Seaside entertainment featuring puppets, magic and songs will return to Devon’s beaches, promenades and quaysides this summer thanks to apprenticeships helping to keep traditional performance forms alive and well through training emerging local artists.
Promenade shows with slapstick, songs and Punch and Judy have become increasingly rare as holiday habits change but that won’t be the case in the county as new trainees run free performances including puppetry, escapology, blade box routines and storytelling.
The training will ensure the skills involved in beach shows are...
Tesco shoppers in Devon have been given a big thank-you after providing nearly 30,000 meals to support local food banks and frontline charities.
The 29,966 collected across the county between June 30 and July 2 was part of a total of 1.3 million meals donated by generous Tesco shoppers across the UK in large stores, with an additional 20 percent top-up added by Tesco.
The items of long-life food donated during the Tesco Food Collection have been shared with food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network, as well as frontline charities supplied with food by FareShare, to help...
Dedicated to the man in his mid-fifties that hopped on the GWR train 24.7.22 in the afternoon that embarked around Truro and hopped off at Exeter. Wearing a black, long sleeved t-shirt, jeans, and brown shoes. Sitting in coach H seat 62 on the aisle.
A Devon health and wellbeing charity is seeking ‘chatty’ volunteers to come on board once a week to provide friendly conversation, information and support to local people on the number 57 bus between Exmouth and Exeter. The Chatty Bus, organised by Westbank Community Health and Care, relaunched on Thursday, 28th July as part of an initiative to reduce loneliness and social isolation.
Westbank’s Chatty Bus route initially began in November 2019 but was put on hold because of Covid restrictions. The route is being relaunched with new funding from Devon County Council’s Connecting...
Lightfoot, the trail-blazing, Devon-based in-cab, driver fleet coaching technology and rewards platform, has succeeded in making it through to the finals of the internationally renowned 2022 Global Good Awards. Rewarding businesses big or small for their responsible and sustainable practices, the prestigious awards attracts applicants from across the globe.
Past Global Good Awards winners include the likes of Cannon, ITV, Unilever, Barclays, Samsung, KPMG, DPD, Aviva, Octopus Energy and many other international businesses.
Exeter-based Lightfoot has reached the final five...
Talented twins whose music is championed by Coldplay have graduated from the same course, at the same university, on the same day.
Theo and Bertie Pedrick decided to study together at the University of Exeter so they could pursue their music career.
Coldplay drummer Will Champion has acted as mentor for Bertie, the guitarist and singer, and Theo, the lead singer in their band PEDRICK. Mr Champion met with them after hearing their music, has kept in touch and even let Theo and Bertie record in Coldplay’s studio.
Officers investigating a serious sexual assault that took place in Exeter are wanting to speak with a person from the Silverton area who may have information vital to the investigation.
DC Michele Green said: “We are investigating a report of a serious sexual assault on a female on the outskirts of Exeter in the early hours of Sunday 10 July.
“A man in his 20s has been arrested in connection to this matter and has been released on police bail with strict conditions”
“As part of our enquiries, we need to identify a person or people who we believe were driven from...
A new, non-invasive method to measure and monitor seagrass biomass on the seabed around England’s South West coast is being developed as part of an ongoing, collaborative project.
The innovative new technique is currently being trialled by local companies HydroSurv in Exeter and Totnes based Valeport, working with the University of Plymouth and Natural England, and supported by a grant of more than £266,000 from Innovate UK’s Smart Grants programme.
It builds on the concept of the acoustic reflectivity of seagrass providing valuable information to characterise submerged...
All The Great Books (abridged) is an uproarious roller-coaster ride through a comically compact compilation of the world’s greatest literature! Watch as 3 actors cover over 90 books in 90 minutes from 1984 through Wuthering Heights. Everyone from the illiterate to the literati will love this refresher of literature’s greatest hits including Huckleberry Finn, The Odyssey, Green Eggs and Ham, Pride and Prejudice, The Bible, Harry Potter…and more! Sold-out audiences who raved about our “abridged” version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, surely will flip as we present All the...
Whether you are currently residing in New York, or else are planning on taking the trip of a lifetime to the Big Apple soon, then art and all things art-related are big, big news in New York City.
So, with that in mind, continue reading to discover a brief history of the New York gallery scene and what it looks like today.
Humble Beginnings
Although it is understandably somewhat tricky to secure a definitive date on where and exactly when the New York gallery scene began, it is generally accepted that the NYC gallery scene as it is recognised today began in...
