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Visitor Centre Toilets Disabled Toilets Food & Drink Parking Disabled Parking
1. Round House Café 2. White Hart Bar & Restaurant 3. Great Hall 4. Box Office 5. Barn Theatre & Cinema 6. Gardens
7. Space Studios 1, 3 & 6 8. Studio 31 9. Festival Office 10. Festival Bazaar and The Wild Ideas Tent 11. The Food Grove 12. The Ship Studio
Tickets Full
Concessions*
Child
Weekend
£61
£34
£25
Full Day (Fri)
£35
£25
£10
Full Day (Sat & Sun)
£40
£30
£15
1/2 Day (Fri)
£25
£15
£5
1/2 Day (Sat & Sun)
£30
£20
£10
Individual Event Tickets Price Band A
*Concessions: OAP, full time students, job seekers allowance and Dartington Members. Child: 4-15 yrs. Under 4s go FREE. To book visit: www.tagorefestival.com or call the Box Office on 01803 847070
Partners:
Full
Concessions*
£5
£3.50
Price Band B
£8
£5
Price Band C
£15
£10
Film Tickets
£7.75
£6.50
Vayu Naidu Company
Yoga with Neelakash
Opening Ceremony
FREE Asana (movement) for balancing the body, stretching the muscles for toning , weight bearing and de – stressing, bandhas for core strength and pranayama (breath work) to promote positive energy, meditation for calming the mind and senses. Classes taught by Neelakash.
Price Band B A glorious ceremony with welcoming Speeches from Satish Kumar, Sir David Green & David Francis. Plus performances of Tagore Poetry & Gitanjali.
12pm & 3pm, The Ship Studio Welcome to the festival! We have a huge array of events for everyone to enjoy and fresh ideas to stimulate the mind. Take a stroll through our Festival Bazaar, relax with yoga, join in the debate at Schumacher College’s Wild Ideas tent, visit the Transition Town Totnes hub and find out how localism become a global phenomena, create your own soundscape for broadcast with Soundart Radio, or call into our kids’ corner to be entertained. As Tagore himself taught, “The East and West must join hands in the pursuit of truth.” This years’ festival is a true celebration of this ideal, with thinkers and speakers from across the world coming together to question, explore and dream of a better world. Rich with world class artists and set amongst the beautiful Dartington Hall estate, we hope this unique festival inspires you as much as it has me and the fantastic team who have helped bring this all together. Jude Wright, Festival Producer
What if we feasted from rubbish? - Caitlin Shepherd 12pm, The Wild Ideas Tent
FREE Something is seriously wrong with our food system. In the UK, the food industry is responsible for over half the 18-20 million tonnes of perfectly edible food wasted each year. Award-winning campaign collective ‘This Is Rubbish’ create feasts from discarded and found food as a way of starting a conversation about transforming our relationship with food. For good. Join Caitlin and Rachel as they ask, what if…
Tagore under the Trees 12pm, 2pm & 4pm Dartington Gardens
FREE Come experience Tagore’s poetry and song in the inspirational setting of the Dartington Hall gardens.
Kalaripayattu and Indian Dance Workshop 12pm - 13.30pm, Studio 3
FREE A workshop exploring the combination of Indian Martial Arts and Dance with Ajeesh Balakrishnan.
Professional Contemporary Workshop with Aakash Odedra 2pm, Studio 3
Price Band B Join the dancers from the Aakash Odedra Company for this contemporary dance workshop. Please note: Dance experience required.
What if we fell in love with the material world? - Ruth Potts 3pm, The Wild Ideas Tent
FREE We know that ever more stuff doesn’t make us happy. But what if, we’ve not been looking in entirely the wrong place for happiness, but like an abusive relationship with the real world, we’ve got the relationship badly wrong? Coauthor of ‘The New Materialism’, Ruth Potts asks whether developing lasting relationships with the stuff we have and care for, can be good for us all & good for the planet? What if we really fell in love with stuff?
4pm, Great Hall
Dance Offerings: Dance in Devon Performance Platform for work created in Devon 7pm, Studio 6
Price Band B Dance in Devon present a selection of dance offerings created by local artists in Devon. Featuring: Jane Mason, Ajeesh / Antara, Roseanna Anderson, 3rd Stage and Spindrift
Flux
7pm, Great Hall
Price Band C Growing a reputation for making music that is intricate, energising and beautiful, Flux are a band made up of six incredibly versatile musicians playing instruments ranging from Piano to Bansuri, Double Bass to Cajon, and Violin to Synths.
