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Name: Totnes Women’s War Work and Totnes V.A.D Hospitals.
Start: 2018-7-3T00-00-00-00
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Passport to Totnes

Jonathan Cooper has achieved worldwide fame... for both himself and Totnes in just a few days. And Totnes Pulse can never let an opportunity to stand in the reflected light of glory pass, so we just had to meet up with him, Molly the dog and Kevin Childs. Before we ...
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Welcome to your new community magazine. This is the start of an exciting project that aims to inform, entertain and maybe even ruffle a few feathers, dedicated to Totnes and surrounding villages. Mark El-Kadhi founded the site previously and Peter Shearn has now joined forces with him and together with ...
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Totnes Women’s War Work and Totnes V.A.D Hospitals. Totnes Museum 70 Fore Street

tue03julAll DayTotnes Women’s War Work and Totnes V.A.D Hospitals.

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To commemorate the end of WW1 an exhibition has been created to demonstrate Totnes Women’s War Work and Totnes V.A.D Hospitals. Curated by Sue King and Jill Drysdale of Totnes

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To commemorate the end of WW1 an exhibition has been created to demonstrate Totnes Women’s War Work and Totnes V.A.D Hospitals. Curated by Sue King and Jill Drysdale of Totnes Museum Archive.

Exhibition runs until Friday 28th September
open 10.00am until 4.00pm – Tuesday to Friday

Time

July 3 (Tuesday)

Location

Totnes Museum

70 Fore Street

Totnes Museum70 Fore StreetWhat will you want to see? Our amazing medieval kitchen? Our resident ghost? Our spiral staircase made from a ship's mast? Or is it Totnes' illustrious son, Charles Babbage, who invented the first mechanical computer? Whatever your interest in history, the Totnes Elizabethan House & Museum is a fascinating place to spend of few hours of your time.

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illuminate. Space Dartington Hall

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Abstract paintings by Arts Lab’s Sara Downham-Lotto made with, for and about music. Sara says: It’s important for my art to engage audiences in ways that

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Abstract paintings by Arts Lab’s Sara Downham-Lotto made with, for and about music.

Sara says:

It’s important for my art to engage audiences in ways that take them away from the ordinary and every day. Shining a light on hope and difference, simple beauty is one way of making this connection. My approach is direct, honest and accessible. Through a personally evolved technique using collage and recycled paintings and focusing on colour and pattern, I try to create something fun, new and intriguing in each work.

Having had an early training in classical music in the eighties (French horn with Julian Baker of the RCM and Royal Opera) and subsequently studied Fine Art, my practice has always had a deep connection with music. Not only is there this recognition of shared values of the arts in instilling something of the transcendental. But more specifically, and very basically, the language is the same. If my paintings don’t carefully consider nuance, contrast, rhythm and soul, then they have failed, just as listening to a piece of music or watching a film which does too much of one and not enough of the other would be boring.

The paintings in this exhibition all have a direct connection with music: intuitively responding to a Bach fugue or a Mahler symphony; incorporating in text what a musician might have written or said about his practice; sharing some of the formal values of what makes a good piece of work for both eyes and ears. My process is free and intuitive, starting quickly and becoming increasingly slow and deliberate as the piece comes closer to completion. I am entirely at home deconstructing, cutting up, scratching into and painting over in order to reconstruct and build back up to a harmonious whole.

Time

July 27 (Friday)

Location

Space

Dartington Hall

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whitespaceart Summer Exhibition whitespaceart White Space Art - Totnes 72 Fore Street Totnes Devon TQ9 5RU

sat28julwhitespaceart Summer Exhibition

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Artists Featured Sarah Bowman Vanessa Bowman David Brayne

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Artists Featured

Time

July 28 (Saturday) 1:00 am

Location

whitespaceart

White Space Art - Totnes 72 Fore Street Totnes Devon TQ9 5RU

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Incredibles 2 The Barn Cinema Dartington Hall

fri03augAll DayIncredibles 2Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Huck Milner, Samuel L. Jackson, Bob Odenkirk, Catherine Keener, Isabella Rossellini

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Everyone’s favourite superhero family is back. This time Helen (Holly Hunter) is in the spotlight, leaving Bob (Craig T. Nelson) at home with

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Everyone’s favourite superhero family is back. This time Helen (Holly Hunter) is in the spotlight, leaving Bob (Craig T. Nelson) at home with Violet, Dash and baby Jack-Jack to navigate the day-to-day heroics of “normal” life.

This time Helen (Holly Hunter) is in the spotlight, leaving Bob (Craig T. Nelson) at home with Violet, Dash and baby Jack-Jack to navigate the day-to-day heroics of “normal” life. When a new villain hatches a brilliant and dangerous plot, the family and Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson) must find a way to work together again. But it’s easier said than done – even when they’re all incredible. Brad Bird’s (Iron Giant, Ratatouille) follow-up to The Incredibles is as witty, heartfelt and engrossing as the original.

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Time

August 3 (Friday)

Location

The Barn Cinema

Dartington Hall

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Dynamic Adventures - Summer Activities River Dart

sun05augAll DayDynamic Adventures - Summer Activities

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Get ready for a dynamic adventure! Exciting outdoor activities for the whole family, open seven days a week throughout school holidays. Whether

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Get ready for a dynamic adventure! Exciting outdoor activities for the whole family, open seven days a week throughout school holidays.

Whether you’re 6 or 60, you’ll love Dynamic Adventures’ range of exciting outdoor activities: archery, rock-climbing, abseiling, high ropes tree top adventure, 500 foot long zip line, canoe and kayaking all suitable for beginners and beyond. Leave your children with our experienced team of instructors or join in for some family fun.

