Night of a Thousand Voices has become a regular fixture in the cathedral’s calendar, celebrating our community and standing together as we hope for a better world for all this festive season.
The evening features stunning performances from some of Devon's best choirs including St Thomas Gospel Choir, River City Chorus, The Lost Sound and Renaissanceas well as a chance for everyone to raise the roof singing some traditional carols.
This special charity evening will include some powerful personal stories from the poorest communities across the world. Night of a Thousand...
Hand stitch a festive heart or bird, using beautiful wool fabric. Lovely to decorate the tree or make as a gift. Suitable for all levels of experience.
All materials and equipment will be provided and there will be an opportunity to buy more fabric kits on the day if you become inspired to make some more! There will also be a chance to have a look at Madeleine's new book for further inspiration. Booking is essential as places are limited. Call 01392 413174 for your place now.
Festive Stitching with Madeleine Millington : £5 Thursday 5 December 10am-noon or Saturday 7 December 2pm-4pm Cathedral Education Centre
Hand stitch a festive heart or bird, using beautiful wool fabric. Lovely to decorate the tree or make as a gift. Suitable for all levels of experience.
All materials and equipment will be provided and there will be an opportunity to buy more fabric kits on the day if you become inspired to make some more! There will also be a chance to have a look at Madeleine's new book for further inspiration. Booking is essential as places are limited....
Exeter Cathedral will host its second Saying Goodbye service this month, to help parents who have lost babies in pregnancy through miscarriage, still birth or other trauma, and in infancy.
The first such service was held last year in Exeter, and since then 22 services will have been held in other towns and cities.
Andy Clark-Coates established the services with his wife Zoe after the couple lost five children themselves. Andy said: "We have had amazing attendances at services with people who have lost babies last week and last month, sitting next to peoplewho lost 60 years...
Exeter Cathedral has produced a resident’s card for the first time, offering people living in the city free entry to their Cathedral.
The card covers people living in postcodes EX1 to EX4. Forms will be sent in the post to eligible homes.
The Cathedral has to charge visitors to attempt to cover some of its £4,000 a day running costs, said the Cathedral’s managing director, Alison Davenport, but it is doing all its can to ensure that people in the city and around it can visit for free, as often as they like.
“This is the first time we have produced a resident’s card...
The Two Moors Festival is staging a production of Britten's 'Noye's Fludde' that will involve many children from Dartmoor and Exmoor - children whose schools are so remote that they have little chance to take part in professional musical events.
Directed by Thomas Guthrie and with BBC Radio 3's Petroc Trelawny as God, this will be an epic performance in keeping with the Festival's theme of 'Light'. Over a hundred youngsters will be singing and playing animals going into the ark two by two.
Some believe this work to be the finest that Britten ever composed. He cleverly...
This concert tour celebrates the beauty of our magnificent and awe-inspiring churches, with performances of some of the most well known and uplifting sacred music. The Orchestra and the cathedral choir perform works by Thomas Tallis and Ralph Vaughan Williams, along with a new commission by Gabriel Jackson and Fauré's enduringly popular Requiem. There will also be a chance to hear the cathedral organist. perform French composer Francis Poulenc's grand and masterful Organ Concerto, in the 50th anniversary year of the composer's death.
The Fauré Requiem tour celebrates the beauty of...
Exeter Chamber Choir and AJ's Big Band in a concert of special jazz music in the city's cathedral.
Swinging His Praises is a "Mass for Life". This jazz mass is written by the choir's musical director Andrew Daldorph and features jazz psalms and other songs.
Exeter Chamber Choir was formed in 1997 from a nucleus of leading Devon-based singers. Previous musical directors include the composer-conductors Antony le Fleming and Graham Treacher. The current director is Andrew Daldorph and its patron is Emma Kirby DBE. The Choir’s repertoire includes works with orchestra, new...
On 2, 3 and 4 October, Exeter Cathedral will be the setting for a multimedia response to the building's 900 year history and the contributions that craftspeople have made during that time.
900 Years of Light is the culmination of Cathedra 900, an Arts Council England funded project by artist Mark Ware. For the past 18 months, Mark has been exploring the Cathedral and interpreting its art and architecture through photography, abstract photomontages, 3D artwork and sound. 900 Years of Light will be an evening of film, readings, music, and the premiere of Mark Ware’s video composition...
Cathedra900 invites you to enjoy 900 Years of Light. 900 Years of Light is a multimedia performance taking place at Exeter Cathedral on 2, 3 & 4 October 2013.
The performance is Mark Ware’s response to the building’s 900 year history and the contributions that craftspeople have made during that time.
900 Years of Light is the culmination of Cathedra 900 and Mark Ware’s work over the last 18 months exploring the Cathedral and interpreting its art and architecture through photography, abstract photomontages, 3D artwork and sound.
