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Arts Alive - By working with rural communities in Shropshire aims to bring good quality local, regional, national and international artists to local venues so that people living locally can have access to exciting, moving, entertaining performances.
Cavatina String Quartet - Performs at weddings, functions and concerts. Includes biographies, repertoire and frequently asked questions.
The CultureVulture.com - A guide to some of the exciting artists, craftspeople and galleries in the English Marches region.
The Lotus Studio - Offers residential courses and daily workshops in a range of subjects including silk painting, watercolours, acrylics, calligraphy and illuminated manuscripts. Based in Ackleton.
Kaleidoscope Theatre - A pioneering company and registered charity, some of whose members happen to have Down's Syndrome. It is located in the village of Kemberton, Shropshire, England, and was founded in 1980 by Carolyne and John Revell.
Shropshire County Library - Features book reviews, catalogue, opening times, and the option to renew items online.
Just Zimbabwe - The House Of Stone - Zimbabwean stone sculpture. Includes details of exhibitions, biographies of artists and how to maintain your sculpture.
Dash Disability Arts - Gallery, artists' profiles, news, events and an invitation to get involved.
Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company - Brings together the abled and disabled to dance together. Performances, outreach and education programmes. Based in Shewsbury but works throughout the West Midlands.
The Timedivers - Four piece band playing blues, rock and other styles. Gig list, biographies, merchandise and booking enquiries.
Grace Notes Music Project - Music project increasing access to and encouraging music making. Local organisations and events, resource packs and links.
Music Events and Artists - Details of Rock & Pop music events, organised for having a good time in Shropshire. Information about venues & bands - includes the famous "Real Music, Real Ale, Real Dancing" Season in Habberley, Shropshire.
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Arts and Entertainment If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Arts and Entertainment Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster Arts and Entertainment Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Arts and Entertainment When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Arts and Entertainment "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Arts and Entertainment If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa Arts and Entertainment "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Arts and Entertainment The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Arts and Entertainment "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Arts and Entertainment Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi Arts and Entertainment All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin Arts and Entertainment If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Arts and Entertainment Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Arts and Entertainment I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Arts and Entertainment Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Arts and Entertainment After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Arts and Entertainment
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