A chance to hear Chris Watson in conversation with RSPB’s Tony Whitehead and chaired by Cheryl Tipp from the British Library Sound Archive.
Discussion will focus around the art, practice and challenges of wildlife sound recording, the value of sound in connecting people with nature, and the changing nature of our sound environment. Accompanying Ebb and Flow: Seasonal sounds through the Devon Year – An installation by Chris Watson, 28 March to 31 December.
There will also be a performance of the installation.
Tickets are available online or from the Royal Albert...
Spend a morning, afternoon or even all day with members of Poltimore Estate Research Society as they explain their discoveries regarding the people and houses of the village in the early 20th century.
The morning session offers displays and short talks from 10.30am-12.30pm.
Refreshments will be available to buy from the Cafe between Sessions, including Soup & Roll, Pasties and Sandwiches to order
Meet in the Chapel for the afternoon session which will involve a short, guided walk around the village and wider estate from 1.30pm-4pm.
There is much rhetoric flung about these days by supporters and denigrators of William Shakespeare. Did he write the plays and poems that bear his name – or were they the work of another Renaissance genius, such as Marlowe or Bacon? Or was it the Earl of Oxford? Or a whole committee of intellectuals?
Such is the range of possible authorships put forward that members of the public can be forgiven for being bewildered. Why is there so much doubt when the first folio of Shakespeare’s works clearly has his name on the cover?
Join Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley at the award winning Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre in Princetown for an evening talk on natural navigation and the Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs.
Tristan Gooley is a writer and natural navigator and is the author of the award-winning The Natural Navigator (2010) and Sunday Times Bestselling The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs (2014) also just voted best Country Book of the year by BBC Countryfile Magazine.
Tristan has written for the Sunday Times, the New York Times, the BBC, The Financial Times and many...
In an event that promises to be a unique experience, join renowned historian, Dr Ian Mortimer on 11 April, for an exclusive talk to a small audience at Higher Uppacott – the rare and amazing example of a Grade 1 Listed medieval Dartmoor longhouse. The one hour talk on 'The changing medieval world - from the Vikings to the Scientific Revolution' will be followed by an informal tour of Higher Uppacott conducted by Dr Mortimer. The event starts at 10.30 am and finishes at 12.30 pm and with tickets only costing £15.00 it is advisable to book early to ensure a place.
Dr Richard Scrivener, formerly of the British Geological Survey, will talk about tin mining in the South West from the early Bronze Age to Devon’s new metal mine at Hemerdon in south Devon, a world class tungsten-tin deposit set to commence production in 2015.
A series of artists’ talks in association with Exeter College’s Centre for Creative Industries. Limited places available to the public.
HOLLY DAVEY
Holly works with ideas surrounding memory, place and archival collections. She is interested in uncovering lost and largely forgotten social histories to explore notions of fact and fiction.
Tickets £3.50*
*Please note that there is a £1.50 fee per transaction
