Events Around Devon

Discover quirky facts about Drake’s famous voyage. Collect your passport to the past from visitor welcome to help you follow Drake’s route and become a Tudor explorer. Booking Not Needed. Perfect for families.

An artistic celebration of Drake’s famous circumnavigation of the world. An exhibition in partnership with Devon Art Pop who will interpret the story of Drake’s voyage through a variety of artistic pieces. Booking Not Needed. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

Get a feel for how it would have been for the nurses and soldiers at Overbeck’s during its time as a Voluntary Aid Hospital for the Red Cross Society. You will be able to view the original autograph book signed by some of the soldiers and sign a replica. Booking Not Needed.

Join us as we celebrate 250 years of the Royal Academy of Arts which was partly founded by Joshua Reynolds and Angelica Kauffman, who’s artwork is part of the Parkers fabulous collection at Saltram.

Pick up a trail booklet from reception and start exploring the grounds at Arlington Court to find for some of our terrific trees. Have a go at bark rubbing and see if you can identify all of the trees to claim to your prize! 1 per trail. Normal admission. Booking Not Needed.

1958 Musical Comedy. Gaston (Louis Jourdan) is a restless Parisian playboy who moves from one mistress to another, while also spending time with Gigi (Leslie Caron), a precocious younger friend learning the ways of high society.

Abbfest Annual Beer, Food and Music Festival. Over 200 beers & Ciders. Cookery demonstrations. Live music. Craft & Food tent. Family Fun. In aid of local charities and organisations.

Shoppers across Exeter will be treated to a week of fabulous fashion and instore events as Style in Exeter returns for its third year from Tuesday 18th until Sunday 23th September.

After the huge success of the 2017 tour, Opera Boys are returning to Babbacombe for their all new 2018 tour. Leading men from London’s West End combine in a powerhouse of vocal harmony to deliver a stunning blend of music ranging from opera to Pop and everything in-between.

Bobby Socks and Blue Jeans is a sensational and exciting Live Music production featuring over 40 Smash Hits of the fabulous ’50s & ’60s.

Agatha Christie was one of the greatest thriller writers of all time and certainly the most prolific. In 1926, she was at the centre of a mystery as perplexing as any of her fiction, a series of events which sparked one of the biggest and most extensive police hunts in history.

Exeter Little Theatre Company Backstage at a theatre in the English provinces during WWII, Sir, the last of the great, but dying, breed of English actor-managers, is in a very bad way tonight as his dresser tries valiantly to prepare him to go on stage as King Lear.

Dartmoor is one of the most beautiful places in the UK, with plenty of wild food and clean growing environments for the freshest tasting plants we find anywhere. The course starts at The Cleave Inn in Lustleigh at 12pm with a short introduction to foraging. Then we’ll set off for a 2.5 hour approx.

Learn to meditate outdoors Join local instructor, Katherine Bolton in the peaceful wildlife garden at Seaton Wetlands for a morning of mindfulness and meditation. Learn basic meditation skills and take home some quick-fix tips for handling stressful or busy times.

Public Show Dates Saturday 22nd September - Sunday 7th October Live Studio Ben will be staging a Live Studio in the gallery on Saturday 22nd September at 11.30 am - 1.00 pm and 2.30pm - 5.pm Ben’s capabilities know no bounds. Layering paint, his work simply evolves.

Open Studios Event celebrates local art. An essential part of the Tamar Valley creative calendar will be held from Saturday 22nd September to Sunday 30th September 2018 across the Tamar Valley region.

This popular production has toured the UK and North America and features music from Jane Austen’s manuscripts, fully staged with chamber orchestra, beautiful Regency costumes, projected scenery, and world-champion Irish dancers!

Jumble Sale; At 2pm; Saturday 22nd September 2018; At Membury Village Hall; EX13 7AF; In Aid of Cystic Fibrosis; Jumble Wanted. Tel: 01404881640/641 (Felicity and Jill).

Live Children’s Theatre on Stage Set-up camp and watch in wonder as we follow the story of four adventurous children on an expedition into the forest as they try to survive alone in the great outdoors.

Fancy a spine-chilling ghost hunting night in a spooky, atmospheric Victorian museum? Well if you’re fascinated by ghosts and the paranormal, and have ever wondered if there really is something “on the other side”, then now is your chance to join the Ghosts and Paranormal Seekers team on a blood-chilling paranormal...

Join Princesshay on Saturday 22nd September from 10am – 4pm for a series of free, bee-themed arts events in collaboration with Honeyscribe celebrating the Princesshay City Bee Project & honey harvest in Bampfylde Lane, Princesshay.

Please join us at our fourth Repair Cafe where a full team of volunteer specialist repairers will be waiting to try and mend the items you bring in which might include small domestic electrical appliances, clothing and textiles, bikes, computers, small items of furniture, ceramics and garden tools.

Louise Thompson, a local printmaker and painter, is taking part in the 2018 North Devon Open Studios Art Trek and will be at venue 39 - The Old Schoolroom Gallery, Lee, near Ilfracombe - where she will be displaying some of her work including lino prints, collographs and monoprints.