A rustic upstairs bar room, gentle fairy lights and heavy rain set a cosy scene to entice the […]
Belper Arts Festival
Quite how the young Captive Audience cast remembered all their lines for their latest production Romeo and Juliet […]
Shakespeare’s classic love story is brought to new life by a young cast of Larry Waller’s Captive Audience […]
Identifying what makes a community tick and helping the people express themselves artistically is what motivates playwright and […]
There are only a few days left to wait until Derbyshire’s summer season of festivals kicks off with […]
Belper Arts Festival is preparing the biggest festival to date with over 1,000 participants – many of them […]
Treachery, corruption, rebellion, betrayal and death – the life of Mary Tudor could never be described as dull. […]
The reign of Mary Tudor, England’s first Queen Regnant, is the subject of a new play by Belper-based […]
Russian virtuoso pianist Sergei Podobedov is set to play a concert in Belper in September. Producer George Gunby […]
Wannabe playwrights are exceedingly lucky to have an enthusiastic amateur theatre group like Marde Hen Productions willing to […]
The sixth Belper Arts Festival exploded into life over the Bank Holiday weekend with a stunning sellout concert, an […]
For the whole of May Belper celebrates the arts with an impressive festival packed with music, theatre, photography, […]
“The Larry Waller factor.” It is an indefinable something, akin to stardust, that Larry Waller sprinkles on everything […]
The moment community groups discover they have a graphic designer in their midst a collective cheer must go […]
The fifth Belper Arts Festival in May contains a mixture of tried and tested favourites alongside new and […]
Filming of a cinema trailer for the 2017 Belper Arts Festival will take place in the town centre […]
I cannot imagine that many young people spend their gap year after A Levels writing a new play […]
The creative journey Anne Alldread has been on has been long and varied but she reckons that at […]
When it comes to the creative and performing arts Derbyshire is overflowing with festivals throughout the year. There […]
A charity single called Love Is has just been released in aid of the Derbyshire based charity Aquabox […]
The Belper Arts Festival has scored something of a coup by persuading international singing star and Opera Babe […]
Wanderlust is an enchanting show which combines theatre and storytelling to take its audience on an uplifting journey […]
A new book filled with then-and-now views of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site is being launched to […]
The May edition of artsbeat is now out and will be delivered across the county by the end […]
Yarn Bomber Anne Clark is putting a call out for knitters, crocheters and textile artists to make work […]
The centre of Belper will be transformed in to one huge arts trail over the May bank holiday […]
An extra performance of Mind Games by George Gunby is to be staged in Belper following the huge […]
A Serious Person was declared as the winner of the Belper Short Play Festival on January 1 this year. […]
One of the most successful new events in Derbyshire last year was the Belper Arts Festival as organisers […]
As his exhibition deadline looms ever nearer photographer Roger Morgan is wondering why he volunteered to take part […]
A playwright from New York has won Belper’s Short Play Competition 2014. John Doble’s A Serious Person was […]
The first Derbyshire arts festival of 2013 is a newcomer and is being staged in Belper. The community-run […]
