Events coming up soon in and around Crediton

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8

10am – “Jam Babies”, free creative play and music sessions for preschool children with their carers, at The Bookery in partnership with the Turning Tides Project.

2pm to 3pm – Crediton Courier drop–in, Crediton Library.

FRIDAY 9

7.30pm - German Expressionist double-bill, two acknowledged silent classics from the era of the birth of cinema. Iconic masterpieces combine the Gothic horror of Shelley and Stoker with the unsettling cadences of Expressionist artists and writers such as Kandinsky, Munch, Strindberg and Wedekind. Both presented with new, sympathetic 5:1 Surround Sound scores. Crediton Arts Centre. Tickets £5, available now from www.ticketsource.co.uk/creditonartscentre or telephone 01363 773260 or email [email protected]

9.45am - Lapford Parish Church Service, Lapford School to become St Thomas of Canterbury CE Primary School, followed by ribbon cutting, blessing of the school and hot chocolate, archive exhibition at The Ark.

SATURDAY 10

10am to 4pm - Redlands Practice Open Day, all welcome.

6pm - Sandford Square, Sandford Wassail.

MONDAY 12

7pm - Doors open for 7.30pm start, Crediton Area History and Museum Society, Talk and Tapestries: Witchcraft and Women in Devon and the Crediton Area, Anne Jackson, Boniface Centre, admission £2 for members, £5 for non-members

7.15pm - for 7.30pm, Bow and District Gardening Club, Gardening with Climate Change by Tim Ellis, visitors welcome £5, free tea/coffee and biscuits, Bow Village Hall.

TUESDAY 13

Spreyton Bingo, Village Hall.

THURSDAY 15

10am – “Jam Babies”, free creative play and music sessions for preschool children with their carers, at The Bookery in partnership with the Turning Tides Project.

2pm to 3pm – Crediton Courier drop–in, Crediton Library.

5pm to 7pm - QE School College House community engagement drop-in, Boniface Centre.

7pm - Join eco-psychotherapist and herbalist Brigit Anna McNeil discussing her new book The Wild Within: What Plants Taught Me about Life, Recovery and Renewal in conversation with nature writer Sophie Pavelle at The Bookery. Tickets at £5 from the Bookshop or at www.thebookery.org.uk

7pm - Films for Crediton, Crediton Arts Centre, Past Lives (12), film starts 7.30pm, bar, tea, coffee, puddings, £5 at the door or from the Arts Centre website.

FRIDAY 16

7.30pm - Fagin’s Last Hour, Crediton Arts Centre, £13/£11, from ticketsource.

7.30pm - Dartmoor Folk Festival AGM, King’s Arms, South Zeal.

SATURDAY 17

10.30am to 12.30pm - QE School College House community engagement drop-in, Boniface Centre.

WEDNESDAY 21

10am to 12 noon - Crediton and District U3A, talk The Weirdest Buildings in the West Country, Boniface Centre, £2, includes tea or coffee.

6.45pm - Doors open for Meat Bingo, Crediton Football Clubhouse, eyes down 7.30pm, bar, teas/coffee, raffle, in aid of ELF Crediton Fundraising Group.

THURSDAY 22

10am – “Jam Babies”, free creative play and music sessions for preschool children with their carers, at The Bookery in partnership with the Turning Tides Project.

2pm to 3pm – Crediton Courier drop–in, Crediton Library.

7pm - Join bestselling crime author Tom Hindle discussing his new book A Killer in Paradise in conversation with fellow cosy crime author Orlando Murrin at The Bookery. Tickets at £6 from the Bookshop or at www.thebookery.org.uk

FRIDAY 23

7.30pm - and 24th, Crediton Arts Centre and Mike Felsted present So Many Words, monologues, poetry, sketches and spoken word, presented by local performers, at Crediton Arts Centre, pay what you can £10/£12/£14, tickets from ticketsource.

SUNDAY 25

2.30pm - Tedburn Amateur Dramatic Society present Robin Hood and The Babes in the Wood, Tedburn St Mary Village Hall, and 7.30pm on January 29 and 30 and 2.30pm and 7.30pm on January 31. Adults £10, children £5, box office 07917 794589 or ticketsource or email [email protected]

3pm - Saint Boniface Concert Society AGM and free Guitar recital by guitarist Luke Tyrrell, Crediton Parish Church.

SATURDAY 31

6.30pm - General Knowledge Quiz, Crediton Football Club, £10pp entry, maximum of 6 people per team, 1st prize £120, 2nd £60, entry via email: [email protected] .

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3

7.30pm - to Saturday, February 7 and 2.30pm matinee on February 7, Whitestone Players present Hansel and Gretel by Alan Frayn, adults £7, child £3.50 (under 16), 07977 439419 or www.ticketsource.co.uk/whitestone-players .

If you have a forthcoming event, email [email protected].