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Celebrating Together A Queens’ Procession: a large art installation to be displayed in The Pannier Market and officially opened by Lady Arran, Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Devon . . . Read more The Royal Lime Tree Planters: a fun, community dance in honour … Continued

The Community Charter Song for South Molton for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations, led by Songwriter, Nick Wyke Made possible by a North Devon Council Community Grant and a ‘Let’s Create’ Grant from Arts Council England and Devon Community Foundation From … Continued

A Community Dance for South Molton for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations, led by Katy Lee of Courage Copse Creatives Made possible by a ‘Let’s Create’ grant from Arts Council England and Devon Community Foundation Just before the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee … Continued

A Community Art Installation for South Molton for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, led by Artist, Jeremy Hughes Made possible by a ‘Let’s Create’ grant from Arts Council England and Devon Community Foundation Working with our local communities throughout the month … Continued

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations in South MoltonHeritage Crafts Day, Friday 3rd June. 11am – 5pm. Arts Destination South Molton (ADSM) are working with The Town Council and a variety of other local groups towards making the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in … Continued

Dr Rosie Jackson and Graham Burchell, two widely published poets, read their collaborative work on artist Stanley Spencer. The poems, drawing on Spencer’s own writing and letters, as well as his biography, follow his life and explore his vision. They give … Continued

‘Fun with Arts’, organised by Arts Destination South Molton, took place in the South Molton Assembly Rooms on Sunday 5th December 2021 as part of the South Molton Business Association’s (SMBA) ‘Winter Wonderland by Day’ event. Local artists and makers were … Continued

Judith Westcott: Printmaker – an Arts Destination South Molton Zoom event  On Monday evening 7th December 2020, over a hundred people joined us for this presentation in which local artist, Judith Westcott, told us about her printmaking and showed us how she … Continued

Since our final Deep Roots Festival weekend in September, we have been delighted, and even humbled, to receive splendid reviews of the festival’s events. We have made these available to all to read: follow this link to our Deep Roots Festival … Continued

Our exciting festival took place over three weekends: 11-13 June, 10-11 July and 25-26 September 2021 – click on the links to find out more. mySouthMolton Capturing South Molton in Your Words and Images As part of the Deep Roots Festival … Continued

20th-27th September 2021 Hester Berry, Portrait Painting DemonstrationMonday 20th SeptemberLive Zoom event To herald our final Deep Roots Festival weekend of 2021, we invited popular local artist, Hester Berry, to lead an online portrait painting demonstration. Hester, whose work is widely … Continued

Myc Riggulsford and Katy Lee ‘In Conversation’ – and a Trip to the Community Woodlands On Sunday 26th September 2021, as part of the Deep Roots Festival organised by Arts Destination South Molton, the culmination of the Ode to the Ash … Continued

What a treat we had lined up for us on Monday 20th September! As part of the Deep Roots Festival, organised by Arts Destination South Molton, the brilliant local artist, Hester Berry, was booked to paint her self-portrait in just one … Continued

We joined a sell-out crowd in the Assembly Rooms, South Molton, made of contributors, townspeople and people from further away – including our North Devon MP, our Mayor and various Councillors, on Saturday afternoon 25th September – to watch the premiere … Continued

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Views from our Deep Roots Festival Arts Destination South Molton, undaunted by the impossibility of holding a live fun-filled festival weekend this year – to be based on our already well-developed plans for 2020 (also cancelled “beyond our control”!) – has … Continued

September Workshop (25th-26th September 2021)

Saturday 10th July South Molton Library Poetry presented by Dr Richard Westcott A Deep Roots Festival/South Molton Library collaboration The audience were super keen and friendly; all arrived early – clearly excited to be at an Event! The Garden Room, in … Continued

with Myc Riggulsford What price do we put on an oak tree, the view across Exmoor, or caring for your grandchildren, and how does society put a value on the world that surrounds us? Most of us can remember when butterflies, … Continued

Friday 11th June 2021 via Zoom Patrick Monahan’s Zoom show for Deep Roots Festival on the 11th June was fabulous! Here are some of the audience comments: With thanks to Andrew Coates (Town Clerk) and Rachel Venn (ADSM supporter) and others.

Saturday 10th JulyMyc Riggulsford: ‘The Charter of the Forest and our lost Commons Rights’A science & environment journalist, specialising in climate change, renewable energy, biodiversity, soils, crops, ancient woodland, land rights and loss of our commons, Myc gave an interesting, illustrated … Continued

Sunday 11th July 2021 at South Molton Methodist Church The grand finale to the second weekend of Arts Destination South Molton’s Deep Roots Festival 2021 was an upbeat performance from local wind quartet, Giocoso, performing to a socially-distanced capacity audience at … Continued

Sunday morning 13th June 2021 via Zoom Devon born and raised, Maya spoke to us from her sunny, white room in Blackheath, London, while some audience members enjoyed the sunshine outside in the park! Maya introduced her dance film by telling … Continued

