This festive season, Devon’s buzzing multi-disciplinary arts organisation Exeter Phoenix is inviting families and party-goers to sample an alternative Christmas. From mid November, the venue will be hosting a festive flurry of cultural events from family theatre, to workshops and art markets with flowing mulled cider, to get Exeter residents feeling warm and fuzzy in the season of good will. For anyone who dreads the high street at this time of year, there are ample opportunities for a more laid back and locally-focused shopping environment, with Paper Phoenix Indie Art and Design Market,...
With more than 100 ticketed events, courses and cinema screenings this season, Exeter Phoenix’s September to December schedule is bursting with captivating ideas, beautiful arts and vibrant music.
The city’s most innovative, intriguing and inspired festivals are coming to Exeter Phoenix this autumn. At the Translation Festival, on 28 September, visitors will experience a range of thought provoking interactive events celebrating the uniqueness and diversity of languages and cultures. A full programme of art exhibitions, talks, cinema and poetry, curated by the University of Exeter,...
When she was eight, stuck with domestically violent teenage parents, Hannah Jackson moved objects in her space to cope.
Forty years later and she has many varied case histories and songs to match her stories.
And she will be sharing them on July 13 at the Exeter Phoenix (8pm).
During her performance, you can choose chapters you want to hear from her book or bring a room sketch, photo or small object and find out how to make your space move your mind.
In Homes - Make Your Space Move Your Mind, with a humorous twist, Hannah tells real-life stories of the...
Devon’s buzzing multi-disciplinary arts organisation Exeter Phoenix is getting a face lift and exciting new contemporary art gallery facilities thanks to funding awarded from Arts Council England for a new capital project.
In addition, the organisation’s crucial main funding has been extended for a further four years, allowing it to continue its core activity into the future. The much-loved public space is used by up to 300,000 people every year from Devon and beyond.
As well as attending nationally acclaimed live events and cinema, visitors can learn skills from painting...
This week Exeter Phoenix announced the winners of its 2017 film commissions. Over the last three months, ideas for new short films and artist moving image work have been streaming in from all over the South West. The final six filmmakers have now been selected by a panel of industry experts to receive a share of over £10,000 worth of support from Exeter Phoenix and make their ideas a reality. The winning concepts include surrealist comedies, dramatic portraits of human endeavor and mental health, innovative animation, and artist moving image work exploring hybrid bodies.
After a successful couple of years touring the country and playing Festivals, The South are looking forward to 2016. The combination of Beautiful South hits and album tracks as well as original songs from their debut album, ‘Sweet Refrains’ has hit a pleasure nerve around the country.
Once in a while a band appears that strikes a chord with many. Their music becomes an integral part of a nation's psyche and the soundtrack to many people's lives. Ingrained in the hearts of many is one such band, the Beautiful South. Over 3 decades this band became a household name, selling over 15...
17 million people vote against an establishment position. A younger generation blames an older one for giving away their futures. And there’s a 57% increase in reported hate crime.
In these turbulent times it is hard to find equilibrium. With emotions running so high, tolerance often falls by the wayside.
Culture offers an opportunity for us to celebrate our heritage, diverse and specific. It enables us to hear contrary views given equal weight, exploring complexity. And our spaces allow us to extend a welcome to all.
With two weeks remaining for artists to apply to be part of this year’s Exeter Contemporary Open, the selection panel has been announced.
Exeter Contemporary Open is one of the highlights of the South West’s arts calendar. Now in its eleventh year, it provides an important national platform for contemporary visual art with an emphasis on supporting new and emerging talent alongside more established artists.
Past selection panels have included artists and curators such as David Shrigley, Ceri Hand, Alex Hartley, Hannah Firth, Day & Gluckman and Kevin Hunt.
On Saturday, the route between the Exeter Phoenix arts centre and Exeter Library will be transformed, as the Freefall Youth Group wield spray cans and stencils to create a new graffiti artwork. The work, called Freefall Climate Graffiti, will feature maps of the UK showing how our climate could change in future decades.
Freefall Climate Graffiti is part of Art Week Exeter, running from 9th-15th May. It is the brainchild of two local artists: Cleo Heard, who runs Miss*C's Graffiti Academy; and Clare Bryden, an environmental artist.
Exeter’s busiest multi-artform venue is set to start a new spring season of events spanning everything from live performance, comedy and music, arthouse cinema and documentaries to contemporary art exhibitions. Regular visitors and city centre shoppers will be pleased to hear that the venue’s buzzing café bar has rolled out a new menu of fresh, lovingly made nibbles and meals to enjoy on its suntrap terrace. The venue’s live music programme this spring features one of Britain’s most noteworthy bands, Brighton based indie rockers British Sea Power.Other highlights include two of the country...
