Featured Events
Featured Event
Makers Market in the Great Hall
11am – 3.30pm | Sunday 1 June | Then the first Sunday each month.
A monthly art, craft and food market in the Great Hall featuring talented local makers and producers.
Featured Event
Dartington 100: Beauty is Ours
Dartington Community Choir celebrates a century of music at Dartington with a programme of works composed by Imogen Holst and others – opera, folk songs and much more. Join the choir in bringing Dartington’s musical history to life on a summer’s evening.
Featured Event
Live Music Lawn Sessions
Stretch out, relax, and enjoy summer with our live music Lawn Sessions in the beautiful Private Gardens. Various dates and times – please check schedule.
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White Hart Quiz Night
The White Hart is thrilled to invite you to our Quiz Nights! Join us on the third Sunday of every month for an evening of fun, friendly competition, and the chance to take home the jackpot!
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Flamenco Fire
Award-winning Spanish flamenco star Nadia Márquez Mora has developed an exciting style heavily influenced by classical dance, performed to great acclaim in New York, Mexico and Ireland. Join Nadia and her group for a memorable evening, their only UK date this year.
Featured Event
ChoralFest 2025
Additional residential packages now available, plus non-residential options. Join celebrated choral maestro Gavin Carr, along with a host of international soloists for the return of Dartington’s ChoralFest 2025, from July 28 to August 4.
All Events
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Lilo & Stitch [U]
A lonely Hawaiian girl befriends a runaway alien, helping to mend her fragmented family
Dartington Trust Gardens and Tours
Buy a day ticket to Dartington's stunning formal Grade II Listed gardens. Join one of our informative tours on Fridays, and find out about children's trails.
Time for Tea at the White Hart
Delicious Afternoon Tea Experiences at the White Hart Pub, with a choice of packages. Plus a free entry ticket for the Grade II listed gardens to top the afternoon off.
![The Way We Talk [12A]](https://sysfilessacbe149174fee.blob.core.windows.net/public-container/clients/dartington/files/bf460368-4244-4621-b501-f88f49db2207.JPG)
The Way We Talk [12A]
The complex lives of young deaf people are explored in all their intricacies in this searching, beautifully performed drama set in contemporary Hong Kong.
![The Last Journey [PG]](https://sysfilessacbe149174fee.blob.core.windows.net/public-container/clients/dartington/files/6182b2fe-3cf9-42a0-845d-664caaabe48b.jpg)
The Last Journey [PG]
Joyous, life-affirming and emphatically moving, Sweden’s Oscar entry for Best International Feature is the most popular documentary in the country’s history.
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The Ballad of Wallis Island [12A]
Eccentric lottery winner Charles lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians together again. His fantasy becomes reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home, but they’re trapped on the island when a storm sets in and Charles desperately – and hilariously – tries to salvage his dream gig.
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Hot Milk [15]
Sofia travels to the Spanish coast with her domineering mother, who seeks a cure for a strange illness. A tantalizing world awaits Sofia, if she can escape her mother's demands. Based on the acclaimed 2016 novel by Deborah Levy.
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28 Years Later [15]
Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland reunite for a terrifying new "auteur horror" story set in the world created by 28 Days Later, decades after the rage virus fatefully escaped a biological weapons laboratory.
![The Encampments [15]](https://sysfilessacbe149174fee.blob.core.windows.net/public-container/clients/dartington/files/3dbf2c6a-7c5f-43db-9f13-39c2942fffbb.jpeg)
The Encampments [15]
This rousing documentary chronicles the Palestine student solidarity protests that erupted at New York’s Columbia University in 2024 and sparked a nationwide movement, with encampments spreading across hundreds of campuses.
![How to Train Your Dragon [PG]](https://sysfilessacbe149174fee.blob.core.windows.net/public-container/clients/dartington/files/dc1b6622-eaf0-40af-a654-e55b6213a121.jpeg)
How to Train Your Dragon [PG]
On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been enemies for generations, Hiccup – the inventive yet overlooked son of Chief Stoick the Vast – stands apart. From the creative DreamWorks' team comes a stunning live-action reimagining of the film that launched the beloved animated franchise.
![The Road to Patagonia [15]](https://sysfilessacbe149174fee.blob.core.windows.net/public-container/clients/dartington/files/f623fe5e-7989-42ee-8027-0bc27fa39eca.jpeg)
The Road to Patagonia [15]
Follow ecologist Matty Hannon on an incredible solo adventure as he leaves his life in the city behind for the great outdoors. Surfing his way along the west coast of the Americas, his ambitious voyage takes him from the Alaskan wilderness to the tip of Patagonia.
