s centuries-old relationship with dogs.

Star works from Constable, Stubbs, Gainsborough and Landseer sit alongside contemporary pieces by Lucian Freud, Jeff Koons, Antony Gormley and Elisabeth Frink. In the garden the artist Ben Long has been commissioned to create an eightfoot-high scaffolding sculpture of a dog. More details at chatsworth.org Chesterfield Art Club exhibition, Ashover Parish Hall, Ashover n Now in its 90th Year this is the first of the art club’s exhibitions for 2019. It coincides with the Ashover May Day Carnival on May 6, 10am4.30pm.

Church Farm Art Gallery, Baslow n The gallery is a showcase for both professional and talented amateur artists. Owner Norman Tomlinson, exhibits his own work, and others such as Caroline Appleyard, David Alderman, Mike Connley and Judy Tomlinson. Open ThursdaySaturday 10.30am-5pm. Go to churchfarmgallery.co.uk for details.

John Connolly’s Ormscliffe Studio-Gallery, Bolsover n More than 300 original paintings are on show at this personal studio and gallery in Bolsover.

40

No. 28, Market Place, Belper AN exhibition by Derbyshire artist Rosalind Bliss is being staged at this venue as part of the Belper Arts Festival.

The exhibition opens on May 11 from 9am-1pm to coincide with the Market Cafe and will run until July 12.

You need to check the facebook page twentyeightbelper to find out when the centre is open.

Rosalind works from her Go to connollyart.com for more details.

Cromford Gallery and Studio, Market Place, Cromford n The featured artist for May is watercolour painter Lesley Linley who was in last month’s artsbeat magazine. You can read our feature at artsbeatblog.com.

The gallery is open WednesdaySunday 10am-5pm. Go to cromfordstudioandgallery.weebly. com for details.

The Derwent Gallery, Grindleford n Falling Skies, a solo exhibition

by Robert Twigg, a new artist to the gallery will continue during May. Open 11am-4pm WednesdaySaturday and 1pm-4pm on Sundays.

Telephone 01433 630458.

Déda, Chapel Street, Derby n Five photographers exhibit work as part of the FORMAT19 Forever// Now International Photography Festival, until May 11. n An exhibition of prints by Bernie Rutter, from May 16-July 27. More details on the following page. More details at deda.uk.com Derbyshire Arts Co-operative, Spring Show, Courtyard Gallery, Dronfield Hall Barn n Contemporary Art and Crafts

studio in the small village of Windley.

Rosalind was trained as a mural painter as as well as her landscapes she also paints beautfiul folding screens. Go to rosalindbliss. co.uk to see more work. by six local artists – Marion Anniss and Heather Arbon textile artists; wood-turner Peter Martin; wildlife tin sculptures by Deborah Miles; Di Parker’s hand thrown porcelain and stoneware; Jewellery by Sarah Watson and fused glass creations

by Sandi Williams – April 27-May 12, 10am-4pm.

Derby Sketching Club, Annual Trophy Exhibition, Community Room, Markeaton Park, Derby n Work by several artists will be exhibited and for sale. It is on from May 24-27, 10am-5pm, Friday to Saturday and 10am-4pm on the Monday.

Duffield Gallery, 7 Bridge Street, Belper n Work by James Preston, Colin Halliday, Phil Dyke, James Brereton, Nick Walker, Lynn Smith, Peter Watson, Frank Wright, Jenny Aitken, Robin Mason, Ruth Gray, Mark Fox and Martin Davis. Open Thursday-Saturday, 10.30am-5pm and Sundays, 11am-3pm. For more details go to duffieldartgallery.co.uk Ferrers Gallery, Ferrers Centre for Arts and Crafts, Staunton Harold n Down The Garden Path, an exhibition that celebrates the beauty of our gardens, until June 16. For artsbeat May 2019

n gallery Déda, Chapel Street, Derby IF ALL the World were Paper and All the Seas were Ink is an exhibition of prints

by Bernie Rutter.

Bernie is a visual artist who works with printmaking sculpture and photography.

She has always been fascinated by industrial process, by the alchemy of change, by pressure, by heat and by the intervention of human invention.

Within printmaking she uses details go to ferrersgallery.co.uk Gallerytop, Rowsley n Contemporary art. Paintings, sculpture, prints, ceramics, glass and jewellery. The gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 11am-4pm. More details at gallerytop.co.uk Gallery 23, Union Road, New Mills n The gallery, open 10am-5pm, Monday to Saturday, exhibits travel photography by Peter Aitchison and mixed media work by Christine Ormsby. For more information about workshops and exhibitions go to gallery23.co.uk The Gallery, High Street, New Mills n The gallery is run collectively by 30 artists and showcases a variety of work including paintings, jewellery, silk scarves, ceramics and feltwork. Open 10am-4pm. Closed Wednesday and Sunday.

The Green Door Print Making Studio, Banks Mill, Derby n RE-Collective – a new exhibition of linocut prints by Pandora Johnson (iNKIDOT.co.uk), showing until May 27. This new series explores human expression and emotion through relief printmaking. The gallery is artsbeat May 2019

mark making, to create controlled narrative and torn plates to create more abstract and accidental texture.

Sometimes the prints remain frames and sometimes they are shaped into sculptural forms. open 11am-3pm (closed Tuesdays and Sundays). For more details, visit: greendoor-printmaking.co.uk The Green Man Gallery, Buxton n The Green Man Artists and Guest Designer Makers – vibrant contemporary art. n Derbyshire Artists’ Guild Group Exhibition – Compelling work in a range of genres by the recently formed Derbyshire Artists Guild.

You can read more about them on pages 10 and 11. The exhibition runs until May 22. For further information contact hello@thegreenmangallery. com or 01298 937375.

Haddon Hall, near Bakewell n A new, permanent exhibition exploring Haddon’s restoration and revival by the 9th Duke of Rutland in the 1920s will open at Haddon Hall on April 25th.

Grandfather of the current custodian of Haddon Hall, Lord Edward Manners; the 9th Duke of Rutland saved Haddon Hall from certain ruin, restoring it to the family home we see today.

Most of the text belonging to this exhibition has been taken from the Duke’s own leather-bound notebooks, in which he recorded his work in meticulous detail. The

In photographic and digital imagery, she plays with exaggerated perspectives and textured overlays.

The exhibition opens on May 16 at 6.30pm and runs until July 27.

For more details go to deda.uk.com photographs were also all taken by the Duke himself.

A photographic pioneer, some of the Duke’s equipment is also on display for the exhibition. His tiny photographic studio is still in the Eagle Tower today. More details at haddonhall.co.uk Hall of Frames, King Street, Belper n Original and limited edition artwork from a variety of artists.

More details at hallofframes.co.uk High Stone Gallery, 2D Via Gellia Mill, Bonsall n Featuring work of photographer Ian Daisley, this gallery displays a range of beautiful fine art prints of Derbyshire and The Peak District, along with other areas of the UK and beyond. There will be open weekends throughout the year.

For more details go to highstonegallery.co.uk Ingleby Gallery, Ingleby n More details about the May exhibition on page 43. The gallery is open on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 10am-5pm and weekends from noon-5pm. Various exhibitions will be staged during the year.

Go to ingleby-gallery.co.uk for details.

41

n gallery Isla Fine Art Cards and Gifts, 4b The Colonnade, Buxton n A gallery and gift shop with a beautiful range of work. Go to Isla–Fine Art on facebook for more details. The gallery will be exhibiting the work of Charlie Collins and Kate Aimson in May. Jarva Gallery, Market Street, Whaley Bridge n The gallery exhibits about 90 per cent British designers’ and artists’ work. Open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9.30am-5pm, Wednesdays 9,30am-3pm, and Saturdays, 9.30am-4pm. For more details go to jarvagallery.com.

Leabrooks Arts Complex, Somercotes n Johanne Danielle and Lesley Linley, have joined forces to exhibit their work until May 3. It represents a wealth of experience and a range of skills which are translated into some awe-inspiring images. The gallery is open Monday-Saturday, 10am-5pm and 11am-3.30pm on Sundays. Wednesdays by appointment only. For details go to leabrooksartscomplex.com Leek Open Studios, Leek n The studios are as diverse as Leek Arts School and those at Spout, The Foxlowe and a number of home based studios. May 4, as part of Leek Arts Festival. This year there will also be an Arts Trail in the town centre shop windows from May 1-11, from 10am-4pm (most of the windows can also be seen outside business hours).

For more information follow Leek Open Studios on Facebook.

The Manger Gallery, Kings Newton, Melbourne n Secret Places: Images of safety and solace by Michael Cook, pottery

by Bev Seth and stained glass by Juliet Forrest. To visit; apart from Derbyshire Open Arts and Open Weekends, please phone or email ahead. Go to mangergallery.co.uk for details.

42

FOR the past year artist Lee Mackay has been hard at work on 40 new oil paintings derived from drawings she has made throughout the 50 years that she has lived in Wootton near Ashbourne.

For the most part the paintings celebrate

memorable characters, incidents, domestic and leisure activities of the neighbourhood.

From May 12-June 9 (except May 25-27), from 11am4pm, she will be staging an exhibition of the paintings entitled Passed Time at the gallery and studio she shares with her husband the sculptor Simon Manby.

