Culture News & Updates
- 3rd July 2012
To celebrate our 2012 in Chesterfield, the Chesterfield Action for Arts Forum (CAAF) are inviting the people of Chesterfield to respond to our 2012 local, national and personal events through creativity.
Thousands of pounds are available for local groups, organisations and businesses to help with all different sorts of projects and activities, but do you know where the opportunities are?
- 22nd June 2012
After the Olympic Torch has made it's through Chesterfield next Friday 29th June, carry on the celebrations at Brampton Manor with their Torch Relay Celebration Party from 5pm until late.
- 12th June 2012
We can look forward to cheering on all of the Olympic Torch Bearers on Friday 29th June, when we will be graced by the Olympic Torch weaving it’s way through Chesterfield.
With a wide range of hotels and guest houses dotted across the region, it can be difficult to know which option is best for you. thebestof Buxton has two fantastic choices, both of which are ideal for exploring the local area.
Vintage is well and truly back, and whether it’s partly to do with this air of ‘Britishness’ we’re enjoying in the run-up to the Queen’s Jubilee and the Olympics, or simply the need to indulge in warm, personality-filled shabby chic, I love it!
- 29th May 2012
Monday 4th June marks the 120th Anniversary of the opening of the railway line from Sheffield to Chesterfield. To mark the occasion, the Chesterfield Canal Trust is hosting an exhibition of photographs and boat trips.
- 25th May 2012
Pop along and join in the fun on Sunday 24th June at Frederick's Ice Cream Gelateria in Queens Park between 1.00 pm and 5.00 pm. It will be a fun time for the children as Derbyshire author Arabella Star* launches her second book
- 23rd May 2012
To celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Chesterfield Fundraising Group for Cancer Research UK will be hosting a special Jubilee and teddy bears picnic themed Big Lunch at Queens Park on Sunday 3rd June.
- 22nd May 2012
The Chesterfield Canal Trust's tripboat, the John Varley, will do a full day cruise this Saturday, 26th May. It will include the first ever public trip into the new Staveley Town Basin.