Entertainment & Reviews

International Garden Photographer of the Year Exhibition coming to Exeter

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 03/08/2016 - 10:23am

The popular International Garden Photographer of the Year exhibition, now in its ninth year, will be at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) from 23 April 2016.

The winning photograph from each of nine categories from the 2016 competition, along with a wide selection of finalists, will be included in the exhibition at RAMM. The categories are: The Beauty of Plants, Beautiful Gardens, Wildlife in the Garden, Portfolios, Bountiful Earth, Trees, Woods & Forests, Wildflower Landscapes, Greening the City and Young Garden Photographer.

Started by a group of...

Celebrating Exeter – The Organic Way

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 03/08/2016 - 8:54am

Organic, an Exeter-based performance and content marketing agency and consultancy, recently celebrated their 10th anniversary, and commissioned Instagram social influencer Paperboyo to capture some of the city’s most unique sights.

Rich McCor, better known by his Instagram alias Paperboyo (Instagram.com/paperboyo), is a photographer and social media influencer who uses creativity and the power imbued in social platforms to tell stunning visual stories.

With over 125,000 Instagram followers, Paperboyo’s creations celebrate cities and their history through innovative, outside...

ROC Active Exeter take an Avocet amble

As part of promoting “Avocet Ambles”, self-guided walks from the Avocet Line, the Exeter – Exmouth branch line, the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership recently took members of the ROC Active walking group for a day trip, travelling from Exeter St Thomas station to Topsham for a leisurely walk and lunch.

ROC Active is a charity which enables adults with a learning disability to take part in a wide variety of sports, gym, and swim sessions.

They organise a weekly walking group from their base at the Riverside Leisure Centre at Cowick Street, Exeter.

ROC Active Team...

Top storytellers come to Topsham

Two of the finest storytellers in the UK will be performing in Topsham this spring: Ben Haggarty and Martin Shaw are world-renowned within the storytelling community, bringing their richly entertaining mythic material to audiences across Britain and far beyond. The performances are being organised by Katy Cawkwell who has recently moved to the town and is a well-regarded teller in her own right.

Katy will start the series on the 11th March with a show called Rhiannon which is a gripping, emotional performance, following the story of a woman who comes from the Otherworld for love...

Musical Madam's Mixtape celebrates women in the arts

Music! Comedy! Stand-up Poetry! DJ's and Dancing! Date: Saturday 19 March 2016 Time: 7.30pm-12.30am Venue: Exeter Phoenix (Voodoo Lounge).

As International Women's Day approaches, it's time to celebrate some of the incredible women who make music in Devon. Creative, Assertive and Diverse is the talent of our musical madams. And yet, year after year women struggle to top the bills at shows, events and festivals, with only 14% of acts beng female led at ALL major festivals in 2015. Now I dont know about you ... but theres something wrong with that picture.

With this in mind,...

Daisi secures funds for performance piece on the life of Lise Meitner

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 03/06/2016 - 12:24pm

Arts in Education charity Daisi has secured £1500 in funding from the Institute of Physics (IOP) through its Public Engagement Grant Scheme, to run performances detailing the life and work of 20th century female physicist Lise Meitner.

This year, there were over fifty applications submitted to the IOP for the Public Engagement Grant Scheme. Nine projects were successful in securing funding from the IOP, and over £14,000 was awarded in total.

£1500 has been offered to support the performance, named Lise Meitner: The Battle for Ultimate Truth, which will cover her role in the...

One-woman play, This Is My Body comes to Exeter

The award-winning one-woman play, This Is My Body, will come to Exeter in March and will be directed by Exeter Northcott Theatre’s Artistic and Executive Director, Paul Jepson.

There are "reasonable grounds" to suspect that a Romanian woman, who has been working as a prostitute in the UK, is the victim of human trafficking. She is given 45 days to "reflect and recover". But will this be enough time to come to terms with the horrors she has endured?

This Is My Body is a powerful new one-woman play which toured the UK in 2014, including a performance at the St James Theatre...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 03/04/2016 - 10:06pm

Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (4-6 March 2016).

THEATRE

Betrayal Friday & Saturday, Northcott Theatre, Exeter Emma is married to Robert. But for seven years, she’s been having an affair with Jerry, Robert’s best friend. Betrayal begins at the end of the affair, and pursues an enthralling journey to its very beginnings. As memory reels backwards towards the moment the affair started, the lies tangle into a web of deception. Is Emma betraying her husband? Is Jerry betraying his best friend? Or are they all betraying themselves. https...

Tonight I'm Gonna Be The New Me to play at the Bike Shed Theatre

Following highly successful 2015 runs in Edinburgh and London, Made In China’s Tonight I’m Gonna Be The New Me now embarks on a UK tour.

It exposes how we conduct our relationships amidst a reality that just won’t live up to what the movies promised.

A woman takes to the stage. A man watches from the wings. They both wonder if their love will survive what’s about to happen.

Tonight I’m Gonna Be The New Me is an arresting physical endurance act that crashes headfirst into an impossibly true love story - and out the other side.

Based on the real relationship...

Beautiful Days Festival line-up announced

Leftfield, James, The Coral, The Proclaimers, Billy Bragg and, Levellers will perform at Beautiful Days festival 2016 at Escot Park near Exeter, 19-21 August.

Headlining Beautiful Days 2016 on the Friday night are Leftfield - one of Britain’s most influential electronic dance acts. Their debut Leftism, remains one of the defining statements of 90s dance music. Headlining on Saturday night we welcome back Manchester legends James who release their fourteenth new studio album ‘Girl at the End of the World’ this month.

Sunday night headliners are festival founders Levellers...

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