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Dartington Open Day 08
At noon on Saturday 31st May Dartington will throw open its doors for the annual Open Day.
Dartington’s international environment college Schumacher is currently working with the UK’s first transition initiative Transition Town Totnes to bring innovative ideas around the very real issues of climate change and life after peak oil into the hands of the community.
The Dartington Hall Trust and the Western Morning News are delighted to be working together to launch their first South West Photographer of the Year Competition
A group of 18 talented young music and arts students from Devon and Cornwall have now been selected to take part in the Idyllwild Summer Arts Program.
The Dartington Hall Trust can now announce its plans to create a new Schumacher Academy/Educational Centre located at the heart of the Dartington estate and ethos.
On Saturday 26th April come and mark the opening of the new season at Schumacher College with a morning of talks and the chance to meet with staff and local people interested in the work of the College.
Dartington Summer Youth Programme is a summer school of creative courses in music, theatre, performance, photography and the technical arts especially for young people.
Dartington led project South West Music School is opening its doors for a second year, intent on uncovering the most exciting young musicians from across the region and significantly boosting their chances of making a career in the music industry.
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South West Music School pupils perform at a unique gathering of the most talented young dancers and musicians of a generation.
South West Sound is about to kick-start its 5th annual music convention – positioning itself at the heart of the UK music industry debate, while giving real careers advice and business development opportunities to some of the top music talent in the South West
At 7.00pm on 26th March, Gay Cranmer launches her new book ‘Beyond Happiness – Deepening the Dialogue Between Buddhism, Psychotherapy and the Mind Sciences’, published by Karnac Books, at Totnes Bookshop.
This summer, Schumacher College is running a series of courses focusing on the interconnections between nature, art, science and activism.
The film industry would be unimaginable without the creative input of musicians. This year South West Sound will be welcoming two new partners, Cinéformation and Bristol Media, making the annual symposium the place to be for region’s aspiring Morricones and Barrys.
Dartington Hall Trust would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused to residents, guests and tenants and all those connected to the Dartington water supply, who have been advised to boil their water while we investigate the source of discolouration to the estate’s water supply.
The Dartington Hall Trust is embarking on a journey to become one of the most significant and vibrant arts establishments in the UK – kick-starting its ambition with the arrival of internationally acclaimed composer, choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist Meredith Monk.
From the 17-19 March 12 teams of social justice champions from 8 countries will be gathering at The Dartington Hall Trust to take part in the first ever international conference into the most effective use of social research evidence in the child and adult services.
4th March will see South Devon College coming to the Dartington Hall estate to promote the new creative and media diploma, kick starting the first stage in a creative partnership – with a view to boosting vocational arts education in the South West.
The Totnes Festival will be back from 5-14 September 2008, bigger, brighter and building on the successes of its first two years.
The Dartington Hall Trust welcomes the news that the merger between Dartington College of Arts and University College Falmouth has been agreed.
The most talented rising music stars from the South West are about to embark on one of the most exciting musical projects of their young careers – thanks to the Dartington Hall Trust and the ‘virtual’ South West Music School.
South West Music School is now recruiting for 2008/09 and is now open for applications. The closing date for applications is Friday 9th May.
At a recent reception, The Dartington Hall Trust was delighted to recognise the importance of the founding members of the Dartington Business Circle to the successful launch of the scheme.
The Dartington Hall Trust is using heat-seeking camera technology to help the charity become carbon and waste neutral by 2015.
Satish Kumar is making two appearances in Totnes in February to talk about his new book ‘Spiritual Compass – The Three Qualities of Life’, and the work of Dartington’s Schumacher College.
Dartington’s commitment and ambition for the arts have been reinforced with the appointment of Peter Boyden as the charity’s new Director of Arts.
As part of Dartington’s ongoing dialogue with the local community, the charity’s CEO Vaughan Lindsay will be holding his next drop in session in Totnes on Thursday 7th February.
Those who enjoyed watching Earth Pilgrim on BBC2’s Natural World can now have the opportunity to walk on Dartmoor in the company of Satish Kumar on a Schumacher College Course.
The South West Regional Development Agency board has agreed to back the decision by Dartington College of Arts and University College Falmouth to merge.
On 1st January 2008, Sir David Green took over as Chair of Dartington Hall Trust. Everyone at Dartington is looking forward to working with Sir David on shaping and delivering a shared vision for the estate.
Satish Kumar, Director of Programmes at Schumacher College, was a guest this morning on Midweek with Libby Purves. If you missed the show you still have the chance to listen to Satish in conversation via the Midweek website.
At the start of the New Year, Dartington is making an important change to its Board of Trustees, with Sir David Green KCMG taking over from James Cornford as the new Chairman.
According to initial confirmation, Dartington has secured an inflationary increase in Arts Council funding for the next 3 years – positioning the charity as one of the top centres for creative excellence in the UK.
Dartington Trustee, Nicholas Kenyon CBE has been knighted in the New Year’s Honours’ List 2008. Everybody at Dartington would like to congratulate Sir Nicholas on this richly deserved honour, awarded in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the arts.