Film: Rangeelay [12A] 8pm, Barn Cinema
Film Pricing Arrogant Sunny attempts to woo haughty Simmi in a variety of imaginative ways, in this Punjabi action-comedy.
Yoga with Neelakash
Lanka - Soumik Datta
Late Morning Raga
New Economics with Lord Desai
FREE Satyananda Yoga for balancing body and mind with Neelakash.Suitable for all.
Price Band C World Premiere: ‘British Sarod Maestro’, Soumik Datta performs with his new work Lanka, a reinterpretation of the Indian epic, ‘Ramayana’ through the lens of contemporay culture, featuring Indian classical music, electronica, live looping, video design and animation.
Price Band B Enjoy a late morning raga with Soumik Datta on the Sarod and Shabaz Hussein on Tabla.
Price Band B Join renowned author and economist Lord Desai for a lecture on New Economics.
9am, 4pm, The Ship Studio
Bollywood Dance Workshop 10am, Studio 3
Price Band B Get your wiggle on for this beginner’s workshop in Bollywood dancing from the Aakash Odedra Company. For ages 6+.
Spirituality in the 21st Century 11am, Upper Gatehouse
Price Band B Join Satish Kumar and William Elmhirst for a talk on Spirituality in the 21st Century. Introduced by Sir David Green.
100 Years of Bollywood - Kishwar Desai 11am, Barn Theatre
Price Band B Join celebrated Indian author Kishwar Desai for a talk on the last one hundred years of Bollywood.
Tagore under the trees 12pm, 2pm & 4pm, Dartington Gardens
FREE Come experience Tagore’s poetry and song in the inspirational setting of the Dartington Hall gardens.
What if we just did it? - Rob Hopkins (TTT)
12pm, The Wild Ideas Tent
FREE Transition founder, and author of ‘The Power of Just Doing Stuff’ Rob Hopkins asks, What if… we just did it?
Timeless and Endless - Ananda Gupta 12pm, Studio 3
2pm & 7pm, Studio 1
Family Bollywood Dance Workshop 3pm, Studio 3
Price Band B Get your wiggle on for this beginner’s workshop in Bollywood dancing from the Aakash Odedra Company. For ages 6+.
The Relevance of Tagore in the 21st Century 3pm, Upper Gatehouse
Price Band B Join Satish Kumar for a talk on the relevance of Tagore in the 21st Century.
What if Science had a soul? - Stephan Harding 3pm, The Wild Ideas Tent
FREE Schumacher College’s resident Ecologist Stephan Harding shows how our desire to control took soul out of the world, but a new science of qualities can help it breathe again.
Kalaripayattu Workshop 5pm – 6.30pm, Studio 3
FREE Kalaripayattu draws inspiration from the raw power and sinuous strength of the majestic animal forms- Lion, Tiger, Elephant, Wild Boar, Snake, and Crocodile. It is today re-emerging as a source of inspiration for self-expression in dance forms, theatre, fitness, and movies.
FREE A specially created workshop cum demonstration of the new rhythmic cycles created by Tagore during his sojourn to the Dartington estate through a decadent fabric of the sitar, dilruba, indian drums and a presentation show.
What If? Lemn Sissay
Holi Dry Paint Throwing
Rising - Aakash Odedra Company
1pm, Tennis Courts
FREE Come learn the story of Holi and enjoy our very own festival of colours finishing with celebratory dry paint throwing. We recommend wearing some older clothes – but the paint should come off with a good wash.
Creativity - Sir John Tusa 1pm, Great Hall
Price Band B Sir John Tusa was managing director of the BBC’s World Service and director of London’s Barbican Centre. He is the author of numerous books on culture and the arts, including Conversations with the World (1990), Art Matters (1999) and On Creativity (2003).
EPIC 3D [U]
2pm, Barn Cinema
Film Pricing From the makers of Ice Age and Rio comes this epic tale of a battle between the forces of good and evil.
5pm, Great Hall
Price Band C Lemn Sissay is the author of five collections of poetry, associate artist at the Southbank Centre, the first poet to write for the 2012 Olympics and has recieved an MBE from the Queen for services to literature.
6pm, Studio 31
Price Band C Rising is an evening of new work, performed by Aakash Odedra and featuring solos choreographed by dance heavyweights Russell Maliphant, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan.
