Exeter Phoenix

We are really excited to be able to offer the opportunity to achieve your Bronze Arts Award through the month of August.

This course is made up 6 full-day sessions on Tuesdays, beginning Tue 30 Jul. Over these sessions, each participant will build up a portfolio with the help and creative guidance of a professional tutor.

At the end of the 6 weeks, each portfolio will be sent off to the National Arts Award HQ where they will be moderated. Upon achieving their Bronze Arts Award, each participant will receive a nationally recognised certificate of arts, and a badge.

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Activities for all the family on the last Sunday of the month, with a different theme each month. Come along for the whole day or just drop in when you like.

12 – 12.30pm – Storytelling 1.30 – 4pm – Art Drop in* 2.15 – 4pm – Family Film Screening

Sun 28 Jul
 Carnival Creations Work together to create colourful carnival puppets.

FREE ENTRY (except for a £2 charge for Art Drop-In).

On the last Wednesday of the month

Get ready for a pub quiz with a difference – as well as the usual general knowledge rounds, every month the teams are set a creative challenge to complete by the end of the quiz night and the best finished result gets some lovely extra points!

The creative challenge could be anything, and all tools and materials are provided. In the past we’ve asked teams to make elaborate marble runs out of old boxes, tubes and wires, recreate a celebrity out of play doh, and make a costume out of bits of felt, ribbons and glitter etc.

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Six week course starting Thursday 4 July. Develop your digital camera skills, meet others and share your enjoyment for photography. Led by professional photographer Vanessa Miles, this informal and friendly Photo Group welcomes digital camera owners of any age and will guide members through a relaxed programme of actives designed to improve camera skills each week. We will working on a communal project cummilating in an exhibition at the media centre. Some basic experience is advised.

Every Thursday 10am-1pm. Cost: £120 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/exeter-...

Find out why Laurence – star of BBC1′s documentary We Won’t Drop The Baby – hates being called ‘inspirational’. From mountain climbing to Doctor Who, via the Swedish chef from The Muppets, this inimitable comedian sorts out once and for all what’s truly inspiring. Expect absurd logic, death defying stunts and unusual varieties of crisps.

If you’re sceptical when told to climb every mountain, reach for the skies and follow your dreams, then this is definitely the show for you!

With regular TV and radio appearances, and solo shows which have taken him from the Netherlands to...

Set in iconic New York City, this is the story of four musicians, bound together by their passion for music and long years of working together. But when their patriarch Peter (Christopher Walken) is diagnosed with a terminal illness, the repercussions hit the group deeper than they could imagine. As their 25th anniversary performance looms, the musicians must either find a way to overcome their troubles, and preserve their legacy – or part ways forever.

A small, shining gem of a movie that works its way into your heart with insinuating potency of music - Rolling Stone.

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Nancy Elizabeth Cunliffe is a folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Manchester.

In May she releases a new album, Dancing, where she lifts off the lid of her piano, finds new emotion and harmonies in her beautiful singing voice and lets the transfixing songs drift out into this world, slowly slowly, quick, quick. Always one to do things in her own time Nancy decided to close the doors to temptations and travel and tours and stay in her small, cold flat in Manchester, where she had a little piano, a computer and the occasional guest to sound things off. In small...

Zero Terrace Party (2.3)

After an amazing opening to our series of terrace parties this year, we are back again for the second installment of our al fresco events for 2013.

This time we welcome a a truly talented DJ / Producer who goes by the name of Ruthit, hailing from the musically buzzing city of Manchester, he will be heading to the south west for the first time to play exclusively for us.

Ruthit has been doing the rounds for several years within the house music scene and has been pushing his sound through some of the finest labels around, having had his music...

Sunfish

Along the way Sunfish have played great club sets supporting great artists like System 7, Transglobal Underground, Ozric Tentacles, Eat Static, Orbital, Jah Wobble , Banco de Gaia & the Orb. The band have also played at various festivals including MegaDog, Glastonbury, Air Fusion, Beautiful Days, Sunrise Celebration, Ode, Fordstock, Waveform Project, Big Green Gathering.

With an exciting fresh sound of ‘Psy Trance with a twist’, Sunfish continue to grow from strength to strength attracting lots of interest whilst receiving outstanding reviews for their live...

Stillpoint Theatre presents The Art Of Catastrophe

The Art Of Catastrophe is a solo performance about a woman’s discovery that everything she thought was important, suddenly no longer is. A poignant, darkly funny and achingly familiar tale with a cast of vibrantly rendered and exquisitely performed interconnected characters. This is a theatrical work of rich imaginative scope, powerful emotional impact and playful intelligence.

Loosely inspired by the themes in Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse, The Art Of Catastrophe digs its fingers into the uncomfortable territory...