Chance to Dance, now in its eighth year at Exeter Northcott Theatre, has invited dancing schools and dance groups from in and around Exeter and the wider areas of Devon, Somerset and Dorset, to showcase the many styles of dance taught and the passion the dancers have to perform on such a great stage.
Chance to Dance is non-competitive and is welcoming to both adult performers as well as children. Whilst we hope for a good standard of dance we also look for the enthusiasm to perform. In Chance to Dance we all have the same aim, to show encouragement...
Celebrating Michael Morpurgo and 40 years of Farms for City Children
Join master storyteller, and award winning author, Michael Morpurgo as he speaks about his work including his latest book Didn’t We Have a Lovely Time. It’s inspired by his charity Farms for City Children, which was founded by Michael and his wife Clare and is now celebrating its 40th year.
www.farmsforcitychildren.org
This event is part of exetreme imagination, Exeter’s festival of writing and stories. For more festival events and information, go to www.exetreme.org
Join award-winning author Anthony McGowan and meet the hapless hero of The Donut Diaries, Dermot Milligan. Expect laughter, tall tales and gross-out moments aplenty. As well as The Donut Diaries, Anthony will discuss his other books for younger children, from the grotty adventures of The Bare Bum Gang, to the useless superheroes of Einstein’s Underpants.
It’s going to be epic. And rude.
This event is part of exetreme imagination, Exeter’s festival of writing and stories. For more festival events and information, go to www.exetreme.org
A collaboration between The Bike Shed Theatre and The Wardrobe Ensemble with Farms for City Children
On a farm in the heart of the country In a rusty red shed Lies a machine with a mysterious power It buzzes and clicks and whirs It’s waiting for you…
Join the Wardrobe Ensemble for a wild sci-fi adventure. Leap through vortexes in time and space! Fight demons in the past! Dance disco in the future!
Returning to The Bike Shed Theatre after the huge success of Eloise and the Curse of the Golden Whisk, The Wardrobe Ensemble will use the power of electro-beats, bold...
Youngsters who love singing are being offered a wonderful chance to spend a day with Exeter Cathedral’s Choristers at a special event next month. The day-long taster session, which takes place on Saturday 26thNovember 2016, is a free event offered by the music department at the Cathedral and gives children an opportunity to get a taste of life in the Cathedral Choir and sing with the current Choristers. Timothy Noon, the Cathedral’s Director of Music and conductor of the Cathedral Choir, will lead the singing workshops on the day. He said: “Singing in a choir is not only really enjoyable...
When charming, smooth-talking Dan arrives unexpectedly at old Mrs Bramson’s remote woodland home he soon ingratiates his way into her life and that of her beautiful niece Olivia. But when a local woman goes missing and rumours in the press of a murder surface among the household, fingers begin to point. Has the past finally caught up with Dan and could he really be capable of murder? As the police close in, and with the press baying for blood, is anyone safe?
This psychological thriller from master playwright Emlyn Williams...
Dive into the majestic mythology of Persia’s mountains and gardens – where supersized heroes and magical horses challenge kings; where father and son meet as strangers on the battlefield and where love blossoms.
The Shahnameh was written over 1,000 years ago, here, tales of the Persian Empire are brought to life by dazzling performance storyteller, Xanthe Gresham Knight and the sublime, rhythms of virtuoso Kurdish Iranian musician, Arash Moradi, on daf, setar and shurangiz.
Enjoy these treasured stories wrapped up in an intimate, enchanting and powerful performance....
This Autumn, Graeme Swann, England’s greatest ever spin bowler is heading out on a UK theatre tour with none other than cricket’s best loved commentator, Henry Blofeld. Who better to discuss the trials and tribulations of Swanny’s illustrious career than the man who commentated on it every step of the way, and who better for Henry to pass on his pearls of wisdom to after 40 years in the TMS commentary box.
Expect the sprinkler, expect red trousers, and expect to be laughing but keep your wits about you as you might be called upon to join the gents on stage. This is a not to miss...
Award-winning author of young adult fiction, Mal Peet was the curator of the 2014 exetreme imagination festival. When he died last year, he left his book Beck unfinished. Meg Rosoff, fellow author and friend of Mal, completed the book, a coming-of-age adventure of a mixed race boy transported to North America. Meg Rosoff will be talking to author Nicolette Jones about this experience.
This event is part of exetreme imagination, Exeter’s festival of writing and stories. For more festival events and information, go to www....
Written in the summer of 1919, the Cello Concerto represented, for Elgar, the angst, despair and disillusionment he felt after the Great War, and an introspective look at death and mortality. He had been deeply saddened by the war, was suffering from a painful chronic ear condition, and the recent deaths of several old friends had made him acutely aware of his own advancing years. It signified Elgar’s farewell to the way of life as he had known it. “Everything good and nice and clean and fresh and sweet is far away – never to return” he...
