Art
Belper Artist Wins National Award
Belper based artist Mark Langley has been awarded a prestigious national award. Mark was thrilled to receive the prize for
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Early Artist Call Out For Belper Arts Festival 2019
Such is the interest in Belper Arts Festival 2019 that the call out for events is earlier than ever. Although
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Belper Short Play Festival Returns
After an absence of four years, the Belper Short Play Festival will return in 2019. Short Play Co-Ordinator Sue Reaney
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Opinion: “Two Years Or More Of Total Wonder”
Not everything comes in neat, tidy packages delivered to your door. Sometimes though, when you can be bothered to peel
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KGB: An appreciation
Belper seemed to be an unusual place to open a contemporary art gallery. Most “art” in small towns, in art
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Belper Arts Festival 2018 Arrives In Style
The first week of the sixth Belper Arts Festival opens on 5th May with a special concert at St. Peter’s
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Nell Gwynn Takes Centre Stage At Belper Arts Festival
Audiences set to be ‘enchanted’ as Nell Gwynn comes to Belper. For a limited run Captive Audience Theatre Company will
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Belper Arts Festival: Recorder Workshop
Whether princess or pauper, republican or royalist, you may have noticed a royal wedding is imminent. We invite you to
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Derbyshire Open Art Competition Welcomes New Entries
Artists are urged to get creative about Derbyshire’s life, landscapes and people in the annual Derbyshire Open Art Exhibition. The
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The Belper Passion Returns To Huge Crowds
After an absence of three years, The Belper Passion returned to the streets and churches of Belper, attracting a capacity
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Review: Crimewolf At Kunst
Atlantis To Temporary Autonomous Interzone Warmed by feedback and reverb the huddled crowd gathered, like a colony of winter coats,
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Clive Wheeler Photogram Exhibition Launch At Saturday’s Farmer’s Market Cafe
Clive Wheeler will be launching his new exhibition of photograms at No 28’s farmers market café next Saturday (February 10).
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New Platform Launched For Derbyshire Art
A new internet platform ‘Derbyshire Artsword’ is being launched this week (5 January 2018) in Belper to showcase art in
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KUNST 15 – An Accent Waiting To Happen
Kunst Gallery Belper welcome the writer, actor, musician, curator, teacher, adventurer Richard Strange to the Unstables Bar for KUNST 15
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Review: One in a MILLion Exhibition – Belper North Mill
Twinkly guitar music plays in the basement of Belper’s North Mill as I look at the shimmering threads in a
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New Addition To Beth’s Poetry Trail
Beth’s Poetry Trail have installed a new poster poem at Belper Railway station on Platform 1. The Belper Railway station
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Are you ‘One In A MiLLion?’
Strutts North Mill Museum is seeking artwork submissions for their new community art exhibition ‘One In A MILLion.’ The inclusive
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Craft Bombers Brighten Up The Bandstand
Last weekend the Cotton-on Craft Club ‘craft bombed’ the bandstand in Belper River Gardens. The display featured 18 inventive, mill-inspired,
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Belper Artist Wins Derbyshire Trophy in Open Art Competition
Belper artist Mark Langley has been awarded the Derbyshire Trophy in the Derbyshire Open Art Competition 2017 for his watercolour
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Weeping Window Poppy Display Comes To Silk Mill – Our Take
Travelling into Derby this morning for the unveiling of the installation I reflected upon the fact that I was lucky
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KUNST 13: Stupid Cosmonaut, June 24th
Science Fiction Meets Science Fact Fresh from releasing their debut album ‘Algol’ via the Brighton based Drone Rock Records Label,
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Belper Arts Festival: Jayne Nemeth Interview
In what has become something of a tradition, Belper Arts Festival will close with Belper Open Houses over the Bank
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Woollen Woods Bring Enchantment To Town
Anne Clark and her team of volunteer knitters and crocheters put themselves through several downpours last Friday to decorate trees
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Local Artists Urged To Enter Derbyshire Open Arts Competition
The competition returns for 35th year and is open to amateur and professional artists, including children and is supported by
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Q & A: With The Belper Arts Trail
This year’s Belper Arts Trail returns on Sunday 30th April and Bank Holiday Monday 1st May. Nestled in 55 locations
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Help With The Filming Of New Belper Arts Festival Trailer
Filming of the Belper Arts Festival 2017 Cinema Trailer will take place on the 22nd of January 2017 at 9:30am.
