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Inspire
Contents
FOOD TO INSPIRE
Foreword
4 Food News
The latest goings-on in the world of food
Megan Westley
5 The Chapel Street Brasserie and Wine Bar
A taste of France hits Penzance
It’s recently been
announced that Cornwall 6 Spinacios vegetarian restaurant
has been granted Surviving meat-free in the seafood haven of St Ives.
£350,000 to further its
campaign to become the 8 Thinking of going veggie?
first European Region of Make an informed decision – we weigh up the pros and cons
Culture. To many living
outside Cornwall, it is 9 Seasonal produce for autumn
seen as what a national The sun may not be in residence but autumn’s food needn’t be
newspaper terms ‘a place of pasties and soggy beach grey and dull
holidays’, with many not realising what a hotbed of
culture it really is.
Over the last few weeks, working on my first full issue INSPIRED IDEAS
of Inspire, I have seen just a taster of the immense
wealth of talent residing here. In many ways it is 11 Superstition Mountain
difficult to try to represent this, as it must, surely, be a A sneaky peep at o-region’s new theatre show
near-impossible task. So I suppose Inspire can be seen
to offer the equivalent of a tray of cultural canapés – 12 Cornish ghost stories
a nibble at what the Duchy has to offer. Explore what lingers in Cornwall’s past - and present?
Though as a region we have been long known for art
(among those who don’t see it as the 14 Caerhays Castle
aforementioned soggy holiday destination), culture History meets luxury
and art aren’t mutually exclusive, and there is a great
vagueness around the meaning of culture. However 16 Take some me-time
you define it, a particular pleasure in editing this issue Relaxing with aromatherapy
of Inspire was going to see the new theatre
production by o-region. Without playing too much on
this section’s name, I think it is this broadening of ART TO INSPIRE
Cornish culture past art alone and into new realms of
creativity that is truly inspirational, and will further 18 Truro College
help to put us on the ‘cultural map’. Brand new arts centre opens to students
19 The art of portraiture
Megan Westley Brought to you by Tamsin Dearing
megan@cornishworldmagazine.co.uk
20 Gareth McCorry
A passion for realism
Cornish World Media
PO Box 71, Penzance 21 Venessa Lagrand
Cornwall TR18 2ZR, UK Images of Cornwall
Tel: +44 (0) 1736 365896
Fax: +44 (0) 1736 330538 22 Art Book Reviews
George Care sorts the art world wheat from the chaff
Website: www.cornishworldmagazine.co.uk
23 Danny Fox’s art rebellion
Contributors: Jessica Mayne, George Care, Simon Fleming,
Jess Mayne meets St Ives’ hot new property
Nicolle Mitchell, Archie Browns, The Vegetarian Society.
Front cover image: ‘Can’t Stand Any More Missing You’ 24 Events
by Gareth McCorry, 2006. www.garethmccorry.com.
What’s on in October and November
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