Exeter Phoenix

Another brilliant GemFest

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Mon, 03/28/2016 - 11:55pm

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,...

'Terminal' cancer survivor Gemma's holiday of a lifetime

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Thu, 03/17/2016 - 6:36pm

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...

Busy season ahead for Exeter Phoenix

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...

Goldfinch - Benjamin A Owen

Event Date: 
02/12/2015 - 6:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

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.

Goldfinch...

Arts Council chief exec to visit Exeter

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...

REVIEW: The Shires at Exeter Phoenix

Review and photograph by: Helena Gadsby

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...

Rhodes wows Exeter Phoenix

Review by: Sam England Photos by: Paul Ramisch

An epic bass and drum driven instrumental soundtracks Rhodes’s ominous entrance to the stage. With no lights upon them, it’s hard to tell if this is the masterful work of Rhodes’s four member support band or just some legendary score for that film you’ve always meant to get around to watching sometime, being blasted out the PA. It turned out to be the former. Almost as soon as it began, the atmospheric layers fall away, leaving a spotlight exposed Rhodes, singing gently to the accompaniment of his own hollow-body electric guitar. It’s...

Exeter Phoenix announces autumn programme

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:59am

The festival season might be drawing to a close, but Exeter Phoenix will be keeping up the pace into autumn, through what is traditionally one of the arts venue’s busiest event seasons.

With another vibrant mix of music, art and performance as well as the hotly anticipated launch of Studio 74,Exeter’s new independent cinema, visitors can soak up the best of what Exeter has to offer.

September kicks off with one of the city’s foremost annual arts events, as this year’s Exeter Contemporary Open exhibition opens its doors to the public. 2015’s exhibition will include diverse...

Nel - Scratchwork Theatre Company

Event Date: 
01/09/2015 - 7:30pm to 03/09/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Meet Nel: a foley artist. Don't know what that is? Don't worry, not many do. Nel brings life to films through sound. In her world a tyre screech is a hot water-bottle and an epic fight scene is a symphony of snapping celery and frozen cabbages. But her real world isn't turning out so well. Her cat has died and she’s accidentally poisoned her fish.

She needs a friend and maybe a change of shoes.

An intriguing combination of on-stage foley artistry and physical theatre, Scratchworks's latest production explores how we are able to mould other people’s...

Le Navet Bete bring chaos to Exeter Phoenix

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 07/06/2015 - 10:07pm

Fresh off the back of their national Spring tour of Dick Tracy and a packed summer season performing at festivals such as Glastonbury and Kleines Fest im Großen Garten in Hannover, Germany, Exeter's award-winning physical comedy theatre company, Le Navet Bete, are bringing the indoor version of their hugely popular street show, Extravaganza, to Exeter Phoenix on 26th and 27th August 2015 .

These four fools are determined to tell their individual 'cultural' stories no matter what the cost may be. Join Romano, Keith, Hans and David Blooper on a ridiculous, madcap romp, rammed full of...

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