The Festival

Abandon Normal Devices enters the void, shafts and veins of the peaks for a subterranean festival in September 2017 with 4 days of site specific installations, world premieres and performances from 21-24 September.

The programme will reveal the earth’s layers, from the drone’s eye view to subterranean bunkers – it will be a prophetic, provocative and uncanny reflection on the verticality of the earth.

Support from National Trust

AND has been working closely with the our team in the Peak District to develop and deliver one of the main festival projects Waterlicht, by Studios Roosegaarde, enabling this stunning light and sound installation to be sited on Winnats Pass for 3 nights during the festival, from Thursday 21-Saturday 23 September. The fascinating story of the powerful effect water has on the landscape is still relevant to our work today- you can read our vision for the High Peak Moors below to find out more about the work we are doing to manage that impact.