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Baila La Cumbia; Devizes Arts Festival Brings Columbia to the Corn Exchange
Well, Devizes Arts Festival pulled it out of the bag at the Corn Exchange last night with something entirely new and different from usual musical offerings in Devizes…… If Ry Cooder popularised the Cuban styles of son and bolero in the nineties with the Buena Vista Social Club project, since English New Yorker Will Holland, Read more
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Great News for The Devizes Assize Court Trust and Wiltshire Museum
Things are finally looking up for that great redundant building on Devizes’ Northgate Street, the Assize Court. You know you’ve passed it gloomily for decades, recognising its potential and hoping one day it’ll be put to good use…. Twisted in red tape, the charitable Devizes Assize Court Trust bought the building from Kamarran Mahmoud in Read more
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Wiltshire Council & English Heritage Gang Up to Ruin Solstice at Avebury
Morning person by default, I get to see the sunrise every morning, ergo I’ll tell you something you all should know anyway; watching it as a live stream on your phone just doesn’t have the same impact. “You’ve got a window, use it, hippy,” seems to be the ethos of regulations set by Wiltshire Council, Read more
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Weekend Roundup 9th-12th June 2022
Despite all you have to do is scroll our event calendar, I thought I’d make it even easier for you, with a new weekly regular feature rounding up the forthcoming weekends; you’ve never had it so good. Well, you might have, if you’re on Facebook, as I usually post a roundup there, but I figure Read more
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Devizes Church Hosts Play Shining Light on Kids in Care
A historic Devizes church will host a professional theatre company later this month as it performs a play that shines a light on the realities facing children in the care system in Britain today…… My Place is a powerful and moving evening of theatre and conversation, telling the interwoven stories of children – an individual, a Read more
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Chippenham Art Heist
If Devizine was a voyage of discovery to begin with, I still manage to find talented folk hiding in this rural county, but often it’s nice to return to recurring events we’ve featured before…. Like yesterday, I put up a preview for the annual Female of the Species fundraiser, today I paid a worthwhile trip Read more
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