12 HOLIDAY EXPRESS 2010


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To September – Gallery in the Gardens. Fantastic paintings to brighten up your day. During spring and summer this year Exeter’s Rougemont and Northernhay Gardens are full of artistic surprises. Set free among the flower beds, shrubs and trees, you’ll find reproductions of fabulous paintings from RAMM’s Fine Art Collection. Artists featured include Francis Towne, William Powell Frith, George Philip Reinagle and Lucien Pissarro. You can also see these paintings on line at www.exeter.gov.uk/RAMM. A Gallery in the Gardens is a partnership project with Exeter City Council’s Parks and Open Spaces. To 31 October 11am to 5pm (last entry 4.40pm) – Exhibition: Elegance - two hundred years of dressing to impress. Killerton, Broadclyst, Exeter, Devon EX5 3LE. Entry to the exhibition is included in the admission price to the house. Free to National Trust members. This selection of some of the most elegant fashions for men and women shows how people have dressed to impress for all occasions from the 1770s to the 1970s. The exhibition explores ideas about clothing etiquette and aims to demonstrate how changing tastes have affected what we regard as elegant. Luxurious accessories and children’s clothes are also displayed. With replica costumes to try on. This new exhibition from the fashion collection at Killerton House is supported by fashion plates, photographs and magazines from RAMM’s costume collection. Killerton House and gardens Killerton is a fine 18th century house and glorious landscape garden surrounded by parkland. Visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk or call 01392 881345 for further details. To 31 January 2011, open 9am to 5pm, free – RAMM exhibition at Kents Cavern: Cutting Edge. Cavern House, Kents Cavern, 89/91 Ilsham Road, Torquay, Devon TQ1 2JF. Stones transformed into a thousand tools. With a wide range of objects from RAMMs collections this exhibition shows the variety of raw materials used to produce handaxes, spear heads and scrapers. It reveals sources of suitable stone in south west England and takes a look at some of the main sources from around the world. This is a rare opportunity to explore the geology and material science of stone tools rather than their often discussed historical or cultural importance. Find out whether people used local rocks or traded stone over long distances. See how the physical properties of the stone influence the final shape, type and quality of the tool. Discover the latest dating methods and how scientists can determine the source of the stone. Examine and handle stone tools and learn how to identify them. Kents Cavern is a prehistoric cave and award winning visitor attraction. The site was used by Britain’s earliest ancient humans thousands of years ago and today the cave is the only underground visitor centre in the UNESCO Global Geopark, a protected national monument and an internationally renowned prehistoric show cave. Entry to the exhibition is free. There is an admission charge for entering the cave. Call 01392 665858 or visit www.kents cavern.co.uk/events.cfm for further details.


JUNE


4th June - 28th September Elizabethan Charity Market, every Tuesday morning held by the Totnes Elizabethan Society, Civic Hall forecoourt, 9am-3pm. 4-6 June Devon Wine Week – Kenton, Old Walls and various vineyards. www.devonwineweek.co.uk 4th-5th June Brixham Heritage Festival 4th June Whitsun Half Term at Pennywell 4 Richie – Award Winning Street Performer, Ben the Master Juggler, Woodland Family Theme Park, Dartmouth 4-5 Occombe Farm Beer Festival, Torbay


