Events Page

5 July – 30 August, during Roundhouse opening hours

As part of The Craft Revolution’s WORD UP! series of events, provocative printmaker and artist Alice Leach exhibits this new body of arresting, poetic and sensitive work, using text as a visual medium.

Alice will be also talking about her new exhibition in person on 11 July – not to be missed! It’s free but you’ll need to book your place here 

17-18 August, 10am to 4pm

Learn about natural processes for working with indigo – from growing to processing and dyeing.

Exploring different processes and plants, you’ll create a variety of colours on silk and yarn. We will take natural dye plant foraging walks around the land and gardens, gathering plants for the dye pot.

This course will also cover using fresh wild dye plants and specialist dye plants such as madder and weld; an overview of plant based non-toxic mordanting processes; and how to make an organic indigo dye vat.

SEE ‘LEARN MORE ABOUT EVENT’ WEBLINK TO CHECK EXACT TIMES AND IF THE SESSION IS ADULT / FAMILY YOGA

Simply Soulful Yoga has teamed up with Dartington Dairy to offer hilarious and therapeutic animal antics on the farm. Both family and adult classes take place seasonally, April through to September – a truly therapeutic workout for the mind, body and soul, guaranteed to help you smile on the inside (and out, until your face hurts!). Who can resist settling into a downward facing dog with the cutest upward facing baby goat peeking up at you?

*As seen on TV – ITV This Morning, and BBC Breakfast & CH5 Blind Date*

Ideal for individuals, private groups, family gatherings, birthday celebrations, corporate clients, team-building, hen & stag parties, yoga and Goat lovers everywhere!

One-to-one, private groups, and bespoke sessions also available

Before your class please…

• Book in advance. Places are limited, so please kindly reserve your place by booking in advance.
• Complete a HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE.
• Refer to the FAQ section. This will help you prepare in advance for your class, advise you what happens if the weather is bad, and what to do if you need to cancel, plus much more.

A hilarious new film adaptation inspired by the irreverent, bestselling book series.

Atti (Sebastian Croft) is a Roman teenager with brains, but very little brawn. When one of his schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero (Craig Roberts), he joins the army and heads for miserable, cold, wet Britain, where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when he’s captured by Orla (Emilia Jones), a feisty teenage Celt with dreams of becoming a warrior like Boudicca (Kate Nash). But will they fall on opposite sides or forge a friendship in the chaos of Celtic-inspired rebellion?

4 ½ stars “really funny and clever” 10-year-old Ashton

2018 | USA

2018, USA, 121 mins

Director: Jim Jarmusch

The greatest zombie cast ever disassembled including Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits.

Doors open 7:00pm for fine wines and all manner of drinks. Film at 8:00pm.

For over twenty-five years, Black Voices have captivated global audiences with their passionate performances. This sensational a cappella ensemble has developed a unique repertoire – spirituals, traditional African, Caribbean and English folk songs, jazz, gospel, pop and reggae – that has earned them world-wide recognition. Dartington audiences have taken them to their heart.

Carol Pemberton Music Director
Celia Wickham-Anderson
Evon Johnson-Elliot
Genevieve Sylva
Jennifer Wallace

GoldDust DJ Set!

Dust off your dancing shoes; GOLDDUST and DJ BILL, your favourite Boogie-Fueled Disco-Glitter-Glam merchants, are coming back to the Barrel House Ballroom… AS DJ’S!

for a one off Mid-Summer Mad Peng Ting!!!!

Open Session for players to join in or to sit and listen as you please.
In the back bar.

More fantastic food stalls are being added to enhance the appeal of this producers’ market in and around Totnes market square. And to add more colour and variety to the event, an Artisan Craft and Arts Street Market, featuring a host of local creators displaying their wares will be on display.

‘The whole idea is to ‘Celebrate Totnes’, said Ray Reynolds, market organiser. ‘The town already hosts an amazing food market once a month, attracting people from all corners of Devon, so let’s capitalise on its success and use it as a springboard to give the town an extra lift. A destination for a Sunday day-out, an extra monthly shopping day to benefit the town. Bring in more visitors and make everyone aware of what a wonderful town we have. A town full of diverse and eclectic shops, streets full of history and architecture and an atmosphere all its own. By adding more strings to the food markets bow, we can give this special day an extra vibrancy for one and all to enjoy the town, all the way from top to bottom – or vice versa!

