Back by popular demand, our ‘Find Your Rhythm’ childcare event is packed full of activities to get your little one up on their feet. Join our practitioners to find the beat with our Boogie Mites activities, showcasing a selection of songs to encourage body percussion, rhyming words and more. As well as, getting stuck in with a range of art and craft activities, including creating your very own musical instrument to take home. The babies will have the chance to express themselves with our Sing & Sign session, learning new signs and movements to communicate with you, their siblings and...
London-based The Whitehall Orchestra is visiting Exeter this summer for a one off performance, where they will be joined by a number of Exeter musicians. This will be a fun filled evening of celebrated music on theme of 'other worlds'. The programme will feature: Jurassic Park - John Williams New World Symphony (Largo) - Antonín Dvořák The Planets (Jupiter + Venus) - Gustav Holst Lord Of The Rings (Fellowship & Two Towers) - H Shore Star Wars Suite - John Williams The concert will be held at the Southernhay Church (EX1 1QD) on Saturday, 20th July and it will start at 7.30pm. Tickets...
UK Racketball Championships heralded success for Exeter Golf and Country Club players who have scooped four national titles in the 2019 tournament last weekend.
The four national title wins suggest Exeter Golf and Country Club, collectively, is the top racketball club in the UK.
The UK Racketball Championships took place on 6th and 7th July at Edgbaston Priory Squash and Tennis Club, featuring some of the strongest players from across the country.
With Junior, Senior and Masters age categories and events from U13 all the way up to an O80 age group, the championships...
Exeter Golf and Country Club has won ‘Most Welcoming Golf Club’ at the prestigious England Golf Awards 2019.
The third, annual England Golf Awards took place on Thursday 21st March at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. The England Golf Awards, sponsored by Adidas Golf, recognises individuals, clubs and companies who have made outstanding contributions to golf across the country.
Over 400 guests attended the dinner, with BBC Breakfast’s Dan Walker presenting the awards.
England Golf Award judges were won over by the way Exeter Golf and Country Club has blended the...
Exeter Marathon organiser CITY Community Trust has today announced two prestigious partnerships for its May event.
Exeter Live Better and Tozers Solicitors have pledged their support and sponsorship to the race, which is the city’s only marathon. The event, which takes place on May 19, will now be known as the Exeter Live Better Marathon, sponsored by Tozers.
It is the fourth year the marathon has been organised by CITY Community Trust the area’s leading health and wellbeing charity.
Jamie Vittles, head of community at CITY Community Trust, said: ‘We are delighted...
In September 2018, Dr Michael Mosely presented the BBC Two programme Trust Me I'm a doctor called 'Can singing give you a natural high?'. They tested whether singing, dancing and cycling could boost levels of endocannabinoids - chemicals thought to be responsible for the 'runner's high'. The result showed that levels were increased by 20% when dancing or cycling. When singing, the levels of endocannabinoids were increased by 40% and big improvements were found in 'mood' together with reduced anxiety and feeling less stressed.
Can Exeter-based Sing for Fun give you a natural high?...
Footlights is Exeter University’s largest Musical Theatre society, now in its 32nd year. Each year, we strive to create show-stopping student productions to a professional standard. Following four consecutive sell-out shows at Exeter’s Northcott Theatre (West Side Story; Evita; The Phantom of the Opera; The Producers; Singin’ In The Rain), we are now looking forward to our 2018 Northcott production of the legendary Oklahoma!
Footlights proudly presents OKLAHOMA! - an illustrious classic propelled by love, community and integrity. One of Rogers and Hammerstein’s most beautiful but...
Now in its 12th year, Exeter's unique community singing sessions for adults - Forever Young Sing for Fun - returns on Monday 10 September.
New singers, who like an alternative to a choir, have the first session free.
Since January 2007, Forever Young have met on most Monday evenings, from 7-9pm, at St Sidwell’s School, York Road, Exeter. In two hours we sing around 30 songs, chosen by singers, from a list of over 700 songs. With the words projected on the wall we sing to beautiful backing music from the best singers including Abba, Adele, Pavarotti, Dusty Spingfield etc....
Exeter Choral Society (formerly Whipton Choral Society) was founded in 1943, when Exeter was a garrison town. Now celebrating our 75th year, we are curating an exhibition of the life and times of the choir.
Find out about the lives of early choir members, the fun and drama of choir life, what we do today and our plans for the future. If you are a former choir member or have had an association with us, please contact us to share your memories via http://www.exeterchoral.co.uk/contact-us.html .
This free exhibition will be open to the public on Saturday 13 October 2018 at St...
Exeter based recruitment firm, Girling Jones has been successfully nominated for a national award at the prominent Recruiter Awards.
Established in 2002, the Recruiter Awards is the largest annual event for the UK recruitment community recognising outstanding achievements by agencies and in-house recruiters.
Girling Jones has been nonmined by an esteemed panel of judges in the ‘Best Recruitment Agency (11-49 employees)’ category and is the only South West based nominee in this group.
Founder and Director Simon Girling said of the nomination, “I am absolutely...
