1. Food
Festival
2. Talking Tent
3. Another World Class restaurant
4. Galleries Week
5. A Prairie Home Companion tonight!
6. Dartmouth in Bloom
7. Candlelit Dartmouth
8. Small News
1. Food Festival
This year's Food Festival was
unanimously voted the best ever! Featuring on television
three times and with live radio coverage from more than
three different stations, the buzz was simply fantastic.
Here are some of the highlights. You can check out the
website by
clicking here.
2.
Talking Tent
Sponsored by The
Royal Castle Hotel, the Talking Tent or as the locals
called it "the Yacking Yurt" was a big success and hosted many
tough questions. A prize of a bottle of Champagne was offered
for any food related question the panel could not answer,
needless to say it wasn't claimed!
3.
Another World Class restaurant
In another Dartmouth News scoop we can announce
that World Class restaurateur Mitch Tonks plans to open in
Dartmouth next March. You can check out their website by
clicking here, they even have a Cod Cast shot in
Dartmouth, click on that and watch with awe! Mitch was at the
Food Festival and these photographs show what he did. The
Dartmouth dot TV crew sampled his food, words cannot describe
the fish. With John Burton-Race and now Mitch Tonks, can
Dartmouth get any better?
4. Galleries Week
Sarah from
Baxters Gallery Foss Street
reports: After the excitement of a fantastic Food Festival, the
next Dartmouth must-visit event is Galleries Week. This Friday
19th October 8 galleries will be opening their doors for the
private views at 6pm. Baxters will be featuring a mixed
exhibition of animals and birds entitled Menagerie. This will
include gallery favourite Catherine Rayner but also several new
artists and ceramicists. Don't miss it!
Simon Drew will be exhibiting Maureen Minchin,
Paul Barclay will be exhibiting
some stunning new works and
Coombe Gallery will be reversing the drain of
artistic talent to London by hosting a graduate show in
Dartmouth.
5. A Prairie Home Companion
tonight!
A film and cast to dazzle and delight - A Prairie Home
Companion is the Film Society's comedy drama for Thursday
18th October. The cast of one of America's most celebrated
radio shows, A Prairie Home Companion, perform for the last
time in front of a live studio audience after the theatre's
manager (Tommy Lee Jones) decides to pull the plug. The
line-up includes regular host Garrison Keillor (playing
himself), the singing Johnson sisters (Meryl Streep and Lily
Tomlin), and cowboy comics Dusty (Woody Harrelson) and Lefty
(John C Reilly). Watching from the sidelines are a security
guard (Kevin Kline) and a mysterious angel of death
(Virginia Madsen).
There's added poignancy surrounding the belated release of
this film as it is Robert Altman’s last before he died last
year.
Guest tickets from the Windjammer £3.50 from 7.30-7.55
Bar at the Guildhall opens at 7.30 - the film to be shown at
8pm approx.
6. Dartmouth in Bloom
Dartmouth in Bloom celebrated their success this week at The
Guildhall. Thanks to Hilary Bastone for the photographs.
7. Candlelit
Dartmouth 14th-16th December
What's it all about? The
weekend will kick-off with a spectacular lantern procession,
lighting up the main shopping streets for an evening of late
night shopping with music and street entertainment –
including a variety of food and drink stalls in Royal Avenue
Gardens.
On Saturday, the town will be host to two seasonal markets,
starting in the morning with the Children's Hospice South
West "Dickens of a Christmas" event in the Old Market.
Later in the day, the Royal Avenue Gardens will also be
transformed for the first time, into a lively Christmas
market. Street entertainers and musicians will again be
performing throughout town with shops and the market in the
Royal Avenue Gardens remaining open into the evening.
Sunday will be a quieter, more reflective day – with events
to match.
Click here for the website.
The Chamber of Trade presented
the group with a cheque for £2,000 which will be matched by
the Town Council. Shown here is ex-Chairman Dave Cawley
handing the cheque over at the Dartmouth Chamber of Trade
AGM. To find out more about the Chamber of Trade
click here
.
18th
October 2007
