A series of artists’ talks in association with Exeter College’s Centre for Creative Industries. Limited places available to the public.
Laura Reeves
Laura Reeves (b.1987) grew up in Exeter but now lives and works in Swansea. Laura graduated from Cardiff School of Art and Design in 2012 specialising in sculpture and received the Eistedfodd Young Artist Scholarship shortly afterwards. Laura will discuss the transition from recent graduate to artist.
France / Poland, 2013, 96 mins. Dir. Roman Polanski
Alone in a Paris theatre after a long day of auditioning for the lead role in his new play, writer-director Thomas complains that no-one has what it takes to play his lead female characters. When actress Vanda bursts in, a whirlwind of erratic-and erotic-energy things change Thomas see everything he has been lamenting. She is pushy, foul-mouthed, desperate and ill-prepared-or so it seems. But when he, reluctantly, agrees to let her try out for the part, he is stunned and captivated by her transformation. Not only is Vanda a...
London-based singer/songwriter Lewis Watson got his start in music by quietly uploading cover versions of his favorite songs to a sleepy YouTube account in 2010.
The singer’s spare acoustic guitar complemented his booming and slightly soulful voice on covers of tunes by the Knife, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bon Iver, and others, and before long he was uploading his own original compositions to great response. Watson began playing out in support of larger acts, and after a gig with his former music teacher Joe Porter, Porter offered up his production services in the recording of Watson’s...
Throw all the genres and hyphenates together you want to describe her – indie, roots and soul, rock, blues and country – they are all right, and also not enough.
Chastity Brown writes songs that are carried deep in the American psyche, the hunger, desperation and confidence that runs through our times. Coming from Tennessee to Minnesota, touring the country, touring Europe, she has had half her own lifetime and million lifetimes gone before her to concoct her powerful sound. She’s been hailed by NPR, CMT, American Songwriter, The London Times, and Paste Magazine as a songwriter to...
Kris Drever’s voice and guitar forms part of the backbone of today’s contemporary roots scene.
A member of Lau, a band widely regarded as the epicentre of the new folk boom, and winners of the BBC Folk Award for Best Band for three years running, Kris is also widely admired as a solo artist and collaborator.
Kris will be playing with Éamonn Coyne, a leading figure in the youngest generation of Irish folk musicians.
Devon and Cornwall Poilce officers are joining their colleagues across Europe in a week-long speed enforcement operation.
During the campaign, co-ordinated by the European Traffic Police Network (TISPOL), officers will use a number of speed detection methods across all types of road.
The purpose of the operation is to raise awareness of the dangers of speeding, and to remind drivers of the benefits for all road users of driving at speeds that are both legal and appropriate.
“We urge all drivers to challenge their own attitude to speeding,” says TISPOL President Koen...
Courts wasted an estimated £230 million of taxpayers’ money last year by needlessly locking up people on remand, figures published by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveal today. During 2013, more than 35,000 people who had been remanded in custody went on to be either acquitted or given non-custodial sentences. The money spent on keeping them in prison would have been enough to build 16 new secondary schools, pay 10,000 nurses for a year, or reverse the government’s cuts to the criminal legal aid budget. Of the 36,044 men, women and children who were remanded into custody by...
Would a stranger save your life? It may depend on who you are, where you live and whether you’ve got a family, according to a survey for Anthony Nolan, a charity which relies on the kindness of strangers.
People in the South West are more likely to come to the aid of their pet than to help a male or teenage stranger in danger, new research has revealed.
A poll conducted for the blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan found that overwhelmingly, over four out of five people in the South West (86%) would be willing to help their pet if it was in danger.
