Bampton Charter Fair has been going for over 750 years, and unlike many other similar Fairs, it is not a modern reinvention of the event, but has been running continuously all that time, a true heritage experience. This is because of its historic connection with the agricultural life of Exmoor and the surrounding area.
The Fair takes place within the streets of the town which are closed to traffic for the day.
A fun day out for all the family!
* A Street Market with over 100 stalls plus the rare breed animals and working blacksmith. * The Entertainments include Jan’...
Holst : St Paul's Suite Elgar : Cello Concerto Brahms : Symphony No.2
Performers:
Conductor : Garry Walker Soloist: Andreas Brantelid (Cello) Inspired by the Baroque dance suites of Handel and Telemann and with echoes of folk simplicity, Holst's lithe and lively work is a musical delight. Elgar's last completed full-scale composition for orchestra, the Cello Concerto, written after the horrors of the Great War, is also full of backward glances to a past era. Imbued with an elegiac sense of nostalgia,...
A spooky teatime party in the haunted Darts Farm tepees!
Put on your best Halloween fancy dress and join Darts Farm for their Halloween party in the haunted Tepees. Take part in spooky games and fun activities. Pick your free pumpkin fresh from the Darts Farm field and enter it into the pumpkin carving competition and prepare yourself for lots of treats, a delicious sausage and mash supper and marshmallow toasting!
Tuesday and Wednesday, 5pm-7.30pm.
Price: £12.50 per child (parents welcome to accompany child)
Meet Spookley, a square pumpkin in a round pumpkin patch world at Darts Farm this October.
Children aged four to 12 are invited to spend a fun-filled afternoon on the farm, learning about pumpkin growing and enjoying the story of Spookley the Square Pumpkin, who overcomes bullying through showing kindness to others and making new friends along the way. As you take a walk around the pumpkin patch, children can pick their own pumpkins to decorate in the Darts Farm Teepees and enjoy a range of pumpkin treats and refreshments.
Experience the dark side of Seaton Tramway, new for 2013 in our extreme fright night celebration of all things gory aboard the Electric Tram of Terror.
Meet Melchior Rattenbury the lunatic butcher, be prepared to be frightened witless by gruesome goings on along the Axe Estuary and at the Zombie infested Victorian station in Colyton where the population of this small hamlet turn into the undead on certain nights of the year.
This is not suitable for children under 12 and you may want your mummy and daddy with you whatever your age!
Music at St Michael's: Evening Recital Series - Betts
A new music recital series starting this autumn at St Michael’s Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter.
All recitals are FREE OF CHARGE, and they include a wide variety of types and styles of music performed by professional/semi-professional musicians, young performers, local musicians and others.
Recital Programme:
Wednesday December 11: Exeter Chorale (music by Exeter composers)
Wednesday January 15: Emma Graham and Liz Grier: Harpe Noire (music for two harps)
A new music recital series starting this autumn at St Michael’s Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter.
All recitals are FREE OF CHARGE, and they include a wide variety of types and styles of music performed by professional/semi-professional musicians, young performers, local musicians and others.
Recital Programme:
Wednesday November 13: Matthew Wright (piano)
Wednesday December 11: Exeter Chorale (music by Exeter composers)
Wednesday January 15: Emma Graham and Liz Grier: Harpe Noire (music for two harps)
A new music recital series starting this autumn at St Michael’s Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter.
All recitals are FREE OF CHARGE, and they include a wide variety of types and styles of music performed by professional/semi-professional musicians, young performers, local musicians and others.
Recital Programme:
Wednesday October 23: Clive Betts (classical guitar)
Wednesday November 13: Matthew Wright (piano)
Wednesday December 11: Exeter Chorale (music by Exeter composers)
Wednesday January 15: Emma Graham and Liz Grier: Harpe Noire (music for two...
Arguably the creepiest of the creepy crawlies, you either love or loathe spiders! Pop along to Box 16 and meet some of the most amazing species found locally.
Local voluntary support agency Exeter CVS are teaming up with Exeter City FC and the British Council to offer free Active Citizens training to the city’s young people, with an unusual twist.
The 5-day course in November will show learners aged 18-25 how they can engage in social action: making a difference through volunteering, campaigning, or engaging with authorities to improve services and make change. The course provides support to develop and conduct projects on a local, national and international level; following the programme’s premise –“Globally connected, locally engaged...
