What's on 7 June 2008
Andy Gilbert
cartoon capers
Sat 7 June
Wingerworth Parish Rooms Hall
10.30-11.30am
Bolsover Library 2-3pm
FREE (but please book at your local library or on Call Derbyshire 08456 058 058). For families.
Meet freelance, professional cartoonist Andy Gilbert and have a go at creating your own cartoons.
Hilary Broad
silk painting workshop
Sat 7 June
Shirebrook Library
10am-3.30pm
Tickets: £1.00 for materials, to be paid on the day; places do not need to be booked in advance.
For adults, and children aged 5 years and above.
Come along at any time during the day and create your own silk painting. Participants can choose from a range of prepared designs which they can colour using liquid silk paint.
Carole Copeland
from page to stage
Sat 7 June
New Mills Town Hall, Library Room
10am-12noon
FREE (but please book at your local library or on Call Derbyshire 08456 058 058 ).
For adults and young people aged 15 years+.
Have you always wanted to have a go at acting? Wondered how to write a script? This two hour workshop gives a basic insight into stagecraft, developing a character and how you can take a novel and adapt it for the stage.
Rhubarb Theatre Company
tales from the riverbank
Sat 7 June
Tapton Lock Visitor Centre, Chesterfield
12noon-5pm
sessions at 12noon,1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm
Tickets: ₤3, for further details and to book tickets contact Tapton Lock Visitor Centre on 01246 551035.
Suitable for all ages, children must be accompanied by an adult.
Not quite the riverbank but tales from a narrowboat on Chesterfield canal. Join us aboard the John Varley to listen to stories about the creatures that share our canal.
Margaret Morgan
explore lettering as texture and pattern
Sat 7 June
Chesterfield Library
10am-4pm
FREE (but please book at your local library or on Call Derbyshire 08456 058 058).
For adults, and young people age 16+.
Learn basic letterforms, then explore the texture and pattern-making possibilities in those familiar 26 letters.
River Wolton, Derbyshire Poet Laureate
writing blocks and the inner critic
Sat 7 June
Parklands Connexion, Stanhope/Leopold Street, Long Eaton
10am-4pm
Tickets: £4/£3, to book tickets please contact Mrs Eaton on 01332 873186 or John Barnes on 01332 873665.
Many writers, however experienced, feel stuck when faced with a blank page. This friendly workshop will offer ways to get through the blocks, and explore what stops us and what helps us to keep going. All levels of writing experience are welcome.
This event is organised by Erewash Writers Group.
Jen Edgar
inspirational objects: writing workshop
Sat 7 June
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
10am-1pm
Tickets: £4/£3 concessions, from your local library or on Call Derbyshire 08456 058 058.
Free your imagination. Using the paintings and artefacts, the museum shop and your creativity, the workshop will take you through from finding ideas to developing them, structuring your writing and sharing it with others.
wondrous tales from around the world
a festival of storytelling for all the family
Sat 7 June
Shipley Country Park Visitor Centre near Heanor
1-5pm
FREE
Come and hear tales of dragons, fairies, pirates, magic and mystery from both East and West told by some of our favourite storytellers including Debbie Guneratne, Pete Castle and Pete Chand, as well as exciting local newcomers Sophie Snell and Catherine Rogers. There'll be creative activities too as well as a chance to meet Derbyshire's past and present Poet Laureates.
Some of the performances will be BSL signed for the benefit of Deaf children.
This event is organised by Amber Valley Borough Council Arts Department and Derbyshire County Council Countryside Service.
For more details contact either the Countryside Service at Shipley Country Park on 01773 719961 or Vicki Campbell on 01773 841419.
Jasvinder Sanghera
Sat 7 June
Bakewell Library
7.30-9pm
Tickets: ₤4/₤3 concessions, from your local library or Call Derbyshire 08456 058 058
Jasvinder Sanghera’s bestselling memoir Shame, detailed her experiences of how she escaped forced marriage. Her second book, Daughters of Shame, is soon to be published. It tells the stories of other women Jasvinder has come into contact with, and supported, through Karma Nirvana a community-based charity that supports South Asian women affected by domestic violence and honour-based crimes.
Celebrating Women
Sat 7 June
The Kiln, Sharpe’s Pottery, West Street, Swadlincote
7-9pm
FREE (but capacity is limited so tickets must be reserved in advance from People Express, Sharpe’s Pottery, or email: enquiries@people-express.org.uk or telephone 01283 552962).
A chance to preview material for a new book by community arts organisation People Express, edited by writer-in-residence Kevin Fegan. Stories and poems written and read by women of all ages from across the South Derbyshire region.