What's On at Dartington Trust
Featured Events
Featured Event
Makers Market in the Great Hall
10.30am - 3pm | 3 May | 7 June | 6 September | 11 October | 8 November. Come along to this free, family-friendly event and have a leisurely browse around over 25 stalls - from artists to ceramicists, print-makers to glassblowers, artisan food, drink producers, to authors and more. This event runs on the first Sunday of each month.
Featured Event
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Rose of Nevada [15]
Q&A on Saturday 9 May with Director Mark Jenkin (Bait, Enys Men). 30 years ago, the Rose of Nevada was lost at sea with all hands. When it suddenly reappears in the harbour of a rundown Cornish fishing village, it feels like a sign: if the Rose sets sail again, perhaps the village’s luck will turn.
'A Cornish modern classic. Eerie, heart-breaking, wonderful.’ - Mark Kermode.
Featured Event
The English Music Festival
A major international classical music festival with world-class artists comes to Dartington Hall! The English Music Festival presents four days of recitals, concerts and talks, including The London Mozart Players, University of Exeter Chapel Choir, award-winning and immersive early music group The Telling, tenor James Gilchrist and cellist Raphael Wallfisch.
All Events
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Glenrothan [12A]
Succession star Brian Cox’s directorial debut is a comedy drama of family, forgiveness, and the possibility of healing set against the glorious landscapes of the Scottish Highlands. Co-starring Cox and Alan Cumming as two headstrong brothers reunited after decades of estrangement.
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You, Me & Tuscany [12A]
Halle Bailey (The Little Mermaid, The Colour Purple) and Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page star in a delicious Italian-set romantic comedy about one little lie, one large Tuscan villa, and two people getting lost in the sauce of love.
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Rebuilding [PG]
After a wildfire destroys his home, divorced father and ranch owner Dusty (Josh O’Connor) must plant new roots. Now living in a close-knit trailer community, he quietly reassembles his life, reconnecting with his estranged young daughter and ex-wife (Meghann Fahy).
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie [PG]
It takes a lot of star power to save the galaxy! The Mario brothers return with a dazzling new interstellar adventure in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, a sequel to 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Dartington Gardens and Tours
Buy day tickets to Dartington's stunning formal Grade II Listed gardens, open every day. Guided Tours also available on Fridays which include fascinating insights into the heritage, beauty and history of this special place. Free with your Gardens tickets.
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Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC [12A]
Power To The People: John & Yoko Live in NYC is the 2026 multiscreen concert film of two massive live shows by John Lennon & Yoko Ono at Madison Square Garden, New York City on 30 August 1972, newly restored, re-edited and remixed by the Lennons’ seven-times GRAMMY®-Award winning team.
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.
Exhibition: Dorothy's Gardens
The Elmhirst Heritage Centre’s spring exhibition, Dorothy’s Gardens, will open on Saturday 14th March. Featuring photographs from the archive and extracts from Dorothy Elmhirst’s own garden diaries, this display will bring to life the rapid development of the formal Victorian grounds into a thriving environment for horticulture, performance, and reflection.
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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).
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Midwinter Break [12A]
Beautifully shot and performed, Midwinter Break is a stirring meditation on faith, commitment and the nature of long-term love, with finely calibrated performances from Oscar nominees Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) and Ciarán Hinds (Belfast).
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Our Land [12A]
Our Land dares to tread where few have trespassed before. Orban Wallace’s invigorating documentary examines the intense debate around the right to roam in the UK and beyond, challenging age-old beliefs around property that have shaped our relationship with the land for over a thousand years.
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The Stranger [15]
François Ozon (8 Women, Swimming Pool, Under the Sand) returns with a career-best work, an exquisite adaptation of Albert Camus’ classic existentialist novel. an enigmatic portrait of disaffection amid the tensions of pre-war French-colonised Algeria.
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Surviving Earth [15]
Based on a true story, Surviving Earth follows Vlad, a Yugoslav refugee and gifted musician who fled to the UK in the 90s. Now rebuilding his life in Bristol, he longs to be the father his daughter Maria deserves, but the shadows of his past refuse to fade.
