Call for performers to take part in Winter Droving
Penrith Winter Droving. Picture: Graham Wynne
A call has gone out for performers to take part in Penrith’s Winter Droving later this year.
The annual event is gearing up for a return to the streets in October and organisers are currently seeking original talent for this year’s event.
Now a staple in the winter calendar, it saw around 25,000 people attend the one-day festival before 2020.
The Winter Droving is an annual spectacle of feathery, fuzzy, and glittery animal masks, rocking musicians and bands, fire torchbearers, circus sideshow style acts, and larger-than-life illuminated animal lanterns.
Disused Hull Paragon ticket office to host opera performance
The space has recently been described as a dumping ground
Recent photographs show the historic former ticket office space used for storage (Image: Twitter: @shanedgj)
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After being inaccessible to the public in recent times, Paragon Station s former ticket office will act as the venue for a musical performance.
House approves early voting question for statewide decision in 2022
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HARTFORD The often-emotional nationwide political battle over ballot access reached the state Capitol on Thursday, but the House of Representatives, in a bipartisan vote, approved legislation that could change the Connecticut Constitution and create procedures for early voting.
The 115-26 vote came after a 90-minute afternoon debate. Twenty-two Republicans joined Democrats in approving the first of two proposed amendments to the Constitution. The bill next heads to the Senate, where it is expected to pass and allow Connecticut voters to decide o
Mark Pazniokas / CT Mirror
House Democrats and Republicans clashed in dueling news conferences Thursday about whether expanding absentee voting would lead to fraud, then they largely united behind another ballot access issue: endorsing a constitutional amendment allowing in-person early voting.
The House voted 115-26 to place the constitutional amendment before voters next year. If passed at referendum in 2022, it will allow the General Assembly to decide in 2023 whether to offer early voting, as is available in 44 other states.
“We’re not deciding anything today. That’s ironic,” said House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, noting the resolution before the House only allowed a referendum. “All we’re doing is letting the voters of Connecticut decide.”
CT House endorses early voting in bipartisan vote
But fight looms over absentee ballots and fraud
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Corrie Betts of the NAACP speaking in support of early voting and easier access to absentee ballots. At left is House Speaker Matt Ritter.
House Democrats and Republicans clashed in dueling press conferences Thursday about whether expanding absentee voting would lead to fraud, then they largely united behind another ballot access issue: endorsing a constitutional amendment allowing in-person early voting.
The House voted 115-26 to place the constitutional amendment before the voters next year. If passed at referendum in 2022, it will allow the General Assembly to decide in 2023 whether to offer early voting, as is available in 44 other states.