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  • Devizes Street Festival Day 1; the Inner Workings of DOCA

    Devizes Street Festival Day 1; the Inner Workings of DOCA

    Well okay, there’s a meerkat atop a camal, patrolling him through Devizes Market Place, while girls attired in Victorian strongman leotards heckle the crowds, spoiling for arm wrestling contests.Grown men in pink bunny onesies hop outside the Corn Exchange while Bristol’s riotous transeuropean folk drum n bass agricultural revolutionaries Ushti Baba harmonise beatbox and an… Read more

  • The World Under the Wood; New Family Theatre at The Wharf

    The World under the Wood is a new musical-play for children & family audiences written by Helen Langford, who brought โ€˜Adam & The Gurglewinkโ€™ to the Wharf in 2020….. Jodie meets a magical talking Tree who asks for her help. The wood seems to be dying and Tree thinks the incredible World under the Wood… Read more

  • Devizes Kids to Celebrate Jubilee with Professional Artist

    Devizes Kids to Celebrate Jubilee with Professional Artist

    Featured Image: Gerry Lynch. A historic Devizes church will help local children celebrate the Queenโ€™s Platinum Jubilee by giving them the chance to work with a renowned local artist over the jubilee period.… The parish of St John with St Mary in Devizes has partnered with artist Joanna May and historian David Evans to put… Read more

  • Belthane: Whatโ€™s Happening May Bank Holiday in Wiltshire?

    I donโ€™t want to be the burden of bad news, you can blame my stupid, stupid phone weather app; Friday looks okay, 12% chance of drizzle on Saturday, 50% on Sundayโ€ฆ. But honestly, right, you donโ€™t want to believe that, I donโ€™t trust it one iota and I donโ€™t even know what an iota is.… Read more

  • Bishops Cannings Parish Council Renovate YMCA Memorial

    Bishops Cannings Parish Council Renovate YMCA Memorial

    When I started Devizine I never imagined Iโ€™d be writing about a memorial which looked like a litterbin, but I did, because it did, and it was being used as one. Iโ€™m glad to say little over a year later the memorial has been restored to its former glory by Bishops Cannings Parish Council.…. A… Read more

  • Professor Elemental Booms Trowbridge Town Hall with Raccoons and Cheesemakers

    Professor Elemental Booms Trowbridge Town Hall with Raccoons and Cheesemakers

    Type “smack me” into Google, at your own risk, and third predicted search is “…on the bottom with a woman’s weekly.” Six years since her passing, and over three decades since Victoria Wood first performed the Ballad of Barry and Freda her finest hour is everlastingly. Proof while often pushed into the “novelty” pigeonhole, comical… Read more