Luton Peninsula Fair

Free family fun at the first ever

South Devon AONB, Encounters Arts and partners invite you to the first ever Peninsula Fair at Lupton House!

Come and celebrate the unique Brixham and Kingswear Peninsula and all it has to offer. There will be local food grown and cooked by local people available to sample throughout the day as well as creative activities and workshops. Stories, drawings, and observations from all of the Encounters Arts Routeways and Connections events will be on display.

This is a Free Event please drop in. Some things will be going on all day, whilst some will happen at specified times. Please use this programme to help you plan your visit. If you have any enquiries, or would like more information, please call the South Devon AONB team on 01803 861384 or see www.southdevonaonb.org.uk

Exciting things to do!
The Map room - Lupton Ballroom 12 noon – 6pm
Find out more about how the area has changed, study old and new maps, photo displays, chat to local experts and plan your next exploration.
Encounters Arts, Galmpton & Churston History Group, Torbay Green Infrastructure team.

Terrior Table - The Lawns 12noon – 2pm
Taste your local landscape! A smorgasbord of titbits to tempt you, produced or foraged from the local area
Encounters Arts

Postcard Tree - Lupton Oak 12 noon – 3pm
Discover what participants in the Routeways and Connections project think about the peninsula and their connections to this special place. Take a moment add your own.
Encounters Arts

Wild Parkour Film - Cole Room 12 – 3pm & 5– 6pm
A short film documenting the free-running journeys of young people exploring the coast and woodlands around Brixham, as part of the Routeways project.
Encounters Arts, Kyle Perkins – Parkour Experiences

The Dart - a journey in pictures - Cole Room 3 – 5pm & 6 – 8pm
Take some time out to travel the Dart from the moor to the sea. Old images and new photos intermingle documenting the river and its history.
John Risdon

Seasongs and Shanties - The Lawns 1pm – 2pm
Enjoy sailors’ songs and sea shanties.
The Old Gaffers

Yoga workshop - The gardens 3.30pm
Join local practitioner, Victoria Campbell to have a go at the ancient and peaceful art of yoga
Victoria Campbell

Water Songs and Poetry - Italian Gardens fountain 2pm – 2.30pm
Children from Kingswear primary school will be sharing what they have learned about the watery side of the Peninsula as part of a Catchment Connections project
South Devon AONB, Sara Hurley, Hugh Nankivell

Family Water Orchestra! - Italian Gardens fountain 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Join us to make music from water! Hugh Nankivell, working for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, will be conducting us to compose a new masterpiece.
Hugh Nankivell

Stories and poems from the Dart - The Cole room 7pm
Sara Hurley will be sharing folklore, stories and poems inspired by the Dart, source to sea.
Sara Hurley - Blazing Tales, John Risdon

Lupton House and Gardens tour - Meet in the Bar 2.30pm & 4pm
Discover more about the fascinating history of this old house and the work that the Trust are doing to bring it back to its former glory.
Charles Bevan, Lupton Trust

Lupton Orchard - Orchard (signed from house) 12 – 5pm
Find out more about how the local community are working to maintain and look after the orchard here at Lupton – activities to have a go at and information about the site.
Apple Soup orchard management group

Family Wildlife walk - Meet at house entrance 2pm & 6pm
Join Nigel woods for a short exploration of the woods and gardens to hunt for beasties and wildlife which make their home here! (about an hour)

Bat walk - Meet at house entrance 8pm
Join experts from Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat project and discover more about the bats which share this peninsula with us!
Ed Parr Ferris, Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat project

Food and Drink!
Lupton Cafe - 12noon – 5pm
The Lupton Trust cafe will be open in the house and the stables throughout the day, serving hot and cold food, drinks and cakes.

Fresh bread and pizza - 5pm – 7pm
The Brixham Baker Boys will be producing fresh pizzas and breads for sale (to raise funds for Indigos Playground) under the guidance of David Jones of Manna from Devon.

Displays, information and activities - 12 – 5pm
South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
The National Trust – English Riviera
Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat project
Lupton Trust
Torbay coast and Countryside Trust
Nigel Woods Ecology Services

Getting to Lupton
Lupton is 1 mile from Brixham on the A3022 (the main road into Brixham), 6 miles from Paignton and 9 miles from Torquay on the B3199. If approaching from outside Torquay take the A380 at Newton Abbot which joins the A3022 at Paignton.
Lupton is situated on the right hand side, look out for the wooden bus shelter and two white gatehouses at the entrance to the drive.

Bus –12 and 12a - regular buses between Paignton and Brixham, stopping direfctly outside Lupton House entrance
Cycle – bikes can be chained up near to the hosue
Walk – about 30 mins from Brixhamar – parking available – please follow signs from driveway.

For details see www.discoverlupton.com

For more information visit http://www.encounters-arts.org.uk/index.php/routeways/