4 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 3.30pm, drop-in, free – RAMM family activity day: Summer is a coming in. St Nicholas Priory, The Mint, off Fore Street, Exeter EX4 3BL. Experiment with herbs and fragrances in Tudor style. Explore our new miniature Tudor herb garden and experience strewing herbs in this wonderful old building. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty! Call the Royal Albert Memorial Museum at 01392 665858 or visit www.exeter.gov.uk/RAMM for further details 5 Spangles the Clown, Woodland Family Theme Park, Dartmouth. 5 Ben 10 Humongousaur Character Day, Woodland Family Theme Park, Dartmouth 5 Concert by the Exeter Recorder Orchestra at the United Reformed Church, The Strand, Dawlish at 7.00pm Admission at the door. Proceeds to the Church funds. 5-6 Kingsbridge Open Gardens weekend. 6 Salcombe Gig Regatta 6 Spangles the Clown, Woodland Family Theme Park, Dartmouth 6 Round Britain and Ireland Race, Plymouth Sound 7 Horse Racing – Newton Abbot Racecourse Paddock £16/Course £10 01626 353235 www.newtonabbotracing.com 8 A Dawlish Home Aid Coffee Morning in aid of Operation Imprezza at the United Reformed Church, The Strand, Dawlish from 10am to 12noon. On sale home-made cakes and preserves. Fairtrade coffee/tea and cake served. Please help a local charity with their work for needy children in Kenya. 01626 862717. 9 Shopmobility Challenge – Clock Tower, Newton Abbot. 10am - 3pm. Kay. B Mobile 01626 353159 9 at 2.30pm, £20 – RAMM Development Trust event: Sidbury Manor, Sidbury, Sidmouth EX10 0QE. SY 133 927. Sidbury Manor is a free Jacobean Renaissance style mansion built in the 1870s of red brick with Ham Hill dressings for Sir Stephen Cave, a member of Disraeli’s cabinet. Set in extensive parkland, the house is still lived in by the present family and is at the centre of a traditional rural estate in the middle of the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It has substantial walled gardens with many fine trees and shrubs. A guided tour of the house and gardens will be followed by tea and home made cakes and biscuits. Tickets for RAMM Development Trust events are available by post from Celia King at RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3RX (separate cheques for each event payable to RAMM Development Trust. Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope). We regret that telephone bookings and debit and credit card payments cannot be accepted for Development Trust events. The Development Trust raises money for the improvement and refurbishment of RAMM with a lively programme of lectures and special events and with grant applications. For further information, please contact newramm@exeter.gov.uk – RAMM Development Trust – Registered Charity No. 1038570 11 National Trust South Hams Centre, Grand Summer Fair, 10am-2pm. Kingsbridge Market Hall. All welcome, free entry. All proceeds to local National Trust projects. Contact Midge Elliott 01548 562017 11-13 Salcombe Music Festival 11-16 Contemporary Craft Fair – Devon Guild of Craftsmen. 10am-5pm. 01626 830612 www.craftsatboveytracey.co.uk


11-13 10am to 5pm – RAMM at the Contemporary Craft Fair, Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey TQ13 9AF. RAMM is joining the Fair again this year providing a wealth of inspiring, hands-on fun activities for children based around the theme of ‘Dead and Buried’. The Fair, which is run in association with the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, has become one of the largest and most prestigious craft and design events in the UK. Here you can meet over 160 of the UK’s finest designers and makers in a lively festival atmosphere. The busy programme includes demonstrations, workshops for all ages and master classes by some of the UK’s leading craftspeople. For day and weekend ticket prices visit www.craftsatboveytracey.co.uk, email craftfair@craftsatboveytracey.co.uk or call 01626 830612 12-13 South Devon Railway - Summer diesel gala 12-20 Babbacombe Festival 13 1 to 6pm, entry £5 – Special event: Topsham Secret Gardens,


Topsham


Museum, 25 Strand, Topsham, Exeter EX3 0AX. Visit 12 gardens in Topsham and see many Veitch plants. An event to complement RAMM’s Global Gardeners display about Veitch & Sons: Exeter’s plant hunting adventurers. Museum opening times: April to October: Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 2 to 5pm. For further details call 01392 873244, email m u seum@topsham.org" museum@topsham.org or visit www.devonmuseums.net/topsham 13 1 to 6pm, entry £5 – Topsham Museum. Special event: Topsham Secret Gardens. Visit 12 gardens in Topsham and see many Veitch plants 13 Veterans Day. The Den, Teignmouth. Teignmouth Town Council 01626 775030 15 Horse Racing Newton Abbot Racecourse Paddock £16/Course £10 Evening Fixture. 01626 353235 www.newtonabbotracing.com 16 1pm, £3 (£2) – Lunchtime talk: Devon Church Dedications, St Nicholas Priory, The Mint off Fore Street, Exeter EX4 3BL. Why are Devon’s churches dedicated to Andrew or George, Mary or Peter, not to mention Brendan, Petroc and Winifred? Are these the original dedications or modern ones? Was there ever a St Disen of Bradninch? What part did the Inland Revenue play in deciding the dedications we know today? These and other questions will be answered by Canon Professor Nicholas Orme in a wide ranging lecture on Devon’s Church history from early times to the present day. Tickets are available: In person and by phone from Exeter Visitor Information and Tickets, Dix’s Field, Princesshay, EX1 1GF. Tel: 01392 665700. Open Monday to Saturday from 9am to 5pm (10am to 4pm on bank holidays). In person only from St Nicholas Priory, The Mint, off Fore Street, Exeter EX4 3BL. Open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm during Devon school holidays and Saturdays only during term time (closed bank holidays). 17 Lukesland Gardens Charity Jazz in the Garden with the Jazz and Big Bands of Ivybridge Community College. Refreshments and bar available. Pre-booking required. Contact 01752 691749 17-20 Shaldon Music Festival – Shaldon www.shaldonfestival.co.uk 18-20 Kingsbridge Music Festival 18-20 Teignmouth Folk Festival www.teignmouthfolk.co.uk 19 St George’s Church Fete in Vicarage Gardens, Modbury 01548 830260. 19 Bridge Ceremony at the Ivy Bridge, Harford Road, Ivybridge. Re-enactment by local primary school children of the Battle of the Bridge. Followed by fete at St John’s Churh, Blachford Road 19 Classic Car Day – Newton Abbot, Forde House. Sally Henley 07595 893151 19-20 Dartmouth Art and Craft Festival. 19-27 South Brent Carnival Week 20 A Celebration of Country Life with flowers, craft and food, East Allington Church 20 Father’s Day, Woodland Family Theme Park, Dartmouth


