We Are All Derbyshire Has Reached its End

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After months of nomination events, choosing people for the collection from the nominations, meeting with them for portrait sittings, creating the portraits and getting them framed, meeting with venues, and exhibiting across the county, the project has reached its end.

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With hundreds of nominations and totalling almost two thousand visitors to the exhibitions, plus engagement from BBC Radio Derby listeners, County Council newsletter readers, website visitors, and attendees at public talks, the project has been a huge success. Visitors have said how uplifting it has been to read about the good in mankind and see it represented through the collection of portraits spotlighting Derbyshire people.

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With thanks to...

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• Dark Peak Arts/ Bella Hardy

• Oppenheim John Downes Memorial Trust

• Derbyshire Libraries

• Derbyshire County Council

• BBC Derby

• National Women's Register Bakewell

• Ashbourne 50+ Forum

• High Peak Access

• Newsletter subscibers and visitors to the website

• All who nominated and all nominees

• Family and friends of each sitter

• Curate's Room Framing

• Forty Five Degrees Graphic Design and Printing

• Exhibition phase volunteers

• Samantha Riddle (BSL interpreter for the exhibition launch event)

• Staff and volunteers at a non-disclosed venue for vulnerable people

• Staff and volunteers at the venues listed below

• All who visited events and exhibitions

• Crowdfunder financial supporters

• All who bought accompanying booklets

• And of course, thank you to each person featured in the portrait collection

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