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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 ‘Swindon’ 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 [...]
In Appreciation of Steve Jobs and Apple
We couldn’t let the untimely and tragically early death of Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs pass without comment as his vision, which had direct impact on what you’re reading, writes Link magazine publisher Roger Ogle. Most people will know of Apple in its more recent incarnation as creators of beautifully designed and supremely functional mobile [...]
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 Wild Flower Volunteers
The Swindon Wild Flower Nursery is encouraging wildlife into Swindon’s gardens! Anne Billingham, SWFN volunteer co-ordinator writes: Many people want to make provision for wildlife in their gardens. As wildlife habitats continue to disappear under concrete and modern agricultural practices, wildlife gardening is a great way to compensate for habitat loss. One very positive and [...]
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 [...]