Devon

The Contemporary Craft Festival

Event Date: 
05/06/2015 - 10:00am to 07/06/2015 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Marsh Mill Park, Bovey Tracey

The Contemporary Craft Festival returns to Bovey Tracey in June, bringing together 200 makers of contemporary craft including award winning silversmiths, potters, furniture makers, textile artists, glass makers, jewellery, 3D printing and even surfboards.

Families can enjoy the Children’s Craft tent with live music and a wide variety of great street food. The Talk Tipi returns with talks about differing aspects of craft plus workshops and craft demonstrations. Plymouth College of Art will showcase their inspiring opportunities in the Project Space focusing on textiles and print....

Jaleo Flamenco

Event Date: 
20/05/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, Exeter

In a scintillating fusion of heart wrenching vocals, explosive footwork and virtuoso guitar playing, Jaleo return to Britain with their latest stage show - A Compás. Brimming over with the intoxicating rhythms, palpable energy and joie de vivre which has become synonymous with the company. A Compás (in rhythm) charts an evocative musical journey through the diverse flamenco regions of Andalusia in which some of Spain's finest award-winning artists combine their talents in a mesmerising tour de force to produce a unique spectacle of universal appeal which encapsulates the very essence of...

Exeter College Big Band

Event Date: 
22/06/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Exeter College Big Band

Musical Directors: Iorwerth Pugh and Sarah Dean

The Exeter College Big Band returns to its traditional date for their end of year concert. We will be performing a wide range of music from well-established big band charts to soul and popular music. We have, as usual, some wonderful soloists and singers and this year we expect our Music Academy choir to join us in all the fun! The band is full of some of the best young musicians in Devon. We are delighted to be performing at the Barnfield Theatre once more and know that you’ll leave the show with a...

Exeter College Big Band

Event Date: 
22/06/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Exeter College Big Band

Musical Directors: Iorwerth Pugh and Sarah Dean

The Exeter College Big Band returns to its traditional date for their end of year concert. We will be performing a wide range of music from well-established big band charts to soul and popular music. We have, as usual, some wonderful soloists and singers and this year we expect our Music Academy choir to join us in all the fun! The band is full of some of the best young musicians in Devon. We are delighted to be performing at the Barnfield Theatre once more and know that you’ll leave the show with a...

Devon Cub Scouts first to earn re-launched police badge

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 05/10/2015 - 12:21pm

Cub Scouts in Devon well and truly did their best to become the first owners of a re-launched police badge in Devon and Cornwall.

More than 30 Cub Scouts from Highweek and Kingskerswell studied personal safety and detective skills to earn the newly-restored Devon and Cornwall Police Cub Scout Badge.

The badge was first presented some years ago but was not being awarded very often. Now thanks to the support of Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer and Assistant Cub Scout Commissioner Sandra Johnson, the badge has been re-launched.

The Newton Abbot Cub Scouts were the first to...

Exeter man seriously injured in collision

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 05/09/2015 - 5:27pm

An Exeter man has sustained life-changing injuries in a collision which killed two people and left four others seriously injured.

The collision happened at around 10.15pm yesterday evening (Friday 8 May) on the A37 near Grimstone in Dorset.

Two vehicles were involved in a head-on collision – a blue Volkswagen Transporter van being driven by a man from Poole and a black Volkswagen Golf being driven by a man from Devon.

Two people – a 25-year-old woman from Bridport and a 45-year-old man from Poole – have died. Their next of kin have been informed and the coroner...

Young visitors to follow prize-winning duck at Devon County Show

A colourful Devon duck swam to the winning post and gained first prize in a children’s competition to design a mascot for this year’s Devon County Show on May 21-23 at Westpoint, Exeter.

Talented Annabel Pagliero, of Lady Seaward C of E Primary School, with her 'Devon Duck', beat nearly a hundred entries submitted by Lady Seward and Clyst St Mary primary schools.

The judges - Jon Williams from Farm Wise Devon, Josh Beadon from design company Toucan and Emma Watson, Show administrator – said the standard of entries was very high.

Emma said: “It was a very difficult...

Scaling new heights on Dartmoor

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 05/09/2015 - 8:50am

Following the success of the Natural Navigator talk in April Dartmoor National Park welcomes Gavin Kelly and Rich Pencott along to talk about climbing and microadventures.

On Tuesday 19 May go along and be enthralled by Gavin Kelly’s rock climbing talk, ‘Scaling new heights!’ Gavin, of Ibex Outdoors, has more than thirty years of climbing experience on Dartmoor and will talk about the unique experiences that Dartmoor has to offer climbers. His passion for climbing has taken him all over the UK and beyond; a journey of learning and sharing amazing places and experiences but discover...

Killerton drawing master art exhibition

Killerton House, near Exeter, is to host its first historic fine art exhibition. ‘Framing the view: Nicholson, the Killerton drawing master’, presented by guest curator Professor Gordon Bell, will launch on Sunday 17 May and runs until 13 September.

The exhibition features over 50 watercolours and lithographs by artist Francis Nicholson, drawing master and art teacher to the Acland family. These ‘Picturesque’ artworks were intended to create an emotional response in the viewer through scenes of beautiful, wild and sublime countryside and they inspired the Aclands to shape Killerton...

Ping! returns to Exeter

The nation will be going batty again this summer when Ping! - the free street table tennis festival - bounces back for the sixth year running, now in 19 towns and cities, including Plymouth and Exeter.

Last years Ping! festival in Exeter was a runaway success and this year there are set to be more tables, in more locations so that more people can have fun and play.

A little taster of the excitement to be had this summer will begin with the #Ping Challenge at the Exeter Business Games in association with Big Wave Media on Wednesday 13 May from 5-8pm at Exeter Castle....

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