Exeter will host two festivals featuring literature and writing this autumn. In October, exetreme imagination – Exeter’s biennial festival of writing and stories – will unlock imaginations for young people across the city. In November, Exeter Literary Festival will bring together a range of experts to share knowledge. The festivals will feature nationally known and local award-winning authors, including Philip Reeve whose book Mortal Engines will be released as a Universal Pictures blockbuster movie directed by Peter Jackson. exetreme imagination runs from 15 to 27 October, with public...
Students at Dawlish Community College took part in a workshop as part of exetreme imagination, Exeter’s festival of writing and stories.
Spaces to be Yourself focused on the themes and characters found in Meg Rosoff’s young adult novel How I Live Now. Participants were encouraged to explore how protagonist Daisy’s life is changed when she is forced to live in an environment which is totally alien to her, and to reflect on how spaces, both familiar and unfamiliar, affect their own experiences and emotions.
The session was led by Workshop Leader Conor Magee and Lisa Hudson of...
exetreme imagination 2014 - a festival of writing for and by young people. Exeter’s literature festival being held from 25th October - 1 November in various locations around the city.
exetreme imagination is a unique, city-wide, multi-media, interactive festival for children of all ages. It’s about much more than books, but when it comes to authors we have a stellar guest-list.
For younger fans, we have four genuine superstars at the Northcott; we have the wonderful illustrator Petr Horacek; and for older readers a quartet of young adult writers who between them have won...
Exetreme Imagination is a festival of writing for and by young people, as well as for older generations who wish to celebrate our young people's achievements and reminisce over their own childhood memories.
With events at various locations in and around the city of Exeter, the festival runs from 16-24 February 2013.
The festival has grown up through a collaboration of partners across the city and beyond who all aspire to celebrate young people's literature, art and culture. Pre-festival projects have produced many exhibitions and performances waiting to be seen and enjoyed...
As part of Exeter's Extreme Imagination Festival, The Bike Shed Theatre have joined up with Cube Theatre to bring you Freddy Dare and the Ginger Robber .
Fred Andrews is short for his age, can’t play football, and making friends at his new secondary school is proving difficult. His dad died a while ago, and Fred’s mum is too sad to pay attention to him. Fred wants to change his world, and so he does. He becomes Freddy Dare - a superhero with a glamorous accomplice, the Ginger Robber! Together, they must overcome The Mistress, steal their opportunity and tap dance their way to Vegas...
Fred’s lost his Dad, and now it looks like he might be losing his Mum too. Looks like a job for... FREDDY DARE and the GINGER ROBBER!
The toe-tapping twosome must dance with destiny, take on a terrifying quest, and stop their arch-enemy before it’s too late! But as Fred sinks deeper into the world of his imagination to avoid reality, will he ever be reunited with his mum?
