Bringing colour back to Mondays is from a photo on the website of Exeter's unique community singing group Forever Young Sing for Fun - http://singforfun.yolasite.com - Have a look and see why people spend two hours in a darkened room on a Monday evening.
Come along to St Sidwell's School at 7pm and ask those who enjoy a sing-for-fun session (£3.50 pay-on-the-door).
Can a community singing group survive if it does not depend on a leader, is not a choir and does not rehearse, nor give public performances or have auditions or have any expectations that you can read...
Finzi Ceremonial Ode to St Cecilia Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music Shostakovich Festive Overture
Tickets available from www.exeterschool.org.uk
Prices for the concert are £16 (in the main body of the nave), £11 (towards the back of the nave) and £8 (unreserved side seats). These unreserved tickets offer good sound, although vision can be restricted. There are reductions for children.
People with special access requirements are asked to contact the Box Office on (01392) 458934.
In recognition of the World War One centenary, Exeter University Choral Society is performing Karl Jenkins' highly acclaimed work The Armed Man (together with a chamber orchestra)
Tickets (£12 front nave, £10 rear nave, £8 side aisles) from euchoraltickets@gmail.com or buy online by clicking here
About the work
The Mass begins with a marching army and the beat of military drums, the orchestra gradually building to the choir’s entrance, singing the 15th-century theme tune – The Armed Man. After the scene is set, the style and pace changes and we are prepared for...
Three East Devon Dsitrict Council employees got up early to help promote blood and organ donation in Axminster.
The trio from EDDC’s StreetScene team were helping Jo Seddon from NHS Blood and Transplant with a new campaign.
Dave Seal, Graham Trude and Jerry Preston were in the town centre at 6am hanging woollen blood drops in a tree.
Anyone wanting more information can visit www.blood.co.uk or go along to the church in the centre of Axminster to see the tree in all its glory and get more information from a stall in the square.
The Rotary Club of Exmouth & District is delighted to announce that a “Last Night of the Rotary Proms” concert at Exeter Cathedral to celebrate the Centenary of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland will be held on the evening of March 1st 2014.
Monies from the event will be going to three charities, the Childrens Hospice South West, at Little Bridge House, Barnstaple; Devon Air Ambulance Trust and the End Polio Now initiative from the Rotary Foundation, Rotary’s own charity.
Entertainment for the evening will be provided by the Military Wives choirs from...
The highly acclaimed group of former girl choristers will be performing a selection of spiritual and more light-hearted songs to help raise funds for the Cathedral Choir Tour Fund.
Adults £8, Children £5
Tickets include refreshments in the interval and are available from the Cathedral Shop (01392 271354) or Exeter Cathedral School (01392 255298)
Dartmoor Training Area and Okehampton Battle Camp were the location of a simulated aviation incident for a training exercise recently. The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust’s Hazardous Area Response Team, who organised the exercise at Okehampton, were testing their capabilities, and those of several other agencies, in responding to a mass casualty exercise.
Exercise Indigo was designed to identify and explore the quality of care received by patients in a mass casualty situation and involved personnel from Devon and Cornwall Police, Devon and Somerset Fire and...
Residents in a DCH housing scheme in Exeter have come together for a ‘community clean up’. Arena Park’s Green Group braved the cold weather to get out on their estate to clean up their local park and hedgerows.
Lesley Browne, Community Development Worker at DCH, said: “Following the recent storms lots of litter has been blown around the estate and the residents wanted to proactively give the area a clean up. All ages came together to help out, DCH provided litter picks, protective gloves and collection bags to support the event.”
