Archive for June 19th, 2007
We’re in the middle of Architecture Week (which explains all the hubbub), and means if you fancy getting your hands dirty with the whole mess of making a house out of mud, get on down to the School of Architecture and Design in Plymouth, where you can ‘explore the global use of earth in buildings’.
And you know what they say, where there’s muck, there is indeed brass. Will this week address some of the issues around the massive home-building programmes the south west is facing, or the quality of homes that will be built, or the importance of design in building communities?
The mud hut building runs until June 21.
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June 19th, 2007
It’s Refugee Week - a series of informal arts events throughout the country - and you can join in by popping along to see Tickets at the Exeter Picturehouse, 6.30pm tonight.
Using three directors (including Ken Loach) the film follows a train journey through central Europe and explores cultural difference, and, of course, similiarities.
The whole idea of the week is to remember that refugees are people not just Daily Mail headlines. Now how many UKIP supporters will be in the audience? If anyone can guess the right number to the nearest dozen, you could win a fair trade popcorn for your next cinema experience, that’s if we were running a competition, but we’re not.
Go along and count them anyway.
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Check out Devon and Cornwall Film for all your cinema needs.
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June 19th, 2007
Hard Rain is coming to Devon, thanks to the Bovey Climate Action group.
The document of our headlong dive into destruction put to the words of Bob Dylan is presented by photographer Mark Edwards, who will be stopping off at Exeter, Glastonbury and the UN.
In a case of ‘things can only get worse’, in 1969 Edwards was lost on the edge of the Sahara. He was rescued by a Tuareg nomad, who took him to his people, made a fire and produced a cassette player, which was playing the Dylan track. It was then that Edwards got the idea to illustrate each line of the song with a photograph of the on-going collision with nature.
With lines like ‘I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’,’ this is sure to be a hard-hitting treatise. But we’re even more intrigued to see how he’s photographed ‘And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,’
Hard Rain will be in Bovey Tracey Wednesday, June 20, and in Exeter on Thursday, June 21. For the few free tickets that remain get in touch with Bovey Climate Action on info@boveyclimateaction.org.uk. To get more details on the Exeter event email SWDEbates@southwestrda.org.uk
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June 19th, 2007
