The first day of the Dearne Community Arts’ Festival took place at Dearne ALC today and was an opportunity to champion the multi-faceted creativity of local residents and celebrate our community.

The Mayor, Cllr Steve Green, opened the arts’ festival and gave out prizes to several competition winners, including Herlen Schreuder:

Pat’s amazing craft work was on display again:

J-P’s photos were also stunning:

There were many other examples of creativity:

There was also the opportunity to listen to Natalia Ledger, a fantastic pianist:

People could also take part in different workshops, learning new skills, such as playing the ukelele:

… or learning about creative writing with Ian McMillan:

… or have a go at silk painting:

… or learn circus skills:

All in all, a great day helped by lots of wonderful volunteers, including Janet who managed to escape this photo!

Tomorrow will see the second day of the arts’ festival from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m., with additional workshops (sand art, clay modelling, hot wax painting, felting, card making and paper crafts, along with crafts for under 5s, a full schedule of performances (including Thurnscoe Harmonic Male Voice Choir and The Grumpy Old Men), virtual reality cinema and 3D printers, face painting, circus skills and much more!