For more details on how to find the gallery telephone 01335 324439.

Matlock Artists Society, All Saints Church Hall, Smedley Street, Matlock n A demonstration by pastel portrait artist Rob Wareing, May 18, 10am-12noon. All welcome, £5 entry includes refreshments.

The Messy Hare,Crossley House, Burton upon Trent n A vibrant and creative gallery and coffee shop with almost 30 local artists on show. The coffee shop and gallery is open from 8am-5pm Tuesday to Saturday

Forge Farm Studio, Wootton

Nottinghamshire artists will be opening up their studios through May and early June. Go to osnotts.co.uk for more details

artsbeat May 2019

n gallery Ingleby Gallery, near Melbourne AS our thoughts turn to the summer, the work in this month’s exhibition features beautiful bluebell woods and the beach and holidays.

Making a welcome return to the gallery is Anuk Naumann, from the Cotswolds.

She uses many mediums to create exciting art which is pleasing to the eye.

Steven McLoughlin, who has just finished a successful London show, has also painted some wonderful new scenes for the Ingleby exhibition including this one, pictured of Holkham beach in Norfolk.

There will also be ceramic and 10am-4pm on Sundays. Go to messyharegallery.co.uk for more details.

Notts Open Studios n Artists, makers and creators across Nottinghamshire will again be opening their studios to the public through May and early June.

More than 250 artists will be taking part. Follow Open Studios Notts on Facebook @openstudiosnotts and Twitter @OSNotts.

You can find more information about the various events on osnotts.co.uk.

The Old Lock Up Gallery, Swift’s Hollow, Cromford n The Gallery Open Exhibition will be on from May 18-June 22. Visit theoldlockupgallery.org for more details.

The gallery is open 11am-5pm, Friday through to Sunday.

The Richard Whittlestone Wildlife Gallery, Pilsley, near Chatsworth n The gallery is open 10am-5pm Tuesday to Saturday. More details at richardwhittlestone.co.uk artsbeat May 2019

animals by Julie Wilson, some exquisite glassware by Thomas Petit and ceramic birds by Karen Fawcett.

No28, Market Place, Belper n Rosalind Bliss, see more details on page 40. For opening times go to No28’s facebook page.

Rob Wilson Art, Lockside Mill, St. Martins Road, Marple n The gallery is open to visitors every Friday, 10am-4pm. Go to robwilsonart.co.uk for more details.

Royal Derby Hospital, Level 5 and London Road Hospital, Derby n Innovate, spring/summer exhibition by local artists celebrating Derbyshire’s industrial heritage. It runs until October.

St John Street Gallery, Ashbourne n Lewis Noble, Reflections on a Landscape, May 18-June 1. More details on page 39.

The gallery is open 9.30am5pm, Monday-Saturday.

For more information go to stjohngalleryandcafe.co.uk Two Birds Gallery, Borough Street, Castle Donington n The featured artist for May is

The exhibition opens on May 12 and runs until May 26. For more details go to ingleby-gallery.co.uk Charly Wright. The galley is open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-5pm and 9.30am-4pm on Saturday.

U Choose Smoothie Art Gallery, Ilkeston n Original work by local artists and crafters. Work by more than 20 local artists can always be seen at the gallery. For more details go to uchoosesmoothie.co.uk Wirksworth Framing Company, 22 Market Place, Wirksworth n A family-run framing business that exhibits work by a mixture of local artists and prints by nationally renowned artists. Work by Iain Mackay, Scott Naismith, Jo Grundy, Richard Pett, Sam Tofts, Alex Clarke and Thomas Joseph. Go to wirksworthframing.co.uk for details.

West Studios, Chesterfield n An exhibition by the Studios’ Young Contemporaries will be staged on May 11. The gallery always has gifts and cards.Go to chesterfield.ac.uk or email hello@ weststudios.co.uk for details.

43

have a go

Brush up on your skills – or try something entirely new Take lace making to new heights – in the Alps

I

f you are a lacemaker who would enjoy one-to-one tuition in an idyllic location then you need to book yourself on an Alpine Experience course with Derby lacemaker Louise West.

From June 18-24 she will be hosting a workshop at Les Carroz a traditional French mountain village used for skiing in the winter.

It is situated in the heart of the Haute Savoie with wonderful warm weather and stunning views over the Grand Massif mountain range.

Louise, who has been making bobbin lace for 25 years, specialises in English East Midlands laces with a special interest in the floral laces of Thomas Lester. This course is suitable for all levels of

Workshops and Courses Artcore, Charnwood Street, Derby n Every Wednesday – Clay course for beginners, 6-8pm. For details email info@artcoreuk.com or call 01332 384561.

Anna Massey, Weekly Painting and Drawing Classes n Various venues in and around the Peaks. Several courses in New Mills, Stockport and Sheffield, including painting and drawing classes: Wednesdays 9.30am-11.30am, New Mills; and Wednesdays 1.15pmartsbeat May 2019

lacemakers in Bedfordshire lace. Students should be able to make bobbin lace already but beginners through to experienced Bedfordshire lacemakers are welcome.

For the trip you will be staying in a luxury chalet and it will include an excursion to a local

3.45pm, Hazel Grove. For more details go to annamasseyartist.com or call 07947380078 Anne Alldread Textiles n Weekly Textile Groups, Monday pm and Wednesday am in Belper.

Small groups with an emphasis on having fun while creating.

A variety of techniques to include wet felting, dyeing, tapestry, printing and much more. Full day workshops also available. Please contact Anne for further information at annealldread. com or on 07817745705 Bob Neill, Pyrography Tuition, 10 Long Croft, Aston on Trent n One-day courses and group

place of interest and wonderful food prepared by experienced chefs. There is a sample menu on the Alpine Experience website.

For more details go to louisewestlacedesign.co.uk and click on the events dropdown menu.

workshops. Contact 01332 792036 or visit bobneillpyrography.co.uk.

Elizabeth Blades, art tuition, Studio 4:2, Banks Mill Derby n One-to-one tuition with artist Elizabeth Blades.For further information and details of how to book a session email elizabethlouieblades@gmail.com.

Bullclough Art School, Bullclough, Ford, Leek n Recognised artists coming from all over the world sharing their methods and inspiration with us.

Check out forthcoming workshops planned for this summer by going to bullcloughartschool.com

45

Stitch&Frame

BOBBIN LACE MAKING

Professional lacing and framing of needlework cross stitch and embroideries

one-day workshops and weekly evening classes 6 Friar Gate Studios, Ford Street, Derby Telephone 01332 742533 or visit the website for more details

Main Road, Grindleford, S32 2JN Tel 01433 630458

www.louisewestlacedesign.co.uk

www.stitchandframe.co.uk

Green Door Printmaking Studio

Craft Courses in Derbyshire

professional tuition  beautiful location  quality materials  good food

10% off all courses with the code: ARTSBEAT

www.greendoor-printmaking.co.uk 2019 may advert.pdf 1 BANKS artsbeat MILL STUDIOS | 71 BRIDGE ST | DE1 3LB

17:16 www.zantium.co.uk 01629 824377

09/04/2019

Betty’s Sewing Box & Vintage Tearoom

C

Treat yourself to some creative me time

Cokayne Avenue, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 1EJ 01335 347241

M

• Designer and • Craft Workshops Vintage fabric • Crochet Groups • Liberty • Quilting Group Tana Lawn • Beginners Sewing • Stylecraft Wool • Machine Hire • Patterns • 1:1 sessions • Artisan Crafts • Private Hire • Variety of cards • Friendly happy for all occasions service

Y

CM

MY

CY

CMY

K

www.straightcurves.co.uk 01246 807575 07976 845 662 46

www.bettys-sewing-box.co.uk artsbeat May 2019

n have a go Chesterfield Branch Embroiderers’ Guild n First Thursday of each month 7-9pm The Saints Parish Rooms. St Mary’s Gate, Chesterfield S41 7TH. Go to embroiderersguild.com Cromford Studio and Gallery, Market Place, Cromford n Watercolour tuition is available for small groups or on a one-to-one basis, all abilities welcome. Call 01629 826434 for more details.

Derbyshire Adult Education n Various courses available at venues including the Derbyshire Eco Centre, near Wirksworth and Sharp’s Pottery at Swadlincote as well as libraries and other centres. To book a place call 01629 533290, email swadlincote.ace@derbyshire.gov. uk or go to the website, derbyshire. gov.uk/coursesearch keyword ‘masterclass’.

Esther Tyson Screenprinting workshops, Via Gellia Mills, Bonsall n Gain a basic knowledge of screenprinting. All equipment and materials provided. For details email esther.tyson@network.rca.ac.uk Glossop Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild, Glossop Cricket Club, SK13 7AS n Meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month, 1-3pm.

Go to glostitchedup.blogspot.co.uk for details.

Green Door Printmaking Studio, Banks Mill, Derby n An Introduction to Printmaking Night Class, Thursday, May 2, 9, 16, May 23. n Collography, Saturday May 4 and Sunday May 5. n Linocut for Beginners, Saturday, May 11. n Screen Printing with Stencils, Saturday, May 18.

