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Aug 2025

Sam Richards Trio: Without Borders
Friday 8 August 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sam Richards Trio: Without Borders
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Trio improvisations based on global traditional music, across continents, without borders. includes music from the British Isles, Ireland, Egypt, Venezuela, Trinidad, America, Turkey, Africa.


Gala - The Wicked Mrs Dali. A Disco Opera
Saturday 9 August 2025 at 7:30 PM
Gala - The Wicked Mrs Dali. A Disco Opera
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A wild disco opera about one day in the life of Madame Dali and her idol, Jesus Christ Superstar- the 23 year old Broadway sensation Jeff Fenholt. “Gala” offers a searing and satirical insight into the inner lives of the art world’s super rich in the age of disco.


Film: No Other Land (15)
Monday 11 August 2025 at 7:30 PM
Film: No Other Land (15)
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When a group of students at Columbia University in New York launch a movement protesting the war in Gaza, they spark a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Encampments spring up at hundreds of other campuses as students object to their own university’s investment in the US and Israeli arms industry. Featuring detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil, The Encampments takes viewers inside America’s student uprising with incredible intimacy and urgency. Professors, whistleblowers, and student activists shed light on a moment that captivated the nation’s attention and continues to make headlines today.


Time Travel to a Future Democracy with Rob Hopkins
Tuesday 12 August 2025 at 2:30 PM
Time Travel to a Future Democracy with Rob Hopkins
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Now that 16 and 17 year olds will be eligible to vote at the next general election, what better time to explore the future vision the upcoming generation has for politics, democracy and the planet.

If you are aged 25 and under and will be eligible to vote by July 4 2029, this event is for you. With the guidance of experienced time traveller and author of How to Fall in Love with the Future, Rob Hopkins, we invite young people to help shape a narrative for positive change. Rumour has it that Rob might even bring his actual time machine with him!

Rob has written several books on community-led change, has spoken at TEDGlobal, in front of 7,000 people at Boomtown Festival, to 700 chefs in Copenhagen and is currently creating a comic book about time travel.


Gabriel Latchin Trio Plays Gershwin
Saturday 16 August 2025 at 7:30 PM
Gabriel Latchin Trio Plays Gershwin
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Harry Diplock Trio
Thursday 21 August 2025 at 7:30 PM
Harry Diplock Trio
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Rooted in the acoustic qualities of the Selmer guitar and heavily inspired by both the French and American Jazz scene, the trio has unique sound that is distinctly original.


Wake The River
Saturday 23 August 2025 at 7:30 PM
Wake The River
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A perfect band to end this year’s Tinners Moon Festival, playing great songs – right up to date, with a feel from every decade since the 1960s!
“One to watch from the South West” Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing
Wake the River from Cornwall, spans multiple generations in their ages and influences inviting a fresh fusion with delicate, stand-out lead vocals, sensitive instrumentation, layered harmonies and irresistible grooves.


Taradiddle
Thursday 28 August 2025 at 7:30 PM
Taradiddle
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A multinational folk trio based in Switzerland, specialising in vocal close harmonies, trad and originals with the occasional pop classic.


Sep 2025

Eliza Marshall: Eternal Birth Tour
Friday 5 September 2025 at 7:30 PM
Eliza Marshall: Eternal Birth Tour
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Join Eliza as she releases her debut album Eternal Birth this September, celebrating the cycle of life, mother in earth, and our eternal nurture through nature.
“I was kind of blown away” Mark Radcliffe BBC R2 Folk Show


Weaving layers of haunting flute melodies, hypnotic rhythms, percussion and electronics, spoken word and guitars — as well as her huge array of whistles and bansuris — Eliza draws on global traditions and profound inner reflection for these intimate and soul stirring performances.


What Makes A Village? Movement and Discussion Workshop
Saturday 6 September 2025 at 2:30 PM
What Makes A Village? Movement and Discussion Workshop
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A free, 2 hour discussion and gentle movement workshop for local residents to explore what rural life means to them
As part of the development of a new dance-theatre work, VILLAGERS, by Rachel Elizabeth Coleman, this free workshop is open to anyone with lived experience of rural living. The 2 hour session will see participants taken through a series of gentle movement and discussion exercises, these opening up creative conversations with strangers on belonging, identity and connection for rural communities. NB – happening in the studio upstairs, no lift.


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