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Celebrating who we are and the Music that has shaped us
Lounge @ the Silk Mill
From the shop floor to the dance floor, we're partying in the world's first factory
As part of Derby Feste weekend and the Wright of Derby Festival, you are invited to a Surprise Party at the Silk Mill.
From the South Bank to the Silk Mill, following a successful stint at London’s Vintage Festival, we invite you to Lounge @ the Silk Mill.
Step back in time as the world’s first factory is transformed into a 1970s lounge, complete with sofa, stereo, standard lamps - and some surprises. Browse through our collection of charity shop records and look for the tunes you loved and lost. Party with our resident DJs – or sink into the sofa and have a go on the stereo.
Also featuring Choose your Cheese and the Unlucky Dip.
Whether you want to relax on the sofa or rock it on the dance floor, the Silk Mill is just a step away from the Feste Parade finale on Cathedral Green.
Saturday 24 September 9pm - late. FREE. Everyone welcome. Join us after the Parade!
Download flyer here
Join us on a journey to a special place created exclusively for the Vintage Festival by Charity Shop DJ and Derby Museum.
A place for re-discovering the things which make us what we are. For finding the stuff which is often lost, sometimes forgotten – but always welcomed back.
Down the Back of the Sofa is a special place in our memories. It was created in the big bar on the 4th floor (Blue Side) of the Royal Festival Hall, using museum artefacts, charity shop treasures and a little bit of mischief.
Featuring a specially built set from our inglorious domestic pasts courtesy of Derby Museum; a line-up of surprise guest DJs; Shakespearean Insult Swingball with 1623 Theatre Company; Charity Shop DJ’s Unlucky Dip with visual artist Ola Wilson; Maison Foo’s Memory Gathering Librarians; comics under the bed, and the legendary Choose Your Cheese club nights.
This is “Westworld with a happy ending” Mike Flowers, The Mike Flowers Pops.
Record players and radios; gramophones and ghetto blasters; nests of tables, chests of drawers, Smash Hits and broken Action Men. As you explore under the bed, on top of the wardrobe, in the far corner of a drawer, you might just find a little bit of your own past, hidden in the recesses of your memory.
Down the Back of the Sofa: “Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve lost til you find it”
Click here to find more about Charity Shop DJ at Vintage 2011
Charity Shop DJ at Vintage 2010. Find out what happened here
Click here for our exclusive interview with Wayne Hemingway, the man behind Vintage
Charity Shop DJ from Pixelat3d on Vimeo.
The Lunar Lounge
Invent, imagine and experience the Enlightenment through specially commissioned storytelling sessions for the Wright of Derby Festival at Derby's Silk Mill
Monday 12 September 8.30 -10pm. Silk Mill, Derby
Do you remember house parties in the 70s? Cheese & pineapple hedgehogs and vol-au-vents, washed down with Blue Nun? As part of the Wright of Derby festival, you’re invited to experience the mood of the 1970s turning into the 1790s, in a night of storytelling for adults which invites you to jump back in time twice!
In the setting of the 1970s Lunar Lounge, curated by Charity Shop DJ and Derby Museum and Gallery, storyteller Maria Whatton will be telling stories inspired by the 18th Century Lunar Society, the fellowship group who met to share their obsessions with Science, Art and Commerce.
Lunar meetings helped invent new philosophies and technologies which changed the face of our culture for good. Stories from Irish mythology which Maria heard in her own front room will mix with stories of the Lunar men and their friendships, in an informal evening of story sharing and conversation.
The event is suitable for adults and children aged 12+, with limited space on the vintage 3 piece suite. Come early to get the comfy chairs! (Doors open 8pm for an 8.30pm start). The event is FREE. Wine/juice and snacks are included. Derby’s Silk Mill is off Full Street in the city centre, at DE1 EAF
The Lunar Lounge – a storytelling commission for the Wright of Derby festival with Maria Whatton. Produced by Adverse Camber.
Welcome to Charity Shop DJ Productions
We are a production company based in Derbyshire, UK.
" What you do is facilitate understanding between agendas that think they are different. You make collaboration possible where previously it wasn't even considered. " Jonathan Wallis, Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
All of our work aims to break down barriers between individuals, communities, sectors and interests.
This is why we’ve worked across the UK , and further afield in India, Syria and Australia. It’s why we work with local authorities, museums, schools and universities. With festivals, businesses and voluntary organisations.
It’s why we do gigs, put on parties , run workshops, create venues, work in Parliament, tour international borders.
“Charity Shop DJ manages to be radical through the act of celebrating.” Jacky Fleming, Cartoonist, Guardian and Daily Mail.
Our work is about the power of people, and the power of dialogue and communication.
“ You are telling a different story. It is a real story about real people. “ Tony Benn
Featured Links:
The Big Disco at Derby Feste 2010
100% Proof at the Harley Gallery
The Secret History of Popular Music
Artefact or Bric-a-brac from Pixelat3d on Vimeo.
Charity Shop DJ looks at how and why we value things. Find out more at The Vintage Festival, South Bank, London 29-31 July 2011. Join us for a journey Down the Back of the Sofa.
