Glossop Mayfest group has run seasonal celebrations on the Mayday bank holiday weekend for the past couple of years.

This year the festivities will extend from May 1 to May 31 and will involve partnerships with other arts organisations in the town to create a month-long arts festival.

The programme of events is below.

In 1916, as a generation of young men were slaughtered on the battlefields of Europe, a motley group of poets, painters, revolutionaries and performers gathered together in a seedy night club in the red light district of Zurich to create  new order: one that might restore "the necessary balance between heaven and hell." In their attempt they created something completely new: a phenomenon they called Dada, which became one of the most influential of all art movements: inspiring the Surrealists, alternative cabaret, the Beats, Dylan, Monty Python and the  Punks! The Hacienda and the 'Madchester' scene and even perhaps the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 owe much to those extraordinary people who created something unique:

"...a force of nothingness in which all the higher questions are involved; a gladiator's gesture, a play with shabby leftovers, the death warrant of posturing morality and abundance." 

The Lift Global Music Club presents Raga Nova (£9)

Raga Nova is a unique new music ensemble who have taken the classical North Indian tradition of raga and interpreted it in a contemporary way, adding a touch of jazz and a stroke of samba. Featuring well-respected & renowned musicians Jesse Bannister on saxophone, Dharambir Singh on sitar, Grammy Award winner Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari on tabla and Sri R.N. Prakash on ghatam.

Peak Film Society presents Far From Heaven, (USA 2002), directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid.

A throbbing, richly coloured melodrama with a swooping Elmer Bernstein score. A model 1950s couple take separate paths out of the bounds of respectability - him with men, her with their black gardener.

Made by a group of Glossop based film makers, based on the famous short story by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman.
Directed by Michael Howard; filmed by Max Hartshorne
Edited by Max Hartshorne and Michael Howard
and featuring Cordelia Howard

Degas' life-long fascination with the dance and dancers resulted in some of the world's best loved and most challenging paintings and sculptures. This film celebrates his involvement with the ballet, and the continuing heritage of the Palais Garnier - the famous Paris Opèra. It features the work of Glossop-based artists, Ghislaine and Michael Howard and Stewart Gartside who recreated the artist's works for this film. The film was recently awarded the prestigious Peabody Award - the Oscars of the television and broadcast media world.

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