Exeter

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra: Heavenly Adagio

Event Date: 
09/10/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, Exeter

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in concert.

Programme:

Mozart : Clarinet Concerto Bruckner : Symphony No7

Kirill Karabits - CONDUCTOR Andreas Ottensamer - Clarinet

Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony occupies a singularly important place in the composer’s output. It was with this piece that Bruckner finally achieved widespread recognition, and it has remained the most popular of his nine symphonies. The opening melody apparently came to him in a dream: a friend from Bruckner's younger days played the theme on a viola, with the words “This will bring you success...

Doug Hyde in attendance at Surridge Gallery

Event Date: 
09/10/2014 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Surridge Gallery, Princesshay, Exeter

Join Doug on his Official 10th Anniversary Tour 2014. Come along and enjoy a glass of bubbly whilst listening to Doug talk about this enchanting collection.

We look forward to welcoming you to this momentous event here in the gallery.

Free admission.

7pm-9pm

Street Food Night Markets

Event Date: 
09/10/2014 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Quay

After the amazing success of the recent night street food market on Exeter's historic quayside we are pleased to announce the approval of further markets leading up to Christmas.

The street food market has an impressive line up of different cuisines of street food to look forward too, including Spanish, American, Egyptian, Persian, Vietnamese, Locally Reared, African, Sustainable Fish, Caribbean & More.

A large emphasis has been put on local independent businesses; local businesses/ the local economy benefits though the market. It can also help the ‘dinning out’ budget...

Ton Benn: Will and Testament

Event Date: 
05/10/2014 - 4:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Picturehouse

Don’t miss a fascinating insight into the late great Labour politician Tony Benn on Sunday 5 October at 4.30pm at the Exeter Picturehouse.

When he died in 2014 at the age of 88, Tony Benn was Britain’s longest-serving politician. Skip Kite’s review of his career serves as a useful reminder of how politics and indeed the wider world have changed since Benn first entered parliament in 1950.

In a series of interviews held largely in his modest kitchen, Benn describes his privileged background, his political awakening, his fiercely held socialist beliefs, and the successes and...

Community eats their way to new defibrillator

Kingswear’s popular Manna from Devon Cooking School was buzzing on the evening of Thursday 25th September. Co-owners Holly and David Jones hosted a charity pop up supper at the cooking school to raise money to help equip the village with a community defibrillator. The well-attended event raised an impressive £600 to go towards this.

This fundraising initiative has been set up by two Kingswear residents, Catriona Bratten and Emma Jones. Commenting on the evening, Catriona said: “We are delighted with the amount raised. There was a fantastic turn out and everyone enjoyed delicious...

Scott King: De-Regeneration

Event Date: 
04/10/2014 - 10:00am to 22/11/2014 - 3:30pm
Venue: 
Spacex Gallery, Preston Street, Exeter

In this solo exhibition at Spacex, Scott King presents a body of recent work that deals almost exclusively with notions of public art and its role within urban regeneration.

Presented as a series of prints, Anish and Antony Take Afghanistan, 2014, employs humour to explore the astonishing power of public art that has long been recognised by both western governments and ‘big business’ alike. With increasingly large public sculptures being commissioned to ‘regenerate’ ailing post-industrial areas, King asks, ‘what if this strategy were employed in an attempt to turn around the...

Building projects delayed by skills shortage

Development projects in Exeter and across Devon and Cornwall are being delayed by up to three months as a result of a struggle to source skilled labour, according to leading property consultancy JLL. As the economy has started to improve, construction work has picked up, with new building projects taking place in and around the region. But David Slee, building consultancy director at JLL in Exeter, said that there is a lack of skilled construction workers available to meet the demand created by these schemes. The much needed new housing schemes now underway across Devon and Cornwall are...

Tiverton Contemporary Craft Market

Event Date: 
05/10/2014 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Tiverton Pannier Market

Artists and ceramicists will displaying and selling their artwork. Some will also be painting live.

The 11 artists taking part are:

Painters Kirsten Elswood, Jo Mortimer, Stuart Fowle, Heather Coldrey, Isabel Merrick, Heather-Bell Barlow and Linda Haynes.

Ceramicists: Marian Beresford, Sally Marshall and Anne Hewlett.

3D artist: Gill Gunter.

Any other artists/ceramicists/sculptors who are already selling their work in a gallery are welcome to apply for a space free of charge.

All of the artists taking part in the event will be donating a...

Stop and think before visiting A&E

Authored by NEWDevonCCG
Posted: Wed, 10/01/2014 - 3:21pm

“Stop and think before visiting A&E” – that’s the message from doctors in Devon as the NHS gears up for the cold months ahead. Doctors are urging people to visit or phone their GP practice, pharmacy or NHS 111 if it’s not an emergency. They are also calling for who have not yet registered with a GP practice to do this. Groups of people who have not yet registered with a GP practice include students, and those who have only recently moved to Devon or have moved to a different area of the county. The number of people presenting to hospital emergency departments is already high during the...

Exeter School alumnus joins summit challenge

A group of cricketers, including a former Exeter School pupil, set a new record for the highest-ever match with a lung-busting effort at the top of Kilimanjaro on Friday 26 September.

The teams, including English bowling legend Ashley Giles and South African icon Makhaya Ntini, the country’s first black Test player, and Exeter School alumnus Shripal Shah (1985 -1991), trekked to the roof of Africa before dawn and played ten overs each.

The game was played at 5,730 metres (18,910 feet), in the flat crater just below Kilimanjaro’s 5,895-metre summit.

The current...

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