Devon based artist Diane Bailey is proud to have received a BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 Award. She reached the finals with not one but two paintings, one of which went on to be voted overall winner in the category British Mammals. There were a record-breaking number of entries this year -1,407 - and very high standard, but eventually the first round judges reduced the original entries to just 122 paintings including two by Diane. “There was strong competition, and given the extremely high calibre of work from some very well-known artists, I was honoured to reach the finals, and...
The Exeter Picturehouse has announced a new season of live broadcasts by satellite from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Tickets for a brand new season of ten live productions from the Royal Opera House on the big screen at the Exeter Picturehouse are now on general sale.
The programme of performances for the 2013/14 season:
Tuesday 17 September, 7.15pm The Royal Opera: Turandot
Wednesday 16 October, 7.15pm The Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
Monday 4 November, 5.45pm The Royal Opera: Les Vêpres Siciliennes
Featuring killer one-liners delivered at break neck speed from a rake-thin ginger haired misfit in a myriad of voices, Andrew Lawrence, fresh from BBC1′s Live At The Apollo, and his own BBC Radio 4 series How Did We End Up Like This?, brings a whole new show to the Comedy Hall in Tiverton for the start of his ‘There’s No Escape’ tour.
The suited and booted Lawrence, who plays on his ‘creepy’ looks (he’s not really creepy looking, just charmingly self-deprecating with an instantly recognisable face) seems not even to pause for breath as he works himself into a rage about life’s...
As hordes of screaming ‘Directioners’ prepare for the UK release of One Direction: This Is Us 3D, Vue Entertainment has ordered 20,000 pairs of earplugs for the army of parents and chaperones caught up in the midst of this modern day Beatle-mania.
Available across all 82 Vue cinemas nationwide, the complimentary earplugs will ensure that accompanying chaperones can enjoy the film without being worried by the high-levels of expected screaming and shouting in the auditoriums during the screenings.
Humans are capable of screaming as loud as 120 decibels, which is the same as...
Tesco are asking the public to nominate mums for their Mum of the Year Awards 2014. The supermarket is looking for mums who make a difference in their community and to other people by their work, their passion and by just being a great mum. The public are asked to send in details of mums who raise money for charity, help in the local area, support their families in difficult times and generally give back to others. Speaking in her role as Celebrity Ambassador, Denise van Outen (pictured) said, ”Mums are so important and are our country’s true unsung heroes. There are so many mums across...
September sees the latest ‘Great Devon Breakfast’ events taking place all over the county in aid of FORCE Cancer Charity. In 2012, this event raised nearly £10,000 for FORCE, and our April venues have already brought in a fantastic £5,000 this year.
We’d love to raise even more, so please go along to support your local ‘Great Devon Breakfast’ if you’re able to.
There are venues open to the public every weekend in September - in Woodbury Salterton, Bovey Tracey, Talaton, Withycombe, Sidford and Willand respectively.
For individual dates, venues and timings, please...
TV favourite Kirstie Allsopp has decorated a unique piece of three-dimensional charity art - a life-size gorilla.
The presenter, interior designer, crafts and property expert has come up with a design as part of Paignton Zoo’s Great Gorillas Project.
The project is celebrating the 90th birthday of the region’s largest and best-known zoo, Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, and is raising money for charity. Life-size model gorillas have been sponsored by businesses, painted in original designs by specially-commissioned artists and displayed in public, creating a unique free art...
Experience a unique combination of live dance acts and character movement jockeys topped with a fresh musical quenching from the South West’s finest bands and DJs. One ticket – twice the fun!
Tickets: £5 on the door.
For performance information and ticket sales please visit www.exeterphoenix.org.uk or contact Anna on 07531 888688, email icandidance@gmail.com
Over five nights in September, Devon-based art collective Blind Ditch will complete their contemporary portrait of Exeter with a series of multi-platform performances in an empty office space. Combining live video streaming from city centre homes, live performance both in the space and on the city’s streets, and interaction with an online audience, This City’s Centre 3: Here, Now invites us to discover more about how daily life in a British provincial city shapes us, our behaviour and our dreams for change. Showing as part of Unexpected, Exeter's new arts festival.
