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Brixham Pirate Festival 3rd-5th May 2025
Wander round the beautiful Brixham harbour and discover all sorts pirate antics taking place, including live music, street performers, street theatre, balloon modelling, historical re-enactments, fancy dress competitions and themed food and drink offerings. The daytime and early evenings are brilliant fun for all the family, while later on the adults can warm their tums with extra rations of rum in the many harbourside bars. You are more likely to stick out if you aren't dressed like a pirate.
The English Walking Festival 2025
Running from Sat 14th-22nd June.
Experienced guides take you on a journey along one of England's most scenic coastlines: the English Riviera. Make a weekend of it and stay in walker-friendly accommodation. Explore the Festival Programme and book your space now.
The English Riviera Airshow 2025
Friday 30th May- Sunday 1st June
The English Riviera Airshow has been wowing spectators annually since 2016. Held over two days on the first weekend in June, it is the first event in the UK’s Airshow calendar.
There will be spectacular flying displays and an exciting programme of events on the ground.
The Airshow is free to attend and is funded by various partners – Torbay Council, English Riviera BID Company and many corporate sponsors, individual donors and many others.
Electric Bay 2025 Featuring Fatboy Slim
Fri 11th July- Sun 13th July.
Fatboy Slim
Undoubtedly one of the most successful dance artists of all time, Norman Cook, better know as Fatboy Slim, will bring his infectious energy and huge outdoor festival production to Electric Bay on Saturday 12th July at their beautiful Devonshire seafront setting in Torquay.
Known for timeless hits like “Praise You”, “Right Here, Right Now”, “The Rockafeller Skank” and “Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat”, Fatboy Slim dominates the global dance music scene and remains one of the world’s most in-demand DJs. He famously attracted over quarter of a million people to Brighton Beach in 2002 and since then has become a must-see performer at major festivals around the world. His live shows are renowned for their high energy, dynamic visuals and impeccable curation, making his Electric Bay Festival debut on Saturday 12th July one of the standout events for next Summer’s cultural calendar.
The International Agatha Christie Festival 2025
The 2025 festival will take place on 13th – 21st September.
Agatha Christie is Torquay's most well-known resident and the best selling author of all time. Every year Torquay celebrates the life and work of its most famous resident with a Festival, supported by the Arts Council of England, and this year is no exception.
8 days, packed with expert speakers and other features, the International Agatha Chrisite Festival will celebrate Agatha Christie and her astonishingly rich and diverse legacy.
Dartmouth Food Festival Fri 24th-Sun 26th October
“Plenty of food for thought, as well as food to eat, in one of the loveliest bits of Britain” Diana Henry
Having grown from humble beginnings in 2002 into a first class feast of entertainment featuring workshops, seminars, tastings, competitions, demonstrations and over 120 hand-picked exhibitors (70% of which are from Devon), it truly is the very best that the South West has to offer. Described in The Telegraph as a ‘heady mix of celebrity chefs, parties, food markets, tasting shacks and demonstrations’, the festival is now a landmark event on the culinary calendar. What gives us extra stand out is the fact that we’re a free festival. Anyone and everyone is welcome to come along and take part without being charged an entry fee.
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Telephone: +44 1803 211580
E-mail: relax@heathcliffhouse.co.uk
Address:16 Newton Road, Torquay, Devon, TQ2 5BZ
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