Traditional milling at Exeter's Cricklepit Mill

Event Date: 
09/11/2012 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Cricklepit Mill, Commercial Road, Exeter

Come and see Devon Wildlife Trust's beautifully restored watermill, and watch as our volunteer millers grind wheat for flour in the traditional way.

Admission is free and there is no need to book except for groups and schools.

10am-12noon

Tel: 01392 279244

Email: contactus@devonwildlifetrust.org

http://www.devonwildlifetrust.org

South West Chef of the Year Awards Presentation Dinner

Event Date: 
29/10/2012 - 6:45pm to 11:00pm

The South West Chef of the Year Awards Presentation Dinner will be held at ABode Exeter on Monday 29th October, hosted by Michael Caines MBE and Taste of the West.

The dinner will be prepared by three highly-respected guest chefs who are all previous winners of the competition and are also judges at this year’s finals: Simon Hulstone, head chef of the Michelin-starred Elephant Restaurant, Torquay; Ian Webber, head chef of two Michelin-starred Gidleigh Park, Chagford and Matthew Mason, head chef of The Jack in the Green, Rockbeare voted 5th in the UK's 50 Top Gastropubs (Feb...

A Haunted History of Cricklepit Mill

Event Date: 
30/10/2012 - 5:00pm to 31/10/2012 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Cricklepit Mill, Commercial Road, Exeter

With almost 800 years of history, Cricklepit Mill certainly has a few spooky stories to tell.

Enjoy a Halloween-themed tour of the mill as your guide reveals the history of the mill throughout the ages, along with some ghostly goings-on and local superstitions, plus other spooktacular tales from the surrounding area.

Don’t be scared - come along - you're in for a treat!

5pm-7pm both days

Tours are free but booking is essential - please call 01392 279244.

Email: contactus@devonwildlifetrust.org

http://www.devonwildlifetrust.org

Celebrate Devon Hedge Week and learn hedge laying

Event Date: 
27/10/2012 - 9:00am
Venue: 
Near Holsworthy

Celebrate Devon Hedge Week with an introductory training course on hedge-laying.

Hedge-laying is a traditional way of maintaining a stock-proof and wildlife-rich hedge.

This day is for adults and will teach the basics of hedge-laying involving the use of saws and hedging tools in the field.

For more details please contact the Working Wetlands Project on 01409 221823 or email: working.wetlands@devonwildlifetrust.org

http://www.devonwildlifetrust.org

The Secret Life of Lichens at Haldon Forest Park

Event Date: 
21/10/2012 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Haldon Forest Park, near Exeter

Join Devon Wildlife Trust and the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) in this family event to discover the amazing world of lichens.

Activities and artwork will be child orientated but we bet the adults will learn something too!

11.30am-1pm and 2pm-3.30pm

£2.50 per child, accompanying adults free.

Bookings and payment via CCANW on 01392 832277

Email for more information: info@ccanw.co.uk

Dunsford Nature Reserve Open Day

Event Date: 
20/10/2012 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Dunsford Nature Reserve, near Exeter

Discover the golden colours and autumn wildlife of this magnificent oak woodland on the River Teign.

Join Devon Wildlife Trust for fungus forays, guided walks and children's woodland craft activities.

11am-4pm

Booking essential for the fungus forays and walks - call 01392 279244.

Contact Email: contactus@devonwildlife

http://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/

Medea - a modern version of Euripides' classic tragedy

Event Date: 
28/11/2012 - 7:30pm to 01/12/2012 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

"If there's a God, which at the moment I DOUBT, I want you to curse him. If there's any justice, I want them - both of them - in a car crash."

Her husband's gone and her future isn't bright. Imprisoned in her marital home, Medea can't work, can't sleep, and increasingly, can't cope. While her child plays, she plots her revenge.

This startlingly modern version of Euripides' classic tragedy explores the private fury bubbling under public behaviour and how in today's world a mother, fuelled by anger at her husband's infidelity, might be driven to commit the worst possible...

Chris Packham Goes Totally Wild at Exeter Northcott

Event Date: 
24/11/2012 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Although known first and foremost as an impassioned naturalist, the compelling and charismatic wildlife TV presenter is also the natural world's equivalent of a photo-journalist.

Through his work he’s explored many habitats from Antarctic islands, rainforests, deserts, the Everest mountain range and the deep oceans. It’s these adventures which have afforded him the opportunity to capture some amazing images on camera – portraying the simple yet stunning beauty of the natural world.

In Chris Packham Goes Totally Wild, the popular presenter will captivate audiences with his...

Michael Morpurgo's Farm Boy at Exeter Northcott

Event Date: 
06/11/2012 - 7:30pm to 10/11/2012 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott

New Perspectives Theatre Company and Scamp Theatre present Michael Morpurgo's Farm Boy, adapted and directed by Daniel Buckroyd.

It sometimes felt as though time had stood still on the family farm – swallows nesting in the eaves, the old Fordson Tractor quietly rusting in the back of the barn, Grandpa still tending his chickens – that is, until the summer his grandson finished school and came to stay, and the old man started telling stories of what it had been like on the farm when he was a boy.

The compelling sequel to the award-winning War Horse is a moving account of the...

Lovers’ Vows (1795), a play in five acts by Elizabeth Inchbald

Event Date: 
18/10/2012 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

A stirring romantic tale of past wrongs haunting victim and perpetrator

This hugely popular play, written by Bury St Edmunds playwright Elizabeth Inchbald, is best known as the one which causes all the moral consternation in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.

The cast of Mansfield Park will perform a rehearsed reading with the actors performing their character's roles as cast in Jane Austen's novel. The reading will be followed by a post-show discussion.

Tickets: £8 with a £2 discount for concessions.

http://www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/

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