Entertainment & Reviews

Exeter collector Heather Coleman has turned her passion for old clay tobacco pipes into a business and now supplies crafted clay pipes worldwide for television, film and theatre. Most recently a selection of her pipes appeared in the popular TV series Poldark and she has also made special pipes for many well-known people including President Obama, Johnny Depp, the late Terry Pratchett, and comedian Phil Jupitus.

Her collection of historical pipes is currently on display at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM). They date from the 1580s right through to the 1920s and include...

Painting the sunny beaches of Perth, Western Australia, or the changeable scenery of Devon?

For Devon Artist Network painter Julie Dunster, there is no contest - and she is celebrating her return home with her first solo art exhibition in this country, at the Boston Tea Party in Honiton from 27 February to 7 May 2016.

The exhibition will feature original oil paintings produced through sketches and photographs on location and completed in her Mid Devon studio. Julie captures the season’s differences, whether depicting avocets at tide’s out in deserted Dawlish Warren, or the...

How one folk musician and composer’s passion for the first music machine has seen him embrace the very latest 21st century music technology.

1. Painstakingly restore a 19th century 4ft high music box and reverse engineer the Victorian technology used to project music manuscript onto its 20” steel discs.

2. Write the first new music for Polyphon in 132 years and develop a computer programme that turns midi notes into concentric coordinates to manufacture brand new discs.

3. Replace the machine’s coin mechanism with foot operated solenoid switches to enable stop/...

Saturday 12th March sees a new show of folk songs come to the Cygnet Theatre in Exeter, celebrating women from history.

The show is being curated by three of the team from Wren Music – Amy Wilson, Sarah Owen and Marilyn Tucker (pictured), and has already recruited a chorus of 30 women who are sure to make the evening extra special.

Although the arts organisation already runs five community choirs across the county, they spotted an opportunity to bring together a women-only singing group specifically to celebrate women’s history for international women’s day.

Marilyn...