This tour/gig is supported by Jazz Services as part of their National Touring Support Scheme
Standing Pat, the debut album from The Dixie Ticklers is an in depth study of New Orleans jazz. The band has put today's date on early jazz, placing it alongside groove-based shuffles and fresh modern treatments whilst constantly staying true to the polyphonic approach that shaped the music of the initial pioneers such as Louis Armstrong, King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton. Look out for them this spring as they tour the UK in support...
Lucian Willow lost his memory in Berlin in 1945. Lord Brook is looking after him on his country estate. And there’s something Lord Brook doesn’t want him to remember. But when a circus comes – all hell is let loose.
Lucifer Saved is a verse play by Peter Oswald, former Writer-in-Residence at Shakespeare’s Globe, and dubbed ‘Our most surprising and inventive playwright,’ by Theatre Record.
Combining extremes of comedy and tragedy, the play attempts to show what happens when guilt is transferred to the innocent; reaching right back through theatrical traditions to the...
A hideously funny black farce in which four friends are slowly stripped of all their pretensions and secrets until nothing is left but the truth.
A full moon rises over a windswept cottage in the middle of nowhere. Children are in bed…wine is breathing nicely and the dinner is in the oven.
It’s Gordon and Celia’s wedding anniversary. They’ve asked their oldest and dearest friends Zach and Jane down from London. The only problem is that Zach and Jane aren’t Zach and Jane anymore. Jane has gone and Julia – the twenty five year old, French burlesque dancer, has taken her place...
Sadie Jones wants to disappear. She walks a tightrope between reality and her imagination; a chaos of words, and silence. Sadie leads her lover and her sister into the strange landscape of her unconscious where speech is composed like music, buying apples is a lesson in absurdism and she sees words etched into her own skeleton.
Join Exeter YMCA for an 11 mile trek across the rugged and spectacular paths of Dartmoor, from Okehampton to Postbridge. At the end relax with a meal at the historic East Dart Hotel (included in registration fee).
By taking on this challenge you'll raise much needed awareness and funds to help young homeless people across Devon have a brighter future.
Details
Where: Okehampton Camp to Postbridge (transport will be provided from Exeter YMCA and back, situated on St David's Hill)
Welcome in spring with a fun day at the farm and lots of activities for all ages!
Every year the farm welcomes in spring by throwing open its gates and inviting you to join them for the day.
There are nature walks along the trail to be explored and a straw bale den to play in. Sensational craft activities and storytelling in the orchard with OrganicARTS, as well as the chance to ride our tractor trailer up the farm's hills and valleys to visit the animals.
You can also tuck into some tasty food at the West Town Farm barbecue.
A mixture of dealers from all over the UK and the West Country will be exhibiting an extensive range of antiques and collectables to suit every pocket.
Admission: Saturday 8.30am-10am (early entry) £10, 10am-5pm £5 and on Sunday the fair will be open 10am-5pm, £5 all day.
Saturday sees the first Exfest Exeter Canalside Folk Festival, featuring an exciting line-up of some of the best musicians on the circuit, and a day of traditional music and dance, all in the beautiful surrounds of the Double Locks pub on the banks of the Exeter Canal.
Programme:
Noon: Afternoon concert with Jim Causley, David Gibb & Elly Lucas and Helen English & Jon Waltham.
Afternoon dance displays in the pub gardens from Northgate Rapper and Firestone Appalachian.
6pm: Evening concert with Sam Carter, Greg Russell & Ciaran Alger and Matt...
The next ExIST quarterly event will be held on Wednesday 24 April at the Flybe Training Academy.
As usual there will be four business presentations and a networking opportunity, as well as a tour of the facility.
Event Programme:
8.30am: Registration and coffee 8.45am: Introduction - Robert McIlwraith, ExIST Chairman, will update attendees on ExIST's work so far, today's programme and our future projects including the forthcoming ExIST workshops and the next quarterly event.
Mini presentations:
9am: Centrax - Find out more about one of the region’s...
As part of a commitment to improving access to services for customers and supporting the night-time economy in the city, Exeter City Council will be staying open late on Thursdays from today (11 April).
The move comes as the Council recognises that some residents may wish to access services outside of ‘traditional’ office hours. In order to test the demand for this, the local authority will run a six-month trial to offer services to those that may find it more convenient to visit in the early evening.
The council is also committed to working with city centre retailers to...