Cyanotype with Found Objects, Saturday May 18. n Mark Making for Etching, Saturday 25 and& Sunday May 26. artsbeat May 2019

Concessions and student discounts available. For more details and to book online, visit: greendoorprintmaking.co.uk or call 07919 823 097.

Green Man Gallery, Buxton n Life drawing, a weekly session for artists at any stage with a professional life model, Tuesdays, 7-9pm. n Adult Dance Classes: Every Thursday, dance for fun and fitness.

7pm tap dancing, 8pm ballet/body conditioning. For information or to book, call Catherine Farrimond, on 01298 70984.

For further information and booking for other courses contact hello@ thegreenmangallery.com or 01298 937375 unless otherwise stated.

High Peak Stitchers, Glossop Cricket and Bowling Club, North Road, Glossop n Meetings first Wednesday of the month, from 2-4pm, visitors’ entrance is £4.

Jane Bevan’s Artist Studio, Ticknall, South Derbyshire n Making Craft with Natural Materials – June 22, 10am-4pm.

Explore and create using found, natural materials. From the artist’s studio in Ticknall, South Derbyshire.

To book telephone 0794 1626452 or email janebevan@btconnect.com John Connolly, Ormscliffe Studio, 16 Langwith Road, Bolsover n Acrylics and mixed media tuition is available for very small groups or one-to-one. All abilities welcome.

More details at connollyart.com or Call 07967 316622.

Kirstie Adamson, magazine collage, Banks Mill, Derby n Bluebell Woods, May 18. n Seascapes, June 22.

Go to kirstieadamson.co.uk for details.

Viveka Bowry, Life Drawing Classes, Strutts Centre, Belper n Life Drawing group (non-tutored) with yoga poses to draw, first

Wednesday of month, 10am-noon, £12-15. Contact Viveka on 01629 258362.

Leabrooks Artists Forum, Somercotes n Artists sharing information, ideas and enterprise. Meetings are on the first Saturday of every month from 10.30am-1pm. Beverages and cake cost £3.50, if required, everything else is free. Painters, sculptors and potters who have experience of exhibiting are invited to join the group. Go to leabrooksartscomplex. com for more details.

Lesley Linley Watercolours n Classes for beginners/improvers, Smalley Institute and Strutts, Belper, please enquire by emailing lesleylinley1@gmail.com or text/ phone 07919 465222.

Louise West Lace Design 6 Friar Gate Studios, Derby n Evening classes in bobbin lace making, Tuesdays 6-8pm. n One-day bobbin lace workshops for a maximum of ten students, £30.

The next ones are May 11 and 29, June 5 and August 14. n Louise also holds Bedfordshire Lace weekend courses. Go to louisewestlacedesign.co.uk for booking details. See page 45.

Lin Cheung at The Old House Studio, Torside, Glossop n Colour, Collage and Texture in Abstract Painting with Lin Cheung, Monday June 24. 10am-4.30pm.

This follows on from the introduction to abstract painting session. It is an expressive workshop about releasing creativity by experimenting and learning techniques of mixing media.

For details contact Lin at linc-art.com Matlock Artists’ Society, All Saints Church Hall, Smedley Street n The club’s Portrait Group meets on the first Wednesday of every month from 9.30am-noon. Everyone welcome, £5 to include light refreshments. For details contact Doreen Andrews 01629 824640. n At the same venue, on the second

47

n have a go Thursday and fourth Friday of every month, the society invites all keen to paint/draw in a happy, relaxed group to go along. This is a self-help group with no tutor, 9.30am-noon. For details 01629 584708.

The Old Lock Up Gallery, Swifts Hollow, Cromford n Life drawing Tuesdays 6.308.30pm weekly £12. n Sketch Group Mondays 7pm 8.30pm weekly £6.50.

Booking essential. Go to the website for further information theoldlockupgallery.org The Old House Studio, Woodhead Road, Torside, Glossop n Art courses in the Peak District.

Top UK Artists. For more details visit pennine-art.uk Tel: 01457 857527, email: info@pennine-art.uk Pam Smart, Art Workshops in the Studio with a View, Buxton n Full day workshop from 10am-4pm with materials and refreshments. n Garden Impressions, May 11.

For details go to pamsmart.co.uk Pitchblue Creative, Coldwell Street, Wirksworth n Full day workshops from 10am3.30pm with lunch, a half day is until 1pm. You can choose one day or two. There are also regular weekly courses. Go to pitchbluecreative. com for details.

Pauline Townsend Silk Painter n Workshops for beginners and improvers in Buxton. Workshop schedule available on the website: silkpainter.co.uk Richard Holland, Landscape Artist n Regular one-day workshops held at The Venue, Ashbourne and Tansley Community Hall, near Matlock.Weekly oil and watercolour classes in the Mansfield, Matlock and Selston areas.

Contact Richard on 01629 583359, email richardo2244@yahoo.co.uk or visit richardhollandlandscapeartist. co.uk

48

Sew Need A Drink, Via Gellia Mill, Bonsall, sewing classes with Louise James n Beginner’s sewing class – Make a Drawstring Make-Up or Toy Bag, May 9, from 6.30pm. n Intermediate sewing class – Make a weighted pin cushion with attached scraps bag, May 23, from 6.30pm.

Family Learning session – Learn how to use a sewing machine. n Adults make some ‘glow in the dark’ sleep shorts and the kids make a personalise draw-string bag, May 29, from 11am.

All classes include a kit with all the materials cut out and ready to sew, instructions, tuition, homemade cake and refreshment. All classes at Sew Need a Drink, Unit 404, Via Gellia Mill, Bonsall.

For more details go to sewneedadrink.co.uk Small Print Company, 2-3 Friary Street, Derby n Various courses including Creating a Letterpress Print, Introduction to Letterpress, Print a Poster, Coptic and Japanese Bookbinding, Calligraphy and Adana Workshops. Details of all the courses and their prices can be found at smallprintcompany.co.uk StraightCurves, 104 Saltergate, Chesterfield n A range of arts and crafts workshops and courses from drawing and painting to mosaics and beading, for all ages and abilities from accessible studios in Chesterfield.

There are also regular events see details below. Book online at straightcurves.co.uk 01246 807575. n Woolly Wednesdays – every Wednesday, 10am-12.30pm and 6.30-9pm. All arts and crafts are welcome at this session. n Little Creatives – a workshop designed especially for pre-school children and their parent, every Friday and Monday 9.45-11am. n Book Club – 7-8pm on the third Thursday of the month, refreshments

included.

St John Street, Gallery, Ashbourne n John Connolly, Trees, Woodlands, Forests, April 29, 30 and May 1. n Janet Mayled, Still Life, May 8. n Lewis Noble, Painting and sketching the Derbyshire Landscape, May 13-15. n Wendy Darker, Hereford Bull, May 20-21. n Sandra Orme, Summer Sunsets, May 22.

To book, phone 01335 347425 or email enquiries@ stjohngalleryandcafe.co.uk.

Storer Farm Landscape Painting Courses, Ashleyhay, near Wirksworth n Course leader: Jeremy Bournon, retired Director of Art, Repton School. June 8, 9, 15 and 16 and October 5 and 6. Further details on application to jeremyhbournon64@ outlook.com.

Sumacdesigns, Banks Mill Studios, Bridge Street, Derby n Clay workshops. Three separate workshops – flowers, bowls and tile panels. For more details email Sue at sumac_53@msn.com or go to sumacdesigns.co.uk West Studios, Sheffield Road, Chesterfield n For more information call West Studios on 01246 500 799, email hello@weststudios.co.uk or go to weststudios.co.uk for details.

Zantium Studios, Godfrey Hole House, Hopton n Silver Clay Jewellery, two days, June 6-7, tutor Lori Ridgway. n Willow Basket Weaving, two days, June 8-9, tutor Eddie Glew. n Painted Stained Glass, two days, June 20-21, tutor Jane Littlefield. n Willow Animal Sculpture, two days, June 22-23, tutor Emma Parkins.

Go to zantium.co.uk or telephone 01629 824377 for details. artsbeat May 2019

Sarah McQuaid

B

Picture by Phil Nicholls

ARTS AT THE DOUBLE

elper Arts Festival is kicking off the Derbyshire festival season with performances by a Broadway star, the Bard of Barnsley, The Voice and The Hands, star crossed lovers, woollen creatures, a land locked pirate and art in trails and homes.

Now in its seventh year the volunteer-run festival continues its mission of inclusivity not exclusivity with the launch of Access All Arts, an initiative to develop accessibility for all.

The Essential Companion Scheme offers free tickets to events for those who need someone with them to assist with mobility or guidance.

It will also feature a series of events for Dementia Awareness Week. artsbeat May 2019

The Festival gets underway with a special concert, Bedazzled by Broadway on May 4 features Broadway star Jeanna De Waal, Belper Musical Theatre and the sensational talent of Derby’s Paddy Stafford.

Jeanna has been playing Princess Diana in a new musical, Diana, in San Francisco.

Jeanna plays her Belper Festival concert before returning to New York.

Concerts pepper the festival with a wide range of music.

