Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ 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 [...]
Swindon Music Blog is a winner
The Music Fix is a Swindon-based website which won the Best Blog category at the 2010 BT Digital Music Awards, winning in the “People’s Choice” Best Blog category. The BT Digital Music Awards was established in 2001 to recognise the pioneers in the then fledgling digital and online music industry. The Music Fix was launched [...]
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 [...]
iPhone Cookery App Developed in Swindon
iPhone App developers Systems Test Solutions Ltd based in Swindon together with top Indian chef have released a new app, Vah Reh Vah, with hundreds of video step by step demonstrations of how to prepare authentic Asian food, find out more in our full report on iPhone App built in Swindon. VahRehVah


