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Family Bonfire & Fireworks 2026
Welcome back for this year's bonfire and fireworks evening! Dig out the wellies, wrap up warm, and join us for a sparkling evening. Parking is limited and not guaranteed so we suggest lift shares, two wheels, or two feet! Please note entry onto the Estate is for ticket holders only.
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Derek vs Derek [15]
Set in the rolling hills of Devon, award-winning director James Dawson’s latest documentary tells the story of two neighbouring farmers who may share the same name, but take radically different approaches to land use.
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Flamenco Fire
Back by popular demand, this time for two nights! 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.
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Miss Ivy’s Christmas Emporium
This Christmas, The Cider Press Centre at Dartington becomes home to Miss Ivy’s Christmas Emporium, a festive pop-up shop filled with gifts, handmade pieces and products from independent businesses.
Running from 29 October to 23 December 2026, the Emporium brings together a carefully curated mix of makers and small businesses, offering visitors a relaxed way to shop independent throughout the festive season.
Visitors can browse a varied selection of products including handmade jewellery, art and prints, homeware, candles, fragrance, accessories, gifts, artisan treats and plenty of Christmas finds such as stocking fillers.
Open: 10am to 4pm | Thursday - Sunday 29 October - 20 December | Monday 21, Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 December.
Entry is free, with 2 hours of free parking.
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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The Social Reckoning [15]
Based on the events that gave rise to the Wall Street Journal’s shocking exposé The Facebook Files, The Social Reckoning is set in 2021, when a young Facebook engineer (Mikey Madison) turns whistleblower.
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Ghosts: The Possession of Button House [PG]
The beloved and award-winning BBC comedy Ghosts returns! Ghosts: The Possession of Button House is back to haunt the big screen this Halloween.
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Pan's Labyrinth (20th Anniversary) [15]
Visionary director Guillermo del Toro’s multi Oscar-winning classic – an unforgettable gothic fairy tale set in Franco’s Spain – is back on screens for its 20th anniversary.
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Hadestown: The Musical [PG]
International hit musical Hadestown comes to the big screen! Filmed live on stage in London’s West End and featuring the original Broadway stars, Hadestown: The Musical invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back.
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How Deep is Your Love [12A]
This mischievous, whimsical and transporting documentary follows a team of marine biologists exploring the deep sea, the last wilderness on earth. Full of dazzling footage of arcane iridescent creatures, this wonderfully immersive film weaves wonder with urgency, challenging us to balance the drive for resources with the intrinsic value of these ancient but fragile ecosystems.
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NT Live: The Golden Boy [12A]
1930s New York, at the height of the Depression. Joe Bonaparte is a gifted young violinist with a future in music, until a chance at fame and fortune lures him into the brutal world of professional boxing. Josh O’Connor (The Crown; Challengers) leads the cast in this searing revival of Clifford Odets’ knockout American classic.
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Wicker [15]
On the outskirts of a village by the sea lives a Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman); smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband (Alexander Skarsgård) to be made from wicker. Their passion sparks outrage, jealousy, and chaos.
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The Lost Children of Tuam [12A]
Deeply restrained and intelligently performed, this searing true story follows an amateur historian's quest to uncover a long-buried injustice and a painful chapter in Irish history.
Makers Market in the Great Hall
10.30am - 3pm | 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.
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NAZA [15]
From Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the Oscar-winning directors behind No Other Land, comes this urgent, essential new documentary. Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
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Winter of the Crow [15]
Warsaw, 1981. British academic Joan (Lesley Manville) is visiting a Polish university when violent political protest erupts, and she witnesses a brutal murder. Trapped behind the Iron Curtain, she is thurst into a deadly game of espionage where no one can be trusted.
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Primetime [15]
In 2006, Chris Hansen made TV history as host of controversial true crime series - and ratings sensation - To Catch a Predator. He set up sting operations to entrap and expose child predators on camera. A fascinating exploration of this morally dubious terrain.
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Klara and the Sun [12A]
Meet Klara – your new best (artificial) friend. The solar-powered Klara wants nothing more than to find the perfect home, and when she meets Josie, each finds a kindred spirit in the other in this adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling dystopian novel.
