Artsbeat December 2017

Celebrating the arts in Derbyshire and the Peak District

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It’s Panto time!

Six-page guide to the shows

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Sensational seasonal landscapes

Gift ideas: Arts, crafts

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Music, theatre, gallery, film and workshop listings

Writer and Co-Adaptor Joel Horwood | Director and Co-Adaptor Emma Rice Designer Vicki Mortimer

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‘IS THIS THE DEFINITIVE SPAMALOT?’ THE REVIEWS HUB

Selladoor Productions presents the Mercury Theatre Colchester Production of MONTY

PYTHON’S SPAMALOT

ERIC IDLE Music by JOHN DU PREZ & ERIC IDLE GRAHAM CHAPMAN, JOHN CLEESE, TERRY GILLIAM, ERIC IDLE, TERRY JONES Book and Music by

From the original screenplay by

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MICHAEL PALIN

Original Broadway Production Produced by Boyett Ostar Productions, The Shubert Organization, Arielle Tepper Madover, Stephanie McClelland/Lawrence Horowitz, Elan V McAllister/Allan S. Gordon, Independent Presenters Network, Roy Furman, GRS Associates, Jam Theatricals, TGA Entertainment, & Clear Channel Entertainment.

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Friday 2 – Saturday 24 March 2018 Derby Theatre raises a glass with this brilliant comic two-hander.

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Amanda Penman editor Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.

There are still four more shopping weekends until the big day so you have plenty of time to peruse the pages of artsbeat for inspiration for the perfect gift.

If you haven’t done so before then make this the year that you choose to support independent shops, designers and makers.

When you buy something from a small business like those advertising on the pages of artsbeat you can be certain you will be buying something made with love and passion and you will be supporting the local economy into the bargain.

You could even consider buying a 2018 subscription to artsbeat for a special friend.

Details are on page 40. If you get your order to me before December 18 I will send a free copy of this month’s magazine and a letter informing the lucky recipient of their good fortune.

Don’t forget that the December and January editions are combined so there won’t be another artsbeat until February.

Artsbeat celebrates its fifth anniversary that month and would love to hear from anyone else who is reaching that milestone in 2018. Email me at the address below: email:

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performance

22 County fireman Andy Quinn’s Unexpected opportunity to shine 32 Comedian Ed Byrne chats about his dad, parenting and childhood 45 It’s that time of year again and we preview the top family shows

artists & exhibitions

9 Landscape artist Roger Allen tells us about his rural realism 28 Painter Michael Cook returns to his roots with The Manger Gallery

film & photography

21 Star Wars classic launches a new era of cinema in Buxton 35 Ancient Derbyshire pathway inspires Sarah Stanton Longdon

literature

44 Westminster Big Beasts on guest list for Derby Book Festival 60 Turn to artsbeat’s bookshelf for a selection of festive gift ideas

have a go

39-42 Time for a new hobby?

Browse our workshop listings

gallery

25-27 Our pick of the exhibitions at county galleries this winter

regulars

15-19 The latest news in arena 51-55 Don’t miss a beat with music 57-59 Arts reviews in attitude 61-66 What’s on listings in agenda

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It’s virtual reality Amanda Penman catches up with rural watercolour artist Roger Allen

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aterialism is not something that bothers landscape artist Roger Allen.

He doesn’t covet the latest gadgets or have to wear a certain brand.

You won’t find him stressing over owning a Porsche or for that matter getting on the property ladder – all he cares

about is his painting and the landscape surrounding him.

“So long as I have enough money to eat and something left for a pint at the pub at the end of the week I am more than happy,” he says.

Roger moved to Brassington 20 years ago into lodgings at Hoe Grange Farm and is now pretty much part of the fixtures and fittings.

Before he could make a living from art he had done casual

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farm work to supplement his earnings as an artist, so he is a handy chap to have around the yard in an emergency.

That’s where I first meet him having made my way down the track to the farm. Not knowing anything about the artist’s life beforehand I was, I admit, expecting to be taken to a plush studio converted from a farm building.

But as I step from the car and shake his hand he instead leads me to a modest-sized caravan Above: On the behind the farm and backing Edge on to fields.

Right: Sedbergh and the Howgills, The 66-year-old artist senses my surprise and explains that which was the simplicity of his life-style selected for the Sunday Times suits him fine.

Watercolour “I have everything I need to Exhibition work in here,” he says and it is Previous page: true, with amazing ingenuity he Cattle Against has managed to fit an enormous Hawthorns and Roger painting amount of studio kit into the en plein air space.

“Much of the time I am outside Go to website though, so the space I have in rogerallen.co.uk here is not an issue. I usually to see more of his work work en plein air as I love to

The landscape

provides me with endless inspiration for my paintings work from nature. My long association with farming means that I know this is a working landscape and therefore my closely observed work is more realism than idealism.

“The landscape here is what provides me with constant inspiration for my paintings.

There’s moorland, rocky outcrops, parkland and plenty of clumps of trees. The farm has 200 acres and reckon I have painted practically every square inch since I arrived,” he said with a smile.

Roger was born in Yorkshire and moved to Wellingborough in Northamptonshire with his family as a child. He completed his education there and then went on to teacher training college.

“Art was not considered a serious subject in those days and I was resigned to the idea that I would have to have a career first and do my art as a hobby.

“That didn’t last long though.

I did my probationary year and hated every minute of it. I decided I was going to do what I wanted to do and become an artist.

“At 16 I had a Saturday job on a farm and I continued to do some casual work until I established myself and, eventually I got into a gallery near Towcester and I ended up selling everything I produced.

“Over the years since then it has been a bit hand to mouth, but I am happy just painting and don’t want for anything else.”

Roger is a member of the Peak District Artisans and says making the move to join up with other like-minded people has been great for him.

“Being totally isolated from people I could get in a rut,

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so I do like to be able to communicate with people on a similar wavelength and I enjoy exhibiting my work at the events. To be honest I have never been one for putting myself or my work out there, so it is something I need to make an effort to do.”

Having said that, Roger does enter his paintings into competitions and has won awards at the Derby City Open and the Derbyshire Open many times.

This year his painting Sedbergh and the Howgills was selected for the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London and is now at Trowbridge Arts until December 23. It will be moving to Guildford House Gallery from January 13-March10.

He will be taking part in the PDA exhibition at Chatsworth House from January until March and also has paintings at Cromford Studio and Gallery.

The Marlow Gallery

A wonderful selection of paintings, ceramics and sculpture Please make an appointment to view The close, Church square,Melbourne, Derbyshire email studio@themarlowgallery.co.uk or telephone Emily on 07980550812

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ne name that has passed the lips of many artists and makers that I have interviewed is Rachael Chambers, pictured. They might be exhibiting work in her gallery, been given expert advice by her or wishing they had sought it out – the one thing they all have in common is that they all extol her virtues.

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Rachael is the owner of Ferrers Gallery based at the Ferrers Centre for Arts and Crafts at Staunton Harold.

The multi-award-winning gallery features the work of more than 100 British contemporary designer makers

Celebrating “ the best of British over three floors, so you might think that would keep Rachael busy enough. But no, she also shares her knowledge and expertise with individuals, groups and even universities as a creative business mentor and coach. She is also Contemporary Craft Editor for craft&design magazine and has recently begun writing for Ceramic Review.

It is her work-hard ethic coupled with her easy going personality and natural openness that has garnered her the respect of the arts community and won her two businesswoman of the year awards.

Rachael recently celebrated 15 years at the gallery with a gathering of staff past and present. Among them was her

own 14-year-old son Jake who has started working occasional days at the gallery. The proud mum explains that this was especially fitting as she found out she was pregnant at the same time as she took over the gallery.

“When you look back it wasn’t ideal timing, but I love the fact that Jake was with me from the start. He wants to work in design, and he seems to have a good eye for it, so it is good to see him building his confidence working here,” she said.

Before making the bold decision to take on the gallery Rachael worked in arts, education and tourism marketing. She had reached a point in her life when she needed to make some changes and spotted an advert for a

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I couldn’t be happier with what I’m doing now. I work with some wonderful designer-makers

gallery business for sale in a magazine.

“I didn’t know anything about the craft industry or have any retail experience but I am a quick learner, not easily fazed and I saw things I wanted to change. My marketing and PR background really helped.

“I wanted everything exhibited to be British and I wanted it to be the sort of gallery where everyone felt welcome and they could browse and look at craftsmanship from all sorts of disciplines. I want people to be surprised by what they like.”

One of the unique elements of the gallery is that there are so many designer makers, and that they continually change.

“Without the artists I would not be here, that’s why I am pleased to guide support them.

After a while it started to become known that I was open with my advice and more and more people were asking me for guidance, which is when I decided to offer mentoring and coaching workshops.

“I couldn’t be happier with what I am doing now. I work with some wonderful designer makers, get to meet others across the UK through my journalism and am able to pass on my knowledge and help others with the mentoring.

“I’m looking forward to what the next 15 years may have in store.”

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Look no further for news of candlelit tours, republished cartoons, dirty stop-outs, award winners and a poster girl Chatsworth has some Dickensian

treats in store THE Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future will visit Chatsworth this year as the festive season is given a Victorian gothic twist with Oh Dickens! It’s Christmas, a celebration of Charles Dickens’ best loved works.

Actors playing Fagin and Miss Havisham and others from Dickens’ rich cast of characters will bring the theme to life, along with room guides in period costume, as they roam around in the fog and gaslight of Chatsworth’s grand rooms.

Visitors of all ages can join in the fun by choosing from dozens of character costumes made by Chatsworth’s textile team and ready to try.

Rooms throughout the house feature period sets that evoke

both the splendour and squalor of Dickensian London.

As well as the London docks and Victorian shop fronts, specific scenes from the books, such as Scrooge’s bed, have been recreated in detail.

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This enchanting interpretation of Dickens’ novels will feature large-scale illustrations, wall murals, sound and light effects, projections and props.

Artists such as the paper sculptor Su Blackwell are working with Chatsworth to help recreate the Christmas spirit that Dickens sought to highlight.

Displays will also include related items from Chatsworth’s own collections, such as letters from Dickens himself to the 6th Duke of Devonshire; first editions of books including Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities; and letters from Duchess Georgiana to her mother from Paris during the uprising referenced in A Tale of Two Cities. n The exhibition is on until January 7. For more details go to chatsworthhouse.org

arena Spring arts dates PREPARATIONS are well under way for the sixth Belper Arts Festival which will run from May 6-28 next year.

Already confirmed is the Arts Trail on May 6 and 7, the Music Festival at St. Peter’s Church May 13-19, the enchanting Woollen Woods May 12-19 and Belper Open Houses May 26-28.

Following the huge success of the World War One play Hamp last year, Larry Waller returns to the director’s chair with Nell Gwynn by Jessica Swale. Originally commissioned by the Globe Theatre, the play won an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2016.

Event Application Forms can be downloaded from belperartsfestival.org. The deadline for applications is January 31 2018.

Project continues

THE First Art project working in the north east of the county has received three more years of Arts Council England funding for its the Creative People and Places programme.

Since 2014 First Art has been inspiring people in Ashfield, Bolsover, Mansfield and North-East Derbyshire to get more involved in art.

So far the project has engaged with over 180,000 people and delivered more than 200 events – from small workshops and mentoring sessions to outdoor festivals and international broadcasts.

Tony Trafford, Chair of First Art said: “This is fantastic news. It’s a great vote of confidence in the work we’re doing. We can’t wait to build on the foundations of phase one and keep working within these vibrant communities.”

WITH great charm, enormous wit and a good deal of slapstick glove puppet inventiveness, two familar tales, Little Red Riding Hood and Robin Hood, are interwoven in a fast and funny family show.

Little Red Robin Hood is being staged by Garlic Theatre at Parwich Memorial Hall on December 9 at 3pm and Draycott-in-the-Clay Village Hall on December 15, at 6pm.

A brave Robin Hood goes on

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Puppet slapstick a quest to find the missing Little Red Riding Hood helped by a kind rabbit and hindered by an old wolf who looks more than a little like the Sheriff of Nottingham.

For tickets to Parwich telephone 07846 906848 and for Draycott 01283 820357.

This is a Live & Local production for details of other shows in the region this month go to liveandlocal.org.uk A PEAK Distirct woman has won the Young Designer of the Year 2017 at the Midlands Fashion Awards.

Harriet Eccleston, who lives at Stanton-in-the-Peak, and was a pupil at Lady Manners School, Bakewell, granduated from Northumbria University this year and has now set up her own fashion label creating original and unique pieces, for the independent, modern woman.

You can read more about Harriet, pictured left adding finishing touches to a model at the fashion awards, in the next issue of artsbeat.

arena New Spamalot SPAMALOT the musical is back in a brand-new production which you can see at Buxton Opera House from January 16-20.

Very loosely based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot tells the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and their quest to find a fabled relic.

For tickets go to buxtonoperahouse.org.uk It can also be seen at Derby Theatre in April. Go to derbytheatre.co.uk for tickets and more information.

Making space A NEW shop promoting art, homewares and gifts by independent artists, makers and designers has opened its doors in Ashbourne.

The Makers has been created by 32-year-old Sally Bryan from Derby, who has a passion for all things creative.

“It was a case of finding the perfect premises and then I could start working on my plans,” she said.

Helen on TV LONG Eaton-based artist Helen Hallows was a competitior in the current series of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year.

She was selected from more than 3,000 applicants as one of 48 artists to take part in six televised heats with one artist from each heat going forward to the semi-final.

“Everyone on the production were so supportive and helpful. It was great to meet the presenters Frank Skinner and Joan Bakewell,” she said.

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“When this shop at 47 Church Street became available I knew straight away it was the place for me as it is warm and welcoming and has a traditional but quirky feel.

“It is a great place to display the work.”

The shop is open Tuesday to Saturday.

Go to The Makers Ashbourne on facebook for more details.

