The cash-strapped Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust, which has manages to combine heritage, environmental awareness, education, creativity and fun, has got a heap loads on offer for half term, which started today with a Creative Family Workshop with SPARC. Tomorrow, there’s nest box making. There are events throughout the week, here’s the rundown
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 We’ve joined forces with the Ashburton environmental publisher Green Books to give subscribers to the People’s Republic of South Devon newsletter a special discount on two important environmental books. Disposable People combines eight Magnum Photojournalists in an exhibition that looks at Contemporary Global Slavery through the eyes of a lens. Photographer Jenny Steer investigates posted by Cptn Who doesn’t need insurance, funding and professional development? AIR Time 09, a free meeting for visual and applied artists from the South West, will offer some kinda guidance on this and how to locate like other like-minded artists (psst, they’re probably at the same event). It will take place at Plymouth posted by Cptn A series of conversation events about services and support for parents and carers of children with special needs starts today in Exeter. 1 comment - ()Le Chat Noir are famed for their live energy and their lusciously dark, killer tunes. We caught up with Dartmoor’s rockin’est duo to find out more about their style, their sound and their story posted by Cptn The Torbay Acting Factory is on the look-out for some budding new talent from the Bay and will be holding open auditions on Saturday, January 10 for young people aged between six and 18 to join the factory. posted by Cptn If you fancy braving the weather for a bundle full of laughs, head over the The B-bar at Plymouth’s Barbican for the first of this year’s monthly comedy nights tonight. The Ways with Words literary people are looking to appoint an office manager / PA to the directors. The current office manager is moving on to other exciting things and will be leaving them after the Words by the Water festival at the beginning of March. The position is for four days a week Confused over Christmas presents? Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop offers her book picks of the year, so you can look thoughtful and erudite when you hand over your book -shaped package. Will Beedle the Bard, by JK Rowling, be filling up your Christmas stocking? Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases. Chasing Windmills by Catherine Ryan Hyde is a totally enchanting story of a chance meeting on a train of two young people. Sebastian has a domineering and possessive father, Maria a violent boyfriend and two little children. Each sees in the other something to Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases. Living by the sea is the perfect excuse to cook fish so the 200 recipes contained in Fish by Tom Aikens should give plenty of practice. Packed with mouthwatering photographs and well explained instructions the dishes range from the basic to the truly special. Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases. Anne Zouroudi’s The Taint of Midas is the second in her series The Mysteries of the Greek Detective. Each novel deals with one of the seven deadly sins, Greed in this case, and each one is set on a different island. Her detective, the Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases. I was really impressed with Kate Furnivall’s first novel, The Russian Concubine, and equally with her second, Under a Blood Red Sky. Anna and Sofia are two friends struggling to survive in a women’s labour camp in Siberia in 1933. Although their lives are |
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