West Country Culture Newswire Archive

The Bristolian, one of the country's longest-running independent local newspapers, has just published its 100th issue. Download it here. Read more >>

A concert for Palestine in Swansea Read more >>

A number of Bristol based groups/collectives will be participating in the independently organised events running parallel to the main ESF in London later this week, starting on Wednesday 13 October and finishing on Sunday 17. Read more | 1 comment >>

Hightlighting threat to Penzance's Lighthouse Centre museum following threat by Trinity House to move exhibits to Plymouth Dome "interactive" centre. The Centre is housed in a former lighthouse repair depot on Penzance quayside - built of Cornish granite and redolent with lighthouse/lightship history; the Centre, it's exhibits and staff form a unique record of maritime history that should remain in Cornwall. Read more >>

Bristle magazine benefit – in Bath on Fri 3 September
Bristle mag is delighted to present live P.A.I.N (Propaganda and Information Network), the legendary agit-prop ska-punksters, plus the Positive Vibration Sound System DJ’s, at a night of maverick merrymaking in Bath. Bring yer dancing shoes! Read more >>

With rain widespread before the solstice and a bad forecast, the number at this year's 'managed access' solstice celebration at Stonehenge (approx 21,000) was down by between one third to one half of the previous year. It still rocked though, and the issues remain as relevant today as they were ten or twenty years ago... Read more | 10 comments >>

Next weekend (24th-25th April, 2004) there's gonna be a national gathering of the Dissent! Network in Manchester. The Network, formed last autumn to co-ordinate radical resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit in the UK, and capitalism in general, is ope to all who subscribe to the Peoples' Global Action (PGA) Hallmarks (see: www.agp.org). If you want to attend the gathering PLEASE send confirmation to:  g8gathering@yahoo.co.uk saying when you're arriveing (Fri/Sat), how many people you are and if you require accommodation. PLEASE DO THIS ASAP!!!! Read more | 2 comments >>

An open invitation to laugh in the face of doom and have a dance before the storm of global capitalism.
Bring what you expect to find: live music, lights, juggling skills, climbing workshops, love and talents.

Blackwood woods, (protest site), Blackwood, south Wales Read more | 2 comments >>

We've moved this page to https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/westcountry/static/video.html#list in order to make it more practical to keep up to date. Read more >>

Bristol Music Mentoring is a new youth music project being run by the Youth Music Action Zone under the Remix banner. It will provide aspiring teenage musicians with FREE access to advice, coaching and tuition from Music Industry Professionals. Participants will also have access to recording studios and the opportunity to gain experience in related areas such as engineering, journalism, management and production.

The Project will be launched at the Victoria Rooms on Queens Road on Wednesday the 22nd of October (7.15pm for 7.30pm) with performances and talks from local musicians and industry workers including the fabulous Jane Taylor.

YMAZ would appreciate any kind of publicity for the Project, particularly publicity in advance of the Launch Night in order to maximise attendance. Teachers, Youth Workers, Press and Musicians are all invited along with all Bristol teenagers who aspire to a career in the music industry.

Programme Contacts:

James Hutchinson (YMAZ) Remix Co-ordinator
 James_Hutchinson@bristol-city.gov.uk 07876795014

Theo Berry (Music Editor, Decode) Volunteer Co-ordinator  theo_berry@yahoo.co.uk 07881408844
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Making Sense: A Rwanda Story is a powerful and moving exhibition that opened this week at Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery and runs until 23 November 2003. Inspired by the artist Helen Wilson's visit to Rwanda in 2002, the exhibiton features large scale paintings, film, poems and music showing the beauty of Rwanda and the resilience of its people in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide that claimed one million lives in 100 days. Read more >>

The Bristol Radical Bookfair is back on again!! Read more >>

Monthly radical bookfairs start in Bristol from September Read more >>

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Photos - report to follow Read more | 1 comment >>

Declare your independence in plymouth... Read more | 1 comment >>

A one hour 'radio' show produced for Independence FROM America Day events... Read more | 2 comments >>

Stonehenge Solstice 2003 Read more | 2 comments >>

Stonehenge Pictures - Sat 21st June 2003

Despite English Heritage opening "on the wrong day" and saying that people would only be allowed into the stones at 2am, a record 27-30,000 people attended the celebration. Read more | 6 comments >>

This article exposes the corporate takeover of this years Glastonbury festival. I found it on the corporate watch website: http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/news/glastonbury.htm Read more | 15 comments >>