A hilarious new film adaptation inspired by the irreverent, bestselling book series.

Atti (Sebastian Croft) is a Roman teenager with brains, but very little brawn. When one of his schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero (Craig Roberts), he joins the army and heads for miserable, cold, wet Britain, where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when he’s captured by Orla (Emilia Jones), a feisty teenage Celt with dreams of becoming a warrior like Boudicca (Kate Nash). But will they fall on opposite sides or forge a friendship in the chaos of Celtic-inspired rebellion?

4 ½ stars “really funny and clever” 10-year-old Ashton

2018 | USA

2018, USA, 121 mins

Director: Jim Jarmusch

The greatest zombie cast ever disassembled including Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits.

Doors open 7:00pm for fine wines and all manner of drinks. Film at 8:00pm.

We’re very lucky to have five of Europe’s most celebrated jazz musicians, playing together exclusively in Dartingon’s relaxed and informal setting. We’re particularly delighted to welcome Alec Dankworth and Chris Batchelor to Dartington for the first time.

Chris Batchelor trumpet
Mark Lockheart saxophone
Steve Lodder piano
Alec Dankworth bass
Jon Scott percussion

Ric Byer – Roz Harding – Marcus Vergette

Three familiar ingredients with a new recipe.

Adventurous Jazz for the curious…

A hilarious new film adaptation inspired by the irreverent, bestselling book series.

Atti (Sebastian Croft) is a Roman teenager with brains, but very little brawn. When one of his schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero (Craig Roberts), he joins the army and heads for miserable, cold, wet Britain, where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when he’s captured by Orla (Emilia Jones), a feisty teenage Celt with dreams of becoming a warrior like Boudicca (Kate Nash). But will they fall on opposite sides or forge a friendship in the chaos of Celtic-inspired rebellion?

4 ½ stars “really funny and clever” 10-year-old Ashton

2018 | USA

A tremendously rich programme from the youthful Gildas Quartet, to open Harrison Birtwistle’s residency with us this week. Purcell’s Chacony directly inspired the Chaconne variations in Britten’s second quartet, composed to celebrate Purcell’s 250th anniversary in 1945. Harrison Birtwistle – a huge admirer of Henry Purcell – wrote The Tree of Strings for the Arditti Quartet, alternating moments of total stillness with passages of great athleticism and rhythmic energy, recalling his time lived in the Hebrides.

‘Birtwistle’s The Tree of Strings – an evocation of what might have survived of a lost musical culture on the Hebridean island of Raasay – is starting to emerge as one of his finest recent achievements. It seems to reveal more mysteries and beauties with every performance.’ The Guardian

Purcell – Chacony in G minor arr. Britten
Britten – Quartet no.2 in C major Op.36
Harrison Birtwistle – The Tree of Strings

Christoper Jones violin
Gemma Sharples violin
Kay Stephen viola
Anna Menzies cello

A tremendously rich programme from the youthful Gildas Quartet, to open Harrison Birtwistle’s residency with us this week. Purcell’s Chacony directly inspired the Chaconne variations in Britten’s second quartet, composed to celebrate Purcell’s 250th anniversary in 1945. Harrison Birtwistle – a huge admirer of Henry Purcell – wrote The Tree of Strings for the Arditti Quartet, alternating moments of total stillness with passages of great athleticism and rhythmic energy, recalling his time lived in the Hebrides.

‘Birtwistle’s The Tree of Strings – an evocation of what might have survived of a lost musical culture on the Hebridean island of Raasay – is starting to emerge as one of his finest recent achievements. It seems to reveal more mysteries and beauties with every performance.’ The Guardian

Purcell – Chacony in G minor arr. Britten
Britten – Quartet no.2 in C major Op.36
Harrison Birtwistle – The Tree of Strings

Christoper Jones violin

Gemma Sharples violin

Kay Stephen viola

Anna Menzies cello

Folk players, singers and listeners are all welcome to join in or sit back for the informal folk playing session. Mostly instrumental with the occasional song thrown in.