Sally updates it frequently with details about the artists and makers in the shop.

arena StarDisc debate HAARLEM Artspace at Haarlem Mill, in Wirksworth, is staging a series of talks as part of the Internal Nebular exhibition which was staged at the Wirksworth Festival.

The next one on January 25 is by Aidan Shingler, who is an artist and was the creator of StarDisc, a cultural landmark, 21st century stone circle and amphitheatre in Wirksworth that stimulates curiosity, encourages enquiry about the universe, and ignites the imagination.

Each talk lasts approximately 15-20 minutes followed by a Q&A session and then discussions will be opened out to the audience.

The talks are being made into podcasts which you can listen and download for free from soundcloud.com/ haarlemartspace For more details go to haarlem artspace.co.uk

Woodland award

GREENWOOD Days, based in woodland near the Ferrers Centre at Staunton Harold, has been awarded Best Woodland Craft Courses by woodlands.co.uk The awards in their inaugral year aim to give recognition to all the good work that is being done – professionally or for pleasure – in the woodland sector.

Peter Wood, who runs the centre is thrilled and said: “It’s really heartening to learn how much people enjoy coming out to the wood, having a good time and learning different skills and that people are prepared to take the time to write this down and support me.

“Many thanks to all the people who nominated the centre.”

NEXT spring Derby Theatre is promising an exciting programme of drama.

It will include a classic comic two-hander; top quality touring productions; a wealth of fabulous family shows; a Youth Theatre double bill; a national festival for young people; an exciting and eclectic season of cutting edge and thrilling Studio shows and some great one nighters; The theatre’s big production for the spring, from March 2-24, will be Jim Cartwright’s brilliant comic double-hander, TWO. A bickering husband and

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Looking to spring wife, and the dozen regulars who pass through their pub in an evening, are played by two actors. As a range of colourful characters pull up a stool, the rich tapestry of their interconnecting lives is revealed.

Starring in TWO will be Sean McKenzie and Jo Mousley.

Sean, who lives in Derbyshire, has a wealth of theatre and TV credits to his name including, most recently, the National Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

ART lover Louise Potter has a dream hobby – buying paintings by old masters with other people’s money… And it’s led to her getting her own portrait hung in a London Gallery.

Louise, owner of Buxton’s No 6 Tea Rooms, is a member of the Art Fund, a charity which raises money to buy art vital to the nation’s heritage in danger of being sold abroad.

The charity used her photograph in a giant poster (left) in the Royal Academy to promote its work with the slogan: “Louise Potter.

Serious collector of teapots, cake recipes and Monets.”

arena Candlelit tours HADDON Hall, near Bakewell, will again host Candlelight Tours this December.

The evening will begin with a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie and then guests will join a guide on an enchanting tour taking in the history and beauty by candlelight.

Pre-booking is essential, and can be done at haddonhall. co.uk.

The tours will be on December 4-6, 13-15 and 18.

On certain evenings you can also to enjoy a two-course dinner at the Hall’s restaurant to accompany the tour.

Dirty stop-outs NORTH East Derbyshire’s booming Working Men’s Club scene of the 1970s is celebrated in a new book by Neil Anderson – Dirty Stop Outs’ Guide to Working Men’s Clubs. With more than four million members frequenting clubs across the country, the movement’s influence permeated every sector of society and helped turn Bernie Clifton, pictured left,

Book recreated THE former owner of Scrivener’s bookshop in Buxton, Alastair Scrivener, found some loose pages from a scarce book of 50 cartoons about Buxton, originally published in the town’s newspaper in 1873 and then in the book in 1879.

Alastair’s pages were worn and incomplete but after some research the bookshop has found the only remaining complete copy, and have reprinted a new edition of 50 copies which are available at the bookshop.

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into a national TV star.

Bernie Clifton was still selling vacuum cleaners, door-todoor, before he got his first big break at the newly-opened Newbold Working Men’s Club in the early 1960s.

Neil has spent the past three years researching the movement and the book includes scores of rare photos together with interviews with performers, punters and more.

The book is available from all good bookshops at £13.95.

Chatsworth Road: Rowsley: Derbyshire: DE4 2EH: 01629 735580: info@gallerytop.co.uk: www.gallerytop.co.uk

Archway & Arbour Michael Cook Ingleby Gallery 26th November - 10th December Preview Sunday 26th noon until 4pm Ingleby, Nr Melbourne, Derbsyhire DE73 7HW Telephone Gill Watson 01332 865995 email gillwatson@ingleby-gallery.co.uk website www.ingleby-gallery.co.uk

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tar Wars: The Last Jedi is the blockbuster film which will launch Buxton’s new cinema this month.

There will now be no need for film fans to head off to one of the larger towns or cities to see the latest movies as after 30 years the town finally has a dedicated cinema space.

Buxton has been without a permanent film venue since the closure of the Spa Cinema in the 80s so the High Peak Theatre Trust, which runs the Opera House and Pavilion Arts, has decided to do something about it and has specially adapted the Pavilion Arts Centre.

It has been updated with a new and larger screen, and a new projector and they promise that the cinema is a developing project with more exciting changes being introduced over time.

Fans of community cinema Buxton Film will be pleased to know that it is still going strong and will continue to show a variety of arthouse films in the Studio Theatre on Monday evenings.

As well as screening all the latest films Buxton Cinema will also offer live and Encore screenings from prestigious theatre companies from across the UK. In December you will be able to see Young Marx from

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the National Theatre and in February there will be a chance to see the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Twelfth Night and the National Theatre’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. There are also plans for dementia friendly, family and silver screenings and in the new year they will be launching a membership scheme.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi will be screened at the new cinema from December 14-28. Scan the QR code for a trailer.

To buy tickets contact Buxton Opera House Box Office, 01298 72190 or visit: buxtonopera house.org.uk

All Star Wars pictures courtesy of image.net by Getty Images

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ife was never going to be quite the same for Heanor firefighter Andy Quinn once he became the Unexpected Star on Michael McIntyre’s Big Show.

But it took him a few months

The Unexpected to realise that if he didn’t pluck up the courage to take advantage of his new-found fame, life would just back to the way it was before he stepped out onto the Drury Lane stage in front of a live audience of 2,500 not to mention the BBC1 show’s 6.5million viewers.

Now a year later he has got a handle on what he needs to do and thanks to help from a Kickstarter campaign he is about to launch his first album (called Unexpected Star of course) of songs from musical theatre, which includes his debut single that has been written especially for him.

He has a promotional website and professional photographs and he is in demand to perform as a soloist at top class concerts.

If you want to see him sing he will be the vocalist at the New Year’s Eve Gala at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham.

At the concert, named Always On My Mind, he will join Derbyshire-based Sinfonia Viva to perform a number of musical theatre and swing numbers.

“This year has been amazing but it would be very easy for things to go back as they were so I have to push myself to take the opportunities in front of me,” said Andy.

“What I dream of doing is taking a year off from the fire service and performing in a big show.

It would such an experience

Surprise TV debut launches career and I would be able to say that I had done it. If it proved to be successful then I might have to rethink my future.

“It would have to be something really appealing to make me go. I think the first thing I have to do is find myself a good agent who would be able to help me find the right show for me.”

Andy, 37, is a fulltime firefighter for the Nottinghamshire service and he is also a retained firefighter in Heanor.

He’s been interested in musical theatre and singing since the age of ten and it sounds as if there aren’t that many musical theatre groups in the area that he has performed with.

He’s been on the stage many a time in Derby, Chesterfield and Mansfield and says he has been lucky enough to take on many lead roles such as Freddie in Chess, Curly in Oklahoma and Fred in Kiss Me Kate.

He first met his wife, Emma, while they were on stage together in Calamity Jane in Belper.

She knew her husband had it in him to be a star but that he just needed a bit of a push.

“If she had put me up for X-Factor or something like that she knew I just wouldn’t do it.

The only way was to surprise me so I couldn’t get out of it,” explained Andy.

She certainly didn’t do anything by halves and with the help of a couple of his pals in the fire service she tricked him into travelling to London under the pretence he was delivering a fire safety talk.

His face when he walked out on to the stage and suddenly realised what was happening was a picture.

An hour or so later he was performing a rendition of Bring Him Home from Les Miserables.

If you haven’t seen it then you need to watch by scanning the QR code below.

It will make you cry. Especially when you see the reaction of his father and Emma in the audience.

“My parents supported me through all my years of theatre and singing and have always been so supportive and I have to thank them for everything,” he said.

“They’ve also had to buy no end of tickets to come and watch me perform,” he added with a laugh. n If you want tickets to see Andy sing on New Year’s Eve go to trch. co.uk To find out what he is up to next year go to andyquinn.co.uk

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artsbeat previews this month’s go-to exhibitions – turn to the agenda pages for more details and other galleries Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington

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he Christmas Exhibition at Tarpey Gallery is a selection of new work by newly-joined and longstanding represented artists.

The exhibition will have a focus on contemporary painting, print and sculpture from a select group of seven local artists – Andrew Macara, Colin Halliday, Lois Wallace, Michelle Keegan, David Sprakes, Matthew Strong and Heather Duncan.

From the sun dappled landscapes of internationally reknowned Derby based painter Andrew Macara to the punchy linocuts of up-and-coming

printmaker Matthew Strong and the sublime oil paintings on copper by Midlands Open 2016 winner Lois Wallace (above) the exhibition aims to

St John Street Gallery, Ashbourne

The gallery is hosting a collection of artwork by their stable of artists in December, with special festive prices on all original art.

There is beautiful new work on display by painters Wendy Darker (right), Catriona Hall, Anna Thomas, John Connolly, Lewis Nobleand Mandy Kay sculptor Karen Williams, and many more.

Thegallery will be open on Sundays as well in December, from 10am – 4pm.

They will also be open for late night shopping on Friday December 8, when Wendy Darker will be available to personalise any of her art purchased.

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offer a diverse and engaging exhibition of styles, subject matters and mediums.

The exhibition will be on from December 9-January 28.

gallery Gallerytop, Rowsley

The Christmas exhibition runs throughout December with a range of original artwork with gifts in mind.

They have work by some nationally acclaimed artists including paintings by Kristan Baggaley, Rex Preston and Mike Bernard RI as well as Paula Sharples whose naïve still lives are new to the gallery.

Craig Underhill (Looking Out pictured) and Barry Stedman return to the gallery with their painterly ceramics, complementing the raw earthiness of Paul Wearing’s vessels.

There are new animal sculptures by the ever popular Guy Holder, Blandine Anderson and Elaine Peto; new iconic prints by Angela Harding and lino prints by Jane Walker and newcomer Melvyn Evans. Go to gallerytop.co.uk for more details.

Banks Mill, Derby Once Upon a Time... is a solo exhibition by illustrator Pandora Johnson of Green Door Printmaking Studio on until February 7.

It explores traditional fairy tales from a modern perspective.

Featuring works inspired by familiar fables such as Sleeping Beauty (pictured right), Cinderella and Goldilocks and the Three Bears as well as Native American legends, this exhibition offers an updated narrative interpreted through print.

Derwent Gallery, Grindleford Featuring paintings by artists Gareth Buxton, Kristan Baggaley and Pauline Rignall the Derwent Gallery’s Christmas exhibition, Landscape and Light, explores the elemental structure of the landscape in varying weather and light.

Gareth’s paintings in acrylic on canvas of the Moorlands and Peaks of Derbyshire reveal the changing landscape under the weathering effects of the wind and rain, with the moon and light bursting through dark skies, mist and clouds on to the gritstone edges of Stanage and Curbar and the breezy heights of Kinder Scout (left).

Paintings can be previewed at derwentgallery.com and the exhibition is on until January 5.

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gallery Harley Gallery, Welbeck Estate

Made for the Table includes work by leading contemporary artists as well as historic pieces dating back to 1350.

At the exhibition, which is on until January 7, a table is laid ready for a dinner party, beautifully presented with lustrous silver, fine ceramics and colourful glass.

This modern table setting is introduced by pieces from the Goldsmiths’ Company’s collection.

Visitors will see works from leading contemporary makers such as Michael Lloyd, Malcolm Appleby, Jane Short, Angela Cork and Adi Toch, who draw on traditional techniques to craft extraordinary contemporary tableware.

Right: Paul Storr, 5 Light Candelabrum, 1815. Collection: The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. Image © The Goldsmiths’ Company.

Ingleby Gallery, Ingleby Michael Cook returns to Ingleby Gallery for a solo exhibition until December 10 with a collection of charcoal and pencil drawings and acrylic paintings.

They are of archways, some architectural, mostly natural, some entirely imagined, and some of places around his home on the edge of Kings Newton near to Melbourne.

You can read more about Michael and the opening of his own gallery at Kings Newton on page 28.

Cromford Studio and Gallery, Market Place, Cromford

Join Gallery owner Martin Sloman and guest artist Ruth Gray on Saturday December 16, from 10-5 pm for their annual festive celebration.

For five years they have entered into the spirit of Christmas by throwing open the doors and inviting all customers old and new and exhibiting artists to enjoy a mince pie and a drink.

You will be able to view their joint exhibition as well as a wide range of handmade gifts and original artwork and prints.

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LEABROOKS GALLERY

Flower Show

Paintings by Chas Wilby to remind us of the summer December 2nd-15th Open: Monday to Saturday 10am-5pm Wednesday by appointment Sunday 11am-3.30pm

Gallery’s

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Originals

Framing

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Medley

stable which many moons ago would have housed a horse is now home to leaping hares,

A Group of Local Crafts People Christmas Show at The Gothic Warehouse 2nd - 15th December 10 - 4 pm

Janice Allen, Richard Pearson, Fiona Laing, Karina Goodman, Anne Alldread, Ruth Gray, Chantal Kelly.

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Above: Michael Cook in the Manger Gallery, Epiphany Bus Stop, by Rebecca Mercer and Queen of Heaven by Peter Eugene Ball.

