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S ON 11, Purton House Fashion & Fairtrade Express the Spirit of Swindon
^^ G Church End go together Do you have feeling, though is and visions of Swindon that can be
Purton, Swindon summed up in a poem
Immanuel Church, The Swindon Learning Partner- tries should be taken into any Swin-
Tel: 01793 772287 Upham Road, Swindon
ship in association with the Swin- don library. Eight poems will be
Saturday 11 March
don Festival of Literature is looking selected for display as posters
PM w^M . Come & go between for entries to the fourth Spirit of around the town and winners will
6pm and 9pm. /.^ Swindon Poetry Competition. receive a copy of their work and a
^ni .aC .tCes
Craft items, food, The idea of celebrating the town book voucher.
Call for details about our bags. gifts. videos in verse was suggested by former
Organic Box Scheme and models showing South Swindon MP Julia Drown Putting books
off fairly made and and interest in the competition has
Vegetables • Fruit • Meat • Eggs traded garments been growing. on the road
Deliveries & drop off points in Swindon. Tickets on the door It's open to over 16s and the Swindon's Library Service will be
Cirencester. Wootton Bassett. Broad to cover Fairtrade JJ. closing date is Friday 7 April. En- launching a new mobile library later
Hinton, Marlborough. Wroughton
refreshments: £2 in the Spring, illustrated on the
www.purton-house.co.uk Lookout for outside by photographs commis-
adults and £1 thistogo Revisionist Swindon
children during sioned from The Link.
Fairtrade In 1992 John Chandler wrote Swin-
Details from 340895 Be%w, one of the ten,ohotos to be
fortnight in
or 343326 March don Decoded.' the curious history seen on the mobile. Ha/ene Soma/
around US.
Over 2,500 sq. ft. of enjoying library facilities
Now he's extensively rewritten
products for the Artist, Fairtrade speaker the book which offers a fascinating
Crafter and Student Swindon Ocotal Link is hosting a and sympathetic interpretation of
D.M.C. Main Agency agronomist from Nicaragua during this vibrant and rapidly expanding
Fairtrade fortnight. town. He says, °Swindon is often
Daylight Lamps Stockist
Janixce Florian Centeno works maligned or dismissed as merely a
DIY Framing Supplies with women, young people and product of Victorian industry and
& Equipment with the families of small coffee post-war overspill, but it has a re-
producers. She will visit a Swindon markably long and diverse history.
Well wo rth a visit. Try us!
school and also talk with members much of which remains to be un-
Framework Art & Craft of the Swindon Fairtrade Coaltion ravelled by anyone willing to ob-
63 Pembroke Centre and Swindon Churches Together. serve and explore."
Cheney Manor Trading Estate
Details are being finalised but to It costs £7.95 from bookshops
Swindon SN2 2PQ
Tel/Fax: (01793) 513069 be informed of times and venues, and can be borrowed fromSwindon
Phone for directions. Parking. call Lynn Forrester on 463197 or libraries.
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