Welcome to Ashburton Arts Centre, entertaining Ashburton and the wider area since 2018. The best way to know what’s happening here is to join our mailing list – sign up here. See Access, Tickets & Finding Us for more about why there are three ticket prices, plus other useful info about coming to events at Ashburton Arts Centre. You can book tickets at wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts (+10% booking fee). Gift Vouchers for events at Ashburton Arts Centre now available! More here…
Tinners Moon Festival 2025 
Our annual Tinners Moon Festival starts on Friday 25 April, for 2 weeks of fabulous music, talks, film, May Day madness, and much more! The line up is:
★ Liza Pulman & Gareth Williams ★ Justin Adams and Mauro Durante ★ Tune Storm ★ Rebeca Ortega Flamenco ★ Sally Pomme Clayton ★ Pennsylvania Railroad ★ Stompin’ Dave ★ Liane Carroll ★ People.Community.Forest ★ GRICE & the Polarchoral Band ★ Ashburton and District Garden Association ★ Field System ★ Libby Bove’s Museum of Roadside Magic ★ Mayday Morris ★ Molly No Mates Morris ★ Dartmoor Calling ★ Lunatraktors ★ Orlando Dibelo & Ruth Rozelaar Bandoneon Duo ★ Community Cabaret ★ Kevin Figes Quartet ★ The Call of the Loon ★ Prof Joe Foweraker & Pip Harris: A Life Well Lived ★ Härva Trio ★ Living Room Theatre: Samuel Beckett omnibus ★ Angelheart Theatre: Sam O’Shanty ★
★ Wake The River ★
wegottickets.com/tinnersmoon2025 has all the info, and you can book tickets there (10% fee) or email boxoffice@ashburtonarts.org.uk to reserve and pay on the door on the night.
Dartmoor Tors Festival
23 – 25 May 2025
The Arts Centre is delighted to be collaborating with local journalist and writer Sophie Pierce, and artist Alex Murdin in launching this brand new festival which celebrates Dartmoor – its landscape, people, heritage and culture. During the late May bank holiday weekend, Friday 23 to Monday 26, ticketed events will take place in Ashburton and at locations around the moor. On Friday, Martha Tilston is on here at the arts centre, and Folk music legend Seth Lakeman will be headlining on the Saturday night; other speakers and performers include the international artist Garry Fabian Miller, novelist Fiona Williams, poet/artist Sean Borodale, storytellers Sara Hurley and Lisa Schneidau, and the ‘dark and wild’ Beltane Border Morris side. Full details of the events here at the Arts Centre will be listed here very soon. Tickets will go on sale here on Saturday 22 February at 12 noon. Please don’t send emails to the box office requesting ticket reservations before noon on Saturday 22 Feb.
Events at the Arts Centre on Saturday 24 May are all here.
For more, see the festival website dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk.
Ashburton Chamber Music Festival 18 -27 July 2025
If you’re on our mailing list we’ll give you updates about this year’s festival as details are confirmed. See our ACMF webpage for details of the artists performing and some of this year’s programme.
The next event at Ashburton Arts will be Phil Cooper Exploring Songwriting on Thursday 24 April 2025 at 7:30 PM
Here’s a taste of just a few things that happened here back in 2019:
We are working on adding more pictures to this site – for now, you can see some fabulous ones on Mark Burley’s site.