Right: Lettering

by Elizabeth Forrest

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prowling foxes, patterned nightjars and other creatures.

The menagerie are all in paintings by Derbyshire artist Michael Cook. These and other figures adorn the walls of what he has named The Manger Gallery.

Michael’s family who were once market gardeners have lived at the farm in Kings Newton, near Melbourne, for more than 120 years.

He was born and brought up in the hamlet with his five elder siblings, and it is there that he spent his childhood, drawing and painting, inspired by the nature he saw around him.

a spiritual home My work is a

distillation of memories of

my chlidhood Eventually he flew the nest and set up home in Derby but, now his parents have died, the family have moved back to their roots.

“It is a small atmospheric gallery in part of my family home and it is the perfect space for the dream-like and densely atmospheric imagery in my drawings and paintings, which is an imaginative distillation of memories and sensations of the gardens, orchards, fields and lanes of my childhood,” explains Michael.

“The over-arching feeling is often melancholy, quietly

joyful, contemplative and soulful,” he added.

He also wants to use the gallery to draw attention to a handful of regional artists whose work links with the concerns evident in his own work. He will be staging regular themed exhibitions that reflect the seasons and the Christian year.

The first of those, Seeing Stars – An Exhibition for the Dark Nights, opens for Advent on December 1 and features the sculptures of Peter Eugene Ball, stained glass by Juliet Forrest, ceramics by Mary Johnson, lettering by Elizabeth Forrest and paintings by Rebecca Mercer, Duncan Pass, John Rattigan, Sarah Sharpe, Anna Thomas and of course Michael himself.

The exhibition will be open

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until February 2 encompassing Christmas, Epiphany and Candlemas. n To visit the gallery go to mangergallery.co.uk or telephone Michael on 01332 862365. n Work by Michael can also be seen this month at Ingleby Gallery. Go to page 27 for more details.

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Seeing Stars An exhibition for the dark nights

1st December to 2nd February Sculpture Peter Eugene Ball Stained glass Juliet Forrest Ceramics Mary Johnson Lettering Elizabeth Forrest Paintings Michael Cook Rebecca Mercer | Duncan Pass John Rattigan | Sarah Sharpe Anna Thomas The Manger Gallery Kings Newton, Derbyshire To visit the gallery go to www.mangergallery.co.uk or telephone Michael Cook on 01332 862365

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Adnams’ best An opportunity to

savour the work of city surrealist

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he first major retrospective of Derby surrealist artist Marion Adnams is to be staged at the city’s Museum and Art Gallery.

Marion Adnams: A Singular Woman, is the first exhibition devoted to Adnams in almost 50 years.

Adnams was born in Otter Street, Derby, in 1898 where she lived, for the most part, until her death in 1995.

During the course of her long life, she forged a reputation as an artist of deeply distinctive and dream-like visions. Some of these paintings resemble the works of surrealists, including Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and Paul Nash, but Adnams’ paintings also reflect an individualism which stemmed, in part, from her own unique perspective and interest in the natural world.

Derby provided a rich source of material for the artist, while the Derbyshire landscape, particularly the White Peak, was also an important influence on her early work.

Significantly, Adnams never provided explanations for her work, believing that it should be interpreted as people wished.

She worked in Derby for much

L’infante égarée (1945)

Manchester Art Gallery and Bridgeman Images

of her life as an art teacher, painting at the weekend and exhibiting her work with the Midland Group of artists at Nottingham, and further afield.

When she retired in 1961, Adnams worked full-time as a professional artist, dividing her time between Derby and southern France where she had a second home.

Sadly, within just eight years, failing eyesight forced her to stop painting altogether.

This exhibition brings together work by Adnams from the Derby Museums collection, as well as paintings, drawings,

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prints, and personal objects on loan from both private and civic collections.

The exhibition will be on display at Derby Museum and Art Gallery from December 2 until March 4.

Lucy Bamford, Senior Curator of Fine Art at Derby Museums said: “Marion Adnams has become something of a forgotten artist.”

The exhibition has been curated in partnership with independent researcher Val Wood, and Teresa Forde, senior lecturer in film and media, at the University of Derby.

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d Byrne is firmly of a belief that the current generation of parents spoil their kids rotten whether it’s to do with the ever-increasing size of garden trampolines, or his own kids’ demand for elderflower cordial, writes Brian Donaldson.

“My dad wasn’t a bad dad, he was just a 1970s dad. If I never see my children ever again from this moment on, I’ve already done more parenting then he did in my entire life.

But, of course, I made a conscious decision that I was going to be an awesome dad.

“My wife will come back with tales from her friends of how awful their husbands are and she’ll see me smiling and say ‘alright, stop congratulating yourself just because such and such can’t be left alone with their children for two minutes’.”

In his new touring show, the perfectly-titled Spoiler Alert, the Irish comic compares and contrasts the old-school child-rearing days with 21st century methods and suggests that there are different ways to learn how to be a mum or dad.

“I grew up in what I would call an aspirational household in that my parents bettered themselves over the course of my childhood. I’d still say that you are expected to do a lot more parenting than our parents did and that’s a weird thing because you tend to think that your parents are where you learned parenting from.

But you don’t, really, it’s more that you look around you to see what’s going on with other parents.”

As well as stories about his two young sons, Ed weaves in routines about running out of petrol in the most awkward place imaginable, helping rescue an injured man in the Cairngorms, and the nationdividing campaign and result of the EU referendum.

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His way of tackling Brexit is to draw an analogy with the time his son was determined to touch an electric fence with his dad trying to warn him of the dangers.

“I was telling the story of the electric fence for a while, and then suddenly it struck me that it was Brexit in microcosm. I don’t want to alienate half of the population or maybe a third of my audience, but it works as an analogy whichever side you’re on.

“The government told you not to do this and that it would be a terrible idea, but you said ‘no, we want to do it anyway’.

So now we’re doing it and it’s proving a terrible idea. I do think it’s a fair analogy, but no doubt for some it will come across as me being a typical liberal elite Remoaner.”

Spoiler Alert also continues a theme that he’s tackled in previous shows, that of his gradual shift from being a working-class Dubliner to a fully paid-up rural-residing member of the middle classes.

And in the poster for his tour, he brandishes other signifiers of social mobility: a bowtie and chainsaw. “It’s one of two I own: that one is the smaller of the two,” Ed remarks – of his chainsaw rather than his neckwear. n Ed will be appearing at The Winding Wheel, Chesterfield, on December 13, The Gatehouse, Stafford, on January 26, Sheffield City Hall on March 2, Buxton Opera House on March 4 and Derby Arena on April 20. Go on – spoil yourself!

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LANDSCAPE AND LIGHT Exhibition of paintings of the Peak District

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Making tracks for The Chevin Photographer has a special affinity with captivating ancient pathway

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he Chevin, an ancient track along a hill that rises above Belper to the west, has a very special place in the heart of photographer Sarah Stanton Longdon.

For the past 30 years she has lived in Tower Cottage at Milford, at the end of what remains of the prehistoric route used by the Romans to transport lead across the county.

Every day she walks her dogs there, her sons grew up playing among the centuries-old trees, and it is even the place where she met her husband Mark.

So it seems especially fitting that the pictures she takes of the Chevin are helping her photographic career take off.

At Belper Festival Arts Trail in the spring, her images of the landscape, with its marks made by both nature and man gained many favourable plaudits and even the admiration of one of Derbyshire’s best known photographers, Ashley Franklin.

“It is such a big reward for

Sarah Stanton Longdon and her terrier Neddy

me for my work to be liked by people. It has changed everything for me. Not only do they like it, but they buy prints and I am being offered work,” she said enthusiastically.

Sarah was brought up in Windley, which is not too far from her home now, as the crow flies, so being surrounded by the beautiful Derbyshire landscape she has always been an outdoors girl.

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PICTURE: Caroline Bridges

“Living in the countryside was a huge influence on me when I was young and I have loved taking photographs for as long as I can remember.

“My family is a creative one, I’m one of five children and my parents surrounded us with music and art throughout our childhood.

“I had my first camera when I was about 12 and

my grandfather, who was a typesetter and a keen photographer, had good eye gave me lots of feedback on my pictures. He was always explaining how I could improve what I had done and encouraging me.

“I really valued his opinions and with his ideas I would go out and try again with the picture. He really inspired me,” she said.

After school Sarah trained as a psychiatric nurse but once her sons were at school she decided to pursue her creative side and enrolled at the University of Derby.

“I did an arts foundation year

I love the rugged

edges, changing light and shadows and then a BA in Graphic Design. I had an amazing time and loved it. What I learned has definitely influenced the composition, meaning and visual messages in my pictures.”

For several years Sarah then worked as a cover supervisor in the art, music and technology departments at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Ashbourne.

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Main picture: Chevin Trees. Left: Baler in the W

Three years ago she gave up the job to start her own business designing speciality cakes, but that business has now been nudged out of the way by the success of her photography.

She is a member of Derby City Photographic Club and the TOGS club run by Derby Telegraph photographer Victoria Wilcox.

“It is brilliant being a member of the clubs as they have given

Winter Sun, Hazelwood and Belper’s East Mill Water Reflection and, right, A Dunnock

me a lot of opportunities to do things I would not normally have had access to, pushed me out of my comfort zone and given me more confidence.

“The one place I really love working is the Chevin – I take pictures there almost every day. I love the rugged edges, the changing light and the shadows.

“I am especially interested in the scars and marks left on the landscape by farming, industry

and geology. I am so lucky to live in such a special place.”

In the not too distant future Sarah hopes that she will be able to open up her own gallery at her home.

“I would really love to exhibit my work alongside other local photographers and artists and am really excited about it.

Watch this space.” n Sarah has a facebook page sarahlongdonphotography

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have a go Thinking about making all your own Christmas gifts this year? There’s a wealth of craft workshops here to help Alfreton Life Drawing Classes, Firs House, Firs Gardens, Alfreton n There is no teacher, so you are free to express yourself artistically.

Please bring your own materials and equipment. Everyone over 18 is welcome, £7 per session, Thursdays, 7pm-9pm. For further information contact Julie on 07881383282 .

Ami James, Textile Artist and Sewing Studio 64-66 High Street Swadlincote For more details go to simplyneedlecraft.com Anne Alldread Textiles n Regular felt making workshops in Belper covering a variety of felting techniques, from the basics, to creating a beautiful scarf, cushion or wall hanging. Or you can join in at the weekly textile groups now on Monday, 2-4pm and Wednesday 10am-12.30pm, to try tapestry, weaving, collage, mixed media, printing, design and much more.

A small friendly group with an emphasis on enjoyment while creating. For information contact: Anne Alldread on 07817745705, email annealldread@yahoo.co.uk or visit annealldread.com Art Afloat, Birdswood narrowboat, Cromford Canal To book email sales@birdswood.org or telephone 07552 055455 Artcore, Charnwood Street, Derby n Art For Life, Wednesdays, 1-3pm. n Our Stories, which aims to bring together people from migrant communities in a series of ongoing art-based workshops, every Tuesday from 10am-12pm. For further information please email info@ artcoreuk.com or call 01332 384561.

Make a natural

festive wreath at the historic mill If you want to make your own Christmas wreath there are workshops being held at Cromford Mills at the beginning of December The standard package includes instruction and materials to make a moss backed wreath. Or you could treat yourself to the deluxe package, with which you make a Bakewell Community Arts Workshops, Medway Centre n Crafternoons – Third Friday of the month, during term time, 1pm–3pm. n Crafty Kids Club –Tuesdays during term time 10am-noon.

For further details call the Medway Centre on 01629 813638.

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wreath and then indulge in a cream tea or piece of homemade cake in Arkwright’s Café.

You may wish to take your own additions such as baubles, and secateurs and gloves if you have them.

The courses are from December 7-10 either from 11.30pm-12.30pm or 2pm-3pm.

For further details and booking go to cromfordmills.org.uk or telephone 01629 823256.

You can also make wreaths at Pitchblue in Wirksworth and Creartii in Belper.

Bob Neill, Pyrography Tuition n One day courses and group workshops. Contact Bob on 01332 792036 or visit bobneillpyrography. co.uk for details.

Bakewell Piano Studio n Tuition (first lesson free), rehearsal, accompaniment,

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have a go recording, hourly practice room hire. 5 Kings Court, Bakewell, telephone 07811410406 or email lessonsbakewellpianostudio.co.uk Richard Bett’s Jewellery Studio, Belper n Six-session jewellery making courses. Please ring 0787 1240179 to book a place.

Buddhist Meditation, Bakewell n Thursdays – Buddhist Meditation Class, 7.30pm Friends Meeting House, Bakewell. For more information call 07930 975807 samatha.org/bakewell, fb.me/ SamathaBakewell Creartii Art Studio, 17 Green Lane, Belper n Various workshops, after school clubs and courses available throughout the week go to creartii. co.uk for detail. You can read more about this studio on page 49.

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.

Cromford Mill, Cromford n Arkwright Spinsters demonstrating spinning and other crafts, third Sunday of every month, 11-4pm. n Knit and Natter, second Wednesday of every month, 10amnoon. Details at cromfordmills.org.uk Etienne Gallery art classes, In The Flow, Matlock n Etienne Gallery offers year-round studio art classes and workshops taught by experienced artist and teacher, Jason Etienne. Go to jasonetienne.com for details.

Glossop Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild, Glossop Cricket Club, SK13 7AS n Go to glossopstitchedup.blogspot. co.uk for details.

Green Man Gallery, Hardwick Hall, Buxton n The REC Youth Theatre Senior

Company (aged 15 to 19+) meets every Monday during term time from 6.30pm-8.30pm. Come to a session or contact Kitty Randle on recyouththeatre@gmail.com n Buxton Youth Theatre – for people aged 13-18. Professional training from ex-Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts coach Ada and graduate Karina Tomlinson – leading to public performances. Beginners welcome. Meets Tuesdays during term time from 6.30pm-9pm. Call Ada on 07958 597842 for details. n Life drawing, a weekly session for artists at any stage with a professional life model, Tuesdays, 7pm-9pm. Contact Curtis Bollington 07880 535615. Over 18s only. n Dance Classes: For information and to book places, call Catherine Farrimond, on 01298 70984.

