Festival Programme
What's on
The Dartington Campus Festival is an exciting blend of contemporary performing arts from graduating students, alongside alumni performances, a symposium, live music, exhibitions and of course a wellstocked bar!
This vibrant and celebratory five-day event is taking place from 16 - 20 June 2010 on the beautiful Dartington Estate, near Totnes in Devon.
Download the Fesival Programme:
Dartington Campus Festival Programme: Wednesday (218.55 KB)
Dartington Campus Festival Programme: Thursday (224.90 KB)
Dartington Campus Festival Programme: Friday (231.95 KB)
Dartington Campus Festival Programme: Saturday (329.87 KB)
Dartington Campus Festival Programme: Sunday (264.72 KB)
Degree show
Graduating students will exhibit their final performances throughout the festival.
Work on show includes Art (installation, performance, media/digital/film, fine art), Writing (page based, performed, installation), Theatre (studio based, site based, installation, film), Choreography (studio based, site based, installation, film), Music (performances).
Watch this space for more information.
Contexture
Contexture will be an expansive inclusive space at Dartington Campus Festival, based primarily in the Shippon studios and featuring final degree work from third year Art and Writing students.
There will be a central place for conversation and refreshment, a stage for spoken words, and a cinema.
Weaving out into the rest of the festival will be installed works and performative interventions, to bring colour and texture to every part of this special event.
We are looking for proposals from students and alumni for work (films, something to say on a stage, sited installations...) This will not be officially programmed and is not a chance for self promotion, but is a parting gift to the Dartington Campus. Please contact us by email: contexture@dartington.ac.uk
Gallery
Watch this space for more information.
Alumni performances
This year we are excited to have alumni performances taking place throughout the festival.
Watch this space for more information on who will be performing as well as dates and times of all performances.
Symposium
‘Extended Play'
Dartington College of Arts 1961 - 2010
Dartington College of Arts emerged at a very particular moment in the cultural life of the country, and in a very specific place. Its existence simultaneously representsa zeitgeist, a dream, a utopian vision and a strange anachronism.
The recent merger of the College with University College Falmouth, and the impending closure of the existing campus at Dartington, has been met with a wide range of responses, but one aspect of this event, as with all moments of closure, is that it provides a unique opportunity to view this experience in its totality. The contribution that the community and courses at Dartington have made to cultural life is extensive, pioneering and championing socially-engaged practice, interdisciplinarity, student-driven learning, connective aesthetics, and responsible creativity. The aim of this is to begin to gather, identify, and evaluate this contribution.
The symposium will take the form of a series of five roundtable events, spread over three days during the Dartington Campus Festival; a celebratory event during which student and alumni work is performed and exhibited.
Each roundtable will be chaired by a guest speaker or current member of academic staff and will consist of four participants representing a mix of alumni, industry professionals, academics and current students. Each will be oriented toward a particular theme, which might include: ‘Art + Social Context', ‘Training and anti-training', ‘First and Last Principles',‘Performance Writing' and ‘Curriculum as Conversation'.
All of the roundtable events will be documented and available online after the festival via a legacy website.
A Room @ The Roundhouse
'A Room @ The Roundhouse' was founded by Tom Nolan - a BA(Hons) Arts Management student who graduated from Dartington in 2006 - as part of his final project. Tom had worked in the Box Office at Dartington Arts for most of his time as a student, and then gained the position of Operations Supervisor (Box Office Manager) when he graduated in June 2006. Tom continued to programme and run 'A Room @ The Roundhouse' until he left Dartington in March 2008, to take up the position of Box Office Manager at The Tricyle Theatre in Kilburn. 'A Room @ The Roundhouse' continued to flourish and be much loved by students at Dartington. In 2009 Tom was extremely pleased to receive a running order of artists for AR@TR who were all unknown to him - it lived on!!
Tom programmed some names that have gone on to be locally - and potentially internationally! - renowned, such as Matt Board (Matt Board and the Family Tree's performance at the Great Hall sold out in September last year), Charlie Scullion and Vicky Narewski (who produced and directed the amazing 'Clockwork' shadow puppet show, with the support of many other ex-Dartington students, which sold out at Dartington in March). Also, Heg Doughty (who is currently recording her first album), Bert Miller & The Animal Folk, Jaspreet Kaur, Not Now Bernard, Mae Karthauser & The Midnight Fairground.... and many, many, many more!
