Exeter Contemporary Open 2016 is an annual, open submission exhibition, which over the last eleven years has built national and international reputation as a prime opportunity for artists to showcase their work, drawing audiences and attention from across the country.
This year’s exhibition includes a shortlist of eight artists, selected from several hundred submissions by Cheryl Jones (Director of Grand Union, Birmingham), George Vasey (art writer and curator at the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland) and Phoenix Gallery curator Matt Burrows.
Get your dancing shoes on and practice the art of not accidentally singing your head off to tunes no one else can hear – silent discos are taking over our terrace this summer.
As the sun sets, we’ll be bringing forth a series of eccentric summer nights. Expect a terrace party under the stars with madcap decor and two different music channels lead by a live DJ.
Get your groove on to your favourite indie classics, or choose the cheesy option to shake your stuff to guilty pleasures until late. Shhh…
Daylight to Darkknights returns, with music on the terrace from 2pm-10pm, before moving into the bar from 10pm-2am.
This time we have a monster line up playing all sorts of bassline, house, minimal and techno from the likes of Will Rae, Mad Pattern, Disco Dave, Connor HC, James Hunt, Notzz, Gavin Quiet, Dizzit, Rivum and Kelly Jay.
Inspired by the path to Afghanistan, well trodden down the ages whether by Western merchants, missionaries, Hippies or soldiers, There Shall Be Fireworks unearths a startling true story from a two hundred-year-old cemetery in Kabul known as the Kabre Gora (‘the Graveyard of Foreigners’).
It’s a send off. An American stockbroker turned statesman, thwarted in one wildly ambitious plan to change the world for good, bids farewell once again to the land that he loves. Your host is played by Martin Bonger (Fat Man, NIE’s Around the World in 80 Days), with composition and sound design by...
Nuketown is a combined storytelling and protest art project about cities, public money and the possible end of life as we know it.
Working with town planners, architects, live feeds and enormous amounts of Lego, writer/performer Jack Dean is building a brand new model city, equal in value to the proposed Trident nuclear submarine replacement programme.
Now he’d like you to invite you to grab some bricks, help him finish off the city and hear an epic tale that animates this imaginary landscape. This is one man’s epic quest...
Exeter’s cultural venues are celebrating a new season of events taking place in the city, and you’re invited. The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter Cathedral, The Cygnet Theatre, Devon Libraries, Exeter Northcott Theatre, Exeter Phoenix and RAMM, will officially announce an exciting programme of events taking place between September and December at a launch party held here at The Bike Shed Theatre.
This is the first time the city’s venues have collaborated on such an event and, to mark the occasion, they are opening the launch to the public. Anyone who wishes to find out about the range of...
Join your effervescent host Deirdre Me, and let your Nincompoop loose on the stage or off as we get ready for some of the newest, nakedest, gorgeousest, wonderfully ridiculous, often heart-warming, sometimes, side-splitting offerings, performed live in front of your eyes.
Nincompoop is a monthly night where brave people try out new ideas on other brave people to see if they are good ideas or bad ones. And as we all know, sometimes the worst ideas are the best ones of all.
A silly night stuffed full of laughs, laughing, confusion and ludicrous nonsense; where anything can...