You will be able to catch blues guitarist Joe Jammer, whisky voiced Sarah McQuaid (pictured above), Belperbased singer and storyteller Pete Castle, Rura and Pons Aelius, who will be at The Old King’s Head pub, a classical spectacular with Margaret Keys and Sergei Podobedov at St Peter’s Church, Indo Celtic trio Tyhai at Belper Rugby Club, The Angel Brothers, at The Nailers, Midnight Skyracer, at the Lion Hotel and Sarah Hinds, who featured in last month’s artsbeat, who will be in a tent on Bullsmoor, as well as

49

Scarthin Books A homely refuge and social hub

New, secondhand and antiquarian bookshop with almost 100,000 titles We buy books and music by appointment

Vegetarian & Vegan Cafe with cosy outdoor seating area

Bookshop 9-6pm Monday-Saturday, 10-6pm Sunday Cafe 10-5.15pm Monday - Saturday, 10-6pm Sunday

Listed by the Guardian online as one of the ten ‘best bookshops in the world’ The Promenade, Scarthin, Cromford, DE4 3QF Tel: 01629 823272 email: nickscarthin@gmail.com

www.scarthinbooks.com

Follow us on

and watch our film on

Showcasing the best in local Art & Design

19 Borough Street Castle Donington Open: Tues - Fri 9:00 - 5:00 Derby Sat - 10:00 - 4:00 DE74 2LA Tel: 01332 987350 email: info@thetwobirdsgallery.com

50

The Ship of Fools comedy line-up in No 28 will include Steff Todd

Sophie Sparham will be at Word Peace at Fleet Arts on May 9

artsbeat May 2019

‘

artsbeat previews Belper’s Arts Festival

Visit the homes of Belper’s artists and makers over the weekend at the Holy Trinity Church in Milford.

The musical highlight is a special concert by John Tams and Barry Coope which you can read more about on page 53.

The festival is packed with other annual events including Ignite UK will be taking part in the Voices of the Valley event the Arts Trail details of which were also in last month’s edition of this edition artsbeat.

Open Houses is now in its ninth year and organisers of the event invite you to visit the homes of Belper’s artists and makers over the Whitsun Bank Holiday from May 25-27.

Woollen Woods is one of the festival’s most popular events, which you can read about on page 52 of artsbeat.

Captive Audience Theatre will be staging Romeo and Juliet at The Strutts Centre (more details on page 62) and talking The Voice and The Hands, Margaret Keys and Sergei Podobedov of Bards you can also see the Bard of Barnsley Ian McMillan with Tony Husband presenting A Cartoon History of Here at St Peter’s Church on May 15.

A new initiative for 2019 is Voices Of The Valley which sets out to highlight the many choirs and singing groups along the Derwent Valley. The month will culminate with the Singing Trail on May 25 when singers will go from place to place, shop to cafe in Belper Town Centre.

The day will end with a ‘big sing’ at St Peter’s Church.

For more details go to Midnight Skyracer will be playing at the Lion Hotel on May 24 belperartsfestival.org artsbeat May 2019

51

T

WOOLLY THINKING

he phenomenon known as yarn bombing is slowly spreading across the county and few of us would be surprised to see lampposts, bike racks, tree trunks and traffic signs adorned with colourful little suits.

In this fast-paced, digital world there is something heart warming about the creative ‘bombs’ – textile graffiti which gives everyone a lift.

One of the biggest displays of the craft is Belper’s Woollen Woods which is part of the town’s annual festival from May 18-27.

Hundreds of knitters from schools, care homes, craft shops and charity groups have been busily creating magical animals

52

and flowers to display in The Parks wood just as the bluebells come into bloom.

Joining them in their enthusiasm for all things woolly this year will be Streams of Wool, organised by the Trent Rivers Trust which links the people of Alfreton, Ripley, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, South Normanton and Westhouses with their brooks.

They are inviting everyone to join in by creating woollen decorations on a water and wildlife theme that will be hung in the trees and placed along footpaths by the brooks.

The trust will be adding to the colourful fun with events such as brook walks, river-dipping, fishing, and butterfly walks.

If you are interested contact

projects@trentriverstrust.org or ring 07827 667888. You can also find them on facebook @ theriverstartshereTRT In Ripley the town council is planning to Wool Bomb the trees on the Market Place and if there is enough support from the knitting community it plans to move into Crossley Park.

There is no specific theme and they don’t mind whether you make little animals, birds or even people who can climb a tree.

They will be installing the bombs on either May 17 or 18, and will be officially launching them at the Soring Market on May 19. They will remain in place until June 3. For details go to ripleytowncouncil.gov.uk artsbeat May 2019

music

artsbeat’s essential guide to Derbyshire’s best live tunes John Tams brings the music home to raise memorial

D

erbyshire’s John Tams is to play a concert in the town for the first time in 50 years, which as he lives at nearby Heage is hard to believe.

Then he appeared at the Old King’s Head which is a long way from the National Theatre, Broadway, and the Royal Albert Hall where he is more used to performing these days.

Along with his regular partner on stage Barry Coope he will perform One Day – an exclusive one-off concert to raise funds for a First World War sculpture memorial for Belper Memorial Gardens.

“There are choices. Some are easy – some difficult. Agreeing

Rock and Pop

Buxton Opera House, Buxton n Tubular Bells For Two, May 7. n The King of Pop,starring Navi with special guest Jennifer Batten, May 9, 7.30pm. n Leo Sayer: Just a Boy at 70, May 10, 7.30pm. n Endless Love, the most popular love songs live in concert, May 11, 7.30pm. n The Magic of Motown, May 18, 7.30pm. n Woman to Woman, Judie Tzuke, Beverley Craven and Julia Fordham, June 2, 7.30pm. n Killer Queen, June 7, 7.30pm.

Details at buxtonoperahouse.org.uk artsbeat May 2019

John Tam right and Barry Coope will perform a special concert in Belper

to perform a concert to help raise funding for the Sacrifice remembrance statue was not difficult.

“We had a choice gifted to us by those who fought and died for our choices and for our freedom to make them,” said John.

John is probably best known for the music for War Horse

which has been seen by more than four million people worldwide. Barry Coope is best known as one third of awardwinning folk band Coope, Boyes and Simpson.

The concert is on June 1 at St Peter’s Church in Belper.

Tickets available online from belperartsfestival.org and derbylive.co.uk

Derby Arena, Derby n Elvis World Tour, May 17. n The world’s largest George Michael celebration, Fastlove, returns on May 16. Ed Barker, George Michael’s saxophonist from the Symphonica Tour, will be joined on stage by George Michael’s backing singer and 2015 X Factor finalist Anton Stephans. n Fans of the film Bohemian Rhapsody will love seeing performances on the big screen brought to the stage in Killer Queen, May 18. n Magic of Motown, June 8.

For tickets for all shows go to derbylive.co.uk

New Square, Chesterfield Ian Prowse brings tracks from his new album to New Square, Chesterfield on May 6. More details on his facebook page ian.prowse.5 No 28, Belper Belper Goes Black, May 5 and 6 presented by We Are Kunst.The show includes Adam Stone and Dead Sea Apes who have combined to present a dark vision of the future, Melting Hand and Tony Harrison’s monologue V performed by David Culleton. For more details go to belperartsfestival.org The Old Bell Hotel, Sadler Gate, Derby Flook, May 9, doors 7.30pm.With the

53

n music Piano, cello and all that jazz SPRING Bank Arts at New Mills is hosting a piano weekend in May. There will be a family friendly children’s event on May 18, with talented local pianists and cellists performing music around the theme of shape and form in music. The concert, at the arts centre is free with refreshments afterwards.

In the evening the young jazz group Artephis, pictured, will be centre stage. The contemporary jazz-rock quintet based in Manchester, comprises flutes and whistles of Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen, the guitar of Ed Boyd and the bodhran of John Joe Kelly, the iconic band Flook weaves and spins traditionally rooted tunes into an enthralling sound – with agile but tight rhythms and virtuoso improvisation. Flook possesses a rare blend of fiery technical brilliance, delicate ensemble interaction and a bold, adventurous musical imagination. For tickets go to derbylive.co.uk Queen’s Head, Belper n Pete Castle, May 4. n During Dementia Awareness Week, there will be a night of music and words with proceeds going to Derbyshire Dementia Alliance.

It features Kingfisher Blue, Gez Addictive, Chris Butler and Sophie Sparham, May 11, 7.30pm. n Katie Spencer, May 18. For more details and dates of other gigs go to queensheadbelper.weebly.com Tallbird Records, 10 Soresby Street, Chesterfield An Instore gig on May 7, with Johnny Lloyd former frontsman of The Tribe as he promotes his new

54

some of the North’s most creatively diverse young musicians who met at the Royal Northern College of Music.

The final Coffee Concert for 2019 will be on May 19

at 11.30am, with violinist Caroline Pether, cellist Dale Culliford and Paul Janes on piano performing trios by Beethoven and Shostakovich. For tickets go to springbankarts.org.uk steadfast attitude. For more details go to tallbirdrecords.co.uk

Folk and Jazz

Brooks Wlliams will be playing at Alstonefield Village Hall on May 11

album. Johnny has spent the years since their disbandment starting afresh, rebuilding, taking career risks and forging a new path of his own definition.

