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Dec 2024
West Street Words Festival 2024Wednesday 11 December 2024 - Sunday 15 December 2024 at 12:00 AM
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A brand new festival! This was originally due to happen in October but couldn’t due to the organiser being ill for several weeks.
Mid December is a crazy time to put on a new festival – everyone’s busy, including some of the original line up of authors, speakers and artists – but we thought we woudl give it a go! Please do come along, there are some great events here.
Linney Magic
Saturday 14 December 2024 at 8:00 PM
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Linney Magic is a six-piace band whose style blends dancy rock and roll, spiky pop, smouldering soul and Irish folk, with original songs written by front man Mick Avis and great covers that will keep you dancing all night.
Qow Trio
Tuesday 17 December 2024 at 7:30 PM
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A unique multi-generational jazz band featuring award-winning young firebrand saxophonist Riley Stone Lonergan, British Jazz legend Spike Wells (Tubby Hayes, Bobby Wellins) on drums, and multi-genre bassist and bandleader Eddie Myer.
Martin Shaw's night of Winter Tales
Friday 20 December 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Martin is one of the finest storytellers around – or, as Rowan Williams put it, “A True and Transformative Enchanter”
Lyric Chamber Orchestra: Festive Baroque
Sunday 22 December 2024 at 3:00 PM
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A seasonal programme with music by Bach, Purcell, Vivaldi, Torelli, Pachelbel and Handel
Film: Anatomy of a Fall (15)
Friday 27 December 2024 at 7:30 PM
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A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
Winter Wonderland: an aerial spectacular
Saturday 28 December 2024 at 3:00 PM
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The end-of-year show from the teachers and students of Onyx aerial silks and hoops classes at Ashburton Arts Centre
Not Only But Also The Blues: Vince Lee and the Big Combo / Gigi and the Grits
Monday 30 December 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Our monthly session of blues-inspired music featuring great artists from the UK’s deep south west.
Another great line up of two of the best blues-inspired acts in the South West, curated here on the last Monday of every month by local bass player Mary Caffrey.
New Years Eve Party
Tuesday 31 December 2024 - Wednesday 1 January 2025 at 8:00 PM
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A NIGHT OF DJS & DANCING TO SEE IN 2025
Massive tunes from the 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond
Jan 2025
Film: Fremont (12A)Wednesday 29 January 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Brought to life by the empathetic efforts of a talented cast and further distinguished by striking black-and-white cinematography, Fremont takes a thoughtful – and wryly funny – look at the experience of a translator who emigrates from Afghanistan to the US, trying to build a new life.
Feb 2025
Wurlitza: Sunrise (U) (A Song of two Humans)Saturday 1 February 2025 at 8:00 PM
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FW Murmau’s 1927 Silent film masterpiece with live music soundtrack from Wurlitza’s 5 piece ensemble.
Sunrise (original title: A Tale of Two Humans) is one of the last great silent films, filled with so many wonderful moments which led to it winning the first and only Academy Award for Best Silent Film. Wurlitza adds a live music soundtrack with Bach and Villa Lobos to Talking Heads, Echo and the Bunnymen, Madness and The Vapors. A unique audio and visual feast!
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