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Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Histories

Building on the success of their first round of Everyday Heritage Grants in 2022, they continue to be interested in funding projects that celebrate working-class histories and the historic places that make up everyday life.

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East Midlands’ Orchestra Announces Dementia-Friendly Performances

Derby-based Sinfonia Viva, the Orchestra of the East Midlands, has launched a series of five dementia-friendly classical music performances in Derby following the success of a fundraising campaign earlier this year.

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New homegrown musical, Mountains of the Moon set to entertain and inspire all ages

An all-new family friendly musical, Mountains of the Moon, is coming to Chesterfield and surrounding area from Saturday 26 October – Friday 1 November. The story revolves around the plight of a group of animals who are thirsty as their river has dried up and who must work together to figure out a way to get the rain to fall, so that they can survive.  

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Marketing and Administration Assistant

Writing East Midlands works, from its Nottingham base, to build the region's reputation for the quality and diversity of its writers, and as a place where writing is valued as an art and for its social impact. We run programmes that raise the skills and aspirations of writers connecting them to communities.

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Derby Arena Gears Up for Thrilling Start of Men’s Tour of Britain

Excitement is building as Derby Arena gears up to host the exhilarating start of the men’s Tour of Britain on Friday, 6 September. The East Midlands route will take the cyclists from Derby to Newark-on-Trent, through Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

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Celebrating connections between humans and animals

The new exhibition, Chesterfield Menagerie, includes a wide range of items from the Chesterfield Museum collection which show humans connections with animals. It includes a beautiful Brampton salt glaze fish flask, ‘The Plough’ a stunning painting by Joseph Syddall, a wonderful figurine of a Chicken by William Gordon and much more.

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