FIND OUT WHAT’S ON IN DERBYSHIRE IN AUGUST!

🥳 August is here and we are at peak holiday-season festival fun levels in Derbyshire! 🎈

As we finally summer in Derbyshire, we have plenty of places to party our weekends away in July especially since the festival season is warming up nicely. Bring it on in all these different places!!

• The month kicks off with the Y-Not Festival, that runs 2-4 August in the middle of fields near Pikehall, and just off the High Peak Trail!
• The Buxton Blues Festival is the same weekend – 2-5 August, a little further north of the Y-Not in the market town of Buxton
• The mighty Bloodstock returns in the south of the County from 8 to 11 August!
• The folks at Ilkeston Community Theatre & Festival have a week of events to entertain you in the week starting 12 August, so check out the full programme!
• Enjoy the family friendly Barlow Carnival in the small village of Barlow near Chesterfield 14-18 August
• Pikehall is the venue once again for Rock The Peaks over the weekend of 23-26 August
• The Chatsworth Country Fair returns in the last weekend of August, a veritable festivals, carnival and exposition that draws huge crowds from miles around.
• Meanwhile in Derby, the Darley Park Weekender takes up residence in Darley Park from 30 August to 1 September.
• Then Off The Tracks Festival leads us out of August and into September over the weekend of 30 August to 1 September, with 3 days of music to keep the crowds entertained!

You can keep a watching eye on the Derbyshire’s festivals scene right here on the website’s Festivals round up page for 2024

If you know of a festival that’s not on our list and that deserves inclusion, let us know! Drop us a line with the details at editor@artsderbyshire.org.uk to tell us about it.

Go along and see

This Public Open Exhibition is taking place both online and at the LEVEL Centre and features work from contemporary visual artists produced both by and for learning disabled, neurodivergent, and disabled artists. There is also an immersive experience running throughout the month too called No Sleep, Just Clouds.
📌 Where: Rowsley
⏰ When: Throughout August
👛 Cost: FREE

Jenny Marshall presents her debut solo exhibition Love Letters From The Earth Age at Banks Mills Studios.
📌 Where: Banks Mill, Derby
⏰ When: 1-16 August
👛 Cost: FREE

Meanwhile in Matlock you can go along to the Matlock Artists’ Annual Exhibition and Art Sale mid-month, where there will be over 150 pieces on display over the five days.
📌 Where: Matlock
⏰ When: 8-12 August
👛 Cost: FREE to enter, artworks for sale

Exhibition Displaced: From the Derwent to the Nile is running throughout the month and explores Derby Museum & Art Gallery’s Egyptian collections including two star exhibits at the museum, the mummified remains of ‘Pypyu’ and ‘Pa-sheri’.
📌 Where: Derby
⏰ When: Throughout August
👛 Cost: £5 for over 18s

Go along and listen

As part of the Ilkeston Community Festival, there’s a finale concert to round off the week’s activities, taking place in the Market Place in the centre of town.
📌 Where: Ilkeston
⏰ When: 17 August
👛 Cost: £5 for adults and £2 for under 16s

Go along and take part

Looking for Fun Creative Workshops for kids? Say, less! Try these workshops at Art Core in Derby.
📌 Where: Derby
⏰ When: 1, 8 & 15 August with Danni Bello
⏰ When: 22 & 29 August with Kathryn Borg
👛 Cost: FREE

This Ink Pen Drawing Workshop in Ashbourne will introduce you to new techniques in this medium to help you improve your ink pen drawing.

📌 Where: Ashbourne
⏰ When: 18 August
👛 Cost: £80

You can race around the Buxton Flowerpot Trail all month too – see if you can collect everything on offer, on display throughout the town all month!

📌 Where: Buxton
⏰ When: Throughout August
👛 Cost: FREE

Looking to get away from Derbyshire altogether?

The summer in the UK has been pretty dismal, so we wouldn’t blame you. But if you are looking to book a last minute getaway, we have a plea for help from you!  And what’s more, it won’t cost you a penny!

Use the web address below to sign up for our Give As You Live fundraising page, to make those major purchases AND donate a small percentage to Arts Derbyshire while you shop!

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Share it on with your friends and help us raise cash when you book holidays through big online stores like Booking.com, TUI, Expedia and VRBO. You can also use this account if you are making purchases from thousands of other high street stores like Waitrose, Decathlon, John Lewis and Lakeland.

Thank you to anyone who helps us contribute in this way 🙏

Planning ahead…

If you are looking further ahead into September (and heralding autumn already!), then take a look at these listings newly published on the website, or explore our What’s On section to find the perfect event.

• Check out these newly announced shows for 2025 by Derby Theatre so that you can get your tickets booked right away.
• Apples In Winter is an award winning play by Lynchpin Theatre, that gives voice to victims of crime. At Derby Theatre on 7 September
• The Tent People are back with the highly anticipated return of The Festival Sessions from 6 to 8 September.
• Shardlow Inland Port Festival takes place 7-8 September, allowing visitors to explore the floating world
• You can sign up for this silver bangles and bracelets workshop in Sharpe’s Pottery in Swadlincote on 19 September
• Or there’s New Mills Festival kicking off 13 September and running until 29 September
• And the it’s the Melbourne Festival Arts & Architecture Trail 14 and 15 September! So there’s plenty to do!

Are you running an event and want to see it included in the What’s On section?

Submit your own listings to our What’s On section by registering for an account right here: https://www.artsderbyshire.org.uk/register

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