Newtown Community Association is gearing up for an Art Café, which will take place this Sunday, 9 June at the main hut in Belmont Park from 2pm-4pm.
As well as a painting activity with Exeter Scrapstore, there will be live music mostly from young string player 'The J Strings' – which is the St James School string group – Exeter Young Strings, and also a young string band will be doing a few tunes.
After that, there will be an open session for anyone to play a few tunes.
Exeter Chiefs will play host to the reigning Heineken Cup champions Toulon following today's draw held at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.
Jonny Wilkinson and the star-studded French outfit will be heading for Sandy Park next season alongside Cardiff Blues and Glasgow Warriors after the Chiefs were pitted in Pool Two of Europe's top cup competition.
Again it's a dream draw for the Devon club, whose chief executive, Tony Rowe OBE, described today's announcement as "fantastic".
"It's another fantastic draw for the club," said Rowe. "Last year we were pitted against the...
Members of the national trade union Unite staged a peaceful protest outside John Lewis in Exeter yesterday lunchtime as part of a national effort to put pressure on stockists of Siemens products. Unite argues that although Siemens has had a positive 'human rights' record' in the past, the company is currently "falling short of their own 'Code of Conduct' by continuing to work with two construction companies that are proven 'blacklisters' who victimised trade unionists and are now at the centre of allegations of continued persecution.
Mid Summer Music in the Parish Church at Sidmouth given by the Exeter Chamber Choir and their musical director Andrew Daldorph.
Relax and enjoy a programme of madrigals and songs suitable for the season with American choral music by Ola Gjeilo and Stephen Paulus and English Choral music by Healey Willan.
Tickets are available in advance via the online booking book at www.exeterchamberchoir.co.uk or by telephoning Keith Wainwright on 01404 813041.
Exeter Chamber Choir was formed in 1997 from a nucleus of leading Devon-based singers. Previous musical directors include...
Members of Devon law firm, Gilbert Stephens LLP, are taking to the saddle for FORCE’s Century Cycle Challenge, which takes place on Sunday 30 June from Topsham Rugby Club.
The event offers either a 55- or 100-mile cycle from Topsham Rugby Club to Tiverton. The 100-mile ride heads up to Dulverton and over the top of Exmoor, down to South Molton and then meets up with the 55-mile cyclists. Participants then head across country to Morchard Road and back to Topsham via Crediton.
Four members from Gilbert Stephens will be riding to raise money for the cancer charity, which is...
This exhibition explores the life-giving potential of ‘discarded’ body parts and their relationship to myths, history, cutting edge stem cell research and notions of what constitutes informed consent.
The art works are sculptural, incorporating milk teeth donated by children and bones and fat from living, consenting donors.
Wasted is produced by Gina Czarnecki in collaboration with Professor Sara Rankin, Imperial College London. The body, its limits and unexplored possibilities for self-regeneration form the basis of a four year body of research culminating in this ground...
Staff and volunteers at Overbeck’s near Salcombe are to present a very special open evening on Friday 7 June to celebrate their first ever garden sculpture exhibition.
The sculptures chosen for the exhibition are as unique and spectacular as Overbeck’s sub-tropical garden which is perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea in one of Devon’s most exotic locations. The beautiful natural forms all around are the inspiration for the artworks, be they created in resin, ceramics or forged fabricated steel.
Entitled ‘An Uncommon Quest’, the exhibition is open from 11am to...
Angie Lunn, from Exeter, talks about her experience volunteering for WESC Foundation and why she wishes she had done it years ago.
What led you to volunteer for WESC Foundation?
I had been toying with the idea of volunteering for about four years before I took action to make it happen.
I was talking to a friend about her son who has attended WESC Foundation for the past ten years and met him on a sponsored walk and had such a lovely time in his company that I decided to enquire whether I could use some of my spare time and skills to help at WESC.
The Manfreds, with original front man Paul Jones, will be performing many of the tracks from the highly acclaimed album 'The Five Faces of Manfred Mann', which is to be re-released as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, along with a mix of their biggest hits and the jazz and blues songs for which they are famous.
Paul Jones, with his award winning harmonica sound, will be joined by Mike Hugg on keyboards, Tom McGuinness on lead guitar, Rob Townsend on drums, Marcus Cliffe on bass guitar and Simon Currie on saxophone/flute - all excellent musicians who will...
