Year of Project: 2026

Partners: Derbyshire Makes

Collaborators: Clare Limb, Make Shift, High Peak Community Arts, Junction Arts.

Skill sets involved: Project planning, community engagement, workshop design, workshop delivery, place making.

This project had two elements as part of the Derbyshire Makes festival Season.

The first element was taking my show Thingamabob to 5 schools ( 3 Primary, 2 Secondary) where I performed to pupils who after the show took part in a practical workshop which I created where they could have a go practically at exploring some of the STEAM concepts they had seen during my Thingamabob performance. You can see more details about this element of the project in the video and on the Derbyshire Makes website.

The second element was delivering the same Chain Reaction workshop I had delivered in the schools into community settings ahead of the Derbyshire Makes festival days as outreach and promotion for the Festival days across Derbyshire. I then also performed Thingamabob at 3 of the 5 festival days, in Chesterfield, Heanor and Glossop.