RAMM is celebrating National Volunteering Week with a selection of its volunteer-led activities for all the family. Volunteers at RAMM today are sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm for RAMM and its collections. Visitors can join one of the spotlight tours featuring different aspects of the displays, handle a range of artefacts, try on costumes or take part in family activities.
Sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm: RAMM has around 120 volunteers who support the museum in many ways across all departments. If you are interested in volunteering with RAMM, email ramm.volunteer@...
Stillpoint Theatre presents The Art Of Catastrophe
The Art Of Catastrophe is a solo performance about a woman’s discovery that everything she thought was important, suddenly no longer is. A poignant, darkly funny and achingly familiar tale with a cast of vibrantly rendered and exquisitely performed interconnected characters. This is a theatrical work of rich imaginative scope, powerful emotional impact and playful intelligence.
Loosely inspired by the themes in Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse, The Art Of Catastrophe digs its fingers into the uncomfortable territory...
The Last Post is a brand new first class performance, devised and delivered by Kilter Theatre. Set to an original “harmony-drenched, melancholy-tinged” live score and performed at extremely close quarters in the back of Mobile Sorting Office 451 – a lovingly converted bright red van crammed with retro-chic details from a much-traveled life, a thousand items of real mail and seating for just 17. The Sorting Office will be situated in the grounds of the Exeter Phoenix Car Park.
A redundant Post Master seeks solace in the bosom of an infamous Great Aunt but finds himself instead...
Meet the author and television presenter Kate Humble
Kate is best known as a very popular presenter of programmes such as Volcano Live, Lambing Live, Springwatch and Autumnwatch. But she is also passionate about her Welsh Farm.
Come and hear her discuss how she and her husband rescued this small part of British farming heritage.
Tickets cost £3, available direct from the store, and are redeemable against the purchase of the book on the night.
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A one day training event specifically aimed at women business owners is welcoming managers and owners to register their place.
The course called ‘Brand Me 2’ is aimed at small business owners and managers who want to learn how to use their brand more effectively. Training will be given by experts in brand management, digital branding, personal image and effective speaking.
It’s run by Womens Development Unlimited (WDU); a not-for-profit company based in Exeter which provides women-friendly business support, training and personal development services to help women develop...
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, The Contemporary Craft Festival brings together exceptional work from leading makers from all over the UK and Ireland. Over 10,000 visitors are anticipated to visit one of the UK’s largest and finest craft events. To celebrate the strength of the national interest in craft the festival will have more makers exhibiting and demonstrating craft skills than ever before. There will be demonstrations by some of the UK’s leading practitioners in contemporary furniture design including Gareth Neal and Sarah Kay, wheel thrown ceramics by Clive Bowen,...
Alan Read, lecturer for the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS), Tate and Dulwich Picture Gallery, will illuminate the life of Plymouth-born historical painter Benjamin Robert Haydon.
Haydon was a fascinating yet tortured character who craved but rarely achieved success. His campaigning zeal helped the nation acquire the 'Elgin Marbles' and led to the reform of art education in Britain but his talents continually failed to justify his ambitions as an artist. Complementing RAMM’s displays of the city’s art collection....
Follow the athlete through the blood, sweat and tears that come with the drive to win, the pressure to succeed, the fear of failure and the suffering family life that simmers away in the background.
The Summit takes a fractured view of this athlete’s life from training on a rainy morning, to intrusive media interviews and memories of childhood grazes from falling off her tricycle. Inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, this new production combines explosive contemporary dance with original writing, to create a visually dynamic piece that focuses on physical and...