20 Vintage & Classic Car Show. Free Coffee & Muffin for Dad (when accompanied by a child under 14 years). Richie – Award Winning Street Performer, Woodland Family Theme Park, Dartmouth 20 Overbeck’s Salcombe - Mad Inventors Tea Party - take part in our wacky invention day 11am-3pm 20 Fathers & Heroes Day. Powderham Castle. Help for Heroes Charity Event. 01626 890243 www.powderham.co.uk 21 Lucy Locket’s Pockets.


Killerton,


Broadclyst, Exeter, Devon EX5 3LE. 21 from 11am to 2pm, normal entry fee applies – Killerton Focus on Fashion: Lucy Locket’s Pockets, Killerton, Broadclyst, Exeter, Devon EX5 3LE. Discover more about Killerton’s fashion collection. This event accompanies Elegance - two hundred years of dressing to impress. An exhibition from the fashion collection at Killerton House supported by fashion plates, photographs and magazines from RAMM’s costume collection – showing until 31 October 2010, 11am to 5pm (last entry 4.40pm) Entry to the exhibition and the event is included in the admission price to the house. Free to National Trust members. 22 Horse Racing Newton Abbot Racecourse Paddock £16/Course £10 Evening Fixture. 01626 353235www.newtonabbotracing.com 22-26 Tartuffe by Moliere (adapted by Miles Malleson), directed by Brian Doyle. In public Tartuffe affects every pious excellence; so virtuous is he that every form of pleasure is an anathema to him. M. Organ, a rich merchant, is completely taken in. Inviting Tartuffe to his home, he watches approvingly while Tartuffe ‘reforms’ his whole family. The besotted merchant even plans to give Tartuffe his fortune and his daughter’s hand in marriage. Finally, Mme Organ exposes Tartuffe as the rogue he is and M. Organ for the gullible fool he has been. 23 1.10pm, £3 – Friends lunchtime lecture: The Collecting Habits of an Ethnography Curator, Music Room, Exeter Central Library, Castle Street, Exeter EX4 3PQ. Tony Eccles, Curator of Ethnography, will give an insight into the curatorial world with a focus on the recent acquisition of a contemporary Egyptian tapestry. Tickets now available. Tickets for Friends events are available by post from FEMAG Ticket Sales, RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3RX (separate cheques for each event made payable to Exeter City Council. Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope) or on the door subject to availability. We regret that telephone bookings and debit and credit card payments cannot be accepted for Friends events. RAMM’s Friends support the Museum in many ways. If you would like to support RAMM and join the Friends or find out more, contact the Membership Secretary c/o RAMM by calling 01392 665956 or email friends@exeter.gov.uk FEMAG - Registered Charity no. 306649. 25-27 Kingsbridge Music Festival 25-27 Bigbury Fun Run and 10K. Weekend of fun and entertainment for all the family. Fun Run on 26. 26 Fair in the Square, Ermington 26 Wilder than Wild Day, Woodland Family Theme Park, Dartmouth 26 Chudleigh Horse Show. Hazel Profitt 01626 852113 26 11am to 1pm and 2 to 4pm, drop-in, free – RAMM family activity day: Tudor Travelling Trunk, Salem Chapel, Vicarage Road, East Budleigh EX9 7EF. To complement an exhibition charting the life of East Budleigh’s most famous son, Sir Walter Raleigh, volunteers from RAMM will be creating a taste of Tudor times with a range of handling items and stories as well as costumes to try on. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty! Call the Royal Albert Memorial Museum at 01392 665858 or visit www.exeter.gov.uk/RAMM for further details 26-27 Orchid Paradise, Burnham Nurseries Ltd, Forches Cross, Newton Abbot, 01626 352233.


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