RAMM will be visiting festivals, community centres and fetes around Exeter this summer with free craft activities and handling objects relating to the theme of re-wilding.
Date of project: June to September 2025
About RAMM’s wild summer
Join us this summer for free family friendly craft activities and object handling around the city! RAMM will be visiting various Exeter festivals, fetes and community events between May and September with free family friendly activities inspired around the theme of wildlife and re-wilding, linking to our Wild exhibition.
Make your own colourful butterfly feeder to take home and encourage more wildlife into your garden. Discover and touch a beaver pelt, peregrine falcon or barn owl from our handling collection, amongst many other creatures big and small!
Get stuck in digging up pot sherds, pieces of flint, cow bones, metal buckles and lots more in our ‘dig pit’ at the larger events this summer. All of the objects were originally found beneath the ground in Exeter, some dating back over 6,000 years!
Find us at the following events:
- Respect Festival – Sat 7 (11.30am – 5pm) and Sun 8 June (11am – 5pm)
- St Thomas Summer Festival – Sat 19 July, 12 – 5pm
- Family Fun Days at the Beacon Centre – Thurs 7th and 14th August, 10am to 12pm
- Wondford Community Cafe – 31st July and 21st August, 11am to 1pm
- Park Life Fun Day, Heavitree – Sat 13 September, 11am to 6pm
Wild explores our relationship with the natural world and looks at how people across the globe are creating, rebuilding and repairing connections with nature. Will going ‘wild’ help us to tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis? Can ‘wildness’ flourish within a city like Exeter? How do we care for things we can’t see? The exhibition is open from 26 July 2025 to 4 January 2026 and is free for under 19s and carers.
Participants & partners
With many thanks to our festival partners and organisers for hosting RAMM activities this summer:
- Respect Festival
- Love St Thomas Festival
- The Beacon Centre
- Wonford Community Centre
- Park Life Heavitree
What next?
RAMM’s engagement team plans to visit festivals and community fetes across Exeter each summer, offering free activities each year for local communities on a variety of themes linking to our exhibition programme.
If you are organising a local summer festival or community event and would like us to attend in 2026, do get in touch.
Further information
Maya Herbolzheimer
Engagement Officer, RAMM
