ESBN Business Presentations and Networking

Event Date: 
16/05/2013 - 8:45am
Venue: 
Flybe Training Academy, Exeter

With rising resource costs and waste disposal charges, the Exeter Sustainable Business Network’s first quarterly event will be focusing on how businesses can reduce their waste costs and take advantage of business opportunities. There will be a series of business presentations and a networking opportunity.

Event Programme:

8:45am: Registration and coffee

9.05am: Introductions

9.15am-10.30am: Mini Presentations:

Flybe - Find out how Europe's largest regional airline minimises the amount of waste they send to landfill and reduces their waste costs. www...

Directors' Breakfast

Event Date: 
14/05/2013 - 8:00am
Venue: 
St Olaves Hotel, Mary Arches Street, Exeter

The Director's Breakfast Forum will be taking place on Tuesday 14 May.

The meeting is open to the directors of small companies, with 20 employees or less. The meeting provides a confidential forum that enables attendees to bring discussion points and speak candidly about issues they face and share experiences and best practice.

Examples of previous topics of discussion include: staffing, marketing and PR, investment and funding, skill development, genearl busiess concerns and issues. Due to the nature of this meeting, it is imperative that attendees are from different...

Exeter Chamber Networking Lunch

Event Date: 
15/05/2013 - 12:00pm
Venue: 
Southgate Hotel, Exeter

The next Chamber Networking Lunch will be taking place on 15 May 2013 at the Southgate Hotel.

The speaker at this event will be Paul Thomas, Head of Trading Standards.

Paul will give an update on trading standards delivery at a national, regional and local level with a particular focus on how regulation can support the local economy rather than prove to be a burden on business.

Noon-2pm

For more information and to book a place visit www.exeterchamber.co.uk

Virtual Vincenzo: RAMM’s Sodi Harpischord brought back to life

Event Date: 
18/05/2013 - 10:30am
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

The Vincenzo Sodi 1782 harpsichord on display at RAMM is so delicate that it can no longer be played.

With the aid of the latest computer technology, Exeter’s Sound Gallery have re-created the entire keyboard as an interactive installation. Visitors are welcome to try out their keyboard skills and hear how a piece of music would sound if they were able to play it on the 231 year-old instrument.

Free drop-in: 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 4.30pm.

www.vincenzo.sound-gallery.net

Sculpture from Life Model

Event Date: 
18/05/2013 - 1:00pm
Venue: 
Organic Arts, West Town Farm, Ide

Sarah John will guide you in creating clay sculpture figures which can be fired at the Pottery Workshop.

Suitable for beginners or the more experienced.

£30, call 01392 811080 in advance to book your place.

www.organicarts.org.uk

Analogue To Digital Music Show 2013

Event Date: 
18/05/2013 - 10:30am
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

The Analogue to Digital Music Show organised by Sound Gallery Studios, hits Exeter once again on Saturday 18 May, bringing with it hundreds of visitors and an impressive exhibitor and guest speaker line-up. A2D is a unique music industry event which showcases a diverse range of products by major music technology brands, not to mention an array of hands-on demos, masterclasses, workshops and music industry seminars delivered by high profile artists and producers across 4 Zones and 3 floors at Exeter Phoenix in Exeter, Devon.

Sound Gallery is proud to announce that soundscape...

Shooglenifty

Event Date: 
18/05/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Famous the world over for inventing Techno Ceilidh, Acid Croft and Hypnofolkadelia, Shooglenifty’s original and exciting sound has launched the band on an international career. A wild uptempo mix of trad talent and super funky phonics melding heritage and hedonism into one unbreakable whole.

Shooglenifty is one of Scotland’s most unique musical exports, credited with being the originators of ‘acid-croft,’ a fiery and infectious blend of Celtic traditional music and dance grooves that band members describe as ‘hypno-folkadelic ambient trad.’

Their fiery instrumental lyricism...

Stupendous Steampunk Showcase

Event Date: 
17/05/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Indulge in a night of neo-victorian fantasy at the Stupendous Steampunk Showcase.

Featuring Professor Elemental, The Mysterious Freakshow, Miss Von Trapp’s Dark Cabaret, and DJ Maizybelle Swing (Electroswing set).

Professor Elemental - Hello there! Welcome to the world of Professor Elemental. Sit down and I’ll brew you a nice hip hop number, stir in some comedy, then serve it with scones and a nice warm cuddle.

The Mysterious Freakshow - A little bit punk and little bit steam! But mostly The Mysterious Freakshow give the listener a marvelous medley of musical mayhem...

National Theatre Live: This House

Event Date: 
16/05/2013 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Picture House, Bartholomew Street West, Exeter

The National Theatre Live Screening from London of 'This House' - a new play by James Graham

It’s 1974 and the corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backbiting as Britain’s political parties battle to change the future of the nation, whatever it takes.

Biting and energetic, This House strips politics down to the practical realities of those behind the scenes who roll up their sleeves, and on occasion bend the rules, to manoeuvre a diverse and conflicting chorus of MPs within the Mother of all Parliaments

An 'Encore' screening of this live...

Hobo Jones & the Junkyard Dogs plus Pyrates

Event Date: 
16/05/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Festival faves Hobo Jones and The Junkyard Dogs play wild acoustic versions of classic tunes interspersed with on-stage antics guaranteed to get you bouncing and laughing. Tramp-rock at its finest, irreverent, cheeky and ferociously funny!

Pyrates play sea shanties with attitude, which always turns into a sing-along, amidst a veritable Arh-mageddon of naughty nautical chants ‘n’ cheers.

Tickets: £10

www.exeterphoenix.org.uk

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