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Between 12th & 18th March Dartington will screen a series of five films especially programmed to explore and stimulate debate on older age. There will also be a panel discussion, following the screening of Mid-August Lunch on Tuesday 16 March, featuring Celia Atherton OBE, Dartington’s Director of Social Justice, and Clare Short MP.
The Dartington Hall Trust announces the appointment of John Woolrich as the new Artistic Director of its world-renowned international music festival, the Dartington International Summer School.
HOME, Dartington’s new one-day festival focusing on acoustic music, voices and song from around the world, will take place on Saturday 26 June. A celebration and exploration of different cultures and languages, at a time when we’re losing global cultural, biological and linguistic diversity, HOME features unplugged sets from a wide range of outstanding international artists. Read on for more info…
Film - What's On
Oscar and Bafta nominated Colin Firth finally gets the complex role he has been waiting for all these years. “Listen to the Guardian’s podcast on Colin Firth’s Oscar & Bafta nominated performance in A Single Man
MICMACS is the latest dazzlingly cinematic outing from Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, Amélie), a satire on the arms trade which grounds this director’s cinema of fantasy firmly in reality.
A fairy tale set in Jazz Age-era New Orleans and centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana and her fateful kiss with a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again.
We received so many requests to show this again that it returns alongside Yolande Moreau’s latest film MICMACS.
Events - What's On
Headlining major international festivals from Day One, the Urban Folk Quartet won the Spanish International Folk Competition on only their fourth performance and are due to release their debut album in March 2010.
Visuals, music and movement cascade amidst raging physicality as the dancers explore degrees of twoness, creating exquisite tensions through cooperation and conflict.
Founded by Harry Blech in 1949 as the UK’s first chamber orchestra, the London Mozart Players is regarded as one of the finest ensembles, bringing together outstanding musicians from the UK and abroad to perform music of the highest quality.
Written in 1860 by Charles Dickens but reclaimed for a contemporary audience in this vibrant new stage adaptation.
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The Dartington Hall Trust is a registered charity no. 279756. Company no. 1485560. Registered Office: The Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL United Kingdom. Telephone 01803 847000; Fax 01803 847007;