Dr Keren Protheroe, design historian and co-curator of the Petal Power exhibition, looks at how an increasing number of women by the 1910s were exploiting their art education to go on and forge careers designing fashionable, floral fabrics.
Tickets are £4.50 (£3) and available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours (10am-5pm, Tuesday to Sunday).
This ElectroSwing Night has a 1920s theme to compliment the exhibition Petal Power. Enjoy the exhibition and the beauty of the museum at night and take swing-dancing lessons.
Nine-piece band Smerin’s Anti-Social Club will play as part of their album tour and DJs will play ElectroSwing music – a fusion of modern beats with jazz swing. Do come smartly dressed as there is a 1920s theme. The fun continues at the Cavern from 10pm.
Royal Albert Memorial Museum 6.30 to 10pm, Cavern Club (over 18s only) 10pm to 2am
Tickets: £8 or £7 earlybird from www.undergroundtickets.net...
A valentine's treat from this gifted live performer who was named after Louis Armstrong by her jazz-obsessed father, and born to create the soulful sound that has built her a huge reputation in the jazz world.
Louise's powerful vocal delivery and skillful interpretation of swing, blues and gospel classics have made her a regular on Radio 2's Best of Jazz.
She blends an effortless rhythmical style with a sweet warm tone, passion and spirit to create performances that simply stir the soul. Louise "swings like fury." (Humphrey Lyttelton). Playing with pianist George Cooper....
When power is cut off from the Eternalife Cryonics facility, Dr Frankenstein must race against time to construct a superhuman of epic proportions that can carry the precious genes of the rich and famous into the future.
His cut-and-paste creation is a hideous mistake. Feared by its creator, shunned by the world, the monster takes revenge.
Following the success of Patience in March 2012, Exeter University Gilbert and Sullivan Society return to celebrate their 45th year with one of the most famous comic operas of all time, The Pirates of Penzance.
Follow the thrilling story of young Frederic, who has to remain faithful to the pirate trade until his 21st birthday.
However, he longs to pursue his dreams elsewhere and find true love.The pirates find a flaw in his contract and all becomes more complicated than Frederic could have ever imagined...
With fantastically famous music, delicious humour and the...
Following the success of Patience in March 2012, Exeter University Gilbert and Sullivan Society return to celebrate their 45th year with one of the most famous comic operas of all time, The Pirates of Penzance.
Follow the thrilling story of young Frederic, who has to remain faithful to the pirate trade until his 21st birthday.
However, he longs to pursue his dreams elsewhere and find true love.The pirates find a flaw in his contract and all becomes more complicated than Frederic could have ever imagined...
With fantastically famous music, delicious humour and the...
New Old Friends and makin projects present Silly Songs of Shakespeare, part of the Laugh Out Loud Exeter Comedy Festival
Originally commissioned by Theatre Royal Bath's Shakespeare's Unplugged, Silly Songs of Shakespeare is a show that does exactly what it says on the tin...there are songs, they are silly and they are based on Shakespeare.
Spend an evening with 'Fearg & the Sonnettes' while they serenade you with hilarious "synopsongs" of some of Will's most famous works and illuminate a weird corner of Shakespeare's world with their witty and catchy tunes.
BP Portrait Awards showcases the very best in contemporary portrait painting from around the world. For thirty-three years, of which the last twenty-three have been sponsored by BP, the exhibition has presented outstanding and innovative new work in a variety of styles and approaches, and it continues to be a highlight of the annual art calendar.
From informal and personal studies of friends and family, to revealing paintings of famous faces, this year’s exhibition features fifty-five works selected from 2,187 international entries. These include the four shortlisted artists –...
Star and co-creator of BBC Four's comedy quiz show We Need Answers, award-winning comedian Alex Horne has established a reputation among critics, comics and audiences as a thoughtful and original stand-up, writer and solo performer.
'Seven Years In The Bathroom' is the ultimate stat-based fun-packed thought-provoking experimental-and-sometimes-stupid comedy show in which Alex aims to recreate your entire life. That's right, he'll do everything you'll ever do but in one evening. So in an average lifetime you'll spend two years shopping, two weeks kissing and eighteen months looking...
