The art bus is en route to Derbyshire and NW Leicestershire

This month the Flaming Skirt Festival begins! And it’s bringing contemporary art to Derbyshire and NW Leicestershire. So are you on board?

Flaming Skirt Festival is always an incredibly unique day trip – a family day out, a grown-up play day, a creative adventure travelling around venues in the local area. It’s about having fun and giving people the space to think about the area differently – creatively, inspirationally and excitedly.

Our home here in the heart of the UK has a wonderful industrial heritage, but can now sometimes get overlooked. Flaming Skirt Festival wants to help change that. We’re looking at our locality with fresh eyes to celebrate this great place to live. And we want people who don’t live here to say "YES this is a great place to visit and work".

We’ve found that there are few contemporary arts projects and a limited range of activities for families. So we want this to be the start of something new.

What would you like to see and do here?

Find out more, come along and get the creative wheels in motion!