The Last Choir Standing – £5.00 entrance
Thursday 31st May, 7.30pm Start.
A change to the advertised venue, this is now at St Agatha’s Church, Dawlish.
The Embezzlers – £10.00 entrance
Saturday 2nd June, 7.30pm Start.
A change to the advertised venue, this is now at The Welcome Inn Pub, Dawlish Warren.
Grand Gala Finale – £12.00 entrance (£10 concessions)
Saturday 2nd June, 7.30pm Start.
St Gregory’s Church, Dawlish.
11am to 5pm
Market & Funday on The Lawn and in The Strand Centre,Circus Skills, Magical Stories, The Twerzels, Dreckly Dragon, Punch and Judy, Bouncy Castles, FREE Face Painting and more…
12.30pm for 1.00pm start
Art Deco Luncheon at The Strand Centre with Steve Chisholm and the Art Deco Trio
Starter Pork liver pate with melba toast | Smoked salmon and prawn parcel | Melon fan with raspberry coulis
Main Chicken breast in wine & cream sauce | Salmon steak with watercress sauce | Avocado & goat’s cheese tart
Dessert
Raspberry & blueberry pavlova | Lemon panna cotta | Bread & butter pudding
7.30pm start
An Evening of Music at St Gregory’s Church The Dunsford Singers, Dartmouth Orchestra & Dr Peter King in Concert
11am to 4pm
Dawlish Heritage & Cycle Day on The Lawn, Dawlish including Liberty Sisters, Arrow Barrows, Stalls, Bouncy Castles, 60s Explosion, FREE Face Painting and a market on the Piazza
4.00pm start
Raise the Roof with Song at St Gregory’s Church The Silver Chain Choir, St George’s and St Gregory’s Choir and Gatehouse School Choir – £5pp
7.30pm start
The Secret Life of Dawlish at the Shaftesbury Theatre Dawlish, South Devon . . . quiet, peaceful, serene? How wrong could you be. A play by Simon Welsh – £5pp
10am to 2pm
Beach Day with Lady’s Mile on the Dawlish Warren Beach Bring the kids along for fun and games with Lady’s Mile Holiday Park as they take to the beach
12pm to 4pm
Summer Chill on The Lawn, Dawlish Sit back and relax on the lawn to the summer sounds of the Panatical Steel Band. Whilst on tour from Hampshire the Panatical Steel band will be playing on the Bandstand for your enjoyment.
7.30pm start
The Long Mirror at the Shaftesbury Theatre Cygnet Theatre Company presents ‘The Long Mirror’ by JB Priestley The Long Mirror is a powerful combination of strained personal relationships caught up in Priestley’s own fascination with the seeming tricks that time can play. – £12pp (£10 Concessions)
11am to 2pm
Devon Rocks & Stones on The Lawn, Dawlish Adults and children are welcome to come along and decorate stones and hide them around the county for others to seek.
11am to 4pm
Fun on the Lawn on The Lawn, Dawlish Martial Arts demonstrations, dancers, performers and more..
7.30pm start
The Variety Show at The Methodist Church including St James Brass Quartet, Black Swan Hand bells, Simon the Poet The Ukelele Band, Theresa Moorin Soprano, Brian Eastwood Racounteur…
11am to 2pm
Plastic Monster on The Lawn, Dawlish Dawlish Against Plastic will be engaging with children and adults alike, to make a large plastic monster out of rubbish. This will signify the current struggles with plastics and how to reduce their usage.
11am to 4pm
Fun on the Lawn on The Lawn, Dawlish Including dance displays from Step 2 Starz, ISCA Wheelchair Dancers, Footlights Dance Academy and more…
7.30pm start
Dawlish Arts Festival Auction at The Strand Centre An auction extravaganza with David Force and Daron Billings
12pm to 4pm
Family Fun and Fiction Day on The Lawn, Dawlish Lots of family fictional fun today, where Dawlish meets Hollywood join us for a Paddington Bear and the Teddy Bears picnic, enjoy the storytelling tent, join in the dancing, meet the magical bubble fairy, hunt around the lawn to find King Louis Orangutan & friends and get the whole family involved helping to build a giant Baloo bear!
7.30pm start
The Last Choir Standing at The Strand Centre The Last Choir Standing brings together an amazing selection of choirs, acapella groups and solo artists including The High C’s, Tess and the d’Urbervilles, Anna Jones, Brunswick Singers, St Gregory’s Parish Church Choir and many more. – £5pp
10am to 2pm
All About The Art on The Lawn, Dawlish A celebration of local artists and an opportunity to join in and have a go. There will be lots of free activities for the children and grown up’s to take part in including the popular Miss C’s Graffiti Academy workshops.
12pm
Competition Results on The Lawn, Dawlish Get down to the lawn to find out if you’re a WINNER!
7.30pm start
Battle of the Bands The FINAL at The Strand Centre The heats are over, the judges have selected their finalists and now it’s time to find the Dawlish Arts Festival’s – Battle of the Bands 2018 WINNER.
7.30pm start
The Embezzlers at The Strand Centre Purveyors of SKA… The Embezzlers are a 6 piece and 100% Live. Playing the best in SKA and 2TONE from Desmond Dekker, Toots and Jimmy Cliff to The Specials, The Selecter, Madness and The Beat etc… and there’s a little bit of The Clash thrown in too!
7.30pm start
Grand Gala Finale at St Gregory’s Church Matt Wilding and Donna-Marie Broomfield (As Belle Voci), Soloists from Staircase Opera, plus special guests, singing a varied selection of repertoires from Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Ivor Novello, Puccini, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Englebert Humperdink, Gilbert & Sullivan and lots more!