We're currently sitting at 85% of our target - eeek! Thanks so much, everyone, for your support. We've got some great pledge rewards available and more being added all the time. If you are able and willing to donate you can do so here... crowdfunder.co.uk/p/speedy-suppo…

We're so excited to be launching a new MA Transformative Education in September this year, pending final approval from University of Plymouth. Find out more about plans to open up our ecological, head, heart hands learning model & sign up for info here: campus.dartington.org/education

Charmed to meet Stephen Colegrave of Byline Times/Byline Festival & John Mitchinson of Unbound for tea at the Green Table this morning to talk about reimagining the future and to explore Schumacher College's involvement in Byline Festival Dartington Trust in July. Watch this space!

📣 We’re thrilled to announce our concert programme for the 75th anniversary of Dartington Music Summer School and Festival, featuring over 70 events from the likes of Dunedin Consort Robert Hollingworth Rachel Podger Isobel Waller-Bridge and many more: dartington.org/summerfestival Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Ahead of a memorial concert here on 13 May, we remember the life and work of avant-garde composer Vladislav Shoot who lived at Dartington from 1992 until his death last year. Read more about him and book tickets here: dartington.org/in-memory-of-c…

raymondwilliamsfoundation.org.uk/grants Five £1k RWF grants are available to support self-organised adult learning activities with a progressive, environmental, or cultural purpose. Priorty given to low income, younger (under 25) & black & brown applicants. Deadline 1 Oct 2023.

Is this a 1945 moment? Looking at a copy of the 1945 The Labour Party manifesto with Rushanara Ali MP 💙 Peter Jukes Hardeep Matharu & Annette Dittert  at the launch of #DARTBYLINE23

Well done chaps? “Good chapism is a believer in certain standards mixed up with middle class toff worship” “Incredible how failure can be so well rewarded” - entitlement & cronyism in politics/journalism Hardeep Matharu Bonnie Greer Otto English Peter York #DARTBYLINE23

A fabulous inaugural #treeradicals weekend here on the estate, which drew together a cohort from a variety of backgrounds to ask: how can we radically improve the future for trees?

Feeling inspired after meeting environmental educators from Jeju Island, South Korea Schumacher College. Great to talk with ppl from the other side of the planet who are also imbedding ecological awareness & action into their teaching.

Next month we're holding a gathering to celebrate Small Is Beautiful and EF Schumacher's proportionate approach to economics. What did it mean 50 years ago? What does it mean for us now? How can we adapt and reimagine this ethos for the future? Join us! dartington.org/event/small-is…

Fascinating to hear about music, mobility and migration from Norbert Meyn + the team Royal College of Music & the influence of German-emigres on British music, especially via Dartington Arts Summer School. Check out their superb resource of the history here: musicmigrationmobility.com/dartington-dat…

"The time for realists is over. I am very happy to be idealistic." A lovely interview with my friend and mentor Satish Kumar in the Guardian the other day... theguardian.com/education/2023…

Good to see this follow up from a The Devon Mental Health Alliance event hosted at Schumacher College last year. It was fantastic to see the College opening it's doors to so many inspiring and engaged practitioners, and I hope many more will follow them into our commuity this year too...

Good to see the gallery at Dartington back in use by our postgrad arts students who are sharing their final projects from the MA Arts and Place. Congratulations to all for getting to this advanced stage and for presenting such engaged and engaging work…

“A being that feeds on history, eats time.” Dr Amy-Jane Beer captures so well the essence of these trees Dartington Trust in Country diary theguardian.com/environment/20…

Radical love at Schumacher College…

🎻 Looking forward to playing live with Arun Sood and Alastair Smith on Thursday @ SOAK live art, Leadworks, Plymouth. We’ve been developing some new improvisatory folk-ambient music... eventbrite.com/e/soak-live-ar… #plymouth #improv #livegig #gig #experimentalmusic

Really glad to have helped make this day happen! Aldous Huxley is such a fascinating figure and his connection with Dartington provides a springboard to thinking about his work in a distinctly temporal context. Particularly enjoyed rethinking the Mind-At-Large via Bergson…

“the Ezekiel of the atmosphere” Huge thanks to jonathanwatts for such a stimulating talk Schumacher College to launch his book on the many intriguing contradictory yet ever-compelling lives of James Lovelock founder of Gaia theory - preorder your copy now!! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-ma…