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Artcore

Artcore is a visual arts charity with a group of professional artists working within communities locally, nationally and internationally.

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Arts Derbyshire

Arts Derbyshire is the strategic arts charity for the county. Our aim is to enrich people's lives through the arts. We work with artists, service providers and the public to provide strategic direction for the arts in Derbyshire, to enable collaborative working for arts development, and to encourage people to take part in the arts.

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Banks Mill Studios

Banks Mill Studios is the University of Derby's creative industries incubation centre providing a nurturing and supportive environment for new creative businesses, increasing the potential for growth, success and sustainability. Our studios are available for University of Derby students, graduates and individuals not associated with the University.

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Creative Melbourne

Creative Melbourne Gallery & Studios opened early in 2022 with the plan to become a home for the creative arts in the heart of South Derbyshire. The Gallery is the home of Melbourne Festival and features  exhibitions of work created by Midlands-based artists & makers from the Festival. Our exhibitions change regularly, and everything is for sale, from original paintings to prints and artists’ cards. We also sell sculpture, glass and ceramics. We aim to support regional artists and exhibit art for our visitors to enjoy and take home.

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Cromford Mills

Cromford Mills played a key role in the Industrial Revolution. Today as well as being a part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site tourist destination, Cromford Mills is also a business hub, with office & retail space and hot-desking facilities. With two cafés on site serving good homemade food, superfast broadband, good public transport links, walks along the canal and river.

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Derby Market Hall

Derby Market Hall caters for a range of your shopping needs, all under one impressive roof. Shop from a diverse range of contemporary and traditional market stalls selling everything from fresh food to pet supplies and vintage clothing. At Derby Market Hall, we're also big on local suppliers and products. Discover handcrafted treasures from local artists and makers, as well as stalls serving the very best produce from across Derbyshire and the East Midlands.

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Glossop Creates Local

Glossop Creates, established in 2020, aims to empower Glossop’s creative community to come together, create ideas and lead the change it wants to see. We are committed to creating opportunities that support local  creative and independent businesses to address shared challenges through collaboration and partnership work with local organisations and the local authorities.

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Junction Arts

Engaging arts experiences to improve wellbeing, build confidence and skills, address inequality, and inspire change.

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Harlem Art Space

Haarlem Artspace is a gallery in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, championing rural contemporary art regionally, nationally, and internationally through exhibitions, residencies, talks and events.

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Museum of Making

Celebrating the area’s rich history of innovation, the Museum of Making Derwent Valley Mills – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – is a contemporary space telling Derby’s 300-year history of making to inspire new creativity. Designed and made by the people and industries of Derby with exhibits, workshops, activities and events, there’s something here for everyone including a new café, shop and venue hire space.

Derby Silk Mill is widely regarded as the site of the world’s first modern factory, built in the valley that changed the world. Industry brought prosperity to some and poverty and wage slavery to others. Yet it shaped Derby as a city of making and creativity. Industrial society led to the creation of civic institutions and stimulated a civil society in which people campaigned for social and political rights.

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Platform Thirty1

We use creativity to work on generating agency and power, so that those we work with can tackle any societal, environmental, political, personal or cultural problem that is important and impactful to them, their family and/or their community.

Our core principles:
Creating change: striving to make a positive difference
Being context specific: proud to be rooted in people and place
Having integrity: doing the right thing
Unapologetically authentic: considerations for the complexities and qualities at play

Platform Thirty1 is a women-led organisation working across the arts, culture, community and education sectors in the East Midlands.

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The Old Lockup Gallery

A spacious & intimate art gallery which has a programme of exhibitions throughout the year, bringing you an ever changing celebration of the visual arts.

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QUAD Derby

QUAD is Derby’s Cultural Hub providing contemporary art exhibitions, film, cinema, integrated digital media work and a range of educational and creative activities that is inspirational, innovative and inclusive.