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The Dartington Hall Trust and Duchy College are teaming up to bring a new course onto the Dartington estate, aimed at training a new wave of students with the skills necessary for 21st century food production and gardening.

The Dartington Photographer of the year competition is extending its deadline for entrants to July 10th – so that it runs parallel to last year’s winner, Alice Carfrae’s, photographic exhibition that opens this week in the Dartington Roundhouse Café. Find out how to enter the competition and more about the prize here!

Ways With Words 2009 Festival of Literature and Ideas is using its unique relationship with Dartington Schumacher College to create a line up of the most exciting sustainable thinkers in the UK – including the founder of Gaia theory and the very first visiting teacher at Schumacher College, James Lovelock.

A one or two week course | Brian Swimme, Ervin Laszlo, Bernadette Brady | Our appreciation of the nature of the universe fundamentally affects how we understand our role as humans on Earth. New insights in contemporary science allow for a profound and creative interpretation of the universe which challenges earlier mechanistic models. For further information visit the Schumacher College website.

An afternoon of original compositions by two leading young singer/ songwriters, Benjamin Larham and Josie Newton.

At 6.30pm on 6th July enjoy fine dining and the company of the South West’s leading businesses in our magnificent 14th Century Great Hall while finding out how the Arts can really give your business the cutting edge.

Loach’s most accessible and heartwarming film to date tells the story of Eric the postman whose life is slipping through his own fingers…

Showing in this restored print Lindsay Anderson’s debut feature was probably the closest we ever came to a British New Wave.

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck go out on a limb with this new film about an ambitious young baseball player from the Dominican Republic. “Beautiful and searching… one of the must see films of 2009” – The Daily Telegraph