South Devon Storytellers present SILENCE by Rachel Rose Reid
Thursday 19th April at 7.30pm
Totnes Methodist Church
Tickets £7.50 advance at www.ticketsource.co.uk/south-devon-story-tellers (link is external) or £9 on the door.
Oral tales have been shared in every culture for entertainment, education, cultural preservation and to instill moral values. From Homer to the Brothers Grimm they have stood the test of time.
The new South West Creative Technology Network is expanding the use of digital technologies throughout the region’s creative, health and manufacturing sectors.
The network is one of 14 nationwide hubs to have won a share of a £67 million Research England-funded investment announced this week.
Exeter-based Kaleider is joined by Bristol’s Watershed as Co-Executive Producers of the 3-year project led by UWE, in collaboration with Bath Spa University, Falmouth University and University of Plymouth.
The southwest hub will partner with a community of innovators, drawn...
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...
Five local community groups across ITV West Country West are set to compete for up to £50,000 of National Lottery funding each. The People’s Projects is giving these groups a chance to go head to head compete in a public vote to help them make an extraordinary difference to their community.
For 13 years, the Big Lottery Fund, ITV and The National Lottery have been teaming up to give the public a chance to decide where National Lottery money should go in their local area. The Big Lottery Fund distributes money raised by National Lottery players to communities across the UK.
The Exeter branch of RGB Building Supplies is inviting those that work in the trades and keen DIY enthusiasts to a free decorating breakfast morning on Tuesday 24th April.
Between 7.30am and 11am, free bacon butties and cups of coffee will be served while leading industry names, including Crown, Farrow & Ball, Bedec, ProDec and Tembe, will be demonstrating products and answering questions.
As well as receiving 10% off all paint throughout the day, everyone attending will have the chance to win a replica football shirt in a free prize draw.
Join Exeter Choral Society on 9 May 2018 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 .
Our conductor Laurence Blyth is now in his 10th year as our Musical...
A new route linking Exeter with developments to the east of the city has been completed and has opened to traffic.
The Tithebarn Link Road provides an alternative route avoiding M5 Junction 29, connecting the city and the Exeter and East Devon Growth Point, including the developments of Cranbrook, Skypark and the Exeter Science Park.
The route includes a 60 metre span pedestrian and cycle bridge alongside the existing bridge just north of Junction 29 of the M5. The bridge opened for use in February.
Councillor Andrea Davis, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for...
It was more than just a competition for two Exeter skittles teams. With husbands on the Saints team and wives playing as the Sinners, the men were expected to triumph as usual. But in a shock turnaround, it was the women who put their triumph down to singing. The strategy clearly worked as they beat their nearest rivals, the Outcasts from Bristol by an astonishing 446 points to 408. In the event, the Saints came in third with 392.
Sixteen teams from Gloucestershire, Wales, Bath, Bristol, Gloucestershire, South and East Devon travelled to the tournament, one of the Serious About...
Jack Nowell says he's aiming to make up for lost time by helping to play a lead role in Exeter's Aviva Premiership title defence.
The Chiefs, England and British Lions winger marked his return to competitive action for the first time in six weeks when he scored a second half brace in last Sunday's 46-10 victory over Gloucester at Sandy Park.
That win - Exeter's 14th in 19 league starts this term - ensured Rob Baxter's side became the first team this season to ensure their place in next month's end of season play-offs, even though there are still three rounds of the regular...
Rob Baxter is set to welcome his biggest intake of academy youngsters into his Exeter Chiefs squad for the 2018/19 season.
A great advocate over the years of bringing through youthful, homegrown talent at Sandy Park, the Chiefs Director of Rugby is once again ready to reap the rewards of yet more outstanding work being carried out by the club’s highly successful academy programme.
Richard Capstick, Flynn Elworthy, Barrie Karea, James Kenny, Sam Maunder, James McRae, Sam Morley, Max Norey, Joe Parker-Cook, Alfie Petch, Joe Snow, Danny Southworth, Cory Teague and Rus Tuima...
