Half Term at the Cathedral: Knights and Dragons

Event Date: 
29/05/2015 - 10:30am to 12:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Friday 29th May, 10.30-12.30 (Pearson Education Centre)

Knights & Dragons Crafts (Drop-In) Suitable for ages 4 - 11

Come on a quest and take part in our knight and dragon activities! Make a fire-breathing dragon and your own edible knight! Find out about heraldry and create your own coat of arms to take home with you. Try our badge machine to make a knights and dragon badge. £1 per activity

Half Term at the Cathedral: Manuscripts

Event Date: 
27/05/2015 - 10:30am
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Wednesday 27th May, 10:30 - 12:30 (Pearson Education Centre)

How did they make ink and paint in medieval times? Come along and find out! Make your own ink and paint, then have a go at creating an illuminated medieval manuscript to take home. £5 for the workshop. Booking Essential

Booking Information: £5 per place. Please book by calling 01392 285983 / 01392 413174. Book online: www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/166636

Half Term at the Cathedral: Crafts

Event Date: 
26/05/2015 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Join us to have a go at some of our Cathedral Crafts. Draw a picture and turn it into a badge with our badge machine. Create your own ‘shrinkie’. Draw your design onto our special plastic sheets and watch them shrink when they are heated. You can take home your mini work of art as a key ring! Or choose from our one of many brasses to take a rubbing and find out the history behind them all.

This drop-in activity takes place in the Cathedral. £1 for each activity.

Admission to the Cathedral is free for under 18s within a family group.

The Cathedral admission charge...

Half Term at the Cathedral: Crafts

Event Date: 
26/05/2015 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Join us to have a go at some of our Cathedral Crafts. Draw a picture and turn it into a badge with our badge machine. Create your own ‘shrinkie’. Draw your design onto our special plastic sheets and watch them shrink when they are heated. You can take home your mini work of art as a key ring! Or choose from our one of many brasses to take a rubbing and find out the history behind them all.

This drop-in activity takes place in the Cathedral. £1 for each activity.

Admission to the Cathedral is free for under 18s within a family group.

The Cathedral admission charge...

2,000 children to compete in Devon School Games

The legacy of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics lives on in Devon with over 2,000 young people competing at this year’s Devon Summer School Games.

The Games are taking place on Wednesday 24th June in Plymouth across the some of its most iconic sporting sites.

These sites include the Plymouth Life Centre, Central Park, Plymouth Albion RFC and The Brickfields Recreational Ground. Plymouth School Sport Partnership are hosting the Games in conjunction with Active Devon, with support from RELAYS.

The Games are part of the national Sainsbury's School Games programme and...

Fire service supports Deaf Awareness Week

Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service is reaching out to deaf and hard of hearing communities during Deaf Awareness Week (4-10 May) to ensure they have effective smoke alarms.

An estimated one million adults in the UK are unable to hear an ordinary smoke alarm because of hearing difficulties or removal of their hearing aid at night1. So as part of Deaf Awareness Week, Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service is reminding residents within Devon and Somerset to make sure they fit and test the right smoke alarms for those who suffer from hearing loss in their homes....

Technology boosts flexible working

With a growing number of professionals working outside the main office at least some of the time, use of remote working tools has radically increased.

In fact, 73% of Exeter workers have used at least one tool enabling remote working in the previous month, according to a survey of over 4,000 senior business people across the UK by global workplace provider Regus.

Respondents also highlight that remote workers are strongly driving take up of ‘cloud’ applications that provide them with cost-effective access to office tools wherever they are (92%).

The traditional...

Hospiscare annual street collection with D&C Police Pipe Band

Event Date: 
09/05/2015 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Exeter City Centre

Devon and Cornwall Police Pipes and Drums will be performing in Exeter City Centre on Sat 9th May. The band will be playing for Hospiscare during their Annual Street Collection.

The band will be meeting in Mary Arches car park for a quick tune up before heading to St Pancras Church to meet volunteers from Hospiscare.

We'll all then be heading up into the High Street and playing by the monument outside Lloyds Bank.

We're down to play for 3 sessions. We're starting at 11am then on again at 1145 and our final performance at 1230. All times are...

Choral Music Through the Ages (Exeter Cathedral Choir)

Event Date: 
13/06/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Saturday 13th June 2015 at 19.30 (doors open 18.45)

A programme of music from medieval to modern showcasing Exeter Cathedral choir’s wide liturgical repertoire, including works from (or inspired by) our own 965 year-old Library and Archive.

The concert will include a performance of 'Flyht' by Nicholas O'Neill. This piece was composed for the 700th anniversary of Exeter College (Oxford) and sets to music selections from our own Exeter Book and other words by Samuel Wesley.

Exeter Cathedral's professional choir is made up of 36 Choristers who...

Organ350 Recital: Paul Morgan (Exeter Cathedral)

Event Date: 
27/05/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Wednesday 27th May 2015 at 19.30

Paul Morgan is the Organist Emeritus of Exeter Cathedral. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London and at Christ Church, Oxford where he was Organ Scholar. He moved to Exeter in 1969 as Assistant Organist under Lionel Dakers and was appointed Organist in 1999. Until its closure, Paul was a Lecturer in the Music Department of the University of Exeter and, for twenty years, Organs Adviser to the Exeter Diocesan Advisory Committee. His numerous organ recitals have mostly been in the West Country, but he has also given a number of recitals...

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