Amazing concert coming up on 25th September! Autumn themes with fabulous ensemble Duo Tutti in the medieval hall of St Nicholas Priory, #Exeter. Here's your link: www.ticketsource.com/lightbearlan... @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social @mrjohnharvey.bsky.social #seasons #autumn #harvest #naturesky

"Music for the Harvest Moon" concert w/h Duo Tutti coming up on 25 Sept in #Exeter! Seasonal music to celebrate the full moon, harvest and autumn in all its glory: tinyurl.com/5yk67j35 #seasons #autumn #harvest #music #pagan #druidsky #naturesky @exeterobserver.org @visitdevon.bsky.social

Delighted to announce our autumn production of Macbeth! This November, enjoy the Scottish Play like you have never seen it before. Wild Thyme Theatre have added a new twist to this old story ... more info and tickets 👉https://lightbearlane.org/2026/08/10/macbeth/ @mrjohnharvey.bsky.social #Exeter

Hundreds of participants have contributed to the creation of our People's Network map, showing where they walk, cycle and make connections in #Exeter west of the river 👇 Now available as art print, tea towel and postcard: lightbearlane.org/shop/ @exetercycling.bsky.social @visitdevon.bsky.social

We had a great time at our #naturejournalling workshop today. Participants enjoyed Sarah's exhibition and introductory talk before exploring the beautiful grounds of @uniofexeternews.bsky.social. Thank you to @thepaganchaplain.bsky.social for hosting and starting us off with a tree meditation 🙏💚

This is cool - vote for up to six animals to go on the new banknotes 👇 Which one will you choose? 🐸 🐝 🦊 🦅🦉🐋🦭🐬 www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/wildlif... @the-wildlifetrusts.co.uk @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social @thepaganchaplain.bsky.social #nature #wildlife @carolinelucas.bsky.social

Get voting! Vote opens on new wildlife banknotes, which highlight conservation efforts across the UK | The Wildlife Trusts

You can vote on the new wildlife faces of our bank notes. Let’s dive in to the Bank of England’s shortlist of 18 species…

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Amazing art festival about #trees and connections 💚 I am hosting one of the events "Tea with a Druid" on 8 June in #Exeter Join me? Booking link below for your free ticket 👇 #druidsky #pagansky #pagan #wicca #trees #naturejournalling #wellbeing #walk

Lightbear Lane@lightbearlane.org · 4mo ago

Delighted to be partnering with International Art Biennale "If Trees Could Talk" 2026! We are running two art workshops of the special kind - more info here lightbearlane.org/2026/05/22/i... #Devon #art #workshop #trees @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org @visitdevon.bsky.social

Delighted to be partnering with International Art Biennale "If Trees Could Talk" 2026! We are running two art workshops of the special kind - more info here lightbearlane.org/2026/05/22/i... #Devon #art #workshop #trees @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org @visitdevon.bsky.social

Are your digital habits really as low-impact as they seem? We've shared our insights from our recently commissioned research (Principal Investigator: Eloise Cooper) with VisitExeter here: www.visitexeter.com/info-maps/me... #digitalhabits #ethicalonline #darkdata #climate #culture

We had such a wonderful time at the festival 🩷 Thank you all for making it such a special and memorable occasion! Next year's dates: 22 - 25 April 🪶 #shakingitup #swshakespearefest @dexinst.bsky.social @exetercathedral.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social @bdcmuseum.bsky.social

Our Young Poet Awards 2026 at @exeterlibrary.bsky.social - a real treat. Parents, teachers and winners - a lovely bunch of people who appreciate poetry, literature, and writing. All the things we love 🩷 Here are some photos 👇Thank you all for coming! #shakingitup @exetercityoflit.bsky.social

Yey, absolutely loving this little film about our South West Shakespeare Festival 🥰 www.lightbearlane.org/shakespeare #Shakingitup #SWShakespeareFest @dexinst.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org @theprsd.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @visitdevon.bsky.social @helenhartstein.bsky.social

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum@bdcmuseum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Big thank you to our intern & filmmaker, Simran Kaur Sanghera, who visited our special 'Shakespeare on Screen' display yesterday & made this fab film. It's part of the South West Shakespeare Festival produced by @lightbearlane.org, which kicks off today! More info: tinyurl.com/4eu4u7mf

It's festival week 🎉 Time for final prep for some but our friends at @bdcmuseum.bsky.social are all ready and open now 👇 Every day, 10-5pm 🥰 @exetercouncil.bsky.social @visitdevon.bsky.social #shakingitup #SWShakespeareFest

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum@bdcmuseum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our display for the South West Shakespeare Festival is now open! Get your fill of Shakespeare on Screen this week, everyday 10am-5pm, in the stairwell of the upper gallery. Thank you to @lightbearlane.org for having us as festival partners! ##SWShakespeareFest #shakingitup

We chatted with Denise and Caz on Torbay Radio about the South West Shakespeare Festival last week. Here's the recording, if you missed it www.mixcloud.com/torbayradio/... 1 hour 16 mins in 😊 #SWShakespeareFest #shakingitup @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @torbayweekly.bsky.social

Brunch 2 Lunch 17.04.26- at 01:16:00 - S W SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INTERVIEW

Listen to Brunch 2 Lunch 17.04.26- at 01:16:00 - S W SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INTERVIEW by Torbay Radio

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Tom Cadbury, Assistant Curator at @rammuseum.bsky.social, told us about his three favourite objects in the collection relating to Shakespeare’s work and time 👉 lightbearlane.org/2026/04/17/r... Why not visit the museum while in Exeter for the #swshakespearefest? @dexinst.bsky.social #shakingitup 🪶

