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We build community and support people in vulnerable life moments using art and creativity.
We run creative workshops, make artwork with communities, learn about communities through creative research and evaluation, and provide sewing supplies for social good.
If Trees Could Talk Devon International Art Biennale
Between May and July 2026, workshops, events, and exhibitions form the Devon Satellite programme of the International Art Biennale, “If Trees Could Talk.” Significant Seams is the coordinating partner for the SW county of Devon, England. Four permanent art installations, all co-created with local communities, anchor our programme. Our events, along with those enabled by wider Devon creative communities, will bring the theme to life!
Find out all about the Festival events FIVE ways:
- Purchase and Download a Digital Copy
- Purchase a professionally printed one for us to post to you
- Purchase a professionally printed one to collect
- Find one in the WILD! and make a donation and/or tag its photo on social media to help others find them.
- Browse the digital listings (all bookings are taken here).
You also can ADD events to the digital programme! Inspired by the theme? Putting something on that fits in? List it and help the seed fund for a future festival!
The Latest from across our activities
- If Trees Could Talk: Entrepreneurs, Creative & Green
Rachel and Matt Hayes are the architect founders of Folia Architects, an award-winning practice focussed on sustainable design and certified Passivhaus buildings. They emphasise natural materials and timber construction in bespoke new build homes, eco-friendly barn conversions and collaborative community spaces that connect to their landscape. Tim Craven founded The Arborealists artists’ collective (40 exhibitions and 9 - Trees Near Teignmouth
- Arts-led Social Change
Did you miss the conversation? Catch-up here! Donations in support of If Trees Could Talk Devon and/or Ashburton Arts Centre gratefully received! - “Voices for a Vascular System of a Tree” aka Toby Buckland Weighs in
Artists Joe Webster and Catherine West joined Toby Buckland on BBC Radio Devon last weekend to talk about the “If Trees Could Talk Devon” Talks Across Borders programme at Ashburton Arts Centre. Listen to the recording on BBC Sounds from 12:25 on Sunday 28 June 2026 – or listen to our MP4 here.