Sky Rise Festival & Event Training

New free music festival & training coming to Totnes this summer!

Run entirely by volunteers and community spirit.

Training

Talk Action will be running regular training session for residents in Bridgetown on events management. The training will enable people to co-design, co-create and deliver a community arts festival.
Training topics to include:
– Planning
– Budgeting
– Marketing
– Health & Safety

Here’s what the volunteers created in 2024!

Music Stages

The event has two awesome live music stages, DJs, kids’ area, street food stalls, bar, bouncy castle and craft & info stalls. There’ll be an outdoor stage with live bands playing latin, funk, reggae, ska and also include a kid’s disco time from local Fun Bass DJ. The other indoor stage will have an eclectic mix from folk musicians and ukulele orchestra to funk, dub & soul DJ’s later in the evening.

Kids Area

There’s a huge kids’ area with art workshops, theatre sessions, storytelling, nursery grimes rapper, nature museum, Lego area, craft activities, face-painting, sun telescopes, hula hooping, limbo competition and a bouncy castle. There will also be an adventure trail and giant canoe rides delivered by local expert outdoor adventure company Canoe Adventures.

Food & Bar

A fantastic array of stalls includes food from Posh Dogs, Pizza Pirates & Blue Bell Cake Café plus crafts and information stalls from Caring Town Totnes, Stepping Stones and Transition Town. Our super friendly bar is be hosted by The Bay Horse Inn with local beer from The Albert Inn brewery.

To get involved, sponsor or perform please contact:

Jonathan Elliott
0203 488 7010
jelliott@talkaction.org