Happy Stitchy Monday Evening!
Just to let you all know, we have an AGM coming up NEXT WEDNESDAY 5th March, 1pm in the Freddie Mercury room, Cornwall House.
If you would like to be on the committee, have a look at the previous email for more info, and email nat@electric-stitch to let Nat know you are standing. For more info on any post, email the current committee member.
It’s a festival-filled week coming up, with Fairtrade Fortnight, Student Volunteering Week and the Vibraphonic Festival. Have fun!
Mon 25 Feb
FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT: 25 Feb until 9 March.
See Facebook group for campus listings.
FILM: Atonement. Exeter Picturehouse. 8.45pm. £4.50.
Adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel.
Tues 26 Feb
ART: Wood Works. CCANW, Haldon Forest Park, Exeter. Free.
An exhibition of models, photographs and plans of wooden buildings, as part of CCANW’s year long festival Wood Culture, a celebration of the beauty, usefulness and sustainability of wood. Perfect for architecture lovers. Exhibition runs until 30 March.
www.ccanw.co.uk
Weds 27 Feb
FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT: Celebration of Fairtrade. Global Centre, St David’s Hill. 6.30pm-9pm
An evening of celebration at the Global Centre. There will be presentations from a Ugandan Fairtrade Tea Producer and Ghanaian Fairtrade chocolate producers. Lots of other fun activities too. Our Steph is giving a mini workshop on Fairtrade bananas – food samples and recipes guaranteed!
Thurs 28 Feb
THEATRE: Creative Cow presents The Lover by Harold Pinter. Barnfield Theatre. Thurs and Fri 7.30pm. £7.
Richard and Sarah from Berkshire participate in an irresistibly warped and foolish fantasy… will a simple ploy to cheer up their seven year marriage work? Is their oblique strategy for therapeutic fun a potentially poisonous prescription? In this legendary classic, Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter toys with our senses in an understated masterpiece.
Fri 29 Feb
MUSIC: Vibraphonic Festival begins.
Taking over Exeter’s soundwaves until 16 March, Vibraphonic brings you music events and workshops all over the city. Look at the latest Stitch Magazine for Chloe’s picks, and online at www.vibraphonic.co.uk for full listings.
VOLUNTEERING WEEK: Bouncy castle in the Ram Garden. 11-3pm.
THEATRE: EUTCo present Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Fri 7.30pm, Sat 2.30pm and 7.30pm. M&D Room. £4 (£3 EUTCo members).
Political farce based on the true story of a railway worker arrested and questioned by police on suspicion of being an anarchist, who ‘fell’ to his death from the Milan police headquarters a few hours later. See preview article.
FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT: DebSoc presents Fairtrade versus Free Trade. Parker Moot Room. 7.30pm.
A Fairtrade Fortnight event.
Sat 1 March
VIBRAPHONIC FESTIVAL: Dusty Toy Space Junk with George Lazenbleep. The Globe. 12-5pm. Followed by music and cinema performance 8-midnight. Free.
An open, free workshop, taking apart and modifying children’s toys to create wild and wonderful sound generators. No experience of anything required. Drop in and stay for as long as you like. No booking needed.
Sun 2 March
Take a walk on Exmouth beach and enjoy sea air and fish and chips!
Stitch xx