A production by the Emmy award-winning AGB Films, for the BBC2 series Natural World, which tracks ecologist, writer and Gandhi disciple, Satish Kumar, a founder and Director of Programmes at the Schumacher College, as he walks Dartmoor in all its seasons, sharing the distinctively Indian perspective he brings to one of England’s best known landscapes.
If you missed the recent documentary on the region’s innovators you still have a chance to watch it and vote for Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst as the West Country’s greatest visionaries.
Dartington Plus initiative, South West Sound, will be taking 15 organisations to Austin, Texas to attend for the world’s most influential music business conference South By South West.
Christmas at Dartington is a magical affair, with the beautiful listed estate twinkling with thousands of white and blue lights – and this year they are going to look and feel more spectacular than ever.
On Monday 19th November, Research in Practice invited a group of students from King Edward VI Community College, Totnes to join them for the day and contribute to the development of evidence-informed practice.
On Saturday 8th December Craft Education will be opening their doors for their 10th annual Off The Peg exhibition.
With the last chord of movements two and four of Odyssey by Incubus fading through the corridors of Wells Cathedral School, the full house of parents and teachers knew they had seen some exceptional talent over the previous 90 minutes.
Over the coming weeks, South West Sound will again uncover the finest new music being made in the region with the 3rd Annual South West Sound Search.
October saw the most important date in Research In Practice’s calendar, the Link Officers’ annual meeting.
South West Sound, the annual music convention for the South West of England, will take place on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th April 2008 in Bristol and Dartington.
Between 26th November and 8th December Schumacher College will be opening its doors to the next generation of ethical entrepreneurs when it hosts ‘Ethical Pioneers: An Interactive Masterclass for the New Entrepreneur’.
Education will remain fundamental to the work that we do at Dartington. Not only in the arts but across all our work in social justice and sustainability.
A large programme of concerts, talks and residencies to celebrate the life and work of Franz Schubert. Ticket packages for the full or part-programme are available.
FTSE 100 companies have joined up with CarbonSense and Schumacher College to launch new climate change courses for business professionals.
Dartington thought that it had a lot of new ideas for the future but it seems that you have even more.
Iconic Dartington estate building, the Lower Tweed Mill has been in the press lately and for all the right reasons. Dartington is going to switch the lights back on.
As early as 1928, Bernard Leach, the renowned studio potter, had recommended to Leonard Elmhirst that a site close to Bidwell Brook would be an ideal spot for a retail outlet, drawing its trade from the passing motorists.
Even the least eagle-eyed amongst us will have noticed the scaffolding surrounding the Church Tower, which signals the start of the long-awaited restoration of this Dartington icon.
Andrew Lacey, one of three artists now based at Dartington’s Craft Education Centre, is currently engaged in a research project that carries the title of Large Bronzes of Renaissance Venice.
Significant financial awards from First Great Western and Investec Bank UK have meant new creative opportunities for disadvantaged youngsters through the Dartington Summer Youth Programme.
On Tuesday 10th July 2007 Dartington held its second Open Space meeting at Dartington Primary School. If you would like know what was discussed please read on…
Any Questions, Radio 4’s forum for lively debate between leading public figures is coming to Totnes on 10th August.
Dartington Business Circle is a unique, new opportunity for businesses across the South West. Through their support of this international centre for the generation and application of new ideas, businesses demonstrate high levels of corporate social responsibility and community support whilst profiting from an individually tailored and exclusive package of benefits.
What does climate change and peak oil mean for estate and land management? Monday June 11th saw Dartington and Transition Towns join forces.
An introductory event was held on 23rd June 2007, and five founding members have now been instrumental in the successful launch of the scheme.
The rains stayed away on Saturday 2nd June letting Dartington’s biggest Open Day yet spread out across the estate.
Totnes Festival organisers are to auction sponsorship deals on ebay! Last year’s festival captured the imagination with over 70 events and this year’s promises to be even better…
Visit the architectural gem High Cross House, on the Dartington Hall estate and you will find displayed the original manuscript of Imogen Holst’s String Quartet No 1.
The Transatlantic Arts Consortium enters an exciting new phase with the news that it has secured $750K from the Pierson Lovelace Foundation in the US to kick-start a three-year programme of new commissions.
Ash Sakula architects have been appointed to carry out feasibility study for a Welcome Centre and Ideas Laboratory
The Roundhouse Cafe Opening hours are now midday to 8:00pm, seven days a week!
A new outlet called The Sweet Shack opens at the Dartington Cider Press Centre on Good Friday, 6th April.
Dartington Hall Trust gives the green light to Land Scope’s first two sustainable enterprises
Colleagues and friends of Christopher Haan, Trustee of Dartington for some six years, have been shocked to learn of his sudden death on 10th March.
Gavin Henderson CBE has been Appointed as Principal of the Central School of Speech and Drama at the University of London
We are delighted to announce that the website for the South West Music School is now live.
