Od Arts Festival 2025 – Thinking in Circles created conversations through art, film and performance in rural Somerset, including a six-month programme of creative activities, culminating in a three-day festival in May 2025.

This year’s festival was dedicated to supporting and engaging with contemporary artistic practice and community activity that explores cycles of growth, production, and consumption.

Acknowledging feelings of ecological grief and culpability in our consumerist and colonial culture, participating artists will connect sensitively with the rural context of the festival, and offer an opportunity to pause and discover alternative ways of thinking .

The festival invited participants to consume new ways of thinking, share food, laughs and ideas, and grow together.