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Here at Derbyshire Open Arts, we're all working flat out to prepare for this year's event. The brochures are being printed, the posters and flyers are being delivered to us from the printer, the balloons have been ordered and we're contacting venue organisers and artists to arrange distribution of everything!

You can expect to see brochures and other promotional material in libraries, tourist information boxes and many more places from the middle of April. 

Social media marketing has started - look out for Meet the Maker posts on Facebook, Instagram and X/Twitter - and print marketing and advertising are being organised. 

There's so much to do at this time of year, but we're carried along by the excitement of having 245 artists at 68 venues, and we're really looking forward to this year's event. We hope you are too! 

If you have applied Thank You! We're hoping that 2025 will be a fantastic year for Derbyshire Open Arts. 

If you haven't yet applied, today is the closing date for applications - 13th January 2025. If you haven't got a venue, and aren't signed up to our newsletter, email us on [email protected] and we will send you the latest list of venues with spaces. 

If you're still thinking about joining us for 2025, there are still venues with spaces looking for you to join them. Sign up for our newsletter to get the next list; and email us on [email protected] to be sent the one that has just gone out. 

If you want to apply for Derbyshire Open Arts 2025, but don't yet have a venue, make sure you sign up to receive our newsletter. We are sending out regular newsletters listing the venues that have spaces with contact details for the organisers. 

Applications for the 2025 event are now open. Please click on 'How the Event Works' for more information about the event; and to apply just click on 'Application Form'. The closing date is Monday 13th January 2025. We look forward to working with you!

The Derbyshire Open Arts Team is presently getting ready to open the application process for the 2025 Open Studio Style event. This may take some time as we have lost some of our Committee members and have new committee members taking their places.

We are all very enthusiastic and keen to make 2025 a good year throughout Derbyshire. Keep your eye on the website for the 'Applications Opening' date. Better still, sign up for the Newsletter on the Home Page and have it delivered to your in-box.

We look forward to exhibiting with you in May, any queries email us at [email protected].

Derbyshire Open Arts Team

Thank you from everyone at Derbyshire Open Arts for visiting us this year. We hope you had a splendid time viewing the art on display, chatting with the artists and touring round our beautiful county. We look forward to seeing you next year!

Bob Neill, pyrographer exhibiting at Venue 48 in Turnditch, will be interviewed on BBC Radio Derby on Tuesday 21st May at 12.00 noon. The slot is 45 minutes long so plenty of time to find out more about pyrography and what's happening in Turnditch. 

We're all so excited! Artists and makers across the county are getting ready to welcome all the lovely visitors to their venues. Make sure you put it in your diary, create a reminder, set an alarm so that you don't miss out on the best arty weekend of the year! 

Help us fuel the buzz around Derbyshire Open Arts by telling friends, family and posting about it on social media. We have such a special event; let's make sure everyone knows about it!  Meanwhile, if you would like a brochure to supplement what you can see on this website, they are now available in libraries, schools, cafes, hotels and almost anywhere you can think of across the county.

Grab the balloons – set off the fireworks!  The 2024 brochures have been delivered, and mighty smart they look, too!

Over the next few days, a team will get to work sorting quantities for the distribution agencies and then for the 200 or so artists, along with all their other promotional materials – a mammoth task!

The artists who have volunteered to be distribution hubs will be fetching these next week and will contact individual artists on their lists, to arrange collection of their ‘goody bags’, shortly after that.

Huge shout-out to the brochure sorters! Thank you!