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Review: Stephen Elvidge ‘Memories In Place’
Responding to the death of parents and brother, Nottingham artist Stephen Elvidge has used his new collection to interpret how
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Belper Mill Artists & Makers Fair Returns For Second Year
Next weekend (Sunday 23rd October) visitors can experience over 50 stalls, featuring handmade items and local talent, at the Belper
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KUNST Event #7
KUNST GALLERY are privileged to present an extraordinarily powerful installation by artist Stephen Elvidge. The theme of installation warrants an
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Belper’s First Fun Palace Amazes Community
Last Saturday (October 1st) saw intrigued visitors exploring Belper’s first Fun Palace at Number 28, the Market Place. Fun Palaces
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Talented Young People Shine At ‘Burning Sounds’ Event
Young people showed off their musical and artistic talents at the Burning Sounds event. Burning Sounds, now in its ninth
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KUNST Shows Off Its Primary Colours
KUNST gallery has announced its first BELPER PRIMARY winners: Charlie, Emily and Thomas. On Saturday, September 10th, Belper Town Cllr
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Duffield Set To Come Alive For Arts Festival
Duffield is set to host its inaugural Arts Festival on the 17th & 18th September. Duffield Arts Festival will offer
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Art and Science Join Together For Fun Palace Campaign
Local artist Anne Clarke, best known for her Woolly Woods installation earlier in the year, is planning to organise Belper’s
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Self-Portrait Competition Now Open For Belper Under-10’s
The new Kunst Art Gallery, on Campbell Street, is holding a self-portrait competition for pupils of Belper schools. It is
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KUNST event #3
Crashing down the M18/M1 from the motherland of Kingston-upon-Hull are alternative anarchist misfits THE QUEEN RIOTS. They will energise the
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Belper Mill Artists & Makers Fair To Return
After the success of the first fair, the date for the next Belper Mill Artists & Makers fair has been
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Art Gallery Kunst Opens To Public
Friday night (May 20th) was the opening night of the new contemporary art gallery Kunst on Campbell Street, Belper. Situated
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Bloomin’ Junk Project Pop-up Workshop
Lead by Emma Parkins and Nansy Ferret Transition Belper will be holding a pop-up workshop at Belper Market Place on
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The Trail Turns Woolly
If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a woolly surprise. Under the canopy of the Belper
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Derby Museums Welcomes EVERYONE To Be Part Of a New Exhibition
This summer, Derby Museums is sending out an open invitation to participate in an art exhibition with a difference. ‘Everyone
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Call Out For An Arts Project Co-ordinator
Arts Project Co-ordinator – DerwentWISE Landscape Partnership Participatory Arts Projects: Anatomy of the Landscape – photography and painting of the
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Local Artist Chosen for 2017 Diary Cover
Earth Pathways have selected ‘Painting the Blossom’ by Belper Artist Ruth Gray to grace the cover of their 2017 diary
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Review: Fairytales, Myths and Legends
The Fairytales, Myths and Legends exhibition at the Banks Mill Studio began with an Ecocreate Twitter hour (this occurs every
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Glass Artist Offers Local Workshops
Angela Thompson, a local glass artist, is offering workshops in Fused Glass and Copper Enamelling at her studio, Glass @
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Review of: Matisse – Running With Scissors exhibition at Derby Museum
I was very excited about seeing this exhibition of Henri Matisse’s later work. I was largely unfamiliar with that stage
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2016 Exhibition Programme for The Harley Galley
Amongst the contemporary artists showing at The Harley Gallery this year are Sir Peter Blake, sometimes considered to be a
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Alien Encounters: Sun Ra, Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery
I hesitate to write a review of an event that is based in Nottingham but for some things you just
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Rope and Ball Sculpture for Belper Park?
A rope and ball knitted sculpture similar to this could be coming to a Belper park next year. The knitted
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