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

Green Door Printmaking Studio, Banks Mill, Derby n Screenprinted Christmas Cards, December 2 and 9, 11am-3pm. n Introduction to printmaking, January 8, 15, 22, and 29, 6pm-9m.

For more details and to book online, visit: greendoor-printmaking.co.uk or call 07919 823 097.

Helen Jagger, sustainable textile design n Drop-in sessions at St Ann’s Catholic Rooms, Buxton, Fridays, 9.15am-1.15am. n Buxton Campus, Buxton, Tuesday evenings in term time, 7pm-9pm.

Contact the college on 08000 740099 to book.

Guidance with a range of sewing projects such as household, soft furnishing, dress, and the recycling of fabrics. Go to helenjagger.co.uk for more details.

Helen Moyes, Textile and Mixed Media Artist, Sheffield n Sip and Sew or Knit and Natter, first Monday of the month, 6-7.30pm, in Eccleshall, Sheffield.

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For more information, or to book a place, contact Helen 0796 711 9591 or moyeshelen@gmail.com.

Jenny Oldknow Art, The Oldknow Studio, Pinewood Road, Belper n Weekly Watercolour Painting Club, Term-time Monday mornings 10am-12noon. Advance booking for each half term block is essential, as space is limited. Email jenny. oldknow@btinternet.com to book.

Leabrooks Artists Forum, Leabrooks Arts Complex, Somercotes DE55 4HB n Artists sharing information, ideas and enterprise.

The meetings take place 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.

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

The next courses are on December 9, January 20 and February 17.

Go to louisewestlacedesign.co.uk for booking details.

Little London Gallery, Holloway n Develop your studio practice and techniques with Chris Tkacz, at his Little London Gallery studio in Holloway near Matlock.

Contact Chris Tkacz by email at info@littlelondongallery.co.uk or telephone 01629 534825 for more details.

Long Eaton Art Room, Lime Grove, Long Eaton n Feel Good Fridays – free craft club, 9.30am-11.30am, every Friday until December 15. Open to all ages and abilities. All materials included totally free but donations are welcome. Children and

have a go vulnerable adults will need to be accompanied. For more details go to longeatonartroom.co.uk Lucy Gell, printmaking The Studios, New Mills n Linocut Christmas Greeting Cards, December 3.

More details at lucygell.com/ workshops.

Matlock Artists Society, All Saints Church Hall, Smedley Street n The club’s Portrait Group meets 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 Thursday 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.

Pitchblue Creative, Newbridge Works, Coldwell Street, Wirksworth n Christmas Crafts, December 2, 10am-1pm. n Silk Painted Scarves, December 8, 10am-1pm. n Christmas Natural Wreaths, December 16, 10am-1pm.

Full day workshops from 10am3.30pm with lunch and a half day is until 1pm. You can choose one day or two. Go to pitchbluecreative.com for more details.

Pauline Townsend Silk Painter n Workshops for beginners and improvers in Buxton. Workshop schedule available on the website: silkpainter.co.uk Parkwood Pottery Alfreton n Eight-week evening throwing courses on Thursdays, two-day weekend courses and three-hour taster sessions. Telephone 07919 838108 for more details.

Purple and Grey – courses for emerging artists n From January 2018 Purple and

Grey Derbyshire Art Group will meet every first and third Wednesday of each month 10.30am-12.30pm, at Tansley Village Hall, new members always welcome £4.95.

See purpleandgrey.co.uk for workshops and artist networking events.

The Old House Studio, Woodhead Road, Torside, Glossop n Art courses in the Peak District.

Top UK Artists including Carol Hill, and Tim Fisher, and a variety of media. Workshops which are enjoyable and interactive for all abilities. Small classes maximum ten students. Two-course lunch provided. B&B accommodation available. For information on all workshops available visit pennine-art.uk Tel: 01457 857527 Email: info@pennine-art.uk Scandi Workshops by Needle in the Mill, Banks Mill, Derby n Hygge Lanterns and Cards, Wednesdays, 6.30pm-9pm. n Scandi Embroidery, Fridays 12.30-3pm. For further details, or to book please contact, needleinthemill@gmail.com Instagram:@needleinthemill Small Print Company, 2-3 Friary Street, Derby n Print a Poster Drop-in Sessions, December 9.

Details of various courses at smallprintcompany.co.uk StraightCurves, 104 Saltergate, Chesterfield n A range of arts and crafts workshops and courses for all ages and abilities from accessible studios in Chesterfield. There are also regular events see details below.

Book online www.straightcurves. co.uk 01246 807575 info@ straightcurves.co.uk n Woolly Wednesdays – every Wednesday, 10am-12.30pm and 6.30pm-9pm. All arts and crafts are welcome at this session. n Little Creatives – every Friday 9.45-11.15am, and every Monday

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9.45-1.15am. Little Creatives is a workshop designed especially for pre-school children and their parents. n Book Club – 7-8pm on the third Thursday of the month refreshments included.

The Studios, Union Road, New Mills Peak Scribbling Writers’ Group every other Tuesday of the month, 7-8.30pm. December 12, Christmas Social. n Train Landscape, Drink and Draw, December 1 and ending on December 15 with a Christmas Special, 7pm-9.15pm. n Linocut Christmas Greeting Cards with Lucy Gell, December 3, 10am-4pm. For prices, more details and how to book email emmamakarove@googlemail.com St John Street, Gallery, Ashbourne n Various courses are planned for next year, to book, phone 01335 347425 or email enquiries@ stjohngalleryandcafe.co.uk. More details can be found on the gallery website: stjohngalleryandcafe.co.uk West Studios, Sheffield Road, Chesterfield n Tutored Life Drawing Class by Wallspace Visual Arts, held the first Tuesday of the month. Contact John King on john@wallspacevisualarts. co.uk or phone 07795804793. n Create a hand-felted snowman with Karen Herrick from Harlequin Arts, December 16, 10am-noon. n Ceramics Workshop:Intro: working with clay,. six-week course.

Starts January 8, 6pm-9pm and on January 11 9am-noon. n Advanced Ceramic Techniques. six-week course. Starts January 11, 1pm-4pm n Printmaking Skills: Intro to Print: Collagraph and Lino. five-week course. Starts January 11, 6pm-9pm.

Zantium Studios, Godfrey Hole House, Hopton n Go to zantium.co.uk for further details.

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‘As a teacher, I always took with

me my love for art, design and craft’

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achael Wayne likes to knit, sew, stick, glue, cut paint... so long as it is arty she loves it, she says.

Which is why the former primary school teacher is the perfect person to have set up a new creative space in Belper where she hopes “creativity will come alive for everyone”.

She moved to Belper 15 years ago and has been teaching at a primary school in the town for the last ten.

“As a teacher, I always took with me my love of art, design and craft but I wanted to devote all my time to the subject so last year I started planning this business – Creartii – and finally left school in July,” she explained.

Rachael, 40, found a beautiful old building, which is part of the Strutt estate, in the centre of the town and has filled it with all manner of crafting materials many of which she has sourced from the Play and Recycling Centre, a charity in Werburgh Street Derby.

Rachael Wayne offers children and adults the chance to express their creative side at her Belper studio

Recycling is another of her passions and she proudly shows off her studio aprons that she has created from old pairs of jeans. Ingenious (I couldn’t help that little joke).

Now the space is all set up she is offering after school art clubs, children’s parties, a Wednesday night craft club for everyone, Knit and Natter sessions and a rolling programme of workshops.

For example you can join a Christmas Scandinavian Craft n Creartii art studio can be found at 17 Green Lane, Belper. Go to creartii.co.uk for more details.

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Day on December 16 and there is a family art morning to print festive cards and gift tags with award-winning print maker Duncan Pass on December 17.

The studio spaces are also available for artists who would like to run their own workshops so Rachael would love to hear from anyone who has been searching for the perfect space to get arty.

“This project has been a bit of a lifestyle choice for me but I am so glad I decided to give up teaching in schools and do something for myself. I am just loving what I am doing,” she said.

Political giants at literary event

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en Clarke MP will be one of the headline speakers at the fourth Derby Book Festival in June.

The Father of the House will be in conversation with former MP Alan Johnson, who was one of the most popular guests at this year’s event.

The MP for Rushcliffe has recently published his biography A Kind of Blue, which charts his remarkable progress from workingclass scholarship boy in Nottinghamshire to high political office and the upper echelons of both his party and of government.

Both he and Johnson are music lovers and the event on June 7 at Derby Theatre will include a performance by Derby Jazz featuring some of his favourite music.

The festival, which is from June 1-9, will also welcome former MP and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Roy Hattersley – one of Britain’s most prolific writers – whose latest book The Catholics, recounts Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day.

Ken Clarke MP

The annual Festival Lunch is one of the most popular events, and 2018’s guest will be novelist Dame Margaret Drabble, who is best known for her novels, The Millstone and Jerusalem the Golden.

BBC Radio 4 fans will be in for a treat with two of the station’s biggest stars appearing at the Festival. Tim Bentinck, who has appeared in the long-running series, The Archers, for the past 35 years, will talk about Being David Archer, while PM presenter, Eddie Mair will be in conversation with his former BBC producer and friend, Peter Gallimore to discuss Mair’s book A Good Face for Radio: Confessions of a Radiohead.

Liz Fothergill, the festival chairman, said: “With three successful festivals under our belts we feel we are developing a good understanding of the sort of events that appeal to local people, but we also like

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to try out new events and different genres each year to surprise our audiences. Politics in particular has proved to be a very popular genre at our previous festivals and we feel sure Ken Clarke and Alan Johnson will sell out quickly.”

This year’s debut novelist will be Jo Jakeman, who will launch her first novel Sticks and Stones in July 2018.

Jo lives in Derby and has supported Derby Book Festival as a lead volunteer since its inception in 2015.

“We are thrilled to have our first ‘home grown’ author who has been such a vital part of the development of the festival, and has now gone on to become a published author.

We like to feel the festival has played a small part in getting her there,” said Liz. Festival organisers have also launched a Festival Friends scheme which offers its members priority booking for festival tickets, invitations to special Festival Friends events, a monthly newsletter and ticket offers at the festival. n Tickets for all events will go on sale on April 12, when the programme is officially launched at a special Derby Reads event in QUAD. Tickets will be available online from derbybookfestival.co.uk or in person from the Festival Box Office at QUAD and other venues.

family shows

Pantomimes and Christmas entertainment are all part of the traditional holiday fun – here’s artsbeat’s guide to what’s on Peter Pan will

take the whole family on magical trip to Neverland

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fun and stylish interpretation of the classic story Peter Pan is being staged at Derby Theatre this Christmas.

The theatre’s artistic director Sarah Brigham, says she is thrilled to be able to direct and present J M Barrie’s tale which has been adapted by Olivier award-winning Mike Kenny.

As with previous Derby Theatre Christmas productions, a talented team of actormusicians create a charming and captivating tale for all, with original music, stunning set designs and vibrant costumes.

“Our Peter will be fun, feisty, incredibly inquisitive and ready to soar and explore the mysterious Neverland with a few quirky characters and creatures in tow, all of whom sing and play live instruments,” said Sarah.

“The cast we have assembled is a truly fantastic one, some familiar faces to Derby Theatre and some new ones too; and, once again, I am looking forward immensely to a talented young company

Derb Thea y tre of local young actors joining the professional cast of adult actors.”

Playing the title character will be Jack Brett who is new to Derby Theatre audiences.

Joining Jack, and also new to Derby, will be: Sally Ann Staunton as Wendy; Ru Hamilton as Michael Darling and other characters; Julian Capolei as John Darling and others.

Returning to the Theatre will be: Neal Craig as Captain

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Hook; Esme Sears as Tinkerbell (read more about Derby-born Esme on the following page); Jack Quarton as Smee and other characters and Elizabeth Eves as Mrs Darling and otherss.

Peter Pan is Derby Theatre’s big festive production which should appeal to everyone – an exhilarating and enchanting production, sure to bring out the child in all of us. n It is on from December 2-January 6. For ticket go to derbytheatre.co.uk

family shows Two Derby-born

actors return to city for roles in

festive shows

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he parallels between the lives of two Derbyborn actors entertaining us on city stages this Christmas are too fascinating to ignore.

They have never met, but it would be lovely to think that they might find time to get together for a chat and share a story or two once this festive run is done and dusted.

Gwen Taylor is playing The Enchantress in Beauty and the Beast at Derby Arena while Esme Sears is taking on the role of the mischievious Tinkerbell in Peter Pan at Derby Theatre.

Gwen at 78 is a stalwart of the industry who won many hearts in the UK with her comic role as Peggy Armstrong in the hit TV series Heartbeat.

She has had guest roles in everything from Holby City to Inspector Morse and stage productions of Driving Miss Daisy and the Calendar Girls.

She also had a part in the film Lady in the Van. Despite her fame, Gwen always jumps at the chance to return to her home city.

“I enjoy coming back because everyone is always so lovely to me. They think of me as a local girl made good, and that is a nice feeling to have.

Gwen Taylor is The Enchantress at Derby Arena this Christmas

“I was thrilled when I was approached to be a part of Beauty and the Beast as it gives me a chance to do something out of the ordinary and ridiculous.

“I have to be kind to myself at my age, but I thought I might not have a chance to be part of a pantomime again so I am harnessing all my energy for this challenge. The show is going to be great fun and if I can pull it off there will be some spectacular moments for me – but I mustn’t give too much away.”

While at school in Derby, Gwen loved to perform and was in the Marlowe Players.

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She also had a small part in Jack in the Beanstalk at the Derby Playhouse, but there was never any question of her going to drama school at that time.

