This May half term children aged 5 - 11 are invited to come and experiment with our make-your-own-animation set designed by Animator Leon Cauchois. Design your characters, create them with plasticine and given them life through the medium of film! Young children must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets £5, booking essential.
Ignite is a 6 day celebration of new live performance work from the South West and beyond. It will host events in a number of venues across the city. It is an affordable opportunity for artists, performers and companies to preview their Edinburgh shows or as a local, alternative, exciting festival experience, aiming to create a diverse and inspiring summer festival programme.
Over 150 shows in eight venues: Exeter Phoenix / The Bike Shed Theatre / The Hour Glass / Cygnet Theatre / The City Gate / The Globe Inn / The Rusty Bike / Poltimore House.
A Devon farmer who is providing living proof that it is possible to build a successful farming business from scratch has been announced as this year’s winner of the John Neason Progressive Farming Award by the Devon County Agricultural Association. Anthony Thorne, of Thornes Farm Shop at Stockleigh Pomeroy near Crediton ( www.thornesfarmshop.co.uk ), is the winner of the award, which will be presented at the Devon County Show, on Friday 17 May. Anthony Thorne comes from a farming family and trained at agricultural college. He was determined to make a career in farming. He built up capital...
Exeter College is offering you the chance to win a pair of tickets to see its fantastic Media and Performing Arts students perform Peter Pan at the Barnfield Theatre on the date of your choice, as well as a mystery goody bag to collect on your arrival!
How it works It’s simple, between 7 and 16 of May, Tinker Bell will be magically appearing in random places on the Exeter College website and all you need to do is locate and click on her silhouette and fill in your details to be in with a chance of winning tickets.
Now, to help you out Exeter College will be posting various...
Come and join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the opening of two major exhibitions this summer. Over fifty pieces by Devon Artist Network (DAN) members will be on display in Gallery Two while the rest of the gallery will be full of works exploring the theme of colour. This is a great opportunity to find new emerging talent while enjoy displays from more established artists Yvonne Coomber, Daniel Holme-Adams and Ashley Hanson.
Exhibition showcases the varied work from the academicians of SWAc
Once again gloss-Art Exeter has the pleasure of hosting this year's annual exhibition of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts (SWAc). Discover a display of over forty members, including some new artists who have recently been invited to join the prestigious organisation. Enjoy surreal work by Jonathon X. Coudrille, incredible portraits by Peter Mallison and the almost fauvist landscapes of Laura Hudson just to name a few.
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service has partnered with award-winning home care provider Home Instead Senior Care to keep its clients safer in their homes using a new invention.
The Service has designed a smoke alarm testing stick that will help people check their alarms without having to stand on a stool or step ladder.
Now Caregivers working for Home Instead in Exeter and East Devon are carrying the ‘pip sticks’ on their rounds and use them to test the smoke alarms at clients’ homes when they visit.
Watch Manager Gareth Sydenham, of Devon & Somerset...
In the Hitchhiker’s Guide series of books, Douglas Adams proposes that the most useful thing in the universe is, in fact, a towel. His rationale for this is that it can be used to dry yourself, as a blanket (or a pillow), to keep yourself warm or for numerous other uses.
Later on, he proposes that hairdressing and estate agency are the least useful professions known to mankind and proceeds to send them all off on a fleet of spaceships on a scouting mission to a new galaxy. A scouting mission that the rest of the population never have any intention of following.
Mercure Exeter Southgate Hotel Wow Wedding Fair Thursday 23 May 2013, 5-9pm, Southernhay East
Exeter brides-to-be looking for wedding advice, inspiration and ideas can indulge in a glittering evening Wedding Fair at the Mercure Exeter Southgate Hotel on Thursday 23 May from 5pm-9pm and take advice from the Southgate Hotel’s own Wedding Co-ordinator.
The evening Wedding Fair features a new bridal catwalk show from Angel Face in Buckfastleigh, previewing brand new 2014 season gowns before they reach the stores as well as a wide selection of wedding essentials including music...
A dark and modern drama, adapted from the novel by Patrick DeWitt.
Picture yourself as a bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your customers descend into nightly oblivion. Your heart is broken by the world around you and leaving your whiskey aside, you hatch a devious, unthinkable plan of escape...
Following the success of Belleville Rendez-vous, award winning FellSwoop Theatre present a dark, boozy, grimly funny tale from the sodden depths of the Los Angeles underworld, blending a live soundtrack, detailed mime and the heart-wrenching humour of Man Booker...
