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Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival announces lineup for Spring Weekend

Festival organisers unveil inspiring line up of authors for Spring Weekend

From Churchill’s legacy to the profound impact of books on our lives, this year’s Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival Spring Weekend promises an inspiring and thought-provoking programme for all.

Taking place in the town’s St Peter’s Church on March 7 and 8, the festival brings together a distinguished lineup of authors and speakers who will share captivating stories, bold ideas, and fresh perspectives. Attendees can look forward to exploring history, politics, music, justice, and personal journeys, all while celebrating the power of the written and spoken word.

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Exeter Food Festival reduces single use plastic

The Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink is introducing new ways to reduce single-use plastic at the 2018 event at Exeter Castle and Northernhay Gardens on the early May bank holiday weekend (Saturday 5th- Monday 7th May).

Visitors to the 2018 Exeter Food Festival will be drinking from reusable glasses and can save money on coffee if they bring their own reusable coffee cups.

Michael Caines, co-founder of the Exeter Food Festival, says, “For over 10 years, the Exeter Food Festival has stuck to a strict environmental policy with our food traders and exhibitors only...

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Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (20-22 April).

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Frankenstein Friday, Saurday & Sunday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter A world premiere staging of Mary Shelley’s Gothic classic. Victor Frankenstein is the tortured genius who unleashes death and destruction in his quest for eternal life! The cast includes Derek Frood (‘Poldark’), Dan Ball (‘The Mousetrap’), Will Trafford (‘Twelfth Night’) and Philip Voyzey (‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’). Special make-up effects have been created by Emmy Award-winner, David Brown who works on such...

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Digital art for a new generation

An exhibition of digital art at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) and a festival at RAMM and Exeter Phoenix this spring will celebrate the achievements of young artists and introduce 21st-century techniques to new audiences.

In the RAMM Cafe from 17 April to 1 July, the Machina exhibition features young people’s innovative digital art. The display includes gif animations, digital paintings and installations using apps, smartphone technology, coding and other digital techniques. Traditional media such as painting and printmaking add further variety. Objects in RAMM and...

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Phonic Takeover celebrates 10 years of broadcasting at Exeter Phoenix

Authored by Phonic FM
Posted: Wed, 04/18/2018 - 11:40am

On Saturday 9 June Phonic FM will take over Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre all day and evening with a giant FREE community event including:

  • Live music in the auditorium from 12noon until 11pm
  • Live music in the upstairs Voodoo Lounge from 12noon until 11pm
  • DJs on the outdoor terrace from 12noon until midnight
  • Storytelling and theatre in the workshop space from12noon until 6pm
  • DJs in the workshop space from 8pm until midnight
  • Phonic FM broadcasting live from the café-bar in the afternoon
  • Films in the Studio 74
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Internationally recognised artists bring a new exhibition to Exeter

Exeter Phoenix is pleased to present Another Spring, an exhibition curated by art historian, critic and curator Dr Jean Wainwright. The show brings together work by an outstanding group of internationally recognised artists. There will be a special exhibition preview from 6-8pm on Thursday 3rd May, and the exhibition will open on Thursday 4th May.

The exhibition reflects on the current trends and broader developments of nationalist impulses in Western society, where the debated question of citizenship, the foundation for identity and political governance is tied to ultranationalist...

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Exeter Choral Society - a concert celebrating our 75th anniversary year

Join Exeter Choral Society on 9 May 2018 at St James' Church, Mount Pleasant Road at 7.30pm for the first concert of our 75th year.

The choir started as Whipton Choral Society in 1943, when Exeter was a garrison city, to provide entertainment and community involvement for locals and visting troops. The choir now has over 100 singers and continues to grow, regularly performing to packed audiences.

In May we'll be singing Handel's Coronation Anthems , including 'Zadok the Priest,' Mozart's Coronation Mass and Haydn's Missa brevis Sancti Johannis de Deo .

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Russian protest artists Pussy Riot are heading to Exeter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 04/16/2018 - 6:12am

Following their sell-out tour in 2017, Pussy Riot return to the UK – and this time they’re heading for Exeter! Heading to Exeter Phoenix this August, Pussy Riot need little introduction. The Russian protest art collective have one of the most important voices of the last 10 years who's lyrical themes include feminism, LGBT rights, and opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom the group consider to be a dictator. The group found fame for staging unauthorised provocative guerilla punk performances in unusual places, which were recorded and made into music videos. The group gained...

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Giles Shenton returns to Devon with My Dog’s Got No Nose

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 04/15/2018 - 9:27pm

After his highly acclaimed performance of Old Herbaceous, Giles Shenton returns to Devon with another “exceptional” one-man play called My Dog’s Got No Nose. Being billed as a comedy, and the title it has, understates what is, in fact, a wonderful piece of theatre. This national touring production, produced by Kick In The Head (Old Herbaceous, Fagin?, Heroes), has been stunning audiences since February 2017.

Written by the well-known actor, director and playwright, Ron Aldridge, My Dog’s Got No Nose takes us on a journey into the life of a middle-aged man whose one ambition in life...

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Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (13-15 April):

THEATRE

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott Meet Marc and Bella Chagall! The flying lovers of Vitebsk! Partners in life and on canvas, Marc and Bella are immortalised as the picture of romance. But whilst on canvas they flew, in life they walked through some of the most devastating times in history. Daniel Jamieson’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk traces this young couple as they navigate the Pogroms, the Russian Revolution, and each other. Emma Rice’s...

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Darts Legend Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor heads back to Exeter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 04/12/2018 - 8:48am

Darts fans in Exeter will get the chance to see the sport’s greatest ever player in 2018 when Phil Taylor appears in an exclusive exhibition event.

Sixteen-time World Champion Taylor retired from the professional tour following January’s World Championship final, meaning the legendary ‘Power’ will not be appearing in this year’s Premier League for the first time.

But Taylor will be appearing at Exeter Corn Exchange on Friday 25 May 2018 alongside Welsh ace Mark Webster, darts’ original entertainer Bobby George and Exeter’s Lee Bryant.

Taylor dominated professional...

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