With this debut album, Next Episode Starts in 15 Seconds, set for release on May 3, Johnny Lloyd is back with a renewed sense of direction and a

Alstonefield Village Hall At the crossroads of blues and American roots music you’ll find Brooks Williams. Born in Statesboro, Georgia, USA (the town made famous by the classic Statesboro Blues), he did his apprenticeship in the small bars and coffeehouses of New York and Boston. Ranked in the Top 100 acoustic guitarists, he’s a skilled finger-picker and slide guitarist, with a clear, pure voice. His songs are musically sophisticated, and yet sound immediately familiar – a sign of a skilled songwriter. He will be at Alstonefield on May 11.

For tickets go to alstonefield.org or wegottickets.com Bakewell Town Hall, Bakewell Thornbridge Trio, Jazz at the Movies.

Tickets from bakewelltownhall.co.uk Old King’s Head, Days Lane, Belper n Belper Folk Club, every Tuesday at 8.30pm. For more details check artsbeat May 2019

n music out their facebook page or go to belperfolkclub.co.uk n Rura are a multi-award-winning act and one of Scotland’s most sought-after folk-based bands. With three heralded albums and extensive international touring, Rura affirm their position as one of Scotland’s leading groups, May 4. n Adam Sutherland’s Tunes ‘n’ Tales, May 9, 7.30pm. Join Adam for an intimate evening of stories, music and banter.

A compelling and charismatic performer and storyteller, Adam will play a selection of his own compositions and share reflections of his life and music with insights into his childhood home in Scotland, his myriad influences and the intriguing people who have inspired his work along the way. n Pons Aelius, May 17, since winning a prestigious Celtic Connections Danny Kyle Award in their early days, Pons Aelius have worked tirelessly to hone their distinctive sound, quickly earning themselves a reputation as one of the most exciting new names on the circuit. For tickets go to black-dogradio.com.

Buxton Opera House, Buxton n Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, May 15, 7.30pm. n The Fureys, May 16, 7.30pm. n The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, the most famous bagpipe band in the world. May 17, 7.30pm. Go to buxtonoperahouse.org.uk for more details.

Chesterfield Jazz, Club, Chester Street, Chesterfield n Tommaso Starace in concert, pluse jam session May 4. n Chris Hodgkins International Quartet, May 16. For gig details go to chesterfieldjazz.wordpress.com.

Coach House Studios, Wirksworth Christine Kydd has been playing in folk bands from the age of 11. She’s best known for her bold traditional Scottish style. Influenced by David artsbeat May 2019

Herron Brothers are going Green BELPER Goes Green, Transition Belper’s Community, Eco and Arts Festival will feature great live music on solar-powered stages, spoken word and literature talks.

This year’s enertainment line up includes the Herron Brothers, pictured above, Ben Miles, Mocking Jays, Experimental Sonic Machine, Scribble Victory, Roe Green, Frank Hunter Carey, Kristin Linklater, Patsy Rodenburg and Jo Estill, Chrisine is on tour promoting her recently released album Shift and Change.

She has collaborated with many great artists including Richard Thompson, Donnie Munro Band, Ladysmith Black Mamabazo, Dougie Maclean, and Jean Redpath. Her experience and talent has seen Christine nominated for Scots Singer of the year in the Scots Trad Music Awards.

You can see her in Wirksworth on May 1.For tickets go to wegottickets.com or contact thecoachhousestudios.co.uk Derby Jazz n Partisans, May 10, Baby People, Derby.

Trio,Scott Makepeace, Wilf and the Hulaballoo, Ola Wilson and many more.

Word Peace will feature some of the best spoken word artists in Derbyshire.

Among them are Sophie Sparham,Trevor Wright, Pippa Nayer, Aoife O’Connor, Daron Carey, Emerciana Desouza, Cullen Marshall, Jo Lewis and Benjamin Catley. There will also be a programme of literary talks from local authors and enthusiasts.

For more information about the event from May 31-June 2 go to transitionbelper.org n James Taylor Quartet, June 14.

Go to derby-jazz.co.uk for details.

Green Man Gallery, Buxton Full details at thegreenmangallery. com Live & Local, various locations n O Hooley and Tidow in Concert, Chinley Community Centre, May 5, for tickets telephone 07867 723062 n Kate Dimbleby, Sing Happy, Sutton on the Hill Village Hall, May 11, 7.30pm, tickets 01283 732450. n Old Hat Jazz Band, Breadshall Memorial Hall, 7.30pm, May 12, tickets 01332 831577. n The Carrivick Sisters, Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall, Holloway, May 12, 7.30pm, tickets 01773 856545.

55

n music Songs and tunes born from earth EDGELARKS (Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin) retreated to a remote cottage in Ulpha, western Cumbria last year. They breathed in the mountain view, banked up the fire, and took their many instruments out of their cases. Then they sat down, and wrote.

Swiftly, a set of songs and tunes emerged and the new album Feather was created. Stories of wonder from the natural world; tales of rejoicing and long lost returns; and simple thanksgiving for their own surroundings and place in the landscape. Informed by world rhythms, British n Tyhai: Indo Celtic Trio, Belper Rugby Club, May 16, 8pm, tickets 07743957017.

For more details go to liveandlocal. org.uk.

The Old Hall Hotel, Hope Acoustic sessions with guests second and fourth Wednesdays of the month. n Bernard Hoskin, May 8. n Ar Faoued, May 22. Go to folkandblues.wixsite.com for details.

Peak Concerts Matlock Edgelarks, Matlock Town FC, May 23, 8pm. See more details above.

For tickets go to peak-concerts.co.uk PR promotions various venues n The Unfinished Violin, Sam Sweeney with Rob Harbron, Jack Rutter, Patsy Reid and Ben Nicholls, Derby Theatre, May 5, 6pm.

Tickets from derbytheatre.co.uk or 01773 853428.

For details of other shows go to prpromotions.org.uk

56

PICTURE: Jolyon Holroyd

folk roots, and the duo’s penchant for making as much noise as possible with only two people, the album is an upbeat celebration, an incitement to hope.

You can see them perform at Matlock Town Football Club on May 23 at 8pm. Ticket details in the listingsunder Peak Concerts.

Bakewell Town Hall, Bakewell Piano Trios with members of the Halle Orchestra, Mozart: Piano Trio in E Major K542; Beethoven: :Piano Trio in C Minor opus 1 no 3 and Shostakovich: Piano Trio no 2 in E Minor opus 67, May 12 – part of the Town Hall Chamber Series Details from bakewelltownhall.co.uk

Adam Sutherland is performing at the Old King’s Head Belper in May

Classical Music

Abbotsholme Arts Society, Abbotsholme School Chapel n Derby Academy of Classical Dance, May 19. n Roderick Williams and Susie Allan, June 5.For details go to abbotsholmeartssociety.co.uk

Belper Singers, Christ Church, Belper Busking In Belper as part of the Voices of the Valley event, various venues in the town, May 25 in the afternoon.

St Peter’s Church, Belper, June 8, 7.30pm, a joint concert with Norwegian choir Brandalskoret, piano and string quartet.

For tickets email belpersingers@ gmail.com or call 07990 658071. For more details go to belpersingers. webs.com Chapel-en-le-Frith Ladies Choir An Afternoon Tea Concert from artsbeat May 2019

n music 2-5pm on May 19 at Chapel-enle-Frith Methodist Church. Light refreshments are included in the entrance price. Please visit chapelen-le-frithladieschoir.co.uk or phone 01298 81 4015 for further details Crich Tramway Village, Crich Beer and Bands is being staged at the venue on May 5 and 6.

Confirmed bands include Belper Town Wind Band and Newmount Brass playing in the bandstand on Sunday.

The Red Lion pub will host Stunt Double with their mix of popular music followed by folk group, Box O’ Frogs.

A display of Morris dancing and clog dancing will take place near the tram terminus at Town End from 2.303.30pm on Sunday.

On Monday, Doveholes Brass and Newmount Brass bands will occupy the bandstand, while Silver Sax and Hag Farm Conspiracy will entertain in the Learning Centre and Andy Martin and Friends return to play the Red Lion pub.

Derby A Cappella n Derby Arts Festival, May 4, St John The Evangelist Church, Bridge Street, Derby. n Broomfield College National Garden Scheme Day – May 19.

Visitors are invited to catch the singers permroming at the college.

Anyone who would like them to sing at an event in 2019, or would like to come along to a rehearsal should contact: www.derbyacappella.co.uk Derby Chamber Music, Multi-Faith Centre, University of Derby n Details at derbychambermusic.org Derby Cathedral, Derby n Lunchtime concerts, Tom Pickles, cello and Roman Kosyakov, piano, May 10; Edward Leung, piano, May 17 and Luca Luciano, clarinet, May 31. n Vivaldi – The Four Seasons

by Candlelight with the London Concertante, May 18, 7.30pm.

More details from derbycathedral.org artsbeat May 2019

Pupils to join in musical event PUPILS from a Derbyshire school are to perform in the historic setting of Lichfield Cathedral alongside a celebrated multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer and his folk ensemble made up of dozens of students from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Foremarke Hall, Repton’s Prep School, will welcome Joe Broughton, pictured above, and his Conservatoire Folk

Ensemble into school on Thursday, May 9. During the day the ensemble will perform for pupils from throughout the school.

