culture

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...

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...

Aligning Your Culture with Your Leadership and Your Strategy

Event Date: 
22/05/2014 - 7:30am to 9:00am
Venue: 
Southernhay House, Exeter, EX1 1NX

Does your culture influence your organisation's leadership?

Do you take your culture into account when designing your future strategy?

A business that aligns it's culture with its leadership and strategy is one that is destined to succeed, particularly if it is also in tune with the environment it exists within.

This session will allow you to understand the importance of culture, leadership and strategy to your business and the benefits that aligning them will bring to your business in terms of competitive advantage.

This session will enable attendees to:...

In need of Inspiration?

Authored by Sampson Hall
Posted: Sat, 11/09/2013 - 11:43am

Sampson Hall recently held a two day programme to develop the understanding of culture, leadership, and strategy with two Independent Schools.

The event was held at the beautiful Dartington Hall, near Totnes. The programme was extremely successful with the participants defining a clear and focused vision for the schools for the next five years. From this they derived clear mission statements which resulted in a detailed and understood plan with clear priorities set for the next two years to drive and align the work streams involved.

Both teams completed the two days feeling...

TED's Essential Guide to what's on this weekend

Whether it's a spot of theatre that takes your fancy or you just want to have a good old guffaw at some of the region's best undiscovered comedy talent, don't plan your weekend until you have checked out our essential guide to what's on in and around ‪Exeter... ‬

THEATRE

The Mikado Friday & Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter St David’s Players present one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s best known works. The wandering minstrel son of the Mikado falls for and flirts with a girl who is engaged to her guardian Ko-Ko. Unfortunately the Mikado has decreed that flirting is...

English Touring Opera: Handel: Music for Vespers

Event Date: 
24/11/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

As a hugely successful opera composer, Handel was commissioned by the grandest patrons of the day to bring his theatrical brilliance and flair to important ceremonial occasions – his four coronation anthems, used at the coronation of every monarch since 1727, are the most famous example

ETO’s soloists and period instrument orchestra, the Old Street Band team up with the Gentlemen of the Cathedral’s Choir, Counterpoint and Isca Voices for an evening of Handel's Italian Vespers, staged at Exeter Cathedral. Written during his visit to Italy, when the supremely talented young composer...

Hip Hop Psych

Event Date: 
17/10/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Mama Stone’s, Mary Arches Street, Exeter.

Hip-hop culture is being used as a vehicle for raising awareness about mental health at this event at Mama Stone’s in Exeter.

Entry is free and the event is open to members of the public who are over 16 years of age. It comes with a parental advisory, explicit content warning.

www.mamastones.com

A sketch of Spain

Authored by lamorna
Posted: Thu, 08/01/2013 - 1:04pm

“I've never seen an English person smile. Is that because of their bad teeth?”

It came as a bit of a shock when, during my year abroad in Spain, I discovered the stereotypes that Spanish people have of the English. As well as poor dental hygiene, they seem to believe we are a race of silent, serious people, who drink tea from dawn till dusk while discussing the Royal Family. We are also stressed all the time and definitely have no idea how to 'fiesta'.

Now, I agree that the Spanish are champions of partying, but a main factor in this, of course, is the differences between...

Cultural factors are key to making climate change real to people

The impact of climate change on many aspects of cultural life for people all over the world is not being sufficiently accounted for by scientists and policy-makers. Experts at the University of Exeter led an international team in a study which shows that cultural factors are key to making climate change real to people and to motivating their responses.

From enjoying beaches or winter sports and visiting iconic natural spaces to using traditional methods of agriculture and construction in our daily lives, the research highlights the cultural experiences that bind our...

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