The legends are looming!

The Legends are looming

just getting to a workshop might take you
on strange and wonderful journeys...

In our previous blog entry, we listed a first wave of Derbyshire Myths workshops by library (from Alfreton to Gamesley). Here are the rest. Why not find the workshop nearest you and join us? Or perhaps you could find a workshop in a place you have never visited and make the journey to join us part of your own mythical maze and find some adventures to have on the way that might inspire you during our activities!

Find your library's details here. And you can visit the Derbyshire Summer Reading Challenge (SRC) page here, while the National SRC page is somewhere else, round the sharp corner of this maze, "...over here, turn round and walk backwards for a bit, watch out for the sleeping minotaur, and sure enough, here it is!

Library Date Artist Notes Glossop 29/7/14 All the artists! Special day! Hadfield 19/8/14 Gordon Hayfield 21/8/14 Gordon Holmewood 18/8/14 Maria Ilkeston 20/8/14 Maria Killamarsh 9/8/14 Gordon Long Eaton 5/8/14 All the artists! Special day! Matlock 26/8/14 Maria Melbourne 3/9/14 Maria New Mills 18/8/14 Gordon Old Whittington Tbc Gordon Pinxton 19/8/14 Maria Ripley 20/8/14 Maria Sandiacre 6/8/14 Maria Shirebrook 6/8/14 Debi Somercotes 9/8/14 Maria South Normanton 19/8/14 Maria Staveley 2/8/14 Gordon Swadlincote 3/9/14 Maria Whaley Bridge 21/8/14 Gordon Whitwell 11/8/14 Gordon Wingerworth Tbc Gordon Wirksworth 26/8/14 Maria Shirebrook 6/8/14 Debi Bolsover 6/8/14 Debi

Where two libraries are listed on the same day it's not because we are magical maze-runners (although we might be). There will be a morning session in one library and an afternoon in the other. Check with your library for details of times

We have three artists who will be working in the libraries:

Debi Hedderwick is a dance artist with a keen interest in animating stories through dance and theatre

Maria Whatton is an award-winning storyteller with a love of myths, folk tales and legends which she brings to life through performance

Gordon MacLellan (Creeping Toad) is a storyteller, artist and puppeteer with a keen interest in the environment

Add pause and reflect, who knows what mysteries lie
beneath the waters of still Derbyshire pools?

Individual artists will lead workshops in different libraries and there will be 4 days of grand spectacle and extra-fabulous workshops where all three artists will work together with visitors to create mazes of myths and labyrinths of legends….more details will follow

Rather than swamp everything with all the workshops at once, we'll publish workshops in three stages in this blog.

Workshops

• are free
• are aimed at 8 - 12 year olds and spaces are limited so
• places need booking.
• will either be morning or afternoon: there will be another workshop in a nearby library in the other half of the day