They will also run a workshop for those participating in the concert.

Having spent the day at Foremarke Joe, 49 Conservatoire students and 60 Foremarke pupils will travel to Lichfield.

The performance is going to feature Foremarke’s orchestra, concert band, wind band and string orchestra.

For tickets telephone Foremarke on 01283 707100.

Derwent Singers, St Mary’s Church Darley Lane, Derby For more details go to derwent singers.co.uk

Espérance are Clare Devine and Stewart McCoy. More details from belperartsfestival.org

Music at Duffield, Saint Alkmund’s Church, Duffield Beate Toyka, piano, May 11. For more details go to musicatduffield. com

n Bedazzled by Broadway concert featuring Jeanna de Waal, Belper Musical Theatre and Paddy Stafford, May 4, 7.30pm. n The Voice and The Hands, Soprano Margaret Keys and pianist Sergei Podobedov, May 9, 7.30pm. For both events go to belperartsfestival.org for tickets.

No 28 Belper Espérance As I Walk’d Forth – a programme of English lute songs from the time of Shakespeare.

St Peter’s Church, Belper

57

FESTIVAL FOREWORD

Multi-million selling author leads the line-up for literary celebration

O

ne of the surprise new authors heading the line-up at the fifth Derby Book Festival is Australian international bestseller, Markus Zusak.

His novel The Book Thief sold 16 million copies worldwide and his follow-up Bridge of Clay, which he will be discussing at Derby looks destined to follow its success.

One of the other new names added to the diverse range of authors coming to the festival which will be staged from May 31 to June 8, is Victoria Hislop Her novel The Island (2005), was hailed as “the new Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”, and was a number one bestseller in Britain, having been selected by the Richard & Judy Book Club for their Summer Reads.

The Festival will include over 90 events and activities in venues across the city.

Other highlights of this year’s festival will include broadcaster, author and parliamentarian, Melvyn Bragg talking about his new novel, Love Without End in Derby Theatre on June 7 and a special event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day in Derby Theatre on June 6 with authors Giles Milton and Bali Rai talking about their latest books on soldiers experiences of D-Day. There’ll also be music and dance from, and inspired by, the period and the books.

You will also be able to hear from novelists Patrick Gale (Take Nothing With You, Costa-shortlisted for A Place

58

Called Winter), Melissa Harrison (All Among the Barley) and award-winning Derbyshire poet (one of our former Poet Laureates), Helen Mort will discuss her first novel, Black Car Burning.

BBC editorial eirector, Kamal Ahmed will talking about his memoir of growing up in 1970s London.

There will be sessions with crime writers James Runcie (Grantchester series), Mark Billingham, Stephen Booth and a panel of female crime writers including C J Tudor and Jo Jakeman.

History fans can enjoy Tracy Borman talking about Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him, Kate Hubbard on Bess of Hardwick plus Sir Simon Jenkins, whose most recent book is A Short History of Europe.

Art lovers can hear Martin Bailey talk about Van Gogh while Clare Hunter will talk about the history of needlework.

Poetry fans will enjoy Hollie McNish, Henry Normal, Rupinder Kaur and Nafeesa Hamid and Derby poet Dan Webber launches his first collection, Genre Fluid.

For those keen on science and nature, Greenpeace UK’s Head of Oceans, Will McCallum artsbeat May 2019

Clockwise from left: Markus Zusak Victoria Hislop and James Runcie Grantchester Mysteries author

will talk about How to Give Up Plastic, and Rose George explains all you need to know about blood in Nine Pints.

There will also be the pick of the latest crop of debut authors at the festival including Anne Griffin (When All is Said), Elizabeth Macneal (The Doll Factory), Bridget Collins (The Binding), and Derbyshire’s own Sophie Draper (Cuckoo).

The annual Festival Lunch will be with Rory Stewart MP and Afternoon Tea events will be with Clare Hunter, who will talk about Threads of Life, the history of needlework and Griselda Kerr on gardening.

The theme for this year’s Flash Fiction writing competition is Our World. Stories of up to 50 artsbeat May 2019

‘

Fifth Derby Book Festival includes myriad of masters of literary craft words have to be in by 10pm on May 8. For more details go to the festival website.

QUAD is the main festival Box Office and will host many of the exciting festival events, but events will also be held at venues across the city.

Tickets can be booked online at derbybookfestival.co.uk or in person or by phone at QUAD and other host venues.

Go to derbybookfestival.co.uk for more details.

The latest novels by James Runcie and Victoria Hislop will be discussed at the festival

59

stage

Catch the best shows and performances in the county Buxton to stage double bill for all lovers of musicals

B

uxton Opera House is presenting two contrasting musicals at the end of the month – the ever-popular hit musical Oliver! by Lionel Bart and the dynamic rock musical Rent.

Oliver! is one of the best known British musicals and since its premiere in 1960, it has enjoyed successful long runs all over the world including on Broadway, the West End and of course in the cinematic format as an award winning film.

In contrast to the povertystricken streets of Victorian London, Rent is a vibrant and contemporary version of the opera La Bohème with thrilling music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson including the hit song Seasons of Love.

Set in New York’s vibrant

Theatre

Derby Theatre, and Derby Theatre Studio, Derby n National Theatre Connections, April 30-May 4. Derby Theatre hosts the East Midlands festival of youth theatre. n Turn of the Screw, from Dermot McLaughlin Productions, May 7-11.

A new adaptation of Henry James’ iconic tale which was the inspiration for Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black.

It is 1840 and a young governess agrees to look after two orphaned children in a seemingly idyllic country house. artsbeat May 2019

East Village, the emotional stakes are high as a group of struggling young artists fight to survive the approaching millennium.

Both these musicals are giving a platform to the young talent of the High Peak supported by the expertise of the creative team at the Opera House.

Buxton Opera House chief executive Paul Kerryson is directing both the shows that promise to bring out the very best from performers from the local area.

For tickets to the shows which are on various dates running from May 24 until June 9 go to buxtonoperahouse.org.uk

But then she realises they are not alone. There are ghosts.

Details at derbytheatre.co.uk

on alternate days during the run. Go to buxtonoperahouse.org.uk for full details. There is more information above.

Fleet Arts, The Fleet, Belper Peter Pan by Chorus Theatre, May 25, 2.30-3.30pm. Suitable for family audiences with interactive elements including songs, music and puppetry.

Part of Belper Arts Festival.

Strutts Centre, Derby Road, Belper n Penny Dreadful Family Theatre, May 10, 6pm. Part of Belper Arts Festival. n Romeo and Juliet by Captive

Buxton Opera House, Buxton n Buxton Drama League, Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn. Three bedrooms. Four couples. One night. A play hilariously skewering middle-class relationships as only Ayckbourn can, May 10 and 11 at 7.30pm with a 2.30pm matinee on the Saturday. n The musicals Oliver! and Rent, directed by Paul Kerryson and presented by Buxton Opera House, May 24-June 9. The two shows are

61

n stage Lovers’ tale will be far from dull CAPTIVE Audience sets out to create opportunities for those who want to be involved in stage shows and taking on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for the Belper Arts Festival will do just that.

Larry Waller and Sheila Kay Sly are directing a cast of 18; and with other creatives from Belper on board. You can expect a show full of surprises. A dull version of the tale of the doomed lovers it will not be.

You can see it at The Strutts Centre, Belper, from May 14-18. For tickets go to captiveaudience.org.uk Audience, May 14-18, 7.30pm. See more details on following page. Part of Belper Arts Festival. n Shine: a day of opportunity for children aged five-18 it is packed with music, drama and singing, May 19, 1pm-8pm. Part of Belper Arts Festival.

Live & Local, various locations n Tangram Theatre, Team Viking, Dronfield Hall Barn, May 9, 7.30pm, tickets 01246 41812.

St Leonard’s Mission Church Spital, Chesterfield, May 11, 7.30pm. tickets 01246 220741. n Nicholas Collett, Your Bard, a superb one-man show where Nicholas takes audiences on a journey through the life of Shakespeare, May 10, 7.30pm, Tutbury Village Hall. For details of all shows go to liveandlocal.org.uk

Comedy

No28, Market Place, Belper n Nina Gilligan, Broad Shoulders, 6pm, May 11 and 12. Join her on

62

a journey of discovery from her adoption to her present day search for her birth family (audience members are warned there may be DNA collected). n Ship of Fools Comedy Night, May 14, 8pm., featuring Jamie Hutchinson, with Steff Todd, Paul Mutageja and compere Alan Seaman.

Buxton Opera House and Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton

and the pursuit of happiness. Plus, he fashions a symphony from a ringtone, tells the real story of Old McDonald, and a re-imagines the Stars and Stripes. For tickets go to derbylive.co.uk

n Julian Clary, Born to Mince, May 5, 7.30pm. n Paul Merton’s Impro Chums, June 3, 8pm. n Mark Steel, Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright, May 31.

