Exeter

Jungle Book

Event Date: 
26/04/2016 - 7:00pm to 30/04/2016 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Adapted and Directed by Poppy Buton-Morgan

Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale re-imagined with street-dance, circus and spoken word.

This spectacular new production from the award-winning Metta Theatre brings Kipling’s classic tale crashing into the 21st Century with breath taking street dance and circus.

Mowgli is finding her way in the urban jungle. With a beat-boxing bin man Baloo, graffiti artist Bagheera and a skateboarding Wolf crew, this heart-warming coming of age story will astonish and amaze.

Choreographed by Kendra J Horsburgh (Into The Hoods, Sadler’...

BSO: Fire and Ice

Event Date: 
21/04/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, Exeter University

Jac van Steen, conductor

Quirine Viersen, cello

The Second Symphony, from its first performance to today, remains one of Sibelius’ most popular works. Its importance at the time was also due to the Finnish struggle for independence and early reactions to the work included some efforts to read into it an overtly nationalistic, patriotic programme. Much attention was focused on the heroic finale, of course, but also on the long, anguished slow movement, music of great passion and pain, surging along in dramatic waves toward a grim conclusion.

Walton’s Cello Concerto...

Watch This Space

Event Date: 
20/04/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Celebrating our shared commitment to dance development in Devon, Dance in Devon and Exeter Northcott Theatre are delighted to once again come together to present this platform for emerging dance artists from our region.

Please join us for this lively mixed bill of dance performances from professional choreographers and dancers based in the south west, and then share your thoughts and ideas with the choreographers in a Q&A after the show.

This is a collaboration between Dance in Devon and Exeter Northcott Theatre, a Dance in Devon Home Base for dance.

Tickets £8...

The Odyssey

Event Date: 
11/04/2016 - 7:30pm to 12/04/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Homer’s epic poem is retold in an extraordinary dance theatre production

The King, Odysseus (Christopher Tandy) separated from his family for ten years of brutal war, faces another ten year struggle to return home as a reckless God (Chris Akrill) drags him on an epic journey across oceans to strange lands and the darkness beyond. Immortal beauties, shape shifters, monsters and sorcerers both guide and torment the king as he hurtles towards a savage and desperate reunion with his Queen.

The cast and creative team that brought you the multi award-winning Dracula present a...

BSO: English Serenade

Event Date: 
07/04/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, Exeter University

Kirill Karabits, conductor

John Mark Ainsley, tenor Nicolas Fleury, horn

One of the highlights of the season, BSO Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits is joined by BSO Principal Horn, Nicolas Fleury and extraordinary English tenor John Mark Ainsley for Britten’s hauntingly beautiful Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings. Compellingly emotional, it is an insightful and imaginative setting of poems which span five centuries of English verse, united under a loosely connecting theme of evening, the night-time and sleep. The music is immediately gripping, the tenor’s penetrating...

Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival set for lift off

Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival returns to Powderham Castle with some of the country’s best plant specialists, gardening stars and plenty of delicious local food, craft, live music and fun.

Gardens come in all sizes and whether you have an acre or a window box, a bare square of earth or a shady spot, you can grow a beautiful garden. Let your creativity take root at Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival at Powderham Castle and soak up inspiration from amazing and colourful nurseries, demonstrations and gardening experts. Nowhere else in the South West can you find such diversity of...

Green light stops sea turtle deaths

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 04/03/2016 - 11:20am

Illuminating fishing nets is a cost-effective means of dramatically reducing the number of sea turtles getting caught and dying unnecessarily, conservation biologists at the University of Exeter have found.

Dr Jeffrey Mangel, a Darwin Initiative research fellow based in Peru, and Professor Brendan Godley, from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University’s Penryn Campus, were part of a team of researchers who found that attaching green battery powered light-emitting diodes (LED) to gillnets used by a small-scale fishery reduced the number of green turtle deaths by 64...

Volunteers needed to help maintain Templer Way

Join Dartmoor National Park Ranger Simon Lee on Sunday 10 April as he leads a team of volunteers working on the popular Templer Way walking route near Haytor.

The day runs from 10:30 until 3:30 and starts at the National Park Visitor Centre, Haytor.

The Templer Way follows the route by which granite was taken from the quarries in the Haytor area during the 1800s on an 18 mile journey to Teignmouth on the south coast.

A granite tramway was used to transport the stone down to Stover Canal from where it was shipped down to the docks at Teignmouth. Large parts of the...

11 arrested at Devon Derby

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 04/02/2016 - 8:07pm

Devon and Cornwall have arrested 11 people for a variety of offences related to the Exeter City versus Plymouth Argyle football match.

Chief Inspector Richard Hooper-Bennett said: “Overall for a crowd of about 8,000 people this is a very small number of people that have been arrested. I would like to thank the vast majority of fans who have enjoyed a Devon Derby played in the sunshine.”

Police have stated that those arrested for football related disorder were at risk of having football banning orders applied to them in addition to any court disposals.

Josephine & The Artisans complete Chagstock line-up

Chagstock Festival have announced Josephine & The Artizans have been added to the Marquee stage bill for Friday night, thus completing the two main stage line-ups for Chagstock 2016.

Josephine & The Artizans are a Hip-Hopera band from London. Blending Classical Music with Hip-Hop to create a unique, fresh and innovative sound, they have received critical acclaim from the likes of Tom Robinson on BBC 6Music, The Times and many others.

With the line up now complete, a full selection of adult, youth and family day tickets have now also been placed on sale via www....

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