Only the future will tell of the success that was nurtured in the quiet, attentive environment that is 'A Room @ The Roundhouse'. Don't regret missing your chance to experience the last of these very special events...
Tom is now Co-Director of 'INevents' - a festival and events production company based in Oxford - www.inevents.org
Bella Shirley-Miller is the current programmer of AR@TR - i.shirleymiller@dartington.ac.uk
Shaking hands with ghosts
‘Shaking hands with ghosts' Part 3
Curated and devised by Melanie Thompson
Shaking hands with ghosts is a 3-day site-specific event.
‘Shaking Hands with Ghosts' will be an event where we can say goodbye to the estate where the College has been based for 48 years. Every part of the estate holds important traces of people and work made through the history of the College. Every ex student or tutor has memories not only of work made in studios but site specific works created as a direct response to the extraordinary environment of the estate.
From 11am - 5pm on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 June, and from 11am - 3pm on Sunday 20 June, ten artists will present interventions in response to the estate surrounding the College.
Visitors to the work will be given a map with times, places and thoughts each day at the library.
All the artists are either currently teaching at the College, have taught in the past or are ex students.
All the works will reflect the strong multidisciplinary strand practiced at the College over many years, but will also speak of each artist's own practice, ranging from text-based work, visual art, sound, theatre and dance.
The final event is at 3.30pm outside the Great Hall on Sunday afternoon with a closing action involving all the artists and the public, to mark the College leaving Dartington.
Melanie will give a lecture/presentation on the context of the project during the festival.
Specially made programmes will be available, made for 'Shaking hands with ghosts' as mementoes throughout the festival.
Download the Shaking hands with ghosts timetable (41.86 KB)
Friday 18 June
Simon Persighetti: 12.00 - Gardens / Greek temple - readings
Kirsten Lavers: all day - Various locations - handshakes
Karen Christopher: 14.00 - Gardens - by the stream - performance
Jerome Fletcher: 15.00 - Bothy - Boiler room - e-writing
Roger Bourke: 10.00-22.00 - Shippon Corridor - video installation
Rob Gawthrop: 17.00-19.00 - pathway through Aller park field - sound work
Melanie Thompson: 21.30 - Aller Park swimming pool
Bob Budd: all day - The graveyard - sculpture
Saturday 19 June
Melanie Thompson: 11.00-13.00 - her office - chimmels
Simon Persighetti: 12.00 - Gardens / Greek temple - readings
Kirsten Lavers: all day - on campus
Karen Christopher: 14.00 - Gardens - by the stream - performance
Blind Ditch: 15.00 - Higher Close/Programmes office - performance
Sue Palmer and Maritea Daehlin: 16.00 - outside garden studio/Lower Close - Eat
Dartington
Propeller: 17.00 - outside White Hart
Garden tour: 18.00-19.00 - meet at White Hart
Bob Budd: all day - The graveyard - sculpture
Sunday 20 June
Melanie Thompson: 11.00-13.00 - her office - chimmels
Simon Persighetti: 12.00 - Gardens / Greek temple - readings
Garden tour: 12.30-13.30 - meet at white hart.
Kirsten Lavers: 12.00-15.00 - on campus
Karen Christopher: 14.00 - Gardens - by the stream - performance
Bob Budd: all day - The graveyard - sculpture
Final event: 15.30 - outside Great Hall
1-hour tours of the gardens with Head Gardner Neil Dyer - Saturday and Sunday
Lower Close Marquee
The Lower Close Marquee will be open for the entire festival and will host a rich entertainment programme packed full of great music and cabaret style performances.
Watch this space for more information.
There will also be a fully stocked bar open all day serving a wide range of refreshing beverages at very reasonable prices.
The Rat & Emu
The Rat & Emu will be open for the entire festival and will host a rich entertainment programme packed full of great music and cabaret style performances.
Watch this space for more information.
