Join us in our fun kitchen sessions to cook up a storm. Our Fun Kitchen sessions in Exeter are where you can meet like minded budding chefs to learn cooking techniques and produce some culinary masterpieces!
Join our very own Devon Life and Pride of Devon award-winning teacher, and fantastic team of teaching professionals who bring cooking to life!
You'll be making your own lunch, creating some tasty bakes, plus grown ups will love that you'll be making a family dish to take home at the end of the day!
Just bring yourselves - we provide ingredients, recipe cards to...
Homeless people in Teignbridge are being given the chance to live in their own home after Teignbridge District Council gained a £100,000 Government funding boost. Teignbridge has been given the Empty Homes Programme funding by the Homes and Communities Agency to bring empty homes back into use as affordable properties. Teignbridge was one of 10 authorities in the South West to benefit from the funding announced by Communities Minister Don Foster today (Thursday June 20). The council’s housing team will be working with private sector landlords to bring empty properties and commercial...
Why not take advantage of a long summer evening by attending an imaginative writing workshop at A la Ronde?
The workshop, held from 5.30pm to 8.30pm on Thursday 4 July, is led by short story writer, Meredith Miller.
Fiction and fiction and non-fiction prose is the focus and Meredith hopes to use the unique history of the property as a starting point to inspire writers of all levels to develop their voice and use their imagination. To get those literary and creative thought processes flowing there will be a pre-workshop guided tour of the house at 4pm.
Exeter’s most anticipated cinema event returns to Northernhay Gardens on 14 August with more fabulous al fresco films.
A different film will be shown each night on the 10m screen, there will be street food vendors, a cocktail caravan and film-themed activities.
Gates open at 7.30pm and films start at approximately 9pm. Tickets are £3.
This year’s films:
Wednesday 14 August: The Goonies (PG) Seven reject kids believe they have the key to pirate legend One-Eyed Willie and his hidden treasure. As they race to locate the loot they must battle villainous crooks...
A unique chance to learn how to beatbox from the best.
Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of producing drum beats, rhythm, and musical sounds using one’s mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.
TURNTEKK runs the course, and has extensive experience working with and engaging people of all ages, in a variety of settings, aiming to help build confidence, self esteem and create opportunities for participants to access culture in new and innovative ways.
This workshop will cover: Basic to advanced techniques including vocal kick, hi hat and...
Experiment with drawing and mark-making techniques using a variety of materials to unlock your creative potential. This fun and surprising workshop is suitable for all levels of ability and will also offer an insight into art history and contemporary art. Materials are provided.
Tickets: £15
Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/experimental-drawing-workshop-2/
Spikedrivers’ combination of gutsy slide guitar, rock-solid bass, infectious grooves and highly distinctive vocals, creates a sound that is uniquely their own.
They take you on a journey, from southern juke-joints and lazy front porches to the huge open spaces of dust bowls and railroad tracks disappearing into the distance…..
‘From the first note, Spikedrivers demand to be looked at and listened to.’ BLUES IN BRITAIN
County Sport Partnership Active Devon has today urged Devon people to get behind them and vote for the Devon Active Villages project to win the National Lottery Awards 2013. The project is competing against six other projects for the title of Best Sport Project and is the only local project in England in its category.
The Awards are an annual search to find the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects, and they aim to celebrate and recognise the difference that those projects have made to people, places and communities all across the UK. The project could be in with the chance of...
Dirt Pie Press is a small-scale not-for-profit publisher that has been producing the highly acclaimed Riptide ( www.riptidejournal.co.uk ) short story anthologies since 2007.
Each collection features work by established and up-and-coming authors but the aim is also to discover and encourage new writing talent.
Over the years Riptide collections have included stories by such luminaries as Michael Morpurgo, Helen Dunmore and Philip Hensher but also the first work by newer authors who have gone on to publish novels of their own, including some writers from Devon - Penny Feeney...
Local floristry College, The Academy of Floral Art, has recently released their first book, published by David & Charles, called Chic & Unique Flower Arrangements .
Comprising of over 35 stunning designs submitted by a range of talented florists, Donna Cann MDPF, Catherine Date NDSF Cert Ed and Amanda Randell MDPF including the authors Tina Parkes and Julie Collins who wanted to create a cookery-style book on floral table arrangements including an ingredients list, the recipe on how to make each design, tips, timings and skill knowledge required.
