Thrive Festival, Dartington
Apr 28, 2023 - May 1, 2023

Thrive is a joyful May Day weekend festival marking the turning from spring to summer – celebrated through Indian music, culture, and creative connections with nature. We invite you to join in!

In addition to the Headline Concerts, Sanju Sahai will be celebrating May Day with a Dawn Raga – an event rarely performed in the UK.

Combining theatre, Bharatanatyam dance and music, Lives of Clay is a vivid theatrical event about the lives of three women and one potter’s wheel…

And each afternoon during the Festival, you can also gather outside the White Hart for our popular (and free!) Great Lawn sessions profiling local talented musicians and DJs.

The Bewonderment Machine is a joyful call to re-wild our imaginations, and a celebration of the creatures that are increasingly losing their familiar place in our children’s lives and in their language.

Visually, this is a quirky dreamscape, combining found objects, puppetry, machinery and music. With riding space for up to 10, this is also a miniature theatrical flight of the imagination, empowering the very young to care, to be curious and to believe in their own strength.