People Express

BEYOND PAINTING AND DRAWING...

  • A woman and a girl smile at the camera. The girl wears a handmade carnival headdress

    Carnival

    We partnered with EMCCAN (East Midlands Caribbean Carnival Arts Network) to bring carnival inspired arts to the Festival of Leisure.

  • Two men drag ink across a screen to create a print

    Printmaking

    Members of ‘Newhall Creative Collective’ worked alongside Emma and Duncan Pass to create their own screen-printed artworks.

  • A young man painting a graffiti artwork

    Graffiti

    The ‘Summer Graffiti’ project invited young people to join artist Todd Wood to have a go at creating their own Graffiti artwork.

  • A man shows a girl AR software on a tablet computer

    Digital Arts

    As part of the Voices in the Kiln project, young people created a script and recorded footage for an AR Heritage app for Sharpe’s Pottery Museum.

  • A girl and a man play tabla drums together

    Music

    Young participants explored Classical Indian music, Jazz, Folk and Hip-Hop, creating and recording original compositions as part of the Passport to Music project.

  • A group of older people weave a willow tree sat on a tabletop

    Environmental Arts

    Crafty Chatters, a dementia friendly art group, worked with environmental artist Peter Wood to create a willow-woven tree sculpture.

  • A man and woman dancing together

    Film

    People Express are working with the Amber Valley Dementia Peer Support Network and Film City to capture real life stories of people affected by dementia.

  • A man dressed as a stag looks to a illuminated moon

    Puppetry

    People Express commissioned Thingumajig Theatre to create a new puppet performance, ‘The Magic Lantern’, to help SEN children feel more confident about the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions.

  • 4 people stand on a balcony and drop pieces of paper

    Performance

    Members of ‘Swadlincote Asperger’s Society (SAS)’ created a devised performance in a week-long residency with artist Gobscure.

  • Two women paint onto silk stretched over a small canvass

    Textiles

    Artist Jen Johnson led dementia friendly silk painting, weaving and rag wreath workshops with care home residents during the ‘Open Minds’ project.

  • A man dressed in leaves reads from a book

    Writing

    Young people within the LGBT+ community used magical realism to create unique fairytales and storytelling performances inspired by their relationship with nature. Sessions were led by writer Thom Seddon.

  • A man and his dog stand next to a sculpture of a wheel

    Sculpture

    The Salt Brook Sculpture Trail, Hatton, was created by a community steering group commissioning four artists to create landmarks representing the hidden heritage of the village.