Festivity comes to Sharpe’s Pottery Museum this November!

After a brilliant tour around the county over the summer, Arts Derbyshire’s Festivity is returning for the winter season, bringing its vibrancy and fun indoors to escape the British weather here at Sharpe’s!

📅 Date: Saturday 22 November
🕒 Time: 10am-5pm
📍 Location: Sharpe’s Pottery Museum, Swadlincote
🎟️ Suitable for: Welcome to all!
💰 Cost: Free Entry

🎶 Live Music

Our featured artist is the amazing Paul Johnstone who entertained the crowds at Bolsover Castle in May, and who will be back at Sharpe’s Pottery at the other end of the county, and the other end of the season to entertain visitors!

🎤 Spoken Word

Curated by Derby Poetry Festival, our spoken word programme will feature a powerful mix of performance poetry and storytelling through verse which will be bold, moving and memorable.

• Jack Washington

📖 Storytelling

The ever-inspiring Adverse Camber will bring storytelling artists to the venue for more inspiring and heartfelt performances.

• Chris Sylla
• Monika Johnson
• Peter Giles

🖼️ Digital Exhibition

Step inside the digital gallery to experience work by 11 exceptional Derbyshire visual artists, including:

• Bernie Rutter & Vitor Azevedo
• Paul Johnstone
• Small Print
• Ray Gumbley
• Nikki Dennett
• Rebecca Morledge
• Stephanie Sian Coley
• John Bullock
• Helen Swift
• Mark Knight
• Alice Marshall (Film)

Also added to the digital exhibition is Eva Juusola, winner of the recent Derby Print Open 2025, who will be exhibiting her winning artwork Analogue vs Digital.

🎨 Workshops

We will also have a fabulous and interactive workshop programme at Sharpe’s Pottery Museum. We’re bringing back local theatre company Hubbub Theatre, who will be providing inclusive, playful creative workshops for all.

Let the Festivity begin!