Saturday 10th July 2021, Quince Honey Farm, South Molton It was wonderful to be at Quince Honey Farm on Saturday 10th July to see Pip Howard give the second of two talks there, as part of Arts Destination South Molton’s Deep … Continued

Saturday 12th June 2021 via Zoom A week ago, if you asked me to rate my favourite music I would have ranked classical music below folk and grunge. I think I felt it was too snooty and highbrow for me! Yet … Continued

Saturday 12th June 2021 via Zoom It was both a privilege and pleasure to attend this event organised by South Molton Library and ADSM for their Deep Roots Festival, hosted so expertly by Jane Petch (Librarian) and Alison Verney, with excellent … Continued

Monday 7th June 2021 via Zoom Heralding the Deep Roots Festival, Liv Torc, the super-creative and stunning performance poet, gave us an evening of highs and lows. To get us in the mood for fun, Liv got us renaming ourselves using … Continued

Saturday 11th July 2021, Quince Honey Farm South Molton The Quince Honey Farm’s new Hexagon building was the ideal location for the talk delivered by Myc Riggulsford, as part of the Arts Destination South Molton’s Deep Roots Festival on Saturday July 10th. … Continued

Science & Environment Journalist The Charter of the Forest and our lost Commons RightsThe Charter of the Forest is the 800 year old law which gives us as ordinary people our rights in Britain today – Magna Carta just protected the … Continued

An interactive poetry map created forSouth Molton Community Woodland The Courage Copse Creatives project was part of Arts Destination South Molton’s first Deep Roots Festival, and was held over the summer and autumn of 2021 Courage Copse Creatives CIC invited a … Continued

Liv Torc on Zoom Monday 7 June 2021: “Haiflu Ever After” A collective act of poetry, photograph, music and film, involving more than 8,000 crowd-sourced haiku, and over 500 “citizen artists”, Project Haiflu is inspired and led by performance poet Liv … Continued

North Devon filmmakerFilming became Jess’ passion when it became her voice! On Tuesday evening 24th of May 2021, supporters of Jessica Pearson and ADSM were offered intriguing and inspiring insights into the life of a young, local, passionate filmmaker. Those of … Continued

Capturing South Molton in Your Words and Images: A community poetry film project As part of the Deep Roots Festival 2021, film-maker Gordon McKerrow was commissioned by Arts Destination South Molton (ADSM) to make a film about living in South Molton … Continued

Spring has well and truly sprung! With the fabulous weather bringing out the wealth of wildflowers in our gardens, hedgerows and woodlands, delighting all with their freshness and inspirational colours. Plein Air painters have been noticed out on Exmoor and in … Continued

On Monday 22nd March 2021, Claire Barker, author of two award-winning children’s series (Knitbone Pepper and Picklewitch and Jack) talked about her inspiration – and what makes good writing for children. Exploring the universal themes of friendship, magic and the natural … Continued

Spring 2021 Spring has well and truly sprung! With the fabulous weather bringing out the wealth of wildflowers in our gardens, hedgerows and woodlands, delighting all with their freshness and inspirational colours. Plein Air painters have been noticed out on Exmoor … Continued

“Les Nations” – a Zoom concert by flautist Ashley Solomon On the evening of 15th June, 2020 members of ADSM, our North Devon charity – and others across the country and the world – were privileged to follow Baroque flautist Ashley … Continued

Dr Harbans Nagpal’s review of “A Prescription of Hope” Arts Destination South Molton, a charity dedicated to encouraging and staging artistic events in South Molton, organized its first virtual poetry reading on Monday, 27th July 2020. When you accept an invitation … Continued

Dancing wildly around the kitchen Monday evening 14th September was the latest Zoom event of local charity, Arts Destination South Molton! The joyful combination of Nick Wyke and Becki Driscoll was lively, fun – and inspirational. They were joined at their … Continued

“Half term: what a lovely idea”! No! Not what you might think! Ice cream? Camping trip? Seaside? Wild water swimming? Visit the zoo? None of the above… But an online treat on Monday 26th October for families, friends, grannies and grandpas … Continued

Arts Destination South Molton are in the planning stages for our 2024 events and projects at the moment, but details will be added here as soon as possible. Meanwhile should you have any queries, would like to join our occasional, informal … Continued

arts@our heart: sharing art and culture with our local community While many people are familiar with our work, not everyone knows that Arts Destination South Molton is also a registered charity.  Generous supporters are vital to the work of ADSM in … Continued

Well… that’s it! Goodbye 2020.And as we used to say at school, “Good riddance to bad rubbish”! But it hasn’t been all bad for ADSM. Even the darkest month of the year brought us its silver lining. Not only in glorious … Continued

A kaleidoscope of poetry A free Zoom event, presented by the Mary Evans Picture Library & hosted by ADSM Fifteen widely published poets from the Mary Evans Poetry Blog presented their poems live on Monday 11th January 2021, hosted on Zoom … Continued

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