There will also be a fully stocked bar open all day serving a wide range of refreshing beverages at very reasonable prices.
Workshops
Networking workshop
Led by South West marketing guru, David Stone.
Over lunch on Friday 18 June
Powerful and Authentic Networking Skills for Leaders: In this highly interactive workshop, David Stone will help you look at the untapped potential in both yourself and your network in a dynamic and engaging way. This workshop will enable you to make the most of your interactions with colleagues, while learning some key networking principles. Participants will learn the art of successful networking while actually
putting it in to practice - your time, and money, will yield more rewarding, authentic and lucrative commercial opportunities.
David Stone has trained as a group psychologist and psychotherapist and is the director of Guru Marketing Ltd, a marketing and training consultancy based in Glastonbury. David runs workshops on marketing and networking with business networks, universities and colleges across the country, as well as assisting organisations to build marketing strategies to capitalise on social and technological changes and trends.
Note: Please RSVP your attendance to this event to: s.middleton@dartington.ac.uk
Release workshops
Led by the artist and lecturer Melanie Thompson
Thursday 17, Friday 18 & Saturday 19 June
9.30 - 11am in Studio 6
Release: Created by Mary Fulkerson Release training - who talked about not learning but remembering, retuning to basic movements that we had forgotten from our childhoods where we had moved freely and instinctively, unfettered by the emotional and psychological armory that we all acquire in our journey to adulthood.
The workshop will:
- Introduce an awareness of being present in the body
- Teach us to understand our relationship to gravity
- Discover how to trust the intelligence of the body
- Develop a sense of what our body can do, our personal limits and potential
Note: It would be good if participants can come to all classes, but it is not essential. Wear loose clothes and have bare feet.
All levels welcome.
Guest talks & events
Guest speakers and events to be announced shortly.
Reunion
We are expecting alumni from all stages of Dartington's unique history to revisit the College this year and have organized a number of reunions to take place during the festival.
If you have not been in touch with the Alumni Relations Office before, we would love to hear from you! Please use the online update form to add your details to our database.
Watch this space for more information.
Food & drink
Food
We will have a variety of delicious caterers on hand serving a tasty selection of fresh hot and cold food throughout the festival. A full list of caterers will be announced shortly.
Ock's Indian Kitchen - Fine authentic Indian food using free range meats and locally sourced ingredients, where possible. All spices are freshly ground and blended especially for each individual dish. Our menu changes daily and includes varied and original vegetarian and vegan dishes.
Lower Close Marquee
The Lower Close Marquee will be open for the entire festival with a fully stocked bar serving a wide range of refreshing beverages at very reasonable prices.
The marquee will also host a rich entertainment programme packed full of great music and cabaret style performances.
The Rat & Emu
The Rat & Emu will be open for the entire festival with a fully stocked bar serving a wide range of refreshing beverages at very reasonable prices.
It will also host a rich entertainment programme packed full of great music and cabaret style performances.
Stalls
The Permanent Bookshop - a not-for-profit collector, promoter and retailer of artist's books and other printed items. Founded in 2003, it carries a range of independently published items including limited edition bookworks, journals and zines.
ALIEN KIOSK is a temporary + mobile kiosk made from average banana cardboard boxes. It embodies and combines elements of a cafe, bookshop, market stall, art gallery, music venue, dance club, cinema, pirate radio station. The ALIEN KIOSK aims to provide the podium and space for people to show cross multi omni any no discipline work, trials, errors, victories and failures, to hang out, waste time, have tea + cake. THE ALIEN KIOSK is a beer-and-cake-picnic for art lovers by art lovers. The ALIEN KIOSK is a silent disco rip-off.
TO ENJOY THE KIOSK'S ACTIVITIES FULLY, IT IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL TO BRING A PORTABLE RADIO AND HEADPHONES!!!!!
Opening times
Wednesday 16 June: 6pm - late
Thursday 17 June: 10am - late
Friday 18 June: 10am - late
Saturday 19 June: 10am - late
Sunday 20 June: 10am - late
Dartington Campus map
Download a PDF of the map below.
Dartington Campus Festival map (127.56 KB)
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