The journal also includes commissioned prose, poetry and academic writing.

Standard meat chickens reared in intensive systems are grown from newly hatched chick to oven-ready bird in just 39 days. These birds are bred to increase weight rapidly and at least 25% of them suffer from lameness and discomfort related to their excessive growth rates. Millions of broiler chickens die from heart failure in these sheds.

Compassion in World Farming’s Chicken Out! team will visit key towns and cities over the next few weeks to persuade the UK to opt for higher welfare quality, such as RSPCA Freedom Food, as the minimum standard when buying chicken products or prepared meals. The intensively farmed chicken blog at www.chickenout.tv has also launched.

GET A FREE STALL AT INTERFACE AMNESTY

Inspired by a trade fair scene in the 1974 Francis Ford Coppola film “The Conversation” and your local jumble sale. Interface Amnesty plays with the conventions of interface design, music technology products and the presentation of interactive art.

Its an opportunity for sharing between artists, musicians and the public with live music, food stalls and that elusive country fair feeling

On Saturday 20th June the world’s first user-generated event will take place in Ancoats, east Manchester where people are invited to come along and take part in a series of flash-mob style activities.  

Following a four-week flurry of web activity that attracted 103 ideas and 1,166 people counting themselves in, the winning ideas and the confirmed line up can be announced.

People can join Inspiral Carpets and XFM’s Clint Boon in a sing-along of his favourite Manchester classics from his brand new boon army mini, compete in a space hopper race, become an author of a book, play musical statues, set off an Alka Seltzer rocket, break a world record with the longest conga line, dance at a silent disco or help the European Architecture Students Assembly build a model city out of cardboard.  

folly and GOTO10 are pleased to announce the latest articles to be added to the Digital Artists’ Handbook

The digital artists handbook is a reliable and accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art. With a focus on Free Software and Open Content, the handbook covers topics such as working with graphics, sound and digital video, software art, developing your own hardware, collaborative working and publishing your work.

The first of two new articles, “Video editing with open source tools”, has been written by Valentina Messeri and Eleonora Oreggia.

Valentina Messeri studied Philosophy of Technology and has been living in Spain since 2002. She is an advanced GNU/Linux user and video-maker, an expert in video streaming, teaches multimedia and works freelance in post production and live audio/video streaming.

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Northwest Regional Development Agency - Ideas wanted for world's first user-generated event

NWDA is inviting Mancunians to come up with inspirational ideas for the world's first user-generated day of events on Saturday 20 June in Ancoats in east Manchester. "Cutting Room Experiment" is a day of events decided by the audience, where every event has been created out of an idea from members of the public. Very different 'flash mob' style events will take place on the hour every hour and hundreds of people will be able to take part in the activities, which could range from 100 people playing violins at once, to a mass poetry reading.

Peter Mearns, Executive Director of Communications and Marketing at the NWDA, said: "Over the last ten years, the progress made on the regeneration of Ancoats into a heritage area where people want to live and business want to base themselves, has been outstanding. Cutting Room is the area's first public outdoor space and the first chance we have to celebrate the tremendous amount of work and dedication that has gone into transforming Ancoats into what it is now. Cutting Room Experiment is what it says - an experiment - and it depends on the people of Manchester to get involved, to generate ideas and to turn up on June 20th to create not just one unique event but several, which will involve hundreds of people. Cutting Room Experiment is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the undiscovered gem that is the new Ancoats."

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Two for one offer on Beating Beresconi for 7th May when 'WoW' is quoted to the Philharmonic box office

The WoW is for the Writing on the Wall Festival see a programme online at www.writingonthewall.org.uk

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