We are delighted to partner with the Devon and Somerset Wildlife Trusts to present a series of events celebrating the return of our long-forgotten neighbour - The Pine Marten.
Join us across Dartmoor and Exmoor for a series of creative workshops, listening sessions, music, and storytelling as we harvest memory and re-weave the nocturnal folklore of the Two Moors. Celebrate the Autumn Equinox with us - not as a season of fading, but as a time of remembering.
Across the Two Moors
Listening to the landscape and gathering folklore.
8 September 2026 | This Widecombe Fair We will be telling and collecting tales! Join us and share YOUR stories of the forests and nocturnal worlds of Dartmoor. We will also be running a story collection event on Exmoor later in the year..details coming soon!
The Dartmoor Equinox Weekend | Music, Dance, Crafts & Storytelling
(Field System & St Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton)
Celebrate the return of The Pine Marten and its wild world with us in Ashburton. Featuring family print workshops, Morris dancing and Equinox storytelling.
Friday, 18 September 2026
10:00 AM— Crafting the Return with Jenny Carden | A sensory delight to bring you in to the world of the Pine Marten. Specifically designed for those managing chronic illness or low income. Join Medical Herbalist and Archaeobotanist Jenny Carden for an autumn plant walk, sensory meditation, and a creative botanical workshop. (Supported by Devon Wildlife Trust) GET FREE TICKETS HERE
5.30 PM (doors at 5pm) — In Concert: The Morley Consort | Performing music on historical instruments with narrations from period first-hand accounts, this early evening concert gives voice to the forgotten histories of Devon. Tickets HERE.
Saturday, 19 September 2026
Morning & Afternoon — FREE Family Print Workshops (10 places per 1-hour session) - Printing the nocturnal worlds of the pine marten onto a shared banner and a bag to take home! (Supported by Devon Wildlife Trust)
Session 1 : 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM GET FREE TICKETS HERE
Session 2 : 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM GET FREE TICKETS HERE
4:00 PM — The Old Town Twelves Morris and The Mash Group dance outside! Traditional and forward facing dance marking the harvest, transition, and renewal. FREE, just turn up.
5:00 PM — Magic, Medicine, and Myth on the Moors with Medical Herbalist and Archaeobotanist Jenny Carden | Jenny takes you on a journey through moorland and time to discover the history of plantlore on Dartmoor.. Tickets HERE.
Evening — Folk at The Bay | Songs of wild spaces and homecoming. FREE, come along from 7pm
Sunday, 20 September 2026
5.00 PM-6.30 PM — FREE Storytelling at St Lawrence Chapel | Celebratory stories with Lisa Schneidau and Ethan Pennell (CrowmanCrow) of the nocturnal forest and the returned. We will be gathering to speak the name of the Pine Marten back into Dartmoor’s living folklore! Doors from 4.30pm (Supported by Devon Wildlife Trust) GET FREE TICKETS HERE
7-10 PM - Lunatraktors at Field System Gallery | A live activation of the extraordinary duo’s ‘Our Deepest Sympathies’ exhibition. FREE, drop in
Exmoor Dark Skies Gathering | Workshops, Dance and Stories
(Hosted at East Quay Watchet, Somerset — aligning with the Exmoor Dark Skies Festival)
Mark the turning of Autumn at East Quay, Watchet. Join our printmaking sessions, see Morris dancing and enjoy dark-sky storytelling celebrating the Pine Marten’s return to Exmoor.
Saturday, 17 October 2026
Morning & Afternoon — FREE Family Print Workshops (10 places per 1-hour session) | Printing the nocturnal worlds of the pine marten onto a shared banner and a bag to take home.(Supported by Somerset Wildlife Trust)
Session 1 : 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM GET FREE TICKETS HERE
Session 2 : 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM GET FREE TICKETS HERE
3.00-3.45pm — Morris Dancing with Heaps Morris | Dance that will bring folklore alive at dusk. No need to book, just turn up!
5:00pm–6:30pm with interval — The Exmoor Storytelling | Under Exmoor's dark skies, a final gathering to harvest memory and celebrate the return of shadow ecologies the world of the Pine Marten, with Henry Everett and Rosie May (Wessex Hag). (Supported by Somerset Wildlife Trust) GET FREE TICKETS HERE
Crafting the Return with Jenny Carden | Join Medical Herbalist and Archaeobotanist Jenny Carden for an autumn plant walk, sensory meditation, and a creative botanical workshop.(Supported by Somerset Wildlife Trust) GET FREE TICKETS HERE!
Field System pop-up in 2022