Find timeless, historical garments transformed from natural fibres to catwalk fashion in our latest costume exhibition 'the nature of fashion'. This latest exhibition highlights the skills and processes involved in creating intricate cotton, wool, linen and silk garments from raw materials.
Motherland will be premiering on February 22nd 2014.
This brand new production from Exeter based Stage Wright Productions, charts the rather intriguing life of Dr Marie Stopes.
We join her as her once pioneering birth control practice and methods have fallen out of fashion. To make matters worse, her unconventional methods of promoting birth control and extremely suspect qualifications have alienated the Doctor from the Family Planning Association.
This wartime black comedy takes you deep into the world of Stopes' medical practices, thoughts and somewhat dubious...
The value of construction projects in the UK has rocketed by 67.1 per cent in the last year, according to a report published today. New project contracts awarded in December 2013 totalled £6 billion, compared to £3.6 bn in the same month in 2012.
The infrastructure sector proved to be an area of significant growth last month, with the total value of projects awarded reaching £2.2 billion, a 10.6 per cent increase from November 2013 and a huge 101.6 per cent year-on-year growth.
These latest figures, taken from Barbour ABI’s Economic & Construction Market Review, also...
Exeter-based Blue Chip Holidays, the South West’s largest four and five star self catering holiday specialist, has announced the launch of its new lodge holiday concept with the appointment of Sam Wrigglesworth who joins the business as Head of Lodges. Sam joins from Hoseasons Holidays where he was Business Development Manager with responsibility for the growth of its Lodges and Parks division nationally.
Sam’s appointment is part of Blue Chip Holidays’ ambitious plans to increase its property portfolio from 890 properties to in excess of 1,200. The launch of the new lodge division...
In recognition of the World War One centenary, Exeter University Choral Society is performing Karl Jenkins’ highly acclaimed work; ‘The Armed Man’ in the atmospheric Cathedral. Dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo Crisis, Jenkins intended this piece to have an anti-war stance. Jenkins acheives this through the use of diverse cross-cultural styles of music, including the Catholic Mass, a fifteenth century folk song entitled ‘L’Homme armé’ and a Muezzin soloist. The text also includes influences from the Bible, the Mahabharata and Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Hymn Before Action’. ‘The Armed Man’ is...
Devon has added another success story to its books, with the announcement that Exeter girl group Wildwood Kin have won in the Open Mic UK Competition.
Open Mic UK offers entrants not only the chance to win prizes, but the opportunity to perform live to capacity audiences at some of the best venues in the country, with the Grand Final being held at The NEC in Birmingham! Huge crowds, record industry A & R and celebrity judges are there to cast their eye over the talent along the way.
Exeter girl group Wildwood Kin impressed judges at the audition stages and during a...
Colyton Grammer School in East Devon has received the best GCSE results in the country for the second year running according to the latest school league tables.
The news is perhaps no surprise as the school, which only takes in pupils in the top 25% of the abiltity range, has been named as the Sunday Time’s ‘Co—Educational School of the Year’ on no fewer four occasions.
Headteacher Paul Evans said of the school’s success: “Its a magic formula at Colyton; a group of students who are committed and clearly very able, a very hardworking and talented staff that constantly amaze...
An Exeter-based business has announced that Hospiscare will be their charity of year for 2014.
Management training and coaching business, Crisp Professional Development (CPD), recently announced their partnership with the charity, donating £5 to Hospiscare for every person booked onto an open course in 2014. Managing Director Shaun Durham said the CPD team is looking forward to supporting a local charity that does such valuable work within the community.
He said: “We are very pleased to have chosen Hospiscare for our charity of the year for 2014. As a local charity...
Soap Soup re-invent the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood for a new generation. Meet Ethel and Sam as they get ready for bed, with a not so sweet bedtime story of a girl with attitude, a wolf with an appetite and a larger than life woodcutter with an axe and a very real fear of wolves. Join Red as she crosses eiderdown meadows and picks her way through the mug tree forest to Grandma’s house. Little Red Riding Hood combines the magical appeal of puppetry, and cutting edge, original music with our signature, darkly humorous and visually stunning style. Drawing inspiration from childhood...
Following their sell-out show A Little Nonsense at Exeter Ignite festival and Brighton Fringe, Juncture Theatre return to develop STUFF – a new work inspired by the things we own, the role that possessions play in our lives and the stories that they tell. The company will embark on a real life treasure hunt, meeting and documenting encounters with people who are selling, swapping or searching in the Free Ads. Through a patchwork of intricate storytelling, illustration, live music and obsessive list-making, Juncture will explore memory, security and the relationships we form with the stuff...