“We weren’t well off and I needed to get a job and I went into banking. I don’t regret it at all as I met lots of interesting people and I draw on my younger life for the characters I play.”

But ten years or so later she had put the bank behind her and followed her heart by enrolling at drama school.

By the age of 32 she was playing the 15-year-old pregnant schoolgirl, Jo in a Taste of Honey at the Crucible

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Esme Sears returns to Derby Theatre in the role of Tinkerbell

in Sheffield. It was one of her first big breaks and the rest, as they say, is history.

“It has always been an advantage that I looked younger than my age. It is one of the reasons I am still going at my age today,” she said.

Esme echoed the sentiments of her elder peer.

“I am lucky that I look much younger than I am as it has helped me get parts like this,” she said.

The actor was a pupil at Derby High School and from a very young age her parents encouraged her with dancing, singing and music lessons.

She danced on the stage at Derby Playhouse and was in the National Youth Choir at 17.

“However I was also encouraged academically and went down the very sensible science career path and I trained as a dentist.

“But I was torn between that and my creative side which was burning in the background.

“Eventually I decided that I was an artist and that was what I should be doing .

“My family always taught me that in life I could achieve anything I wanted, the mind is such a powerful thing and we should always follow our passions and dreams.

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“I thank my family for many things but this lesson most of all, as I wouldn’t have achieved the things I have without their guidance and support.”

Esme decided to use the money she was earning as a dentist to put herself through drama school and follow her dream.

She doesn’t regret gaining her dentristy skills, though, and she still practises occasionally if she is not working as an actor.

“While at drama school I wrote to as many artistic directors as I could looking for work and advice and I was amazed when one – Sarah Brigham – got back to me the same day.”

Since that day Sarah has encouraged and mentored the young actor and Esme says working with the artistic director and being a part of a team in a Derby Theatre production is the best way of learning.

“Being here gives you the chance to learn and grow as a performer. Sarah just gives so much.”

Esme landed her first professional part in A Christmas Carol at the theatre in 2014, and the next year took the lead role in Cinderella.

“When I heard this year that they were doing Peter Pan I knew I wanted to be a part of it, and to have the part of Tinkerbell is just perfect for me. I love the complex character that she is.

“The way we are staging the show is challenging and we are all working very hard. I am not going to give away any secrets, but I will say it is a very heartwarming show centred around the lost children.”

family shows Local favourite

Gwen Taylor

Derb y Aren a

joins the cast for

all-star panto

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he star-studded, family panto Beauty and the Beast at Derby Arena will feature the city’s very own Gwen Taylor and Ben Faulk, best known as CBeebies’ Mr Bloom.

Featuring shimmering sets, outrageous costumes, magic, mayhem and monstrous fun, this brand new production promises to be Derby LIVE’s most spectacular panto to date.

The petite French suburb of Spondon-on-the-Seine is ruled

by Prince Phillippe, who values youth and beauty above all else.

One day a mysterious stranger arrives at the castle, offering a single rose in exchange for shelter from a storm, but he dismisses her. The stranger, enchantress (Gwen Taylor), curses him to live as a hideous LITTLE Wolf Entertainment, based at Little Eaton, are the new co-producers of Beauty and the Beast alongside Derby LIVE. The founders of the company Morgan Brind and Alan Bowles are widely considered to be the most exciting and innovative pantomime producers to have emerged in the UK in recent years. They are

Beast unless he learns to truly love and be loved.

Spondon heartthrob and cycling race champion Gaston (Aston Dobson) has set his sights on Belle (Louise Olley), who, unfortunately for him, prefers to concentrate on her studies and helping her eccentric inventor father, Marcel.

Bakery apprentice Idle Jacques also has a bit of a crush.on Belle, while Le Birds bakery, owner Betty Brioche (Morgan Brind), has taken a shine to Belle’s father Marcel.

Deep within the forest Marcel has strayed from the path and is driven by wolves to the doors of a castle. Surrounding

City showtime known for performances of the highest calibre as well as sets and costumes that are second to none.

Morgan, who cut his teeth with Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre, said: “Having grown up in in the city we are delighted to be working with the fantastic team at

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the doorway is a large briar of entwining roses. Remembering Belle’s simple wish to bring her back a single Rose, Marcel plucks one. This angers the owner of the castle and the Beast takes Marcel hostage.

It’s down to Belle and the rest of the gang to rescue Marcel from the Beast, but looks can be deceptive and true beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. n Beauty and the Beast will be on stage at Derby Arena from Tuesday, December 5, ti Sunday, December 31, tickets priced from £14.75 with concessions, group, school and family tickets available.

Read more about Gwen on page 46.

Derb Derby LIVE to y create a brand Aren new production of a Beauty and The Beast with a truly local feel and an exciting star cast.”

Alan added: “We promise our sensational Christmas show at Derby Arena will be the Beast panto you’ve ever seen, you won’t Belle-ieve your eyes!”

family shows Sleeping Beauty

is a festive first

Buxt o Oper n a Hous e

for Buxton

Opera House

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his year’s production of Sleeping Beauty at Buxton Opera House is a first in many respects for High Peak Theatre Trust and its partner production company, CTP Pantomimes.

It’s the first time the theatre has ever staged a pantomime version of the Sleeping Beauty story, but that’s not the only new development.

Director and writer Philip Dart has revealed that the production, starring James Holmes (Clive from BBC’s hit comedy series Miranda) and Jessica Revell (Elektra in CBBC’s Tracy Beaker Returns), will also feature a male actor playing the iconic role of evil fairy Maleficent.

They felt the role was nongender specific and chose the actor they thought would fit the bill best.

BUXTON based Babbling Vagabonds will be returning to Derby LIVE’s Guildhall Theatre, this Christmas, from December 7-28, with a fantastic new family show Prince Stroppy Pants and the Christmas Caper.

Once upon a time there lived a king, who had a son. The prince was the bossiest, stroppiest, snottiest prince that ever did live.

While Sleeping Beauty will be a new experience for dedicated fans of Buxton’s traditional panto – who travel from all over the UK to catch performances – the show nevertheless promises plenty of familiar faces, including James Holmes, who makes his third appearance as Dame.

This time James will play Sleeping Beauty’s nanny, Dame Nanny Nora, who travels forward in time in a bid to rescue the sleeping princess.

Stroppy Pants One day the king promises his son anything his heart desires – if the prince will become more king-like.

He asked for Santa’s sleigh and so the king set off to fetch it.

During his absence the king’s steward proclaims himself Lord Protector,

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Fans may also recognise Matthew Jay Ryan, who played Muddles, the Dame’s hapless son, in last year’s production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Popular performers Zoe Littleton and Haydn Cox will also make a welcome return to the Opera House stage this year. n Sleeping Beauty is from December 9-31. To buy tickets contact Buxton Opera House box office on 01298 72190 or go to buxtonoperahouse.org.uk cancels Christmas Gui ldha and throws Prince ll T h e Stroppy Pants in atre the royal dungeon the prince knows that it’s down to him to escape and find the missing king.

Audiences will follow the Prince along his perilous journey.

For tickets and more details go to derbylive.co.uk

family shows Hold tight – it’s

now or Neverland this Christmas

Pom egr Thea anate Ches tre terfie ld

in Chesterfield

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oist the mainsail.

Ship-loads of pantomimestyle nautical naughtiness is setting sail this Christmas as Chesterfield Theatres hook up with the boy who never grew up in The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan. Defying gravity, Wendy, Michael and John Darling take the second star to the right and straight on till morning as they fly from the rooftops of Victorian London to join Peter, the Lost Boys and the fairy Tinkerbell in Neverland.

There they will find the Jolly Roger anchored and Captain Hook on a mission to outwit and out manoeuvre our hero.

Dame Able Mabel is on course to deliver a titanic treasure chest of sea-faring couture “RUN, run, as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!” Derby Theatre is also present ing The Gingerbread Man – a delicious adventure for ages three and over, and their families, on from December 5-31.

Chase after the cheeky gingerbread hero as he sets off on the biggest adventure of his life.

and the ship’s mate Smee will add to the chock-a-block comedy capers and high sea shenanigans.

You don’t have to believe in fairies, but an awfully big adventure awaits audiences of all ages Sam Attwater (Eastenders and Dancing on Ice) will be playing the part of Captain Hook; Liberty X’s Kelli Young will be playing the part of feisty fun-

For youngsters Out of the kitchen, through the town, across the fields and all the way to the river... now if he could just avoid that sly old fox!

Hiccup Theatre and Derby Theatre cook up a brand new version of this classic tale adding delicious original live music, tasty story-telling and

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loving Tiger Lily and Anthony Sahota (BBC’s Let It Shine) will be starring as Peter Pan. For tickets to the Paul Holman Associates show go to chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk. It will be on at the Pomegranate Theatre from December 2-January 2.

Scan the QR code for a preview.

Stud dollops of fun. i Derb o The cast for The Thea y tre Gingerbread Man includes: John Holt Roberts (Kes and Alice in Wonderland for Derby Theatre); Paula James (Alice in Wonderland for Derby Theatre and Julius Caesar for Guildford Shakespeare Company) and Ivan Stott (composer for, and actor in, the show).

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artsbeat’s essential guide to Derbyshire’s best live music from classical and choirs to indie, rock’n’roll and folk Derby band with debut EP to tour the UK in 2018 IF MATURITY had kicked in a bit earlier then Matt McGuinness, song-writer and front man for Matt McGuinness and the MLC, might be resting his laurels on past accomplishments.

Instead, comes a debut EP which captures his balladeering spirit, wrapped up in a heady blend of indie rock ‘n’ roll with hints of Motown.

As a youngster, Matt’s guitar and songbook were an outlet for never-typical teenage angst, but despite various close encounters with opportunity, the big break never landed in his lap.

Marriage, a handful of children and the ups and downs of earning a living and going

Rock and Pop

Buxton Opera House, Buxton n Ricky Ross from Deacon Blue, December 2, 7.30pm. n 80s Mania, January 13, 7.30pm. n The Illegal Eagles, January 26, 7.30pm.

Details at buxtonoperahouse.org.uk Queen’s Head, Belper n December 9, Belper Bonanza – Sunflower Thieves, Joseph Knight and Laurie Illingworth. n January 27, Headsticks. For more details go to queensheadbelper. weebly.com

bust left the guitar dusty and the songbook on the shelf.

The fast approach of 50, and the successful implementation of an arts organisation in his home town of Derby were the prompts required to reverse this sad state of affairs.

A couple of years back in the saddle and Matt’s songbook is full again, with dirty, tuneful, upbeat and anthemic tunes. ​

The current line-up for the MLC is: Matt McGuinness, vocals and guitar; Dan Byrne, bass; Eileen Wright, tenor sax; Jo May, percussion and Greg Rawson, drums and percussion. ​The debut four-track EP The House of the Dearly Beloved will be released on December 11, to be followed by a UK tour in spring 2018.

The Venue, Derby n Faith – The George Michael Legacy, December 2. n Barry Hyde (The Futureheads), December 6. More details from derbylive.co.uk

n Kathyn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, January 20, 8pm.

Tickets £12 online at WeGotTickets, call 01335 310322 or email hopedalemusic@btinternet.com Bakewell Town Hall, Bakewell n Sheffield Folk Chorale – I am Christmas, December 9, 7.30pm.

Tickets from ticketsource.co.uk/ date/370555. More details at bakewelltownhall.co.uk Belper Folk Club, Old King’s Head, Days Lane, Belper Every Tuesday at 8.30pm. For more details check out their facebook page or go to belperfolkclub.co.uk

Folk and Jazz

Alstonefield Village Hall, Alstonefield n Sally Barker, The Voice That Made Tom Jones Cry, December 2, 8pm. n Christmas Special, Keith Donnelly and Anna Ryder, December 16, 8pm.

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Festive carols in

the Crooked Spire CHESTERFIELD Philharmonic Choir is inviting you to go along to the Crooked Spire in the town on December 17 and enjoy a festive concert of

Carols with the Phil. They will be welcoming the Honley Male Voice Choir from near Huddersfield as their guests together with Jonathan Scott on the organ and Steven Roberts as musical director.

This is a family friendly afternoon and children can go along free.

Other ticket prices are adult

Scarthin Books A homely refuge

Buxton Opera House, Buxton excellent company. December 10 and socialandhub January 21, noon-2pm.

Jazz at the Arts Centre, Andy n A Christmas Cracker of Seasonal Powell, Sunday DecemberNew, 3, 1pm. secondhand and Songs, with with singers, Eleanor For details go to buxtonoperahouse. antiquarian bookshop Mottershead and Bill Holmes, and org.uk almost 100,000 titles Tim Mottershead at the piano.

We buyJazz books andChester music by appointment Chesterfield Club, Hot drinks and seasonal snacks, Street, Chesterfield Vegetarian & VeganDecember Cafe 3, 5.30pm to 7.30pm. n Christmas Jazz Spectacular Further with cosy outdoor seating area details from hello@ – with Jon Mambo and Wayne thegreenmangallery.com Jefferies, December 21.

ContactSunday hello@thegreenmangallery.

Bookshop 9-6pm Monday-Saturday, 10-6pm n Jenni Molloy, January 18. More com or Sunday 01298 937375 for tickets and Cafe 10-5.15pm Monday - Saturday, 10-6pm details at chesterfieldjazz.wordpress. more information. com Listed by the Guardian online as one of Guildhall Theatre, Derby the ten ‘bestDerby bookshops in the world’ Derby Jazz, various venues n G4, Christmas By Candlelight, n The Oxley-Meier Quartet, at The Cromford, Promenade, Scarthin, DE4 3QF December 1.

Victoria Inn, Derby, 8.

