We are so pleased that Exeter Phoenix is supporting our film Proud to Be! The art centre in Exeter has confirmed they’ll be showing a short version of the documentary before select feature films in August! If you catch it, let us know what you think!
Great news: for our film launch event on 27th April, Jim Causley, multi-award-winning folk musician, is joining us to celebrate and sing our new community wassail song with us. Tickets available here!
We are launching our film and you are invited! We’ve been out and about in the last two months filming amazing places, talking to inspiring people and learning about what makes us proud of our neighbourhood and why. The community has shared incredible stories and told us what they most value about where they live – and you’re invited to share in this, too.
27th April, 6pm, doors 5:30pm at The Beacon Centre
Let us know you are coming and sign up for free here!
What to expect:
Film launch of our co-created short film “Proud to Be”
To celebrate our film and community, we will have a display ready for you with people’s contributions, photos, a community map, and picture postcard designs of Mincinglake and Whipton.
We will take this occasion to announce the winners of our postcard competition, so families and children are most welcome. There will also be a couple of activities for you to tell us what you thought of the film.
Excitingly, we’ll also introduce you to our new community song, produced specially for the film, with music written and recorded by The Dilly Boys!
We look forward to welcoming you to a relaxed evening celebrating community and friendships.
We had such fun with the Year 9 photography class at St James School! Very engaged students and so much enthusiasm for film-making. Exciting to see high aspirations from our young people here in Exeter 🙂
Yesterday evening our study turned into something akin to Father Christmas’ workshop – paints, pots, bits of wood and glue… All because we are starting our postcard competition soon. And Sarah wanted to build our own postbox for it. We think it looks great – see below 🙂 We’ll post more details soon but the idea is to grab one of our empty postcards and draw on it your favourite thing about your neighbourhood. For those who rather use words, write a message on the card to let us know what you love most about where you live. And check back here for news!
Our film is all about Pride of Place. We want to show what people love about their neighbourhood. But how do we establish what makes people proud of where they live? How do we know where they go to have fun? Well, Sarah spends a lot of time chatting with people, getting to know them, and together we map the community. Quite literally – look at the images below: participants draw their favourite spots on the map, and leave commments to tell us more. Fancy having your say? Sign up here and join us
Ben and Sarah had a fabulous time talking to visitors at the Space Odyssey Planetarium – an exploration of space right here in Whipton! The organisers welcomed them warmly and it was fabulous to see so many people eager to learn more about space and all its mysteries! For those interested, here’s the link to the Space Odyssey project.
We had the pleasure of talking to Brian and John at their International Evening at Beacon Heath Church, and connect with so many fascinating people from all over the world. Some were new to Exeter and it was heart-warming to see how they were welcomed into the community. Excellent food and so much to celebrate!
We have been successful in securing a creative commission from Creative Arc at the University of Exeter and Exeter City Council, hurrah! We’ll be producing a community film all about pride of place. Click here for more info and sign up for our newsletter here.
