Youth Board
The Buxton 'Our Street' Youth Board are a group of local 14-18 year-olds, who helped to steer the cultural programme and create their own events.
Music Development Days
Young people's music workshops
Working in association with High Peak Community Arts,Young people aged 13+ took part in free music workshops to learn composition and production techniques then create and perform original new music.
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The first workshops took place over the October half term. Instrumentalist, technologist and producer, Gareth Carbery ran a day-course on recording and producing. Gareth was then joined by BBC Folk Singer of the year, Ríoghnach Connolly for a day of working by ear, playing together and creating original music.
More workshops took place in February half term, with singer-songwriter Rizzy Stephenson, leading up to a live showcase of the work at the Illuminate grand finale on Saturday 24th February.
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Spooky Saturday
OCTOBER 2022
A day full of free, fun activites for children and young people.
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Local artist, Kate Jenkins, gave a pumpkin carving demonstration and also ran a drop-in, pumpkin-painting activity for children, with some fantastic results.
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Make-up artist, Joy Wright, organised a facepainting workshop and then a ghoulish fake-wound-making workshop. Each participant make their own latex injuries which they took away to apply later!