Featured Events
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H is for Hawk [12A]
Cambridge academic Helen is stricken with grief after the unexpected loss of her beloved father. To recover, she retreats from the human world and turns to nature instead. Claire Foy (Wolf Hall, The Crown) stars as writer Helen MacDonald in the soaring adaptation of her award-winning 2014 memoir H Is for Hawk, featuring BAFTA-nominated cinematography from Charlotte Bruus Christensen.
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Devon Baroque: Spotlight on Strings
Devon Baroque Orchestra present a thrilling programme of music for the string section of the ensemble. The concert includes JS Bach’s iconic and evergreen Double Violin Concerto featuring Persephone Gibbs and Sharon Lindo as soloists.
In addition Persephone will perform Bach A minor Violin Concerto, and the Vivaldi Concerto for Violin & Cello in Bb.
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Hamnet [12A]
Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed novel about William Shakespeare and his family, Hamnet is a wildly sensitive, magnificently crafted story of love, grief and the restorative power of art.
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Dartington Gardens
Buy a day ticket to Dartington's stunning formal Grade II Listed gardens.
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It Was Just an Accident [12A]
Winner of the 2025 Palme d’Or, the first Iranian film nominated for Best International Feature at the Golden Globes and shortlisted for Best International Feature at the upcoming Oscars, Jafar Panahi’s (Taxi Tehran, No Bears) latest is a searing parable of state violence and revenge.
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.
Farmers Market - Cider Press Centre
11am - 4pm, first Saturday of every month starting 7th February.
Clash/Crop are hosting a regular local market inspired by visits to the likes of London's Spitalfields market and Bristol's Tobacco Factory, where visitors can buy great produce, clothes, music and hang out with friends enjoying food, drinks and browsing through what’s on offer. 2 hours free parking.
Exhibition: Dancing in Utopia
1930s Dance at Dartington.
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.
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The History of Sound [15]
Oscar nominee Paul Mescal (Aftersun, Hamnet) and BAFTA nominee Josh O'Connor (Challengers, The Crown) are superb as star-crossed lovers in this sweeping WWI-era romance.
Dartington Hall Wedding Fair
11am - 4pm. Join us for our Wedding Fair and take the opportunity to explore our stunning venue at your own pace. Meet a carefully selected group of amazing suppliers, ask questions, gather inspiration, and imagine how your perfect day could look with us.
Free entry, no booking needed.
![Royal Ballet Live: Woolf Works [12A]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/eca84efd-7eba-4db1-aef0-200c22586e11.jpg)
Royal Ballet Live: Woolf Works [12A]
Royal Ballet & Opera Season 25-26. Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor’s experimental ballet triptych inspired by the genre-defying works and writings of Virginia Woolf, set to an original score by Max Richter.
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Dartington 100: All Things To All People Part 1 [U]
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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Little Amélie [PG]
Based on Amélie Nothomb’s best-selling autobiographical novel 'The Character of Rain', Little Amélie is a visually enchanting tale about curiosity, courage, and the healing power of human connection.
![No Other Choice [15]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/2ac65650-2184-49f2-b139-2d31aafcf71d.jpg)
No Other Choice [15]
This deliriously entertaining satire from South Korean master Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave, The Handmaiden, Oldboy) follows an unemployed man who, desperate to land a coveted new job, develops a ruthless plan to dispatch his competition.
Love Local Launch - Cider Press Centre
10am - 3pm. Come and join in the fun at our Love Local launch event which celebrates new beginnings with lots of local retailers setting up shop. We've got a makers market, bubble displays, Indian and Persian street food, the fabulous Alison Moyna singing and various demos and workshops from our artisans. Two hours free parking at the Cider Press Centre.
![The Shepherd and the Bear [15]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/097695a7-a87e-4b60-84e9-05abc6b6838b.jpg)
The Shepherd and the Bear [15]
Plus Director Q&A on 14 February. Set high in the majestic Pyrenees, Max Keegan’s visually and aurally ravishing documentary explores the conflict set off by the controversial reintroduction of wild bears into a traditional shepherding community.
