Come and meet the characters behind the wonderful local produce that you find in our Food Hall. Find out how they make their artisan food and drink, and experience the tastes and flavours created by their passionate work.
A great annual event that lets you appreciate and experience some of the fantastic people and produce that we have in our region.
Just turn up on the day. No pre-booking required. Free admission.
This year's Christmas Market will run from Thursday 20 November until Saturday 20th December.
The Cathedral Green, at the heart of the city centre, will be brought to life by the Market, with stalls offering unique, handmade and unusual gifts, decorations and food items – everything needed for a perfect Christmas celebration and to create a real Christmas buzz at the heart of the city.
The Exeter Christmas Market will represent the best of what Britain, the South West and the rest of Europe has to offer – with a mix of great food, excellent crafts, unique gifts and...
'Divine Moments'. Classical music concert featuring works by Dvorak, Sibelius in Exeter's Great Hall. With the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and soloists.
Programme:
Dvorak - Violin Concerto Sibelius - Symphony No 5 Dvorak - Symphonic Variations Sibelius - Scene with Cranes
Both Sibelius’ symphony and Dvořák’s concerto were troublesome to write, and both works saw a number of revisions. Sibelius was going through a difficult time in his life, despite his success and popularity, when he wrote the Fifth...
The revised Fourth Symphony is half again as long as the original work, written 17 years earlier, turning a modest symphony into a large and imposing score that matched the scale of Prokofiev’s two newly composed symphonies of the mid-1940s. Drawing upon themes and material from his ballet The Prodigal Son, it features...
exetreme imagination 2014 - a festival of writing for and by young people. Exeter’s literature festival being held from 25th October - 1 November in various locations around the city.
exetreme imagination is a unique, city-wide, multi-media, interactive festival for children of all ages. It’s about much more than books, but when it comes to authors we have a stellar guest-list.
For younger fans, we have four genuine superstars at the Northcott; we have the wonderful illustrator Petr Horacek; and for older readers a quartet of young adult writers who between them have won...
It’s thrilling…It’s chilling...It’s scary...You’ll scream…It’s monsterously good fun...!
Booking and fancy dress is essential!
Campfires and scary tales, ghostly walks in the maze!
Toasted marshmallows, hot blood!, fun and games, grisly lucky dip and fancy dress prize giving!
Meet at Kiosk at 5.30pm - event finished at 8/ 8.30pm(ish).
Booking required. £7 per person (£6 for members). Children must be accompanied by an adult. Younger children may find the Friday night event more suitable as Saturday night is seriously scary! Not...
One day in the pumpkin patch a strange little pumpkin hatched...
Discover the story of Spookley, a square pumpkin in a round pumpkin world. This anti-bullying tale provides the perfect backdrop as we hunt around our very own pumpkin patch.
Compete with pumpkin decorating and treats, our Spookley afternoons are a great way to keep the kids entertained during half term.
Suitable for children aged 4-12. Parents are welcome to say with their children.
Tickets £7.95 per child. Available in advance at Darts Farm or via www.dartsfarm.co.uk
Bampton Fair existed even before King Henry III granted it a Royal Charter in 1258 and it is always held on the last Thursday of October. It is one of the oldest surviving Charter Fairs in the country.
For centuries, the fair mainly sold sheep and cattle and was the largest sheep fair in the South West of England. During the 1880's to the 1980's it evolved to become the famous Bampton Pony Fair trading in Exmoor ponies.
Today this traditional Devon fair continues to attract local producers of foods and livestock, crafts and traditional skills from Exmoor and its surrounding...
Seaton Tramway’s Halloween Week of “Tram of Terror” by Day and “Shock ‘O Horror Zombie Fest” by Night!
Seaton Tramway will be offering spooky family days out in Devon during the Autumn half term from Monday 27 October until Saturday 1t November.
Hallowe'en “Trams of Terror” will run by day during that period up to Colyton for our younger visitors and at night they magically transform into “Shock ‘O Horror Zombie Fest” trams for much “older” children to experience the dark side of Seaton Tramway.
Not for the fainthearted, our single deck trams, very scarily decked...
Crowning Ceremony Fancy Dress Competition Grand Draw Guy Competition from 2.00pm at The Institute with the crowning of the Carnival Royalty.
The carnival procession starts from Alansway Trading Estate at 7.30pm coming up through Mill Street, The Town Square, and finishing in Yonder Street following by a fireworks display on The Land of Canaan at approx 9.30pm.
