Rivers and Moorland Festival Water Commission

The Rivers and Moorland Festival is the arts & environment festival happening in Ivybridge & across Dartmoor, celebrating everyone living & working on the moor.

Dartmoor’s Dynamic Landscape’s Dartmoor Dynamic Landscapes | Dartmoor is a partnership programme with an exciting vision to create more naturally resilient landscapes, to enable better understanding and to connect people more sustainably to their place. The inaugural Rivers & Moorland Festival is to celebrate the people who live & work on Dartmoor.

The festival is seeking applications for a community and environmentally focused project that will launch during the first Rivers and Moorland Festival in Ivybridge, 5-7 June 2026

Themes of water, rivers, flooding and how humans interact with water whilst living and working in the environment can be explored in any art form.

Artists should propose projects that aim to increase understanding of the environment amongst local communities and encourage linking communities of the moor to their environment and to each other. It is not expected for the work to draw in a large new audience, but instead to make an impact and be meaningful to people that already live in Ivybridge and on Dartmoor.

It is open to South West Based Artists who live on, work on or have a relationship with Dartmoor with a track record or experience with similar projects. Applications from individuals and collaborations are both welcome.

The commission amount includes artist fee and all production costs and VAT.

For a full brief, FAQs and instructions on how to apply visit https://www.riversandmoorland....

The Rivers and Moorlands Festival in Ivybridge is being delivered by Dartmoor National Parks Authority in partnership with Emergency Exit Arts, Ivybridge Town Council and Flock South West as part of the Dartmoor Dynamic Landscaped programme and funded by by Heritage Lottery Foundation and Arts Council England. This opportunity is co-commissioned by the Environment Agency.