Those eagle eared of you may have noticed we missed last week, due in no small part to a hiatus – a hiatus hernia from shifting all the podcasts onto our downloads page. Check them out. Not only can you find out about all the gigs you missed, you can also catch up on
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 If your Friday nights are reserved for more mundane pleasures than debating Our Environment: Europe’s Role, then you would have missed the cracking, sizzeling and emotional debate that took place the other week on just that topic. But you can catch it here, so you can keep up-to-date and well informed with what the movers Being diagnosed with cancer is quite a shock and affects whole families – emotionally and practically. The Force Cancer Support Centre in Exeter offers information and support for anyone affected by cancer. It’s a free drop-in service with all manner of complimentary therapies and advice on offer. There’s support and counselling, education and training, and If all else fails, go to plan b – plan b being a performance art company. Daniel Belasco Rogers is part of said plan and will be giving an artistic lecture type thing called Unfallen about how seemingly random events ultimately effect the course of our life. That’s all very well, but what about when Disabled artists are being asked their opinions on arts spaces in Exeter. At the meeting taking place on May 17 at 6pm artists can find out about having their own studio space or how to becoming a course tutor. And it comes before RISE SW in Exeter is re-launching as CEDA, Community Equality: Disability Action Trade union Amicus has hooked up with Love Music Hate Racism and Unite Against Fascism to put on a live music shindig on tonight at Plymouth University. The three organisations are using music to remind ver kids to unite against racism and highlight increased campaigning by the BNP to recruit students. Hullo viewer. Just a quick note to let you know David Sanders is playing at Jack Cham’s in Plymouth tonight. Hooray! Regular readers (for there must be some) will remember we first mentioned David back in August when we caught him at the Aeon Festival. Since then he’s recruited a fiddle player to beef up his solo sound and has written Those two Surreal Saloon high-kicking cowgirls, Josephine Larsen and Belinda Harris-Reid, have lassooed quite a line-up of topics for tonight’s event – the moon and monkeys, nudity, infatuation with idols, being abused by the Mass Media Millionare Dragons Den and ‘what’s it like to be a pop star and have teenage girls throw their knickers Don’t just be sat on that mat – unleash the poet within you and head off the Exeter Picturehouse to partake in the Poetry Under Candlelight event on May 8. Apparently the poets will gather from 8.30pm for readings at 9pm (collective noun for poets anyone?). The line-up so far includes Moor Poet Karen Eberhardt Get up out of your rocking chair grandma! Or rather, would you care to VOTE grandmother? People of the Republic, it’s voting time again. Get out there and make your mark. Local politicians have more say on your everyday life than any of those windboxes up in Westminster. So get out there and put your 14 comments - ()It’s one of those ironies of the modern world that you can’t get to somewhere renown and built for its cycle paths on a bike. Ok, Haldon Forest is on the A38 Cycle Way, but we didn’t think it was actually on the A38! It’s hairy, scarey stuff. Watch the film of a journey from Congratulations to PRSD’s favourite local reporter Alice Klein on her newcomer of the year nomination at the EDF Energy South West Media Awards. Alice, from the Express & Echo rag, first came to our attention back in December after she shot a two minute film on carbon offsetting for the BBC’s snooty Newsnight show. You Boffins at the University of Plymouth and the city’s Plymouth Marine Laboratory have made a major breakthrough in identifying what may be responsible for the destruction of the world’s coral reefs. In what is being hailed as a significant discovery, experts believe the so-called bleaching process that ultimately leads to the death of the reefs |
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Energy incentives
If it’s not one bunch of green energy gods offering cash incentives, it’s another. The Bovey Climate Action group are involved in the Big Switch. For every 100 residents who switch their energy provider to Ecotricity, Ecotricity will put money towards the installation of a renewable energy source on a community building.
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