Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (12-14 August).
CINEMA
Big Screen in the Park Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 9pm, Northernhay Gardens, Exeter With Mexican street food, local ale and ciders and delicious coffees from the BikeCaffe, grab your friends and celebrate the biggest Exeter Big Screen in The Park ever. Tickets are £5 in advance or £6 on the gate. It costs an additional £1 to bring your own chair chair. Line up: Friday – Jaws (12A); Saturday – The Martian (12); Sunday – Stand By Me (15). Gates open at 7.30pm with films starting at...
The organisers of the Nourish Festival are looking forward to this year’s festival which takes place in early September.
The Festival will bring some of the region’s top food producers and craft makers to Bovey Tracey, alongside a programme of nationally and internationally renowned musicians.
This year, Nourish Festival launches The Devon Street Food Awards in association with Devon Life, a lively competition to decide who is the Best Street producer in Devon. Devon is packed full of inspirational and exciting street food producers and Nourish celebrates our Food Heroes...
Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (5-7 August).
THEATRE
Margo and Mr Whatsit Friday & Saturday, Exeter Phoenix Did you ever have an imaginary friend? A little piece of mischief only you could see? Someone that made you feel safe through new schools, new families, new homes? Sophia’s imaginary friend is called Mr Whatsit, and he’s always there with a new joke to tell and a new game to play – that is, until the day she unimagines him. Now there’s a new imaginary friend in town – the tea-drinking, lipstick-wearing, ever-confident Margo....
Oxjam Exeter’s 2nd fundraiser, the Live Below the Line challenge, had outstanding success; raising over £1300 – much more than they ever expected.
The whole team struggled through the challenge, feeling hungrier each day. But the generous donations from many kind people was great motivation.
It’s not too late to contribute, either! The team’s donation page is still active: https://give.everydayhero.com/uk/oxjam-exeter-team-awesome . Any small amount of money can have a huge impact on the lives of those living in extreme poverty.
Music: Thu 1, Fri 2 & Sat 3 September Food & Craft: Sat 3 Sept
The Nourish Food Fair will fill Bovey's high street with some of the best producers from the South West on Sat 3 September. Stalls will be selling a huge variety of locally produced food including artisan cheeses, preserves, handmade chocolates, oils, pies and speciality mushrooms.
A selection of street food will offer Caribbean, Spanish, Moroccan, wood fired Italian pizza, French crepes, Mexican, local seafood and the good old British Banger.
The Bovey Bake Off and Junior Bovey Bake Off will...
Steve Pledger has an enviable reputation as a talented and dynamic performer. BBC Introducing have called his music "beautiful, authentic, unblemished and wonderful”. With writing that ranges from fragile reflections on love and loss to blistering commentaries on present circumstances. His songs pack an emotional punch, both on record and on stage.
His musical influences are many and varied and include Graham Parker, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam, Martyn Joseph, Van Morrison, Ryan Adams, Don McLean, Springsteen and others.
Following on from his 2012 debut album - ‘14 Good...
The opening concert in this third season of Double Bill, a collaboration between Wren Music and Cygnet Theatr e, is a sparkling evening of tunes from the incomparable Jon and Alfie, with support from one of Wren’s community folk choirs: Voices in Common: East Devon. Led by Sarah Owen.
Sidmouth FolkWeek is a unique week-long seaside celebration of music, dance and song taking place in the charming East Devon regency coastal resort – a must in every festival goer’s annual diary.
There has been a folk festival in Sidmouth in the first week of August every year since 1955 attracting tens of thousands of visitors to over 700 diverse events with broad ‘something for everyone’ appeal. With an ear to the past and an eye on the future, the festival features established stars and emerging talent; major concerts and small intimate sessions; ceilidhs, folk dancing and...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (22-24 July).
THEATRE
Othello Friday, 7.30pm, Exeter Phoenix Neglected for promotion in favour of the younger and less experienced Cassio, Iago seeks revenge. Follow Iago as he masterminds a desperate plot to get Cassio demoted, and turn Othello against her bisexual wife Desdemona. Recasting Othello as a female CEO, this production engages with topical themes of homosexuality, bisexuality and sexual prejudice. Tickets £11 (£9). http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk
