National Mills Weekend is the annual festival of the UK's milling heritage, and the chance for everyone to explore their local mills!
Join Devon Wildlife Trust for a morning of milling and watch the historic mill come alive! Volunteer millers will be on hand to show visitors how wheat is ground into flour using waterpower. If you feel inspired to get baking, the stone-ground wholemeal flour is available to buy.
There will also be a mobile wood fired pizza oven and craft activities.
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 is the only vintage event at Wiscombe Park, each season with an impressive array of vintage cars will be at the centre of the action in the superb parkland setting of Wiscombe Park. Competition is usually intense and in some instances the winning margin can be a mere 1/100th of a second. View the cars in the competitors paddock and browse the trade stands.
Patricia Volk was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and has been creating distinctive ceramic sculptures for over twenty years from her studio in Wiltshire.
She studied three dimensional design at Middlesex University and ceramics at Bath Spa University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Chichester Cathedral and the Royal West of England Academy, also appearing in the collections of Lord Carrington, the British Consul (Ivory Coast) and Mary Portas. She was Regional Winner of the ING “Discerning Eye” prize in 2007 and was shortlisted for the...
Is it possible to have a conversation with a metal? This is the intriguing question artist Simon Pope has asked himself, and others, as part of a project on Dartmoor commissioned by Spacex titled ‘A Song, A Dance, And A New Stannary Parliament’.
The answer will be found out at the premiere of ‘Ballad of the Tin’ on 10th May at Spacex as Pope and his collaborators, revered Devon folk musicians Jim Causely and Bill Murray, perform this new song and others, based on research into the tin mining heritage of Dartmoor collected over the past year.
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.
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.
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
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
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,...
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...
