Featured Events in Newton Abbot in March 2025 (August Updated)

Welcome to Raising Hare with Chloe Dalton: Authors Talk and Q&A. Join us in Chagford, Dartoor for a spirited community led gathering at The Jubilee Hall where Chloe Dalton will share insights into her magical and heartwarming story of how an unexpected bond with a hare completely changed her life. The evening will also bring together local folklorists and artists to share some inspiration on our mythic relationship to the Hare. This is a lovely chance to meet the author and to also contribute with any of your own encounters with this magical animal. Please arrive in plenty of time to start promtly at 5:30pm ‘A tale of hope, channelled through the enduring and improbable bond between a human and a wild animal. It's a love letter to the natural world’The Times ‘A glorious book – for its warmth, its precision, its joy’KATHERINE RUNDELL Chloe Dalton is a writer, political adviser and foreign policy expert. She spent over a decade working in the UK Parliament and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and has advised, and written for and with, numerous prominent figures. She divides her time between London and her home in the English countryside. Raising Hare is her first book.‘ When lockdown led busy professional Chloe to leave the city and return to the countryside of her childhood, she never expected to find herself custodian of a newly born hare. Yet when she finds the creature, endangered, alone and no bigger than her palm, she is compelled to give it a chance at survival. Raising Hare chronicles their journey together and the challenges of caring for the leveret and preparing for its return to the wild. We witness an extraordinary relationship between human and animal, rekindling our sense of awe towards nature and wildlife. This improbable bond of trust serves to remind us that the most remarkable experiences, inspiring the most hope, often arise when we least expect them. WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE SHORTLISTED ‘A great and important tale for our times’MICHAEL MORPURGO ‘This is more than a wildlife memoir, it’s a philosophical masterpiece’CLARE BALDING ‘This book is exceptional. A simply wonderful story, profoundly beautiful’CHRIS PACKHAM ‘This is a book of sheer joy and goodness in our times often marked by dark and troubling events. It transports you to a world of long-lost innocence and makes you want to hug the world’Financial Times, 'Best Books of 2024' ‘A nourishing nature memoir at its finest’Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year' ‘In steady, elegant, whimsy-free prose, Dalton documents minute observations of her daily coexistence with the leveret. This is indeed a remarkable debut’Spectator ‘The story of this excellent book is in one sense familiar: a narrator, experiencing a rupture or crisis, is transformed through a magical encounter with a “wild” creature, a hare. But there is much more going on here. Dalton has a zoologist’s eye for detail and a poet’s sensitivity to language’Guardian ‘Written with tenderness and lyricism from someone who has taken the time to reconnect to nature and the wild within. A beautiful book’ANGELINA JOLIE Tickets go towards Dartmoor Futures , a new charity being set up in commemoration of the 75 years of Dartmoor's status as a National Park, which will be working autonomously to support projects that look ahead towards the next 75 years. Information Source: eventbrite

Join us for a fun-filled Zumba Workshop – no experience needed, just bring your energy and a smile! Whether you're a total beginner or love to dance, this session is all about moving, laughing, and feeling great. We’ll start with a glass of bubblyto shake off any nerves, then dive into an upbeat, easy-to-follow workout that will leave you feeling energized and confident Information Source: Fit Panda Fitness & Coaching | eventbrite

If you've always wanted to know what it would be like to sing in Glorious Chorus with Helen, this is your chance! Join Helen for an afternoon of uplifting singing as she teaches new pieces hot off the press along with the odd favourite from the back catalogue. Refreshments will be served at the break. For singers experienced in harmony singing. Full & concession tickets available. Concessions are for OAPs, under 18s, students, unemployed & disabled. The video here is from the last Devon Big Sing on 2nd November '24 Information Source: Helen Yeomans | eventbrite