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Exeter filmmaker needs your support

Authored by PMM_2014
Posted: Thu, 08/28/2014 - 1:51pm

Filmmaker in Residence at the Exeter Phoenix and Founder of Puny Gods Pop Up Cinema, David Salas, needs your support for latest project - The Emotional History of Places - a film about the potential for important moments to occur in nondescript places.

To realise this film Salas needs both your stories, and crucially, your votes.

#ProjectFilmSupply is about helping winning filmmakers bring their ideas of short films to life, public voting for favorite film concepts closes on the Monday 1 September.

As well as your votes, Salas would like to hear from potential story...

Three days of family fun at Unexpected Exeter

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 08/18/2014 - 11:28pm

Exeter's Unexpected 2014 Festival, running 29-31 Aug, brings some of the UK's most explosive street theatre and circus shows to the open-air streets, cultural venues and public spaces of Exeter in an extraordinary three days of family festival fun to end the summer holidays. Best of all, almost the entire programme is free and unticketed – meaning families can enjoy all the fun at their leisure, on what promises to be the most exciting Exeter weekend of the summer. Returning after Exeter City Council's huge success producing Unexpected 2013 - the Festival's stunning debut, this major 2014...

Expect the Unexpected as Exeter's three day, family friendly festival returns

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 08/03/2014 - 11:10pm

Produced by Exeter City Council, Unexpected triumphantly returns in August with a fabulous three day, family-friendly, Festival programme (29-31 Aug), taking performance and visual art out of venues and into exciting, unexpected, locations across the city.

With only one ticketed event throughout the three Festival days, the rest entirely free, Exeter will come alive with street theatre, circus shows, performances and workshops, that will truly amaze and delight. Building on the Festival's substantial 2013 launch, Exeter City Council, has again for the second Festival year running,...

Curiosity Fair, St Marychurch, Torquay

Event Date: 
28/06/2014 - 10:00am to 4:00pm
Venue: 
Tudors, St Marychurch, Torquay

The Curiosity Fair at Tudors is an all-new event over three floors of a beautiful Tudor style building in Fore Street, St Marychurch on Saturday 28th June.

It will be a feast of curious objects that will ignite your imagination and tease your senses. The day starts at 10am until 4pm, will include antiques, arts, crafts, entertainment, food and drink and is FREE entry. 


Please bring your own curiosity! Curiosity killed the cat, but knowing bought him back. Do you have an antique or a family heirloom that you would like an expert to view? Slake your curiosity and get some...

Culture plan: Exeter must "hold nerve"

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Fri, 05/16/2014 - 11:50am

Exeter’s cultural organisations must “hold our nerve” and continue to drive cultural development according to a planning presentation by the Exeter Cultural Partnership.

In a major presentation at RAMM entitled "What's next for Culture in Exeter" the 100 strong audience heard short presentations covering the importance of culture to Exeter, the Rugby World Cup, the re-opening of the Exeter Library and plans for the city's cultural future and how these plans will be achieved. The feature presentation was from international authority on culture and place making Charles Landry, author...

Exeter and Cheltenham lead the way in investment in arts, museums and heritage in the South West

The National Campaign for the Arts (NCA) has published figures for the South West as part of its 50p for Culture campaign which aims to safeguard and increase local authority investment in arts, museums and heritage.

The campaign brings together new research, data analysis and a website ( www.50pforculture.org ) where residents in England can find out how much local authorities plan to spend on culture in their area this year.

In a recent poll by Ipsos MORI co-commissioned by the NCA, 63% of people - almost two thirds - said they believed that even in these difficult...

Festival will feature some of the best contemporary craft in the country

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 04/30/2014 - 11:38am

A small market town on the edge of Dartmoor will become the focus for some of the best contemporary craft in the country this June. The Contemporary Craft Festival at Bovey Tracey is one of the key events in the national crafts calendar. Almost 200 makers from all over Britain will be demonstrating, selling and talking about their work. Visitors to the event will be able to meet the makers and buy their work – a range of jewellery, ceramics, textiles, furniture, prints and other contemporary crafts. The Craft Festival also features demonstrations, talks, exhibitions and activities...

Exeter Corn Exchange announces spring programme

Exeter Corn Exchange has announced details of the new events programme for spring.

Highlights include the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, stars from TV’s Strictly Come Dancing, the Vienna Festival Ballet, comedian Jon Richardson, X Factor winner Joe McElderry and Ruby Wax.

The new season starts with a concert by Elkie Brooks, one of the most successful singers the UK has ever produced on Friday 24th January and that is followed on Tuesday 28th January with Britain’s Got Talent finalists Circus of Horrors with their new gruesome show London after Midnight.

The...

Albow awarded £125,000 to develop This Is On app

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 12/09/2013 - 11:28am

Albow have been awarded a £125,000 grant from the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts to research and develop This Is On, an app that seeks to revolutionise how we discover, share, and exchange value around live events.

In collaboration with three technology partners and two academic institutions Albow will develop the new mobile and desktop app over one year.

Production on This Is On began in August this year, and the team are now inviting a limited number of users to join for private beta testing – they will have an exclusive first look at the app, and be able to contribute...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 12/08/2013 - 10:28pm

Don't make any plans for the weekend until you've checked out our guide to what's on in and around Exeter:

THEATRE

The Recruiting Officer Friday & Saturday, Northcott Theatre Kiss the prettiest wenches, and you are sure of 'listing the lustiest fellows. The dashing Captain Plume has arrived in Shrewsbury to enlist the local men into the King's army using every trick in the book. He's also got his eye on the heiress Sylvia – but will he and the other men realise that the women are doing some recruiting of their own? Heavens! 7.30pm daily, matinee at 2.30pm on Saturday....

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