Exeter

Exmouth Carnival Committee Spring Fun Day

Event Date: 
18/05/2013 - 9:00am
Venue: 
The Strand, Exmouth

Exmouth Carnival Committee are holding a Spring Fun Day in The Strand, Exmouth between 9am and 5pm.

There will be numerous stalls selling various goodies, face painting, a bouny castle, entertainment running throughout the day plus lots more.

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...

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

The Hub on the Green’s Cake & Craft Fair

Event Date: 
18/05/2013 - 10:00am
Venue: 
The Hub on the Green, 8 Cathedral Close, Exeter

The Hub on the Green is in a beautiful medieval building on the Cathedral Green.

Our next Craft & Cake Fair is on May 18th. Our fairs are family friendly with our pop-up cafe full of delicious homemade cakes (chocolate brandy cake and the brownies are firm favourites).

We have Nina Fenner's handmade books stall and she will be running a making table too, we have a book-signing with Darren Marsh (his new book about Exeter and it's buildings includes the hub), and we have Lou Bluebird and Exeter Baking Club who will be baking for us. Yum!

The Cake & Craft Fair...

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

North York Temple Salvation Army Band

Event Date: 
16/05/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Salvation Army, Friars Gate, Exeter

The Salvation Army North York Temple Band will bring presentation of the Gospel of Christ through music which will be vibrant, challenging and uplifting along with the use of established and emerging musical aids.

Tickets: £5/£8

Booking in advance essential. Contact Margaret Pope 01392 433906 or email margaret.pope@sky.com

Lunchtime Lecture: Human Nature

Event Date: 
15/05/2013 - 1:00pm
Venue: 
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter

The Tannery

Paul Glendell will show a selection of environment, conservation and culture photographs from his archives of 25 years, including work for Natural England, the Worldwide Fund for Nature and the BBC, and discuss what inspires him and why he chooses these issues. Complementing the exhibition The Tannery: Photographs by Paul Glendell.

Tickets £4.50 (£3) are available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours.

www.rammuseum.org.uk

Bingo at the Donkey Sanctuary

Event Date: 
09/05/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth

Fundraising event for the Donkey Sanctuary's work. 7.30pm start

A special Bingo Night with various prizes to be won at our Donkey Assisted Therapy centre.

£5 per person including a light supper. £1 per bingo book. Booking Essential. Please contact 01395 573009 for more information.

The Donkey Sanctuary is set in acres of tranquil, unspoilt farmland and countryside in East Devon’s Area of Outstanding Beauty.

Entry is free, and we are open 365 days a year from 9am until dusk.

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