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WHAT'S ON AT LINK ARTS LINK ARTS STUDIOS Community Sculptors
Not much this month - USERS GROUP
-Rock Front concert on July The Arts Studios at the Link We look at the three sculptors who
1st, doors open 8.00 pm, tick- Centre have a Users Group have been based in West Swindon and
ets E1.50. which is involved in giving
'Teddy White' in concert on advice and support to the staff view their work.
July 9th [details to be ar- at the Studios. New members The latest of the three sculptors based in West Swindon over
ranged]. Rock Front concert of the group are always wel- the last five years -Julie Livesey - recently returned from a trip
on July 15th and again on July come. For details ring Chris to Portugal to prepare for a four month commission funded by
29th. Humphey on 871212. the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Lisbon based charity that
-Children's Club Summer funds arts and community projects. Here Julie gives some
Fete on July 2nd from 1-4 pm. impressions of her trip.
•Thoughout this month the GWR RADIO MARLBOR- The aeroplane prepared for landing just as I had finished reading the
studios are exhibiting wall OUGH FESTIVAL horoscope page in the paper. Pisces: "The pace of life is a little
hanging ceramic work by lo- On Thursday 7 July at the Arts startling now and as yet another new scheme presents itself, you
have to make a fairly instant decision. The future depends on your
cal potters SANDRA CU FIT IS Centre in Old Town the Festi- being open to new ideas and new friends. Don't drag your feet too
and DEE HONEYBUN. The val is showing 'BLACKMAIL'. much. Don't fly off the handle because you are feeling insecure. Take
exhibition finishes on 23rd This 1929 classic film directed it quite cautiously."
July. by Alfred Hitchcock, hot Brit- O.K. that seemed clear enough. I had been offered the chance to
-From August 1 stthere will be ish 'talking picture'. Tickets build a public sculpture for Lisbon, that I was about as much as I
an exhibition of photographs £2.00. knew; I needed all the advice I could get.
of the Sudan by MIKE TOY. I was met and taken to the
Gulbenkian Museum for a for-
What is to be done about mal lunch. Endless knives, forks
WYVERN THEATRE The Bathers? Ideas invited and waiters. So started a week
C-Atatest EaawuA
l( full of food and wine, and very
The regular damage that takes late nights.
THE MEDITERRANEAN is the place to Jon Buck's unusual Lisbon is a beautiful city, small
theme of a series of classical sculptures in Westlea Park is enough for you to quickly feel at
music concerts starting on 23rd causing some people to think ease and to find your way
September at the Wyvern The- about moving them. around. I liked the cluttered
atre which lasts well into 1989. The sculptures of three larger narrow streets and the sense of
The series, sponsored for the than life-sized figures clad in age that the buildings have, mel-
third year by the Nationwide swimming costumes entitled low and sun scorched.
Anglia Building Society, features 'Looking to the future' were On about day four I was taken
music by composers influenced made by Jon when he was West to Lisnave, the shipyard where I
by the Mediterranean. Pieces Swindon's first sculptors in resi- am to build my sculpture. I
from Russian composers, dence in 1985. He has returned worked at Swan Hunters ship-
Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de on three occasions to patch up the yard on the Tyne before I came to
Florence and Rimsky-Korsakov's figures who are regular daubed West Swindon but the thrill of
Caprice Espagnole, English com- with paint and have ears and being dwarfed by huge machines
posers, Elgar's Overture in the noses hacked off. Fortunately never diminishes, the towering
South and Berlioz's Harold in Italy they cannot be moved as the cranes piercing the sky and at
display the attraction the Medi- glass fibre figures are filled with Lisnave the world's largest dry
terranean has held for composers concrete and pinned to the spe- dock.
from all walks of life. cially constructed staging on I felt accepted by the shipyard
The series welcomes for the which they sit. workers. They showed no sur-
first time The Philharmonia of The defaced figure of a bather Commenting on the damage prise at the proposition of a
Bristol and the Seranata of Lon- Thamesdown's visual arts offi- woman sculptor working
don. The Gabrieli String Quartet The classical music brochure is cer Alistair Snow said that it was amongst them. I was given a
returns with the brilliant An- available from the Wyvern The- very disappointing that the boiler suit with LISNAVE
thony Pay and the Wyvern The- atre and tickets for individual sculptures were damaged so printed on the back like the men,
atre is very excited to bring the concerts or the whole series are regularly, especially now that steel capped boots, a lightweight
Moscow String Orchestra to its available from the Box Office, they were beginning to blend in welding kit and an office with
stage. telephone: Swindon 24481. with the scenery as adjacent shower room.
shrub planting matures. Perhaps my glass of 117 year
The 1988/89 Classical Music Series in "1 think Jon is beginning to old port should be remembered
association with Nationwide Anglia Building Society think that we should try to find as a highlight of my visit; nice,
THE MEDITERRANEAN another, safer site for The Bath- but perhaps wasted on me as I
ers. I would hope that we can don't know much about wine.
A fiesta of superb musicianship to wet the appetite find somewhere in West Swin- I enjoyed the people much
of those looking for the best in don as they were created in and more. I met lots of sculptors who
Classical Music. specifically for the area. A lot of work mostly in marble and they
Verdi, Bocherini, Corelli, Respighi, people find them both unusual entertained me long into the
and interesting; children adore evenings.
Vivaldi, De Falla and many more
climbing all over them." When alone I visited the
SUBSCRIBE NOW Alistair Snow would welcome Lisbon's botanic gardens which
And Soak Up The Atmosphere. comments. He can be contacted are huge and hardly seemed
Subscription ends on Friday 23rd September. at Thamesdown Council's Joliffe used. The plants are exotic from
Studios, Theatre Square, Swin- Africa and South America and it
WYVERN THEATRE don, tel: 26161. Alternatively, was odd to see north European
The Link would welcome read- plants looking frail and unhappy
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ers views on where The Bathers in the sun, longing for rain and
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