PAST events
2007
- November: Outside In - Bamford Dance Festival
Download the 'Outside In-Bamford Dance Festival' Leaflet(1.1 MB) - March: Plastic Chairs - A Greek musical extravaganza at Bamford Institute.
- January: Journal Writing Workshop -
Methodist Church Hall.
Download
the 2007 Flyer (169 KB)
2006
- December: Gig in the Pub - Music by local bands and musicians at The Derwent Hotel.
- November: Ringing with Music - Bamford
Village Institute was ringing with music and full of people on Saturday
11th November 2006.
Download
the Ringing with Music information sheet (425 KB)
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June: Word Play - Bamford's Creative Writing Festival
- Creative Writing Workshop
- Word Play Performance
- ‘Annamation’ perform Jason and the Argonauts
- Other events:
- Electronic multimedia arts for young people
- More guided walks with environment / art themes
- Dance / D.J. workshops
- Story and drama workshops for pre-schoolers.
2005
- The Big Draw – a series of drawing workshops and events for all
ages, culminated in an exhibition in October.
Download
the Big Draw information sheet (1.8 MB)
2004
- A ‘Gig in the Pub’ was held, allowing young musicians and their bands an opportunity to play in a local venue. This was a great success, with the Derwent Hotel packed to the rafters.
- October: Bamford
Festival 2004, on the theme, ‘Bamford: Landscape
and Environment’. A week of -
- exhibitions and displays of creative work by local people, much of it produced over the last year as part of the Bamford Living Memory project
- guided walks and workshops with artists and rangers, exploring aspects of the local landscape and environment - the result of collaboration between Bamford Community Arts and Crafts (BCAC), the National Trust, Peak District National Park, Severn Trent Water Ltd. and the Working Woodlands Trust
- professional
drama, storytelling, music...
Download
the full programme of events (34 KB)
- Ongoing: ‘Bamford Living
Memory Project’
- a community project about life in Bamford in the past and present,
- involving local people’s memories, creative writing, drawing and photography,
- producing two books, a CD, exhibitions and performances.
- February / March: Four workshops of music and storytelling for pre-school children were led by Fiona Paul of the Babbling Vagabonds. These were run in collaboration with the local parent and toddler group and the pre-school playgroup.
- February: ‘Shadow of the Firebird’, by babbling vagabonds.
2003
- November: African Drumming Workshop, by Steve Rivers.
- October 2003 to December 2004: The ‘Bamford Living Memory Project’.
- October: ‘Carnivalesque’ by The Carnival Band.
- July: Concert for Bamford Carnival, by local young musicians.
- May: ‘Spring’, a concert by local musicians.
- March: ‘Beans!’ workshops and performance by Moby Duck.
2002
- December: ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’, by New Perspectives Theatre Company.
- October: Bamford Festival ’02. Nine days of workshops, exhibitions, performances and celebrations.
- February: ‘Pinocchio’, babbling vagabonds.
