Entertainment & Reviews

Seaton Wetlands Welcomes BBC Countryfile!

East Devon District Council’s Countryside Team recently hosted the BBC’s Countryfile team at Seaton Wetlands Nature Reserve for two days of filming.

Presenters Sammi Kinghorn and Matt Baker visited the council-owned and managed reserve to learn about its biodiversity and the important...

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Alan Carr: Yap, Yap, Yap

No stranger to yap Alan Carr will be yapping his way around the UK & Ireland, stopping off at Plymouth Pavilions on 2 & 3 October next year with his brand new stand up show ‘Yap, Yap, Yap!’

The BAFTA and British Comedy Award winning comedian, author and chat show supremo returns to his stand up roots with his hilarious take on life.

Yap it up!

Tickets go on sale...

Look for the bear necessities at your library

Don’t let the kids get grizzly this October half-term – head to your nearest library for some bear-faced fun.

Families are invited to go on a bear hunt to unearth some furry interesting facts, enjoy favourite stories of loveable bears such as Winnie the Pooh and Paddington.

Youngsters can get their paws dirty and make a bear mask or teddy bears’ picnic basket to take away with...

Beautiful Show opens in gallery run by children

Monstrous art works including an enormous typhoon and a giant eyeball are currently on show at Radiant Art Gallery, Plymouth City Centre.

Following two months of intensive training as art curators with Effervescent’s team, nine talented girls aged 10 – 14 came up with the idea for the show and selected art works by five artists based in Plymouth, in the UK, and in Europe.

The...

An evening with actress Jenny Agutter

Around 100 tickets have already been sold for an ‘Evening with Jenny Agutter’ in Tavistock with event organisers urging people to get their tickets as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

The star of BBC series Call the Midwife and The Railway Children is due to visit Tavistock on 25th October for a special screening of her film, The Riddle of the Sands.

The Taunton-born...

"We are not rubbish, we are people"

Megaphone Films has produced a new 25-minute documentary, Waging A Living In London, chronicling the successful campaign by cleaners at The Barbican theatre to secure a substantial pay rise, from around £6 to £8 per hour.

Co-directed by Ben Mann and Petros Elia, the film brings into sharp focus the day-to-day difficulties of living on the minimum wage. Following husband and wife team...

Follow the South Hams Arts Trail

51 of the most exciting home studios, workshops, galleries and exhibition halls across the South Hams will be showing artworks inspired by the glorious South Devon coastline, from Wembury to Dartmouth as part of South Hams Arts Forum Arts Trail (18-26 October). Now in its fourth year, the trail is organised by South Hams Arts Forum, an active association of talented, enthusiastic artists and...

Torquay to get "Polar bear"

A polar bear called Bjorn is coming to the English Riviera – for one day.

Bjorn is a life-size and incredibly life-like animatronic. The huge, hi-tech puppet will perform three 20-minute shows at 11.00am, 2.00pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday 29th October.

Bjorn is playful, mischievous and extremely huggable, and is just about kept in check by Arctic explorer Ursula. Their science-...

Film fans vote to be Spirited Away at grand finale of international festival

Hayao Miyazaki’s stunning Oscar-winning film Spirited Away has been chosen by film fans to close a major international festival set on the banks of the River Tamar.

It’s All About the River launched on September 12 and since then, a public vote has been staged to decide which of six river-themed films would close the month long event.

More than 40% of the votes cast were for...

Arts venues join forces for acclaimed exhibition

Four of the city’s biggest arts venues have joined forces to present an acclaimed national exhibition.

‘Walk On: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff – 40 Years of Art Walking’ will be on display until Saturday 13 December.

The nationally touring show is presented as a multi-site exhibition across Peninsula Arts (Plymouth University), Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum...

Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games

Michael Flatley’s Lord Of The Dance: Dangerous Games – a spectacular new staging of the traditional master piece – will return to the UK for a nationwide tour playing 18 venues next year.

The tour will be stopping off at Plymouth Pavilions for three nights from Tuesday 14 – Thursday 16 April 2015!

With all the visceral precision and thrills of the original, Lord Of The Dance:...

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