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MUSIC & ART March to June Wildwood Arts Exhibitions

Organising exhibitions during lockdown is difficult. However, Wildwood Arts will be holding a ‘shared exhibition’, combining a joint exhibition of Michael Hill and Shirley Kirkcaldy’s work, together with the annual Spring Exhibition. A ‘Shared Perspective’ brings together the works of Michael Hill and Shirley Kirkcaldy, in an exciting collaboration that promises a fascinating insight. With their individual styles bridging the gap between abstraction and realism, they both remain authentic to their subject matter, focusing on the mood it evokes and their unique perspectives. From seascapes to landscapes, painted in oil and mixed media, the exhibition will encompass the true essence and energy of the southwest

Michael Hill - Evening Stroll Michael Moss - Sea Trout

environment: its changing light, alternative weather conditions and different yet common viewpoints. The Spring Exhibition will comprise of Wildwood artists and an array of work bringing the promise of brighter times, with a spectrum of colours representing the South West and spring. The exhibition catalogue and virtual exhibitions can be viewed online at www. wildwoodartsdartmoor.co.uk from March 6th until June, or in the gallery should Covid-19 restrictions be lifted. You can also find details of all our artists and their work on the website. In addition, Wildwood is offering a ‘click and collect’ or local delivery service.

A Shared Perspective & Spring Exhibition: March 6th 2021

Featuring new work from Michael Hill & Shirley Kirkcaldy and other Wildwood artists. View on-line from 06/03/2021 at: www.wildwoodartsdartmoor.co.uk

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Funding lifeline for cinema independent cinema in Plymouth and the surrounding area,’ he said. ‘We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all Plymouth Arts Cinema was awarded more than £45,000 those in our community who continue to support us through the Government’s £1.57billion Culture through thick and thin.’ Recovery Fund at the end of last year, helping the Cinemas will be able to apply for another £14 million in cinema operate through to March 2021. grants in the new year as part of the second round of the It’s one of more than 200 independent cinemas across Culture Recovery Fund. England being supported through the fund. Anna Navas, director and fi lm programmer, Plymouth Arts Cinema, said: ‘Plymouth Arts Cinema is a long established beacon for culture in Plymouth, and the whole team is incredibly relieved and grateful for this investment, and pleased that independent cinemas have been recognised by the UK government as cultural lifelines for the communities that we serve. ‘We re-opened in September to sellout (socially distanced) screenings, welcoming not only familiar faces but brand new audiences through the door. After such a diffi cult and uncertain year, there is nothing like the sense of occasion, communality, and boost to mental wellbeing that is gained from coming together to escape into a story on the big screen.’ Prof Andrew Brewerton, trustees’ chair, said the grant of £47,419 was a signifi cant outcome for Plymouth Arts Cinema. ‘PAC is the home address for people who love

When life returns to normal... children’s or grandchildren’s Maths school work! Maybe the question is, what will we now choose to learn for our own enjoyment and fulfi lment and to boost our health and When watching TV programmes produced in the pre- mental well-being? Covid 19 era, do you do a double take and wonder why With not a note sung in any of the four planned the actors are taking such risks, standing so close to each performances in Plymouth Philharmonic Choir’s 50th other without wearing masks? It’s just beginning to dawn Anniversary Year, how is it that they have recruited new on me that we have all of this, but in reverse, to look members in recent months? Small acts of kindness have forward to in 2021! kept spirits buoyant and further strengthened the bonds What else is there to look forward to? Is your diary of support and camaraderie. Projects such as a Desert decidedly empty and did you even give New Year Island Discs series, a recording of a new version of The resolutions a second thought? With the roll out of the Twelve Days of Christmas and an online Carol Concert largest vaccination programme in the history of mankind have enabled members to share their love of music. While it’s time to dare to think about picking up our lives. The they don’t yet know when or what they will be singing, question is, do we want to ‘pick up’ from where we left the choir is nonetheless excited about the prospect of things in March 2020? In the race to be able to shop performing beautiful music with the exhilaration and till we drop, to meet friends in one another’s homes and sense of achievement that comes from this. ‘party like it’s 1999’, will we forget the joy we found in the To be part of their even more joyous 51st Year small things that previously we were too busy to notice, celebrations, why not consider joining this choir? For those things that got us through the dark times of 2020? further details please contact membership secretary Pat We’ve been challenged, to say the least, but we’ve learned Brodie on ✆ 01752 330337 or pat.brodie@outlook.com new skills and have adapted. We have become adept at or see their website www.plymouthphilchoir.org internet shopping, Zoom meetings and fi guring out our Mary Johnson - Plymouth Philharmonic Choir

