Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is going to hold a pop-up cinema event on December 10th, the Mixtape exhibition will present a collection of eye-catching short films in mixed media, showcasing possibilities of work beyond celluloid alone, and featuring Oscar nominees, film festival winners, underground gems, and avant garde short films. The attendees include film professionals, entertainment industry practitioners, and students of the creative majors.
The Mixtape exhibition has limited tickets, so please email us to reserve a ticket as soon as possible. Mixtape exhibition, Hi-fi for the...
Police are seeking the identity of a couple suspected to have stolen a number of glasses frames from the Vision Express store on Courtenay Street, Newton Abbot on Saturday 22 November.
The male and female offenders entered the store at around 1pm, browsed products before concealing in their coat pockets and sleeves eight Versace and Tom Ford glasses frames worth approximately £1,450 in total before leaving the store.
Police have released images and CCTV fooage in hope that the public will recognise the suspects.
The man is described as aged 65-70 with grey/white...
Exeter City attacking duo Matt Jay and Ollie Watkins have joined Weston-super-Mare on a one-month loan deal. The pair both turned professional in the summer after winning the Youth Alliance South West title with the Grecians’ under-18 team, and made their first-team debuts while still Academy players last season. Jay and Watkins could feature in as many as eight games for the Somerset side before their loan is due to end after they face Sutton United on Sunday 4th January.
As community support builds for Devon’s wild beavers, an oil painting of a Devon beaver has raised £700 for Devon Wildlife Trust’s work to keep the animals on the River Otter. The canvas, by renowned east Devon wildlife artist Emma Bowring, was donated to the charity’s Devon’s Wild Beavers fundraising appeal. Support has also been forthcoming from Ottery St Mary schools, Exeter businesses – and even TV presenter Chris Packham. The aim of the appeal is to keep the wild beaver population on the River Otter by securing a licence from the government for a five- year monitoring project to...
Pupils at a Devon primary school have created their own ‘pop-up’ World War One museum which will be open to the community all next week.
The museum will feature period artefacts such as gas masks and shell casings which have been discovered in relatives’ attics as well as websites and projects featuring the children’s own research into family members who were involved in the war.
The extended project, at Landscore Primary School at Crediton, has been funded by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund which has enabled Years 5 and 6 to work with a professional ancestry...
The graduation extravaganza held at River Cottage HQ was marked with a banquet cooked by Chef Tutors, speeches given by Steve Lamb followed by a certification ceremony presented by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. The graduates then danced the night away as they celebrated their achievements. The event attracted visitors from across the world, as families flew in from Malta and Australia to see their sons and daughters graduating. The 48 ecstatic graduates were the first to complete our Young Chef Apprentice Scheme – a professional and personal journey that aims to equip young learners with...
Birds learn new foraging techniques by observing others in their social network according to a study involving University of Exeter researchers. The report on how innovations spread and persist in wild great tits (Parus major) shows that ‘copycat’ behaviour can sustain foraging ‘traditions’ that last years. The study involved experiments with eight local populations of great tits in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire (UK). In five of the populations two male birds were trained to slide a puzzle box door either to the left or to the right. In three control groups two males were captured but not...
Twelve communities across Devon have been chosen to take part in a pioneering new partnership project to test how they can support their local libraries and expand the services they provide.
Devon County Council will work with the dedicated community groups to help shape the new organisation and try out new ways of involving local people so they can have more say on how their library is run.
Those chosen include Colyton, Bampton, Moretonhampstead and Ottery St Mary.
Topsham Library has been working with the Estuary League of Friends and will also form part of the...
On Wednesday 10 December Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is launching a pop-up cinema event with five exhibitions in diverse themes held by MA students in International Film Business from University of Exeter.
Pop-up cinema is in the air. As one of the most influential Exeter local museums, it is the second time in 2014 for the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum to hold a pop-up cinema event which will create a bigger impact to the local film and other creative industry.
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is home to one of the largest collections of material on the moving image in Britain....
The decision announced by the Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to only provide one hearing aid for people who have hearing loss in both ears has caused concern at the National Deaf Children’s Society.
As the leading charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people, the National Deaf Children’s Society is raising concerns today around the lack of consultation and evidence base being used before the CCG made their decision.
Speaking on behalf of the National Deaf Children’s Society, Sarah Collinson...
