From fun on the farm to dancing in the streets... what's on this weekend

There's something to suit all tastes in our editor's pick of what's on this weekend...

Ignite Festival
Until Sunday, various venues, Exeter
Ignite is a 6 day celebration of new live performance work from the South West and beyond. It will host events in a number of venues across the city. It is an affordable opportunity for artists, performers and companies to preview their Edinburgh shows or as a local, alternative, exciting festival experience, aiming to create a diverse and inspiring summer festival programme. www.igniteexeter.org.uk

Two Gentlemen of Verona
Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, Northcott Theatre, Exeter
Two lifelong friends – the two young gentlemen of the title – are parted first by circumstance, and then by rivalry in love. Can their loyalty to each other survive the test, or will new loyalties drive out the old? How deep into perfidy can one be driven by sexual obsession? And what do even the most adored of women count for in a profoundly masculine world? Shakespeare's vision is both comic and shocking - and extraordinarily modern. Box office: 01392 493493. www.exeternorthcott.co.uk

Ablutions
Friday & Saturday, The BikeShed Theatre, Exeter
A dark and modern drama, adapted from the novel by Patrick DeWitt. Picture yourself as a bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your customers descend into nightly oblivion. Your heart is broken by the world around you and leaving your whiskey aside, you hatch a devious, unthinkable plan of escape... Box office 01392 434169. www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk

MUSIC

Bradninch Music Festival 2013
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Bradninch
Between Friday evening and Sunday night there will be a range of mainly free events including concerts, workshops and street entertainments.  There will be the regular events, some new changes, some surprises and delights mixed in, but the key objective of the programme will be to entertain. Click here for details. 

Black Voices In Concert
Saturday, 7pm, St Thomas Methodist Church, Exeter
Black Voices, a Birmingham-based performance ensemble renowned for its rich, powerful harmonies and stunning arrangements, are coming to Exeter on to put on a concert and public workshop supported by St Thomas Gospel Choir. Performance  £15. Workshop on Sunday costs £10. Click here to buy tickets.

The BobKatZ
Saturday, Prospect Inn, Exeter
Martin Weller, Nick Thorman and Stewart White make up the Exeter based band, performing from 9.30pm. Free entry.

T'Pau in Concert
Sunday, 8pm, Public Hall, Budleigh Salterton
A fantastic evening of 80s nostalgia with Carol and her band performing classic hits such as China in Your Hand, Valentine, I Will Be With You, Heart and Soul as well as their favourite album tracks and 'B' sides. Doors open at 6.30 with a real ale bar and food available. Tickets £ £18.50 or £20 on the door. Box Office: 01395 443419 or 07891 663044. To purchase tickets online, click here.

EVENTS

Dancing in the Streets 2013
Saturday & Sunday, Princesshay Square, Exeter
Dancing in the Streets Festival 2013 is back and ready to rumble! With talented local performers from dancers and singers to comedians and live music, this weekend is set to rock the very heart of Exeter’s shopping capital, Princesshay. www.dancinginthestreetsfestival.com

The Friends of Exeter Cathedral School Summer Fete
Saturday, 10am, Cathedral Green, Exeter
A traditional summer fete in the heart of Exeter.  Browse local craft stalls, whizz down an inflatable slide, try your hand at the coconut shy or buy some homemade cakes for tea. Soak up the atmosphere with live entertainment from the Kitchen Desperados, The Ploughboys, Exeter Cathedral School Big Band and many more.  Grand opening at 10am by the Lord Mayor of Exeter. Open 10am-4pm.

University of Exeter Campus Festival
Saturday & Sunday
The University of Exeter Campus Festival will include a range of activities and performance for all the family. There will be student acts such as the Soul Choir and the acclaimed A Capella group semi Toned. There will also be professional acts such as the much loved and award-winning street clowning troupe Le Navet Bete. Professional music also includes acts such as Sheelanagig, The Carrivick Sisters and Exeter favourites Count to Fire.  www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk

Newtown Community Association Art Cafe
Sunday, 2pm, The Hut, Belmont Park, Exeter
Newtown Community Association are gearing up for an Art Café, which will take place this Sunday, 9 June at the main hut in Belmont Park from 2pm-4pm.  As well as a painting activity with Exeter Scrapstore, there will be live music mostly from young string players The J Strings – which is the St James School string group; Exeter Young Strings, and also a young string band will be doing a few tunes.  Click here for more information.

Open Farm Sunday
Sunday, 11am, West Town Farm, Ide
This is a national event, a day when farms around the country ask you to get on the land and discover what's going on at your local farm. Open 11am-4pm, Kevin and Jo will be making seasonal vegetable flatbreads and telling stories in the community garden. Deggie & Dawn, whose potion making proved a big hit at Spring at the Farm, will be planting seeds in the vegetable garden and leading wild food walks. There will be bush craft activities, tractor trailer rides, face painting. You can also meet the animals, feed the pigs and say "Hello" to our brand new sheep and see the spring calves!  As you'd expect some of our delicious and delectable produce will also be on the BBQ and organicARTS will have tea, coffee and cake for sale at their cafe.

EXHIBITIONS

Catrin Webster: Lived Abstractions
CCANW, The Innovation Centre, Rennes Drive, The University of Exeter
The works collected in this exhibition are the outcome of artist Catrin Webster’s Leverhulme Trust-funded residency in the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter, 2012-13. Over 20 original artworks by Catrin comprise the majority of the show; in addition there are works on show by Dr John Wylie, a cultural geographer based at Exeter who has been collaborating with Catrin through the course of the residency. Open Monday to Friday, 8.30pm-5.30pm.

The South West Academy of Fine and Applied Art's Annual Exhibition
Friday & Saturday, gloss-Art Exeter, Barnfield Crescent, Exeter
Once again gloss-Art Exeter hosts this year's annual exhibition of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts (SWAc). Discover a display of over forty members, including some new artists who have recently been invited to join the prestigious organisation. Enjoy surreal work by Jonathon X. Coudrille, incredible portraits by Peter Mallison and the almost fauvist landscapes of Laura Hudson just to name a few. www.glossgallery.co.uk

Layla Curtis Exhibition
Spacex Gallery, 45 Preston Street, Exeter
British artist Layla Curtis presents a solo exhibition of work at Spacex in central Exeter, including a new commission entitled Antipodes (working title), 2013 and Tong Tana, 2012. Curtis’s work has a focus on mapping and the ways we represent terrain and locate ourselves and our movements through space. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-5pm, the exhibition runs until 13 July. www.spacex.org.uk