The Education Department at Exeter Cathedral is gearing up for another busy school holiday, with plenty of half-term fun lined up for next week (Monday 15th February).
New for 2016 are special family-friendly tours of the Cathedral which will give children and adults alike an insight into howExeter’s best-loved landmark was built and some of the stories from its long history. February 2016 sees 500 years since the birthday of Mary I, so Tudor-themed crafts will also be on offer, alongside the opportunity to donate bricks to the Big LEGO® Build.
Via Crucis is a touring exhibition, made up of 14 new images for the Stations of the Cross.
The images are on paper and use mixed media, which includes charcoal, metal leaf, ink and pastel. They are the work of Caroline Waterlow, a multi-disciplinary artist based in the Westcountry. Where the traditional Stations emphasise the suffering path of Jesus, these new images follow the gospel accounts of Christ's Passion.
Caroline Waterlow's images are inspired both by Pope John Paul II's "Scriptural" Stations of the Cross and the objects and tools associated with the Passion in...
Members of the Exeter Bach Society (Musical Director: Simon Capet) will give a liturgical performance of J.S.Bach's Cantata 41 Jesu, nun sei gepreiset.
Thursday 25th February 2016 at 13.00 with Jan Freedman
Over the last 2 million years Devon has gone through enormous changes in climate.
This talk will look at museum collections in the South West and what they are able to tell us about our recent past.
Come along and discover how hippopotamus managed to live in Honiton. Discover how cave lions and sabre tooth cats lived not so far away, and how hyenas were the most abundant predator of the last Ice Age! Ticket Information £5 available from 01392 285983 and online.
Thursday 18th February 2016, 10.00-14.30 (Cathedral) Did you know: Mary Tudor was born 500 years ago on this date?
Come and take part in our Tudor crafts! Make a Tudor Rose collage, a gruesome be-headable puppet, or become a Tudor character by creating a portrait and making your own ruff.
Plus try on our costumes and have a go at writing with a quill! £1 per craft.
A new work for choir and orchestra inspired by a book of Saxon poetry is to be heard for the first time at Exeter Cathedral on March 12.
‘The Seafarer’ by Andrew Millington will be performed by The Exeter Philharmonic Choir in a special, sea-themed concert. Andrew was Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral from 1999 to 2015 and has been leading the choir since 2003. For the new work, his first for choir and orcestra, Andrew has used lines from the modern English translation of the 'Exeter Book' a Saxon text kept at the Cathedral, along with phrases from the Book of Psalms that...
Exeter School is looking forward to performing three contrasting pieces for the annual Choral Society concert held at Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 17 March.
Made up of current pupils, parents, staff and guests, Choral Society will perform Fauré's Requiem, a favourite within the choral repertoire, featuring a solo from music scholar Rebecca German who will sing the famous Pie Jesu.
New to many performers and audiences will be contemporary composer Paul Patterson's Magnificat. The piece is a real showcase for the glorious combination of choir, brass, percussion and organ and...
Monday 15th February 2016 (10.00-11.00 or 14.00-15.00) Tuesday 16th February 2016 (10.00-11.00 or 14.00-15.00)
Come and explore the Cathedral as a family this half-term.
Join our child-friendly tour full of stories, amazing facts, and spooky tales. Find out more about this wonderful building, and discover how and why it was built.
Along the way, see if you can spot: a mermaid, a green man, an elephant, a boy sticking his tongue out, and a clock that may have inspired the nursery rhyme ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’. Afterwards, why not get dressed up and take a Medieval...
Monday 15th February 2016 (10.00-11.00 or 14.00-15.00) Tuesday 16th February 2016 (10.00-11.00 or 14.00-15.00) Come and explore the Cathedral as a family this half-term.
Join our child-friendly tour full of stories, amazing facts, and spooky tales. Find out more about this wonderful building, and discover how and why it was built. Along the way, see if you can spot: a mermaid, a green man, an elephant, a boy sticking his tongue out, and a clock that may have inspired the nursery rhyme ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’.
Afterwards, why not get dressed up and take a Medieval family ‘...
Monday 15th February 2016 (10.00-11.00 or 14.00-15.00) Tuesday 16th February 2016 (10.00-11.00 or 14.00-15.00) Come and explore the Cathedral as a family this half-term.
Join our child-friendly tour full of stories, amazing facts, and spooky tales. Find out more about this wonderful building, and discover how and why it was built.
Along the way, see if you can spot: a mermaid, a green man, an elephant, a boy sticking his tongue out, and a clock that may have inspired the nursery rhyme ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’.
Afterwards, why not get dressed up and take a Medieval...
