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Quayside Shanty Festival 2025
Sat 5th Jul 2025
Exeter’s Quayside Shanty Festival will return on Saturday 5 July, subject to funding. Join us for a celebration of sea shanties on Exeter’s historic quayside. Expect another fantastic day and evening of folk songs of the sea, performed by some colourful characters and suitable for all the family what’s…
Wed 12th Mar 2025 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Featuring exclusive new work, ‘Precious and Impossible’ gathers together over three decades of poetry from the T S…
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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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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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Sat 5th Jul 2025 12:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Exeter’s Quayside Shanty Festival will return on Saturday 5 July, subject to funding. Join us for a…
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Tue 29th Jul – Fri 29th Aug 2025 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
The Transit Shed will again be home to a jam-packed programme of fun and quirky activities for all…
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