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Come and take part in an exciting new show – The Egg Shack, created by Red Herring Productions, commissioned by Landmark Theatres and happening in Bideford & Ilfracombe this summer! We are looking for volunteers to join our community cast in Bideford and/or Ilfracombe, to work alongside a team of professional theatre makers and create… Continue reading Want to be in our show?

We are enthusiastic partners in Bideford’s Arts, Culture and Heritage Group (a subgroup of Bideford Regeneration Board). We’ve been having regular meetings with around 25 other individuals and organisations. These have enabled us to learn more about other artists, heritage specialists and community makers living and working in Bideford. And we have started to explore… Continue reading Bideford’s Art, Culture and Heritage Group at Bideford Fair, 8 June 2024

Thank you Arts Council England and lottery players for funding a second iteration of Stepping Out, a weekend of outdoor adventure, performance and entertainment in Bideford and Westward Ho! which will take place from 30th August to 1st September. The event will feature a range of brilliant artists and entertainers from across the UK, headlined… Continue reading Thank you Arts Council England…

We are looking for an artist or artists based in the Bovey Tracey / Newton Abbot area to work with us on an upcoming project with Stover Country Park. Over the last few years we’ve been working with the team at Stover and during the Spring / Summer of 2024, we’ll be working with pupils… Continue reading We are hiring!

Come to our mini festival on the 29th/30th April. There will be art entertainment on the street, in the park and by the sea. There will be madcap comedy and dancing in Polyfields Community Centre. And we hope that this is the start of something, bringing brilliant artists from across the UK to North Devon… Continue reading Stepping Out

We have been working with East the Water Year 6 pupils, who have created a wonderful selection of photographs, poems and sound recordings inspired by the beautiful Northam Burrows. We are very proud of the results and hope that they are too. An exhibition and a sharing of their poetry, to be experienced on headsets… Continue reading Where the River meets the Sea…

Thanks to a grant from Arts Council England and additional funding from the North Devon Coasts AONB, the Burton Art Gallery, the National Trust and the Bideford Bridge Trust – we are going to be hosting two weekends of entertainment and performance in the local area in September. Watch this space for further details!

Exciting news! We’re part of a ground-breaking, national programme of events Green Space Dark Skies which is happening in extraordinary outdoor sites across the UK. We’ll be leading on the event happening in the Exmoor National Park on 28th May. 500+ people will gather in a (currently) secret location at twilight. These people will become… Continue reading Green Space Dark Skies

We were delighted to at long last to bring The Whistlers to Inside Out Dorset at Symondsbury Estate (with Covid messing with plans along the way). Dorothy Max Prior, Editor of Total Theatre wrote a review of the Festival, including the Whistlers in the joyous mix. You can read it HERE – thank you Max!

We have been working with the fantastic team at Stover Park near Newton Abbot, to see how we might help them in their future plans to bring performance to the park – in a way that complements the natural environments that can be found there. We met with some volunteers who spend much of their… Continue reading Stover Park