Over the coming months two much-loved areas of the gardens at Dartington will benefit from significant refurbishment and repair.
Dartington now has its own toyshop. From the end of January the Cider Press Centre took over the running of Tridias toyshop on its site at Shinners Bridge.
The Dartington Hall Trust has been awarded Beacon Status by Beacon South West. This organisation is bringing together some of the South West’s most forward thinking and ambitious companies to promote success and spearhead the growth of the region.
The Board of Governors for Dartington College of Arts (DCA) convened a special meeting on 2nd March to discuss the recommendations of the independent report into the future of the College.
30 World Citizens studying in Devon pledge individual carbon footprint reductions over the coming 12 months…
It is a great pleasure to announce that the Office of Communication (Ofcom) has awarded a 5 year community radio licence to Soundart Radio.
We are delighted that RiP’s Director, Celia Atherton, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List 2007, for services to children and families.
On Friday 2nd February 250 people attended a public meeting at the Civic Hall in Totnes chaired by Totnes MP, Anthony Steen.
The Barn Cinema in Totnes which attracts audiences from across the local area has received a Lottery cash injection of £4,500 thanks to the UK Film Council’s Small Capital Fund.
South West Music School forms part of a network of centres for advanced training for exceptionally talented young musicians.
Answering some of the most common questions about the potential relocation of the College of Arts.
The Dartington Cider Press Centre is a unique visitor centre with fifteen shops, eating places and workshops set in a village atmosphere.
Much has been written about the potential relocation of the College of Arts that does a grave disservice to the Trust…
Subsequent to their joint meeting on Friday 8th December 2006, the Dartington College of Arts Board of Governors and the Dartington Hall Trust Trustees issue the following statement.
Did you know that we hire out Summer School instruments during the year to musicians in the locality?
The Trust was heartened to see the commitment and focus of hundreds of people at ‘Save Dartington College Day’.
Monday 13 November saw the launch of an arts-based student radio station at Dartington with a special live and inter-active switch-on ceremony.
Prof Andrew Brewerton and Vaughan Lindsay clarify the role of Trust in College relocation decision.
Dartington will be hosting a tree planting ceremony to support the National Gardens Scheme, celebrating the 60th Anniversary of opening the Gardens at Dartington Hall.
The Dartington Hall Trust is looking for two committed trainees to join its team. Commencing in January 2007.
In light of Dartington College of Arts’ announcement that it is engaged in talks with University College Falmouth, Trust CEO Vaughan Lindsay comments.
Dartington College of Arts (DCA) is holding exploratory discussions with University College Falmouth (UCF) on the feasibility of a re-location to Cornwall.
Fritjof, who has longstanding connections with Schumacher College, was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Plymouth.
Providing music making opportunities for young people interested in chamber music, jazz or rock and pop.
Reviving their Southwest Scholarship scheme As part of the College’s contribution to helping the Southwest towards a more sustainable energy future.
For the first time in at least thirty years this year’s summer school was sold out before it began.
Internally renowned cellist Matthew Barley is at Dartington this November to perform an incredible concert programme of world and classical music.
One of the world’s premier conferences in its field, bringing nearly 200 delegates from 20 countries together for fourdays.
Bringing together artists, scientists, ecologists and other interested practitioners to reflect upon the relationships between ecology, interdisciplinarity and place.
This autumn Dartington Plus is bringing two weekend-long music marathons to Dartington providing opportunities for both student musicians and audiences.
Karen Blincoe has been appointed as the new Director of Schumacher College.
The Trust is looking for pioneering individuals with skills and experience to develop innovative, viable and sustainable land-based ventures.
“More”, the new family restaurant situated next to the Kitchen Shop at the Cider Press Centre opened for Summer.
The Trustees are pleased to announce the appointment of Sir David Green.
At the first national Business Excellence Awards for the UK’s hospitality, leisure and tourism industries, DACS has won the ‘Winner – Highly Commended’ category.
An exhibition space in a solicitor’s office, seem like an odd idea? Not to Devon Artsculture, launching the latest Art at the Red House collection.
Setting targets for improving sustainability across each department of the Dartington Hall Trust.
Stephan Harding is having a book launch of his new book, Animate Earth, at the Totnes Bookshop.
Market research which looked at the need for an Arts Park at Dartington, came up with positive results.
Following the departure of Dartington Pottery from the estate, a celebratory exhibition of Dartington Pottery is being held at Dartington Cider Press Centre.
Marianne de Trey (Haile), has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire), in the New Years honours, for services to the arts.
It is with sadness that we announce John van Praag has decided to step-down as a Trustee of The Dartington Hall Trust
Exploring a unique opportunity to develop the first rural based arts park in the UK here at Dartington.
The first part of a permanent installation by artist Wayne Hill has been completed at Schumacher College.
Newly available on the Archive website is a catalogue of material relating to the actor Michael Chekhov.
This year’s Graduation and Awards Ceremonies at the Dartington College of Arts were suitably explosive occasions.
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