Festival of Dance offers award-winning dance performances in a unique, listed arts venue surrounded by stunning countryside. The opening weekend will provide many exciting activities for our audiences to enjoy, launching the festival with recently @nationaldanceawards awarded Best Independent Dance Company @alleynedance. 💫 Free bus services to and from London are available. - FRIDAY 14 July - Alleyne Dance ‘Far From Home’ @alleynedance Dinner with artists @messumsrestaurant - SATURDAY 15 July - Alleyne Dance ‘Far From Home’ @alleynedance Afterparty with DJ @rommelfromthedeepjungle - SUNDAY 16 July - Workshops with #4X20platform choreographers @chandenieg @johnwilliamwatson 🎫 TICKETS Click the link in @messumswiltshire bio to book yours. Multiple day tickets and supporter tickets are still available. 🎟️ DISCOUNTS Youth tickets (£15) now available to all performances when booking with an adult. Discount codes available for groups, students, people with disabilities and those otherwise unable to afford to attend. Please contact @messumswiltshire team for more information. 📝 PLANNING YOUR TRIP Check the festival Welcome Pack in @messumswiltshire bio and receive tips for planning your time at #FestivalofDance. Contact @messumswiltshire team if you need further support. For any questions DM @messumswiltshire or email [email protected] #festivalofdance #FOD #messumswiltshire #performance #performanceart #choregraphy #visitwiltshire #dance #dancers #alleynedance #wiltshire #summer2023 #dancefestival

'A Life in the Making' an exhibition offering a retrospective view of three decades of work by Bridget McCrum opens at Messums Wiltshire this weekend. The preview on Friday night opens at 5pm with a talk by Bridget. McCrum’s practice is a potent fusion of the ancient with the modern. She works primarily in stone, from which plaster versions are made offering a start point to create new work which is then cast in bronze. #messumswiltshire #bridgetmccrum #sculpture #bronzesculpture #marblesculpture #carraramarble

This year John-William Watson was one of the two choreographers commissioned to create a brand-new piece, which will premiere at #FestivalofDance by @MessumsWiltshire this July. Our gratitude goes to #4X20Platform affiliated partners @northern_school, who hosted the development of ‘Why this chair does not exist’ at their studios and enthusiastically got on board to support the emerging choreographers and the whole platform. 4X20 Choreography Platform is supported by Jerwood Foundation and affiliated partners Pavillion Dance South West, Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Rambert School. Video by @monkeyflipmedia @johnwilliamwatson @rambertschool @pdsw_org #messumswiltshire @messums4x20 #messums4X20 #4X20 #choreography #choreographer #emergingtalent #festivalofdance #dance #visitwiltshire #thingstodoinwiltshire #performance #performanceart

This summer a six-foot bronze head by Laurence Edwards will wash up on the South Beach at Lowestoft, as part of @firstlightlowestoft festival on the 17th and 18th of June. This bronze casting of an ancient head by the sculptor will be bedded into the sand on the tideline. It will be exposed at low tide and submerged under the waves when the water is high. After time spent in the tideline, Chthonic Head will travel to its next destination at Messums Wiltshire as part of the ‘Larger than Life’ sculpture exhibition. #messumswiltshire #lowestoft #firstlightfestival #sculpture #bronzesculpture #laurenceedwards @laurenceedwards.bronze #sculptureexhibition #largerthanlife

Meet @johnwilliamwatson - one of our incredible 4X20 choreographers presenting their work during this year’s Festival Of Dance at @messumswiltshire. Catch their pre-existing and newly developed pieces on Tuesday 18 July at the Messums 4X20 Choreography Platform - a unique evening of dance performances not to be missed! Tickets are selling fast for this event, so be quick - you can find the purchase link in our bio. ✨ Interview capture & video edit by @monkeyflipmedia #messumswiltshire #messums4X20 #4X20 #4X20choreographyplatform #choreographyplatform #danceplatform #emergingchoreography #choreography #upandcoming #festivalofdance #talent #whatsoninwiltshire #wiltshire #ukarts #wiltshiredance #dance #festivalofdance #artsfestival #summer #ukculture #wilts #linkinbio

This month we have a new exhibition opening ‘A Life in the Making’ by sculptor Bridget McCrum. The show will start with a preview evening on Friday 16 June and an introductory talk by the artist herself at 5pm. The exhibition offers a retrospective view of the past three decades of Bridget McCrum’s practice with sculpture and drawing on display dating from 1995 through to new work, shown for the first time. If you would like to come along, go to the What’s On page via the link in our bio. #messumswiltshire #bridgetmccrum #sculptor #sculpture #bronzesculpture #marblecarving #crescentbirds

