Children’s


Book Festival 13 & 14 July@ Buckfast Abbey


After the success of last year’s Storytellling Festival, bring your toddlers and teens along to this free event. Workshops, readings, book signings and performances with lots of op- portunities to get creative with authors and illustrators and a LIVE Where’s Wally competition. Buckfast.org.uk


Summer Sounds


Festivals abound this summer with music for all tastes and ages.


Glas-denbury 5 & 6 July in Denbury near Newton Abbot – a unique and family friendly event with something for everyone including great music. www.glas-denbury.co.uk


Tunes on the Sands 12 – 14 July at Blackpool Sands near Dartmouth – a brand new festival on the beautiful golden beach with big name artists such as UB40, KT Tunstall and The Proclaimers. www.tunesonthesands.com


Dartington Summer School & Music Festival 27 July - 24 August - A vibrant and eclectic programme of concerts, workshops and courses with musicians new and old coming from all corners of the world to make music. www.dartington.org


Ocean City Blues ‘n’ Jazz Festival 9 – 11 August on The Barbican, Plymouth. Mel- low tunes in the open air in the heart of Britain’s Ocean City. www.visitplymouth.co.uk


Elmer’s Big Parade 8 July – 16 September Follow the trail of 40 fabulously colourful and unique elephants around the city of Plymouth. This family friendly art trail is easy to follow with a map or via a downloadable app. Each of the elephants has been decorated by a range of artists including established such as locals Brian Pollard and Colin Pethick as well as new- comers chosen from Plymouth College of Art. The event is raising funds for St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth with each elephant hoping to find a new home at a grand auction at the end of the event. Elmerplymouth.co.uk


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Cinema Under the Stars


films in a series of iconic city locations 1, 2 & 3, 23, 24 & 25 August Tinside Lido


12, 13 & 14 September Royal William Yard Plymouthartscentre.org


Torre Abbey Open Air Cinema Festival 15 August – 26 August


Expect cult classics (Woodstock: The Movie), blockbusters (Bohe- mian Rhapsody) and family favourites


(The Greatest Showman). Torre-abbey.org.uk


Christie Connections Why not walk the Agatha Christie Mile along Torquay Seafront taking you to some


of the places that were inspirational in her life and works, with seven unique plaques to find along way.


4 June – 25 July Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee at Palace Theatre Paignton. Bijou Theatre Productions perform this play with all the vital ingredients of a Christie clas- sic : murder, intrigue, twists, turns and Poirot. palacetheatrepaignton.co.uk


11 – 15 September International Agatha Christie Festival The biennial event returns – get the dates in your diary and look out for a full programme of events taking place in Torre Abbey, Torbay and Greenway. Iacf-uk.org.uk


PLYMOUTH’S OPEN AIR CINEMA returns to the city this sum- mer offering audiences the opportunity to enjoy their favourite


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