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Torbay arts market takes place in Paignton

By PRSD, on Sunday, June 14, 2009 |

If you’re looking for the creative offerings that Torbay and Devon has to offer, to quote the literature, pop along to Creative Torbay’s Arts Market and Creative Happening, which takes place today (Sunday June 14) at the Palace Avenue Gardens, Paignton.

Behind the scenes of the North Devon Art Trek on artsculture site

By PRSD, on Saturday, June 13, 2009 |

Our friends in the north (that’s North Devon) are up to all kinds of crazy art antics. Powerhouse of the North Devon arts scene Stella Levy, who’s organising this year’s Art Trek, June 19-21 and June 26-28, has started a blog over on artsculture.

Culturally homogenized Devon debate over on D+CFilm

By PRSD, on Friday, June 12, 2009 |

A few things over on D+CFilm have caught our eye this week, not least South West Screen’s notion that naming something after a Devon myth alienates people from up-country.

Can you make the world cry with your voice?

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 11, 2009 |

Are you talented Tenor? Dartington International Summer School is looked for one to be the dastard Pinkerton in Madam Buterfly.

Review of Monoprinting Workshop, Plymouth Museum, June 6, 2009

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 11, 2009 |

Picasso, Matisse, Emin… and now, after a Saturday workshop at Plymouth Museum, add Smith to the list of people who have produced monoprints, (although unlike the list of artists before me, income from my efforts wouldn’t even cover the bus fare home).

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The Geoff Clams column: Premiere Time

By PRSD, on Monday, June 8, 2009 | 21 comments - ()

•This is a new regular column on the adventures of Geoff Clams

On an impossibly sunny and happily recent Thursday, it so happened that I caught the local premiere of John Tomkins’ new feature-length movie, Like an Angel, at Torre Abbey’s Spanish barn.