Projects
Present Projects
Strawberry Moon Festival 2008
The Strawberry Moon Festival is a major REAP project and will showcase the cream of local talent in music, drama, dance, crafts and many more art forms on Saturday June 28 and Sunday June 29 2008, with Severn Trent Waters site near Leek forming the perfect, picturesque backdrop.
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The Big Picture
REAP will be launching their major 'Big Picture' campaign on May 1st 2008, which will follow on from our hugely successful photography based projects 'Personal Expressions' and 'Capture a Moment', both of which openly
encouraged new audiences to learn photography with professionals.
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Rural Crafts Revival
We are encouraging young people to try their hand at and learn more about rural
crafts in response to very real concerns about the ever-increasing decline in numbers of skilled
rural craft workers.
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Past Projects
Strawberry Moon Festival 2007
The underpinning ethos to the festival is to provide a local platform in which to host and encourage the creative industries, business and local communities to come together in a celebratory event, with a strong emphasis on participation for the general public
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Personal Expressions
A professional photography project aimed at socially documenting the lives of Derbyshire Young Farmers.
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Targeting practicing artists and emergent arts groups in the area, this was a series of networking, knowledge and skills sharing workshops.
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The Harvest Moon Fayre took place on 17 & 18 September 2005, at Blackwell Hall Farm, Blackwell, Nr Buxton, Derbyshire and was REAP's first major Arts Festival
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REAP's contribution to the Year of the Artist linked varying parishes of Staffordshire and Derbyshire through a series of performance events in different villages.
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In this project, REAP collaborated with 'The Farming Life Centre' to explore the landscape around Blackwell Hall, its archaeology, ecology, geology and history.
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Wellsprings of the Imagination
A Celebration of the Still and Running Waters of the Peak District.
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The Pilsbury Castle interpretation group sought to unravel some of the mysteries of Pilsbury Castle Hills
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Working with three garden environments in the Staffordshire Moorlands this project celebrated the richness and diversity of our garden heritage.
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The Polish Connection presents the experiences of migration through the life stories of some of the Polish refugees who settled in Blackshaw Moor and Leek in the late 1940's.
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