Flickbook Animation at Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Event Date: 
20/02/2013 - 10:30am
Venue: 
Courtyard, Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Queen Street, Exeter

Did you know that you can make simple animations and pop up pictures just with paper? Have a go in this special activity for Animated Exeter.

Tickets are £2 and available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours.

http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/

Courses on offer at Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Event Date: 
19/02/2013 - 11:30am
Venue: 
A Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Queen Street, Exeter

Pattern Design for Art, Fashion and Textiles Course

This course will focus on understanding pattern and design. Sketch and develop ideas to build a portfolio of patterns and textile designs from which to create new and exciting surfaces. WEA course C3523996.

19 February-26 March: Tuesday 19 & 26 February, 5, 12, 19 & 26 March, 10.30am to 12.30pm

Drawing from the Museum’s Collections

Journey through the collections at RAMM, discussing the historical, geographical and creative ideas that tell the story of the object. Then respond through drawing to...

Animation premiere: Exetreme Imagination

Event Date: 
19/02/2013 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter

Watch the premiere of bite-sized films scripted, acted and directed by young people and their families working with MED Theatre.

Filmed in the atmospheric setting of St Nicholas Priory, they were inspired by RAMM’s Elizabethan collections. Try on Tudor costume and throw Shakespearian insults at each other.

Free drop-in at the Garden meeting room, 11am-4pm.

Part of two city festivals: Exetreme Imagination 2013 and Animated Exeter

http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/

The Wimpy Kid Show - great family entertainment

Event Date: 
18/02/2013 - 2:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

A must for all Diary of a Wimpy Kid fans and great family entertainment. Host Alastair Watson brings the books to life with fun activities including a Greg Heffley Draw-Along and The Wimp Wars! Quiz.

The event also includes exclusive clips of author Jeff Kinney talking about the books, his involvement in the films and showing how he draws the characters.

All those who purchase a book on the day will be eligible for it to be stamped with an exclusive Wimpy Kid Show stamp.

Part of the exetreme imagination festival 2013

Tickets £5, suitable for children aged 8...

Petal Power 1910-1940: Fashionable florals and the women who designed them

Event Date: 
16/02/2013 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
Gallery 20, Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Queen Street, Exeter

Dr Keren Protheroe, design historian and co-curator of the Petal Power exhibition, looks at how an increasing number of women by the 1910s were exploiting their art education to go on and forge careers designing fashionable, floral fabrics.

Tickets are £4.50 (£3) and available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours (10am-5pm, Tuesday to Sunday).

http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/

1920s Valentines’ Ball ElectroSwing: RAMM and The Cavern Club

Event Date: 
15/02/2013 - 6:30pm
Venue: 
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter and Cavern Club, Exeter

This ElectroSwing Night has a 1920s theme to compliment the exhibition Petal Power. Enjoy the exhibition and the beauty of the museum at night and take swing-dancing lessons.

Nine-piece band Smerin’s Anti-Social Club will play as part of their album tour and DJs will play ElectroSwing music – a fusion of modern beats with jazz swing. Do come smartly dressed as there is a 1920s theme. The fun continues at the Cavern from 10pm.

Royal Albert Memorial Museum 6.30 to 10pm, Cavern Club (over 18s only) 10pm to 2am

Tickets: £8 or £7 earlybird from www.undergroundtickets.net...

Louise Parker - swing, blues and gospel classics

Event Date: 
14/02/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Otterton Mill

A valentine's treat from this gifted live performer who was named after Louis Armstrong by her jazz-obsessed father, and born to create the soulful sound that has built her a huge reputation in the jazz world.

Louise's powerful vocal delivery and skillful interpretation of swing, blues and gospel classics have made her a regular on Radio 2's Best of Jazz.

She blends an effortless rhythmical style with a sweet warm tone, passion and spirit to create performances that simply stir the soul. Louise "swings like fury." (Humphrey Lyttelton). Playing with pianist George Cooper....

Miracle Theatre Company presents Frankenstein

Event Date: 
13/02/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Tiverton Community Arts Centre

When power is cut off from the Eternalife Cryonics facility, Dr Frankenstein must race against time to construct a superhuman of epic proportions that can carry the precious genes of the rich and famous into the future.

His cut-and-paste creation is a hideous mistake. Feared by its creator, shunned by the world, the monster takes revenge.

It craves the one thing it can never have...

Tickets: £12, £10 seniors, £8 under 16s/students.

Box office: 01392 493493

Miracle Theatre Company

Tiverton Community Arts Centre

Comic opera The Pirates of Penzance at Exeter Northcott

Event Date: 
12/02/2013 - 7:30pm to 16/02/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Following the success of Patience in March 2012, Exeter University Gilbert and Sullivan Society return to celebrate their 45th year with one of the most famous comic operas of all time, The Pirates of Penzance.

Follow the thrilling story of young Frederic, who has to remain faithful to the pirate trade until his 21st birthday.

However, he longs to pursue his dreams elsewhere and find true love.The pirates find a flaw in his contract and all becomes more complicated than Frederic could have ever imagined...

With fantastically famous music, delicious humour and the...

Exeter University Gilbert & Sullivan Society: The Pirates of Penzance

Event Date: 
12/02/2013 - 7:30pm to 16/02/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Following the success of Patience in March 2012, Exeter University Gilbert and Sullivan Society return to celebrate their 45th year with one of the most famous comic operas of all time, The Pirates of Penzance.

Follow the thrilling story of young Frederic, who has to remain faithful to the pirate trade until his 21st birthday.

However, he longs to pursue his dreams elsewhere and find true love.The pirates find a flaw in his contract and all becomes more complicated than Frederic could have ever imagined...

With fantastically famous music, delicious humour and the...

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