Events Around Exeter

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.

Join one of our knowledgeable garden guides on an inspiring tour around Killertons historic garden. Explore the importance of the landscape and plant collection and enjoy some of the seasonal highlights. Booking Not Needed. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

Javed is a British teen of Pakistani descent growing up in 1987 England. Amidst the racial and economic turmoil of the times, he writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father.

Artists attending the print club based at Tiverton Museum are pleased to be able to show a range of prints that explore the museum collections. Printmaking is often a process of changing and adapting our visual world, creating abstracts and fragmentations.

Heritage Open Day: Visitors can enjoy a walk through the Lost Garden in Eysian Fields and view the Victorian era Music Room built by the 6th Earl of Buckinghamshire, complete with a recently restored Gray and Davison organ and its seven magnificent crystal chandeliers.

Heritage Open Day: Ayshford Chapel is a Grade I listed fifteenth-century former private chapel with excellent carving, monuments and stained glass. This small, free-standing Perpendicular building with diagonal buttresses and bell-cote was built in the 15th century by the Ayshford family of adjacent Ayshford Court.

2019 marks a special anniversary, here at the Babbacombe Theatre - the venue, originally a concert hall, opened its doors 80 years ago, in May 1939! A special anniversary should be celebrated, and in epic proportion! The all new family, variety production, ‘Starburst’, promises to do just that.

Heritage Open Day: Public can enjoy old artefacts 8-hour tour and a cream tea on the Saturday 14th of September, they can enjoy open church with a tower tour on the Sunday 15th of September. And for the rest of the week they can view old books and papers. 1.

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

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival 2019 will take place on Wednesday 18th – Sunday 22nd September. Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival is a powerful blend of challenging debate, inspiring ideas, new fiction, and best-selling, award-winning writing combined with a warm and welcoming atmosphere, making it one of...

When Shakespeare died, he famously left his wife Anne only one thing, the second best bed. This superb one-woman play, full of both humour and pathos, has received great critical acclaim since its premier at the Swan Theatre Worcester in 2012.

Deeds or Words? Devon Suffrage Activists and the growth of militancy in the Votes for Women campaign. Dr Julia Neville was part of the Devon History Society Devon Suffrage Activists project in 2017-18, looking at the distinctive nature of the movement in Devon.

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!

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.

College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet - and fall for each other - over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met, had fate not given them a little push.

Spanish Lessons Beginners Led by native speaker of Spanish - Daniela Denis. Classes include understanding basic dialogue, and include speaking, reading and writing. Lesson copies provided. DATE Thursdays from 19th September 2019 10 Week Course TIME 10:15am to 11:15am

Music is the universal language, and what feelings sound like! It inspires us and as quoted by Victor Hugo, “expresses that which cannot be said”. Albeit this all new show, I ?Music - has a lot to say!

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: 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.

Heritage Open Day: A walk through the main house to view the many artworks belonging to the family. Largely built in 1770s for the first Lord Borrington with early 19th century alterations. Fine house with a notable interior. The house now belongs to Lord William Dartmouth MEP.

Find out more about how to use natural materials to create your own art. Watch demonstrations and learn how to make something to treasure.

Heritage Open Day: Enjoy free entry to A la Ronde as we join in the national celebration of our heritage. The sixteen-sided building is full of creative treasures from around the world and dates back to 1796 when it was built by cousins Jane and Mary Parminter.

Enjoy free entry to A la Ronde as we join in the national celebration of our heritage.

Critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest tribute shows, Simon & Garfunkel Through The Years returns in 2019 with an all new production. Featuring a live band and stunning vocal harmonies, this spectacular concert takes audiences on a journey through songs and history of Simon and Garfunkel.