Exeter Pride 2014

Event Date: 
10/05/2014 - 12:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter

EXETER will host the largest rainbow flag parade the city has seen as part of the biggest, free celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities in the region.

It promises to be the biggest, most colourful event to date with more than 2,000 people expected to take part in the parade down Exeter's HIgh Street and attend a full programme of activities held at Exeter Phoenix in Gandy Street. Community groups, firefighters, police, students, trade union groups and individuals will be among those taking part in the parade.

The parade will include many...

500 Owners Club Annual Wiscombe Park Hill Climb

Event Date: 
10/05/2014 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Wiscombe Park, Southleigh, Colyton

Speed hill climbing is one of the oldest forms of motorsport but it still continues to thrill and excite drivers, riders and spectators alike.

This meeting sees motorcycles and motorcycle-engined cars take centre stage along with local competitors and a number of drivers from the following day's vintage event who will be taking the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the track.

Competition is usually intense and in some instances the winning margin can be a mere 1/100th of a second.

10am-5pm

Tickets £7, accompanied children under 14 free.

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South West Embroiderers' Guild Regional Festival Day

Event Date: 
10/05/2014 - 9:00am
Venue: 
Bicton College, East Budleigh

Exeter & District branch will be hosting the 2014 Regional Festival at Bicton College.

Madeira sponsored lecture by Maggie Grey and talk by Jane Hall. Exhibition of Branch members' work, competitions for Adults and Young Embroiderers, trade stalls, as well as a raffle, tombola and lucky dip.

Tickets will be £28.00 including lunch and refreshments, available from January 2014.

For further details contact: Teri-Anne Hornby: 01392 424029,33 East Avenue, Exeter EX1 2DX, or email tmhornby@exeter.ac.uk

Open 9am-4pm.

Infinity Social Lub: Luke Haines with support from Sketchy

Event Date: 
09/05/2014 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Spacex Gallery, Preston Street, Exeter

Luke Haines (formerly of The Auteurs, Baader-Meinhof and Black Box Recorder) will premier a new rock opera written in collaboration with artist Scott King. This event will also mark the release of King's new book Anish and Antony Take Afghanistan (2014), published by Spacex in parntership with Herald St, London

Tickets, £8/£6 are now on sale from Exeter Phoenix Box Office 01392 667080 or online from www.exeterphoenix.org.uk

ISC (Infinity Social Club) is a Spacex's new alliance for those interested in live music and performance

http://spacex.org.uk/

The Sixteen

Event Date: 
08/05/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

For its 14th Choral Pilgrimage The Sixteen and Harry Christophers revisit the golden age of renaissance polyphony with a stunning programme of music by English composers John Sheppard, Richard Davy and William Mundy.

Mundy's monumental work Vox patris caelestis, the text of which comes from the Song of Songs, can be considered as the culmination of the great antiphon tradition, while Sheppard's musical style contains all the grandness of English harmonic invention. This year's programme includes Sheppard's glorious seven-part work Libera nos as well as his sublime Gaude, gaude,...

6th Exeter Pride set to be the biggest yet

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 05/05/2014 - 11:03am

The Lord Mayor of Exeter will sound an air horn to start the South West's biggest free celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities in the region.

Councillor Rachel Lyons will, at noon, start the largest rainbow flag parade the city has seen as part of Exeter Pride on Saturday 10 May.

Preparations are well in hand for what will be the sixth Exeter Pride.

It promises to be the biggest, most colourful event to date with more than 2,000 people expected to take part in the parade down Exeter's High Street and attend a full programme of...

Treasure hunt brings riches for ELF

A treasure hunt around Southernhay, organised by the Exeter office of property consultancy JLL, has raised £380 for Exeter Leukaemia Fund (ELF) - a local charity that supports people affected by leukaemia, lymphoma and other blood conditions.

Eight teams from businesses across Exeter took part in JLL’s first Southernhay Treasure Hunt, each battling it out to be the first team back to base having successfully solved all the clues. The winning team was from financial company Investec Wealth & Investment.

Each team that completed the treasure hunt was awarded a gift bag...

Chiefs beaten by Harlequins

Authored by Mark Stevens
Posted: Sun, 05/04/2014 - 11:39pm

Chiefs 29 Harlequins 30

Exeter Chiefs saw their hopes of lining up alongside Europe’s elite next season finally ended as a late Tom Guest have Harlequins a narrow victory in a pulsating encounter at Sandy Park.

The Quins’ replacement crossed with just minutes remaining to ensure the Londoners – who had not led until that point – not only headed back to the capital with all five points, but at the same time kept alive their own hopes of being in the Aviva Premiership’s end of season play-offs.

It was indeed a bitter pill to swallow for the Chiefs who, it has to be...

A Midsummer Concert

Event Date: 
14/06/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Offwell Village Hall, near Honiton

A group of conservation volunteers have teamed up with a local choir to raise funds for a planned new Jurassic Coast visitor centre.

Volunteers from Devon Wildlife Trust’s East Devon Local Group have come together with the musical talents of Axe Valley Community Choir to stage ‘A Midsummer Concert’ on Saturday 14 June, 7.30pm, at Offwell Village Hall, near Honiton. The organisers hope to raise money for Seaton Jurassic, a new visitor centre based at Seaton.

Seaton Jurassic is the new exciting visitor attraction for East Devon that will tell the uniquely powerful story of...

Concert will raise funds for Seaton Jurassic

A group of conservation volunteers have teamed up with a local choir to raise funds for a planned new Jurassic Coast visitor centre.

Volunteers from Devon Wildlife Trust’s East Devon Local Group have come together with the musical talents of Axe Valley Community Choir to stage ‘A Midsummer Concert’ on Saturday 14 June, 7.30pm, at Offwell Village Hall, near Honiton. The organisers hope to raise money for Seaton Jurassic, a new visitor centre based at Seaton.

Seaton Jurassic is the new exciting visitor attraction for East Devon that will tell the uniquely powerful story of...

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