Neighbourhood Creative Agent Update
May 2025
By Clare Limb
It’s been another busy month of creativity in Crich starting off with Creative Agent Clare Limb being interviewed by Val and Trev as part of the Derbyshire Makes festival series in Heanor on 5th April.
Clare spoke about all thing’s creativity and sustainability in reference to the Neighbourhood Creative Agent project with Transition Crich. Clare brought along here planted hiking boots as an example of creativity in action!
Our monthly Make, Do and Mend session was themed on the idea of ‘Empower Your Plate’, and was full of practical planting, growing, farming and foraging ideas, finished off by a spot of tasting in 4 ways to make something tasty wild garlic (in soup, pesto, risotto or simply ferment it in oil and salt).
Thanks go to Hazel and Janette for providing the yummy goodies for our delectation). Thanks also to the team from Crich and Fritchley Open Gardens who once more brought their wheelbarrow full of compost and gravel for a ‘Plant a Shoe’ activity; and to Gill Hirst who inspired us with her knowledge on how to run a small holding.
The month’s activities concluded with a spot of rust dying on fabric with young people from Crich Youth Club and a workshop on creative mending led by local artist Lise Bennett and members of Transition Crich, with children from year 4 & 5 at Crich Junior School & the members of Crich Luncheon Club.
Items from these sessions will be showcased at the Love it Again Fashion Show on May 9th and the Spring Art Share on May 17th, both at the Crich Glebe Community Centre.
May looks to also be a busy month with several events scheduled which you can attend.
The Sustainable Fashion Show on 9th May will be an unmissable free event with lots to look at and experience. Guests New Mills Fashion Week Activistas will take us through their collection which highlights the problems with Fast Fashion as well as their message spreading pieces which present ‘slower solutions’ to it.
The evening will include an opportunity to show off your own handmade, inherited, upcycled, vintage or Vinted finds on our community catwalk.
All topped off with a clothes swap & an eco-raffle and the chance to take part in a fun fabric upcycling activity from Derbyshire Makes Dare to Dream team ahead of Crich’s own ‘Dare to Dream’ project in the summer (details of how to take part to follow).
Don’t miss the Make, Do and Mend session on 15th May from 7 – 9pm at the Crich Glebe Community Centre, which will be all about spotting and recording ‘Biodiversity in your Back Yard’ (or the Glebe’s!). We will be finding out ways to record local biodiversity through a range of artistic methods.
There is also the Share and Repair Café on 17th May, at the Crich Glebe Community Centre; with a very special spring Art Share made up of artworks which have been created by the community over the course of the Creative Agent project. Come and have a cuppa & a craft and lose yourself in the creative outputs of the Crich Area community!
We are also supporting Derbyshire Toy Libraries' 25th Birthday Party at the Glebe Community Centre on 19th May, celebrating the sustainability and connection which the Toy Library has brought to Crich over the years. families old and new are invited to an open Stay and Play session with instrument-making music session included as part of the morning’s activities.
And finally, there is the Capturing Natural Wonders Photography Competition running throughout the month of May. Judges and prizes to be announced soon.
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