Dynamic Adventures is a Community Interest Company based next to the River Dart where we run canoe and kayak sessions from our Adventure Centre. The rest of our activities – the 150m zip line (‘Vertigo’), nautical themed high ropes, archery meadow and abseil platform – are based in the old quarry up behind The Shops at Dartington.

We’re open 7 days a week throughout school holidays for fun activities for all the family.

Time

August 5 (Sunday)

Location

River Dart

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Tor to Shore Birdwood House Birdwood House, 44, High Street Totnes TQ9 5SG

mon13augAll DayTor to Shore

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Following last year’s successful “Power of Three” Exhibition at the Artizan Gallery, Torquay, the “Teign Three” artists, Clare

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Following last year’s successful “Power of Three” Exhibition at the Artizan Gallery, Torquay, the “Teign Three” artists, Clare Jenkinson, Alan Gregory and Chris Pitman, present a second exhibition together.

The theme of this year’s exhibition owes much to local poet Alice Oswald’s Dart collection, as they are exploring the life of a river as it flows from source to sea, from Tor to Shore: moorland; river banks; pebble-beds; estuary; cliff-edge; and shoreline. Individually in their work there is often a focus on boats, jetties, the particular buildings that have evolved along the water’s edge, the effects of light on water, sky and sea, and the shapes and patterns that water creates. This joint project brings their different responses to the subject together.

These responses vary from Clare’s expressionistic colourist approach to the subject, which shows a fascination with the reflections created in the water by the surroundings and movement along and through the river, through Alan’s impressionistic explorations of the dramatic interactions between sky and landscape, through to Chris’s “painterly realist” style with it’s particular interests in boats and waterside architecture. These different interpretations of a unified theme should provide interest for art lovers of different persuasions.

Time

august 13 (Monday) - 18 (Saturday)

Location

Birdwood House

Birdwood House, 44, High Street Totnes TQ9 5SG

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Totnes Carnival

mon13augAll DayTotnes CarnivalFun and Games for all the family

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Activities all around the town for summer link to the facebook page

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Activities all around the town for summer

link to the facebook page

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august 13 (Monday) - 19 (Sunday)

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FREE NHS SCREENING FOR MEN. Leatside Surgery Babbage Road, Totnes, TQ9 5JA

thu16augAll DayFREE NHS SCREENING FOR MEN.appointment: call 01803 655 441.

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We visit Totnes every 3 months (sometimes more often) but patients would need to book into a clinic with us. The National AAA

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We visit Totnes every 3 months (sometimes more often) but patients would need to book into a clinic with us.

The National AAA Screening Programme aims to reduce deaths from abdominal aortic aneurysms (also called ‘AAAs’ or ‘Triple As’) through early detection.

What is an abdominal aortic aneurysm?

In some people, as they get older, the wall of the aorta in the abdomen can become weak. It can then start to expand and form what is called an abdominal aortic aneurysm.

The condition is most common in men aged 65 and above.

Large aneurysms are rare but can be very serious. As the wall of the aorta stretches it becomes weaker and can rupture. If this happens, the person usually dies.

Why is screening important?

People who have an aneurysm do not generally notice any symptoms. We offer screening so we can find aneurysms early and monitor or treat them. This greatly reduces the chances of the aneurysm causing serious problems.

Who is invited for screening?

Men in the South Devon area are routinely invited for screening during the year that they turn 65.

If you were born before 1^st January 1944 you may not have been offered screening or you might not have been able to attend when first invited.

Time

All Day (Thursday)

Location

Leatside Surgery

Babbage Road, Totnes, TQ9 5JA

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Bovey Tracey Annual Craft Exhibition Devon Guild of Craftsmen Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9AF

thu16augAll DayBovey Tracey Annual Craft Exhibition

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Every year the craft exhibition showcases the very best in contemporary craftmaking the region has to offer. The summer show is as always a chance for our makers to produce,

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Every year the craft exhibition showcases the very best in contemporary craftmaking the region has to offer. The summer show is as always a chance for our makers to produce, display and sell exciting new work.

Exhibition closes on Sunday 4 September …the last weekend also hosts the Nourish Festival.

Open daily with free entry. 10am-5.30pm

Featured exhibitors this year are: Jennifer Amon, Blandine Anderson, Paul Anderson, Julie Ayton, Eleanor Bartleman, Fabrizia Bazzo, Beverly Beeland, Caroline Biggins, Sue Brown, Ann Bruford, Bruce Chivers, Liz Clay, Adam Cornish, Sue Deakin, Charlotte Duckworth, Nigel Eveleigh, Jill Fanshawe Kato, Jude Freeman, Lucy Gibson, Terry Gilding, Caroline Hall, Jill Holland, Gillie Hoyte Bryom, Laurel Keeley, James Kendrew, Wai Yuk Kennedy, Susan Kinley, Malcolm Law, Mei Lim, Guy Martin, Debby Mason, Sarah Morris, Zsuzsi Morrison, Janine Partington, Sam Pickard, Veronica Polyblank, Ann Powell, Jane Price, Dave Regester, Anita Reynolds, Rosie Sanders, David Savage, Terry Sawle, Louise Scammell, Will Shakespeare, Helen Snell, Jenny Southam, Lin Sproule, Trudie Timlin Brown, Mike Tingle, Susan Towers, Deborah Treliving, Alison Tutcher, Syann Van Niftrik, Steven Whitford, Isabella Whitworth, Taja

Time

August 16 (Thursday)

Location

Devon Guild of Craftsmen

Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9AF

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