On the Flipside

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.

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Art course discount

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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

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Swing low

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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

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Youth Parliament lords it

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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

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Looking at planet Earth

Ba-arp, barp-barp. This is planet Earth.

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Sally Waterman (art review)

- 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

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Keenly greenly

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Are you Keen to be Green? Then pop along to a free event at the Riviera International Conference Centre in Torquay today.

The do is part of the tourism industry’s attempt to square the circle of people wanting green holidays while keeping the spa bath, flat screen tv and patio heaters.

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