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Quayside Shanty Festival 2025
Sat 13th Sep 2025
Exeter’s Quayside Shanty Festival will return on Saturday 13 September. * Expect another fantastic day and evening of folk songs of the sea, performed by some colourful characters and suitable for all the family. We can’t wait to see you there for more seafarin’ shenanigans on and around Exeter’s…
Thu 20th – Sun 30th Mar 2025 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
This exhibition puts the spotlight on prison art, where the artists remain unseen and unmentioned. You will…
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Mon 7th – Thu 10th Apr 2025 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Pay what you can writing workshops this April – book your place now. Writing Aloud will be…
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Wed 9th Apr 2025 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Literature Works welcomes back their Quay Words Autumn 2024 writer-in-residence Fathima Zahra to the Exeter Custom House, for…
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Sat 12th Apr – Sun 11th May 2025 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
A new art exhibition, ‘Afloat or Ashore’, opens at Exeter Custom House on 12th April 2025. A new…
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Wed 14th May 2025 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
About Beast: Mythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petit’s ‘Beast’. These spirits…
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