A hilarious new film adaptation inspired by the irreverent, bestselling book series.

Atti (Sebastian Croft) is a Roman teenager with brains, but very little brawn. When one of his schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero (Craig Roberts), he joins the army and heads for miserable, cold, wet Britain, where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when he’s captured by Orla (Emilia Jones), a feisty teenage Celt with dreams of becoming a warrior like Boudicca (Kate Nash). But will they fall on opposite sides or forge a friendship in the chaos of Celtic-inspired rebellion?

4 ½ stars “really funny and clever” 10-year-old Ashton

2018 | USA

‘Birtwistle is a towering figure in British music.’ New York Times

Joanna MacGregor talks to Sir Harrison Birtwistle, introducing his short, spicy chamber pieces to celebrate his 85th birthday. The concert – performed by a supergroup of soloists – opens in the Courtyard, with a tattoo for two trumpets and side drums, and continues with songs, short piano pieces, brass ensembles, with two of Harry’s favourite composers, Stavinsky and Dunstable.

Birtwistle – The Silk House Tattoo (in the Courtyard)
Birtwistle – The Message
Birtwistle – The Sadness of Komachi  
Stravinsky – Three Japanese Lyrics  
Birtwistle – Dance of the metro-gnome; Saraband: The King’s Farewell
Birtwistle – Three Settings of Lorine Naedecker
Stravinsky – Three Pieces for String Quartet
Dunstable – Hocquetus
Birtwistle – Hoquetus Irvineus
Birtwistle – 3 Settings of Celan
Birtwistle – Sonance 2000

Sarah Gabriel, Gillian Keith sopranos

Tom Randle tenor

Jernej Albreht clarinets

Lydia Hillerudh cello

Paul Archibald, Lucy Humphris trumpets

Brett Baker trombone

Joseph Havlat, Stephen de Pledge piano

Gildas Quartet

Dartington Brass Ensemble

Join Totnes Carnival Committee for our Carnival bingo
Doors open 6pm
Bingo Starts 7pm
Great prizes to be won
All proceeds go towards putting on the carnival
https://www.facebook.com/totnescarnival/

2019, USA, 101 mins

Director: Ron Howard

Luciano Pavarotti gave his life to the music and a voice to the world. Ron Howard puts audiences front-row center for this stunning tribute to a towering cultural figure.

Doors open 7:00pm for fine wines and all manner of drinks. Film at 8:00pm.

Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer created an unforgettably powerful masterpiece, changing film language forever. Renée Jeanne Falconetti’s portrayal of Joan is in a class of its own – outside the realms of acting – and is still regarded as the single greatest performance in the history of cinema.

‘It is the face that everyone remembers: that unstinting close-up of the tear-riven visage of French actress Falconetti, maintaining agonised composure as her Joan of Arc is consumed by flames before a braying mob. Echoed countless times on camera – not least in Sinéad O’Connor’s video for Nothing Compares 2 U – it’s a scene that rewrote how faces could be explored and exploited on screen. The last silent film by Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer, it largely eschewed traditional master shots for a dazzling range of expressive, character-probing close-ups: no historical biopic has ever felt quite so unnervingly intimate.’ Guy Lodge

Sarah Gabriel voice

Mark Lockheart saxophones and electronics

Joanna MacGregor piano and organ

Jon Scott percussion

Matthew Fairclough sound projection

The Black Bird Collective returns with their splendid Open Mic Nights in the intimate setting of The Library Bar at The Totnes Brewing Company downstairs from The Barrel House Ballroom.

8pm – 11pm / Free Entry…

“It’s all about the music and bringing people together for good times!”

Bar open at 5pm / Open Mic starts at 8pm

If you would like to book a slot in advance please message The Black Bird Collective.

We will have free slots available on the night. If you’d like to play please come and put your name on the list as early as possible on the night, as these nights have been very busy so far.

We will always try to give everyone who comes and wants to play a slot but if we can’t fit everyone in on the night, we will make sure you get to play the next one. If you are travelling from outside Totnes and want to make sure you can get a slot, please message us beforehand.

Original material is positively encouraged at this intimate and friendly open mic night.

