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By PRSD, on Wednesday, April 30, 2008
posted by Cptn
The Flipside Film Festival aims to turn the world on its head and shove a camera in its face, and those intrepid bunch at D+CFilm caught up with the festival’s best boy Dan Paolantonio to uncover the motivation behind the alternative festival.
By PRSD, on Wednesday, April 30, 2008
posted by Cptn
Those good people at Schumacher College, Dartington, have offered citizens of the republic a 20 per cent discount on its Creating Nature: Art in the Landscape course, if they mention the People’s Republic of South Devon when they book.
The course ‘will explore unique ways to work within the landscape to create works of
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By PRSD, on Wednesday, April 30, 2008
posted by Cptn
Clear out your diaries for a week and a bit of smooth, silky, sultry songs in (metaphorically) smokey waterside venues. Yes, the first International Barbican Jazz and Blues Festival is set to swagger its way around the quay, daddy-o.
Opening the shindig of international artists, some of whom are home-grown, is Plymouth’s First Lady
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By PRSD, on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
posted by Cptn
The voice of youth will be heard in the House of Lords on Friday May 2, when the 300 members of the Youth Parliament descend on the House of Lords chamber to kick around, mull over, muse and cogitate the issues which are facing young people.
The three Devon members, Alex White, 15, from
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By PRSD, on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Ba-arp, barp-barp. This is planet Earth.
By PRSD, on Monday, April 28, 2008
- The Waste Land: PhD Work in Progress (Section II Game), Viewpoint Gallery, PCAD, until May 3
posted by Cptn
It’s fitting that a show inspired by The Waste Land, TS Eliot’s 1922 poem about how bad everything is, should open in April, what with it being the cruellest month, an’ all.
But Sally Waterman’s personal interpretation of
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By PRSD, on Monday, April 28, 2008
posted by Cptn
If Mondays are getting too difficult, maybe it’s time for a change.
Check out our jobs page which features all the latest from ethicaljobs.com, which lately have included an advocacy and campaign monitor for Oxfam based in Ghana, or work for the soil association in Bristol.
And if you’re quick you’ll be able to get
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By PRSD, on Saturday, April 26, 2008
posted by Jess Sains
The University of Plymouth is seeking volunteers for a self-help study, ‘Improving Moods’. Over a two week period participants are asked to mark whether or not the mind exercises given in a workbook levitate their mood.
Is it really that easy? Two weeks of pseudo-psychological self-assistance and you to can be happy. If
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By PRSD, on Friday, April 25, 2008
The weekly technology column from those good people at Plymouth’s Orange Crate
With the main network providers offering at least some PDA option with the majority of their pre-pay contracts, the opportunity to get your hands on one with minimum outlay has never been so realistic. But which one? A few years ago the market was
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By PRSD, on Friday, April 25, 2008
posted by Cptn
Devon real nappy week ends on Sunday (April 27), and we all know the environmental damage a smelly nappy can make, but it’s those disposable ones that create the real stink.
Bryan Carson, chair of the Devon Authorities Waste Reduction and Recycling Committee told the PRSD the impact that nappies have.
“With over 28 million
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