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Rental Family [12A]
Oscar nominee Brendan Fraser (The Whale) plays an American adrift in Japan in this sweet-natured comedy drama.
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Nouvelle Vague [12A]
Reimagining the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Richard Linklater’s Golden Globe-nominated Nouvelle Vague is a playful, poignant love letter to cinema and an exuberant exploration of the youthful rebellion and creative tumult that shaped the French New Wave.
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Stitch Head [U]
Asa Butterfield, Rob Brydon and Alison Steadman lend their voices to this elegant Tim Burton-esque animation. Adapted from Guy Bass’s children’s book, Stitch Head is a warm-hearted story about loneliness, purpose and self-discovery that’s cloaked in humour and Gothic style.
![Royal Ballet Live: Giselle [cert TBC]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/07855e0e-e8ef-4acf-8fa8-f5dfba4eafa5.jpg)
Royal Ballet Live: Giselle [cert TBC]
Royal Ballet & Opera Season 25-26. Experience the quintessential Romantic ballet Giselle in Peter Wright’s atmospheric and bewitching production.
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NT Live: The Audience [cert TBC]
Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II who - for 60 years - met with each of her 12 prime ministers in a private weekly meeting known as 'The Audience'. She advised her prime ministers on matters both public and personal, and through these private audiences, we see glimpses of the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch.
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The Voice of Hind Rajab [15]
Tunisia’s entry for Best International Feature at the upcoming Oscars.
January 29, 2024. Workers at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society receive an emergency call. A terrified 6-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her, but are hindered by complex rescue protocols.
![The Testament of Ann Lee [cert TBC]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/b2b444b0-1e4d-4973-a61d-54b9b71f4b6c.jpg)
The Testament of Ann Lee [cert TBC]
Powered by a transformative, Golden Globe-nominated performance from Amanda Seyfried (The Housemaid, Mamma Mia), award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold’s (The World to Come, The Brutalist) exhilarating epic captures the agony and ecstasy of radical preacher Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker movement.
![EOS: Turner and Constable [12A]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/2078fbdd-7a80-4995-b62c-daece117dc32.jpg)
EOS: Turner and Constable [12A]
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition.
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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man [15]
Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground. By order of the Peaky Blinders…
![The Secret Agent [15]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/505d7530-656c-4d0c-a877-7836b99a8f1e.jpg)
The Secret Agent [15]
Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho (Neighbouring Sounds, Aquarius, Bacurau) teams up with a superb Wagner Moura (Narcos, Civil War) for this rich, arresting, novelistic political thriller that was garlanded with awards at Cannes (including Best Director and Best Actor) and has been hailed by critics as a fascinatingly unpredictable, shape-shifting epic.
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One Battle After Another [15]
Nominated for 13 awards at the upcoming Oscars – including Best Picture, Best Director and four acting nominations for Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benecio del Toro and Sean Penn – Paul Thomas Anderson’s (Phantom Thread, The Master) sensational One Battle After Another has been hailed a masterpiece and his most entertaining film to date.
![Royal Opera Live: Siegfried [cert TBC]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/b0bced5c-2dee-4d0a-a3dc-5b4fd88d1807.jpg)
Royal Opera Live: Siegfried [cert TBC]
Royal Ballet & Opera Season 25-26. Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber...
DCC: The Creation
Dartington Community Choir is delighted to present Haydn´s Creation conducted by Simon Dunbavand. They will be joined by Dartington Sinfonietta and 3 wonderful soloists to tell the inspiring story of the Creation of the Earth from chaos.
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Royal Opera Live: The Magic Flute [cert TBC]
Royal Ballet & Opera Season 25-26. Mozart’s fantastical opera glitters in David McVicar’s enchanting production, conducted by French conductor Marie Jacquot in her Covent Garden debut, and Finnegan Downie Dear.
![Met Opera: Eugene Onegin [cert TBC]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/78e78f07-538b-4277-9e13-ff663a2bc379.jpg)
Met Opera: Eugene Onegin [cert TBC]
Royal Ballet & Opera Season 25-26. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, 'offers a beautifully detailed reading of… Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance' (The Telegraph).