FORMER Foreign Secretary David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, is heading an online panel discussion examining the impacts of Covid-19 on developing countries. The event on Thursday 2nd July is being hosted by BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet. Others taking part are film-maker Waad al-Kateab, Dr Hamza al-Kateab, Syrian doctor and director…
IT is brave to open a new business in the middle of the pandemic – but Carlee Wakefield hopes that it is the right time for her new Warminster town centre shop, Iris and Olive. She is focusing on products that are sustainable, many by makers and artisans from the south and west, plus selected…
THE future of any performing arts events or arts of literary festivals taking place this year is hanging in the balance. But the organisers of Wells Festival of Literature, are taking an optimistic view and have announced one of their big names for this year’s event, scheduled to take place from 16th to 24th October….
ONE of the new names on the literary festival scene this year, Vicarious Festival, celebrating travel literature and photography festival, has been postponed to autumn 2021. Festival directors EmmaLucy Cole and Iain Harper say: “When the festival was conceived last year, we couldn’t have imagined the way the world was about to change or how…
SALISBURY Cathedral has launched a special 2020 community project, inviting people to take part in the virtual premiere of The Salisbury Anthem, an online choral event marking the 800th anniversary of the founding of Salisbury Cathedral. The Salisbury Anthem is a song for the Cathedral and the city of Salisbury and the aim, says a…
YOU may be stuck at home, in Covid-19 bondage, but there are exciting literary adventures to be found at an imaginative new virtual literary festival founded by Somerset-born writer Georgie Codd, the author of the critically acclaimed, newly published We Swim To The Shark. Georgie, with writer friends and book-lovers, and the support of Wasafari magazine,…
THE adventurous Bournemouth Emerging Arts Festival, which inevitably had to postpone its live events, is continuing to support local artists and businesses, sharing their various creative and charity efforts through its new BEAF Stew newsletter. The aim of the weekly newsletter is to report good news, creative campaigns and workshops and activities online. The first…
BEST-selling authors including Sarah Perry and Clare Pooley, Costa Children’s Award-winner Jasbinder Bilan and debut writers from around the world will be taking part in BookBound 2020, the first-ever anti-viral literary festival, running online from Monday 27th April to Sunday 3rd May. The seven-day celebration of the written word is the brainchild of Somerset-born Georgie…
AN experienced public relations consultant has written her first book, aimed at helping people to understand what PR is and how it can help their business or organisation. Gloucestershire-based Andrea Sexton has nearly 15 years experience in PR and has launched What the H*ll is PR Anyway? to help business owners and entrepreneurs understand how…
ONCE upon a time, there was a wonderful storyteller called Michele O’Brien, and she had a magical idea to help parents and children in this difficult time. Michele is inviting young children to “sleep tight with Sunday night bedtime stories” from the Facebook pages of Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre. Starting this week, Sunday 12th, with…