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NorthantsArts: RT @NPtheatre: @ChrisK1906 & @kayleighjhunt hard at work programming our next NTA season! http://t.co/As6oycw0

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:36 AM PDT

NorthantsArts: RT @NPtheatre: @ChrisK1906 & @kayleighjhunt hard at work programming our next NTA season! http://t.co/As6oycw0

International shoe designer Guy West speaks about Jeffery West's 25 anniversary

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:20 PM PDT

"The Northampton factories have always been more traditional in design and we wanted to do something different...we were in our early 20s and the city Oxford just wasn't what we wanted to do. "Our designs have always been fashionable but still using ...
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Northampton Chronicle & Echo

Tributes paid to band member from 1950s

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:52 PM PDT

While other bands in the area were playing big band and dance music, The Rockets were playing popular tunes featuring on radio "hit parade" playlists. The group rapidly became very popular, but was eventually forced to change its name and image, ...
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Northampton Chronicle & Echo

OXDOX Film Festival

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 04:50 AM PDT


FOUR HORSEMEN







7.00pm-9.30pm


The Buszy, 401 Elder Gate, MK9 1LR



 


Opening screening for OXDOX 2012 


Live Panel discussion from the Oxford Union 


Join in with 7 other cinemas around the UK


Director:  Ross Ashcroft


Running Time: 97 minutes


England 2011


Panel Discussion with Megan Murphy,  Investment Banking Correspondent at the Financial Times;  Professor David Vine, Professor of Economics, University of Oxford Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, author of the best-selling book ‘23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism’ and Reader in Politics at Cambridge University; Tarek El Diwany, former trader and head of Islamic Finance Department at Prebon Yaman; 


Category:  Investigative/ Society/ Social Issues/ Politics


The Modern day horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it.  Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled.  Twenty three international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world really works and why there is still some hope in re-establishing a moral and just society.  Four Horsemen doesn’t bash bankers, criticise politicians or get


involved in conspiracy theories.  The film ignites the debate about how we usher a new economic paradigm into the world which would dramatically improve the quality of life for billions.



Tickets are £3.00 each. Book NOW

Work Experience Opportunities at Inter-Action MK

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:22 AM PDT


Are you an Arts student or graduate looking to gain some valuable experience within community arts? Would you like the opportunity to showcase your skills and help create inclusive activities and workshops for disabled or disadvantaged people?


Community arts charity Inter-Action MK needs YOU!!!


We are hosting a four day programme of arts activities and events at the Old Rectory in July 2012, which will celebrate, value and show the richness of people and objects which are often overlooked, discarded or excluded by society. It will be inclusive and provide opportunities for disabled and disadvantaged people of Milton Keynes.  It will promote resourcefulness and demonstrate that one persons rubbish is another persons treasure.  Our cherished festival will not aim for the spectacular, but will rather offer alternative experiences in an intimate environment.


The summer Festival/ Camp will provide professional development training for arts students through a series of volunteer opportunities for those who are interested in developing careers in community arts.  This would be in the form of:



  • 5 volunteer placements for students working on community projects for the event (2 days a week for two months)

  • 5 volunteer opportunities to help run the event (for the duration of the event)


 


All volunteers will camp at the Old Rectory during the event and some travel/additional expenses will be paid.


If you have an idea for an interesting  project relating to the themes of resourcefulness and exclusion and would like to benefit from this fabulous opportunity to lead on your own community project, then please submit your proposal on one side of A4 to the below email address by Thursday 31st May 2012.


If you are interested in working alongside staff to organise and run the event then please contact us  and we will forward you a volunteer application form.


Email: info@interactionmk.org.uk


Telephone: Amy or Emmy on 01908 678514


 

Band of 13 availabe for bookings...

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 07:30 AM PDT


If you would like live music for any event my band of 13 would be only too pleased to accomodate,


we do not charge but would appreciate a small donation...no matter how small. We are an amatuer


(But good amateur} band and have performed at various community events.


Please contact Sylvia    S.MCMATH@sky.com  Hoping that some-one will make use of our talent.

Make songs and see the world and Stony Stratford!

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 11:53 AM PDT


Are you a songwriter?


Local songwriter/performer/activist Dan Plews founded Aortas in 2010 following a successful one-week residential songwriting workshop in Milton Keynes in August 2010, which attracted seventeen people aged 17-69 from seven different countries.


Aortas (which stands for Association for Oral Traditions and Songwriting) recently received a grant to promote and teach Folk Music and Songwriting in partnership with six other countries between 2011 and 2013, bringing local people to five different countries. 

The partnership grant awarded by the EU Grundtvig Programme totals €156,000; the body supports cross-border adult education (or 'life-long-learning') initiatives. The first of the international visits was to Bucharest (Romania) in December 2011, followed more recently by Aarhus (Denmark) in March. This will be followed by trips to Poland, Slovenia, Ireland and Germany. In addition, Aortas is hosting a workshop in Austria in August, and plans several more in the UK over the next twelve months.


Since December 2011, Aortas has been running an Open Mic every Sunday evening at the Bull Hotel in Stony Stratford, and from April 22nd this will be preceded by a song-circle - a learning opportunity for budding and established songwriters who would like to:


- improve their writing;


- write with others;


- teach others;


- perform songs for others to evaluate.


Anyone wishing to be involved can get more information from the Aortas website - www.aortas.org.uk - speak to the organisers at one of their regular meetings - or email dan@aortas.org.uk


 


 


 

<b>Northamptonshire</b> libraries <b>advertising</b> screens plans criticised

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:01 AM PDT

Northamptonshire County Council is to spend £165000 on electronic screens advertising upcoming events in the county's libraries. The council is appealing for bids from companies to supply and maintain the screens, which would be used to "keep readers ...
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Summer on the Nene again

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:59 AM PDT

While many fans across the globe will be familiar with the pseudonym of Northamptonshire-born Denys Watkins-Pitchford – who earned a name for himself as a lover of nature, a children's writer and illustrator – sadly, many still are not.
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Northampton Chronicle & Echo

Speedy railway journey is a video fantasy

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:41 AM PDT

Let's Go To London was inspired by a British Railways promotional film made in 1962, called Let's Go To Birmingham, featuring a journey on the Birmingham Pullman train. Like its predecessor, the new four-minute video is set to the music of Johann ...
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Youngster steps up for prize

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:11 AM PDT

A YOUNG student beat more than 100 other performers to win a prize at a street dance competition. Keyonte Dore, aged 10, who attends Parklands Dance Centre, in Parklands Community Centre, off Devon Way, Northampton, came second in the Midlands Street ...
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Northampton Chronicle & Echo

CreativeNhants: RT @REDROCK___: @UniNorthants Can we get a RT REDROCK are holding a POP-UP shop at the Portfolio Innovation Centre, Avenue Campus: http: ...

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:04 AM PDT

CreativeNhants: RT @REDROCK___: @UniNorthants Can we get a RT REDROCK are holding a POP-UP shop at the Portfolio Innovation Centre, Avenue Campus: http: ...
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