Posted by Cptn
In response to what the ‘All I want for Christmas is a new Me’ campaign in the Western Morning News, we thought we’d have our own ‘Let me be me’ project.
All you have to do is write in and say why you’re happy with who you are (no smut or rude bits please).
As well as entrants we’re also looking for prizes from people and companies who support a positive body image.
Make this Christmas the one we celebrate ourselves, not someone else’s image of what we should be.
Send your messages to info@peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk or offer them up as comments, below.
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December 15th, 2007
Posted by Cptn
Super music and community arts venue The Bit on the Side, Paignton, has been closed. The Torbay Artsbase winner of best live venue has had its doors closed for it and the arts, education and community projects will have to be suspended until further notice.
There seems to have been confusion over the licence, and after a private event in the week the council changed the locks, leaving the organisers in the dark.
Mark, who has been leading the Bit on The Side and the Overdrive Project, told the PRSD: ‘If then there is another incident, the police could, if they choose to, review [the] licence and shut down the theatre.
‘Instead they shut us down, a community project which was a shot in the cultural arm of Torbay, a community project that has run the only venue in torbay for seven months with no police call outs, no drunkedness, no violence, no drugs. A community project that was home to young people who are now back drinking beer in the train station entrance as they now have no where to go.’
It’s been a bad week for the arts in Devon. Check out The Bit on the Side myspace. And here’s a little bit on the Overdrive Project, which was based there (the council has already removed all by the bot-trace of it, but this is evidence it did exist).
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December 15th, 2007