Please show your support for all the artists performing on the night!

This open mic is being run and organised by The Black Bird Collective with Christian Murison on the mic and Steve Rogers on the sound. Poster designed by Matthew Rochford.

Remember to let your friends know and please invite people via the facebook event page… www.facebook.com/events/1304041993078898

1953, USA, 112mins Director: Vincente Minnelli Fred Astaire’s movie star Tony Hunter fears his career may be on the skids but his friends have written him a new Broadway show to kick-start his career. They’ve also found him a new dancing partner in Cyd Charisse. Lucky guy! Doors open 10am for tea, coffee and cake. Film at 11am. All tickets £5 on the door.

A brilliant opportunity to discover the secrets of our glorious gardens.

From the 14th Century buildings, to the much-loved Sunny Border, to one of the oldest trees in England, you’ll hear the stories behind individual features and learn about some of the Garden mysteries, unanswered even today.

The gardens at Dartington Hall are world class Grade II listed and are open, free of charge, all year round. Although the history of the gardens goes back several hundred years, it was not until Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst arrived in 1925 that its true potential was realised.

Dartington would like to warmly thank our volunteers who make these tours happen.

If bringing a group of over 10 people, booking in advance will be required and a donation per person will be requested. Please contact volunteering@dartington.org to book.

A hilarious new film adaptation inspired by the irreverent, bestselling book series.

Atti (Sebastian Croft) is a Roman teenager with brains, but very little brawn. When one of his schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero (Craig Roberts), he joins the army and heads for miserable, cold, wet Britain, where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when he’s captured by Orla (Emilia Jones), a feisty teenage Celt with dreams of becoming a warrior like Boudicca (Kate Nash). But will they fall on opposite sides or forge a friendship in the chaos of Celtic-inspired rebellion?

4 ½ stars “really funny and clever” 10-year-old Ashton

2018 | USA

Piazzolla wrote music of dazzling intensity and ferocity, encapsulated in his Tango-Études. Three Brazilian song arrangements – romantic, sunny and love-infused – separate these from Joanna MacGregor’s volcanic, celebrated arrangements of six of Piazzolla’s tangos, finishing with Libertango.

Piazzolla – Tango-Études
Lobo/Moraes – Canto Triste
Tom Jobim – Insensatez
Baden Powell/Moraes – Canto de Osshana
Piazzolla/MacGregor – Six Tangos

Joanna MacGregor, the Artistic Director of Dartington International Summer School & Festival, is one of the world’s most innovative musicians, appearing as a concert pianist, curator, and collaborator. Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and Professor of the University of London, she has performed in more than eighty countries.

‘MacGregor’s verve, energy and astounding technique are always at the service of the music and never vice versa.  Her ability to inhabit so many sound worlds with the same intensity and commitment is profoundly impressive’ BBC Classical Review

2019, USA, 101 mins

Director: Ron Howard

Luciano Pavarotti gave his life to the music and a voice to the world. Ron Howard puts audiences front-row center for this stunning tribute to a towering cultural figure.

Doors open 7:00pm for fine wines and all manner of drinks. Film at 8:00pm.

Byron Wallen, Trumpet
Craig Milverton, Piano
Al Swainger, Double Bass
Coach York, Drums

The last time Bryon graced the Arts Centre stage was as part of the Jean Toussaint Quintet last December, where he was, as ever, amazing – almost the star of the show!

This time he is the star of the show, albeit in the stellar company of the South West’s rhythm section par excellence. This is likely to be another of those gigs where you have to pinch yourself and ask, “am I really in deepest Devon, and not in Ronnie Scott’s in London or the Blue Note club in New York?”

Students of the Advanced Opera and Conducting Courses

Tom Randle Peter Quint

Jonathan Lakeland Palmer opera coach

Graeme Jenkins conductor

Dartington Festival Orchestra

Composer – Benjamin Britten
Librettist – Myfanwy Piper

Based on Henry James’s chilling novella, Britten’s intense chamber opera tells the story of a young governess desperate to protect her children, Miles and Flora, from evil. The culmination of the two-week opera and conducting courses, led by the internationally-renowned Graeme Jenkins and staring Tom Randle as the sinister Peter Quint. Semistaged with surtitles.

