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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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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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Fri 6th – Sat 7th Jun 2025 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Tying together fact and fiction in maritime history. Based in Exeter’s historic Custom House and around its Heritage…
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