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Those creative burghers of Teignmouth are limbering up to launch the the Cultural Olympiad with a weekend of free fun, funky, arty, informative events throughout the seaside town from Friday September 26 to Sunday September 28.
As the Teingmouth Advisory Arts Group says boldly on its site: “It will also launch a number of large-scale creative projects. It is not just another one-off weekend, but the start of the four-year celebration. We are making our first mark; writing the first sentence of a four year story.”
Pop along and be culturally olympic, you might even get on the podium. Here’s a run down of events they sent through.
FRIDAY Carlton Theatre
7:30pm - 9:30pm - Teignmouth Community Choir rehearsal.Go along and just listen or join in and find out what goes on in our community choir. It might surprise you. There’s a lot of laughter and chat and mucking about - and every now and then we sing a song
Poetry overview of weekend workshops - Meet the poets and get an outline of aims and contents of Saturday’s and Sunday’s events
Gallery 8
10am - 5pm - Art exhibition & workshops
SATURDAY Carlton Theatre
9:30am - 12:30pm - Breathe Easy Coffee Morning, Music in the Bar
10am - 11am - Story telling - Clare Viner - The story is set in Teignmouth in 1683 and everyone is afraid. The Pirates are everywhere; on the seas and undercover in the town. They pretend to be ordinary sailors and drink in the taverns but thats just how they find out, how they plot, who to take next…
11am - 11:30am - Musical consequences, a “just for fun” song writing workshop
9:30 - 11:30am Poetry Consequences Relay
2pm - 4pm - Storytelling workshop - Local Storyteller Clare Viner
2pm - 3:45pm Creative writing workshop
Workshop 1: Getting Started (for new writers) 30 minute duration
Workshop 2: Moving On (for returning or experienced writers) 30 mins
Workshop 3: Is it for me? (for the curious non (or stalled)) writers 30 mins
Various location around the town
1pm - 3pm Singtastic singers sing
Gallery 8
10am - 5pm - Art exhibition & workshops Gallery 8 is an exciting arts and crafts collective situated on the corner of Teign Street and Stanley Street Locally made paintings, photographs, greetings cards, jewellery, embroidery, painted tiles, cushion craft, woodcraft, silk glass, soaps, etc
SUNDAY Carlton Theatre
All day - display of theatrical costumes
9:30 - 8pm Teignmouth Art Society exhibition
9:30 - 11:30 - Sculpture workshop
11am - 1pm Teignmouth Jazz machine , playing easy listening jazz standards such as Georgia, Blue Moon, Summertime Etc.
12noon - 5pm - TRAIL Art workshop/ Colours of Devon come and contribute to this year’s Community sculpture.
3pm - 4pm Theatre tours
4pm TYKES play - Just Bin it,
5pm Theatre properties Workshop
2pm - 6pm Poetry word wall, Pester a poet, Quick Fire Poems
6pm Sue Kibbey with renowned pianist Lewis Riley of jazz interpretations of Darwin Songs by David Haynes
This is a unique opportunity to hear two top-rate jazz musicians performing work by a local composer whose work is receiving increasing number of performances throughout the UK and the USA
7:30 - 8:30pm Teignmouth Players open pantomime rehearsal
Gallery 8
10am - 4pm Art exhibition and workshops
Those known to be taking part: David Haynes and the Teignmouth Community Choir; The Singtastic singers; The Teignmouth Players; TRAIL TRAIL Recycled Art In Landscape; Bob Hill, Louise Jenkins; The TYKES (Junior Teignmouth Players members); Gallery 8 (Jenny Harris & Rose Barrett); Teignmouth Jazz Machine
Open Up Teignmouth is to help celebrate the start of the Cultural Olympiad and “open up” areas and activities for all.
Further information and programme from The Carlton Theatre, Gallery 8, (on the corner of Teign Street
and Stanley Street) , Regency Style, 31 Regent Street or on the Teignmouth Arts Advisory Group website Related articles
Another year of trekking, travailing and talking through a collection of the county’s art, artists and art studios has come to an end. And from whichever angle we’ve tried to cut it, the whole thing seems to have been quite successful. Here’s just a tiny selection of what we’ve seen. If you’ve got anything you’d like to share about the event - thoughts, pictures and so on, then get in touch.
Sculptor Peter Randall-Page and photography Chris Chapman, whose work documenting the local distinctiveness project makes up the Granite Song exhibition, are in conversation in our final film of the series. Watch and enjoy.
To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.
The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.
The couple of weeks of arts events throughout the county during the Devon Open Studios event, organised by Devon Artists Network are coming to an end. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what the cultural economy is all about in this corner of the world. Take a gander at what Peter Randall-Page has been getting up to with his local distinctivness work that’s collected in Chris Chapman’s photographs Granite Song – the exhibition of which is currently touring schools.
To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.
The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.
It’s worth mentioning, during our Peter Randall-Page week, that the exhibition doing the rounds for Devon Rock year was supported by community arts group Common Ground. The project investigated local distinctiveness and the role of the artist in reflecting and enhancing that.
To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.
The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.
Kate Atkinson’s new novel When Will There Be Good News? features the former police inspector Jackson Brodie from Case Histories and One Good Turn. It begins with a horrific murder of a mother and her two children and comes full circle 30 years on. For me this was her best yet and I particularly liked the twists and turns in the plot and how the very different and engaging characters were gradually introduced, each one connected in some way.
When Will There Be Good News, Kate Atkinson, Transworld, £17.99, 9780385608015
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Leper colonies have a bad press, but when it comes to a celebration of inclusion, diversity and cultural heritage Taddiport makes the most of its historical setting as a Leper colony for a festival of fun, frolics and fancy dress in a wild night which includes a town procession, much music and mild (we are assured) mayhem. The next one takes place in the town on Saturday, September 20, starting with a torchlit procession, at 8pm.
There is also a beggars’ banquet (sausages in cider), all night bands and the Ugly Beauty Pageant.
“It’s more like an Ugly Ugly Pageant,” chuckled organiser and creative powerhouse Shan Miller when she spoke to the PRSD (that’s her above, co-joined through her bee-hive with sister Naomi).
All the post procession partying takes place in the Loft, a three-storey creative arts space which houses the Leper Museum, the Lepa Nightclub and the Faux Arts Gallery.
“Many curious features of the landscape and buildings remain as a testament to those leprous days,” said Shan.
“The Leper Festival is a way of bringing that heritage alive in a fun way, while raising money for the plight of those suffering today.”
The event raises funds for the LEPRA charity, which combats modern-day leprocy.
Apparently, anyone can join in the procession, and you are invited to dress up in 14th Century peasant style, complete with spots and sores. Contact Shan if you need help, but dressing up is optional.
Pop along to the Leper Festival website to find out more, and shuffle off to Taddiport (near Torrington) this weekend for a truly cultural experience – and funky night out, which other than the fund raising, we are led to believe will be free.
Devon Rock is more than just Muse (our less Global Supa-Groops notwithstanding). We caught up with man of Rock Peter Randall-Page talking about Granite Song local distinctiveness work.
It’s part of an exhibition of the photographic documentation by Chris Chapman of the sculptor chipping away at his locality to create unique work for the community.
To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.
The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.
At a loose end this avo? In need of a portrait of yourself – ID cards notwithstanding.
Just pop along to Exeter’s Spacex gallery this afternoon between 4pm and 6pm to have your portrait taken in the mobile studio run by the young artists and find out more about Spacex’s education programme.
It’s all part of a celebration event to mark the end of the photographic exhibition by students of St Peters Church of England Aided School.
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