Hip Hop Psych

Event Date: 
17/10/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Mama Stone's, Mary Arches Street, Exeter

Demystifying mental illness with beats and lyrics

Hip Hop Psych - an evening of dance with just4funkproductions ( www.just4funkproductions.com )

Hip Hop Psych Co-founded by Dr Akeem Sule and Dr Becky Inkster Hip-hop culture is a powerful vehicle for raising awareness about mental health. It is rich with references to psychiatric illnesses that have not been explored, dissected and documented until now. Hip Hop Psych act are the interface that links hip-hop with mental health.

Over 16s only

Free Admittance

Under 18s will need to leave the premises by...

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Exeter Garden Railway Show

Event Date: 
19/10/2013 - 10:00am
Venue: 
The Matford Centre, Matford Park Road, Exeter

The Exeter Garden Railway Show is the largest of its kind in the far South West and makes a fabulous day out for all the family.

The aim of the show is to promote the garden railway hobby from O gauge to Scale 3 and everything in between.

The 2013 show will be the South Devon Garden Railway Group’s 13th and promises to be bigger and better than ever with over 60 layouts and trade stands promised in more than 2000 sq metres of exhibition space.

There will be lots of operating live steam, electric and vintage exhibition layouts in standard and narrow gauges as well as...

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John Grant

Event Date: 
16/10/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Lemon Grove, University of Exeter

John Grant (born 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. Formerly associated with the Denver-based alternative rock band The Czars in the 1990s and early 2000s, he launched a career as a solo artist in 2010.

It’s been an extraordinary journey for John Grant, from a point where he thought he would never make music again or escape a life of substance abuse to winning awards and accolades, collaborating with Sinead O’Connor, Rumer and Hercules and Love Affair and having his music featured in the award-winning film Weekend.

Tickets: £16.

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Could and should Exeter get its own currency?

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Fri, 09/27/2013 - 2:59pm

A presentation on the success of the Bristol Pound Project was given at a public meeting at St. Stephens’s Church on Thursday night (26 September). Chris Sunderland, Director of the project, gave an overview of some of the successes and challenges of the Bristol Pound Project and discussed the potential benefits of bringing in a local currency to Exeter. He spoke about council support in the Bristol Pound Project after a period of hesitation, Chris said: “very early on we asked the council about accepting business rates in Bristol Pounds and they looked at us like we were stupid. “The next...

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Exeter Chiefs name side to face the Tigers on Sunday

Rob Baxter knows all too well there is no hiding place when it comes to the Aviva Premiership and Sunday's visit of reigning champions Leicester Tigers to Sandy Park offers him and his Exeter Chiefs squad a formidable weekend work-out. After successive league wins over London Wasps and London Irish, the Chiefs have spent this past week readying themselves for what will be a key date in their seasonal programme. The Tigers, like the Chiefs, have recorded two wins from three starts so far this term and will arrive in Devon looking to keep pace with unbeaten leaders Saracens at the summit....

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Babyshambles

Event Date: 
20/10/2013 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, University of Exeter

Currently putting the finishing touches to their third album, British indie-rock band Babyshambles, formed and fronted by the infamous Peter Doherty, embark on an Autumn UK live tour for the first time since November 2010.

Click here to purchase tickets priced at £23.

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Sidmouth Town Band presents An Autumn Concert

Event Date: 
20/10/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth

Sidmouth Town Band presents An Autumn Concert

The Award winning Sidmouth Town Band present an autumn concert with a varied programme of music to entertain all ages.

Show starts at 7.30pm.

Tickets: £5.

Box office: 01395 514413

www.manorpavilion.com

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The Mikado

Event Date: 
08/10/2013 - 7:30pm to 12/10/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth

Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular comic opera set in Japan, but satirising British politics and institutions, and presented by the society which was brought you The Sound of Music, Oklahoma, Half a Sixpence and My Fair Lady in recent years.

Starring well known local artistes Sarah-Jane Berry, Debbie Broome, Kathy McLaughlan, Vicky Campbell, John Burgoyne, Steve Vernon, Selwyn Kussman, Nigel Broome and Brian Rees.

7.30pm daily, 2.30pm matinee on Saturday.

Tickets: £14/£10 children in full time education (matinee only).

Box office: 01395 514413

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Calendar Girls

Event Date: 
01/10/2013 - 7:45pm to 05/10/2013 - 7:45pm
Venue: 
Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth

Sidmouth Amatur Dramatic Society presents Calendar Girls

A group of extraordinary women, members of a very ordinary Yorkshire WI,persuade one another to pose for a charity calendar with a difference! Based on an uplifting and inspiring true story that is quirky, poignant and hilarious.

Guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and come out singing Jerusalem!

Supporting Exeter Leukaemia Fund.

Tickets: £10/£5 under 16s.

Box office: 01395 514413

www.manorpavilion.com

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RD&E portering manager's wheelchair innovation

Patients requiring the use of wheelchairs at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust are enjoying a better service thanks to the creative skills of a member of staff.

Jason Maddocks, portering manager at the RD&E, came up with an idea of how to improve the design of the current hospital wheelchair intravenous (I.V.) poles – an idea which also scooped an award at the hospital’s spring Extraordinary People Awards.

While transferring patients across the hospital, Jason had noticed that some medical pumps tended to slide down the current I.V pole and others became...

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