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Exeter Northcott Theatre make an impact to win environmental award

Exeter Northcott Theatre are celebrating as it was announced they have won a Green Impact Bronze Award for their efforts over the last year to improve the theatre’s environmental credentials.

Green Impact is a national scheme involving universities and colleges across the UK, as well as other organisations including the NHS and the police. The initiative is run by the NUS, encouraging and supporting staff to change their habits and adopt more environmentally sustainable working practices.

Tanja Bartlett, Exeter Northcott’s Green Impact Champion and Marketing & Design...

Run For Your Wife

Event Date: 
22/08/2013 - 8:00pm to 28/08/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth

Paul Taylor Mills presents Run For Your Wife by Ray Cooney

This is the tantilising story of London cab driver john Smith,with two wives, two lives and a very precise schedule for juggling them both.

Performance starts at 8pm.

Ticket Prices £14/ £13

Box office: 01395 514413

The Dinner Party

Event Date: 
15/08/2013 - 8:00pm to 21/08/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth

Paul Taylor Mills presents The Dinner Party by Neil Simon

Six guests have RSVP'd to dinner at a private dinning room in Paris.They eventually realise that they are three divorced couples which makes for an eventful dinner that none of them will ever forget.

Performance starts at 8pm.

Ticket Prices £14 /£13

Box office: 01395 514413

Here Come the Boys

Event Date: 
05/08/2013 - 7:30pm to 10/08/2013 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
The Hour Glass, Melbourne Street, Exeter

A week of shows by four of Exeter theatre's brightest young males, in the only place they could think of doing it: a pub.

All four shows on each night, except where listed.

Featuring:

Labels by Joe Sellman-Leava - 7pm (not on Saturday August 10) A short solo piece exploring the tags we attach to ourselves and others. Presenting personal stories about names given and questions asked, Labels is carefully curious about our careful curiosity.

Wild by Michael Woodman - 7.30pm In the wilderness of Dartmoor we meet a single man as he pitches up his tent for the...

Grandpa in my Pocket: Teamwork!

Event Date: 
07/08/2013 - 5:00pm to 10/08/2013 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Grandpa in my Pocket comes to the stage for a whole new ‘Grandpa’ theatre experience for young fans of the hugely popular CBeebies television series.

Sunnysands Pirate, Horatio Heave Ho takes Jason and Jemima on a pirate adventure in search of treasure. But when things go wrong, it’s time for Grandpa to put on his Shrinking Cap and save the day. It’s Teamwork!

A brand new story told by a young ensemble cast who bring all your favourite Sunnysands characters and places to life before your eyes. Imaginative and highly theatrical, children will fall in love with Grandpa in my...

Exeter arts draw on link to Italian city

New local company AventHolidays, the brainchild of Woodbury-based Jeremy Jackson, announces the first of its new all-inclusive six day Italian painting breaks in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Ferrara, Italy, an outstanding success. Ferrara - with a population of 350,000 - boasts the oldest university in Italy together with a castle and is linked to Exeter University. The inaugural painting holiday was led by Rebecca de Mendonça a renowned artist who has developed considerable skill in the use of pastels. She spent 10 years working alongside Channel 4 Grand Designs presenter Kevin...

Wild Art Wednesdays

Event Date: 
21/08/2013 - 10:30am
Venue: 
Organic Arts, West Town Farm, Ide

Wild Art Activities for children of all ages including paper making wild potions, camp fire cooking, clay work, charcoal making and drawing, felting, natural dyeing and more.

Experience creative activities on a beautiful farm woodland setting surrounded by animals and nature.

10.30am-2.30pm

£15 per child per session. (children must be accompanied by an adult).

Booking essential - info@organicarts.org.uk or call 01392 811080

www.organicarts.org.uk

Wild Art Wednesdays

Event Date: 
14/08/2013 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
Organic Arts, West Town Farm, Ide

Wild Art Activities for children of all ages including paper making wild potions, camp fire cooking, clay work, charcoal making and drawing, felting, natural dyeing and more.

Experience creative activities on a beautiful farm woodland setting surrounded by animals and nature.

10.30am-2.30pm

£15 per child per session. (children must be accompanied by an adult).

Booking essential - info@organicarts.org.uk or call 01392 811080

www.organicarts.org.uk

Wild Art Wednesdays

Event Date: 
07/08/2013 - 10:30am
Venue: 
Organic Arts, West Town Farm, Ide

Wild Art Activities for children of all ages including paper making wild potions, camp fire cooking, clay work, charcoal making and drawing, felting, natural dyeing and more.

Experience creative activities on a beautiful farm woodland setting surrounded by animals and nature.

10.30am-2.30pm

£15 per child per session. (children must be accompanied by an adult).

Booking essential - info@organicarts.org.uk or call 01392 811080

www.organicarts.org.uk

Life-changing asthma drug given approval by NICE

Devon residents, among which there is reported to be a higher than average number of people living with asthma, will be thrilled to hear that NICE issued positive guidance supporting the use of a medication called Xolair® (omalizumab) for patients with severe, persistent allergic asthma.

Following this announcement all eligible patients including, for the first time, children aged six years and above, should now have no barriers to receiving omalizumab, a life-changing medicine for the treatment of severe allergic asthma.

The announcement that Omalizumab will now be...

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