Community arts festival under way this weekend
Dearne Community Arts Festival rund today (Friday) and Saturday, in and around Dearne Playhouse.
Click here for a full timetable of the festival’s events.
Exhibitors will demonstrate their creative passions with galleries and have-a-go classes, with something to suit all tastes.
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Hide AdIn a marquee outside the theatre, Dearne Valley Camera Club and local artists will display their work.
On Saturday they will be joined by a model aircraft club and a karaoke session.
Indoors will be a gallery of paintings — acrylic, oil, graffiti, face and body — showcasing the talent of Dearne Valley artists.
Crafts on display will include soft furnishing, mask-making, cross-stitch and cake decoration, alongside poetry and more photography.
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Hide AdOther demonstrations will include floristy, spinning, massage and creative writing — led by poet Ian McMillan, the Bard of Barnsley.
Singing, music and dance performances will grace the theatre’s stage — including two have-a-go swing dance workshops from RotherHop.
The Rotherham-based dance collective invites everyone to try a sequence dance at 1pm on Friday and some partner dance at 3.30pm on Saturday.
Click here for a full timetable of the festival’s events.