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Your guide to What's On this weekend

There's something for everyone in our guide to what’s happening in and around Exeter this weekend:

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The Fanny Hill Project v2.0 Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter In 2010 Tess sold her feet to fund an arts internship. In 1747 Fanny Hill sold her body for pleasure. And both young women want to confess all to you. Tickets £12/£8. www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter C.S Lewis’s classic tale of good versus evil is magically brought to life by Exeter...

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Exeter dance teacher to meet one of her ballet idols

Ava Barron Thomas who runs her babyballet school in Exeter is to meet national ballet treasure, Wayne Sleep, OBE.

At only 5’2in Sleep is famous for being the shortest male dancer ever admitted into the Royal Ballet School. He has performed with everyone from Nureyev to Princess Diana and earlier this year won public acclaim for turning non-professional, largely overweight amateurs into dancers for a Channel 4 documentary, ‘Big Ballet’.

Sleep is the guest speaker at babyballet’s annual conference on Saturday, May 31 at babyballet’s Head Office in Halifax, West Yorkshire....

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Literary Festival announces line-up

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 05/17/2014 - 11:39am

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival announces literary line-up for the sixth year of inspiring talks, readings and conversations with talented authors, scientists, playwrights, historians, broadcasters, economists, comedians and rising literary stars.

Organisers of the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival have announced the full programme for this year’s festival. Taking place from Thursday 18th – Sunday 21st September 2014, the Festival will once again feature a diverse selection of talented, prize-winning and critically acclaimed authors. Best-selling and prize-winning author...

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Loving local crafts at the Devon County Show

Local craftspeople are getting a higher profile at this year’s Devon County Show next week (May 22-24) at Westpoint, Exeter, thanks to a new policy of promoting local artisans.

Devon craft champions Love-Local.com are teaming up with the Show’s West Country Craft Marquee to create a series of complete room-sets and there will be more local producers than ever before.

Show Secretary Ollie Allen said: “I am delighted to be working with Love-Local to showcase some of the very talented local craftsmen and women in Devon and the region.

“I am bowled-over by the variety...

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Tickets on sale for The Day We Played Brazil

Authored by Jenny Hogg
Posted: Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:01am

Tickets are now on general sale for the upcoming musical The Day We Played Brazil.

Directed by playwright Nick Stimpson, Exeter Northcott Theatre’s Polly Agg-Manning and the Bike Shed Theatre’s David Lockwood, the musical will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the football match between Exeter City and the Brazil national team – the first-ever game played by Brazil.

As the 2014 World Cup comes to a close and Europe prepares to mark the centenary of the start of WW1 celebrate Exeter’s special place in history at the Exeter Northcott Theatre from Wed 16 – Sun 26 July, with a...

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The Changing Face of Cinema

On Sunday 1 June PUNY GODS! will take over the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter and turn it into a Cinema featuring films by Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy award winning filmmakers and a series of talks about The Changing Face of Cinema.

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is home to one of the largest collections of material relating to the moving image in Britain.

The museum chronicles the development of optical entertainment from shadow-puppets and 17th century manuscripts to the most recent Hollywood blockbusters, including artefacts such as Magic Lanterns, rare...

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Mac DeMarco 'Salad Days' Album Review

Authored by eldpotts
Posted: Mon, 05/12/2014 - 12:25pm

An effortlessly lazy third album from tousled Canadian blue-waver DeMarco, Salad Days sees a daydreaming melange of lulling guitars glazed with Sunday morning vocals delivered through a hungover smile.

Opening track ‘Salad Days’ is an upbeat lament similarly as ‘Let Her Go’ carries a sunshine feel despite lyrical sadness.

Lo-Fi and nonchalant, the record is brushed with psychedelic tones with ‘Brother’ and stand out track ‘Chamber of Reflection’ exercising this with much of a continuation of the sounds heard on 2012’s ‘2’.

Penultimate ‘Go Easy’ is synonymous with...

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Your guide to What's On this weekend

Don't make any plans for this weekend until you've checked out our guide to what's on in and around Exeter:

THEATRE

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Friday, 8pm, Clifford Room, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Once again the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre return to the Barnfield Theatre. A hosiery based stage show that tours theatres and clubs in the UK and beyond. Kev F is proud to be assisting hit comedy double act The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre. Tickets: £9.50 (£8.50). www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk

Birdsong Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, Northcott...

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Taking Shape store offering free styling sessions

Taking Shape, the Australian plus sized store that opened in Exeter last year, is currently offering free styling sessions to the women of Exeter.

Experienced in store stylists will be on hand to offer customers advice on the best styles to flatter and fit their curves.

Taking Shape offers many stylish clothes to fit women in sizes 14-26, with the motto ‘Celebrate Your Curves’.

To ' Celebrate Your Curves' and partake in a free styling session, please visit your nearest Taking Shape store located in Paris Street.

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Valiant Soldier marks Great War

Buckfastleigh’s time-capsule tourist attraction, the Valiant Soldier, has organised events to mark the centenary of World War One.

Art, artefacts and a moving parade of school-children all feature in a summer of remembrance under the banner of Buckfastleigh Remembers.

At the end of May an exhibition of World War One artefacts opens at the Valiant Soldier. The exhibition will feature photographs, objects and memories from the period. The exhibition is due to run for four years, with displays changing every so often and a rolling selection of pieces on view.

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