For our #SWShakespeareFest, we have programmed a variety of exciting events. Our performance of Merchant of Venice is sold out but there are still tickets available for the talk and the concert 👇 lightbearlane.org/shakespeare #shakingitup @literatureworks.bsky.social @exetercouncil.bsky.social

Excited to see @exetercouncil.bsky.social has put our #SWShakespeareFest graphics on the community boards all over town (12+ locations) 💖 Thank you so much for your support with spreading the word 🙏 #shakingitup #ShakespeareSW @dexinst.bsky.social @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social

Fabulous to see @exeterobserver.org picking up on our South West Shakespeare Festival. Thank you for having us on your radar🩷 exeterobserver.org/2026/03/19/s... #shakingitup #swshakespearefest @dexinst.bsky.social @exetercathedral.bsky.social @bdcmuseum.bsky.social #drama @visitdevon.bsky.social

South West Shakespeare Festival - Exeter Observer

Inaugural festival programme features performances, exhibitions and film screenings.

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It's #ShakespeareWeek, so the perfect time to share that we're part of the inaugural South West #Shakespeare Festival! Keep your eyes peeled from 20 April for our special display on Shakespeare on Screen, curated by Dr Sarah Spencer. She discusses it in the article by the PRSD. #SWshakespearefest

Lightbear Lane@lightbearlane.org · 6mo ago

Great article @theprsd.bsky.social about "Impressions of Venice" and "Shakespeare on Screen", two exhibitions at the upcoming South West Shakespeare Festival: www.theprsd.co.uk/2026/03/21/j... @visitdevon.bsky.social @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social @bdcmuseum.bsky.social #SWShakespeare #shakingitup

Announcing the South West Shakespeare Festival, 22-26 April! Tickets available here: www.lightbearlane.org/shakespeare #swshakespeare #shakingitup #shakespeare #dramasky #musicsky @visitdevon.bsky.social @devondeved.bsky.social @chamberdevon.bsky.social @sdevonplayers.bsky.social

Great article @theprsd.bsky.social about "Impressions of Venice" and "Shakespeare on Screen", two exhibitions at the upcoming South West Shakespeare Festival: www.theprsd.co.uk/2026/03/21/j... @visitdevon.bsky.social @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social @bdcmuseum.bsky.social #SWShakespeare #shakingitup

Justice and mercy | Shakespeare tantalises with contemporary relevance - the PRSD

With Shakespeare on Screen and Impressions of Venice, Dr Sarah Spencer shares the deep relevance of the South West Shakespeare Festival

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This is a step in the right direction www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #theatre #artists #AI

Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry

However, the government's position is now unclear, saying it

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Lovely to see @theprsd.bsky.social pick up on our press release about the South West Shakespeare Festival www.theprsd.co.uk/2026/02/25/s... Early-bird tickets available now www.lightbearlane.org/shakespeare @exetercathedral.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social @dexinst.bsky.social #Shakespeare

Shaking it up | new South West Shakespeare Festival - the PRSD

There's a new Shakespeare Festival in the South West, with something for everyone to get into. Lightbear Lane explain

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We had the pleasure of speaking to Hospital #Radio #Exeter today. Dr Sarah Spencer and Maya Dallal chatted about our community project Roots & Routes, the South West Shakespeare Festival and more. Listen to it here 👉 player.autopod.xyz/1208755 @malcmardon.bsky.social @visitdevon.bsky.social

Submissions for our Young Poet Awards are now open! Very pleased that Theatre Alibi is hosting our postbox this February half-term 🙏 8 -12-year-olds can post their poems for this year's awards in our special awards postbox for a chance to win and have their poem read by a professional actor 🪶#Exeter

Did you know about this 👇? Exciting stuff! @visitdevon.bsky.social #Exeter #freethingstodo #cinema #museum

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum@bdcmuseum.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our new #exhibition opens tomorrow! 'Land of the Pharaohs: #Egypt on Screen' looks at Egypt's cultural impact on pre-cinema, filmmaking, cinema design and popular culture. Come and see it! We're open every day 10am-5pm. #EgyptonScreen #film #cinema #Culture #filmsky #museumsky #Egyptsky

Is it still ethical to use social media? Frances Ryan, journalist at the Guardian, asks this question in her latest column (14 Feb, 2026): www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... How can organisations with ethical standards and sustainability goals navigate these choppy waters? @exeterobserver.org

Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it? | Frances Ryan

With so many platforms rife with racism, misogyny and far-right rhetoric, there must be a point where decent people walk away, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Early-bird tickets for our South West Shakespeare Festival are selling fast. Get yours now www.lightbearlane.org/shakespeare #shakespeare #exeter #devon @visitdevon.bsky.social #drama @chamberdevon.bsky.social #literacy #theatre

How do we shift business from extractive/destructive to *actually* working as if we were all integral to the Web of Life - and our joy, our duty, our meaning and purpose were its flourishing? accidentalgods.life/laws-of-natu... #Accidentalgods #Podcast #NatureontheBoard #LawyersforNature

Laws of Nature, Laws with Nature: Nature on Board with Alexandra Pimor of the Earth Law Center

Across the world, our legal systems are crumbling, the rule of sane law dismantled in real time. Yet at the same time, rivers, mountains, bees are being granted legal rights in ways that would have be...

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For "Merchant of Venice", we're delighted to work with Wild Thyme Theatre, who share our vision of creating a focal point for #Shakespeare, giving audiences a quality experience of Shakespeare close to home & performers a platform to develop their classical skills. Book now tinyurl.com/4a8vtknz