On Saturday, the route between the Exeter Phoenix arts centre and Exeter Library will be transformed, as the Freefall Youth Group wield spray cans and stencils to create a new graffiti artwork. The work, called Freefall Climate Graffiti, will feature maps of the UK showing how our climate could change in future decades.
Freefall Climate Graffiti is part of Art Week Exeter, running from 9th-15th May. It is the brainchild of two local artists: Cleo Heard, who runs Miss*C's Graffiti Academy; and Clare Bryden, an environmental artist.
Exeter’s busiest multi-artform venue is set to start a new spring season of events spanning everything from live performance, comedy and music, arthouse cinema and documentaries to contemporary art exhibitions. Regular visitors and city centre shoppers will be pleased to hear that the venue’s buzzing café bar has rolled out a new menu of fresh, lovingly made nibbles and meals to enjoy on its suntrap terrace. The venue’s live music programme this spring features one of Britain’s most noteworthy bands, Brighton based indie rockers British Sea Power.Other highlights include two of the country...
The city centre’s vibrant multi-artform venue Exeter Phoenix has been chosen to host the prestigious Radio 1 Academy, a week of inspiring creative industry events for young people, gigs and workshops, which will run alongside the Radio 1’s Big Weekend. The four storey arts venue, creative hub and café bar has been the arts and culture epicentre of the city since the 1990s, encompassing galleries, a cinema, a large music auditorium and theatre space, recording studios, a print workshop, digital learning suites and studio spaces, all under one roof. The venue will be pausing its usual...
A whaler’s life from the era of Moby Dick brought to life through music, narration and film.
KINGS OF THE SOUTH SEAS Ben Nicholls – vocals, concertina (The Full English, Seth Lakeman Band) Richard Warren – guitar, vocals (Spiritualized, Soulsavers feat Mark Lanegan) Evan Jenkins - drums, vocals (Neil Cowley Trio, Eric Clapton, Bert Jansch)
PLUS Tim Eriksen – voice, guitar (acclaimed traditional American singer) Philip Hoare – narration (BBC presenter and author of Leviathon, or the whale) Adam Clitheroe - film (award-winning documentary director)
Well done Team GemFest for another brilliant fun filled mini indoor festival at the Exeter Phoenix.
You’ve also raised money for Exeter Hospiscare – thank you Team GemFest and all the artists, businesses and volunteers who gave their time and the crowds who supported the event on Easter Sunday.
GemFest featured an afternoon of family fun at the Exeter Phoenix Centre, with lots of music, games, face painting and Easter eggs, with great music from Teens Support Hospiscare.
The evening saw an amazing line up of local talent featuring an eclectic mix of music, comedy,...
Exeter’s very special mini-indoor music and performance festival GemFest 2016 takes place on Easter Sunday, March 27 at the Exeter Phoenix.
The event is organised by Gemma Wensley, a brain tumour ‘survivor’ from Exeter, and a committed team of her friends. Gemma has recently returned from a holiday of a lifetime in Australia and New Zealand, a trip she was planning before she was struck down with an inoperable brain tumour in 2009.
Gemma said: “I really did have the time of my life! It was so emotional to finally get to Australia as I have always wanted to go. When I became...
Exeter’s busiest multi-artform venue has just launched its new season of live performance, music, cinema and exhibitions.
This buzzing arts hub, which is behind some of the city’s most popular events and festivals, is currently undergoing an exciting expansion of its facilities, including the addition of new independent cinema Studio 74 and a new auditorium balcony.
The venue’s March to April season was announced this week and presents a whole host of opportunities for great days and nights out with friends.
Music highlights include the return of one of the city’s...
A special event launching the 2015 Exeter Phoenix Artists’ Moving Image Commission.
Benjamin A Owen will transform the building, producing a live soundtrack to a new body of film works shown here for the first time.
Benjamin A Owen is a filmmaker whose work explores politics as it is played out in the everyday and in the commonplace. Although often working in the form of film, his practice encompasses exhibition making, performing music and working in education. Owen’s process is highly collaborative, and he often works with musical performances as a form.
Darren Henley, the Chief Executive of Arts Council England, will be in Exeter on 21 October visiting some of the City’s outstanding arts and cultural organisations.
During his trip Darren will visit Exeter Phoenix, The Bike Shed Theatre, Devon Library and Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
All of the organisations receive funding through Arts Council England.
Last year (2014/15) the Arts Council invested over £2.4million in Exeter, recognising the excellent work done in the city.
In his first major speech as Chief Executive in May, Darren Henley made a commitment...
I can’t say I’m a big fan of country music. Ask me about the genre, and I could probably mention a Dolly Parton song; the names Hunter Hayes and Lady Antebellum vaguely register in my mind. My knowledge, however, stops there. So, on entering Exeter Pheonix, I had no idea what to expect from The Shires.
The opening act, Jonathan Jeremiah, was a singer-songwriter. On researching the man after the concert, I was surprised to learn he had a record deal with Island Record. Whist his songs were lyrically unimpressive (and sometimes far too...
