blur Group, the company that is reinventing commerce at blurgroup.com announces the move this month of its Global HQ from London to the Exeter Science Park, the UK’s 70th and newest Science Park. This will also see the creation of 100 jobs by the end of next year. blur Group successfully opened its R&D Centre in Exeter earlier in the summer. Meanwhile blur’s London and Dallas offices will remain as regional commercial hubs.
This move by blur Group, one of the fastest growing LSE:AIM listed tech companies, shows a commitment to a region with four of the country’s top 20...
Critically acclaimed theatre company Third Man are returning to the Bike Shed Theatre for the premiere of their new production, Mugs Arrows, which was developed at the venue last year. The show will run for three weeks starting on 24 September.
Mugs Arrows is a surreal black comedy set in very ordinary surroundings – the local pub. With rural areas being forever altered through commercial development and extreme weather conditions and locals disenchanted by a lack of jobs and the ever-increasing allure of a life elsewhere, Mugs Arrows delves in to a world that is on the change. It...
These geese are part of a global, public-participatory piece I am working on in collaboration with Professor Stuart Bearhop of Exeter University. I am sending out 10,000 postcards in the shape of migratory geese all over the world, asking people to write on them and post them back to me. Those that return to complete their ‘migration’ will hang in a huge installation in the shape of a flock of birds at Hope Hall, Heavitree in Exeter during Devon Open Studios in September.
As individuals, birds are vulnerable, insignificant - en masse, in migration, they signify a powerful force of...
Veteran journalist and newsreader, Angela Rippon, will be joining The Wildlife Trusts in support of this year’s Remember A Charity Week (Mon 9 – Sun 15 Sept 2013).
As one of 140 charities taking part in a series of events around the UK, The Wildlife Trusts are urging people making a Will to take a moment to consider including a gift to charity.
Devon Wildlife Trust is asking supporters to think about leaving a gift in their Will to help wildlife. The Trust’s Penny Mason said:
“Gifts in Wills are so important in allowing us to continue to protect our natural world...
Premier League Darts will be bigger than ever in 2014 with the introduction of an additional league night as the ten-player tournament, which will open in Liverpool and end in London, visits Leeds for the first time.
Darts' biggest roadshow event will celebrate its tenth staging next year, with reigning champion Michael van Gerwen set to defend his title against the likes of six-time winner Phil Taylor across 16 weeks of action around the UK and Ireland, live on Sky Sports.
The season will kick off on Thursday February 6 at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, as the ten players...
Artists-makers whose work references lace: Saturday 14 September - Sunday 3 November at Devon Guild of Craftsmen & Saturday 14 September - Saturday 2 November at Thelma Hulbert Gallery
A partnership exhibition which challenges preconceived ideas of 'lace'. Straddling both venues intoLACE presents 22 artists overall, who seek to examine the historic uses and values of lace with particular reference to Honiton lace at the Hulbert. Exhibits at the Guild feature fabric-wrapped ceramic, photograms, glass-encased lace, sun-prints through lace, laser-cut paper sculpture and...
Find out more about the county's diverse range of accomplished artists this month during Devon Open Studios, a free annual visual arts event that place from 7 to 22 September. Described by one visitor as, "a wonderful way to explore and discover all the talented people living in Devon," this is the largest showcase for artists in the county, with artists exhibiting their work in more than 140 locations.
Visitors will be able to view the work and practice of over two hundred artists who are opening their doors across the county, while touring the diverse countryside of Devon. The...
Rising prices and burgeoning buyer demand have led to significant increases in homes coming onto the South West property market, says the August RICS Residential Market Survey.
During August, 68 percent more chartered surveyors reported increases not decreases in new instructions in the region (from +42 percent in July). This is the highest number since RICS started to record these indices in the South West, and with positivity starting to return, it seems that those who may have been waiting for the right time to sell are choosing now to do so.
A new winter show is to grace Westpoint, Exeter next year. Jamie Wilson, Paul Elliott and Duncan Weldon for Triumph Entertainment have announced that the brand new show 'Robin Cousins' ICE - The Skating Stage Experience’ will be coming to Westpoint, Exeter from Wednesday 19th February 2014 for five nights during February half term.
Olympic champion and head judge on ITV’s Dancing on Ice , Robin Cousins has hand-picked the greatest ice skaters from around the globe to bring his incredible new production to life.
Dynamic and atmospheric, 'Robin Cousins' ICE will draw you...
On Thursday 26 September, the film “The Moo Man” nominated and shown at the prestigious 2013 Sundance Film Festival is being shown at the third Chagford Film Festival on Dartmoor.
Farmer Stephen Hook will be there on the night, along with the film’s Director (Andy Heathcote) and producer (Heike Bachelier).
The remarkable story of a maverick farmer and his cows, beautifully filmed over four years on the Pevensey Levels in Sussex.
In an attempt to save his family farm, Stephen Hook decides to turn his back on the cost cutting dairies and supermarkets and instead stay...
