TED's Essential Guide to what's on this weekend
Don't plan your weekend until you have checked out our essential guide to what's on in and around Exeter.
THEATRE
Lunchtime Theatre: Tangled Feet present Inflation
Friday, Princesshay Square, Exeter
A bouncy castle sits in a public space. On it Tangled Feet try to solve the recession, understand trading and keep the darn thing up! Every attempt at order and structure is undermined by the moving landscape and actions of others. Using an evocative soundtrack, physical theatre and slapstick comedy, award winning Tangled Feet explore the uncertain ground our world is standing on. Performances at 11.45am and 1.15pm, free.
This City's Centre Part 3 - Here, Now
Friday & Saturdaty, 7pm, St Stephen's House, 9 Catherine Street, Princesshay, Exeter.
Blind Ditch complete their contemporary portrait of Exeter with a series of multi-platform performances in an empty office space. Combining live video streaming from city centre homes, live performance both in the space and on the city’s streets, and interaction with an online audience, This City’s Centre 3: Here, Now invites us to discover more about how daily life in a British provincial city shapes us, our behaviour and our dreams for change. Tickets £10 (£8) in advance from Exeter Phoenix 01392 667080.
Exeter Drama Company: Jane Eyre
Friday & Saturday, 7.15pm, The Shed, Alphington, Exeter
Jane Eyre accepts a position as a governess to a ward at Thornfield Hall and wins the love of her dark and impassioned employer, Edward Rochester. But soon Jane's love, strength and determination are tested as Rochester's long-kept secrets are unveiled. www.exeterdramacompany.co.uk
Ring Round the Moon
Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, Exeter Cathedral
Exeter Cathedral’s own Cathedral Players present Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh. The show is an adaptation by Christopher Fry subtitled A Charade with Music and described as a little puff-ball of a story, a bubble from a glass of champagne twinkling in the fairy lights of a Winter Garden. The performances take place within this year’s Unexpected Festival. Box office: 01392 285983. www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/boxoffice
Lunchtime Theatre: The Black Eagles
Saturday, 12.30pm, Exeter Guildhall Shopping Centre
Originally from Tanzania but now based in the UK, The Black Eagles present a breathtaking routine of acrobatics. A high impact, joyful show that will have people gasping in amazement. Free.
MUSIC
King Porter Stomp and By The Rivers
Friday, 8pm, Exeter Phoenix
Renowned for their eclectic and energetic live shows, they bring together their own unique union of ska-funk-dub and afrobeat and top it all off with cleverly crafted conscious rhymes – you’ll know these boys came to party. Tickets: £8 (£6). www.exeterphoenix.org.uk
Live music
Saturday, various pubs, Exeter
Carnaby Street bring the sounds of the 60s to The Kings Arms from 9pm; Ten Feet Tall will be at The Bishop Blaize from 9pm; BarraCoodas play contemporary rock and punk covers at The Prospect Inn on Exeter Quay and Waiting for George play The Clifton Inn at 9pm. All free admission.
The FB Pocket Orchestra
Sunday, 2.30pm, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter
The FB Pocket Orchestra takes its listeners back to the hot jazz, blues, ragtime and popular dances of the 1920/30s & earlier. Tickets: £9 (£8). Box office: 01392 271808. www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk
EVENTS
The Tour of Britain – Devon Stage (Stage 6)
Friday, Sidmouth to Dartmoor
The Devon Stage (Stage Six) of The Tour will cover 85 miles of the county, starting in Sidmouth and finishing in Dartmoor National Park. The race starts from The Esplanade, Sidmouth at 11am, will be in Exeter at 12.44pm and finishes on Haytor at 2.30pm (approximate times). More details: www.southwesttourofbritain.co.uk
Wet Sounds
Saturday, Pyramids Swimming and Leisure Centre, Heavitree Road, Exeter
Wet Sounds is an underwater listening experience. Dive in through the water immersed in sound that is clear, detailed and intimate. Joel Cahen plays a surreal sound scape through underwater and over water speakers. The swimming pool will be transformed with light and sound. Bring goggles and swimsuit! 7.45pm and 9pm, £10 (£8). Bookings: 01392 265200. www.wetsounds.co.uk
Family Fun Bike Ride to Escot
Saturday, 11am, Escot Park, Ottery St Mary
Coinciding with the Tour of Britain, this family fun ride starts at Land of Canaan on at 11am with a ride to Escot park for a picnic lunch. Trained cyclists will be in attendance to help all ages and abilities, with the aim to be active and safe. http://ottertrail.org
LouLou's Vintage Fair
Sunday, 11am-4pm, Exeter Corn Exchange
This Exeter Vintage Fair will showcase the UK's finest vintage collectors and traders selling men’s and women’s vintage spanning six decades. Alongside vintage clothing you will find home-wares and collectables, jewellery and accessories too! Enjoy a vintage tea party while you’re there and get your make up done in the style of your favourite icon or era.
Circus Sunday
Various Venues, Exeter
Continuous circus and street theatre performances and workshops at Princesshay, Southernhay Gardens, the Guildhall Shopping Centre and RAMM/Rougemont Gardens, culminating in a spectacular finale on Cathedral Green at 5pm. www.exeter.gov.uk/unexpected
National beach clean day
Sunday, 1pm, Dawlish Warren Nature Reserve
Sociable beach clean organised by Devon Wildlife Trust, plus recording everything that is collected as part of the Marine Conservation Society’s national monitoring. Let Devon Wlidlfe Trust know if you are intending to join in by calling 07972 175340 or by emailing alislade@aol.com. More details: www.devonwildlifetrust.org
EXHIBITIONS
Naomi Hart - All About Migration
Hope Hall, Hope Road, Heavitree, Exeter
Naomi Hart has sent out 10,000 hand-cut postcards in the shape of Brent Geese to all corners of the world and is constructing a ‘flying’ installation of them as they wing their way back to her from the furthest reaches of the earth, including the Arctic, the Antarctic, Eastern China and Western Canada. The show is open every day from 11am–6pm until Sunday as part of Devon Open Studios.
Exeter Contemporary Open 2013
Exeter Phoenix
The annual chance to see a selection of work by some of the most talented emerging artists from across the UK and beyond. Artists this year include: Charlie Godet Thomas, Rachel Busby, Rebecca Ounstead, Max Cahn, Julie Price, Anne Deeming, Malina Busch, Oliver Tirre and Hannah Mooney. Open 10am-5pm until 2 November. www.exeterphoenix.org.uk
'intolace' - dual exhibition at Devon Guild and Thelma Hulbert
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey and Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
A partnership exhibition which challenges preconceived ideas of 'lace'. Straddling both venues intoLACE presents 22 artists overall, who seek to examine the historic uses and values of lace with particular reference to Honiton lace at the Hulbert. Exhibits at the Guild feature fabric-wrapped ceramic, photograms, glass-encased lace, sun-prints through lace, laser-cut paper sculpture and delicate jewellery. The exhibition runs until 3 November. www.crafts.org.uk
