Events and Attractions Around Exeter

This fully live energetic show charts the life and career of one of the worlds iconic performers. Full of hits like, ‘Private Dancer’, ‘Nutbush City Limits’, ‘Proud Mary’, ‘River Deep Mountain High’ and ‘Let’s Stay Together’, to name but a few, this show is the ultimate night out.

Join us for a special production for this special year. In this last and rarely performed collaboration of the famous duo, expect a stage filled with a galaxy of hilarious and finely drawn characters; fast moving action; plenty of humour and a wonderful range of music including many of the tried, trusted and...

“I should have mentioned it before, my Mum, she, last year, she passed”. James is suffocated by his past. Heather is focusing on the nursery. Based on true events, this is one couple’s journey through bereavement, love, grief, pregnancy, superheroes and enforced pen maintenance.

Heritage Open Day: View the recently restored Exeter Dissenters Graveyard. ‘Dissenters’ was the term for a range of Protestant sects who broke away from or were expelled from the Anglican Church during and after the Civil War. This small graveyard accommodated perhaps 2,000 burials.

Heritage Open Day: Guided tours of the Devon and Exeter Institution and a chance to meet Poet Sara-Jane Arbury to write your own Heritage Haiku The Devon & Exeter Institution is open to the public for tours of our Georgian library, where visitors will experience highlights of the collection in two magical galleried

Taking place from 17-21 September, the week-long programme of events will be hosted across the city centre, celebrating Exeter’s diverse retail offering with many independent shops and High Street brands showcasing their favourite looks for autumn.

Join John Lewis & Partners during InExeter’s Exeter Fashion & Beauty Week this month for a whole host of in store events that will ensure you’re fabulously on trend for autumn / winter 2019.

Heritage Open Day: A fun family-friendly experience and a chance to see behind the scenes of one of Exeter’s hidden gems! Also to discover artefacts significant to Exeter during WW2. Walked past the Guildhall and never ventured in? Here’s your chance, Exeter Guildhall is taking part in Heritage Weekend!

Evening of Mediumship with Nikki Kitt Exeter Corn exchange Psychic Medium Nikki Kitt is a Spiritualist Medium who is currently touring the UK with her successful Psychic / Mediumship Evenings.

Heritage Open Day: Meet Poet Sara-Jane Arbury and write your own Heritage Haiku Throughout Heritage Open Days sites have been offering visitors the chance to write a Heritage Haiku. Encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to express and share their feelings about Exeter’s heritage in the form of a Haiku poem.

I am mainly clairaudient – in other words, instead of seeing any kind of visual imagery I hear voices, which are sometimes in my head and sometimes as if a person is standing next to me whispering in my ear.

Heritage Open Day: Meet Poet Sara-Jane Arbury and write your own Heritage Haiku Throughout Heritage Open Days sites have been offering visitors the chance to write a Heritage Haiku. Encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to express and share their feelings about Exeter’s heritage in the form of a Haiku poem.

Running from the 11th-20th October, the prestigious Two Moors Festival is now in its 19th year and with an incredible line up of nationally renowned artists, unmissable music and breath-taking venues spread across both Exmoor and Dartmoor, the classical music festival is a must see.

Heritage Open Day: Visitors can visit the historic Exeter Synagogue First opened in 1763, the third oldest Synagogue in the UK. This small synagogue is traditional in style and visitors can enjoy the characteristics of a Georgian building.

Heritage Open Day: Meet Poet Sara-Jane Arbury write your own Heritage Haiku Throughout Heritage Open Days sites have been offering visitors the chance to write a Heritage Haiku. Encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to express and share their feelings about Exeter’s heritage in the form of a Haiku poem.

Heritage Open Day: 17th century hall with oak panelling and original wagon roof. Talks throughout the day. The only surviving trades guild in Exeter, home of Exeter’s guild of ’Weavers, Fullers and Shearmen’. Inside see oak panelled walls dating from the 17th century and the original fine wagon roof.

Heritage Open Day: As a celebration of our industrial and horticultural heritage in St David’s (Exeter) we ’rescued’ 17 cast-iron lamp posts from demolition. Hand-painted plants on each lamp post to celebrate the famous Veitch family of plant-hunters and nurserymen.

Heritage Open Day: This magnificent Victorian Church consecrated in 1868, intended as an almshouse chapel, but built on the scale of a cathedral at the expense of William Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Superb carvings, furnishings, stained glass and wonderful acoustics.

Tony Lethbridge will be giving a talk about what life was like in Exeter during the First World War.

Returning to the UK stage 12 years after the award-winning success of Gormenghast, the reformed David Glass Ensemble present their breath-taking physical adaptation of Bleak House by international master theatre maker David Glass.

Heritage Open Day: St. Katherine’s Priory, was a Benedictine nunnery, founded around about 1159 Explore this 12th century former nunnery that became a merchant house in the mid 16th century.

Join us on Saturday 21 September for a relaxed and family friendly evening at the Double Locks, to walk 3 miles alongside the canal returning to see a raft of glowing candles, each one lit in memory of somebody special.

Heritage Open Day: Poltimore House has a prominent place in Devon’s culture: one of the great historic estates of the county. For five centuries it was home to the Bampfylde family. This fascinating property dating back to the sixteenth century has an interesting past.

Divertimento String Quartet are returning to their favourite venues this Autumn with a new series of fascinating concerts.

The Creative Craft show returns to Exeter this September bringing the hottest new supplies and latest trends to crafters. An unmissable date in any crafter’s calendar in the South West, the Creative Craft Show will be at Westpoint from Thursday 26th to Sunday 29th September 2019.