Come and learn about felting techniques! Create your own piece of art to take home with you. Your finished product could be used as a wall hanging or cut and styled to create a brooch, finger puppet or maybe even a pencil case. Time to get inspired.
Suitable for ages 6-15. Please book online or call 01392 285983
Come along to the Cathedral Green and meet our owl expert Steve Hooper.
See his beautiful owls in the flesh/feather, as he tells you how to care for these magnificent creatures. Become an owl yourself by choosing a design from our face painting artist. Or you can get creative and make your own owls out of felt or paint a pet.
We also have our badge making machine which you can use to create an owl badge.
Donations welcome, crafts from £1.
Poor weather affects the birds so please check the website or...
Weekly rep continues at the Manor Pavilion Theatre in Sidmouth this week with the arrival of the sixth production, Out of Order by Ray Cooney.
The Oliver-award winning farce will play from Thursday 30 July to Wednesday 12 August.
The Summer Rep Season sees one company of actors present a season of twelve classic revivals throughout summer, with a new production each week until the end of September.
Set in a suite at the Westminster Hotel in London, just around the corner from the House of Commons, Out of Order is a classic farce full of hilariously disastrous twists...
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...
Over 3,000 local people were among the first to walk along a section of the South Devon Link Road project on Saturday (25 July).
Approximately 3,500 people visited the site and were allowed to walk a 3km stretch of the new road at a unique Community Open Day event.
The idea behind the day was to give locals the opportunity to review the progress so far and walk along a stretch of the new route, months before traffic is permitted to drive on the road.
A variety of local businesses and charities attended the event and took the chance to celebrate this historic event...
Three local men are cycling the length of the country to raise funds for Exeter-based charity Rainbow Living.
Duncan, Will and Jools are cycling from John O’Groats to Land’s End to help raise money for a third Rainbow House which will provide a home for a group of young disabled adults in the local area. The trio are preparing in a variety of ways and have just completed the Nello, a 100 mile cycle ride!
Says Will: “After a casual conversation about going for a cycle ride we've ended up setting ourselves the biggest physical challenge of our lives! To make it even more...
The works of an engineer turned professional artist who creates enchanting paintings inspired by the English countryside will be on display at an Exeter gallery this month.
Acclaimed painter Paul Corfield presented his charming new collection of land and seascapes at Castle Fine Art on Cathedral Yard on Saturday 25th July. The exhibition will be available to view for two weeks until Sunday 9th August.
An artist always at heart, Corfield started sketching at a young age and secured a place at art college, but decided to turn it down to make a living in the aerospace...
Key information is being sent out next week to around 1,800 households living in the Feniton and Exmouth (The Colony) areas giving details of an improved recycling collection service which is to be trialled by East Devon District Council.
From mid-September, residents in these areas will be able to recycle more in their green recycling boxes as the council is adding cardboard and mixed plastics to the extensive number of items it already collects from the kerbside each week.
Every household in the trial areas will receive an additional 70 litre reusable sack which they can...
Police are investigating after £20,000 cash was stolen during a burglary at a home in Winkleigh, Devon.
Offenders forced their way into the property in Exeter Road through the garage overnight on Tuesday 14 July.
They located the safe and removed £20,000 cash, £11,000 of which was in £50 notes.
PC Matthew Gwenter, based at Barnstaple police station, said the cash was the only item stolen from the premises.
“We would like to hear from anyone who saw or heard anything suspicious in the area at the time of the offence or has seen someone with an unusually large...
"Canals: Westcountry and Abroad" with Colin Vosper
A lively introduction to the creative work of Victorian canal builders as they fought to form trading routes across the South West Peninsula in an attempt to avoid the dangerous sea-passages around Land’s End.
This well illustrated talk features the Bude Canal and the Grand Western Canal, it also highlights two major overseas maritime shortcuts, with a focus on the latest developments to the Suez and Panama Canals due to be opened in 2015.
