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 1 comment - ()posted by Cptn Hold on to your index cards, there’s a new wind blowing around libraries at the moment. Kingsbridge Library is looking for people to join its friends group, which will be dedicated to the promotion and support of the library to raise its profile and awareness of all the services it offers. Lemanis, the Plymouth-based band who are springing into a year of gigs in kinda unusual places, are all set for their performance at the Reel Cinema, Derry’s Cross on February 22. They talk to us about their sound, their orchestra and their forthcoming second album. 1 comment - ()posted by Cptn Hokus pokus it’s Mama Tokus. Tonight at the B-Bar, the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, watch the first steps of a star as they emerge from their chrysalis. Mama Tokus, the even more glamorous incarnation of the already glamorous firmament that is Katie Thompson, will be getting her soul/jazz set straight at the 1 comment - ()posted by Cptn Exeter should beware its desire to be a unitary authority (yesterday Hazel Blears sent the council’s request to go it alone, along with her reservations about said plan, to the Boundary Commission – we can expect an answer, along with any subsequent gerrymandering in December). Both Torbay and Plymouth have tumbled 1 comment - ()posted by Cptn Are you fascinated by Dragons’ Den et al, but think there’s more to life than just making shed loads of money and lording it over people? Heck, take the moral high-ground and do something groundbreaking too. Social enterprise people Co-active are organising a Moving from Grants to Trade event. It’s for 1 comment - ()posted by Cptn We are great fans of the funky funster artist from Torquay (and citizen of the world) Anne Radu, and we’re not alone. It appears the Tory art magnate Charles Saatchi is also a fan. The Saatchi gallery is running an artistic ‘showdown’. Go and have a vote. posted by Cptn The push is on for the country’s first Climate Change Solutions Centre to be situated right here in the PRSD. There’s growing support of the Climate Change Solutions Centre to be established at Seale-Hayne, the former agricultural college just outside Newton Abbot. Of course, we’re behind it, and if you’re up Get healthy, get out and get to know your country – the Devon Countryside Access Forum is after new members. You could be one of the 15 volunteer members of this statutory body which meets four or five times a year to make the countryside accessible for all. During the past year the forum 1 comment - ()posted by Cptn We’ve been keeping an eye on Beachcomber’s photographic challenge. This is the latest installment from St Bartholomew’s Cemetery, Exeter. This gravestone marks the resting place of former builder in the city, who was laid to rest in 1840, and subsequent family members. Read the inscription on Beachcomber’s site. We’re 3 comments - ()posted by Jess Sains The University of Exeter this week published a study that suggested that homelessness needed to be dealt with more promptly. This, the study suggested, would help stop individuals from falling rapidly down the spiral of homelessness. This week, also, another study on homelessness pointed to the extent that it is The cold wind’s blowing, the ice is growing, so why not weather the storm with the toppest of coolest tunes from the rapscallions that are Birds, Orphans and Fools, David and Tom, and their wonderful collection of Barbaric Classical Songs. posted by Cptn The Northcott theatre has been saved! Immense support and people power forced the Arts Council to back down from its plan to stop funding the new, improved performance hot-spot. Of course, the Arts Council will monitor the theatre’s organisation and performance, and has welcomed ‘the debate about theatre and the arts’, which 2 comments - ()posted by Cptn Nothing says ‘I love you’ more than a poo card. Our friends over at the Exotic Paper Company (remember they offered y’all a special PRSD reader deal a while back) have got a handmade Ellie Poo card and gift pressie for your loved one this Valentine’s Day. Pop on over and |
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