Cream Tea with Clare Hunter: Making Matters - Part of Summer Derby Book Festival 2026

Description

This event will be filmed and made available as a digital recording after the Festival. Available for purchase here.

As children, we made things: snowmen, paper boats, eccentrically costumed plays. 

That making fired our minds and imaginations - it altered our small worlds and shaped who we became. But as adults, it is hard to find to find the space for creativity and to remember its power.

Exploring craft traditions and forms of making from across centuries and cultures, Clare Hunter encourages to engage with the world afresh. To use our hands again, to see beauty in unexpected places, to play and protest and embrace imaginative possibilities. From paper crafts to wonders made from light and snow, she searches for creative delight - making lanterns, puppets and pinhole cameras.

Inspiring and fascinating, Making Matters celebrates individual and collective creativity. It blends history, culture and politics with rich storytelling, wonderful characters and tales of remarkable objects. Read this, and then make something.

'In an era of screens and machines, what a joy it is to read Clare Hunter's inspiring new book, which summons up the creative delights of making wonderment with our own hands' Justine Picardie, author of Miss Dior

'A celebration of the overlooked artistry in crafts practised across the world' THE TIMES

'Clare Hunter is out to reclaim the joy of making for the masses... no act of creativity is too humble, too ephemeral, for this hymn to the sensory wonder and connectivity of the homemade' OBSERVER

'Making Matters is an open door to the power of craft. Now inspired, I'm off to get creative' DAILY EXPRESS

Please note seating will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. 

An email will be sent to you closer to the event to confirm your scone choice and any dietary requirements. You can at this point let us know of booking numbers/names of any others you wish to be sat with.