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iWITNESS at Bristol Temple Meads station

A series of stunning black and white photographs depicting refugees, displaced people and the effects of war and famine around the globe was shown at Bristol Temple Meads station in …

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SATSYMPH nominated for PRS Foundation New Music Award 2010

A ‘satellite symphony’ is one of the five entries in the running to win the ambitious PRS for Music Foundation New Music Award. SATSYMPH, uses context-aware media and is a collaboration between south west-based composer and artist Marc Yeats, poet (and concept-originator) Ralph Hoyte and coder Phill Phelps. It is …

Theo Jansen and his assistant put the final touches to the strandbeest

Giant beast sculpture roams the beach at Exmouth

A huge wind powered mechanical animal sculpture will be moving along the beach at Exmouth …

One Day, Two Dawns wins a music award for Cornwall

Music Award for Hall for Cornwall and English Touring Opera

An English Touring Opera project with Hall for Cornwall has won a highly prestigious Royal …

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During the past four years, a number of surveys, audits and studies have reviewed Disability and Deaf Arts in the south west and these have informed the current study. The aim for this piece of work was to get to the heart of what matters for disabled and Deaf artists …

Responses to the Digital Britain interim report

In January 2009, the Government published Digital Britain, a plan to secure Britain’s place at …

Arts Council England, South West's Disability Equality Scheme and Action Plan

On September 18th ACESW's Regional Council ratified our regional Disability Equality Action Plan. This has …

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Speechless

Experiencing non-acceptance and bullying, a pair of identical twins of Caribbean descent withdraw from their social environment. The teenage girls reject any communication with adults and respond only to their own profound and vehement relationship. The affecting true story, based on Marjorie Wallace's bestseller The Silent Twins, eventually assumes a tragic dimension.