Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in concert.

Event Date: 
31/10/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, University of Exeter

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in concert.

Programme:

Holst : St Paul's Suite Elgar : Cello Concerto Brahms : Symphony No.2

Performers:

Conductor : Garry Walker Soloist: Andreas Brantelid (Cello) Inspired by the Baroque dance suites of Handel and Telemann and with echoes of folk simplicity, Holst's lithe and lively work is a musical delight. Elgar's last completed full-scale composition for orchestra, the Cello Concerto, written after the horrors of the Great War, is also full of backward glances to a past era. Imbued with an elegiac sense of nostalgia,...

Halloween Party For Little Terrors

Event Date: 
29/10/2013 - 5:00pm to 30/10/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Darts Farm, Topsham, Exeter

A spooky teatime party in the haunted Darts Farm tepees!

Put on your best Halloween fancy dress and join Darts Farm for their Halloween party in the haunted Tepees. Take part in spooky games and fun activities. Pick your free pumpkin fresh from the Darts Farm field and enter it into the pumpkin carving competition and prepare yourself for lots of treats, a delicious sausage and mash supper and marshmallow toasting!

Tuesday and Wednesday, 5pm-7.30pm.

Price: £12.50 per child (parents welcome to accompany child)

Age: four to 12 years

www.dartsfarm.co....

Spookley at Darts Farm

Event Date: 
28/10/2013 - 2:00pm to 30/10/2013 - 4:30pm
Venue: 
Darts Farm, Topsham, Exeter

Meet Spookley, a square pumpkin in a round pumpkin patch world at Darts Farm this October.

Children aged four to 12 are invited to spend a fun-filled afternoon on the farm, learning about pumpkin growing and enjoying the story of Spookley the Square Pumpkin, who overcomes bullying through showing kindness to others and making new friends along the way. As you take a walk around the pumpkin patch, children can pick their own pumpkins to decorate in the Darts Farm Teepees and enjoy a range of pumpkin treats and refreshments.

Monday to Wednesdasy, 2pm-4.30pm

Tickets £3...

Ride the Halloween Tram of Terror - if you dare!

Event Date: 
26/10/2013 - 10:30am to 31/10/2013 - 3:00pm
Venue: 
Seaton Tramway

Travel on the tram of terror during the half term break. The tram will depart from Seaton. Travel with our gruesome tram drivers to Colyton Station where there will be spooky entertainment.

Tickets:

Ticket price – tram ride, spooky entertainment and baddie bag (children only): adults £10, children (3-5) £8, children under 3 £4.

Advance booking essential, please contact 01297 20375

Rides at 10.30am, noon, 1.30pm amd 3pm.

www.tram.co.uk

A lot of thrills and spills, includes refreshments and entertainment, fancy dress, competition prizes, plus...

Electric Shock o' Horror Zombie Fest

Event Date: 
31/10/2013 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Seaton Tramway

Experience the dark side of Seaton Tramway, new for 2013 in our extreme fright night celebration of all things gory aboard the Electric Tram of Terror.

Meet Melchior Rattenbury the lunatic butcher, be prepared to be frightened witless by gruesome goings on along the Axe Estuary and at the Zombie infested Victorian station in Colyton where the population of this small hamlet turn into the undead on certain nights of the year.

This is not suitable for children under 12 and you may want your mummy and daddy with you whatever your age!

On arrival at Colyton Station you...

Electric Shock o' Horror Zombie Fest

Event Date: 
26/10/2013 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Seaton Tramway

Experience the dark side of Seaton Tramway, new for 2013 in our extreme fright night celebration of all things gory aboard the Electric Tram of Terror.

Meet Melchior Rattenbury the lunatic butcher, be prepared to be frightened witless by gruesome goings on along the Axe Estuary and at the Zombie infested Victorian station in Colyton where the population of this small hamlet turn into the undead on certain nights of the year.

This is not suitable for children under 12 and you may want your mummy and daddy with you whatever your age!

On arrival at Colyton Station you...

Music at St Michael's Evening Recital Series - Exeter Chorale

Event Date: 
11/12/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
St Michael’s Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter

Music at St Michael's: Evening Recital Series - Betts

A new music recital series starting this autumn at St Michael’s Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter.

All recitals are FREE OF CHARGE, and they include a wide variety of types and styles of music performed by professional/semi-professional musicians, young performers, local musicians and others.

Recital Programme:

Wednesday December 11: Exeter Chorale (music by Exeter composers)

Wednesday January 15: Emma Graham and Liz Grier: Harpe Noire (music for two harps)

All concerts commence at 7....

Music at St Michael's: Evening Recital Series

Event Date: 
13/11/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
St Michael’s Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter

Tonight: Matthew Wright (piano)

A new music recital series starting this autumn at St Michael’s Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter.

All recitals are FREE OF CHARGE, and they include a wide variety of types and styles of music performed by professional/semi-professional musicians, young performers, local musicians and others.

Recital Programme:

Wednesday November 13: Matthew Wright (piano)

Wednesday December 11: Exeter Chorale (music by Exeter composers)

Wednesday January 15: Emma Graham and Liz Grier: Harpe Noire (music for two harps)

All...

Music at St Michael's Evening Recital Series: Clive Betts

Event Date: 
23/10/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
St Michael’s Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter

A new music recital series starting this autumn at St Michael’s Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter.

All recitals are FREE OF CHARGE, and they include a wide variety of types and styles of music performed by professional/semi-professional musicians, young performers, local musicians and others.

Recital Programme:

Wednesday October 23: Clive Betts (classical guitar)

Wednesday November 13: Matthew Wright (piano)

Wednesday December 11: Exeter Chorale (music by Exeter composers)

Wednesday January 15: Emma Graham and Liz Grier: Harpe Noire (music for two...

Two Moors Festival: Britten Noye's Flood

Event Date: 
23/10/2013 - 9:30am
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

The Two Moors Festival is staging a production of Britten's 'Noye's Fludde' that will involve many children from Dartmoor and Exmoor - children whose schools are so remote that they have little chance to take part in professional musical events.

Directed by Thomas Guthrie and with BBC Radio 3's Petroc Trelawny as God, this will be an epic performance in keeping with the Festival's theme of 'Light'. Over a hundred youngsters will be singing and playing animals going into the ark two by two.

Some believe this work to be the finest that Britten ever composed. He cleverly...

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