A festival celebrating Imbolc with radio rituals and live performances.
Welcome to the 2026 First Spark festival at Soundart Radio, where we celebrate the mid-point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox with creative responses to the sparks of new light, electricity, transmission and inspiration, coinciding with the ancient Festival of Imbolc or Candlemas.
Saturday 31st January
Doors 2:30 pm. Performance starts 3pm ending at 6pm
Soundart Radio, Room One, Higher Close, Dartington Hall, Totnes, TQ9 6EP
or tune in on 102.5FM or online.
Everything is free of charge thanks to support from the "Essential Skills" fund.
This year we are excited to host artists from home and afar - we are welcoming RE#SISTER with members of this group traveling from The Netherlands specially to visit our station and lead workshops and performances with our community.
RE#SISTER
RE#SISTER is a community of women and non-binary artists, musicians and experimentalists who regularly come together in and around the electronic music studio of WORM, Rotterdam, to make music together, support and learn from each other. RE#SISTER is about exchange, empowerment and interaction, about making and thinking experimental music. Learn more about their work on the
RE#SISTER website Read more
This project is part of Essential Skills and our funders at Devon and Torbay Combined Authority require us to provide the names, DOB and postcodes of people who take part, this data won't be used for any other purpose.
