The Unexpected Festival has been proving popular once again, with a host of events taking place around the city.
The event – that was well received by the city last year – is running from Friday to Sunday with a First World War centenary theme.
Throughout the weekend the entertainment is taking over the city centre with street shows that organisers promised would "amaze and cause mayhem".
One of the main events was the Great Fete – an artistic interpretation of a First World War Recruitment Centre.
Organisers said the Great Fete was an opportunity to share the optimism of this time, but also to reflect and commemorate.
People were able to enter the recruitment zone, be examined by the Sergeant Major, grab an enlistment pass and participate in games and activities designed to be fun as well as informative about the practical realities of military life.
The festival has been created by Exeter City Council with partners, RAMM, Exeter Library, Exeter Phoenix and artists Promenade Promotions, Le Navet Bete, Nuts and Volts Theatre and Devon Carousel.
A spokesman said: "They have created a dramatic reinterpretation of the enthusiastic, optimistic recruitment events that encouraged the men and boys from Exeter to enlist in 1914."
For a full programme of events at Unexpected Exeter visit www.exeter.gov.uk/unexpected
