If you want to get stuck in and learn new skills in the kitchen then you can purchase hands-on cooking masterclasses, starting at £10 a session. There is plenty to keep you entertained within the entrance fee too, be it live cookery demos, English wine tastings or foodie debates.
On Saturday (hoedown collective Cut ‘a’ Shine) and Sunday (Papa Le Gal) evening there will be the added bonus of live music so you can end your fun filled day with a good ol’ knees up. Your kids will enjoy falconry displays, pig racing, hula hooping, face painting and, for the first time, zorbing.
2014 marks the Canal’s 200th birthday and to celebrate this significant milestone the Canal has been given the honour of hosting of the IWA National Trailboat Festival over the late May bank holiday weekend.
The IWA National Trailboat Festival is an annual boating festival belonging to the Inland Waterways Association, but run by a different canal society or navigation authority somewhere in the UK each year. It is primarily a festival for trailed boats, which are towed to the waterway and launched at a slipway.
However, there is usually a significant land-based element to...
Escot'scheeky family of otters give visitors hours of fun.
They support the conservation and protection of otters in the wild and to raise money for this cause (and to have some fun) and have devised a fun family otter trail for you to match otter facts to the right otter with a prize for all completed clue sheets!
The main event of this year's Grand Western Canal's IWA National Trailboat Festival will be the Grand Western 200 on Saturday 24th May, taking place at the Mid Devon Showground, near Tiverton. The event will be open from 10.30am to 5pm.
1. Come and see some 30 - 40 colourful boats moored along the waters edge. 2. Enjoy a packed programme of entertainment with live music on our main music stage and performers in the main arena. Details of the whole event are available on the website or from the pdf download link. 3. Sample some great local food and enjoy the real ale and cider bar...
An evening music recital series starting this autumn at St Michael’s Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter.
All recitals are FREE OF CHARGE, and they include a wide variety of types and styles of music performed by professional/semi-professional musicians, young performers, local musicians and others.
Wednesday May 21, 7.30pm: Alex West (organ)
A retiring collection will be taken. Proceeds will be used for the work and upkeep of the church.
St Michael’s Church is a place of Christian worship and a lively centre for musical, cultural, heritage and conservation...
Exmouth Carnival will be holding their annual Carnival Spring Fun Day on Saturday 17th May in The Strand, Exmouth between 9.00am and 5.00pm.
There will be 60+ stalls selling handmade crafts and jewellery, toys, cup cakes, clothing, ceramics, food, drinks and lots, lots more.
In addition to this we will have face painting, a bouncy castle, a children’s entertainer, balloon modeller and birds of prey. We will also be crowning this year’s carnival royalty.
There will also be entertainment running throughout the day by local groups and societies. Expect interactive...
Meeting and talk with local bird experts from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Join them for a 20 to 30 minute walk around the museum to see the wildlife on display.
iscover 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.
Dame Penelope Lively’s most recent book, the best-selling Ammonites & Leaping Fish: A Life in Time, brings her characteristic shrewdness, humour and wisdom to bear on being eighty, memory, her own life and times, reading and writing and, from the context of her house, “six of the objects that articulate something of who I am”.
In conversation with the Exeter-based poet Lawrence Sail, whose 2013 collection of essays The Key to Clover has affinities of theme and approach, she discusses “the view from old age”.
Making plans for the Bank Holiday weekend? You’ll find something for all the family in our round-up of what’s on in and around Exeter.
THEATRE
Ed Byrne: Roaring Forties Friday, 8pm, Exeter Corn Exchange A self-confessed "miserable old git" since the age of 23, Ed Byrne is now in his 40s. While for others this might result in a crisis that prompts the purchase of a sportscar, Ed embraces middle age with open arms. Join him, as he truly comes of age and gives out his clarion cry: "I am in my Forties. HEAR ME ROAR!" Tickets £23. www.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange
Filmmaker Julian Cole first met Gilbert & George when he modelled for them in 1986. His intimate and moving portrait, filmed over 18 years, reveals for the first time the individuals behind the living sculptures. The film traces their lives from humble beginnings to the world’s artistic stage where they have performed their enigmatic and controversial double act for four decades.
Accompanying the RAMM exhibition, Gilbert & George | ARTIST ROOMS.
Tickets £5.50 (£4.50) from Exeter Phoenix box office, 01392 667080 or ww....
