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Bonanza! Exeter Phoenix 25th birthday party

Exeter arts venue celebrates 25th year with live music, DJs, silent disco and more.

Leigh Curtis

Exeter Phoenix is celebrating its 25th year at the heart of the city’s cultural life with a birthday party on Friday 20 September.

The line-up includes live music from Pattern Pusher and Revelation Roots, a silent disco hosted by Silent Social and fire-performance from Olivia Livewire.

Food will be available from the Soul Pizza truck.

Exeter Phoenix 25th birthday party

Exeter Phoenix’ home in Bradninch Place was originally opened in 1911 to house the expanded Royal Albert Memorial College and provide teacher training courses. It has been an arts centre since 1984.

The registered charity that runs it changed its name to Exeter Phoenix in 1999.

It now hosts hundreds of live music, theatre and comedy performances, art exhibitions and film screenings each year, as well as talks, workshops and classes, and actively supports local creative practitioner development.

It is also home to several other local arts organisations, including Phonic FM, Double Elephant Print Workshop and Sound Gallery Studios and operates a shop, Maker Mart, and a bar, The Mermaid, both in Gandy Street.

The charity and its trading arm together employ 40 people and raise over £1.5 million each year to help sustain Exeter’s contemporary arts scene.

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Bonanza! Exeter Phoenix’s 25th birthday party begins at 7.30pm on Friday 20 September 2024 at Exeter Phoenix.

Tickets cost from £12 and are available via the Exeter Phoenix website.

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