June 2008 » People's Republic of South Devon

Power talker

By PRSD, on Monday, June 30, 2008 |

posted by Cptn

Advocate of nuclear power, Giles Chichester MEP, has been invited by the Industry Forum to give the keynote address at their Meeting on Climate Change at the Chemical Industries Association in London today.

Phig’s comic workshops

By PRSD, on Sunday, June 29, 2008 |

Friends, republicans, countrymen… lend me yer eyeballs. Phig Billy here, the PRSD’s resident gonzo cartoonist, eager to report back on his very first all-day comic book workshop last weekend. The event was supported/enabled by the Farringdon Society of Arts and took place at the village hall in Farringdon on Saturday June 21.

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Births, deaths and marriages

By PRSD, on Saturday, June 28, 2008 | 1 comment - ()

posted by Cptn

A Humanist wedding on Slapton Sands

Friday’s a funeral and Saturday’s bride, as the song goes, and we have hot news from the humanists that non-religious weddings, baby-namings and funerals are becoming far more popular in Devon.

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The Old Men of Computing

By PRSD, on Friday, June 27, 2008 | 2 comments - ()

The weekly technology column from those good people at Plymouth’s Orange Crate

Being accustomed to our compact desktop computers and even smaller laptops (and even smaller pdas), it’s easy to forget how it all began. Forget Charles Babbage and his complex 19th century tinkerings for a second – as important as they were,

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Book review – Russia

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 26, 2008 | 1 comment - ()

Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases.

A five-part BBC2 series on Russia, with Jonathan Dimbleby as the presenter and the author of a meaty tie-in is a no-brainer as far as I am concerned. In Russia, A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People, the authors travels

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Laban dance bursary

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 26, 2008 | 2 comments - ()

posted by Cptn

Rudolf Laban is to dance what William Morris is to upholstery. And as part of its 70-year celebration of his shimmy across Dartington’s doorstep (and 50th anniversary of his death) the place is offering a limited number of bursaries to local people on its four-day Laban dance programme.

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North Devon art trek

By PRSD, on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | 3 comments - ()

posted by Cptn

News has reached us, with a following wind, that our comrades up north, North Devon that is, have an incredibly thriving arts scene, thank you very much. ‘What about our Art Trek? Came the collective creative cry from the North Shore.