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  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 2nd- 8th May 2023

    Whoa, decided today, Thursday, Iโ€™d have to start planning this one immediately, because thereโ€™s soooo much going on, and all, or mostly all, because of that King bloke, who I just thought had a pop hit in 1984 with โ€œLove & Pride,โ€ but apparently itโ€™s a smidgen more complex than that, the guy is royalty… Read more

  • Chippenhamโ€™s Forbidden Carnival Gallery

    Chippenhamโ€™s Forbidden Carnival Gallery

    Next week Chippenhamโ€™s finest alternative artist Si Griffiths sees his hard work paid off as he opens his gallery at 64a Market Place. The Forbidden Carnival studio and gallery will be something the like Chippenham has never seen, except of course when Si has previously exhibited with friends at the Yelde Hall with an annual… Read more

  • Carsick Pump It!

    Carsick Pump It!

    By Ben Niamor (with Devizine edits) This evening Iโ€™ve been reminded of a different feeling, something missing in recent years; noisy, energetic, bordering madnessโ€ฆ.. Youthful bands with something to say, a truly incredible gig. Sheer Music Presents Carsick at Trowbridge’s Pump, with Devizes own Nothing rhymes with Orange, and first out Meg, from Trowbridge. Meg… Read more

  • Devizes Gearing Up For Street Festival

    Less than a month away now until the best day out in Devizes, our International Street Festival; whoโ€™s overexcited, who wants to know whatโ€™s happening there, and who just wants to get bladdered?! Previous DOCA artistic director Loz Samuals set the bar pretty high, the new DOCA team have a lot to live up to,… Read more

  • Girls Like That: Wharf Youth Theatre Group in Bold Reality-Driven Drama

    Girls Like That: Wharf Youth Theatre Group in Bold Reality-Driven Drama

    As part of our ongoing series exploring youths in our area doing good, to backwash this current trend by local media to sensationalise only the wayward minority for clickbait, I wanted to draw your attention to the final performance on the summer season programme at the fabulous Wharf Theatre in Devizes, โ€œGirls Like That.โ€ Under… Read more

  • Bournemouth Writing Festival 2023

    Bournemouth Writing Festival 2023

    A festival goerโ€™s perspective Helen Edwardsย  A first. A first for Bournemouth and a first for me.ย  The event, brain (and heart) child of Ildiko SpinFisher and Dominic Wong ran from last Friday 21st April to Sunday 23rd April (aptly Shakespeareโ€™s birthday)…. Amongst the team of organisers was Anna Farthing who used her prior experience, of… Read more