Peoples Republic of South Devon

Spun out

This is an image from Robin Whenary’s Motion, that will feature in today’s gala event of the View From Here at Coombeshead Theatre. Watch the outdoor screening in the afternoon, courtesy of Skylight Open-Air Cinema. For more details, go to D+CFilm.

November 30th, 2007

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Write from the heart

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To all you writers out there, of which there are many, Impress Books (based at Exeter University’s Innovation Centre) has teamed up with the university’s creative writing centre to pluck new talent from the ether to offer a publishing contract.

The winner will be announced Monday December 3, and they’ll get a £500 advance plus a publishing contract.

Why are we telling you? Well, we’re always after new writers at the PRSD. We can’t offer anything like £500, but we don’t have the strictures of being confined to university students on creative writing courses either. And we might be your way to the, err, big time. All you have to do is write well on any number of topics.

For more information, and to send your musings, point your e-epislte software to info@peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk

November 29th, 2007

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Pint-sized film festival

We’re right getting into this View From Here malarky. So we’re all set for representatives of the PRSD to head down to Newton Abbot tonight for the Half Hour Pint, a mini little film festival in some of the more open-minded establishments in the town. It’s a proto-type event for the whole nation. Go along, have a pint and watch a film. What could be more civilized?

November 28th, 2007

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Clearwater revival

We all want to know more about John Clearwater - it’s the nature of the kind of notoriety the guy has. But is there really any more to know? Find out tonight at Gallery Terracina, on Exeter Quay, when director Clive Austin will talk about his film The Gaps Between. The event kicks off at 7.30pm and should be really rather good. And it’s all part of The View From Here.

November 27th, 2007

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Run, fatboy, run

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To take part in the Great English Riviera Santa Run, apparently, you have to sign a sanity clause, but as we all know, there ain’t no Sanity Claus (good ole Marx, with all the best lines). It takes place on December 9, costs £10 or £9 - depending on girth and all the money goes to charity. To find out more, visit the English Riviera website. Or, to see a selection of Santas in action, watch the film.

November 27th, 2007

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Half Hour Pint

How about this for an innovative idea – local films in your local. Those kooks who have been organising the View From Here: a celebration of moving image in South Devon are determined that the region’s film talent is appreciated. So, with the help from some hostelries, they’ve set up the Half Hour Pint, a cross between a mini film festival and a mini pub crawl. Now that’s living all right.

Watch for more.

November 26th, 2007

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Purse strings

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Oh, how we could fall into those gender stereotype-type gags, but we won’t because this is the PRSD. Exeter University is looking for unmarried heterosexual couples to take a survey on how they spend their money, what it’s like living together and other ‘relationship stuff’ for a study into money, relationships and the law. Go to the Exeter University School of Psychology for more.

And you could win a £50 Amazon voucher.

See, no dodgy gags.

November 26th, 2007

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In the picture #7

This week Eddie Dyke has been in touch to take the investigations into the Great Devon Consol a little further.

During it’s hey day, the mine owners built a narrow gauge railway to transport the dressed copper ore to Morwellham to be loaded onto barges and shipped to Plymouth where it would be distributed world wide.

‘It’s known that there were two steam engines working the line from Chipshop to Morwellham,’ Eddie told the PRSD. ‘And legend has it that they are still sleeping somewhere deep in the forests that were once such a hive of industrial activity, though to my knowledge no body has yet found them.

‘I’ve walked a great deal of what was the railway, or tramway as the Victorians called it, and although things like the rails have long succumbed to scrap mercants, there are still a few architectural bits and bobs to be seen.’

If you’ve got your own views or just some interesting pictures send them in or upload them to the PRSD gallery.

November 25th, 2007

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Hullo!

The PRSD got themselves invited to the celebrity wedding of the season this weekend, but unlike those salacious magazines, we won’t be spilling the salt. Suffice it to say, there was a great vibe and great music from a banjo man (it was a fast crowd) and the one and only time Le Chat Noir will ever play a wedding.

November 25th, 2007

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Don’t get grizzly

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Oh, the life of a natural history filmmaker – weeks in the wilderness with only bears for company. And all because you want to find out what they do in the woods. And for those of you who don’t know, there’s a chance to see Peter Cayliss’ film (along with some others of his) In Search of Bears, which the PCAD student shot on location in Canada, on Monday, November 26, at the Blue Walnut Cafe, Teigmouth. It’s all part of the week-long View From Here: a celebration of moving image in South Devon. To find out more about either or both, point your browswer to D+CFilm.

November 24th, 2007

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