Exeter

Surf Cinema & BBQ

Event Date: 
02/07/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Cold Water special featuring Freezing (30 mins), Headache (50 mins) and Surf Shorts.

The water is getting warm, summer suits are on and boots are off. The summer surf season may be here but we’re smashing back into icy waters with our ever-popular Surf Cinema Cold Water Special. See some the best and latest releases from Iceland, Scotland and Sweden on the big screen.

Live music and BBQ from 4pm, serving local bbq-ed meat, veggie and vegan options plus delicious side dishes.

£6

http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/whats-on

King Porter Stomp

Event Date: 
02/07/2016 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

If you’ve ever seen King Porter Stomp busking on street corners, in packed festival tents or in major venues round the UK, you’ll know that these boys came to party. King Porter Stomp bring together their own unique union of ska-funk-dub and afrobeat and top it all off with cleverly crafted conscious rhymes. With massive horn lines, heavy bass and intricate guitar work, they have pulled on heart strings and won over the dancing feet of crowds across the UK and into Europe.

Tickets £10 (£8) standing

http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/whats-on

Wax the Van Terrace Party

Event Date: 
01/07/2016 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Wax The Van resident DJ Spider eases you into the weekend with a fine selection of soul and disco tunes.

6pm-11pm, free, over 18s

Wildwood, NJ

Event Date: 
01/07/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Shot in 1994 on Super-8 film Wildwood takes you down the New Jersey shoreline with an all-women crew to the last great American blue-collar seaside carnival town. Glipse beyond the gum-cracking, big hair, and press-on nails and into the souls of women raised on boardwalk rides, lights and come-ons.

This fascinating collage gives a voice to the women of New Jersey, who are often overlooked in film. Grandmothers, go-go girls young, vibrant and opinionated women, speak about their lives, female friendship, love, dreams, sex and summer in New Jersey.

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A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer

Event Date: 
28/09/2016 - 7:30pm to 02/10/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer is an all-singing, all-dancing examination of life with a cancer diagnosis. This brand new musical takes you on a whistle-stop tour through five unconventional stories about cancer, confronting the highs and lows of the scariest word we know.

Bryony Kimmings creates fearless theatre to provoke social change. Her latest collaboration with Complicite will look behind the poster campaigns and pink ribbons at the reality of cancer: the waiting rooms and chemo suites, the changed bodies, the family pressures and financial worries.

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Monstersaurus!

Event Date: 
25/09/2016 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

One day Monty found a book

‘Inventions Very Rare’ Create yourself a monster friend BUT ONLY IF YOU DARE!

This brand new show from the creators of Aliens Love Underpants is monster-ously good! Follow the young inventor Monty as he creates a whole world of whacky inventions and incredible monsters, but he has a problem – now he has made them all, what is he going to do with them?!

This energetic show full of thrills, spills, magic and mayhem will delight the whole family –with original music and plenty of audience participation!

www.bigwoodenhorse.co.uk...

10cc in Concert

Event Date: 
24/09/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, University of Exeter

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of their seminal album Sheet Music – which included Top 10 hit The Wall Street Shuffle – 10cc visit Exeter’s Great Hall as part of a 26-date theatre tour.

Led by 10cc co-founder Graham Gouldman, the band will perform two sets at each concert, the first half of the evening comprising Sheet Music in its entirety, with a pause for the symbolic turning of the vinyl album.

Released in 1974, Sheet Music reached No 9 in the UK album charts and entered the Top 100 in the US. It remains a masterclass in the composition of popular music and typifies...

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Event Date: 
08/09/2016 - 7:30pm to 11/09/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Valentine loves Silvia and Proteus loves Julia – but Proteus is fickle, and falls for Silvia too. When Valentine plots an elopement, Proteus betrays him and Valentine is banished and joins some outlaws in the forest. What are the chances that he’ll be pursued by Silvia, and Silvia by Proteus, and Proteus by Julia, and that all will be waited upon – after a fashion – by their servants Speed and Launce and even Launce’s dog, Crab?

This riotous new production is led by a joyful ensemble of players who will delight with songs, romance and chaos, and hurl Shakespeare’s anarchic comedy...

Blown Away

Event Date: 
03/09/2016 - 11:00am to 04/09/2016 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

‘A windy day, a brand new kite, for Penguin Blue a maiden flight…’

Meet Penguin Blue and friends as they go on an acrobatic Antarctic adventure full of good ideas, homesickness and the perils of kites. Packed full of spectacular circus, magical puppetry and catchy songs this joyous new stage adaptation of Rob Biddulph’s award-winning children’s book is fun for all the family.

Metta Theatre is an Exeter Northcott Theatre Associate Company – making a triumphant return after their five-star smash-hit Jungle Book earlier this year.

www.mettatheatre.co.uk

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BSO: Classical Extravaganza 2016

Event Date: 
22/07/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, Exeter University

Back by popular demand, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra returns with their spectacular Classical Extravaganza. With the programme details still to be confirmed, the concert will feature another host of the most popular and recognisable pieces of classical music, as well as fantastic lasers and lights.

If you’re looking for a different evening out, come and experience classical music in a way you never have before!

Frank Zielhorst, conductor

Rossini The Barber of Seville Overture Ponchielli Dance of the Hours Bizet Carmen Suite Albinoni Adagio Bach/Stokowski Toccata...

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