Discover ancient sites at Burrator Reservoir

By local historian Paul Rendell

Clapper Bridge across the Devonport Leat

START: Norsworthy Bridge car park, SX 569 692, far end of Burrator Reservoir DISTANCE: Approximately 4 miles TIME: Approximately 2 hours

A circular walk in woods and open moorland - can be muddy and wet a er heavy rain.

With your back to Norsworthy Bridge, take the stony track up the hill in front of you. The track soon forks, go left and follow the track which is above the River Meavy. Soon you will see a stile over the fence on the left, if you go across and head down beside the river, you will see the remains of a tinner’s mill. Many years ago they would have crushed tin within this building. Carry on the track and you will reach Leather Tor Bridge crossing the river. Do not cross over but carry on the same track and where it forks again, keep left beside the river. Keep going along this track until you come out of the woods and on to open moors, with Black Tor in front of you. The wide track now disappears and you follow a small path which at fi rst takes you away from the river and then takes you back again. Now follow one of the small paths, keeping the River Meavy to your right and make your way over the rough ground. The piles of rocks are known as tin streaming, where miners would search for tin in the river bed, possibly in the 13th century. It can be a little boggy in places. You will soon reach a bank, climb this and you will fi nd yourself beside the Devonport Leat, which was built in the late 1700s as a water supply to Plymouth Dock, now known as Devonport Dockyard. Cross over the leat and turn left, walking across the viaduct with the River Meavy below. You should follow this man-made water course until you reach a gate into the woods. Just outside of the woods and to the left lie the ruins of Stanlake Farm. A dwelling place here was fi rst recorded in 1281 and this building was last lived in during the 1920s. The farm was abandoned due to the building of Burrator Reservoir, as the pollution from the humans and animals was going into the reservoir - eventually all the farms here had to be to abandoned. Go through the gate and keep following the leat. When you reach a granite seat on the other side of the leat, you should also see a fi nger post on this side and a clapper bridge over the leat. Turn left and follow the wide track down through the woods. After a while you will reach the ruins of Leather Tor Farm. There

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are records of a farm being here in 1511 - by the early 1800s, there were two farmsteads here, East and West. It closed down in 1924 and the tenants moved to live in nearby Walkhampton. After reading the information board, climb the stile and turn left downhill and you will see a big hole in the hillside, this was a potato cave. The local farmer would store his root crops such as swede and potatoes here, which were grown in the fi elds during the winter months. At one time the cave would have had a gate across it. Now go back up the hill, past the stile you have just crossed and follow this track until you see a gate on the left into the woods, it is a little hidden. Go through the gate and follow the path through the conifer plantation and through the bottom gate and turn left on to the road back to Norsworthy Bridge. n

Start: Norsworthy Bridge car park

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DARTMOOR GUIDED WALKS

with with

Enjoy a guided walk with local historian Paul Rendell. Theme walks include wildfl owers, history and longer walks. 01837 54727 • paul.dartmoor@gmail.com www.paulrendelldartmoor.co.uk

Dartmoor Leats

Showcasing human ingenuity

By Rosemary Best and Keith Ryan (Dartmoor Preservation Society)