Educating Rita

Event Date: 
21/02/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth

Uncommon Players presents Educating Rita Educating Rita is simply a marverllous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; an hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzcal half- happy ending.

Ticket Prices £12, £11concs.

http://www.manorpavilion.com/

Sidmouth Town Band and Sidmouth Gospel Choir in Concert

Event Date: 
22/02/2014 - 7:45pm
Venue: 
Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth

Lions Club of Sidmouth present Sidmouth Town Band and Sidmouth Gospel Choir in Concert

A great evening of popular, traditional and classical music from Sidmouth Town Band’s award winning musicians, plus harmonious songs performed by the superb singers of Sidmouth Gospel Choir.

Tickets: £9.

Box office: 01395 514413

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Spirit of the Drum

Event Date: 
28/02/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Kagemusha Taiko, one of the leading groups in Europe, have a new Taiko Centre at Seale Hayne. It’s a dedicated rehearsal space for the company’s 3 performing groups, and where taiko workshops and courses are open to all.

Since their last appearance at the Barnfield Theatre, Kagemusha Taiko have performed in the USA and Japan – where they played to great acclaim in Fukushima and other cities affected by the great tsunami disaster of 2011.

The group makes a welcome return, bringing with them members of Kagemusha Junior Taiko and Tano Taiko, for a hugely enjoyable family show...

Barnfield Music Festival: Clare Teal - The Divas and Me!

Event Date: 
22/02/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Our very own Queen of Swing celebrates the music of her heroines, the leading lights of the jazz and big band world Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Doris Day and many of their illustrious contemporaries.

The multi award winning singer and BBC Radio 2 broadcaster demonstrates also the influence these characters have had on her own acclaimed catalogue of work.

Known for her knowledge and love of the Great American Songbook and more recently The Great British Songbook. With wit and warmth Clare tells outrageous anecdotes of their extraordinary lives and points to the...

Barnfield Music Festival: FAB Beatles

Event Date: 
21/02/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Formed in 1991 – turning fully professional in 2000.

The faB Beatles are widely regarded as the most authentic ‘live’ tribute to the Beatles performing professionally all round the world today.

Chosen by the BBC as ‘the best’ in the UK and commissioned by EMI to promote the‘Beatles1’ CD.

Also after working with Paul Gallagher (brother of ‘Liam’ and ‘Noel’) are now acknowledged by the famous ‘Beatle-mad’ brothers themselves.

Each instrument and costume used is an exact replica of the real thing, even down to the drum kit used by the Fab Beatles which was used...

Barnfield Music Festival: Philliip Dyson - Fascinating Rhythm

Event Date: 
20/02/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

George Gershwin Fascinating Rhythm

75th Anniversary Concert

International Concert Pianist Phillip Dyson has been described as simply “brilliant”, with a “wonderfully dry, very British sense of humour” and a recent recital in New York City accredited him as nothing less than “magnificent”. A world class pianist and great entertainer, performing to ‘sell-out’ audiences around the world.

He broadcasts regularly for the BBCand Classic FM, performs with the most prestigious orchestras and has a great international reputation in Europe and America, gaining enormous...

Martyn Joseph

Event Date: 
18/02/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Martyn Joseph is as performer like no other.

He has been called “The Welsh Springsteen”, but there are also shades of John Mayer, Bruce Cockburn and Dave Matthews there may be – but he stands in his own right, built on a reputation for giving what thousands have described as the best live music experience of their lives.

Martyn’s ability to transcend preconceptions about how one man and a guitar can sound is testament to his talent and stage presence. In fact, you’d be forgiven for thinking that there’s more than one musician on stage. The shows are intelligently...

Duplicity

Event Date: 
14/02/2014 - 8:00pm to 15/02/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

London, 1977, Britain is celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and England is dreaming. Set against the volatile backdrop of the Punk Rock explosion, Duplicity follows the journey of identical twins, Tommy and Finn, as their sense of self and reality disintegrate into a maelstrom of anarchy, chaos and disorder.

Exploring themes of identity, duality and deceit, Duplicity is a new and original play that uses monologue, interwoven with action, projection and music to create a powerful and candid drama.

Tickets: £8.00 (£7.00) plus 5% fee per booking

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knitting communties together

Authored by Diana Moore
Posted: Wed, 01/22/2014 - 4:48pm

A knitting project, backed by a £22,000 grant and aimed at improving people’s wellbeing, is to be launched in Exeter.

The Knit-Stop is an Exeter-based social knitting project that will offer free, six-week knitting classes, to new groups in central Exeter from February.

The project has received a grant of £22,270 over two years from the People’s Health Trust, using money raised by HealthContact, through The Health Lottery.

Debbie Judd, The Knit Stop project coordinator said it was hoped than women and men of all ages, backgrounds and abilities would be inspired to...

Rise in Devon jobseeker numbers goes against national trend

The number of Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) claimants in Devon has increased slightly for the second month in a row.

During December 2013, the number of people claiming JSA increased by 88 claimants (1.3%) and now stands at 6,667.

Although this contrasts with the national trend, which has seen a decrease, the JSA claimant rate in Devon stands at 1.5% of the working age population, which is around half the national rate of 2.9%.

Likewise, over the last 12 months, the number of people claiming JSA has actually fallen by 2,606 claimants (a reduction of 28.1%), which is a...

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