Film: Yah Jawaani Hai Deewani [PG]
8pm, Barn Cinema Film
Film Pricing Follow studious Naina and fun-loving Bunny on a collision course.
A Tribute to Ravi Shankar - Nitin Sawhney 8pm, Great Hall
Price Band C One of the most versatile and sought after composer/producers in the world presents his personal tribute to the great Ravi Shankar.
Flux Acoustic Set 9pm, Great Hall
FREE The hugely talented Flux return to provide an ethereal acoustic treat, melding global sounds that will melt you away.
10am, Great Hall
Skillshares
10am - 11am, Holand Room
FREE Come learn about the free Skillshare project, join in or share a skill of your own
Yoga with Neelakash
1pm, Great Hall
What if economics was about stuff that really mattered? 1pm - 2.15pm, Holand Room FREE Workshop
11am & 2pm, The Ship Studio
African Earth Dances with Denise Rowe
Sita as Legacy - Vayu Naidu
Price Band B This workshop including Zimbabwean dance and song. Plus a special performance from her african dance group based at Dartington.
FREE Satyananda Yoga for balancing body and mind with Neelakash. Classes are suitable for all.
11am, Barn Cinema
1:30pm, Under the Archway / Studio 3
Price Band C An illustrated book launch for “Sita as Legacy” with Vayu Naidu and Namita Gokhale, director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
EPIC 3D [U]
Shared Inventions
2pm, Studio 1
11am, Studio 3
Price Band A Join us in this exploration with Hugh Nankivell into the creativity of children and hear from the artists and educators who ask, “Is it time to completely rethink how we teach early years?”
Your Story - What are doing? What would you like to do? 11.30 - 12.30am, Holand Room
2pm, Barn Cinema Film Film Pricing See previous page.
Tasher Desh - The Land of Cards Price Band A Directed by Dr. Ananda Gupta A colourful costume dance-drama based on the immortal musical prose play by Tagore as a mark of respect for his peers - Netaji and Swami Vivekananda. A 20 strong cast bring alive this amazing fantasy opera with specially designed costumes and special effects from Shantiniketan.
FREE Workshop Enter for a chance to win your own copy of the Power of Just Doing Stuff, by Rob Hopkins.
What is TTT doing in the local economy?
Unsung
What if education happened under trees? - Satish Kumar
Workshop: 11am, Studio 31 Performance: 12pm, Studio 31
Price Band B Two brothers. Two wives. One family. Ash and Joy are spirited newlyweds; Rana and Megh are struggling to tolerate each other’s company. But when outside forces push the family to its limits, there are sacrifices to be made by all.
Flag Painting Workshop 12pm, Tennis Courts
FREE Come create the Tagore Festival Flag 2013.
Tagore under the Trees 12pm, 2pm & 4pm Dartington Gardens
FREE Come experience Tagore’s poetry and song in the inspirational setting of the Dartington Hall gardens.
Vivekanand: The Face of Modern Hinduism
12pm, Upper Gatehouse
FREE Jay Lakhani, the Director of Vivekanand Center, talks about Famous Hindu Monk Swami Vivekanand, in celebration of his 150th Birth Year.
What if we cancelled the Apocalypse? - Andrew Simms 12pm, The Wild Ideas Tent
FREE Join author of ‘Cancel the Apocalypse’, activist, and fellow of The New Economics Foundation Andrew Simms as he asks: What if… living within our ecological means could lead to a more joyful world?
2.30pm - 3pm, Holand Room FREE Discussion
3pm, The Wild Ideas Tent
FREE Earth Pilgrim, Founder of The Small School, and co-founder of Schumacher College, Satish Kumar asks: What if much more of our education happened under the trees?
What if we all took national gardening leave? - Molly Conisbee 3pm,The Wild Ideas Tent
FREE Could a range of social and ecological challenges be overcome if we all spent less time in the office, and more time in the garden? Co-founder of bread, print & roses Molly Conisbee outlines a proposal for ‘National Gardening Leave’. Resistance is fertile.
TTT Mini Film Festival
3pm - 5pm, Holand Room
FREE Come see inspiring films about ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Closing Ceremony 4pm, Great Hall
Price Band B Come join in our closing ceremony for Tagore Festival 2013. Including the Glorious Chorus, Tagore songs and closing talks.