Enjoy festive fun and games at St Nicholas Priory, a hidden jewel just a short walk from the city centre: The splendid Grade 1 listed building was originally part of Exeter’s first medieval monastery.
It is now presented as a richly furnished Tudor home in 1602 style based on evidence from inventories and archaeology.
From 11am to 1pm, herb women Elinor and Christina will be in the kitchen showing visitors how to prepare sweetmeats, decorations and delicacies for the Hursts’ Christmas celebrations.
Meet local bird experts from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
Discover underwater wonders around Devon’s shores, learn how bees are saving the UK millions of pounds a year, which piece of clothing inspired the RSPB’s origins and how everything from tigers to sparrows are being protected by local conservationists.
Wildlife Tours - 11am and 2pm
Join them for a 20 to 30 minute walk around the museum to see the wildlife on display.
An evening of haunting poetry readings from established and emerging writers, and older Gothic imaginings selected from the newly published Gothic Evolutions anthology edited by Corinna Wagner which will be launched tonight. Join us to revel in some of the most frightful and fiendish literature produced over the last two and a half centuries.
In association with the University of Exeter, Broadview Press and Uncut Poets. Part of the busy programme of events linked to RAMM’s major exhibition Art & Soul: Victorians and the Gothic.
This panel discussion promises a fascinating and entertaining evening. Key speakers will include Professor Ronald Hutton from Bristol University and Timothy Brittain-Caitlin, author of Bleak House: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture.
For the Victorians, the middle ages were central to debates on art, literature, religion, morality and social reform. Victorian medievalists bitterly opposed the Greek and Roman classical revival – but how did this division between the Gothic world of the medieval and classical ‘antiquity’ shape Victorian Britain?
One of the most popular and prominent items in RAMM’s Making History galleries is Caleb Hedgeland’s model of Georgian Exeter. Dr Sadru Bhanji will give a brief account of Hedgeland’s life and recount the history of the model. He will also describe the model and discuss how accurately it portrays Georgian Exeter.
The Friends support the museum with financial help towards acquisitions and conservation. Charity no 306649. W www.exeter.gov.uk/friends . E friends@exeter.gov.uk .
From 14 October, tickets will be available online or from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum reception...
NADFAS lecturer Julian Halsby will be talking about the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, how they discovered true colour from direct observation of nature and how they were the first artists to paint in the open air.
In addition to discussing the main artists, the role of John Ruskin as art critic, he will be talking specifically about paintings from the exhibition.
Organised by the RAMM Development Trust. Patrons two tickets for the price of one. Drinks available from 6 to 7pm for a £2 donation
Tickets £12 (£10)
Tickets are available online or from the Royal Albert...
Internationally acclaimed harpist, Elizabeth Jane Baldry, performs her own haunting score live to a screening of the 1922 horror film, Nosferatu.
This iconic film of German expressionist cinema was the first ever screen adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula – the original and landmark entry into the entire global genre of the horror film. More than eighty years since its release, it remains one of the most potent and disturbing horror films ever made. The sight of the hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire rising creakily from his coffin still retains the ability to chill the blood....
Devon author and painter Ray Balkwill describes his passion for his native county as ‘running as deep as the red earth itself’. This illustrated talk provides a fascinating glimpse into the artist’s personal and physical relationship with the landscape, and in particular his ‘love affair’ with the Exe Estuary.
As an Academician of the South West Academy and member of the St Ives Society of Artists, his words and paintings have carried the grandeur of our region far and wide. The evening will appeal to all those who are equally passionate about art and the landscape. Drinks will be...
In a fast follow up to In (and out of) His Mind, Robin Ince continues to prod into our brains with a sharpened pencil to try and work out just how much free will anyone can have. Is anyone a freethinker?
Looking at Milgram, Mcluhan and experiments into the mind, Robin tries to work out if we can arm ourselves against mass media despots and live life pragmatically or will we always just be clumsy animals justifying each mistake with a well-honed alibi? Well, it will be something like that – basically, another night of shouting, gesticulating,...