Details at buxtonoperahouse.org.uk

Funhouse Comedy Club

Derby Arena n Bill Bailey – Larks in Transit, June 6. A compendium of travellers’ tales and the general shenanigans of 20 years as a travelling comedian. With musical virtuosity, surreal tangents and trademark intelligence, Bill Bailey tackles politics, philosophy

Derby Theatre, Derby n Jasper Carrott’s Stand Up and Rock, May 15 and 16, 7.30pm. n An Evening with Andy Hamilton May 19.

For tickets go to derbytheatre.co.uk n The Blessington Carriage, Chapel Street, Derby Should I Stay or Should I Go Gong Show, May 13. Acts compete in comedy’s answer to Britain’s Got Talent and the X-Factor. Each does two minutes, then audience judges vote who to keep on and who to send off. Compere Spiky Mike. n The Dragon, The Green, Willington Kevin Dewsbury with Chris McCausland and compere Dave Byron, May 5, 8pm.Book tickets artsbeat May 2019

n stage Ayckbourn’s hit gets fresh outing QUARNDON Amateur Dramatic Society (QUADS) return to the stage in May with Living Together by Alan Ayckbourn.

It is hilariously funny, with sharply defined characters and takes place in a country house over a July weekend.

It is an observation of family interaction and discord as a result of of people’s dissatisfaction with their lives, the misunderstandings that hamper relationships, and the need for romance.

The house belongs to an unseen but tyrannical invalid woman cared for by her unattached daughter, Annie.

Annie’s brother Reg and his wife Sarah have just arrived to take over nursing duties so that Annie can go away

for the weekend. Sarah assumes this was with Tom, the local vet. In fact, the illicit weekend is with Norman the husband of Annie’s sister Ruth.

It takes place at Quarndon

for all Funhouse Comedy shows at funhousecomedyclub.co.uk

Spoken word

Buxton Opera House and Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton n Buxton Adventure Festival, Anna McNuff and George Mahood, Riding High in South America, May 7, 7.30pm. n Ian McKellen on Stage, May 31, 7.30pm.ickets: buxtonoperathouse. org.uk Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust Buxton Pump Room, Buxton n Pump Room fashion Parade – Edwardian and Victorian show Hope House Costume Museum, May 15, 7-9pm. A Fashion show featuring original Edwardian and Victorian costumes featured on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 TV with commentary from nationally renowned costume artsbeat May 2019

Bill Bailey will be at Derby Arena on June 6

collector and expert Notty Hornblower. n The Georgian Gentleman’s Library Talk by Jim Dixon, June 12, 6-7pm. An exploration of the ideas and influence of Georgian men (and women) of letters through

Village Hall, Quarndon from May 16-18, at 7.45pm. For tickets please visit either quarndonquads.co.uk or call 07970 960999.

For future productions follow @QuarndonQuads on Twitter. their books, their libraries and their conversations. For tickets contact the Buxton Opera House box office on 01298 72190. Details at buxtoncrescenttrust.org Derby Poetry Society n Beatrice Garland reads her own poetry. Winner of the National Poetry Prize in 2001 and Strokestown International Poetry Prize. Her first volume, The invention of Fireworks (2013) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, June 14. n Monthly meetings on the second Friday of the month. Room 3, Friends’ Meeting House, Derby, 7.30pm. Contact Gina Clarke on 01773 825215 for details.

Matlock Storytelling Cafe, Imperial Rooms, Matlock n First Friday of the month. Doors at 6.45pm. For more details go to matlockstorytellingcafe.co.uk

63

n stage X-factor star in West End classic UNION J’s Jaymi Hensley dons the Technicolor Dreamcoat for his first major musical role in Bill Kenwright’s production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sparkling family musical.

Having risen to fame on The X Factor, Union J went on to have a top ten album and a major UK tour and Jaymi later appeared on hit TV shows including Celebrity Masterchef.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph, his eleven Scrivener’s Bookshop, High Street, Buxton n Book Club, first Wednesday of every month 7-8pm. Everyone welcome. Call 01298 73100. n Storytelling Sundays: the

brothers and the coat of many colours, this magical musical is full of unforgettable songs including Go, Go, Go Joseph, Any Dream Will Do and many more. second Sunday of the month, from 2-3.30pm, telephone 0129871622.

Spoken Words, CODA vinyl cafe, 2 South Avenue, Buxton An open mic without a mic where people can read out their own poems

Buxton Opera House, and Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton Northern Ballet, Puss in Boots, May 3, 2.30pm and 4.30pm. A family show. For more details go to buxtonoperahouse.org.uk

Midsummer tale

64

and/or short stories or just listen in and be well entertained.

Every first Tuesday of each month, 6.30pm to 8.30pm. Free entry. For more details call 07713 246391.

Dance

Oddsocks stage JOIN Oddsocks Productions as they return to their home city of Derby, to celebrate their 30th anniversary with yet another high-energy, feel-good, family show at Markeaton Park in Derby.

They will be presenting Shakespearean favourite A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as you have not seen it before.

With it’s easy-to-follow storyline and hilarious characters it is perfect for the Oddsocks treatment and will be a memorable production.

It was the first of Lloyd Webber and Rice’s musicals to be performed publicly.

It can be seen at Derby Theatre from June 18-22.

Tickets at derbytheatre.co.uk

Four young lovers run away to a summer festival in the woods to escape the stress of parental expectations at home. Before long they unwittingly find themselves the subjects of tricks, played on them by with hilarious results.

The show is on from June 11-15. For tickets go to derbylive.co.uk

Déda, Chapel Street, Derby n Dance Degree Show, May 10 and 11. For tickets go to deda.uk.com Derby Theatre, Derby Ballet Black, May 14, 7.30pm. For tickets go to derbytheatre.co.uk Sensational Salsa, The Old Clubhouse, Buxton Relaxed salsa dance classes are held on Tuesdays upstairs at The Old Clubhouse, in Buxton.

Beginners 7.30-8.30pm. Improvers 8.30-9.30pm. Contact Sensational Salsa on 07811 100191 for details. artsbeat May 2019

attitude

Comment and opinion from reviewers and readers Triumphant new telling of Kipling’s The Jungle Book

T

he Jungle Book is a superb example of Derby Theatre’s ability to create shows that appeal to children and adults alike.

This spectacular adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s stories boasted a brand new script by award-winning playwright Neil Duffield, a musical score with fabulously catchy songs from Ivan Stott and a gorgeous set

by Ali Allen.

Director Sarah Brigham and her team love a challenge, so this production was also their first with British Sign Language at its heart.

With its central themes of belonging, respecting difference and celebrating individuality, there couldn’t have been a more fitting show to choose for this ambitious project.

With a lot of hard work and boundless enthusiasm, the talented team of creatives and actors gave us a captivating show and their reward must have been the joy they could Author Derek Webb attended a Marlowe Players’ performance of his play The Lady Vanishes at Darley Abbey – and his verdict was “excellent”.

He left his home in Pembrokeshire to see only the second performance of his play which he adapted from Ethel Lina White’s book The Wheel artsbeat May 2019

Iniki Mariano as Mowgli and Esme Sears as Bagheera

PICTURE: Robert Day

see in the faces of the audience.

A favourite with the young audience was the cuddly bear Baloo given a lovable, dotty old uncle character by Ivan Stott. Esme Sears, who is fast becoming a Derby Theatre favourite, was exquisite as Bagheera and her rapport with the elfin, super-lithe Iniki Mariano, who played Mowgli magnificently, was enchanting.

Their gymnastic moves around the jungle setting seemed almost effortless.

The addition of a community company brought a great deal of energy to the stage and, if the Green Team members who

were on the night I watched are anything to go by, the theatre has a few budding stars of the future in its ranks. Jungle Book is a bold show with a big heart.

The rest of the cast were Becky Barry, Alexandra James, Oraine Johnson, Caroline Parker, Elliott Rennie, Emily Rose Salter and Dominic Rye. The Green Team: Neve Bales, Jo-Anne Blackwood, Megan Clark, Alicia Day, Amara Iqbal, Samuel McDonagh, Daniel Moore, Grace Parker-McKoy, Ava Spare and Bradley Walker.

The associate director was Emily Howlett. The lighting designer was Alastair West. AP

Marlowe Players

When you write, it’s down to the director and the actors who should all bring something new to the party.

It’s good when the writer is surprised. There were some nice little touches – which is what it’s all about.”

“You’ve set the bar pretty high,” he told the whole team.

SO

Spins. Derek was impressed with how the Marlowes managed to depict three areas of a train on the cramped Darley Abbey Village Hall stage.

“I and the audience suspended disbelief. We believed it was actually happening on a train.

65

n attitude Classical music reviews by Mike Wheeler Margaret Fingerhut, Derby Cathedral Margaret Fingerhut’s recital tour, designed to raise awareness of the needs of refugees, was built round an intelligently-chosen play-list, featuring such prominent musical exiles and refugees as Rachmaninov (two of his Op 39 Etudes-Tableaux, strongly characterised) and Chopin (a robust account of his A flat Polonaise, Op 53).

Other pieces spoke in other ways to the refugee/ exile experience, including soulful readings of three of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, and Francis Pott’s sometimes turbulent, sometimes gently poignant Farewell to Hirta, commemorating the last remaining inhabitants of St Kilda; Fingerhut brought out suggestions of early Tippett in this seascape. And she commissioned for the occasion Memories From My Land,

by Syrian refugee musician Moutaz Arian.

