WIN YOUR CHANCE TO BE A VIP GUEST AT THE TEVA MOUNTAIN GAMES IN COLORADO!

 Teva, the outdoor performance and lifestyle footwear brand, has announced the opening of its first ever Teva House in Vail, Colorado to a group of fun seekers, to be selected by Teva as their VIP house guests. The lucky winners will be in for a once in a lifetime opportunity of music, art, fun and adventure as they gain an extra set of keys to the Teva House for three days of fun and frolics between June 3rd and June 6th 2010. http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/OxfordOutdoors.htm#CALLING_ALL_ADVENTURERS! or

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THE THREE SISTERS by Anton Chekhov

THE THREE SISTERS by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Christopher Hampton.The Filter Theatre Company. A review by Julia Gasper 10 March 2010 We are being treated to more Chekhov than usual this year because it is the 150th anniversary of his birth. However, there are some people who have seen too much of him, or so it seems from the programme which speaks of “de-familiarising the over-familiar”. So this is not The Three Sisters just as Chekhov wrote it but a version by Christopher Hampton, (best known for his adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses from the novel by Laclos for the RSC 25years ago). Hampton wants to present Chekhov without nostalgia, wistfulness or yearning. http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/review.htm

The Student Switch Off campaign

Tuesday 9 March 2010 —

 

Over 80,000 students at 33 universities across England have been gaining top marks for energy-efficiency as part of a national campaign to encourage students to reduce energy consumption.

The Student Switch Off campaign, run in partnership with the National Union of Students, has seen halls of residence within universities competing against each other to save energy. During the first term of the campaign, electricity usage in the halls reduced by an average of 8.0%, cumulatively saving over 1,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere and over £150,000 in electricity expenditure. http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/oxfordnews.htm

Tony Blair’s memoir, The Journey, to be published in September

 

The memoirs of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be published in September, it was announced today by Gail Rebuck, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Random House Group.

 

 Tony Blair: The Journey will be published in the UK by Hutchinson and simultaneously in the United States by Knopf and Canada by Knopf Canada.

 

 In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end 18 years of Conservative government.

 

He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers have shaped the nation’s course as profoundly as Tony Blair did, during his ten years in power.

 

His achievements and his legacy will be debated for years to come.

 

His memoirs reveal in intimate detail this unique political and personal journey and provide an insight into the man, the politician and the statesman, charting successes, controversies and disappointments with an extraordinary candour.

 

They will prove essential and compulsive reading for anyone who wants to understand the complexities of our global world.   http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/oxfordbooks.htm

Brian Aldiss – Interview

Meeting Brian W. Aldiss is always a pleasure. I caught him in the midst of his portrait being painted and getting ready to go off to yet another of those science fiction conventions, where he will be adored by his fans. Life’s not bad for a man of 82, when admiring fans demand Brian to sign his name on their tee shirts. It’s not only his fans who have come to his door but in the past Hollywood film producers including Corman, Kubrick and Spielberg, asking for permission to adapt both his general fiction and science fiction stories. Even Britain’s Queen has awarded him with an OBE in 2002 for his services to literature.

 Before we started the interview, Brian showed me to his jungle like back garden at his Oxfordshire village home. Brian Aldiss calls it his ‘mystery garden’, where in the bright sunshine, with the bubbling waterfall in the background, we discussed his frog problem. Brain commented that ‘it had been a bad year for frogs.’ I told him I had plenty to spare and would bring some round for him to replenish his pond.http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/BRIANALDISS.htm