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From Hilde With Love [15] + Short Film [PG]
This deeply humanistic film is an affecting portrait of love and resistance at a time of desperate danger and oppression, and shines a spotlight on the life of Hilde Coppi, heroine of the anti-Nazi resistance group: 'The Red Orchestra'.
Plus short film: Little Shrew (Snowflake) [PG]. Kate Bush's short B&W animation which tells the story of a small Eurasian pygmy shrew moving through a war-torn landscape that echoes today’s Ukraine.
Twelfth Night – The Lord Chamberlain’s Men
Join The Lord Chamberlain’s Men this summer, in their 21st year, for Shakespeare’s greatest romantic comedy, Twelfth Night. With a history stretching back to William Shakespeare’s original company, they present this joyous play as he first saw it – in the open air, with an all male cast and Elizabethan costumes, music and dance.
![Ocean with David Attenborough [PG]](https://sysfilessacbe149174fee.blob.core.windows.net/public-container/clients/dartington/files/9e16affa-4ad7-484a-8b6c-f336609d7cb3.jpg)
Ocean with David Attenborough [PG]
David Attenborough explores the planet's undersea habitats, revealing the greatest age of ocean discovery and emphasizing the ocean's vital importance while exposing its problems and highlighting opportunities for marine life recovery
![The Salt Path [12A]](https://sysfilessacbe149174fee.blob.core.windows.net/public-container/clients/dartington/files/14da68c3-5fa4-449c-88df-c44c5e919374.jpeg)
The Salt Path [12A]
Plus Q&A on 25 July with award-winning writer and Laureate of Plymouth 2020-23, Laura Horton.
Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs star in this adaptation of Raynor Winn’s prize-winning memoir. In search of solace after a combination of crises in their lives, Raynor and Moth Winn decide to walk the SW Coast Path, a breathtaking 630-mile trek along the region’s famously rugged coastline.
ChoralFest: Sophie Bevan MBE with Ryan Wigglesworth
This year’s ChoralFest opens with a recital of rare beauty and poetic depth, as internationally renowned soprano Sophie Bevan takes the stage with distinguished conductor, composer and pianist Ryan Wigglesworth.
ChoralFest: James Platt with Michael Pugh
In this heartfelt midsummer recital, Dartington’s Artistic Director takes centre stage in a programme celebrating the lyric soul of the British Isles — a lovingly curated English Summer Songbook of pastoral charm, nostalgic reflection, and poetic reverie.
ChoralFest: Victoria Simmonds with Lada Valešovà
Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Victoria Simmonds invites you on a richly evocative journey through the turning year in Songs of the Seasons — a lyrical collection of songs tracing spring’s tender blossoming through summer’s sensual bloom to autumn’s shadow and winter’s hush.
ChoralFest: Nicholas Scott with Kelvin Lim
Join celebrated British tenor Nicholas Scott for a luminous evening of Arie Antiche — an evocative recital of Baroque songs from the great European courts.
ChoralFest Sing-Along: West Side Story
Get ready to click, snap, and sing your heart out — it’s film night at ChoralFest! Join us for a special sing-along screening of West Side Story in the atmospheric Barn Cinema — a night of cinematic magic and full-throated fun for singers, dancers, and musical lovers alike.
ChoralFest: Dvořák Stabat Mater
The final concert of Dartington ChoralFest 2025 brings the week to a powerful and deeply moving close with a performance of Antonín Dvořák’s Stabat Mater — a monumental work of spiritual depth and emotional tenderness.
Elmhirst Heritage Centre Tour
Welcome to the Elmhirst Heritage Centre, our new indoor visitor destination at Dartington Hall. The Heritage Centre was once the private residence of Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, and you can book a guided heritage tour to get a sense of how the building looked in its 1960s heyday.
Temporary Exhibition – Elmhirst Heritage Centre
Our exhibition space is in the new Elmhirst Heritage Centre, which will host a series of changing temporary exhibitions inspired by our wider art collection and archive.
![Dartington 100: All Things To All People Part 1 [cert TBC]](https://sysfilessacbe149174fee.blob.core.windows.net/public-container/clients/dartington/files/76651dce-6403-467d-b0c0-eba09c4b6e19.jpg)
Dartington 100: All Things To All People Part 1 [cert TBC]
Plus Q&A with Director: Peter Nicholson. With unique, never before seen film archive from the 1930s & 40s Dartington Film Unit which has been restored and digitised, this tells the story of Dartington not through a guide or narration but through the words, voices and ideas of those who made Dartington what it was, what it is and what we hope it can be.
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NT Live: Inter Alia [cert TBC]
A new play by Suzie Miller from the team behind Prima Facie.
Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright?
KalaSudha Ragas Festival
A celebration of Indian Classical Music and Dance: Kathak, Dhrupad, Sitar, Slide Guitar, Sarangi, and powerhouse Tabla.