Crich Creative Agent Update
May 2025
As promised May was full of creativity and community spirit, courtesy of the Neighbourhood Creative Agent project led by Transition Crich member and freelance arts practitioner, Clare Limb.
First up was the final workshop in a series of three which brought together the wisdom and experience of the members of Crich Luncheon Club, with the enthusiasm and energy of the children from Crich Junior School. On the 7th of May, it was the turn of the children from Year 3, who had been eagerly bringing in old boots and shoes from home to plant up with members from the luncheon club. The session was a complete delight with conversations and gardening tips shared as well as the memories of VE Day celebrations gone by – we even bought flowers in reds, whites and blues for them to plant! Some of the children gifted a planted shoe to a member of the luncheon club with the joint promise of watering them in the lead-up to the Crich and Fritchley Open Gardens weekends in June and July.
Next up was our fabulous sustainable fashion show, which with all the build-up to it, didn’t disappoint! Click here to read more about the Fashion Show.
15th May saw the fifth in a series of Make, Do and Mend skill share sessions programmed by Clare. This session was led by three artists - one visual artist and two sound artists - and was themed around ‘Biodiversity in Your Backyard’. Participants took part in a field recording outside in the grounds of the Glebe, using the voice memo function on their phones or special sound recording equipment. Once inside, sound artists Lee and Karen helped us to listen back to our recordings to hear the unique sounds of our neighbourhood, including birdsong, laughter, traffic and aircraft! Next, we had a skills share from artist Maria who showed us how to use charcoal to capture flowers and then make them stand out by painting the ‘spaces in between’. David shared his knowledge of the Badger with a really illuminating talk and Janet shared her knowledge of flora, fungi and fauna.
On Saturday 17th May we held our second Share and Repair Café of 2025, which included an Artshare to celebrate anyone who had made something special in spring. Click here to read more about the Repair Café.
The last event to take place in May was the celebration of Derbyshire Toy Libraries 25th Birthday on the 19th May at the Glebe. The Crich Stay and Play session was the first in a week of birthday parties being held around the area. This was a fitting start to the celebrations as Crich was the first Stay and Play session to be established by DTL. Over 30 people came to wish the Toy Library a happy birthday by making musical instruments out of recycling and singing songs whilst playing their instruments. Musician Sarah Dale lead the singing with her magnificent guitar playing and we ended the morning’s celebrations with cake and the happy birthday song.
Looking forward to June we have the winners of our photography competition ‘Capturing the Natural Wonders of Crich’ announced – don’t forget to submit your entries by midnight on Friday 31st May! Judges include professional photographer turned landlady of the Old Black Swan, Emma Collyer and local landscape and portrait photography enthusiast, Paul Yorke. There will be prizes for the winners in each category and age group and these will be announced on 19th June.
Don’t miss the Make, Do and Mend skills share sessions on 19th June and 17th July (7 – 9pm at the Glebe) where we will be starting to vision and make Crich’s own ‘Banner of Possibilities’ as part of the county-wide ‘Dare to Dream’ project with Derbyshire Makes.
And finally get your old shoes planted up for the first of two open gardens weekends – 28th June & 26th July - where we, and our friends in Crich and Fritchley Open Gardens would love to see the gate posts & doorsteps of our two villages adorned with blooming boots!
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