Devon

Hallowe'en at Devon's Crealy

Event Date: 
25/10/2014 - 10:00am to 02/11/2014 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Devon's Crealy Great Adventure Park, Exeter

Calling all courageous explorers, the time has come to discover the Crealy Great Mystery! Seek and you shall find the legendary Land of the Witches, are you brave enough to meet a real…live…WITCH? There are horrid and ghastly surprises at every turn, be careful of what’s lurking in the shadows. Thrill your imagination and test your nerve as you challenge the Monsters, Goblins and Ghouls to a game of Trick or Treat …. We dare you!

Festive Fun is included in your admission fee.

Witches Grotto : 25 - 31 October from 10am - 4pm in Land of the Witches

Trick or Treat 25...

Pumpkins, Witches and Wizards

Event Date: 
25/10/2014 - 10:00am to 02/11/2014 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
Escot Estate, Ottery St Mary

Down at the Greenwood Centre this half term you’ll find Hagatha our resident witch who is making a brew for the grossest Yucky Dip in Devon ready for Escot Fright Nights.

Come along and help stir the cauldron if you can bear the smell! Get ready for Halloween and with help from our friendly witches and wizards, choose and carve your own pumpkin to take home with you.

There is a small charge for the pumpkins

Escot entry fee applies to non-members

http://www.escot-devon.co.uk/

Baring Gould Folk Festival

Event Date: 
24/10/2014 - 12:00pm to 26/10/2014 - 9:00pm
Venue: 
Okehampton

A warm welcome awaits over the weekend of Friday 24th to 26th October 2014 at the Baring-Gould Folk Festival, hosted by Devon’s folk arts charity Wren Music.

The intimate and friendly festival is firmly established in the old market town of Okehampton, nestling on the northern slopes of Dartmoor.

The Festival is inspired by the folk song collecting of Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) - one of the Victorian era's great social historical researchers. He undertook the first serious and sustained attempt to collect the traditional songs of the English peasantry and workers,...

Tiverton Dramatic Society: Accidents and Guarding Angels

Event Date: 
22/10/2014 - 7:30pm to 25/10/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
New Hall, Barrington Street, Tiverton

Comedy production from the Tiverton Dramatic Society.

“Accidents and Guarding Angels”, by local writer Jack Williams, is a hilarious comedy set in a funeral directors “Reeper Funeral Services” run by George Reeper and his daughter Vera.

They haven’t had an easy life since George’s first wife died in a car accident but they’ve now found happiness with their respective partners, Fenella and Charlie.

Unfortunately things are not running smoothly again due to mishaps with the deceased, a boggled apprentice, an accidental decorator, a customer who’s left her decaying...

Darts Farm Food Festival

Event Date: 
23/11/2014 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Darts Farm, Topsham, Exeter

Come and meet the characters behind the wonderful local produce that you find in our Food Hall. Find out how they make their artisan food and drink, and experience the tastes and flavours created by their passionate work.

A great annual event that lets you appreciate and experience some of the fantastic people and produce that we have in our region.

Just turn up on the day. No pre-booking required. Free admission.

10am-4pm

http://www.dartsfarm.co.uk/

Exeter Christmas Market

Event Date: 
20/11/2014 - 10:00am to 20/12/2014 - 9:00pm
Venue: 
Cathedral Green, Exeter

This year's Christmas Market will run from Thursday 20 November until Saturday 20th December.

The Cathedral Green, at the heart of the city centre, will be brought to life by the Market, with stalls offering unique, handmade and unusual gifts, decorations and food items – everything needed for a perfect Christmas celebration and to create a real Christmas buzz at the heart of the city.

The Exeter Christmas Market will represent the best of what Britain, the South West and the rest of Europe has to offer – with a mix of great food, excellent crafts, unique gifts and...

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Divine Moments

Event Date: 
20/11/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, University of Exeter

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in concert.

'Divine Moments'. Classical music concert featuring works by Dvorak, Sibelius in Exeter's Great Hall. With the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and soloists.

Programme:

Dvorak - Violin Concerto Sibelius - Symphony No 5 Dvorak - Symphonic Variations Sibelius - Scene with Cranes

Both Sibelius’ symphony and Dvořák’s concerto were troublesome to write, and both works saw a number of revisions. Sibelius was going through a difficult time in his life, despite his success and popularity, when he wrote the Fifth...

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Concert

Event Date: 
07/11/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, University of Exeter

Music concert featuring works by Ravel, Glazunov & Prokofiev in Exeter's Great Hall.

Programme:

Ravel - Mother Goose Suite Glazunov - Violin Concerto Prokofiev - Symphony No.4 (revised)

Kirill Karabits - CONDUCTOR Vadim Gluzman - Violin

The revised Fourth Symphony is half again as long as the original work, written 17 years earlier, turning a modest symphony into a large and imposing score that matched the scale of Prokofiev’s two newly composed symphonies of the mid-1940s. Drawing upon themes and material from his ballet The Prodigal Son, it features...

exetreme imagination 2014

Event Date: 
25/10/2014 - 9:00am to 01/11/2014 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter

exetreme imagination 2014 - a festival of writing for and by young people. Exeter’s literature festival being held from 25th October - 1 November in various locations around the city.

exetreme imagination is a unique, city-wide, multi-media, interactive festival for children of all ages. It’s about much more than books, but when it comes to authors we have a stellar guest-list.

For younger fans, we have four genuine superstars at the Northcott; we have the wonderful illustrator Petr Horacek; and for older readers a quartet of young adult writers who between them have won...

Escot Fright Nights

Event Date: 
31/10/2014 - 5:30pm to 01/11/2014 - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Escot Estate, Ottery St Mary

It’s thrilling…It’s chilling...It’s scary...You’ll scream…It’s monsterously good fun...!

Booking and fancy dress is essential!

  • Campfires and scary tales, ghostly walks in the maze!
  • Toasted marshmallows, hot blood!, fun and games, grisly lucky dip and fancy dress prize giving!

Meet at Kiosk at 5.30pm - event finished at 8/ 8.30pm(ish).

Booking required. £7 per person (£6 for members). Children must be accompanied by an adult. Younger children may find the Friday night event more suitable as Saturday night is seriously scary! Not...

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