Entertainment & Reviews

ENJOY the very best music, song and dance from Dartmoor and beyond at the forthcoming three-day Dartmoor Folk Festival.

A beautiful little festival in the heart of Dartmoor, it will take place from Friday, August 11 to Sunday, August 13.

The villages of South Zeal and South Tawton play host to top local and national folk artists at the 46th annual event.

The festival includes a packed programme of events and activities, some free-of-charge and others at reasonable prices.

There will be hotly-contested competitions, one involving dancing with a broom and...

Hazel Findlay is, quite simply, one of the world’s best climbers. Six-time British Junior Champion, Hazel left competitive climbing, at the age of just 16, to focus on rock climbing. Hazel went on to become the first British woman to climb one of the hardest grades in climbing, as well as free-climb Yosemite’s El Capitan four times.

In a follow up to her 2019 theatre tour, The Climb Within , Hazel is now set to undertake her second theatre tour, The Walls Within , heading to 12 theatres across the country this September, presented by Speakers from the Edge.

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Do you ever wonder why movies and TV series fail to make you feel the same as anime? Well, to put it simply most of the concepts explored in anime are so complex and out of the world that they cannot be portrayed in real-life movies. This is where anime fills in and offers you a story that is a perfect mix between fantasy and real life. Moreover, anime has perfect room for performance so you will not feel bored because of the bad acting or badly executed story.

Generally, anime explore a theme of fantasy mixed with adventure but you will also come across anime that are meant to...

Artist, Tim Ridley, is showing a new series of oil paintings from the series ‘Women and animals’ at Sapphire Blue Collective’s exhibition, Radiance, Rubrics & Rituals: So We Are Held at MakeTank in Exeter from 17th-29th July.

The exhibition features work by ten contemporary artists who each contribute their unique perspective and distinctive style while demonstrating exceptional skill and versatility across a range of mediums and disciplines including:- ceramics, painting, weaving, photography, fine print, drawing, object making and installation.

The Sapphire Blue...