A musically rewarding and thought-provoking evening in equal measure.

Derby Chamber Music: Ensemble Mirage, Multi-Faith Centre, Derby University Four members of Ensemble Mirage played two large works for clarinet, violin, cello and piano.

The first was a transcription of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Rimsky’s

66

Margaret Fingerhut

command of orchestral colour is so integral to the music’s fabric that an important dimension was inevitably lost, but there were also times when some delectable details emerged.

Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time) is one of the great works of 20th-century chamber music.

The four players responded vividly to its extraordinary expressive range, whether hushed and concentrated, as in the opening Crystal Liturgy, fast and rhythmically incisive in the Dance of Fury..., or exuberant in the multicoloured extravaganza that is the seventh movement Swirls of Rainbows...

Derwent Singers, St Mary’s Church, Derby The Derwent Singers’ programme of Passiontide music offered examples of composers setting the same text. Weelkes’ Hosanna to the Son of David was direct and punchy, in contrast to the gentler setting by Gibbons, whose contrapuntal lines tumbled almost playfully over one another.

Among the four settings of When David Heard that Absolon was Slain, the one by Tomkins carried its grief with dignity, while Eric Whitacre’s, on a bigger scale, was perhaps a bit too long, but included some highly effective writing, with moments of anger as well as sorrow.

Gibbons’ Drop, Drop Slow Tears was followed the nearmiraculous setting of the same text by the 15-year-old Walton.

JS Bach’s motet Komm, Jesu, Komm, ending the concert, grew from an effectively understated opening to a bold conclusion.

Derby Bach Choir, Derby Cathedral Derby Bach Choir celebrated its 60th anniversary by returning to a piece written by its conductor Richard Roddis for the choir’s 50th birthday.

Lauda Creatoris is a big, ambitious setting of Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Creatures, interspersed with poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, for soprano and baritone soloists, choir, children’s choir (here, Voices, the City of Derby Girls’ Choir) and orchestra.

There were moments when the choir seemed a little uncertain, other where they were tempted to over-sing, but generally the singers and orchestra responded keenly to the work’s wide expressive range and vivid imagery. Soprano Hye-Youn Lee’s tone was not always ideally focused but she brought real sparkle to Hopkins’ The Starlit Night; baritone Greg Skidmore explored both the dark and the light of The Windhover. artsbeat May 2019

n attitude Political message still resonates with audiences Jim Cartwright’s Road could so easily have been written about Austerity Britain. The inequality and hopelessness of Thatcher’s 1980s is just as prevalent now.

As Belper Players performed the series of melancholic vignettes at the Strutts Centre a chilling resonance hung over the audience.

The play’s director Jane Wilton hoped it would be thoughtprovoking – so she would have been touched to hear one mum trying to explain the wider politics causing our sad situation to her questioning daughter on the walk home.

Cartwright’s play is a brutal, yet lyrical, anthem to working class people and poverty. He gives a voice to the poor as raw, outspoken truths pour out in a series of monologues and duets during a evening’s tour of a scruffy, depressed road in a small Northern town.

Moving from the street corner to the chippy and pub, living rooms and bedrooms, we meet the young, middle-aged and old as they tell us the stories of their bleak, wretched lives That’s not to say it is a total misery-fest. It might be bitter, but it is also funny and, on a few occasions, in an almost farcical way.

Staging such a seminal play is a brave decision and it demanded dedication from a cast of more than 20 actors, some of whom, we were told, had no acting experience.

The superb performances given artsbeat May 2019

by all of them did nothing to give away the identities of the newbies and the whole drama was a triumph for the team.

There were of course stand-out deliveries from stalwart Belper Players such as Mik Horvath, who was scarily adept as Skinlad and magnificent as the outrageously dressed DJ Bisto.

Joe Riley, who played Billy in Billy Liar last year, was again excellent as the cocky young Brink and the despairing Joey, whose deathbed scene with his teenage girlfriend Clare, played

by Alex Smith, moved some of the audience to tears.

Everyone adored Tracey Wilkinson as the withered alcoholic, Brenda, who was reduced to begging for cash for a drink from her own daughter.

However it was probably Lisa Benson, as the totally inebriated Helen trying to seduce a drunken young soldier, who stole the show. She had remained totally in character, swigging at a bottle and

staggering gently around the stage, throughout the two-anda-half hour-long drama – until it was time for her own very poignant vignette. She was brilliant.

The confines of the wide shallow stage space at the Strutts Centre are always challenging but on this occasion it was perfect for Cartwright’s promenade along the ‘road’ and set designer Barry Brown did a cracking job with help from Jamie Vella on lighting and sound. The props were also all spot-on – it’s always the little touches that make the difference.

The rest of the cast were Johnny Vincent, Jeremy Crane, Liam Duffy, James Strath, Mollie Middleton, Andrew Barlow, Louise Jenkins, Jamie Brooks, Morgan Richter, Chelsea Richter, Alyson Koe, Roger Whiting, Jane Robertson, Nick Mothershaw, Tina Hampton, John Briscoe, Patricia Church, Jackie Maltby and Pip Price.

AP

67

n attitude Women facing perils of hidden discrimination There was definitely a time when man meant male, and sometimes there have been times when man has been extended to mean human.

According to Caroline Criado Perez more often than not what should be done for everyone is done only with men in mind.

Her worst example is perhaps that of testing car seatbelts: seatbelts are tested on the average man, someone who is 1.7 metres tall, a height considerably taller than the average woman.

That means that the seat belts designed to protect travellers from forceful accidents often work for only half of drivers, women slip out to suffer worse injuries.

Most of Perez’s examples come from the USA, but even

Photo festival sharpens focus Young FORMAT was a collection of exhibitions produced by the educational outreach programme for the international photography festival FORMAT 19.

Ordinary//Joy was an exhibition in Derby Market Hall, by Young Creatives, a group of young people, who worked with photographer David Severn to create an exhibition that respondedto the festival’s theme of Forever//Now, looking at

68

Review by Les Hurst of Scarthin Books, Cromford

Common Market tests on cars specify only that a female dummy must be used in a passenger seat: female drivers can be ignored.

Having a heart attack? The symptoms taught to medical students are those found in men, women react differently and are often misdiagnosed to their long-term disadvantage. the ordinary, mundane and familiar, and reimagining these subjects by contrasting and layering moments from both the past and present.

One of those taking part was Scarlet Frewtrell and this is part of a review of the show she wrote for our website artsbeatblog.com ‘The top floor of the Market Hall was one of the main festival exhibitions, it had huge photographs of teenagers from the UK, each with a letter which they’d written, telling us their story.

This was really moving and the images very beautiful.

In the army? Body armour is designed for men’s chests, not women.

A lot of protective gear and equipment is not made in petite and small sizes. The world has already seen this problem exemplified when in 2019 NASA had to cancel a two-women spacewalk: there weren’t two space suits available to fit the two astronauts.

Perez divides her book into six parts: daily life, the workplace, design, going to the doctor, public life, and ‘when it goes wrong’.

There are areas she does not touch, for instance cultural standards that disadvantage women still find in developing nations, but if she can awaken one designer to better think their mission it could be to the benefit of both women and men world-wide.

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Perez (Chatto and Windus £16.99) On the ground floor, each empty stall had been painted a different colour to display our photography.

My work was on a bright turquoise background. It was such a strange feeling to see images I spent so long on being viewed by the public, especially as my chosen theme was my family.

It was so rewarding to be involved and to see what we were all capable of doing. I would encourage anyone who enjoys photography to send their images in for next year’s festival as everyone can be a part of it.’ artsbeat May 2019

Bringing Books To Life 31 May — 8 June 2019

Cressida Cowell

Melvyn Bragg © ITV

Kamal Ahmed

Susan Calman © Steve Ullathorne

Dolly Alderton

Patrick Gale

Celebrating the joy of books and reading with over 90 inspiring events!

Join us for nine jam-packed days of bestselling authors, speakers and awardwinning performers with an added international flavour this year. There’s something for everyone with poets, historians, politicians, illustrators and musicians!

From circus to crime, history to heroes, blood to bookselling …

Get the latest news:

Get the full Festival Programme from 10 April at libraries, arts venues, cafés and tourist offices across the county.

Facebook /DerbyBookFestival

You can book online for all events at www.derbybookfestival.co.uk or call or visit the event’s box office.

Twitter @derbybookfest

derbybookfestival.co.uk

Instagram @derby_book_festival

Funded by: Derby Book Festival is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales Number 1159763

Monday 10:30 – 16:30 Friday Tuesday 10:30 – 16:30 Saturday Wednesday 10:30 – 16:30 Sunday Thursday CLOSED

10:30 – 16:30 10:30 – 16:30 11:30 – 16:30

UNION J’s JAYMI HENSLEY IS JOSEPH

BILL KENWRIGHT

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP PRESENTS

SUNDAY TIMES

TUESDAY 18 - SATURDAY 22 JUNE Box Office 01332 593939 Book Online derbytheatre.co.uk

Derby Theatre is part of