Celebrate Start Bay

Celebrate Start Bay, on Saturday 16th August, offers adults and children a wide range of free activities, workshops, and a range of local produce from the area by day, then live music with a barbecue and bar at night.

The event is organised by and based at the Slapton Field Centre with assistance and support from the Slapton Line Partnership.

Talks
10.40 – 11.10 – Mike Rogers, Underwood Discovery Centre – sustainable farming, local food
11.15 – 11.45 – James Morris, Iris Enery – Woodfuel
11.50 – 12.20 – Renewable Energy - RE4D
2:00 – 2:30 – Start Point Lighthouse
2:30 – 3:00 – Bring along your old Building Problems Q&A Paul Bedford – Bedford & Jobson Ltd architects,

Workshops
10:00 - 12.30 – Mick Loates – Art
1:00 – 2:00 – Photography Workshop
3:00 - 4.30 – Sue Morgan – Willow weaving - make a plant stand

Performance area
10.40 – 11.25 Story Telling
11.30 – 12.25 Local Buskers
12.30 – 1.15 Story Telling
1.30 – 2:00 Samba Band
2.30 – 3:00 Samba Band
3:00 – 3.45 Story Telling
4:00 – 4.30 Kingsbridge Belly Dancers

Food
Teas & coffees 10.30 am onwards
Pasties 12:00 pm
Cream tea 4 – 5pm

Food & Drink Exhibitors
The Kitchen Garden – Preserves and Baking
Coltscombe Court Apple Juice
Manna from Devon
Stokenham Farm Shop

Conservation / Education
The Start Bay Centre
Slapton Field Studies Centre
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Underwood Discovery Centre
Start Point Lighthouse

Creative
Yourjigsaw
Stella Wain Designs
Studio of Deborah Flack – Hand dyed Silks & lost landscapes fine art prints
Nick Lees – Fish prints
Papa & Little’un – driftwood handmade crafts
Clay Works – hand thrown pottery + wheel for demos
Malcolm Weir – Weaver scarfs bags etc + loom for demos
Steve Edmonds – Photographs and green woodwork
Papilionaceous Ltd – silk ribbon weavers
Devon Rural Skills Trust – shave horse etc (in blue tent outside)
Kingsbridge photography club

Renewable energy
Iris Energy – Woodfuel
RE4D – advice
Sungift Solar
Neate Services – micro wind
Treco woodfuel

Active Sports
Endurance Life
Lushwind
South Devon Hang Gliding & Paragliding Club (TBC)

Other Businesses
Fragrant Finds
Energize – Chillington Gym
Slapton Line Partnership

Celebrate Start Bay Evening Bash
8:00 – 11:00 pm Saturday 16th August, Slapton Village Hall

The evening bash follows a day of activity at the Slapton Field Centre and Village Hall. It’s a chance to listen to some music, enjoy a drink and have something to eat from the Barbeque….maybe even have a dance …….

Karl and Daffy – guitar and harmonica/sax duo with some of their own tunes – all the way from South Africa via Totnes and Kingsbridge
Devonly Voices – renowned South Hams vocal harmony group run by the enigmatic Vicky Hadland – draw their members from across the South Hams including Torcross, and Slapton area. Have peformed at Dartmouth Music Festival and at the South West ‘Big Sing’ in Bristol. Tonight some vocal harmonies and even a little audience participation…….
The Turn - Despite the musical credentials of this young 5 piece (dare we say boy) band whose common feature is music at Dartington - they bang out a good 'cover'. When not being 'The Turn' they have also appeared as the MAD (Malborough Amateur Drama Group) panto band - of whom the drama critic wrote : "The band was of the highest professional quality and as good as those of the big pro pantos". With music from the 70s to the present day there’ll be no excuses to stand still and watch….

Tickets – admission only £5 from Kingsbridge and Dartmouth TICs and the Tower Inn, Slapton

Dates

2008 16 Aug 2008

Road Directions

Slapton Field Centre-
13 miles (20km) from Totnes station • 20 miles (30km) from A38

Public Transport Directions

Slapton Field Centre -
Totnes Station is on the South West Main Line.
Under 3 hours direct to London Paddington.
Under 3 hours direct to Birmingham New Street.
A pick up from the train station can be arranged, please contact the Centre for more details.