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Minis Driving up an Office Building
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Free Samba Workshop on Saturday
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In Appreciation of Steve Jobs and Apple
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Woodvilles 15th Century Re-enactment this Weekend
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Swindon Big Arts Day returns in July
March 23, 2011 10:03
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Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
Minis Driving up an Office Building
Swindon Council planning committee has given permission for the owners of Alexander House to turn the side of their building into the biggest artwork in the town. In a kick start to the regeneration of the town centre a ‘road’ is to be painted up the side of the liftshaft of the stark white office [...]
Free Samba Workshop on Saturday
Swindon community samba band is offering a free samba session this Saturday to celebrate it’s second birthday. The group which was awarded a Swindon Borough Council Grass Roots community grant has gone from strength to strength, click here to read the full story. Swindon Samba is a voluntary run, community band, welcoming anyone from 14 [...]
Woodvilles 15th Century Re-enactment this Weekend
The Woodvilles visit Swindon this weekend on Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 June, 11am to 5pm at Lydiard Park. The Woodvilles are a living history and battle re-enactment group covering the “Wars of the Roses” period. Founded in Hampshire in the early nineties the group now draws members from all over the UK who perform [...]
Swindon Big Arts Day returns in July
After the huge success of The Big Arts Day at Lydiard Park last summer, we are delighted that Culture Swindon are organising another one-day spectacular to take place on Saturday 9 July, writes arts officer Nicola Western. Once again BAD will be a showcase for the very best of the arts in Swindon. Last year [...]
Swindon Festival of Literature 2011
When it’s Spring in Swindon, it’s also the start of the festival season and tickets are now on sale for events at the 18th Swindon Festival of Literature. With its line-up of novelists, poets, politicians, philosophers, scientists, storytellers, sportsmen, historians, comedians, artists and activists, it will put a spring in your step.The festival is a [...]
Toothill Festival in May
A day to bring the Toothill community together will give people a chance to have fun and also to come up with ideas to make the area a better place over the next ten years. The 7 May event, being funded by a national lottery Awards for All grant, takes place in conjunction with Toothill [...]
Lofty Ambition for Book Found in Attic
A Highworth man has just published a book he wrote 30 years ago after finding the manuscript in his attic. Chris Birdsall discovered the forgotten draft for The Zandies, an illustrated children’s book, which he wrote when he was a young journalist in Lancashire, now he has fulfilled a lifetime’s ambition to be an author [...]
Swindon Mayor Launches Photo Competition
At the launch of the Swindon Photographic Society exhibition in West Swindon Library in September, the Mayor of Swindon Rex Barnett congratulated members for their superb entries and expressed envy of their abilities. “There are some fantastic photographs but I really would like to see more images of Swindon,” he said, and with that challenge [...]
Ghost Festival to Haunt Swindon in October
Nobody Believes in Ghosts. Do They? by Diz White Nobody really believes in ghost do they? Surely, they are just a figment of the imagination – a trick of the light. I didn’t believe in them and began work a confirmed skeptic after the editor of The History Press commissioned me write two true-life ghost [...]
Pantomine Final Casting for Peter Pan
The Wyvern Theatre has announced final casting for this year’s spectacular family pantomime, Peter Pan which runs from Saturday 11 December till Sunday 9 January. Star of stage and screen Paul Nicholas will lead the cast as Captain Hook. Paul became a household name with his role as Vince in the BAFTA Award-winning BBC television [...]