The world will be celebrating Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday on May 12 but many events planned for the […]
George Gunby
It was in 2016 that a sculpture by artist Andy Mayers was first unveiled to the public as […]
Belper Arts Festival may have only just finished for 2019 but plans are already under way for 2020. […]
A rustic upstairs bar room, gentle fairy lights and heavy rain set a cosy scene to entice the […]
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 production of a new play – BLOODY MARY – scheduled for November 17 at St. Peter’s Church, […]
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 […]
I went along to Derby Theatre unsure. After all Graham Greene’s novel, written 80 years ago, and the […]
The sixth Belper Arts Festival exploded into life over the Bank Holiday weekend with a stunning sellout concert, an […]
A new internet platform featuring the arts is being launched from Belper with the pilot podcast being available from […]
“The Larry Waller factor.” It is an indefinable something, akin to stardust, that Larry Waller sprinkles on everything […]
Filming of a cinema trailer for the 2017 Belper Arts Festival will take place in the town centre […]
To close their 80th birthday celebrations, it would have been an easy option for Belper Players to take […]
Ten years ago Amanda Mundin and Neil Roberts opened the doors of The Ritz Cinema in Belper for […]
Belper Players are filling their 80th year with a wide variety of productions that includes new plays by […]
A young drama student who wowed audiences at Belper’s 2013 festival with her performance in Educating Rita is returning […]
A charity single called Love Is has just been released in aid of the Derbyshire based charity Aquabox […]
It’s becoming something of a tradition in Belper that Easter is celebrated with a community based drama. In […]
An extra performance of Mind Games by George Gunby is to be staged in Belper following the huge […]
Director Larry Waller was on tenterhooks as the audience assembled waiting to watch the premiere of Mind Games […]
Two Derbyshire playwrights will be seeing their new theatrical works performed on stage in the county this month. […]
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 […]
The Passion story like the Nativity evokes intense emotions in everyone – even those who aren’t religious. It […]
A playwright from New York has won Belper’s Short Play Competition 2014. John Doble’s A Serious Person was […]
Simplicity. This was the word that struck James Oldrini when he started creating the song that became Forever Belper. […]
The first Derbyshire arts festival of 2013 is a newcomer and is being staged in Belper. The community-run […]
