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‘The Local’ Live Music Festival


ANALL-DAYmusic festival featuring top-class musicians at twodifferent venues will take place on Saturday. Newport City Radio’sThe Local will be hosting an acoustic stage atKamaLounge whichwill feature artists such as Ffred Jones,Loren Balaam, Houndsof Justice andThe Emergency. Theevent will be followedby a


full electric gig atNewport’s Warehouse 54, featuringThe Fixed, Zephyr Reign,FAMLE and others to be confirmed. Afree event, up-to-the-minute


information on the festivalcan be foundat new portcityradio.org


LOCAL LINE-UP: (From top to bottom)


ToyPOP! ,Charlie-Ann and Natural Tendency


‘The Local’ Live Music FestivalLineUp


KAMA LOUNGE ACOUSTIC STAGESET TIMES


OLIVIA PERRY 3:00 -3:20 MIKEEG3:35 -3:55 GERAINT RHYS 4:10 -4:30 ARRIANNE 4:45 -5:05 JACOB EYNON 5:20 -5:40 RYAN CURTIS 5:55 -6:15 CHARLIE-ANN 6:30 -6:50 LOREN BALAAM 7:05 -7:25 BEN COOLING 7:40 -8:00 THE EMERGENCY 8.15 -8:35 HOUNDS OF JUSTICE 8:50 -9:10 TAFIJAH ALLSTARS -9:25 -9:45


WAREHOUSE 54 MAIN STAGESET TIMES


FINGERTRAP 4:15 -4:45 TOYPOP! 5:00 -5:30 BEIJING BANDITS 5:50 -6:20 RAPHAELITES 6:40 -7:10 CASINO THIEVES 7:30 -8:00 FAM LE 8:20 -8:50 RECONCILE 9:10 -9:40 NATURALTENDENCY 10:00 -10:30 LOCAL FOREIGNERS 10:50 -11:20 THE FIXED 11:40 -12:10 ZEPHYR REIGN 12:30 -1:00


Challenging views on


ANEWexhibition of contempo- rary photographywill go on show at the Basement Gallery in the Riverfront Arts Centre today. Threshold showcases contempo-


rary documentary photography and photo books made by emerg- ing artists and practitioners from University of Wales,Newport and is about having the confidence to see the worldinanew way. It will challenge viewers to reconsider the very definition of ‘documen- tary photography’. Works exhibited range from the intenselypersonal, dealing with familial grief, to more social and political pieces exploring poverty and health. There are also moments of beauty and light, the


‘documentary photos’ OnShow


fine details of existence and acele- bration of the mundane. On displaywill be aselection of limited edition photo books creat- ed by exhibiting photographers. PhotographyatNewport cele-


brates its centenary this year and as a‘fringe event’ to the official 100 Years of Newport celebrations, this showisdescribed as ‘an excit- ing photographic event on the cul- tural calendar’. Threshold is open to the public until October 13. Entry free.For further details visit thresh old2012.blogspot.co.uk or follow @ThreshDocPhot on Twitter.


9 OUT&ABOUT


Freewififor visitors to info centre


MOBILEnetwork Three has teamed up with VisitWales to give more than 150,000 megabytes of mobile internet to tourists visiting tourist infor- mation centres inWales over the next year. The initiative,part of Three’s Rural BroadbandWorking Group,aims to provide anyone who visits the Visit Caerphilly Centre,with free internet access through their smart- phone or tablet. The aim of the partnership is


to allowvisitors to search for holidayinformation in an area where they might not have a connection, or where they would otherwise incur expen- sive data roaming charges. Visitors will also be ableto keepincontact with their loved ones using email, social net- works or other internet com- munications services while at the Visit CaerphillyCentre. Three will be providing The


Visit CaerphillyCentre in CaerphillyTownCentre with a MiFi device and 15GB of data per month, whichisenough to browse15,000 web pages,make 60 hours of Skype calls and send around 75,000 emails. Martin Cook, visitor opera- tions manager forCaerphilly County Borough Council, said, “Manyvisitors have smart- phones and tablets butnocon- nectivity when on holiday. “Our experienced and knowl- edgeablestaffwill be ableto help visitors by directing them to online films of local attrac- tions,and help them obtain information on topics suchas downloadablewalks and maps.”


Live Performances


Newport Food Festival Fri 5 October


Festivalsupper at 7pm, £30.50 Sat 6 October


Chef demos, teen chef and master classes at 10.30am-4pm, various prices


Comedy Port 2012


“All sorts of comedy forall sorts of people” Mon 8 Oct


Launchpad (Opening Party), The Watch(15) Tues 9 Oct


Launchpad, TimKey Wed 10 Oct


Al Murray,Launchpad, The Watch(15) Thurs 11 Oct


On The Edge, Launchpad Fri 12 Oct


Lloyd Langford, Comedy Sessions, Launchpad Sat 13 Oct


Bridget Christie, Family Fun DayinclComedy Club 4Kids, Launchpad (Closing Party) www.newport.gov.uk/comedyport


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