Derbyshire Makes Festival!

We’re delighted to invite you to join us for a packed programme of free activities to celebrate making in all its forms. Come on down to Cromford on the Saturday and Sunday and get stuck in. Our Derbyshire Makes festival is all about the power of water as a creative force.

Help us create and shape our water-powered story, enjoy local folk tales co created with local people and get making! You can make musical instruments from vegetables, race your propeller boat and contribute to our huge magical…. Well we think it’s a fish!?

Lots going on with a promenade performance twice a day that you are all invited to get involved with. Also enjoy the visiting Makory and contribute to Dare to Dream a mass participation project.

The festival is part of the Derbyshire Makes programme: Discover. Make. Share. Celebrate.

Don’t forget on Saturday 12th April there is also a craft fair at Masson Mills – just a short scenic walk from us.

If you love making – check out the other Derbyshire Makes festivals in Derbyshire.

 Chesterfield                                   Friday 28 – Sunday 30 March

Heanor                                             Saturday 5 – Sunday 6 April

Cromford Mills                             Saturday 12 – Sunday 13 April

Glossop                                              Tuesday 15 – Wednesday 16 April (Easter holidays)

Bolsover                                          Saturday 19 – Sunday 20 April

Swadlincote                                   Saturday 26 – Sunday 27 April

Our festival is supported by – Babbling Vagabonds, Wild Roots Creative, The Level Centre, Adverse Camber, Fleet Arts, Netty Reddish Creative, Mill Yard Studio Gallery and many other individual people busy making and creating in the area.