Gallagher Premiership rugby players Joe Simmonds, Jack Maunder and Tom O’Flaherty delighted families from Children’s Hospice South West, surprising them at an evening story time session.
Keen to give back to the local community, the Exeter Chiefs players popped up unexpectedly via Zoom to read bedtime stories to children with life-limiting conditions and their families who are cared for by their local hospice, as well as bereaved families who still have strong links with their hospice. The children and their families were treated to a reading of Jack Maunder’s motivational kids’...
Award winning British broadcaster Angela Rippon CBE, who by her own admission refuses to grow old gracefully, is coming to Exeter.
Plymouth born Angela will be sharing her stories and answering questions for Age UK Exeter in An evening with Angela Rippon – ‘Around the world in 50 years’ at Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Auctioneers in March.
Angela has an incredible broadcasting career of 50 years, at 31 she was the first British female news anchor. More recently, she has turned her attention to promoting wellness in later life through the highly acclaimed BBC One...
Do you want to gain valuable experience volunteering at one of Dartmoor National Park’s award winning Visitor Centres?
Enthusiastic people are sought to become Ambassadors for Dartmoor and help visitors to the National Park discover what makes this place so special.
As a Dartmoor Ambassador you will be based primarily at one of the three National Park Visitor Centres this summer, welcoming and directing visitors as they arrive at the Centres and being on hand to ensure that our visitors have all the information they need to make the most out of their visit.
Meet Nel: a foley artist. Don’t know what that is? She makes sound for films. In her world a tyre-screech is a hot water-bottle and an epic fight scene is composed of frozen cabbages and snapping rhubarb. But for the first time in her life, she finds herself completely alone. Her cat’s died and she accidentally poisoned her fish. She needs a friend. But she is afraid. In a world of continuous self-comparison she feels inadequate and finding a friend in today’s world is more than a little stressful. Especially for someone who spends her day recording sounds with vegetables in a box. She...
Meet Nel: a foley artist. Don't know what that is? Don't worry, not many do. Nel brings life to films through sound. In her world a tyre screech is a hot water-bottle and an epic fight scene is a symphony of snapping celery and frozen cabbages. But her real world isn't turning out so well. Her cat has died and she’s accidentally poisoned her fish.
She needs a friend and maybe a change of shoes.
An intriguing combination of on-stage foley artistry and physical theatre, Scratchworks's latest production explores how we are able to mould other people’s...
Leading charity Action for Children is teaming up with The World of Eric Carle™ and encouraging children’s centres, nurseries and groups for under fives in the South West to host a Giant Wiggle on Thursday 19 March 2015 to celebrate the UK’s most read children’s book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar™. The event will bring together under-5s to wiggle along in giant caterpillar conga lines, encouraging them to help others, and opening up their imaginations through storytelling and creative activities. Brigitte Gater, UK West Director of Children's Services at Action for Children, said: “We want...
As part of exetreme imagination, there will be a day of activities specially for families on Saturday 1 November.
Young children and parents can visit Exeter Northcott Theatre for a thrilling show by the authors of Dennis the Menace and Horrid Henry, experience live story making by Theatre Rush and The Story Exchange at the Forum, University of Exeter, meet local authors and attend free creative writing sessions to inspire the imagination.
For more information and booking visit: http://exetreme.org/familyfun/
Six years ago, Sam bought a violin in Oxford. It had all the appearance of a new instrument but the label inside gave the date 1915 and the name Richard S. Howard.
Research revealed that the violin had been made, but never finished, by a luthier and some-time music hall performer from Leeds called Richard Spencer Howard.
He had joined the army in 1916 at the age of thirty-five and less than two years later fought and was killed at the Battle of Messines in West Flanders, Belgium.
His violin had been left unfinished in his workshop.
‘Theatre Rush’ an Exeter based drama company, are close to finding the funding their latest project designed to bring storytelling to the city’s streets. The company, made up of a core group of three female artists, Lizzy Humber, Katie Villa and Chloe Whipple is already well established in the Exeter theatre scene having taken up residency at the Bike Shed at the beginning of last year. However their latest project, ‘Story Exchange’, sees the company bring their work out of the theatres and around the city via a portable writing desk come wheel barrow packed with everything needed for an...
Devon County Council (DCC) is set to invest £3 million into a vital flood relief scheme for Exeter.
Devon’s Cabinet approved the contribution at its meeting this morning.
Now, a Council spokesperson told the Exeter Daily, senior councillors will lobby the Environment Agency to try to bring forward the projected start of the scheme from January 2017.
They will hear that efforts to accelerate the £25 million scheme are dependent on raising £12 million locally.
That would be added to the £13 million national grant which the scheme is expected to attract....