Tel: 01629 823272December email: nickscarthin@gmail.com n Martyn Joseph, January 19. n Soul Deep Fusion Trio, Derby Silk Go to derbylive.co.uk for details. www.scarthinbooks.com n Mill Museum, December 15. Go to Live & Local, various event at derby-jazz.co.uk locations Follow us on for details. and watchvarious our film on Green Man Gallery, Buxton n Hannah James, Jigdoll, n The Sunday BuskStop. Free Taddington Village Institute, lunchtime gig by local musicians with December 2, tickets from 01298 soup, bread and cake for lunch and 85384.

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£12, unemployed and full time students £6. Tickets will be available on the door as well as from choir members and the Tourist Information Centre, Chesterfield, telephone 01246 345777/8.

The concert starts at 2.30pm and should finish about 5pm.

For more information go to chestphilchoir.org.uk

n Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies, Yule Do, North Wingfield Community Resource Centre, December 4, 8pm, tickets 01246 856451.. n Ninebarrow In Concert, The Verney Institute, Pleasley, December 10, 8pm, 01623 810035. n The FB Pocket Orchestra, Yoxall Parish Hall, December 16, 8pm, 01543 472700. n Bowjangles, January 27, 7.30pm, Parwich Memorial Hall, 07846 906848. Go to liveandlocal.org.uk for details of times and tickets.

The Old Hall Hotel, Hope n Singers and musicians in the bar, 8pm, every second and fourth Wednesday of the month. n December 13, Martin Heaton. n December 27 Jack’s Rake. n January 10, Alan Robinson. n January 24 Dogwood Rose.

Go to folkandblues.wixsite.com for more details or call 07913331078.

music PR Promotions, Christ Church, Bridge Street, Belper The Young ‘Uns Christmas Show – We Three Sings, December 7, 8pm.

Winners at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. This dynamic trio don their festive jumpers for a light-hearted romp through Christmas past.

Ticket Hotline 01773 853428.

Peak Concerts, Imperial Rooms, Matlock O’Hooley and Tidow, WinterFolk Tour, December 16. More details at peakconcerts.co.uk Winding Wheel, Chesterfield Steeleye Span, December 3, 7.30pm. For tickets go to chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk

Classical Music

Alzheimers Society Christmas Carol Concert Broadway Baptist Church, 186 Broadway, Derby, December 15, 7pm. Ticket Prices are £8 per person or £12 combined (for a person with dementia and their carer) Tickets for children under

Gala Concert, December 31, 9.30pm with dinner at 6.15pm. n La Traviata, from Opera and Ballet International, February 4, 7.30pm.

Details at buxtonoperahouse.org.uk Buxton Musical Society, St John’s Church, Buxton Kathyn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, will be playing for Live & Local at Alstonefield on January 20, 8pm

9 are £5. Tickets can be book by ringing 0330 333 0804 or going to alzheimers.org.uk Tickets will also be available on the door.

Belper Singers, Christ Church, Belper Informal evening of carols at the Tiger Inn, Turnditch, December 13, 8pm.

Buxton Opera House, Buxton n Coffee Concert, Yuan Gong (violin) and Feng Ran (piano), Pavilion Arts Centre, December 8, 1pm. n The British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra presents New Year’s Eve

Christmas with the Society, December 17, 7pm. (Note earlier time) More details from buxtonmusicalsociety.org.uk Chesterfield Gilbert & Sullivan Society, The Crooked Spire, Chesterfield An evening of carols and Christmas music with Plague O’ Bells from Eyam. Seasonal refreshments will be served during the interval.

Tickets are £9 and available from the Visitors Centre 01246 345777, Carole Pilkington 01246 207893 or on the door.

Chapel-en-le-Frith Ladies Choir The choir’s Christmas Concert will be held on December 9, at Buxton Methodist Church, 7.30pm. Guests will be the highly-acclaimed Burbage Brass Band. Tickets will be available

Sally’s voice

charmed Sir Tom SALLY Barker’s songwriting influences range from folk, country, soul and blues, and is best-known for her work with all-female group The Poozies.

Her years of touring have also included supporting the likes of Bob Dylan and Robert Plant.

Millions of TV viewers tuned in to see her flawless performances on the BBC One programme, The Voice UK in 2014.

Following her first performance in the show,

Sir Tom Jones championed her as a finalist, saying she had swept him off his feet.

Sally will be playing at Alstonefield Village Hall

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on December 2, at 8pm, accompanied by multiinstrumentalist wizard, Chris Conway and singer guitarist Dan Britton.

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Divas are raising

funds for charity AN AWARD-WINNING female harmony chorus is raising funds for a Derbyshire sight loss charity in a special concert in Belper on January 26.

DaleDiva are supporting ten charities to celebrate their tenth anniversary and will be performing for Sight from Hall’s Mica hardware Stores in Chapel, or on the door. Further details may be obtained by visiting the choir’s website.

The Dalesmen, St Peter’s Church, Belper Carols and Christmas Music, December 16, 7pm. Tickets from derbylive.co.uk Derby Chamber Music Society, Multi-Faith Centre, Derby University n December 1, 7.30pm, Oliver Wass (harp) and Luba Tunicliffe (viola).

Prokoviev: Romeo and Juliet; Bach: Cello Suite No.5 for viola (selections from); De Falla: Spanish Dance No.1 (from La Vida Breve) for Harp; Britten: Lachrymae for Viola and Harp, Op.48; Saint-Saëns: Fantasie, Op.124; Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d’un Lieu Cher Op.42, Chanson Triste;

Support Derbyshire at The Strutt Centre in Derby Road, Belper.

Based in Cromford, Dale Diva are an award-winning unaccompanied four-part harmony women’s chorus.

From pop to classical, folk to rock and anything in between, they are renowned for sharing their love of singing any time, any place, anywhere.

Sight Support Derbyshire fundraising manager Lynda

Raven said: “We’re thrilled that DaleDiva have chosen us as one of their charities.

Their concert is just the thing to lift the winter blues, and a ticket would make a great Christmas present.”

The show starts at 7.30pm.

Tickets are available online at sightsupportderbyshire. org.uk/events; on 01332 292262, or by email: fundraising@ sightsupportderbyshire. org.uk

Bax: Fantasy Sonata. n January 12, 7.30pm, Colin Stone (piano). Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D minor, Op.31 No.2 Tempest; Schubert: Fantasia in C, D760 Wanderer; Robert Keeley: Selection of Preludes; Rachmaninov: Moments Musicaux, Op.16.

Details at derbychambermusic.org

1.30-2.30pm and 3.30-4.30pm.

More details from derbyconcertorchestra.co.uk

Derby Cathedral, Derby Derby Choral Union, Messiah, December 16. (Tickets from derbylive.co.uk).

Details from derbycathedral.org.

The Derwent Singers Christmas Concert with the Derby Concert Band, December 16, 7.30pm,St Luke’s Church, Parliament Street, Derby. Details at derwentsingers.org.uk

Derby Concert Orchestra n Countdown to Christmas, music to include festive favourites, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker; Beauty and the Beast; Mary Poppins and Ivor Hodgson Fanfare, 7pm, December 9, Derby Cathedral. n A short programme of music for under 11s. St Benedict’s Academy (South Hall) Derby, January 21,

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Derbyshire Singers, Highfields School, Matlock Christmas Cracker with Thoresby Colliery Band and soloist Tim Mirfin, December 16, 7pm. More details at derbyshiresingers.org

Music at Duffield, Ecclesbourne School, Duffield Bemrose Bursary Recital, Sitong Meng (piano), January 27, 7.30pm. For more details go to musicatduffield.com Haddon Hall, Haddon A Chorus of Carols for Christmas.

music December 1-19, 10:30am-5pm.

Entry: £14.50 (adults) £8 (children).

Fireside musings This December, Haddon Hall’s historic rooms will offer a marvellous inspire album journey through the nation’s most beloved carols.

With roaring fires, glistening gold, FIREGAZING is the latest and garlands decorating the Hall, release by Wirksworth’s visitors can take a journey from singer songwriter Brian one room to the next and immerse Boothby. themselves in the sights, sounds Five years in the making, it and senses of each carol. consists of songs brought Each day a different local musical by the many personalities group will be performing. The list who might be gathered includes the Burbage Handbells, around the fire – 12 lyrical Tideswell Singers, Belper Recorders, songs of omen, observation, loss, inspiration, travel and Duffield Singers, Dalesmen and the valediction.

Fishpond Choir among others. More They are brought vividly details at haddonhall.co.uk to life in the singing of Matlock Gilbert & Sullivan Society Brian and the superb All Saints Church, Smedley Street, playing of Chris Ellis, Adam Matlock Summerhayes and Dave Gilbert & Sullivan Gems – a touring Sturt. concert celebrating 25 years of While he was recording the the society, December 2, 7.30pm.. new album Brian also made Favourite songs, solos and choruses from Britain’s best loved operatic n December 16, 7:30pm, Christ duo. Refreshments available. OnChurch, Bridge Street, Belper, street parking. Tickets £8. Contact n December 18, 7:30pm, St John Maureen Corker. Tel. 01629 57172.

A homely refuge the Evangelist Church, Bridge The Sitwell Singers and socialStreet, hubDerby.

Christmas with the SitwellsNew, with Tom Thisand concert features a mix of secondhand Corfield-organ/piano, antiquarian bookshop traditional withand contemporary

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an art piece which he has called The Great Book of Firegazing.

It is an A3, artisan-bound 56-page book containg all the lyrics, poetry, other writings and photography all pertaining to the world from which the album has arisen.

It has yew wood covers which have been used in the design of the album cover.

Go to brianboothby.co.uk for more details Christmas music by Palestrina, Britten, Chilcott and Lauridsen among others.

Tickets from sitwellsingers.org. uk; from Foulds Music, Iron Gate, Derby, 01332 662519 or on the the night.

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project to build and develop arts and culture at schools in Amber Valley is being spearheaded by a small team in Ripley.

Valley Arts aims to inspire children to engage with the arts, to build their confidence and drive, so they can grow into happy, articulate young people.

Behind the project is Chris Howarth, deputy head teacher at St John’s C of E Primary School in Ripley, and teaching assistant Sarah Curzon.

It all sprang from a talent show the school staged during which they realised some pupils, who had not pushed themselves forward in lessons before, suddenly found a voice.

“We believe that access to play, creativity and culture is vital to improve the life chances of the pupils. Getting involved in the arts helps them become more independent as a learner,” explained Chris.

Following the development of the arts curriculum the school then applied to Arts Council England for the Artsmark Award – a programme which supports them in further developing the arts provision

Children enjoy creative play as part of the Valley Arts project

with guidance from East Midlands-based charity The Mighty Creatives.

Pupils can now take part in the Arts Award, which is a bit like the Duke of Edinburgh Award for those interested in anything to do with the arts, whether it’s poetry, photography, filmmaking, acting or painting.

“Since we have developed our curriculum to include the arts we have seen changes in the engagement of the pupils, attendance is better and so are their results,” said Chris.

Their success has led to the creation of Valley Arts and them becoming a hub school for Artsmark and the Art Award with the aim of encouraging more schools in Amber Valley to join in.

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“We are now working with five other schools and have linked up with Swanwick Hall Secondary School and want to add to that in the next year.

“We have held two exhibitions of work at Ripley and Alfreton Libraries and had an open mic night at Made @ No 18 in Alfreton. Next year we plan to join the Belper Arts Trail with work by the pupils,” said Sarah.

The pair are keen to hear from artists or performers who would be happy to share their skills with the pupils in the schools.

They also want to hear from other schools that would like to become a part of Valley Arts. If you can help contact valley@ st-johns.derbyshire.sch.uk

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Comment and opinion from reviewers and readers on the topics being talked about in Derbyshire’s arts community Feel-good show leaves audience

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uite how I had managed to get thus far in my life without seeing the musical Hairspray I don’t know, but that was the case.

On the plus side it meant I could enjoy it with fresh eyes and ears, but it also meant that, unlike just about everyone else, I wasn’t able to join in with the singing – well not at first anyway. I have to confess by the end of the show I was up dancing with the rest of the audience and like them left Buxton Opera House beaming all over my face.

Whether you are a huge Hairspray fan or a firsttimer you can’t fail to love this sparkling version of the smash-hit musical, directed by Paul Kerryson, the executive director of Buxton Opera House.

The stage was an explosion of colour with the slickest of dance routines and spinetingling singing from a wellrehearsed, professional team.

Their timing was impeccable and their energy seemingly inexhaustible.

The voice of Motormouth Maybelle played by X Factor

Rebecca Mendoza, centre, with co-stars Matt Rixon an Norman Pace

star Brenda Edwards was outstanding and she deserved the plaudits she received from the audience.

The dynamic dance moves of Layton Williams, who played Seaweed, were equally enthralling and left us all openmouthed in awe.

However it was Rebecca Mendoza, playing the lead Tracy Turnblad, who was the star of the show.

It is hard to believe this tour is her debut professional performance. She must be destined to be a big star of the stage and I hope I can one day tell my grandchildren I watched Rebecca in her first show.

If you’re not wise to the plot of this feel-good musical then you need to know that it is set in the 60s where Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, is on a mission to follow her dreams.

She sets out to dance her way

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on to The Corny Collins TV show with The Nicest Kids In Town. Tracy is a largerthan-life optimist who is not prepared to let a little thing like size stand in her way, despite the put downs of the bitchy blonde teenager Amber and her venomous mother Velma Von Tussle.

Tracy’s audition makes her a local star and soon she is using her new-found fame to fight for equality, bagging heartthrob Link Larkin (Amber’s boyfriend) along the way.

She sets about overturning the rules that black dancers are only allowed on the show on special days and finds herself in prison in the process.

Obviously, as with all such American tales, good will overcome evil in the end and this ultimate feel-good show is one that you should catch if you can before the tour is over.

A full version of this review can be found on artsbeatblog.com AP

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Mike Wheeler Derby Concert Orchestra, St Peter’s Church, Littleover, Derby Derby Concert Orchestra has championed Judith Weir’s music on two previous occasions. This time the work was Heroic Strokes of the Bow, which takes its cue from the title (not so much the picture itself) of one of Paul Klee’s best-known paintings.

The strings’ frequent rapid repeated-note figures were sharp and incisive, the energy effectively balanced by quieter moments, whimsical or enigmatic as the case may be.

Before the interval Andrew Hubbard, the orchestra’s contrabassoonist, conducted performances of Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, gently calm one minute, fiercely stormy the next, and Mozart’s Symphony No 31, Paris, exuberant and graceful, though with loud moments inclined to be on the heavy side.

Regular conductor Jonathan Trout took over for the second half, in which the Judith Weir was followed by Beethoven’s madcap Symphony No 8. The nicely brisk, clipped second movement was particularly effective, and everyone clearly revelled in Beethoven’s most giddily anarchic finale.

Derby Chamber Music:, Multi-Faith Centre, Derby University Scottish violinist Michael

Scottish violinist Michael Foyle and Estonian pianist Maksim Štšura

Foyle and Estonian pianist Maksim Štšura have one of those perfectly meshing musical partnerships that is a joy to hear. It particularly helps that playing Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata and Franck’s Sonata in A from memory freed them up to focus on their interaction.

The start of the Beethoven was commanding but also thoughtful, balancing lyricism and truculence as it went on.

Paradoxically, its revolutionary features emerged all the more potently for not being overprojected. Contradictory as it sounds, it was a performance that wore its gravitas lightly.

There was an unexpected and delightful tone of whimsicality to the start of the Franck, with a kind of exultant turbulence in the second movement, the improvisational quality of the third nicely caught, and an irresistibly joyous ending to the finale.

I would have liked more of a break before the final group of Elgar pieces, but the same straightforward eloquence informed Chanson de Nuit, while Chanson de Matin

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and Salut d’Amour sounded delightfully fresh and buoyant – capricious, even.

Derwent Singers, St Mary’s Church, Derby, A thoughtfully chosen programme, this, on the theme of Remembrance, with the choral items punctuated by readings from World War 1 poets, including Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg. Helped by the venue’s generous acoustic, the choir produced a wall of sound at big climaxes in works by Ireland, Reger, Rakhmaninov and Stanford, drawing us into the inward tenderness of Wood (though personally I find his Expectans Expectavi a bit too saccharine) and Ravel. Organist Tom Corfield contributed quiet, undemonstrative eloquence in the Elegy by Ernest Farrar.

Howells’ Requiem has no direct connection to WW1, but it made a moving conclusion to the evening, with the choir and the various solo voices projecting both the floating, intertwining lines and the sonorous harmonies with quiet intensity.

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cinema classic Casablanca may be a love story, but the boy and girl have already left on an aeroplane for Portugal before it ends, leaving Humphrey Bogart to walk into the night mists with a man in uniform.

Of course, Bogie playing Rick Blaine has been wrong about many things, and has discovered that he has much to learn. That is why he says to his new companion, ‘Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship’. Either that, or the fact the Captain Reynaud has told him that he has a pocketful of dosh, won gambling.

‘Nearly all of the some 75 actors and actresses cast in Casablanca were immigrants.

Among the 14 who earned a screen credit, only three were born in the United States’,

Uplifting and moving music If you missed the performance of This Man: A Modern Oratorio at St Peter’s Church, in Belper, you missed something very special.

Your only hope is that the vast ensemble of musicians get together for another event. It would be such a waste if it was never heard again.

The oratorio was composed

by Anna de Waal – who accompanied on the piano –

Review by Les Hurst of Scarthin Books, Cromford

writes author Isenberg. It is famously a script written on the hop and based on an unproduced play called Everyone Comes to Rick’s, inspired by playwright Murray Burnett’s own experience of smuggling valuables out of Vienna for Jewish relatives in the short period between and directed by her husband Dana, the internationally acclaimed vocalist from South Africa who now lives in Derby.

The story, which is moving and reflective yet at times quite funny, is set at the foot of the cross where three men face crucifixion, a stranger wanders on to the scene and begins asking questions of the crowd. At first no-one wants to say a word fearing the worst if they are seen to be talking about the man condemned to death. But then slowly they begin to relive the

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the Nazi Anschluss and the outbreak of war. As the film was made the United States, had been neutral for two years, but it premiered only days after the Allies, including the Americans, launched Operation Torch to invade North Africa.

The producers had understood what had happened and what would happen.

If you like books about films and their backgrounds such as this, then you should consider Glenn Frankel’s High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic (Bloomsbury), about a film made ten years later but still reflecting on America and its problems.

‘Play it again, Sam’, ‘The usual suspects’, ‘Shocked, shocked’ – the phrases like the whole of the film remain with us to this day. We’ll Always Have Casablanca tells you why.

We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie by Noah Isenberg (Faber and Faber, £25.00) events of the past few weeks and talk about This Man. The rousing This Man Chorale was made up from the All Saints Singers, Duffield Singers, Fishpond Choir and Sing Ropogo.

The soloists, which included Dana, had an impressive age range and were all utterly superb. As were the musicians playing clarinet, guitar, keyboard, trumpet and percussion.

Keep an eye on the team facebook page for news of any future dates.

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n The Master Photographer: The Journey from Good to Great

By Bob Ryan (Bourchier Books, £24.99)

The Master Photographer is written for photographers ready to invest the time and energy to journey from good to great. Bob Ryan’s book will appeal to anyone intrigued by the integration of psychology, learning theory and photography, and those who want to make a real difference in the development of their art.

For amateur photographers and hobbyists to professionals, Ryan reveals an approach to developing photography skills that is systematic, thorough and, in photographic terms, revolutionary.

He makes a promise to each reader, a promise supported by 40 years of research in the psychology of learning and judgement – research that has the potential to take the reader’s photography to a new level of excellence: He says: “In this book, I train you how to forget. Not to forget in the sense of not being able to remember what you know, but forgetting in the sense of not needing to remember what you know. You just know.”

n Milly, Molly and Maisy: A Tale of Three Kittens

By Sue Wilkins (suewilkins.co.uk, £6.99)

Derbyshire author Sue Wilkins has just published her fourth book.

Milly, Molly and Maisy: A Tale of Three Kittens, another true story, this time of kittens she adopted from an animal welfare shelter – The Ark in Ashbourne.

Each title is produced to a very high quality, with beautiful, glossy, wipe-clean covers (ideal after sticky fingers have been involved) and robust, child-proof bindings.

The illustrations are bold and colourful with just the right amount of childlike humour.

This is a full-length children’s story over 32 pages.

n The Christmas Chronicles

By Nigel Slater (HarperCollins, £26)

The Christmas Chronicles is the story of Nigel Slater’s

love for winter, the scent of fir and spruce, ghost stories read with a glass of sloe gin, and beeswax candles with shadows dancing on the ceiling.

With recipes, decorations, fables and quick fireside suppers, Slater guides you through the essential preparations for Christmas and the New Year, with everything you need to enjoy the winter months.

The book covers everything from Bonfire Night, Christmas and New Year to Epiphany. with more than 100 recipes.

n The Pearl Sister

By Lucinda Riley Pan Macmillan, £16.99)

The Pearl Sister is the fourth book in the bestselling Seven Sisters series.

CeCe D’Apliese has never felt she fitted in anywhere.

Following the death of her father, the elusive billionaire Pa Salt – so-called by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe and named after the Seven Sisters star cluster – she finds herself at breaking point.

Dropping out of art college, CeCe watches as Star, her beloved sister, distances herself to follow her new love, leaving her completely alone.

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Catch the best of the action across Derbyshire and the Peak District with artsbeat’s unbeatable what’s on listings Exhibitions and galleries

The Anvil Gallery, Sadler Gate, Derby Work by various artists including April Young, Keri Pratt, Colin Halliday, Andrew Macara, Daniel Ablitt, Mark Gordon, and Heather Duncan. Go to aprilyoung.co.uk for details.

Art Café, Pavilion Gardens, Buxton n Winter Sale, until December 22, 11am-4pm.

Banks Mill Studios, Derby Once Upon a Time – a solo exhibition by Pandora Johnson of Green Door Print Making Studio, until February 7. More details on page 26.

Baslow Pottery, Ivy House, Nether End, Baslow The gallery displays original work from more than 20 local artists.

Wednesday to Saturday, 10.30am5.30pm and 11am-5pm on Sundays and bank holidays. More details at baslowpottery.co.uk.

Borderline Arts, 2 The Spot, London Road, Derby On the Borderline – a unique exhibition of art expressing the reality of life with Borderline Personality Disorder, until December 9, 1pm-8pm.

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery Winter Photographs by John Vere Brown (1925-2000), who is best known for his portraits of people working in British theatre in the 1960s and 1970s, and his images of homes and gardens published in magazines including House & Garden and The World of Interiors.

This display of silver bromide prints

The Unknown Statistic by Sue Stone can be seen as part of the People: What Are They Like? exhibition at Déda in Derby

of Peak District landscapes is an opportunity to see a lesser known side of his work.It is on until January 17.

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

Cromford Gallery and Studio, Market Place, Cromford Join Gallery owner Martin Sloman and guest artist Ruth Gray on Saturday, December 16, 10am-5pm for their annual festive celebration.

More details on page 27. The gallery is open WednesdaySunday 10am-5pm. Go to cromfordstudioandgallery.weebly. com for details.

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The Derwent Gallery, Main Road, Grindleford Featuring paintings by artists Gareth Buxton, Kristan Baggaley and Pauline Rignall the Gallery’s Christmas exhibition explores the elemental structure of the landscape in varying weather and light. More details on page 26. Paintings can be previewed at derwentgallery.com.

Open 11am to 4pm Thursday to Sunday, telephone 01433 630458.

Déda, Chapel Street, Derby n David Manley: People; What Are They Like? And How Do We See Them? Six artists whose focus is firmly on aspects of human condition examine how and what moves and motivates those around them, until December 23. The artists are Jackie Berridge, Helen Latham, Sue Stone, Anna Pinkster, Paul Warren and Ellie Young. More details at deda.uk.com n We Are Kunst – The Kunst Gallery in Belper is an alternative arts venue that contains a small collection of expressionistic art forms. This exhibition, until December 23, will

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Charles Wilby’s Flower Show is on at Leabrooks Gallery, Somercotes

showcase work by Ralph McGaul, Adam Quinn, Julian Woodcock, David Culleton and Eleanor Adair.

Details at deda.uk.com

vintage treasures from old tins and an assortment of trinkets. The exhibition runs until Christmas Eve. For details go to ferrersgallery.co.uk

Derby Museum and Art Gallery Marion Adnams: A Singular Woman, from December 2 until March 4. For more details turn to page 31 or go to derbymuseums.org

Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek

Derbyshire Artists Guild, Baslow Village Hall, Baslow The guild is exhibiting December 9 and 10 from 10am until 4pm.

The eight artists of the Guild, Carol Barton-Jones, Martin Davis, Lynn Evans, Patricia Lane, Lynn Presland, Arwyn Quick and Susan Tracey, will be selling a varied range of work; with different styles and costs, there will be something to suit everyone.

Etienne Gallery at In The Flow, Crown Square, Matlock For the latest exhibitions go to jasonetienne.com Ferrers Gallery, Staunton Harold Estate, Ashby de la Zouch Shimmer and Sparkle is a Christmas exhibition showcasing the work of British artists and designer makers.

From Derbyshire are pencil artists Kimberley Dewhurst and Casey Allum and Kay Taylor who makes

n The Staffordshire Contemporary Artist and Designer Fair, December 2 and 3, 10am-4pm, showcases original and contemporary art and design. The exhibition is co-hosted

by Leek School of Art – Buxton and Leek College, and the centre. n The Collected Transience exhibition showcases work by BA hons Top Up students studying Creative Art and Design Practice at Leek School of Art. A diverse range of work exploring themes of impermanence and the passage of time through print, textiles, mixed media and eco-dyeing.

Open Wednesday to Saturday from January 27-February 10 and Sunday, February 4, 10am-4pm, in the Heritage Room. For further information email: Celia Kent c.kent@blc.ac.uk Gallery in the Gardens, Buxton The gallery showcases the work of more than 40 artists and craftspeople from the High Peak Artists group. Open daily. Details at galleryinthegardens.co.uk

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Gallerytop, Chatsworth Road, Rowsley The Christmas exhibition runs throughout December. Work by some nationally-acclaimed artists including paintings by Kristan Baggaley, Rex Preston and Mike Bernard RI as well as Paula Sharples whose naïve still lives are new to the gallery. More details on page 26.

The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 11am-4pm.More details at gallerytop. co.uk The Gallery, High Street, New Mills The gallery is run collectively by 30 artists and showcases a variety of work including paintings, jewellery, silk scarves, ceramics and feltwork.

Open 10-4pm. Closed Wednesday and Sunday.

The Green Man Gallery, Buxton n The Winter Emporium – an Aladdin’s cave full of unique, original, treasures, until December 24. n The Winter Collection –The Green Man Gallery resident artists respond to the season, until January 31.

For more details go to the gallery’s facebook page or greenmangallery. com.

Hall of Frames, King Street, Belper Original and limited edition artwork from a variety of artists. More details at hallofframes.co.uk The Harley Gallery, Welbeck War and Pieces, until January 7.

An epic eight-metre long sculpture made from thousands of fragments of porcelain created by the renowned ceramic artist Bouke de Vries. More details at harleygallery.co.uk Ingleby Gallery, Ingleby Archway and Arbour by Michael Cook until December 10.

You can read more about this on page 27 and 28.The gallery is open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 10am-5pm and weekends from noon-5pm. Go to ingleby-gallery. co.uk for details.

agenda Jarva Gallery, Market Street, Whaley Bridge The Christmas exhibition runs until Christmas Eve. The gallery exhibits about 90 per cent British designers’ and artists’ work – jewellery, ceramics, original art, bronze sculpture and glassware, Open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9.30am5pm, Wednesdays 9,30am-3pm, and Saturdays, 9.30am-4pm. More details at jarvagallery.com.

