This Window - Video

Here is a video featuring a track call 'Tanks Le Lot'  by This Window which appears in the 'Extraction' remix on the album 'Cassette Culture . The images are of an exhibition in the 150 building in West Buckland, Devon.

This Window - 'Cassette Culture': Extraction now on iTunes

I clearly prefer This Window to any other current state of the artmixers that are presently popular. This review is from Stick It In Your Ear a UK fanzine (1990). This Window - Cassette Culture 1989 - 2009  ...

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Goodramgate - The Adventures of Skippy and Jake

Found this on FaceBook. This is a fantastic track - go and listen!

 

Goodramgate by lizzyskippy

The Adventures of Skippy and Jake A little song on their EP 'Portraits'.

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A d v e r t

Art School - Green Hosting

Just another reminder if you live in the Barnstaple area of Devon and you are aged between eight and fourteen or have children within that age group, West Buckland School Art Department are running a comprehensive series of holiday art activities. This offer is open to the general public and not just specifically for the pupils of the school...

Workshop - Veronica Henry

Have you ever wanted to write a novel? A day with best selling novelist Veronica Henry, to learn a few tricks of the trade.

Charity Auction - West Buckland Festival

Lot 6: An intense and stimulating workshop for a group of two or four individuals given by the best selling author of ‘The Beach Hut’. This is a workshop designed to get your creative juices flowing. Read more…

Bidders are invited to make secret, silent bids  –  see details below. You may place an email bid here.

 

The objectives of the West Buckland Festival are to:

 

Provide music, art and entertainment for the purpose of enriching the lives of people in North Devon and raise monies for the upkeep of St Peter's Church, West Buckland and to provide additional funding for another Charity or Charities chosen by the Festival Committee each year.

In 2011, the Festival Committee will make an allocation of surplus funds to the North Devon District Hospital Chemotherapy Unit Appeal, to the PCC of St Peter's Church and to East Buckland and West Buckland Village Hall.

Some 5,000 cancer patients attend North Devon District Hospital each year for chemotherapy. The care and attention are good, but the surroundings aren't. This vital Appeal is to raise £2m+ to create a purpose designed Unit that is comfortable and welcoming. We hope that you will give as generously as possible and support the Festival so that we can give as much as possible to this Appeal.

The Birthday Party
(In Paperback)

Published by Orion 21 July 2011

Delilah Rafferty has lived out her tempestuous marriage to hell-raiser Raf in the full glare of the media spotlight. Now, from the luxurious comfort of her beautiful kitchen, Delilah is planning her birthday party, a night that will see a star-studded gathering of friends and family celebrate in traditional Rafferty style. But she has more on her mind than just invitations...  Raf has been offered a part in a movie he can't refuse. But will that mean he'll succumb to the temptations he's struggled so hard to resist for the last ten years - beautiful women and too much wine? And Delilah's three daughters, Coco, Violet and Tyger, are building careers of their own, only too aware that the press are waiting for them to slip up. For although the Rafferty girls might look like angels, they are only human.

As with all families, there are secrets and rivalries bubbling away, and on one gloriously starry night, it's all going to come spilling out This is your invitation to a birthday party of the year...

Glam yet emotionally astute-a sparky absorbing read which fizzes with life and zip. (MSLEXIA)

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Devon Auction West Buckland Festival 2011

Bidders are invited to make secret, silent email bids from 15th August. You may place an email bid here. We offer a 100% guarantee that no...

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Pictures of an Exhibition

Long Gallery 150 Building, a photo by This Window on Flickr.

View down the long gallery of the Peter Bright Exhibition of Prints, Drawings and Paintings in the 150 Building, West Buckland School Monday 6th June – Friday 1st July (open 0900 to 1600 Mon. to Fri.)

 

I will mail you a postcard of an image that was exhibited recently in an exhibition of mine. I have always loved the idea of Mail Art - the forerunner of the Internet!

Mail art is a worldwide cultural movement that began in the early 1960s and involves sending visual art (but also music, sound art, poetry, etc.) through the international postal system. Mail Art is also known as Postal Art or Correspondence Art. The term networking is often used to describe Mail Art activities, based on the principles of barter and equal one-to-one collaboration.

After a peak in popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Mail Art phenomenon has gradually migrated to the Internet, whose “social networks” were largely anticipated and predicted by the interactive processes of postal collaborations. Nevertheless, Mail Art is still practiced in the new Millennium by a loose planetary community involving thousands of mailartists from the most varied backgrounds.

Mail art. (2011, June 5). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 09:11, June 10, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mail_art&oldid=432628954

To receive your postcard click the button below - the £1.00 is to cover postage etc.

There is a good article about the exhibition in The North Devon Journal:

'BOLD and arresting artwork will catch the eye at West Buckland School this month. The striking exhibition of prints, drawings and paintings is by Woolacombe artist, Peter Bright.

In it, Peter revisits images and ideas from his past and re-execute them in print and paint.

A picture of the astronaut inspired the paintings on canvases, on the theme of, 'What Happened To The Space Age?' Read more...

Beauty and the Beast - painting 2011 a painting by This Window (aka Peter Bright). What is the relationship between the woman and the ape? Who is the beast? ...