Lyric Lounge Northampton. Saturday 17 September 2011
The Nook Cafe, Bradshaw Street, Northampton
7pm -9pm
Charity Shop DJ takeover party. Celebrating music and the power of people with a specially commissioned performance. Featuring the Charity Shop DJ crew and fast rising star and champion of poetry for a new generation, Deborah ‘Debris’ Stevenson.
Free Entry. Open to All.
Download Lyric Lounge Northampton Flyer: Front of Flyer Back of Flyer
Lyric Lounge 2011
Charity Shop DJ Returns to the Lyric Lounge
A site specific festival of performance, poetry and spoken word, with Patron Jean 'Binta' Breeze. Presenting new spoken word performances and lyrical explorations.
As part of the Lyric Lounge, we are proud to be working with Debris Stevenson, lyrical star and founder of the Mouthy Poets.
After 3 days of workshops hosted by the Royal and Derngate Theatre Northampton, the result is........ the self-proclaimed " Dancing-Disco Jabberwockies "
Join these young people from Northampton as they bring their parents in to DJ alongside them, including mixes of their own spoken word and DJ sets where DJ meets mum meets DJ meets dad.
Balloons, curry, lyrics, marshmellows, painting, writing, and sounds
The Nook Cafe, Bradshaw Street, Northampton 17 September 2011 7pm
Free Entry. Open to All
Vintage 2011
Simon Price with K Tel's 'Night Moves' : "Way before iPod Shuffle, or even 'Now' albums, K Tel compilations were the essence of pop".
Image courtesy of John Anthony Photography
Vintage 2011
DJ Queen Josephine with 'I Feel Love' by Donna Summer. "One of the best tunes ever made"
Image courtesy of John Anthony Photography
Vintage 2011
Sid and Nancy
Image courtesy of John Anthony Photography
A somewhat unseasonal offering from Roger at Wikipedia
Disc of the Day
One for the Gallery
Zebra Crossing by Kenny Jenkins
It's time for an Album Cover Re-anactment
Jane Czyzselska re-enacts Frank Zappa's Hot Rats. Thanks Jane!
Sir Peter Blake with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Flip Side of the 60s: Charity Shop DJ Goes to Carnaby Street
Charity Shop DJ is untangling the Secret Histories of the Sixties as told by the charity shops of Swinging London. What were people really listening to? How much of it survives today?
Psychedelic Suburbia at Vintage 2011
Read more here
A Unique Partnership with
Derby Museum Community Gallery
Creating Party Spaces and Showcasing the Museum Collection
Find out What Happened when Gladrags and Glitter took over Derby’s Market Place!
Find out what happened when the Lord Mayor of Derby became a DJ, met some hoola hoopers, was surprised by a troupe of disco dancers, was joined on-stage by Simon Groom of Blue Peter, was bombarded by glitter and cheered on by a supporting cast of thousands. Not to mention the other unlikely DJs. And the handbags.
It all happened at Charity Shop DJ's Big Derby Disco at Derby Feste 2010. Find out more here
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Generations Together at Northampton Volunteering Centre
In early 2010 Charity Shop DJ was asked to create a bespoke project for Northampton Volunteering Centre: one that would help to create new communication between people from different ages and parts of the city, and that would help to increase the numbers of volunteers involved in projects in the city.
Over the course of 2 weeks in June 2010, artists Owain Wilson, Nicci Wilson and Andy Jupp worked in 3 different locations across the city, using music, lyrics, and visual arts to explore how experiences of life can be similar across generations and groups and individuals. Find out more here
missy tassles @ charityshopdj
Missy Tassles is a short film maker, model, illustrator, DJ, cook, radio show host, painter, collector of odd vintage miscellania, writer, maker of stuff, superstar and all round good egg from Sheffield. From time to time she will be sending us her cartoon diaries, doodles and musical musings which will feature on this very special part of the Charity Shop DJ website, the Missy Tassles page.
New Cartoon added - Wild Billy - check it out !
Send us your album cover re-enactments!
This is Derbyshire-based artist Arwyn Quick doing Help! by the Beatles.
Can you match that? Send your images to info@charityshopdj.com
Charity Shop DJ Gets High
12,000 km, 15,000 feet above sea level, the greatest Indian film soundtrack ever recorded, the highest motorable road in the world. For the full story Click Here
Kate Hoey, Labour MP for Vauxhall, with Tell me More by Nina Simone
Charity Shop DJ goes to Parliament
Find out what rocked the House
Parliament is in session! Read more here
"Is there room in our hearts for the leftovers of our musical pasts? Charity Shop DJ is bringing back to life the memories locked in vinyl"
John Humphrys, BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme
Click here to see Charity Shop DJ on BBC East Midlands Today
Charity Shop DJ has teamed up with Dr Matt Connell of Nottingham Trent University to help bridge the generation gap through a shared love of music.
Talking About Old Records is an intergenerational music project bringing teenagers and pensioners together through a range of intergenerational DJ workshops, intergenerational music workshops, and performances. Read more
| Read about Talking about Old Records in The Guardian here |  |