A new offering for Totnes – these monthly markets will offer a variety of goods from arts and crafts to hand made products alongside the usual vibrant outdoor market in the Civic Square.

Every Thursday from April to the end of October, meet local guide Kathy Alexander at 10.30 am at the Tourist Information Office, Market Square. Learn about the history of the town in an informal and friendly walk.

£5 per person, £3 under 16’s.

Gentle movements using a chair including standing & using it as a support. Some use of ‘bar’ on the wall. Suitable for seniors/others with less mobility. Very friendly & welcoming classes.

Cost, just £3.

No class on 25 April 2019

A hilarious new film adaptation inspired by the irreverent, bestselling book series.

Atti (Sebastian Croft) is a Roman teenager with brains, but very little brawn. When one of his schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero (Craig Roberts), he joins the army and heads for miserable, cold, wet Britain, where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when he’s captured by Orla (Emilia Jones), a feisty teenage Celt with dreams of becoming a warrior like Boudicca (Kate Nash). But will they fall on opposite sides or forge a friendship in the chaos of Celtic-inspired rebellion?

4 ½ stars “really funny and clever” 10-year-old Ashton

2018 | USA

Roll up, roll up: Joanna MacGregor leads over a hundred musicians in Cage’s famously anarchic 1967 music happening, in and around Dartington’s Great Hall. Come and participate in Musicircus, where every performer and every kind of music coexist in glorious cacophony. Any number of musicians, willing to perform simultaneously, can take part.

‘Art is a process set in motion by a group of people. You won’t hear anything: you’ll hear everything.’ John Cage

All musicians, at any level, are welcome to be part of this performance – no rehearsals are necessary, but we will start and finish at definite times. You can play (or read) John Cage, Erik Satie, graphic scores, music and words of your own choice – or simply improvise. Dancers, poets, actors and visual artists are also welcome. Colourful circus clothing is voluntary.

1997, Japan, 124 mins

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Ashitaka, on a quest to save his village finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. He also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.

Doors open 7:00pm. Film at 7:30pm.

The celebrated Neil Brand introduces his own score for this vivid silent film of Dickens’ novel, directed by Frank Lloyd and starring the brilliant seven-year old Jackie Coogan (The Kid) as Oliver and Lon Chaney, ‘the man of a thousand faces,’ as Fagin. “Sometimes it seems Charles Dickens must have written for the movies. Who can resist that pathetic scene: ‘Please, sir, I want some more’? The picture of little Oliver with his bowl held out for more gruel has remained as iconic of humanitarian liberalism throughout the twentieth century, as it was of reform in Dickens’s time.” Silent Volume   Don’t miss: Neil Brand introducing film and music students in the Barn Theatre Film with Music: The Passion of Saint Joan (1928) Mark Lockheart leading Jazzworks John Cage’s Musicircus   Neil Brand has been a silent film accompanist for over 30 years, regularly in London at the Barbican BFI National Film Theatres, throughout the UK and at film festivals a around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, America, Israel, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, and, in Italy, the Bologna, Aosta, Bergamo and Pordenone festivals where he has inaugurated the School of Music and Image to teach up-and-coming young pianists about silent film accompaniment. He was appointed Visiting Professor of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music this year. Neil now has a very fruitful relationship with the BBC Symphony Orchestra which has resulted performances of his acclaimed orchestral score for Hitchcock’s silent Blackmail, Asquith’s silent Underground, released to great acclaim theatrically and on Blu-Ray/DVD by the BFI, and Chaplin’s Easy Street. Gramophone talks to Neil about improvisation and film

The celebrated Neil Brand introduces his own score for this vivid silent film of Dickens’ novel, directed by Frank Lloyd and starring the brilliant seven-year old Jackie Coogan (The Kid) as Oliver and Lon Chaney, ‘the man of a thousand faces,’ as Fagin. “Sometimes it seems Charles Dickens must have written for the movies. Who can resist that pathetic scene: ‘Please, sir, I want some more’? The picture of little Oliver with his bowl held out for more gruel has remained as iconic of humanitarian liberalism throughout the twentieth century, as it was of reform in Dickens’s time.” Silent Volume

Eli hosts an Open Session on each other Thursday welcoming friends or guests, to either take over the Open Mic or to join in the session atmosphere at the end. If you want to come along and join in just come early and speak to Eli about a slot.

