Exeter Cathedral will be lit up over three nights as part of Animated Exeter - details below
Arts and Culture
Get Fresh - Bovey Tracey Seventeen local creatives have been selected to show their contemporary designs in print, wood, textiles, glass and resin as part of the Get Fresh exhibition at the Devon Guild of Craftsmen. Get Fresh is held every two years and guarantees visitors will see fresh, new work and ideas. And for the first time, the Guild has a hand-crafted surfboard in the gallery. Get Fresh
Devon Guild of Craftsmen
Riverside Mill
Bovey Tracey
15 January-27 February 2011 Find out more at the Devon Guild of Craftsmen's
website.
Rachel Burch - Inspired
Rachel Burch moved to Devon eight years ago
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A new exhibition by landscape photographer and poet Rachel Burch has opened at Dartmoor National Park Authority's High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown. The exhibition contains a collection of images in both black and white and colour alongside poetry inspired by the Dartmoor landscape. Read our
feature
about how Dartmoor inspires Rachel in her work. The exhibition runs until 27 February 2011 at The High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown. Animated Exeter 2011: Exeter More than 12,000 people are expected to take part in this year's animation festival which kicks off on 14 January 2011. Festival goers can watch more than 140 animation films, as well as attend industry masterclasses, career-planning days and award ceremonies. A ground-breaking audio-visual event - Isca Obscura - will be projected on the cathedral for three nights. The festival runs from 14 February to 26 February 2011. Find out more by visiting the festival's
website.
Read our
feature
about the 2011 festival. Lab Craft: Plymouth College of Art
Assa Table Loop Light by Assa Ashuach
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Jewellery made from sound waves, table lights created by a 3D printer, and a ceramic pot that can be scanned by an i-phone, all form part of the Crafts Council exhibition Lab Craft: Digital adventures in contemporary craft which opened on 10 January 2010 at Plymouth College of Art Gallery. The exhibition, which runs until 19 February, was one of the highlights of London Design Festival in September 2010 and features 26 of the most experimental names in craft and design. To find out more visit Lab Craft's
website.
Read BBC Devon's piece about
ArtsMatrix.
Nature and outdoors
Snowdrop walks
The Garden House's bulb meadow in February
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The peak of the snowdrop displays at the National Trust's Saltram House, in Plympton is celebrated with a newly-developed snowdrop walk. The early display in the garden features huge rings of Galanthus nivalis beneath specimen trees. Hartland Abbey, just off the A39 between Hartland and Hartland Quay, is also holding snowdrop walks. Visit the Hartland Abbey
website
for more information. Read our
feature
about snowdrops at The Garden House in Devon. Devon walks
The coast path at Branscombe
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BBC Devon has compiled a series of walks, covering all parts of the county. Some are testing, others are suitable for people of all abilities. Among them is a stunning coastal walk from Hartland Quay to Hartland Point.
Bell ringing
Young bell ringers at Emmanuel Church in Plymouth
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Try your hand at bell ringing at a number of events in Devon. On 20 February 2011 there is a young ringers' event at Emmanuel Church, Plymouth and all ringers under the age of 30 who can ring call changes are welcome to attend. To find out more about how you can get involved in bell ringing visit the
Guild of Devonshire Ringers website.
Read our
feature
about a family of young bell ringers from Plymouth.
Sport
Football:
Exeter Chiefs in action (Getty Images)
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For fixtures involving Devon's football clubs visit their websites:
Rugby:
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