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Swindon Wide
PARTY TENT Comedy in the park
SMALL MARQUEE Heartbreak Productions - the UK's premier open-air touring company - returns to the lawnoutside Lydiard
HIRE House with Shakespeare's play of jealousy, lust, greed and confusion, The Comedy of Errors.
Heartbreak director Maddy Kerr promises an exploration of the dark underlying issues - class conflict,
Extend your tensions between husbands and wives, as well the hardship endured by migrant families - within a setting
home of riotous comedy.
into the .» .. Tickets for performances on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 July, 7.30pm from the Link Centre, tel: 445566.
garden
6m x 4m
Celebrating diversity across the town
Great for any special occasion
Four Swindon schools will be working together to discover the town's diverse cultures, thanks to a £10,000
- weddings, birthday parties,
grant from the Barclays Bank New Futures Fund.
anniversaries, events, etc.
The award presented by South be coordinating the activity be- of the work in the different primary
Lights included • Cheap rates
Swindon MP Julia Drown at Drove tween participants said the project schools.
Call 01793 436052 Primary School will be shared by will involve over 2,000 children. Julia Drown welcomed the grant
Drove, Peatmoor Primary, Laines- "The aim is to promote understand- from Barclays. 'This is an innova-
or 07866 570344
mead Primary and Greendown ing across Swindon's communi- tive example of money being made
Community School to pursue the ti es. By 2006 all 69 primary schools to go a long way. The project rec-
project aims. in Swindon will have access to the ognises that diversity is more than
The first phase called 'Looking range of materials produced." tolerance, it's about celebrating
Over 2,500 sq. ft. of from the inside out' will enable a Pupils from Greendown School whateachofourcommunitiesbring
group of ten children from cultur- will be involved in making a video to our town."
products for the A rtist,
ally diverse backgrounds to docu-
Crafter and Student Ajamal Ali from Drove Primary receives the Barclays cheque from Julia
ment, through their own eyes, what Drown, with Amaran Nawaz. Laura Boules and Anita Mander from
D.M.C. Main Agency it is like to be a child of that culture Peatmoor School, Jordan Davies from Lainesmead. Back, Sheila
Daylight Lamps Stockist in Swindon. Parsons. CSV Swindon coordinator and Elaine Arnold Barclays Re-
Picture Framing In the second phase 'Looking gional Community Manager
DIY Framing Supplies from the outside in children from
those cultural groups will look at
Well worth a visit. Try us! the evidence collected by groups
at the other schools and reflect
Framework Art & Craft
and see what has changed in their
63 Pembroke Centre
Cheney Manor Trading Estate initial perceptions. given their new
Swindon SN2 2PQ understanding and knowledge.
Tel/Fax: (01793) 513069 Sheila Parsons, from Commu-
Phone for directions. Parking. nity Service Volunteers, who will
Come rain or shine at
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r °.4.r Arts name lives on in new award

Swindon Arts is no more, but its legacy will continue for the next five
years in the form of an annual award to local artists.
Although in-
Sevenhampton, Nr Highworth, Swindon strumental in
setting up
Tel: 0 1793 763939 Map: www.rovesfarm.co.uk Swindon Arts
Open daily 10.30am - 5pm as an arts part-
nership thir-
* Meet and feed the animals teen years ago,
Swindon Coun-
* Tractor and trailer rides & electric tractors
cil decided to
* Take a stroll around our 7 different nature trails cut its funding.
* Animal racing at weekends Before clos-
ing down in
* Huge big bale straw stack & bouncy castle February. the
* Adventure play area and giant sandpit Swindon Arts Tim Carrel receives the Swindon Arts Maurice Fanning
board set up an
* Largest living willow maze in the world! Award from Murial Goddard. left. former Swindon Arts
award to sup-
* Indoor heated toddlers soft play & sandpit port projects in i director Rosa Matheson and Maurice Fanning. Tim's
exhibition of drawings and paintings made in India are
* Crafty half hour the name of in on display at the Wyvern Theatre until 3 July
c h a i r m a n
* Toddler story time during term time Maurice Fanning. award so that £400 will be avail-
* Granary Tea Rooms - homemade cakes! This year Swindon artist Tim able for a residency in a school or
Carroll was chosen to receive a community setting.
BARN DANCES & WEDDING RECEPTIONS £200 grant. In 2005 Swindon Coun- For details of the Swindon Arts
cil's own arts organisation Swin- Maurice Fanning Award, contact
CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAY PARTIES
don Artscape will contribute to the Celia Yeoman on 466517.