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We provide creative participatory and learning opportunities for people in a welcoming and supportive environment for visitors and participants of all ages. We collaborate and work in partnership to deliver activities that have made a positive impact on people’s lives. Our education, learning and participation programmes involves local and regional communities in innovative arts programmes to develop skills, engage and contribute to contemporary culture.

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Daniel Carpenter – Workshop: Experimenting with Form in Ghost Stories

The latest patented cure-all from award-nominated author and horror editor Daniel Carpenter.

28th Feb

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TC Parker – Workshop: Semiotics For (Horror) Storytelling

Understanding the cultural meanings and social-historical baggage of the ghosts and monsters

28th Feb

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Kristina Adams – Workshop: Balancing the power of three: plot, character, and world building

The importance of balancing characters, plot, and world building in our writing.

28th Feb

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Ally Wilkes – Workshop: Writing and selling short weird fiction

Exploring ways (from self publishing to big anthologies) to get your writing in front of readers.

28th Feb

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James Everington – Workshop: Ghosts and Ambiguity

How to make your ghost stories unambiguously ambiguous for your readers.

28th Feb

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Richard Farren Barber – Workshop: I Like The Way You Move: Locomotion In The Ghost Story

Exploring how the motion of spectres can evoke different responses in the minds of readers.

28th Feb

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Dan Coxon – Workshop: Writing Dissonance: Using the Weird and the Uncanny to Build Atmosphere

Ways to use the weird and the uncanny to unsettle readers before your ghost even appears.

28th Feb

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Sophie Draper – Workshop: Editing Your Novel

Wrestling with that draft book?

28th Feb

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Anime-A-Go-Go brings a day of classic Japanese animation to QUAD

16 Dec 2025

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Special Caribbean Menu available at QUAD for Soul Deep gig.

15 Dec 2025

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Derbyshire-made films to feature at a day of handheld horror to QUAD with POV: The Found Footage Project

14 Nov 2025

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