Name: 'At the Hop!' launch event
Start: 2025-01-25T15:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-25T18:00:00+00:00
Location: The Strand Centre, Dawlish EX7 9PT

'At the Hop!' launch: The Strand Centre, Dawlish, on Saturday January 25th 2025 3-6PM.
This is a FREE community celebration for all the family about dancing in the 1950/60s.
Local young artists have recorded the memories elderly Dawlish residents to create a 30-minute audio programme.
The launch event will feature live local band – ‘The Cherri Shades’ playing covers from 50s/60s, also DJ Woodpecker spinning vinyl tracks from the era. There will be dancing, a dress-up rail, plus milkshakes, tea and cakes!
Doors open at 3PM & the audio recording will be launched at 4PM (it will then be made available as an MP4 to all the participants, local schools, museums & libraries as a learning resource).
The project aims are to develop pride in place, encourage social cohesion & intergenerational relationships, improve employment opportunities for young people and provide a celebration of the town in which we live.
Come and join-in the fun!
This project is funded by the UK government as part of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, through Teignbridge Arts Projects.