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The London African Gospel Choir closed Budleigh Music Festival in spectacular style

Budleigh Music Festival strikes emotional chord with concertgoers

From the opening notes of the community choral day to the uplifting finale of the London African Gospel Choir, Budleigh Music Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary in style.

Taking place in the beautiful St Peter’s Church, the festival delivered world-class classical performances, inclusive community events, and stunning moments of musical magic.

More than 3,600 tickets were sold over the nine-day Festival, which included performances by Sir Michael Morpurgo and cellist Clare O’Connell, internationally acclaimed pianist Sir Stephen Hough, and Bath Philharmonia....

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (27-29 April).

THEATRE

Katie Piper: What's in My Head Friday, Exeter Corn Exchange Katie embarks on her debut theatre tour to share what she has learnt and what helped her remain positive even through the toughest of times. She will discuss her own battles with anxiety and explain how she has overcome its crippling clutches. Katie is opening her own diaries, photo albums and personal memories in this most intimate and revealing talk about her life. This is her story, this is her life, this is her wisdom. This is ‘...

Stunning new Middle Eastern production arrives in Exeter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 04/24/2018 - 8:48pm

Audiences in Exeter are being treated to a sensational live music and dance performance from Club Cairo as the group’s spectacular Middle Eastern production ‘The Serpent Slayer’ arrives in town. The show promises audiences a true spectacle, in which they will be transported to exotic lands. The show tells the touching story of two sisters on a magical quest, showing how hope can shine through the darkest skies. The cast of dancers and musicians combine poetic verse and multimedia projections to create a world of magic and fantasy. Following The Serpent Slayer, the entertainment continues...

Step behind the glass of the costume collection at Killerton

Every third Monday of the month Shelly Tobin, Costume Curator at Killerton, and her assistant Charlotte Eddington, open their workshop door to the public, giving them an insight into the largest fashion collection in the National Trust. Visitors can gain exclusive access to part of the Killerton fashion store, handle some items in the study collection, take a guided tour of the current fashion exhibition Branded: fashion, femininity and the right to vote and enjoy a chat over tea and biscuits. Shelley Tobin, Costume Curator said: ‘We are really excited to be offering this opportunity to...

Poltimore House to be transformed for theatre production

Emerging theatre company Get Out Of My Space, in collaboration with Theatre with Teeth, will be taking over Exeter's historic Poltimore House with new production Umbra, an immersive theatrical experience inspired by Woyzeck, Christian Shaw and the Peaky Blinders opening this May. Stepping inside the crumbling hallways of Poltimore House, audiences will be taken back to 1919 and immersed in a dark world of drinking, religion and organised crime as twisted demonic forces gradually worm their way into the minds of its inhabitants.

Featuring an ensemble cast of vividly realised...

Simon Mayo book event at Sidholme Hotel

Sidmouth Literary Festival will welcome Simon Mayo to Sidmouth this Thursday - 26th April - to share his new novel Mad Blood Stirring as a warm up event to the festival weekend in June.

Simon Mayo is one of Britain's best-loved and well-known radio presenters. He has worked on BBC radio since 1981 and is now the presenter of 'Drivetime' on BBC Radio 2, which features the regular 'Book Club' show. He is also the co-presenter of "Kermode and Mayo's Film Review" on BBC Radio 5 Live. In 2008, Mayo was recognized as the "radio broadcaster of the year" at the 34th annual Broadcasting...

Exeter Food Festival reduces single use plastic

The Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink is introducing new ways to reduce single-use plastic at the 2018 event at Exeter Castle and Northernhay Gardens on the early May bank holiday weekend (Saturday 5th- Monday 7th May).

Visitors to the 2018 Exeter Food Festival will be drinking from reusable glasses and can save money on coffee if they bring their own reusable coffee cups.

Michael Caines, co-founder of the Exeter Food Festival, says, “For over 10 years, the Exeter Food Festival has stuck to a strict environmental policy with our food traders and exhibitors only...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (20-22 April).

THEATRE

Frankenstein Friday, Saurday & Sunday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter A world premiere staging of Mary Shelley’s Gothic classic. Victor Frankenstein is the tortured genius who unleashes death and destruction in his quest for eternal life! The cast includes Derek Frood (‘Poldark’), Dan Ball (‘The Mousetrap’), Will Trafford (‘Twelfth Night’) and Philip Voyzey (‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’). Special make-up effects have been created by Emmy Award-winner, David Brown who works on such...

Digital art for a new generation

An exhibition of digital art at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) and a festival at RAMM and Exeter Phoenix this spring will celebrate the achievements of young artists and introduce 21st-century techniques to new audiences.

In the RAMM Cafe from 17 April to 1 July, the Machina exhibition features young people’s innovative digital art. The display includes gif animations, digital paintings and installations using apps, smartphone technology, coding and other digital techniques. Traditional media such as painting and printmaking add further variety. Objects in RAMM and...

Phonic Takeover celebrates 10 years of broadcasting at Exeter Phoenix

Authored by Phonic FM
Posted: Wed, 04/18/2018 - 11:40am

On Saturday 9 June Phonic FM will take over Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre all day and evening with a giant FREE community event including:

  • Live music in the auditorium from 12noon until 11pm
  • Live music in the upstairs Voodoo Lounge from 12noon until 11pm
  • DJs on the outdoor terrace from 12noon until midnight
  • Storytelling and theatre in the workshop space from12noon until 6pm
  • DJs in the workshop space from 8pm until midnight
  • Phonic FM broadcasting live from the café-bar in the afternoon
  • Films in the Studio 74
  • ...

Internationally recognised artists bring a new exhibition to Exeter

Exeter Phoenix is pleased to present Another Spring, an exhibition curated by art historian, critic and curator Dr Jean Wainwright. The show brings together work by an outstanding group of internationally recognised artists. There will be a special exhibition preview from 6-8pm on Thursday 3rd May, and the exhibition will open on Thursday 4th May.

The exhibition reflects on the current trends and broader developments of nationalist impulses in Western society, where the debated question of citizenship, the foundation for identity and political governance is tied to ultranationalist...

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