John Connolly's Ormscliffe Gallery, Bolsover Winter sale throughout December and January. More than 300 original paintings on show. Go to connollyart. com for more details.

Kunst Gallery, The Old Nail Shed, Campbell Street, Belper Go to weare kunst on facebook for details of exhibitions and events at this alternative arts venue.

Leabrooks Gallery, Somercotes n Charles Wilby’s Flower Show – a selling exhibition of floral paintings reminding us of the glories of the summer garden, will be on show from December 2-15. n The Winter Collection, a selection of affordable art and artefacts, will be available from December 16 until the end of January.The gallery is open from Monday to Saturday, 10am5pm and 11am-3.30pm on Sundays.

Wednesdays by appointment only.

Details at leabrooksartscomplex.com Little London Gallery, Church Street, Holloway Featuring the work of resident artist Chris Tkacz. There are also prints

by David Harban and Paul Hipkiss, paintings by Carol Hill and John Scott-Martin, textiles by Jacqui Wakeley and ceramics by Andrew Metheson. The gallery is open from 9am-5pm Wednesday to Saturday.

For details go to littlelondongallery. co.uk Louise Jannetta, The Art Studio, Rear of 24 Dale Road, Buxton Special open days every Saturday

Work by Joy Pitts, who recycles clothing labels in her art is being exhibited at The Makers, Church Street, Ashbourne

until Christmas, 10am-4pm. Go to louisejannetta.co.uk for more details.

The Makers, 47 Church Street, Ashbourne Art and gifts made by UK artists, designers and makers. Check out what’s new on their facebook page.

Currently exhibiting work by Long Eaton artist Joy Pitts who turns clothing labels into works of art.

The Manger Gallery, Kings Newton, Melbourne The first mixed exhibition Seeing Stars will begin with Advent on December 1. Read more about the gallery and exhibition on page 28.

Go to mangergallery.co.uk for up-todate details.

The Marlow Gallery, The Close, Church Square, Melbourne Contemporary paintings, ceramics, sculpture and glass. Email Emily Daley at studio@themarlowgallery. co.uk or phone her on 07980550812 to book an appointment to view.

More details at themarlowgallery. co.uk Matlock Artists Society Matlock Artists Society will be hosting an oil demonstration by artist Haidee-Jo Summers at All Saints Church, Smedley Street, Matlock on January, 20 10am-12noon. All welcome, £5 with refreshments.

Further details 01629 584708.

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Northern Light Cinema, Wirksworth Beth Bam, a Wirksworth based artist, is currently designing a deck of Tarot cards. It is her plan to exhibit the paintings from The Skeleton Plan Tarot Series periodically, to show progress made in this long journey.

Once they are complete they will be made into an actual deck of Tarot cards. The exhibition at the cinema is on until the end of December. Go to thenorthernlightcinema.co.uk for opening times.

The Old Lock Up Gallery, Swift's Hollow, Cromford The gallery is open 11am-5pm Thursday-Saturday and 11am4.30pm on Sundays. Go to oldlockupgallery.wordpress.com Opus Gallery, St John Street, Ashbourne The featured artist for December is Giuliana Lazzerini. More details at opusgalleryashbourne.com.

QUAD Derby n Kimchi and Chips – Line Segments Space, December 9-January 28, QUAD Gallery. The first UK showing of the mesmerising and immersive installation by acclaimed Seoul-based artist and technology duo Kimchi and Chips. n General Practice: Manifold, QUAD Extra Gallery Spaces, December 9-January 28, newly commissioned work by General Practice, a multidisciplinary artist collective living and working in Lincoln. Go to derbyquad. co.uk for more details.

River´s Edge Gallery, Hope Valley Garden Centre, Bamford Work by various artists including Pauline Rignall and Kristan Baggaley. Wednesday-Saturday, 10.30am-4.30pm and Sundays 11am-4pm. Go to riversedgegallery. co.uk for details.

The Richard Whittlestone Wildlife Gallery, Pilsley, near Chatsworth A Winter Exhibition of Richard’s

agenda work is on until December 3. The gallery is open 10am-5pm Tuesday to Saturday. More details at richardwhittlestone.co.uk Rob Wilson Art, Lockside Mill, St. Martins Road, Marple Open to visitors every Friday, 10am-4pm up to Christmas. Go to robwilsonart.co.uk for more details.

U Choose Smoothie Art Gallery, Ilkeston Work by more than 20 local artists can always be seen at the gallery. For more details go to uchoosesmoothie.co.uk St John Street Gallery, St John Street, Ashbourne Seasons Greetings. Work for the festive season by the gallery’s regular stable of artists. More details on page 25. The gallery is open 9.30am-5pm, MondaySaturday. For more details go to stjohngalleryandcafe.co.uk Tarpey Gallery, High Street, Castle Donington Christmas Exhibition, December 9-January 28. A selection of new work by newly-joined and longstanding represented artists. The gallery is open Thursday to Sunday 10am-5pm. More details on page 2 and at tarpeygallery.com Two Birds Gallery, Borough Street, Castle Donington Art, photography, jewellery and design from a wide range of local and UK based artists. They also offer a selection of craft workshops for all ability levels. Open Monday to Friday, 9.30am-5pm and 9.30am4pm on Saturday.

West Studios, Chesterfield Go to chesterfield.ac.uk or email hello@weststudios.co.uk for more details.

Whynot Gallery, Lichfield Street, Burton upon Trent Check out all the latest events, workshops and exhibitions on the whynotgalleryuk facebook page

The Star by Beth Bam is part of a series of paintings depicting Tarot Cards it can be seen at the Northern Light Cinema in Wirksworth Wirksworth Framing Company, 22 Market Place, Wirksworth A family-run framing business that exhibits work by a mixture of local artists and prints by nationally renowned artists. Work by Iain Mackay, Richard Pett, Ian Daisley, Sam Toft, Alex Clarke and Thomas Joseph. Go to wirksworthframing. co.uk for more details.

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Derby Theatre, Derby n Peter Pan, December 2-January 6. More details on page 45. n From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, a tale of a young David Bowie obsessive, January 15-16. n Private Lives, Noel Coward comedy from London Classic Theatre, January 30-February 3.

Go to derbytheatre.co.uk for tickets.

Derby Theatre Studio Mighty – bite-sized activist Jack Britton asks the big question Does Size Matter? January 26. More details at derbytheatre.co.uk Déda, Chapel Street, Derby Moonfall presented by Hikapee Theatre, December 20-23, 11am and 3pm. A theatrical Christmas

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story told with aerial circus. Join a princess like no other as she embarks on the biggest journey of her life – to the Moon. Moonfall uses an aerial rope and hoop and combines these exciting disciplines with beautiful and imaginative play to tell a completely original story. Scan the QR code below for a preview.

Green Man Gallery, Buxton n You Might AS Well Live – An Evening with Dorothy Parker. Cotton Grass Theatre presents the words, wisdom and wisecracks of the American writer, performed by Susan Daniel with live jazz classics from the Steve Salfield Trio, December 8 7.30pm. n The REC Youth Theatre Christmas Double Bill. A fabulous family-friendly performance of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes followed

by The Christmas Chocolate Shop, originally created by the Babbling Vagabonds, December 17, 7pm.

For more details go to the gallery’s facebook page or greenmangallery. com.

Guildhall Theatre, Derby Get in the Christmas spirit with Jack and the Beanstalk by Kaleidoscope Players, from December 1-3. A giant pantomime full of family fun and frolics, fantastic costumes and stunning sets. Join Jack and a host of wonderful comedy characters as their lives are transformed by a handful of magic beans. For details go to derbylive.co.uk Rose Theatre, Chesterfield Santa’s Stolen Sleigh – Santa is about to load the sleigh up with toys for all the girls and boys when disaster strikes…the sleigh is missing. December 21-24 at 10am, 1.30pm and 4pm. More details at rosetheatrechesterfield.co.uk Scan here to see a preview of Moonfall at Déda, Derby

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Buxton Opera House, Buxton Buxton Adventure Festival presents Nicky Spinks, December 6, 7.30pm.

For tickets go to buxtonfestival.co.uk Derby Theatre, Derby Michael Portillo: Life – A Game of Two Halves. Listen to his extraordinary story, told with a light almost stand up touch, and then feel free to question him about it.

January 19.

More details at derbytheatre.co.uk Matlock Storytelling Cafe, Imperial Rooms Matlock The resident Storytellers of Matlock always love the December Cafe when they present an evening featuring many tellers with a myriad of stories to share. December 1, doors open at 6.30pm with stories at 7.30pm. More details at matlockstorytellingcafe.co.uk Derby Poetry Society Members’ Evening with poems reflecting the festive season, December 8. There is no meeting in January. 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.

Scrivener’s Bookshop, Buxton n Book Club, first Wednesday of every month 7-8pm. Next meeting December 6. Everyone Welcome.

Call 01298 73100 for information. n Storytelling Sundays: the free meetings will be held on the second Sunday of the month 2pm to 3.30pm, at Scrivener’s Books, 42 High Street, Buxton.Telephone 0129871622.

Comedy

Buxton Opera House and Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton n Buxton Buzz Comedy Club, December 1 and January 5, 8pm. n Mark Thomas, December 5. n Jason Manford, December 15. n Michael McIntyre, January 24.

Moonfall by Hikapee is a charming festive story for youngsters at Déda

More information at buxtonoperahouse.org.uk Derby Theatre Dane Baptiste: G.O.D (Gold.

Oil. Drugs.), January 19. Go to derbytheatre.co.uk for tickets Guildhall Theatre, Derby Stephen K Amos, Bread and Circuses, January 17. Go to derbylive.co.uk for details.

Dance

Buxton Opera House, Buxton n The Russian State Ballet of Siberia: Cinderella January 4, The Snow Maiden January 5 and The Nutcracker January 6. n Brendan Cole, All Night Long, January 25. n Tangomotion, February 7.

Details at buxtonoperahouse.org.uk Déda, Chapel Street, Derby n Winter Wonderland presented by Hubbub Club, December 8, 7pm. n Teadance at Déda, December 13, 2-4pm. Enjoy popular Sequence, Ballroom and Latin American dance. n LaDéDa Burlesque Cabaret

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presented by Scarlett Daggers and Déda, December 15, 8pm. More details at deda.uk.com Derby Theatre Hannah Alexandra School of Dance and Performance present their 4th Annual School Show, January 20 and 21. Go to derbytheatre.co.uk for details.

Cinema

Bakewell and Ashfield Film Society n Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and Christmas Party, December 10. n The Eagle Huntress, January 14.

Medway Centre, Bakewell, 7.30pm.

More details at bashfilms.org.uk Belper Ritz, King Street, Belper Go to ritz-belper.co.uk.

Buxton Cinema, Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton Read about the new cinema opening on December 14 on page 21. For tickets go to buxtonoperahouse. org.uk

agenda Buxton Film, Pavilion Arts Centre Studio, Buxton n The Handmaiden, December 11. n Matinee Derbyshire, A White Christmas, December 18, 1.30pm.

One of a series of screenings aimed at people with dementia and memory loss, their family and friends. For more information please visit matineederbyshire.org.uk n Their Finest, December 18, 7.30pm. Details at buxtonfilm.org.uk Calver Film, The Village Hall, Calver Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (U). French language film with subtitles. Films every second Thursday of the month at 7.30pm. Membership needed, details from 01433 630760.

QUAD, Derby Exhibition On Screen tours the

world’s finest galleries and museums to bring the best in world art to cinema screens. On January 23 at 7pm and January 25 at 12 noon you can see Cezanne: Portraits Of A Life which presents one of the most talked-about exhibitions of the year the portrait work of Paul Cézanne.

Go to derbyquad.co.uk for details The Northern Light Cinema, North End, Wirksworth Go to thenorthernlightcinema.co.uk Peak Film Society, Partington Players Theatre, Glossop Moonlight, January 13. More details about membership at peakfilmsociety.org Tansley Film Community Cinema, Tansley Village Hall La La Land, December 5.

Hacksaw Ridge, January 2.

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Seat reservations essential at book@tansleyfilm.org.uk. More information at tansleyfilm.co.uk Tideswell Cinema, George Inn n Beauty and the Beast, December 14. n Winter Double Bill with Meal, January 13. Death In Venice and Don’t Look Now. n Lion, January 25. Go to tideswellcinema.com for details.

New Mills Cinema@ SpringBankArts Every second and fourth Thursday at 7.30pm. Go to springbankarts. org.uk for details Youlgrave Cinema, Youlgrave Village Hall, Holywell Lane Monthly September-May, usually on a Friday and at 7.30pm.

Go to youlgrave.org.uk for details.

Miscellaneous

Family Festivities, Markeaton Park, Derby Craft Weekend December 2-3, Music Weekend December 9-10 and Workshop Weekend December 16-17 all from 11am-4pm.

Entry is free although some activities and rides will have charges, but there are also plenty of free activities to enjoy.

Award-winning print maker, Duncan Pass will be sharing his knowledge and skills in print workshops on December 9, where visitors can drop in and make a print for free.

There will be willow-weaving demonstrations by professional willow sculptor, Emma Parkins during the workshop weekend and Jumping Clay will be offering minimake robin or reindeer workshops during the craft weekend.

Go to inderby.org.uk for more details.

While every effort is made to ensure agenda 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

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presents

2018

Folk & Acoustic Music

Jan 20th

The Transports

Winding Wheel, Chesterfield

Mar 3rd 18th

Jez Lowe Tams & Coope

Assembly Rooms Theatre, Bakewell Palace Theatre, Mansfield

Apr 20th 28th

Narthen Jon Bodon & The Remnant Kings

Nailers Football Club, Belper

Daoiri Farrell Richie-Parish-Richie (Can)

Guildhall, Derby Chesterfield Library Theatre

May 12th 18th

Winding Wheel, Chesterfield

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