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  • Wirksworth Festival

    Wirksworth

    Wirksworth invites you to join us for a 10-day celebration of the arts with a mix of music, performance, and visual arts.

  • Wirksworth Festival – Arts Trail

    Wirksworth

    The town transforms into a huge gallery for the weekend of the 9th & 10th September. Homes, gardens & public spaces across the town are thrown open for over a hundred artists to exhibit their work.

    £10.00

  • Gig on the Roof

    The Market Place

    The Art & Architecture Trail weekend is rounded off with a celebration of local musical talent. Join the town in this popular FREE OUTDOOR EVENT (part of the Wirksworth Festival).

  • Wirksworth Beer festival

    The Maltings Wirksworth,

    The 9th Annual Wirksworth Beer Festival! Saturday 5th October From midday to 11pm at The Maltings The 2024 Wirksworth Beer Festival will once more be serving over 40 real ales selected from around the region as well as live performances from local choirs and music from  up & coming bands.  Committed to raising funds for […]

  • Wirksworth Wizarding Day

    Wirksworth

    Something magical happens in town every October as fans of Harry Potter, and other wizardly stories, gather for a day of family and grown-up wizarding activities. There are events across town, from crafts, stalls and food, to train rides, owls, snakes and storytelling. There is a special screening of a Harry Potter film and a Quidditch tournament. Everyone is […]

  • Our Country’s Good

    The Town Hall

    Wirksworth Town Hall Thursday/Friday/Saturday November 21/22/23 at 7.30pm Set in the late 1700s, in the yet-to-be-named Australia, this gritty comedy-drama follows the officers and convicts in the first penal colony as they come to grips with their new realities. When one of the officers makes a request to put on a play using the convicts […]

    £15

  • Our Country’s Good

    The Town Hall

    Wirksworth Town Hall Thursday/Friday/Saturday November 21/22/23 at 7.30pm Set in the late 1700s, in the yet-to-be-named Australia, this gritty comedy-drama follows the officers and convicts in the first penal colony as they come to grips with their new realities. When one of the officers makes a request to put on a play using the convicts […]

    £15

  • Wirksworth Historians Launch

    Wellspring Wellspring Church, Woodstreet,

    Launch Meeting for a new community group Hear about our past projects: Open All Hours and Taming the Red Lion Books free to members joining on the night Discover our future plans: Research the history of North End Helping members with their own research Occasional talks and walks wirksworthhistorians@gmail.com

    Free

  • Wirksworth Book Festival Among the Shelves 1

    Wirksworth Library Town Hall, Market Place, Wirksworth

    You are invited ‘among the shelves’ of Wirksworth Library to meet two authors on Friday 25 April. Wendy Garvey is the first. She welcomes young readers and their families to Story Time at 10am, 11am and 12pm. Come along and hear her delightful tales read by the author. Learn why a Chicken is driving a […]

    Free

  • Wirksworth Book Festival Among the Shelves 2

    Wirksworth Library Town Hall, Market Place, Wirksworth

    You are invited to Wirksworth Library for 2:30pm on Friday 25 April for another author ‘among the shelves.’ Janet Tennant will talk about her new book, The Refugee Countess - Five lives in one lifetime. Marion Stein was a Jewish refugee who in 1938 escaped with her family from Nazi Austria to London. Her story […]

    Free

  • Wirksworth Book Festival Story Games

    Wirksworth Library Town Hall, Market Place, Wirksworth

    Participants will be led through timed writing exercises using dice, cards and chess pieces as triggers to generate plot lines and characters. Story Games are fun and useful tools for provoking the imagination, and potentially giving writers the initial inspiration for larger works. After each round, participants are invited to read out their pieces, if […]

    Free

  • Wirksworth Book Festival Off the Bookshelf

    Wellspring Wellspring Church, Woodstreet,

    11am - Sophie Draper, Jane Bettany and Mark Eklid - Derbyshire's Partners in Crime Join Derbyshire-based authors Sophie Draper, Jane Bettany and Mark Eklid, who will be discussing their books, the popularity of crime fiction, and the appeal of the sub genres in which they write. Jane is a writer of cosy crime novels set […]

    Free

  • Wirksworth Book Festival The Power of Reading

    The Feather Star

    The Power of Reading with Vanessa Hall What is single most powerful way to improve your child’s well-being, academic achievement, communication skills, general knowledge and capacity for empathy? Well, obviously that’d be reading. This workshop is designed to help parents and teachers to better support and improve your child’s reading – to help build knowledge […]

    Free

  • Jamie Thrasivoulou Feral poetry launch and open mic

    The Feather Star

    Award-winning writer, poet, and educator Jamie Thrasivoulou will launch Feral, his third full-length collection of poetry at The Feather Star. Jamie Thrasivoulou is also the lyricist in the band Kez. In 2019 he won the Saboteur award for Best Spoken word performer in the UK, in 2018 he won the Culture Matters Bread & Roses […]

    Free

  • Great Wirksworth Book Quiz

    Memorial Hall 39 St John Street, Wirksworth

    Test your literary learning, your English expertise, and your paperback proficiency with questions set by Scarthin Books, last year's quiz winners. Prizes for the winning team donated by Ken's Megastore plus prizes of Scarthin book tokens to be awarded as the judges decide on the night. All proceeds to be shared between Aquabox and the […]

    £20

  • Alice in Wonderland

    Haarlem Gallery The Red Lion, Wirksworth

    Follow Alice down the rabbit hole with this fabulous radio style reading by the esteemed Kirk Ireton Light Programme. Tickets are for sale at: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wirksworthbookfestival

    £6 – £10

  • WWII, how it changed womes lives for ever

    Ecclesbourne Valley Railway

    A talk by Shirley Mann, our local award-winning war novelist. (see The talk will be at at Wirksworth Station on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway as part of the Wirkworthback to '40s weekend. (See https://www.e-v-r.com/)

  • WWII, how it changed womens’ lives for ever

    Ecclesbourne Valley Railway

    A talk by Shirley Mann, our local award-winning war novelist. The talk will be at at Wirksworth Station on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway as part of the Wirkworth back to '40s weekend.

  • The Wirksworth UFO Incident

    The Northern Light Cinema

    The Film Premiere of The Wirksworth UFO Incident by local filmmaker Stuart Wheeldon 🛸 THE WIRKSWORTH UFO INCIDENT will screen at The Northern Light on Friday 25th July! Don’t miss it! 👽👾😱🛸 🎬 In 1985 Arthur Peterson was a witness to something that would shape his life. Now he returns to the town where it […]

  • SIX The Musical

    National Stone Centre Portland Lane, Wirksworth

    Outdoor theatre in the heart of the Derbyshire Peak District! Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebration of 21st-century girl power! This new original musical is the global sensation […]

    £16 – £17.50

  • International Conference on Public Health and Health Care System

    Paris, France Paris, France, Paris, WA, France

    PAGES conferences are excited to invite you to the upcoming International Conference on Public Health and Health Care System, scheduled to take place from April 13-15, 2026 in the city of finance Paris, France. This event will bring together leading experts for keynote addresses, dynamic panel discussions, and engaging workshops that aim to poster collaboration […]

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  • Derbyshire Dales Swift Project

    Wellspring Wellspring Church, Woodstreet,

    A talk about a project to aid an endangered bird species in the local area.

    £3