Commissioned especially for pianist Stephen De Pledge, seven New Zealand composers have written pieces inspired by Bach’s Partita no. 3 in A minor. In a series of fascinating three-way conversations between the composers, pianist and Bach himself – the performance includes Bach’s original partita – we hear this 18th-century musical form reimagined for the 21st century, with wit and lively imagination.

J.S. Bach Partita no.3 in A minor BWV 827

Bach Fantasia: Leonie Holmes – Fantasia

Bach Allemande: Chris Gendall – Monolithe Allemand

Bach Corrente: Christopher Norton – Corrente

Bach Sarabande: Alex Taylor – Sarabande, Inertia Study

Bach Burlesca: Juliet Kiri Palmer – Burl

Bach Scherzo: Celeste Oram – $cher.zo (two one four-hundred and thirteen dollars forty)

Bach Gigue: Helen Bowater –Gigue – a pataphor: that which occurs when a lizard’s tail has grown so long it breaks off and forms a new lizard

Join us for our Carnival Baby Show & Children’s Fancy Dress Show
Just a £1 to enter either show
BABY SHOW CLASSES:
0-9 Months
10-18 Months
19-36 Months
OR
enter them and your older children for the Fancy Dress
FANCY DRESS CLASSES ARE:
0-7 Years
8+ Years
Group
Decorated Vehicle
1st, 2nd and 3rd Prizes
PLUS
Glamorous Grandparent and Bonniest Baby in Show
Refreshments available

Join us for our Carnival Baby Show & Children’s Fancy Dress Show
Just a £1 to enter either show
BABY SHOW CLASSES:
0-9 Months
10-18 Months
19-36 Months
OR
enter them and your older children for the Fancy Dress
FANCY DRESS CLASSES ARE:
0-7 Years
8 Years
Group
Decorated Vehicle
1st, 2nd and 3rd Prizes
PLUS
Glamorous Grandparent and Bonniest Baby in Show
Refreshments available

Our brass students blow the roof off, with a colourful programme of British composers.

Paul Archibald, Brett Baker and Students of the Brass Ensemble Course

Paul Patterson – Count Down Op.28
Richard Rodney Bennett – Flowers of the Forest
Paul Lovatt-Cooper – The Hampshire Suite

FREE – book tickets in advance

Join us for a fun and interactive introduction to the Transition movement. This tour will visit some of the environmental, social and economic projects associated and partnered with Transition Town Totnes, to give you an insight into how communities can work together to tackle some of our biggest challenges from climate change and food security, to energy shortages and creating strong local economies

By donation- we suggest £20 for visitors and £10 for locals, but please pay what you can or what you think it is worth – it’s up to you. And we really mean that – even if it is nothing!

Please advise in advance of any mobility issues so we can make arrangements as necessary.

Sign-on: From 4.00 p.m. Entry £2
Fishing Times: 4.30 – 8.00 p.m.
Sponsors: Kiddy and Sons, Brixham Bait and Tackle, Dartmouth Steam Railway and River Link, Silver Grill, Something Nice for Gardens and Euro Angling.
Raffle with some great prizes

Exciting new work created by this week’s Advanced Composition students and introduced by their course director, Sir Harrison Birtwistle. Several short, new works receive their premiere, played by the world-class Gildas Quartet, trumpeter Lucy Humphris and Trio Tritium.

FREE – book tickets in advance
Proceeds from a retiring collection will be used to support Summer School bursaries.

We’re extraordinarily lucky to have one of the world’s greatest living composers, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, joining us this year in Dartington. A leading European figure in contemporary music, his seminal works have combined a modernist aesthetic with emotional impact; he takes his inspiration from contemporary art, and rituals of classical mythology and pre-history. Harrison Birtwistle was born in Accrington in 1934 and studied clarinet and composition at the Royal Manchester College of Music. In 1960 he sold his clarinets to devote his efforts to composition, and travelled to Princeton as a Harkness Fellow where he completed the opera Punch and Judy. This work, together with Verses for Ensembles and The Triumph of Time, firmly established Birtwistle as a leading voice in British music. Important large-scale compositions are the operas The Minotaur, Gawain, The Second Mrs Kong and The Last Supper, the concertos Panic, Antiphonies and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, as well as the orchestral scores Earth Dances, Exody and The Shadow of Night.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon star in this epic historical drama about the battle to light the world.