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The North [15]
Former best friends and roommates Chris and Lluis, who meet up after a decade to hike Scotland’s West Highland Way and Cape Wrath Trail. Having taken the same 350-mile walk in their youth, the pair hope to rekindle their once-strong friendship by spending 30 days together in the majestic, raw beauty of the Scottish Highlands.
Decorative Binding Workshop
A half-day workshop with Brian Norman that explores the decorative pattern possibilities of long stitch binding. It is suitable for beginners, those with experience, and binders who wish to refresh established skills. This course will give you a solid grounding to continue making books at home.
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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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EOS: Frida Kahlo [12A]
Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favourite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition on Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience - is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Britain and MFA Houston 'Frida Kahlo: the Making of an Icon'. Back in the cinemas in May 2026, one month before the Tate exhibition opens, allowing audiences to watch both the film and see the show.
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The Sheep Detectives [PG]
Hugh Jackman leads a terrific ensemble cast in this witty, tremendously enjoyable family comedy based on the 2005 bestselling novel Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann. Every night shepherd George Hardy (Hugh Jackman) reads a murder mystery aloud to his sheep, pretending they can understand. When he is found dead under mysterious circumstances, his devoted flock realise at once that it was a murder, and all their murder mystery training comes into use...
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The Christophers [15]
Brilliantly scripted and blisteringly performed by an acerbic Ian McKellen and a cagey Michaela Coel, The Christophers is a witty, exhilarating and complex new offering from Steven Soderbergh that serves up thorny truths about youth and old age, artistic integrity and legacy.
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Northern Soul Still Burning [15]
Leap onto the dancefloor and discover the enduring legacy of the cultural phenomenon that is Northern Soul – one of Britain’s most iconic music movements – in this infectious, evocative documentary that builds on the story from 2012’s Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul.
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NT Live: The Playboy of the Western World [cert TBC]
Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.
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The Devil Wears Prada 2 [15]
Almost 20 years after their iconic first outing as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel, Oscar winners Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) and Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables), Oscar nominee Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer) and Stanley Tucci return to the streets of New York, the sleek offices of Runway magazine and the cutthroat world of high fashion editorial in the feverishly anticipated sequel to The Devil Wears Prada.
Antiques Roadshow, Dartington Estate
Fiona Bruce and the Antiques Roadshow team will be back on the road this spring and summer filming series 49 which includes a visit to the beautiful and historic Dartington Estate, near Totnes.
Admission is strictly by ticket only, and applications are now open for free tickets with limited places - click below.
The team are hunting for a wide range of antiques, family heirlooms and vintage treasures. The Roadshow will feature specialists in the fields of jewellery, silver, ceramics and glass, pictures, rare books, clocks and watches, and militaria, as well as a team of experts with knowledge of all things collectable–from vintage fashion to furniture, from music and film memorabilia to collectable toys, from Art Deco to ancient antiquities.
Farmers Market - Cider Press Centre
11am - 4pm, first Saturday of every month.
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.
Garden Response: Nature Print & Bind
A half-day bookbinding workshop with Brian Norman, inspired by Dartington’s Gardens. Create your own nature-inspired book through a process of relief transfer printing and plant-dye release through a press.
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NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses [cert TBC]
BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.
Lyric String Trio: An Evening of Classical Masterworks
An evening of contrasts with the Lyric String Trio playing Mozart’s charming and graceful Divertimento in E Flat Major. To be followed by the dramatic intensity of Beethoven’s String Trio in C Minor.
Othello - The Lord Chamberlain’s Men
Join The Lord Chamberlain’s Men this summer for Othello, one of the most captivating and thrilling plays ever written. See it performed how William Shakespeare first saw it, as The Lord Chamberlain’s Men – with a history stretching back to Shakespeare’s original company – present this play in the open air, with an all male cast and Elizabethan costumes, music and dance.