Join us on 23 July for the unforgettable #MessumsDanceFilmFest @messumswiltshire and enjoy an experience like no other. 💫 A full day of selected ground-breaking dance film screenings, lunch at @messumsrestaurant, award ceremonies, time and space for discussions and networking with the industry leaders. 🎟️ Tickets for #MessumsDanceFilmFest are now available - book yours by clicking the link in our bio. We are excited to present the finalists: 🎬 The City that Swallowed Me Whole Directed by Oscar Downing & Max Revell 🎬 Movement Portrait Directed by Jacob Sutton 🎬 The Lost Mission Directed by Fang Guan, Yue Jia Yu 🎬 Myrrha Directed by Katya Esme Maya Bourvis 🎬 LUMO Directed by Davo Bezares  🎬 Oíche Directed by David Anthony Curley 🎬 An Evening With Taglioni Directed by Jessica Wright, Morgann Runacre-Temple 🎬 Let’s call it a tie Directed by Vasiliy Zhitlov 🎬 iuSui Directed by Maria Salgado Llopis  🎬 Dive Directed by Oscar Sansom Edit by @jamiellaurence #dance #dancefilm #dancefilmfest #dancefilmfestival #festival #dancing #dancer #director #art #visualart #film #tisbury #salisbury #whatson #screening #movie #cinema #festivalofdance

All ready for today’s talks and film screenings at our Active Environmentalism Symposium. Guest speakers include Sir Jonathon Porritt, former director of Friends of the Earth, Melanie Squires MBE, South West Regional Director, National Farmers Union plus many more. Also featuring an introduction to our Common Waters talks, a transatlantic discussion programme which begins today with thoughts on fusion energy. Introduced by Anna Pavlova and Johnny Messum. There will be two film screenings courtesy of the award-winning WaterBear. #activeenvironmentalism #messumswiltshire @waterbearnetwork @friends_earth #environmentalism #symposium

Opened Today: Richard Hoare 'Threshold' at Linlithgow Burgh Halls, West Lothian Following a recent exhibition at Messums Wiltshire, Richard Hoare has returned to the coastal path to continue his journey and create a further body of work as part of his 'Threshold' series of landscape paintings. All the works can be seen on our website as well as at the gallery. #messumswiltshire #richardhoare #landscapepainting #threshold @richardhoarepainting #scottishlandscapes #westlothian #enpleinair #enpleinairpainting #paintingfromnature

WaterBear, the home of award-winning and sustainably certified films, join us this Saturday 3 June as part of our Active Environmentlism Symposium. CEO Sam Sutaria and Chief Impact Officer Poppy Mason-Watts will discuss and present two film screenings including 'The Great Endeavour', a documentary that puts the viewer at the centre of an imagined yet possible future. A future where a collaboration of world-leading scientists and technologists have solved carbon extraction - unveiling decades of research through a Hollywood lens, with radical optimism. "This is our generation’s moon landing, a mobilisation of workers and resources on a planetary scale that would only be possible through international cooperation to an extent never achieved." Click on the link in our bio for more info. #messumswiltshire #activeenvironmentalism #waterbear #environmentalism #carbon #carboncapture #symposium #discussions @waterbearnetwork #environment

A new exhibition 'Lavori su carta' (Works on paper) by Francesco Poiana opens this July. These include watercolours and drawings created by Francesco during a recent sojourn in Sicily. “These works on paper are fragments of landscapes made of light and coarse salt, a point of view on the landscape that evokes the gaze of an eighteenth-century traveller; to return to know how to look at that landscape enjoying its richness." Email us at [email protected] if you would like more information about the exhibition. Image: Francesco Poiana 'Reserva' #messumswiltshire #francescopoiana #sicilylandscape #italianlandscapes #landscapedrawing

ACTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL SYMPOSIUM This Saturday 3 June, from 10am A day of discussions and film screenings Join us at the gallery where we will discuss with our guest experts how to unpack some of the issues we are currently facing in problem solving around the environment. Gust speakers include: Sir Jonathon Porritt, Former UK Director of Friends of the Earth Dr Rebecca Watson, University of Cambridge ‘Noah’s Ark’ Introducing Common Waters . Future of Energy: Fusion systems are coming! A transatlantic discussion with U.S.-based climate tech entrepreneur Anna Pavlova and guests Trent Bauserman and Justin Kingsford. Also film screenings and discussion with WaterBear Click on the link in our bio to find out more. @nfulife @friends_earth #commonwaters #activeenvironmentalism #environment #friendsoftheearth #messumswiltshire #discussions #climate #climatecrisis #climatechange #environmentalism @waterbearnetwork