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The Donkey Sanctuary’s living willow workshop

Event Date: 
11/03/2016 - 10:00am
Venue: 
The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth

The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth is hosting a living willow workshop on Friday 11 March from 10am – 4pm, using willow grown on their own farms to build tunnels and domes.

Enjoy a day outdoors learning a new skill by joining The Donkey Sanctuary for a living willow workshop. This is a hands-on workshop and by the end of the day you will be ready to tackle your own project at home.

Ruth Angell, Wildlife and Conservation Coordinator at The Donkey Sanctuary said: “We grow willow beds next to our muck heap so that any dirty water run off can be collected in tanks and then...

Choral Workshop - Verdi's requiem

Event Date: 
06/02/2016 - 9:30am
Venue: 
Mint Methodist Church, Exeter

Exeter Philharmonic Choir

Saturday 6th February 2016

9.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m.

Mint Methodist Church, Exeter

Verdi Requiem – choral workshop led by Andrew Millington

£16 per person, including free tea/coffee and biscuit.

Score hire: £2

Book: online at www.exephil.org.uk or by telephone from EPC tickets 01392 499211

Edshack, the workshop time capsule recreating EDSAC

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 12/07/2015 - 5:33pm

A home workshop in Reading is today playing a vital role in the reconstruction of EDSAC, the Cambridge University machine that 65 years ago led the world’s computing revolution and today is being reconstructed and assembled at The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park where the process can be watched by Museum visitors.

The Reading workshop, affectionately named Edshack, belongs to James Barr, who not only has the rare skills required to help in the reconstruction of EDSAC, but also has a computing pedigree that can be traced directly to the machine that first ran before...

Make your own skincare products at Buckfast Abbey

Event Date: 
07/11/2015 - 11:00am to 4:00pm
Venue: 
Buckfast Abbey Bee Department, Buckfast Abbey Buckfastleigh Devon TQ11 0EE

Learn how to make your own balms creams and ointments using pure bees wax and honey from Buckfast Abbey's very own bees. Incorporate herbal extracts and essential oils to create your own unique products.

Price: £50 - All materials are included in the price as well as an exclusive information and recipe booklet.

Course tutor – Clare Densley

For all enquiries, contact:

Contact Clare Densley: cdensley@buckfast.org.uk or call 07944 504283

www.buckfast.org.uk

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Free ‘Get Online' taster session in Exeter

Event Date: 
16/10/2015 - 1:00pm
Venue: 
Brittany House, New North Road, Exeter

Elite Training is running a free "Get Online" taster session in Exeter on Friday afternoon.

This free taster is designed for anybody who would benefit from knowing how to access and use the internet.

The session will give an insight into the opportunities available online such as emailing, job searching, searching for information and hobbies, using Google maps and much more.

The session will run from 1pm-4pm on Friday 16th October at Brittany House, New North Road, Exeter, EX4 4EP.

http://www.elitetrainingsouthwest.co.uk/

Teenagers wanted for Roots A Capella Choir

Authored by Sarah Owen
Posted: Mon, 09/21/2015 - 4:53pm

Are you aged 13-18? Do you love to sing? Then here’s your chance! Roots A Capella is run by Devon-based music charity, Wren Music, and meets in St. Sidwell’s Community Centre in central Exeter, just minutes away from the bus station. The choir meets once a month on Sundays and is a great opportunity to improve your vocal skills, learn a huge range of songs from all over the world as well as take part in high calibre performances around the region. In the last term, Roots A Capella have had an exiting run of performances, including at Exeter Cathedral and Torquay Princess Theatre as well as...

Summer 2015: Learn how to felt

Event Date: 
06/08/2015 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Thursday 6th August, 10.00-12.00 or 13.30-15.30

Come and learn about felting techniques! Create your own piece of art to take home with you. Your finished product could be used as a wall hanging or cut and styled to create a brooch, finger puppet or maybe even a pencil case. Time to get inspired.

Suitable for ages 6-15. Please book online or call 01392 285983 http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/95250

Fun Kitchen Summer Children's Workshops

Event Date: 
10/08/2015 - 4:15pm to 11/08/2015 - 4:45pm
Venue: 
Southernhay Hall, Exeter (behind Princesshay)

Are you ready for summer?

Book yourself a break and make Fun Kitchen part of your summer plans!

Drop your child off from 8.30am to begin our workshop at 9am and we will ensure an entertaining and fun filled day of cookery activities until 5.30pm at Southernhay Hall in Exeter.

You can relax in the knowledge that your child is taking part in a wide range of fun and educational cookery activities in an excellent safe and secure school environment supervised by professional teachers.

This is an enriching, exciting and educational way for children between 8 to 14...

Butterfly Conservation on Dartmoor free talk and workshop

Event Date: 
17/07/2015 - 12:00pm
Venue: 
Dartmoor

The recently launched Dartmoor Conservation Garden in Princetown is hosting a free talk and workshop Butterfly Conservation on Dartmoor on Friday 17 July between 12 – 3pm.

Jenny Plackett, from the ‘Two Moors Threatened Butterfly Project’ will talk about the work being done on a landscape scale across Dartmoor (and Exmoor), which aims to reverse the declines in three important UK threatened butterfly species: the Marsh Fritillary, High Brown Fritillary and Heath Fritillary.

Simon Phelps of ‘All the Moor Butterflies’ will then run a practical butterfly identification workshop...

Butterfly Conservation on Dartmoor workshop

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 07/12/2015 - 12:30pm

The recently launched Dartmoor Conservation Garden in Princetown is hosting a free talk and workshop Butterfly Conservation on Dartmoor on Friday 17 July between 12 – 3pm.

Jenny Plackett, from the ‘Two Moors Threatened Butterfly Project’ will talk about the work being done on a landscape scale across Dartmoor (and Exmoor), which aims to reverse the declines in three important UK threatened butterfly species: the Marsh Fritillary, High Brown Fritillary and Heath Fritillary.

Simon Phelps of ‘All the Moor Butterflies’ will then run a practical butterfly identification workshop...

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