Ashburton Arts Centre

Ashburton Arts Centre is in a lovely 1835 Grade 2-listed old church. The main hall is a flexible space seating up to 200, with fabulous acoustics for live music. Tickets for most events are available in advance below. If you're looking for something that's not here, please email us at boxoffice@ashburtonarts.org.uk

Around 6pm on the day of an event, the online ticket sales close, and it says here “Not Currently Available”. There are usually still some tickets available on the door, or by emailing the box office address above. It's usually a busy time – we'll reply if we can.

The Methodist congregation moved out in 2015, and sold the building at public auction on 19 July 2017. Ashburton Arts was the successful bidder using funds donated and loaned by people and businesses in the local community to whom we're extremely grateful.

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GRICE & The Polarchoral Band

“Music of exquisite beauty from an artist of rare refinement” PROG magazine

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Friday 2nd May, 2025
N Door time: 7:30pm, Start time: 8:00pm
. All ages
C Music - General

MAYDAY Morris Workshop

A workshop with Dartmoor-based Morris dancers centred on dance as protest.

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Saturday 3rd May, 2025
N Door time: 10:45am, Start time: 11:00am
. All ages
C Other

Molly No Mates Morris Workshop

For anyone who would like to give Morris a go with Bristol’s premier queer, drag king morris dancing team.

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Saturday 3rd May, 2025
N Door time: 12:15pm, Start time: 12:30pm
. All ages
C Other

Lore and Land III Artists' Round Table / Story: Old Crockern / Film: Dartmoor Calling

Dartmoor storyteller Lisa Schneidau discusses things otherworldly, bestial and ritual with artists Libby Bove, Gemma Dunnell, Abigail Tinnion, Asha Umberio and George Radford; followed by a story and this documentary by Dartmoor Preservation Association and Clapham Film Unit

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Saturday 3rd May, 2025
N Door time: 1:45pm, Start time: 2:00pm
. All ages
C Other

Lunatraktors

With eclectic acoustic beats, accordion, whistles and deep drones, they expand into weird, playful spaces. Primal and contemporary, mournful and joyously deranged. Real in-your-face and incredibly inventive contemporary folk music.” RTÉ Lyric FM

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Saturday 3rd May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
. All ages
C Music - Folk/blues/world

Orlando Dibelo & Ruth Rozelaar Bandoneon Duo

On their UK tour of playing for dance events, the great Argentine Bandoneon Maestro Orlando Dibelo and his student Ruth Rozelaar will visit Ashburton Arts Centre one more time to play.

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Sunday 4th May, 2025
N Door time: 12:45pm, Start time: 1:00pm
. All ages
C Music - Jazz/latin

Kevin Figes Quartet – You Are Here

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Monday 5th May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
. All ages
C Music - Jazz/latin

Roland Arnison: The Call of the Loon

A quest to record all the calls of Scotland's seabird species, travelling solo by sea kayak: A multimedia talk by Roland Arnison. 1.2 million paddle strokes, 500 miles, 30 seabird species, 1 lost kayak

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Wednesday 7th May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
. All ages
C Other

Härva Trio

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Thursday 8th May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
. All ages
C Music - Jazz/latin

Seminar Series: Prof Joe Foweraker & Pip Harris on A Life Well Lived

Pip Harris and Joe Foweraker invite you to join them for Conversations on the Challenges of a Life Well-Lived.

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Thursday 8th May, 2025
N Door time: 7:30pm, Start time: 8:00pm
. All ages
C Other

Living Room Theatre: The End is In The Beginning, a Samuel Beckett omnibus

In this intimate 80 minute 2-hander performance, our approach to both the comic and the tragic sides of Beckett’s work will give audiences a compelling new way to experience his language.

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Friday 9th May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
. All ages
C Theatre

Angelheart Theatre: Sam O’Shanty

Magical puppet theatre for all the family

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Saturday 10th May, 2025
N Door time: 2:00pm, Start time: 2:30pm
. All ages
C Theatre

Wake The River

Alt folk with a groovy and ethereal edge: “One to watch from the South West” Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing Radio

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Saturday 10th May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
. All ages
C Music - Folk/blues/world

Ash Arts Jazz Jam Session

with host Jesse Molins (guitar) with Martin Jenkins & Tony Follano

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Monday 12th May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
. All ages
C Music - Jazz/latin

An evening with Jim Mullen (UK jazz and funk guitar legend) and friends

with Zoe Francis (vocals), Tom Ball (organ) and Tristan Mailliot (drums)

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Wednesday 14th May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
. All ages
C Music - Jazz/latin

Kudu Band plus DJ Emma the Artist

With reggae-infused rhythms, sparkling African guitar lines, soulful and infectious vocals – come down and dance!

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Friday 16th May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
. All ages
C Music - General

Club Tropicana

80s Club Night

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Saturday 17th May, 2025
N Door time: 7:30pm, Start time: 8:00pm
. All ages
C Music - General

The Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service Concert Band

A musical feast including classical, pop music and film music, plus some contemporary concert band pieces

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Sunday 18th May, 2025
N Door time: 2:30pm, Start time: 3:00pm
. All ages
C Music - Folk/blues/world

Ahmed Dickinson and Eduardo Martín: virtuoso guitar duo from Cuba

The show compiles some of Grammy nominee composer Eduardo’s most alluring works for two guitars. Prepare to listen to classical styles merged with rock and son montunos, old Yoruba chants or feel-good rumbas with funk- boleros, and new-age tunes and cinematic pieces sitting alongside Cuban tumbaos with slap bass.

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Thursday 22nd May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
. All ages
C Music - Folk/blues/world

Martha Tilston

“She has probably the purest voice I have heard and at times it sent shivers up and down my spine” BBC

No tickets available

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Friday 23rd May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
. All ages
C Music - Folk/blues/world

OPEN TO ALL - Who really holds the power on Dartmoor?

DARTMOOR A conversation with Kate Ashbrook, Matthew Kelly, Guy Shrubsole and Lewis Winks

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Saturday 24th May, 2025
N Door time: 9:15am, Start time: 9:30am
. All ages
C Other

ROCK IDOLS – DARTMOOR’S EXTRAORDINARY TORS

Wyl Menmuir in conversation with Alex Murdin and Sophie Pierce

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Saturday 24th May, 2025
N Door time: 10:45am, Start time: 11:00am
. All ages
C Other

THE SECRETS OF CUT HILL AND PILES HILL: Uncovering the lives of the ancestors

A talk by DNP archaeologists Lee Bray and Andy Crabb

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Saturday 24th May, 2025
N Door time: 12:15pm, Start time: 12:30pm
. All ages
C Other

BEYOND HUMAN: LANDSCAPE’S EMOTIONAL RESONANCE

Readings by and conversation with Sean Borodale and Fiona Williams

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Saturday 24th May, 2025
N Door time: 1:45pm, Start time: 2:00pm
. All ages
C Other

DARTMOOR IS THE ARTIST

A visual presentation and conversation with Land & Lore, Garry Fabian Miller, Matthew Shaw and Mark Jessett

0 ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P Saturday 24th May, 2025
N Door time: 3:15pm, Start time: 3:30pm
. All ages
C Other

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