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The Last Polar Bear environmental event will take place at Coombeshead College, Newton Abbot, tonight.
It’s billed as an evening of short film presentations and debate and will feature the eminently sensible words of Simon Hooton, Professor Simon Belt, Jeremy Thress and Ben Bryant.
It’s free and there’s food from a whole load of local producers, so what’s keeping you? It kicks off at 6.30pm.
We like to keep you up-to-date with what all the citizens of the republic are getting up to, so we thought we’d let you know that the Carrivick Sisters are in the Quarter Finals of BBC 3’s Upstaged competition/show – it’s a kind of Opportunity Knocks for the noughties.
The sisters Laura and Charlotte have an impressive take on Bluegrass Devon-style, and have already won their way into Glastonbury this year with their heart-rending performance in the Busking Competition, organised by friends of the republic, Born Hectic.
Log onto Upstaged to vote the sisters through to the semis – you’ve got a chance to rate them every three minutes they’re on stage.
And if you’ve got what it takes, you can either get in touch with us here at the PRSD with your demos for inclusion in our forthcoming podcasts and features and catch up with this year’s Busking Competition, that’s part of the Totnes Festival.
And we’ve even got (not at all) exclusive footage for their first ad..
No sooner do we put the call out for those who use the Exe Estuary to get involved in a leaflet about the sustainability of the area, than we hear that a new guide’s been published.
This updated Exe Explorer publication even includes the recently opened Lympstone to Exmouth cycle trail, along with ferry, train and bus routes plus accessibility guidance for wheelchair and pushchair users.
But don’t take our word for it, pop along to a tourist information centre. The leaflet can also be found at www.exe-estuary.org.uk or from the Exe Estuary Officer Jennifer Lockett by email at exeestua@devon.gov.uk or by phone on 01392 382236.
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If your sweet tooth hasn’t been sated this Easter pop along to the B-bar, Plymouth, tonight to listen to the chocolatey-voiced Louise Parker and her own brand of smooth jazz. Doors open at 7pm, and entrance is £5, for what Mike Flynn of Jazzwise magazine describes as ‘Sweetly soulful jazz vocals.’
“My work is shaped by my life, my experiences – and the bridge that links my life and my work is my visual diary. It came to life after my children were born – I’d lost the link between work and life and I needed to find a way to resolve the inherent conflict between motherhood and painting. The diary quickly became central to my work. It is intimate, private and uncensored and travels with me wherever I go. It stores memories that might otherwise be lost or forgotten.
“Having a diary allows me to explore and expose a chosen image and it’s this exposure and re-interpretation that is exciting. I feel that my work is a way of asking questions, seeking answers, explaining life, exposing inner darkness, exploring hidden feelings. It’s a way of giving voice when I would normally be silent or guarded. It is in a sense holding a mirror up to life and studying its reflection.”
There’s Easter egg hunts and then there’s the Occombe Farm Easter Egg Challenge. It sounds like the kind of event where the Easter Bunny would wear camouflage gear.
There are 10 challenges around the Occombe Farm Nature Trail, which include crossing a bog, climbing a rope, crawling through a tunnel, activating a dynamo and putting your hand inside a dark box to find out what’s inside.
To join in all you have to do is pick up a clue sheet from the Occombe Farm shop and shell out £3.50, which includes a bog of chocolate eggs on completion.
The trail is suitable for the whole family.
Visit the website for the Torbay Coast and Country Trust to find out what else is going on at its venues, including Occombe Farm, Cockington and Berry Head.
Wood/city. City/wood. How can you decide what to do this long Easter weekend? Enjoy the wood or trawl the city? Well, you can do both – Woodfair South West will be in Plymouth city centre on Saturday (March 22).
The bark-filled event will have chainsaw carvers, woodchippers, bushcraft workshops and nest box building.
And with so many vital woods around – both economical, environmentally and historically, the Woodfair day is trying to lure you out in the woods if not today, then at least some time soon. Or you can opt for the guided tree walks in and around Plymouth.
Innovative projects in the South West which aim to offer more training, better employment opportunities and improved facilities for homeless people have been awarded £5 million from the office of the Communities and Local Government.
Apparently, Plymouth’s reputation as a centre of excellent in training and employment of homeless people was the driving force behind the award to convert nightshelter accommodation in the city into a state-of-the-art assessment centre.
The interim accommodation was built after ‘trowel off’ competition between service users from Plymouth and Torbay to see who could complete a building first.
The Devon Humanists got in touch to tell us that: as part of South Devon’s Humanists’ series of discussions, local lecturer Ros Allen will give a talk on Matthew Arnold’s famous poem Dover Beach at 7.30pm on March 27 in Birdwood House in Totnes.
“Dover Beach is an outstanding 19th century poem, and one that modern Humanists can easily relate to,” Ross told the PRSD. “Matthew Arnold was born in 1822, became apostate at the age of 22, and his loss of faith resounds through his best poems. Dover Beach, written in the same year as Darwin’s Origin of Species, is his most famous work. We will be analysing the poem which is a courageous attempt to face the pain of truth.”
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