Much anticipated improvements to Payhembury’s play area are now complete, after improvements chosen by local children were put in place.
Payhembury Playing Field Committee and East Devon District Council have been working closely together with Payhembury Primary School to make £6,700 worth of improvements. This money has been contributed by developers through Section 106 funding for play. This type of contribution was a condition of planning approval for a number of housing developments in the area.
Children had a choice of four designs and voted for their favourite in a...
Common Players in association with Exeter Northcott Theatre are seeking new and aspiring professionals and skilled amateurs alike to perform in Jerusalem in May and June 2014.
From Common Players, in association with Exeter Northcott Theatre; a new production, of Jez Butterworths’ play Jerusalem will tour Devon in May and June 2014, and will be made in a new way, involving local artists, and teaching new skills.
Jerusalem was first performed in 2009 and became the Evening Standard’s Best Play of the Year. It is an epic and heroic play about our great British need for a...
As a hugely successful opera composer, Handel was commissioned by the grandest patrons of the day to bring his theatrical brilliance and flair to important ceremonial occasions – his four coronation anthems, used at the coronation of every monarch since 1727, are the most famous example
ETO’s soloists and period instrument orchestra, the Old Street Band team up with the Gentlemen of the Cathedral’s Choir, Counterpoint and Isca Voices for an evening of Handel's Italian Vespers, staged at Exeter Cathedral. Written during his visit to Italy, when the supremely talented young composer...
Handel’s three year visit to Italy culminated in the premiere of his opera Agrippina in Venice in 1709. Composing at speed to a scandalously witty libretto by a Cardinal, Vincenzo Grimaldi, Handel drew on his experience of the Italian style, plundering his catalogue of cantatas written for the intelligentsia of Rome and producing a youthful masterpiece of dazzling invention and virtuosity. Widely regarded as Handel’s first operatic masterpiece, Agrippina stands out for the quality of its music, full of freshness and musical invention.
Using many of the same characters as Monteverdi...
Vandals who damaged the safety surface of a new play area should not be tolerated, a leading councillor has said.
Cllr Greg Sheldon, Exeter City Council's Lead Councillor for Environment, was speaking after vandals delayed the opening on the new climbing net at St Thomas Play Area.
The yobs broke down metal fencing at the park and then walked over the setting safety surface causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage.
Cllr Sheldon said: "Once again it is the selfish actions of a mindless few who are spoiling the enjoyment for everyone else. We will not tolerate this...
In this year of the London Olympics and Paralympics, Games People Play e xplores what games can tell us about human nature.
This second part focuses on contemporary photography and video by 16 important international artists who use sporting imagery to make wider comments on the human condition. Here, we see explorations of territorial control and attachment to a team, fascination with spectacle and the culture of competition.
We will also focus on the new generation of video games such as Free Rice and Phone Story which turn away from wasteful escapism to address real...
Summer may be over but children still have reason to smile this autumn – new play equipment at Great Hill View Play Area! Children can now enjoy a wider range of play equipment at the site, thanks to Exeter City Council.
A new basket swing, and exciting spinning and rocking roundabout has been provided, along with a goal end incorporating football and basketball provision . These items add to the existing equipment which includes the longest slide in any of Exeter’s parks.
The site has also been generally tidied up, and the previously crumbling and slippery footpath has...
