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Creative Kid's Easter Workshops @ Bunyip Craft

Event Date: 
04/04/2017 - 10:30am to 13/04/2017 - 12:00pm
Venue: 
Bunyip Craft, 111-113 Fore Street, Exeter, EX4 3JF

Bunyip Craft on Fore Street, Exeter, is excited to be hosting extra Creative Kid’s sessions in the Easter holidays! In these workshops you’ll be able to get making with spring decoupage, easter cross stitch and bracelet making. We recommend these classes to those between ages 6 & 16, but smaller ones may be perfectly capable too.

The cost is £5 per person, which includes all of the materials and refreshments. To book you can either book online, in the shop or on 01392 437377 – these classes do get very busy so we can only guarantee you a place if you book in advance.

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Castle Drogo calls for 500 clocks in time for art installation

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 03/26/2017 - 12:01pm

As we put the clocks forward this weekend, the National Trust’s Castle Drogo is inviting people to donate their unwanted clocks to become part of a new contemporary art installation, ‘Harrison’s Garden,’ by internationally renowned artist Luke Jerram, that will be on display at the castle from 14 July. The countdown to collect timepieces starts this Sunday, 26 March, as Castle Drogo hopes to gather over 500 ticking treasures from the public by 7 July. The 500 clocks will join 2000 clocks already part of the installation that will go on display. ‘Harrison’s Garden’ promises to be a...

Artists invited to engage with University’s inspirational research

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 03/15/2017 - 11:59am

How do you link one of the University of Exeter’s many world class research themes to an artistic vision or idea?

Well that is what south west artists are being encouraged to explore in entries for a new art exhibition.

Called the Observatory; perspectives on landscape, society and spirit, the aim is also for artists to share their observations about University of Exeter research with academics and a public audience.

The exhibition takes place this summer on the University of Exeter Streatham campus from Sunday 11 to 18 June and artists are now being invited to...

Artists invited to submit ideas for Street LAB commissions

Exeter Phoenix and Blind Ditch are offering two £1,000 commissions to develop itinerant new work for new project Street LAB, a micro-festival of live art busking hitting the streets of the city during Art Week Exeter (13 – 21 May 2017).

The festival organisers are looking for entertaining and politically engaged concepts that bring audiences in public sites into lively encounters with contemporary live art practice with a musical twist. Street music is at the heart of historical debates around taste, place and disruption; often described as being democratic and open to anyone,...

Tony Law: A Law Undo His-Elf What Welcome

Event Date: 
05/03/2017 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Multi award-winning comedian, Tony Law embarks on a UK tour with a brand new show of the inimitable surreal comedy-art that has made him one of the most celebrated live performers in the UK.

In A Law Undo His-elf What Welcome, Tony Law is closer than ever to nonsense nirvana. Behold the comedy event horizon. Without a hint of a joke, this powerful show has achieved a sort of comedy which aims at making no sense at all and yet, and yet, and yet it means everything. Every dog damned thing ever. Science called and they want their goal back. Law has burst the net. You will feel sick...

New exhibition submissions requested

Authored by curatorex
Posted: Tue, 01/10/2017 - 11:29am

The programme of exhibitions at Exeter Community Centre has been rolled out and there are still spots to be filled.

Calling artists of all stripes - we don't charge a hanging fee or take a commission from your sales.

You are welcome to submit work for all three themes - we only hang group shows, curated from the work submitted.

Please drop us an email with a selection of images of your work. Email: exhibitions@eccentre.org

City law firm supports art initiative

A NEW initiative, which features artwork created by people living with dementia, has received support from legal firm Cartridges Law.

The company will be displaying work from local creative workshop Budding Friends in the foyer of its Cowick Street offices, in support of Age UK Exeter and dementia care in the local community.

The exhibition was launched at a private viewing with some of the artists, their family and friends, as well as the firm’s private client and reception teams. Everyone is invited to drop in and see the colourful displays.

Bridget Garrood,...

Hiroshige’s Japan: Stations of the Tōkaidō Road

Event Date: 
29/11/2016 - 10:00am to 16/04/2017 - 4:30pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

A new exhibition of woodblock prints from one of the best known of all Japanese artists starts at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) on Tuesday 29 Nov 2016: Hiroshige’s Japan: Stations of the Tōkaidō Road.

The exhibition features 21 prints from Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road, the series that made Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) famous. Hiroshige is considered one of the last great masters of the ukiyo-e tradition and his work had a direct influence on renowned western artists such as van Gogh, Monet, Cezanne and Whistler. Hiroshige is...

An Unusually Good Book Sale, with live musical accompaniment

Event Date: 
26/11/2016 - 11:00am
Venue: 
St Michael & All Angels Church, Mount Dinham, St David's, Exeter EX4 4EB

St Michael & All Angels Church in St David's -- the church with the tallest spire in Exeter, home to peregrine falcons -- is hosting An Unusually Good Book Sale on Saturday 26th November from 11am to 3pm in aid of the St David's Neighbourhood fund and the St Michael's Redecoration Fund. The sale includes cards and prints, cds, dvds and records and will feature live musical accompaniment by two highly esteemed local musicians, Matthew Wright, pianist (from 11am), and Nigel Browne, organist (from 1pm), who will also guide those who would like to play the church's Victorian pipe organ...

An Unusually Good Book Sale

Event Date: 
26/11/2016 - 11:00am
Venue: 
St Michael & All Angels Church, Mount Dinham, St David's, Exeter EX4 4EB

St Michael & All Angels Church in St David's, the church with the tallest spire in Exeter, home to peregrine falcons, is hosting An Unusually Good Book Sale on Saturday 26th November from 11am to 3pm in aid of the St David's Neighbourhood fund and the St Michael's Redecoration fund.

The sale includes cards and prints, cds, dvds and records and will feature musical accompaniment by two highly esteemed local musicians, Matthew Wright, pianist (from 11am), and Nigel Browne, organist (from 1pm), who will also guide those who would like to play the church's Victorian pipe organ...

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