Then look no further than award-winning Bedtime Stories, opening this week at Dartington Live. Going to the theatre this December doesn’t have to mean dreary double-entendre from a wise-cracking dame and time-honored bits of squeaky-clean cross-dressing. If you are fatigued by the cliches of panto and the chintz has lost its charm, look no further than…
… In the unlikely event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, alternative scenarios will be provided. Next of kin will be provided. Additional desserts will be provided. An extra pillow. Trumpets and gongs. Neither Heaven nor Hell is assured. We’re not responsible for your final destination.” FLIGHT Flight, created by DARKFIELD, is the…
105+dB recreates the roars and cheers of a football crowd through high tech sound bubble On Sunday 2 December 2018 the British Council Qatar is to unveil a mass-scale sonic installation, 105+dB, in Souq Waqif, Doha. Created by UK-based interactive art studio, Invisible Flock, 105+dB will immerse members of the public in Qatar’s passion for…
The Dartington Hall Trust has announced that Sara Mohr-Pietsch will be the next Artistic Director of the Dartington International Summer School and Festival. Mohr-Pietsch will deliver her first Summer School and Festival at Dartington in 2020, following on from renowned concert pianist, Joanna MacGregor OBE, who will her curate her fifth and final festival in 2019. A music broadcaster, curator and writer, Mohr-Pietsch is best known for her work on BBC Radio 3,…
New documentary Magic Medicine, follows three volunteers through the world’s first medical trial of psilocybin to treat depression Ladbury is thrilled to be working with pioneers of British independent documentary making, Dartmouth Films. This powerful new film follows an unprecedented trial at Imperial College London. Supporters including Baroness Meacher calling for reclassification to allow urgently needed research…
People Make Dartington, a new portrait exhibition from photographer Aubrey Simpson. The Green Table And The White Hart, Dartington From mushroom growers to Russian composers: People Make Dartington is a new photography exhibition that asks people working on the historic south Devon estate ‘How Did You Get Here? ’Printmaker, Baker, Leatherman, Goat Farmer, Composer, Gardener, Stone…
Ceri Goddard, Associate Director of Social Justice for the Dartington Hall Trust, on 100 years of female campaigning and social change in the era of #MeToo, TIME’S UP and the latest Kavanaugh debacle “I use words to attack… words that fly and ignite passion” says suffragist Millicent Fawcett. “ They are just words …that fall…
Over £1,000,000 awarded from The Justice and Equality Fund, supported by TIME’S UP UK, to specialist organisations across the UK to help women who have experienced sexual harassment and abuse The Justice and Equality Fund, managed by Rosa and supported by TIME’S UP UK, has today awarded £1,027,699 in grants through the Advice and Support programme to…
International real estate developer, Tishman Speyer, in collaboration with Vigo Gallery and Encounter Contemporary, announces the debut exhibition of ‘Autonomous Morris’ by British-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové at the newly re-opened Smithson Plaza. Standing at approximately 10-feet high, the ‘Autonomous Morris’ sculpture is the largest mask the artist has completed to date and is set to…
A contemporary arts programme of live performances by acclaimed artists and thinkers from around the world brought to rural Devon, to explore the ‘big’ questions in an imaginative, innovative and transformative way Dartington Live 2018 Totnes, Devon The Dartington Live 2018 autumn/winter (A/W) arts programme includes original commissions from: Upswing and Stratford Circus Arts with Bedtime Stories adapted for a Devonshire winter, a not so sleepy feat of acrobatics and adventure transforming the bedtime story for children …
Make a date to walk on water with AURORA From September 21 to October 7 a Victorian reservoir in Liverpool will become home to an exciting, high technology experience asking us to think about our increasingly uncertain relationship with water. It’s called AURORA and its appearance could not be more timely. A wet winter has…
What is the creative potential of solitude? What next for storytelling in videogames? How do politics & power shape our ongoing relationship with technology? Interaction designer and leading IoT entrepreneur, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino; British video-game designer Sam Barlow; creative technologist and Global Games Jam founder Gorm Lai; interactive design studio Invisible Flock; intercultural contemporary theatre company…