Cygnet’s annual Summer School is an exciting week for anyone over 18yrs wishing to perfect their acting skills.
Working with Alistair Ganley (Cygnet’s Artistic Director) and other key staff, participants will explore voice, movement and improvisation as well as a variety of dynamic approaches to acting and character development.
The week will conclude with an informal showing of work in progress to an invited audience of friends and family and tutors.
This course is ideal for actors of all levels: from potential drama school entrants to seasoned actors and for...
Blue Fizz Events are holding a ‘Strawberries & Cream’ Wedding Fair at the Deer Park Country House Hotel, Honiton, on Wednesday 1st July, 6pm-8.30pm.
The Strawberries & Cream Wedding Fair is all about giving brides fabulous summer wedding inspiration, perfect for the bride & groom looking for a quintessentially English wedding style.
The evening will be full of music and entertainment, with over 25 fabulous wedding exhibitors brimming with new ideas to excite the imagination.
The Deer Park Country House Hotel is one of our favourite wedding venues and...
On 25th June 2015, 825 Lush shops across the world will kick off a two week campaign for general acceptance and equality of LGBT Rights across the world as human rights.
Shops will be asking their customers “What if your love was illegal?” and encouraging them to post selfies with the campaign’s fundraising product - a gold soap scented with Lush’s Love fragrance - telling the world why they think #GayIsOK.
By purchasing the aptly named Love soap (£4.00 for a 120g bar), you are supporting grassroots LGBT groups fighting daily for equality all over the world. The #GayIsOK...
The inaugural Wonder Fields Festival will be coming to fields in Devon from July 17th-19th 2015.
The festival is taking place at Great Fulford, Dunsford near Exeter, but this is no Glastonbury Festival! Hosting just 500 fun-loving folk from across the South-West and beyond, Wonder Fields aims to bring the spirit of imagination, fun and of course wonder, to the countryside, with the event featuring 60 music acts, a children’s area, spa, crafts and wild food foraging amongst many other activities.
Multi-genre music includes acts such as Bristol-based heavy weights Dub Mafia,...
Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are growing at their fastest rate since the economic crisis in 2008 as private sector firms added over 600,000 net new jobs across the UK in 2014, new research shows. The Growth Dashboard 2015 - a new study by the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC), which brings together academics from five of the country’s leading university business schools, and in partnership with the Business Growth Service - sheds new light on patterns of growth around the UK. The surprising findings show that while London has the highest start-up rate in the country, it is...
To mark this year’s Deafblind Awareness Week, Roger Mulholland a young deafblind man is leading a sensory walk around the quay and river in Exeter on Tuesday 23 June.
Roger who is deaf and registered blind, is a regular volunteer at Café 55 a unique café in central Exeter staffed by disabled people and run by national deafblind charity Sense.
The 28-year-old from Tiverton who received the Duke of Edinburg Gold Award in 2012 and was named ‘Deafblind Person of the Year’ in 2011 was born deafblind. He has also learning difficulties and a heart condition and communicates using...
The GoHard Obstacle Run Series is a 3km and 6km run incorporating various obstacles that include elements of climbing, lifting, crawling, jumping. The 6km option is a double loop of the 3km circuit and the runs are suited for all abilities. The entry cost includes an event vest, spot prizes, with prizes for the event winners.
Early Bird Registration £16 (until 1 August 2015) £22 after 2 August 2015
The GoHard Obstacle Run Series is a fun 3km or 6km run incorporating various obstacles that include elements of climbing, lifting, crawling, jumping. The 6km option is a double loop of the 3km circuit and the runs are suited for all abilities. The entry cost includes an event T-shirt, spot prizes, with prizes for the event winners.
Early Bird Entry is £16 (until 31 June 2015) Entry is £22 (after 1 July 2015)
A global survey by deal experts at Travelzoo has revealed that Brits and Germans are as bad as each other, with a third of respondents admitting to making the early morning towel run to reserve a sunbed on the beach or by the pool. Travelzoo’s ‘honesty survey’ asked over 9,500 adults across the UK, US, China, Canada and Germany to own up to their worst holiday habits. The research revealed that two in every three Americans admitted to urinating in the pool or the sea, closely followed by half of Canadians and 46 per cent of Brits. Americans are also the biggest culprits when it comes to...
As little as two minutes of high-intensity exercise four times a day improves health outcomes in adolescents, but the same amount of moderate-intensity exercise does not reap the same rewards, according to a new study from the University of Exeter.
Researchers found that when exercise is broken up into short bursts over the course of a day – replicating the way young children go about being active – only high-intensity exercise is effective in improving blood sugar levels, fat metabolism and blood pressure in adolescents after the consumption of a fatty meal.
