RAMM Lates 2024 - Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery

Join us for an adult-only night of music, dance, craft and entertainment inspired by our Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape exhibition.

Banned from the Moor will be filling the museum with their energetic, Dartmoor inspired folk-rock, featuring a combination of fiddles, guitars, drums and maybe even a concertina, while Beltane Border will be showing us that morris dancing isn’t all hankies and merriment. With shadowed faces, tattered coats, and black top hats, these dancers and musicians transfix any who watch them as their dances emerge from the myths, legends and wilds of Dartmoor. If that isn’t enough, Swift Dance Company will delight us with a beautiful, contemporary performance linked to the exhibition.

For something more hands on, bring along your own photos or mementos of friends, friendship or Dartmoor and come to ‘collage with Cicero’ to make a unique bookmark or card. This activity will be focussed around quotes from ancient authors, such as Cicero, that feature in the book by Hopes & Earnshaw on display in the exhibition. Or join a mini-workshop led by cynotype artist Nicky Thompson and try your hand at this Victorian-originated process to produce images of plants, ferns, and seaweed in startling blue and white.

If you want to find out more about Dartmoor’s ‘radical landscape’, the evening will include a tour of the exhibition by curators Lara Goodband and Kate Best, as well as an ‘in conversation’ between RAMM’s archaeology expert, Tom Cadbury, and artist Alex Hartley. The Dartmoor Preservation Association will explore the complex issues of land rights and access, while the National Trust will get down and dirty by delving into the ecological challenges of peatland restoration. And, for the more fantastical minded, Sara Hurley and Lisa Schneidau, two storytellers from Dartmoor, will share some of the old tales of the moor, laced with witches, mists, bogs, shapeshifting hares and, of course, Dewer – the Devil himself.

Don’t miss out on all of this – plus handling tables, craft activities, storytelling, a bar and more – buy your tickets now before they run out! Book here.