A fitting end to the Unexpected Festival's array of extraordinary performances, which took place in and around Exeter over the past week, Diverse City and Cirque Bijou's Extraordinary Bodies circus troupe with a difference wowed onlookers on Exeter Cathedral Green. The Company comprised leading disabled and non-disabled dancers, actors and circus performers, and highly skilled Paralympians new to the world of performance.
Aimed at challenging perceptions of diverse and extraordinary bodies, old and young, and building on the positive perception of disabled people that emerged from...
Devon churches now have 15 new clergy after a special ordination service was held at Exeter Cathedral.
The Rt Rev John Ford, Bishop of Plymouth, conducted the ceremony, which saw 15 men and women being ordained as deacons in the Church of England. They have been called from all walks of life from the army to teaching to serve God in Devon’s villages and cities and are listed below. Ben Bradshaw to serve in the Braunton Mission Community, with the Revd Anne Thorne (Braunton with Saunton and Knowle). Madeline Bray to serve in the Bideford and the 4 Villages Mission Community, with...
Over the past month Exeter and the Heart of Devon Hotels & Restaurants Association have been asking locals and holiday makers alike to choose what they like to do best in the county. With options that included be adventurous and try kite surfing in Exmouth, take a brisk walk on Dartmoor and explore Kent’s Cavern, England’s oldest caves, there was definitely something for everyone.
The winning activity was awarded to The Red Coat Tours and Exeter Cathedral. The tours are situated in Exeter and involve a walk around the historic sites of the city including one of the finest...
The 10ft cube of Islamic graffiti art, standing in front of Exeter Cathedral forms part of a University of Exeter research project which investigates how Muslim belief has developed through theology, spirituality, law and the creative arts. On Saturday 7 September between 7 – 8.30pm there was a special event in the Cathedral focusing on the role of Christianity and Islam in public spaces. A range of speakers discussed the role and positive contribution that religion brings to the society in which we live. The topics varied from how religious art can assist as a useful form of communication...
A new choral work by award-winning British composer Gabriel Jackson will be the centrepiece of a concert at Exeter Cathedral on Wednesday 16 October 2013, as City of London Sinfonia continues its nationwide Fauré Requiem tour.
During 2013, the leading UK chamber orchestra is visiting ten of England’s finest Cathedrals for a concert series that takes audiences on a journey of liturgical music through the centuries. Each Cathedral choir will get the chance to perform with City of London Sinfonia, under the baton of the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor Stephen Layton, one of the world’...
The final pieces of scaffolding will be removed from Exeter Cathedral’s West Front today, after a £300,000 stone conservation project.
The five-year project has involved cleaning, conserving and in some places replacement of some of the medieval and later stonework and carvings on the front of the Cathedral.
When the final pieces of scaffolding are removed, the public will be able to see the iconic West Front properly for the first time in five years, with the conservation work complete.
The Dean of the Cathedral, Very Revd Jonathan Draper, said the project had been...
BBC ONE’s ever popular Sunday evening programme Antiques Roadshow will be filming for its 36th series on Exeter Cathedral Green, on Thursday, 12 September. The doors open at 9.30am and close at 4.30pm. Entry to the show is free.
Some of Britain’s leading antiques and fine arts specialists will be on hand to offer free advice and valuations to visitors, who are invited to raid their attics and bring along their family heirlooms, household treasures and car boot bargains for inspection by the experts.
People with large pieces of furniture or other big items can send details...
Come to Exeter Cathedral to see how your ancestors lived 1,000 years ago; see the Saxon inhabitants battle the Viking aggressors (if you’re under 10 you can even take a stand against the Norse bullies)! See how they lived; smell how they lived.
For on Saturday 17th of August the cries of Odin will ring out over the heart of ancient Exanceaster once again.
Meet Woden’s raven and their friendly wolves, maybe even mint your own coin, before visiting the Cathedral for a rare chance to see The Exeter Book, the largest known collection of Old English literature that exists....
Tony Campolo will be speaking at Exeter Cathedral on Wednesday 4 September at 7.30pm. The ordained Baptist minister with an internationally appreciated speaking ministry, has spoken at both Spring Harvest and Greenbelt Festival and he is one of the founders of the Red Letter Christian movement. www.redletterchristians.org/start
He will be speaking on "Being a Red Letter Christian in today's world". David Edwards from Cullompton will be leading the music.
Tony is also Professor Emeritus of sociology at Eastern University, a former faculty member at the University of...
