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Music Exhibitions
Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th Friday 31 July to Friday 7 August,
Swindon Shuffle ‘09. 60 bands, 11 10am to 6pm
stages. www.swindonshuffle.co.uk Hab Housing plans of the Triangle
development in Rodbourne. Oxford
Unfortunate Hero
at the Shuffle Brookes campus, Ferndale Road
Until Saturday 15th, Wednesday
to Friday 11am to 4pm, Saturday
11am to 5pm
Mask. Concealment, facade, pro-
tection, decoration, magic, theatre,
fantasy, pretence, revelation character.
The Post Modern Gallery, Theatre
Saturday 8th, doors 6pm, on stage Square
from 8pm Saturday 1st to Saturday 15th
KingPleasure & The Biscuit Boys. Swindon Photographic Society
Rough, tough and always rocking, the Exhibition. West Swindon Library
most authentic rhythm and blues band.
Advance tickets from Arts Centre or Throughout August
Swindon Information Centre: adults Views of Rome - Drawings by Tim
£12, family £30, children £5; on the Carroll. Free. Arts Centre
door: adults £14, family £32, children Until 5 September
£5. Old Town Bowl Necessary Pots. Ceramics by art-
Saturday 15th ists with strong links with the west
Pigstock. Local bands Breeze, Boy country, such as David Leach, Hans
Done Good and Cheese House Band. Coper, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie
Hog roast and barbecue. £5 entry. The and Michael Cardew. Free. Swindon
Royal Oak, Bishopstone. For details Museum & Art Gallery
call 790481 Until Sunday 1 November
Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd Hands-on, Hard Work! Rare plans,
Festival on the Farm. Three days, documents and photographs tell the
two nights, 20 bands. Buy tickets at story of Lydiard House’s staff, servants
www.festivalonthe farm.co.uk. Purton and estate workers. Normal admission
House, tel: 772999 applies. Lydiard House
Thursday 27th & Friday 28th, Until January 2010
7.30pm; Saturday 29th, 2.30pm & Presentation of Self. Portraits which
7.30pm; Sunday 30th, 1pm & 5pm conceal and reveal the nature of artists
Boogie Nights. Wyvern Summer and their subjects, including works by
Youth Project. See the advert on page Lucian Freud, Gilbert and George and
21. £10 - £12. Wyvern Steven Pippin. Free. Swindon Museum
& Art Gallery
Dance
Monday 3rd to Friday 7th Film
It’s a Family Affair. A fun-filled week Friday 14th to Sunday 16th
of dance activity for 4 to 11 year olds PhantasmaGoria Film Festival A
that mums, dads and older siblings weekend of the best in modern horror,
can join in too. fantasy, sci-fi and action films by the
Think Disco. Lindy Hop mixed with world’s top talent. Individual tickets
dance from the silver screen. Skedad- and whole festival passes available
dle Dance lead three days of dance from Arts Centre
through the decades from the 30s, 40s
& 70s for 8 to 11 year olds. Venues
Morris Mayhem On Thursday 6th Arts Centre Devizes Road.
learn to jig, caper and hornpipe with Tel: 614837
a twist of funky street/morris fusion. Lydiard House, Lydiard Park
For boys aged 8+ with their dads, Tel: 770401
older brothers or other male family Roves Farm Sevenhampton,
member. Nr Highworth. Tel: 763939
Creative dance and storytelling STEAM Museum of the Great
morning on Friday 7th for 4 to 7 year Western Railway. Kemble Drive.
olds accompanied by an adult. Tel: 466646
A fun sharing of dance from Swindon & Cricklade Railway
throughout the week on Friday 7th, Blunsdon Station. Tel: 771615
2pm. All events take place at Swindon Swindon Dance Regent Circus.
Dance. Call 601700 for details Tel: 601700
Saturday 29th, 3pm to 10.30pm Swindon Information Centre
Swindon Invincible 2009. The ulti- Regent Street. Tel: 530328
mate dance festival with internation- Swindon Museum & Art Gallery
ally known acts supported by local Bath Road. Tel: 466556
talents in the Battle in the Bowl 2. In West Swindon Library Link Centre,
association with Swin City Comics West Swindon. Tel: 465555
and Frequency Wyvern Theatre Tel: 524481
Line up and ticket details: www.swin- Confirm date, time and price
doninvincible.co.uk. with the venue
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