TED's Essential Guide to what's on this weekend

Don't plan your weekend until you've checked out our essential guide to what's on in and around Exeter. There really is something on offer for everyone!

THEATRE

How the Other Half Loves
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth
Paul Taylor Mills presents How The Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn. One set combining two different houses with two different sets of people each talking and carrying on as if the other didn't exist. Tickets £14/ £13, Box office: 01395 514413.

The Pirates of Penzance
Saturday, 7.30pm, Eggesford Airfield, Chulmleigh
Opera Anywhere, are presenting a performance of The Pirates of Penzance with a chorus drawn from the surrounding area. You are invited to bring a picnic from 5.30pm so you can enjoy the fabulous views from the airfield before going into the hangar for the performance at 7.30pm. There will be a bar and ice-creams on sale. Tickets: £7.50 child, £15 adult. Box office: 01363 83245 or tickets via www.operaanywhere.com

MUSIC

Grand Baroque
Friday, 7.30pm, Exeter Cathedral
Enjoy two UK first performances of Cathedral-scale baroque choral works in one concert, directed by JanJoost van Elburg with the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Monteverdi String Band, natural trumpets of the Altenburg Ensemble and soloists from the UK’s best early music groups. Missa in labore requies (G Muffat) and Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis (J. Fux) with full supporting programme. Promoted by Devon based Blackdowns Early Music Projects. Tickets £10 unreserved, £12 - £25 reserved from from www.exeterphoenix.org.uk or at the door.

Bicton Fest 2013
Saturday, Bicton Park
Bicton College provides a beautiful backdrop for this event which will showcase the best of Devon’s musical talent, alongside some of the hottest up and coming acts from across the UK including: Wille and the Bandits, Adam Isaac Band, Joey The Lips, These Reigning Days, Hunter & the Bear and Paper Aeroplanes. There will also be fairground rides, local trade stands and children’s entertainment. Tickets are just £15 per adult and £10 per child.  www.ontrackmusicevents.com

Live music around the city
Saturday, Exeter
Reckless covers the 70s to present day at The Prospect Inn, Exeter Quay from 9pm; The Embezzlers (ska) are at the Bowling Green, Blackboy Road from 9.15pm; Diamondogz bring 70s glam rock to Whipton & Pinhoe Labour Club at  9.30pm (non-members £3),  Jack the Ladd are at the Half Moon at  Clyst St Mary from 8pm and Kiss This! bring the music of the 80s to the Heart of Oak at 9pm. All free entry unless stated.

Peaches ‘n’ Cream
Saturday, 8pm, Voodoo Lounge, Exeter Phoenix
Experience a unique combination of live dance acts and character movement jockeys topped with a fresh musical quenching from the South West’s finest bands and DJs. One ticket – twice the fun! Tickets: £5 on the door. More information at www.exeterphoenix.org or contact Anna on 07531 888688, email icandidance@gmail.com

Lonnie Liston Smith
Saturday, 8pm, Exeter Phoenix
One of contemporary music’s most versatile musicians. In a career that spans some 25 years, he has been headlined in a variety of recordings as a featured sideman for some of Jazz music’s most illustrious leaders before stepping out to reveal his own original concepts as a bandleader in the mid 70s. He is a keyboardist of the first rank and has influenced a generation of young players who have acknowledged his rhythmic (swing), harmonic acumen and composing skills. Tickets: £15. www.exeterphoenix.org.uk

FAIRS

Exeter Record Fair
Saturday, 9.30am, Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, Exeter
There will be a full house of all your favourite regular dealers, all having masses of good quality vinyl records, CDs and much more to choose from. Doors open at 9.30am and admission is £1.

The Toy Train and Collectors Fair
Sunday, 10.30am, Westpoint Arena, Clyst St Mary
Catering for all collectors, walk, browse and look for those elusive and hard to find models - the list is endless: Dinky, Corgi, Minichamps, Hornby Bassett Lowke, Meccano, Spot-On, Marklin, Scalextric, EFE, Actionman, Dolls,Teddies... and much more all under one roof! Open 10.30am-3pm, admission £3.50 adults, children under 15 free with an accompanying adult. www.bulldogfairs.com

EVENTS

Family Activity: Pots
Friday, St Nicholas Priory, Exeter
Pots are some of the most important remnants of ancient cultures but continue to be vital today. Look at some old ones, handle some replicas and make some new ones. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Admission: adults £4, children £1.50, families £10. 10.30am-3.30pm.

Exeter Innovations Market
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Guildhall Shopping Centre, Exeter
Selling high quality goods, craft furniture, fashion and food and regularly featuring live music and family fun Sundays, the Innovations Market is Exeter's finest weekly food street market. Eat well and for less than £5.  Traders will be open from 9am-5pm.  www.exeterinnovations.co.uk

The Escot Butterfly Hunt
Saturday, Escot Estate, Ottery St Mary
Hunt around the gardens and woodlands for the butterfly pictures and match the butterfly to the correct fun fact. Ask in the kiosk for a clue sheet at a cost £1 and return at the end to receive your certificate and chocolate prize! This event has been created in support of The Big Butterfly Count. www.bigbutterflycount.org

Summer Nature Trail
Saturday & Sunday, The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth
Why not explore the wild side of the Sanctuary with a self-guided nature trail. This route will take you around some of the quiet corners of the Sanctuary, and give an insight into all of the signs of wildlife that are to be found on this very special site.  £1 per guide. No booking required. www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk

Devon Wildfowling Conservation Association Country Fair
Sunday, 10.45am, Escot Estate, Ottery St Mary
Take part in various activities on the day, such as, clay pigeon shooting, dog scurries and archery. Visit a huge variety of traditional country stalls including: the cider stall, stick makers, artists, blacksmiths, wildfowlers, gunsmiths, wood bodgers, fox hounds, BASC, clothing stalls and much more. Free entry to the country fair. www.escot-devon.co.uk

EXHIBITIONS

Exeter Art Society Exhibition
East Devon Art Academy, Old Fore Street, Sidmouth EX10 8LS
Exeter Art Society are holding their annual Summer Art Exhibition from 31 August to 6 September, open daily 11am-4pm. As well as the Exhibition, there will be artwork for sale.

A wartime effort at Killerton
Killerton House, Broadclyst, Exeter
This exhibition features Broadclyst Primary School’s performance of 'Keep Calm and Carry On’ which was developed by the schoolchildren in conjunction with Killerton staff and volunteers and gave the audience a rare chance to see World War Two history brought to life in an innovative way.  The performances were recorded on video and are now presented alongside displays of photographs, costumes and objects from the play. The exhibition is open every day, 11am-5pm, until 12 September. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/killerton

What do you Collect? Welcome to Ingoldmells
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter
Plastic and kitsch is the passion of the latest collector whose collection of 1960s and 1970s melamine postcard trays is the latest  What do you Collect?  www.rammuseum.org.uk