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An Invitation to Create #15 – Earth Hour
Today marks Earth Hour, the annual grass roots campaign initiated in 2007 by the World Wide Fund to heighten global awareness of climate change, to speak up for nature, and […]
An Invitation to Create #14- Whale Compass
The eternal whale will still survive, and […] spout his frothed defiance to the skies.”- Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851). What would a whale say on social media? A study […]
An Invitation to Create #13 – Pine Cone Planters
We invite you to bring the garden inside once more with these pine cone planters, a perfect craft for wet days. Great for creating more green space inside, especially if […]
An Invitation to Create #12 – Bookmark Make
March 6th 2021 What a week! You might have realised that it was World Book Day on Thursday, or even noted St Piran’s Day yesterday, but did you know that […]
An Invitation to Create #11 – Garden Cuttings
With spring near and with some blue skies at last, here at the DEI we have been taking stock of the planting in the garden. Today’s invitation is to take […]
An Invitation to Create #10 – Spider Spinners
A little scarlet spider no larger than a mustard-seed, invested by popular superstition with the power of spinning money in the pocket of him who secures it.” This week’s make […]
An Invitation to Create #9 – Picturesque Excursions
Today’s invitation to create comes to you from the ‘Picturesque Excursions of Devonshire’ by T. H. Williams (1827) Illustrated by the author, an artist, the book is made up in […]
Trustees needed to help us to deliver The Next Chapter – March 2021
The Devon and Exeter Institution is an Independent Library and Educational Charity in the heart of Exeter founded in 1813. We welcome new members and visitors of all ages. In March 2020 we were awarded a major grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for our development project The Next Chapter. We are an innovative and go-ahead organisation often leading the way in the Independent Library Sector and the cultural life of the City of Exeter.
International Women’s Day ‘Trade and Exchange’ Event Recording
Join artists Naomi Hart and Emma Molony and University of Exeter academics Dr Ceri Lewis (Associate Professor in Marine Biology) and Rebecca Lovell (Research Fellow at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health) for a special online talk about art, nature and science to celebrate International Women's Day.
Dr. Ingrid Pollard – Residency and Research Partner 2021-22
Display 6th August 2022 - 29th October 2022