Celebrity inventor Thomas Edison (Cumberbatch) is on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan; meanwhile, businessman George Westinghouse (Shannon) and his upstart genius partner Nikolai Tesla (Nicholas Hoult) think they have a superior plan for electrifying America, with the AC current. Embarking on a cutthroat competition to power the nation, they spark one of the first and greatest corporate feuds in American history, breaking all the rules in their quest for ever greater innovation.

2017 | USA 

Fun for all the family, get them dancing shoes on for our Family Disco
£5 per family, pay on the door
Hot food, cakes and drinks will also be on sale

Fun for all the family, get them dancing shoes on for our Family Disco
£5 per family, pay on the door
Hot food, cakes and drinks will also be on sale

1999, Spain, 101 mins, subs

Director: Pedro Almodovar

Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela. Tragedy and longing become inseperable in Almodovar’s emotional tale.

Doors open 7:00pm for fine wines and all manner of drinks. Film at 8:00pm.

Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor celebrates her last ever Summer School concert with Beethoven’s jubilant Choral Fantasy, a mini piano concerto with stirring choir. Her performance partner is the celebrated opera and choral conductor Stephen Barlow, visiting Dartington for the first time.

Before Beethoven comes Tippett’s majestic spirituals, and our brand new choral commission from the marvellous composer Eleanor Alberga, setting poetry by Alice Oswald.

Eleanor Alberga – Awed light its chant entrances (premiere)
Tippett – Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time: Steal Away; Nobody Knows; Go Down, Moses; By and By; Deep River
Beethoven – Choral Fantasy Op.80

Stephen Barlow conductor

Joanna MacGregor piano

Soloists from the Advanced Opera course

Dartington Choir

Dartington Festival Orchestra

Stephen Barlow was a boy chorister at Canterbury Cathedral‚ and studied at Trinity College‚ Cambridge (as Organ Scholar) and Guildhall School of Music and Drama‚ under Vilem Tausky. He was Artistic Director of the Buxton Festival 2011-2018‚ and his recent projects include La Cenerentola (Staatsoper‚ Stuttgart)‚ Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Beijing)‚ Die Walküre Peter Grimes‚ Falstaff‚ Norma (Grange Park Opera)‚ and Otello (Birmingham Opera Company). He co-founded Opera 80‚ and was resident conductor at English National Opera. Engagements abroad include Vancouver Opera, San Francisco Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Opera Australia. He has conducted most of the world’s major orchestras. Recordings include Joseph James’ Requiem with Sumi Jo and his own Rainbow Bear (with his wife‚ Joanna Lumley‚ as narrator); he has conducted the première of his opera King in Canterbury Cathedral. As a pianist‚ he has recorded the complete songs of Butterworth‚ Delius and Quilter.

The music of Russia, Ukraine, Hungary and Romania played with passion and soul from the heart of eastern europe…

Coffee Couture Totnes, The Town Mill, Coronation Rd TQ9 5DE
8pm, Friday, August 23rd 2019 Online £4, Door £5
www.eventbrite.com

Line up:
Gilbert Gabriel: Vocals, Guitar and Keyboards.
Alice Night: Vocals and Guitar.
Amy Edwards: Cellos and Vocals.
Petya Halse: Sax, Flute and Vocals.

Gilbert Gabriel has worked with David Gilmour, PM Dawn, Massive Attack vocalist
(Shara Nelson) & was signed to Prince’s management.

Dreampop-Chillout-Psychedelic

Plus Support
Kelly & Mariella

www.everdreamrecords.com

rtington Big Band Final Party Night: Stonking Big Band and dancing! Join us for our annual swing–jive, led by the indefatigable Steve Dummer.

Come and help us create a mile of pennies from the Market Square down the High Street