An exhibition of beautiful early 19th-century illustrations of Indian flora exploring the plants’ usage in traditional Ayurvedic and modern medicine.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the East India Company controlled much of the Indian subcontinent. Keen to exploit and export valuable natural commodities, the Company set out to record the flora of India and commissioned Indian artists to create detailed botanical illustrations.
Many of the plants were known through their use in Ayurvedic medicine. One of the world’s oldest medicinal systems, it has been practiced...
Exeter Respect returns to the city on Saturday 11th June and Sunday 12th June 2016. Our diversity festival has grown dramatically along with the diversity of the city’s population, and provides a great, safe, space in which more communities than ever before can come and celebrate and share their cultures.
Exeter Respect is the city's annual celebration of diversity where we use the performing and creative arts to engage the wider community in sayign no to racism and all forms of prejudice. The Respect ethos is a simple one: racism and prejudice often spring from fear, and fear is...
A sharp new take on a classic Greek myth, this is a bitterly funny story of love, loss and eating your way out of grief. As the audience are transformed into the gods of legend, will Orpheus ever escape his past?
Martin Bonger delivers a gripping solo performance in this black comedy that bridges the everyday with the celestial.
‘So the mum carried it and pushed it out and that. But does anyone say to the dad, ‘What high quality sperms you have?’ No they do not. An’ those nine months are long. Seriously talking about calling her ‘Ariadne’, ‘Bentley’ or ‘Oceana’, so you are literally delighted with ‘Bowie’ for the easy life…’
Leo’s seventeen. He’s got college, a healthy right-swipe-rate on Tinder and a six-month-old.
He’s mashing avocado and buying Pampers over own-brand because of the more reliable gusset. Leo’s on the triple shift of school, work and night feeds and wants to be a dad in every...
Amy’s making a play. It’s an experiment. It’s about motherhood.
Amy Golding is an award-winning theatre-maker whose work has been seen across the UK and in South Africa.
As Artistic Director of Curious Monkey, Amy makes shows from real stories, told to her by real people.
Now she’s making her own story. It’s about the before, the now and the what might be.
In Preggers, Amy attempts to work out motherhood – what does it really mean? For women now and for women of previous generations. Her mother’s unconventional approach to family life was captured by a 1979...
In growing their national network, Prosperity Financial Advisors & Stockbrokers have chosen Exeter as their Business Centre for the South West.
“Our research told us that Exeter is up there in the UK top ten of places to do business, “ said Prosperity’s Hampshire-based Managing Director, Mark Newman.
Mark was in Exeter to open the Company’s new office at the Matford Business Centre in Marsh Barton. “It’s an attractive town that combines a business buzz with a friendly feel where people know each other. To us, that’s very important, as our whole business philosophy is...
Rangers at Devon County Council’s county parks are celebrating after receiving top awards.
Visitors to the Grand Western Canal Country Park and Local Nature Reserve and Stover Country Park have heaped praise on the countryside attractions, earning them both a Certificate of Excellence from customer review website Trip Advisor.
Now in its sixth year, the prestigious award celebrates hospitality businesses that have achieved consistently great traveller reviews on TripAdvisor over the past year.
Stover County Park is rated number one place to visit in Newton Abbot,...
It’s all down to the singing, say Exeter men’s skittles team the Saints who triumphed in an intercounty tournament held in Bude.
Captain Paul Kennard said the Saints are known for their vocal abilities in competition.
‘We are a noisy lot,’ he admitted, ‘we out-sing everyone. Our songs are so catchy that sometimes even our opponents join in with us!’
The strategy clearly worked as the team who play out of St Thomas Social Club in Exeter, beat 24 teams from Wales, London and five counties to pick up the winners’ trophy. They clinched their victory with a final score...
The Festival takes place on Thursday 14th, Friday 15th and Saturday 16th July in St. Margaret’s Church, Topsham.
We will be open from 10am to 6pm on the Thursday and Friday and until 5pm on the Saturday.
The funds raised this year will be shared between St. Margaret’s Church and "Peninsula Initiative", a charity which provides practical support for those leaving prison, helping them to make a fresh start in the community.
The theme is the SEVEN AGES OF MAN - very appropriate, given that this year is the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
Police are appealing for witnesses after a female pedestrian carrying a child was seriously injured following a collision with a car in Newton Poppleford, near Sidmouth.
A 61-year-old woman, from Otterton, was walking along School Lane, carrying a three-year-old girl, when she was involved in a collision with a silver Vauxhall Zafira. The collision happened at around 8.55am on Tuesday 7 June, outside Newton Poppleford primary school.
The woman was taken by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, with serious and life-threatening head injuries. Her condition is...
