The centenary of a historic women’s rights march from Land’s End to London will be celebrated through June and July by an ambitious project called Dreadnought South West, which will feature a touring production of a new play, Oxygen, by Exeter-based playwright Natalie McGrath, as well as a series of responding arts and heritage events and commemorative land journeys. The project has been made possible through generous public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, as well as support from Exeter City Council.
The University of Exeter is delighted to announce a free festival of arts, music, food and sports at their Forum Piazzas on the Streatham Campus in Exeter.
The festival will include a range of activities and performance for all the family. There will be student acts such as the Soul Choir and the acclaimed A Capella group semi Toned. There will also be professional acts such as the much loved and award-winning street clowning troupe Le Navet Bete.
Professional music also includes acts such as Sheelanagig, The Carrivick Sisters and Exeter favourites Count to Fire.
Exeter will host a six-day celebration of new live performance work from the South West and beyond. Over 50 performances are to take place across the city at venues including Exeter Phoenix, The Bike Shed Theatre and The Cygnet Theatre as well as pub venues such as The Hourglass, The Globe and The Rusty Bike.
One of Exeter Phoenix’s highlights includes an inventive and quirky play, The Last Post , in which 17 audience members watch a nostalgic love story about the wonderful art of letter writing, in the back of a mobile sorting office in the Phoenix carpark.
Kaleider and Exeter Northcott are pleased to be able to offer the workshop 'Making Memories' led by Simon Wainwright from Imitating the Dog next week to artists in and around Exeter.
Making Memories: Taking as its starting point a box of found objects, this workshop explores writing and devising techniques and introduces the participants to Projection Mapping, a technique used in our most recent work. Concentrating on the ideas of memory, remembering, nostalgia and history this workshop outlines some key techniques used in our current work and gives the participants the chance to...
At the end of March 2013, the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) will move its operation from Haldon Forest Park to the Innovation Centre on the University of Exeter campus.
For the past few weekends, right in the heart of Exeter and under your noses, a new and very different form of theatre has been taking place.
In You With Me , there’s no stage, no visible actors, no audience sitting comfortably. Instead, this production offers a personal, unique and totally different experience, taking participants on a journey through Exeter and guiding them on a playful adventure in which unexpected incidents cause familiar routes to be seen with fresh eyes.
The perfomance starts with a phone call to a stranger - you know not what they look like...
Exeter’s busiest arts venue has just announced hundreds of new music, art, performance and film events, which will take place between January and March next year.
Highlights this season include several annual festivals including: Laugh Out Loud, a comedy festival taking place at venues throughout the city showcasing hilarious stand up from familiar faces; Animated Exeter in which you can experience animation in all its forms via workshops, talks and screenings; and Vibraphonic , now in its ninth year, celebrating urban music of black origin.
Preventative medicine, cancer and body image are the issues which will be explored in a creatively focused event at the University of Exeter on 27th November. ‘Self Portrait without Breasts’ will look at how art can be used to help those who have undergone life-changing medical procedures, as well as discuss the use of language and image to represent people’s experience of surgery.
Visiting poet Clare Best has a family history of breast cancer; she nursed her mother through two radical mastectomies and in her late 40’s, the age at which her mother first had the...
A local youth choir is recruiting for new members as it gears up for the new term. Exeter Singing Roots is a vocal ensemble for young people aged 8 - 16, directed by professional singer and singing leader, Sarah Owen from Wren Music.
The choir meets on Thursdays in term-time at the St. Sidwell’s Centre, Exeter and is an opportunity to develop your musical skills, make new friends, enjoy using your voice as well taking part in performances.
A typical session involves fun and active warm-ups, learning an exciting range of ear-catching songs from around the world, practising...
