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  • Winter Festival/Christmas/Whatever!

    Winter Festival/Christmas/Whatever!

    This is why I love you, my readers, see?! At the beginning of the week I put out an article highlighting DOCAโ€™s Winter Festival, and included everything else going on in town this coming weekend, as side attractions. It was as well received as ever and no one on its social media shares thought to… Read more

  • Gus White Burbage’s Smithy Art Forgery with Ann Liu Cannon and Esmรฉ White

    Gus White Burbage’s Smithy Art Forgery with Ann Liu Cannon and Esmรฉ White

    Words by Ollie MacKenzie. Featured Image by Barbora Mrazkova.ย  The creative process can be a winding, long, and often confusing journey. Seeing a project come to fruition from scrappy origin to a packaged, marketable, and well-rounded piece of work can feel daunting – or even impossible. It took Gus White six years of honing his… Read more

  • โ€œLarkin with Womenโ€ at the Mission Theatre, Bath, November 25th-29th November.

    by Ian Diddamsimages by Ian Diddams, Mike Stephens and Next Stage Ask people what they know about Philip Larkin, and the general best response may well be โ€œa poetโ€. They may even know he was a librarian at the University of Hull. Some may even know he coined a phrase concerning the effect of oneโ€™s… Read more

  • Devizes Winter Festival This Friday and More!

    Devizes Winter Festival This Friday and More!

    Whoโ€™s ready for walking in the winter wonderland?! Devizes sets to magically transform into a winter wonderland this Friday when The Winter Festival and Lantern Parade opens in the Market Place; excited?! Well, I say magically, it actually takes a lot of hard work to put on; thank you to DOCA and all the volunteers.… Read more

  • The Lost Trades & Half of One at The Hop, Swindon

    The Lost Trades & Half of One at The Hop, Swindon

    One part of Swindon was in perfect harmony last night, and I donโ€™t mean the traffic circumnavigating the Magic Roundabout. Rather The Lost Trades were at the Hop in Old Town, honouring a postponed gig from Septemberโ€ฆ.. SoP Live, who run a regular Thursday night music club at The Castle, plenty of other gigs, and… Read more

  • Snow White Delight: Panto at The Wharf

    Snow White Delight: Panto at The Wharf

    Treated to a sneaky dress rehearsal of this year’s pantomime at Devizesโ€™ one and only Wharf Theatre last night, if forced to sum it up in a word, the word would be โ€œdelightfulโ€ฆ..โ€ With Ian dedicated to all things theatrical here on Devizine, panto is reserved for my tuppence; that has become as much a… Read more