Winter Doors Festival

Wishing you happy times and good health, loud music, festivals, dancing, singing and creating .....in the company of your family and friends hopefully no zoom needed 2021! Thankyou for being part of Winter Doors 2020 as an artist and in the audience. People have been overwhelmingly kind, generous, hardworking and inspiring and made us laugh smile and dance. Many of the artists went to huge efforts to make really special creations for us and shared new and yet to be released material. We hope you feel the same and join us in knowing the arts are for everyone and our lives are all the better for them. The donation page will remain open until the end of this year so there’s still time to add something if you can. Find it on here justgiving. We can let you know we have raised £377 at this point which is way over and above our £250 target. The snowflake sold to the highest bidder at £127 and will be on it’s way to them very soon. This is a fantastic amount and we feel proud to be making t

Some rather special little theatre doors are opening up for us today for a unique performance on a magical travelling stage. This professional Music and Theatre company based in Somerset specialise in creating new and innovative work. It’s our pleasure to share their Christmas creation with you and we are so happy you were able to stop a while along the lanes of Somerset to make this for us.

Winter Doors are huge fans of the immensely talented duo behind door 23. Expect virtuosic skill, passion, and rhythmic drive from these grass root whirling dervish legends. Today's gem will bring you hope and the promise of summer, tribe and travelling. Its music like this that’s kept us going this year reminding us about what really matters.

The artists waiting behind this door have been entertaining the crowds at Glastonbury for over 10 years with their upbeat sound and festival style. They are old friends of Winter Doors and pretty fantastic humans too. Todays act is guaranteed to bring some fun and cheer into your home. Thanks for joining us and look forward to seeing you when possible!

These guys are riotous, irreverent, and loud. They can whip a crowd up into a frenzy the likes of which you’ve never seen before with their wild melodies and stomping bass lines. We are delighted to have this band on board and to share a film from their latest EP ‘A Class Issue’ made earlier this year. This is a film about hope, joy and the mayhem of coming alive. It’s mesmerising and life affirming and we are really happy to have permission to share it. More details on their door about how and where you can buy this latest album. Merry solstice all. (First video is an intro, and a work of Art in itself!)

As we get closer to the longest night and shortest day of the year, we feel the need for a bit of mischief making. So behind door 20 we have a Whitby based arts collective who deliver mischief of the highest order. The collective was set up and run by Elaine consultant psychiatrist and Laurence a musician/graphic designer both of whom have collaborated with Mind before. In usual times they coordinate a Krampus Run which has developed to become ‘ a unique, special and well regarded event attracting collaborative partnerships with others including community groups, environmental projects & organisations promoting social inclusions and mental awareness. A big thank you to the Whitby massive.

We have a wonderful storyteller for you today. She is utterly mesmerising, breathing life into stories with rhythm and song. Be ready to be taken to another place and time, and enjoy this journey through her words. This story has been specially recorded for Winter Doors, Thank you Jan!