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Dartington 100: All Things To All People Part 1 [U]
With unique film archive from the 1930s & 40s Dartington Film Unit which has been restored and digitised, All Things to All People 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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Wild Horse Nine [15]
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways. “A blood-thumping comic thriller” ★★★★★ The Telegraph
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La Bola Negra [15]
Penelope Cruz and Glenn Close star in a majestic genre-defying epic – an Oscars-favourite and currently second favourite for Best Picture – drawn from the legacy of beloved poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. Rich with Lorca's poetry, it’s both a tender love story and a sweeping, superbly assured study of memory, inheritance and queer history.
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GIANT – The Play [12A]
GIANT, the 5-star critically acclaimed play starring John Lithgow (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Crown) as Roald Dahl, comes to the big screen. Winner of 3 Olivier Awards® including Best Play and a Tony Award® for Best Actor in a Play (John Lithgow), the production was filmed live in London’s West End ahead of its sold-out Broadway run. The stellar cast includes Aya Cash (The Boys, The Franchise, You’re the Worst), Elliot Levey (Cold War, Patriots, Good) and Rachael Stirling (The Divine Mrs S).
DCC: Odes to Saint Cecilia
Dartington Community Choir invite you to celebrate Saint Cecilia’s Day with the sublime music of Purcell, 'Hail Bright Cecilia' and Handel’s 'Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened' and 'Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day'.
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A Talent for Murder [cert TBC]
Oscar winner Helen Mirren gives a wonderfully viperous performance as celebrated crime writer Patricia Highsmith – author of The Talented Mr Ripley – in this twisty, smouldering psychological thriller.
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Fatherland [12A]
At the height of the Cold War, celebrated writer Thomas Mann and his daughter – actress, writer, and rally driver – Erika embark on a road trip across a divided Germany in ruins, travelling from the Allied-occupied city of Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. “A perfectly cut jewel of a movie” The New York Times.
Christmas Wishes Fair
Celebrate the festive season at our Christmas Wishes Fair, a spectacular day of entertainment, shopping, and family fun.
Discover handcrafted gifts and delicious food, enjoy live music, singing and captivating performances, meet our fascinating winter living statue, and keep the little ones entertained with festive activities and workshops. Gather your family and friends and join us for a memorable Christmas celebration in the heart of our shopping village on Saturday 28 November 10am-4pm.
Free entry. It's two hours free parking at The Cider Press Centre.
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Wildwood [12A]
From the makers of Coraline, Wildwood is a sweeping, darkly magical adventure about Prue, a young girl who journeys into a hidden forest to rescue her younger brother. Along the way she encounters warring factions, extraordinary creatures, and a world unlike anything she's ever known.
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Nostalgia [12A]
Andrei Tarkovsky’s unforgettable Nostalgia – his penultimate film, and his first film made outside Russia – returns to cinemas. Gorchakov, a Russian poet who arrives to live and work in Tuscany but finds himself beset by a profound loneliness and an intense longing for his homeland. “Hauntingly beautiful” ★★★★ Empire
Christmas Makers Fayre
The Dartington Christmas Makers Fayre returns for a festive three-day celebration of independent makers, contemporary craft and seasonal entertainment, bringing together more than 60 makers and independent businesses from across the South-West and beyond.
Visitors can browse beautifully made products and unique Christmas gifts, with makers specialising in ceramics, printmaking, jewellery, textiles, woodcraft, art, artisan food and drink and much more. Plus plenty of plenty of festive atmosphere, including local choirs and singers, children’s entertainment, street food and warming mulled wine.
Event highlights:
• More than 60 unique, high-quality makers
• Contemporary craft, design and artisan produce
• Local choirs and singers
• Children’s entertainment
• Street food
• Mulled wine
• Free entry
| Friday 4 December: 15:00 - 18:00 | Saturday 5 December: 10:00 - 16:00 | Sunday 6 December: 10:00 - 16:00.
If you're a Dartington+ More member, you can have exclusive quiet time access at 2.30pm on Friday and 9.30am on Saturday and Sunday.