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Way back when we first started Creative Boom Cheltenham we ran a story about fabulous local tattoo artist Claire Dunn. This raceweek she's running a fantastic new project to raise money for Wellchild - the charity that supports sick children and their families across the UK. LUCKY CHARMS.

Happy sunny Sunday everyone! We are pleased to announce the addition of two new contributors to our armaments of creative goodness - they'll be scouring the streets of Cheltenham and beyond to bring you lots of exciting news, features and...

Cheltenham is, as far as several thousand people a year are concerned, is home of the greatest show on earth - The Cheltenham Festival. For four days in March the town is taken over as hordes of passionate race fans descend upon us to witness the high point...

Just one week to go until Digitalks! It starts at 8pm next Thursday at D'Fly in Cheltenham and is the place to go for some tech-networking, learning about new and exciting things from the digital world and generally finding out some interesting things...

Awesome craft shop/haven StuffedNonsense (above the Proud Lion comic book shop on Albion Street) are planning a charity event on the 27th of February, with all proceeds going to the Haiti Earthquake department at UNICEF...

Wychwood is gearing up to return for a another year of family-friendly, folky festival action. Hosted at Cheltenham Racecourse, the festival team have just confirmed their Saturday headliner as madchester legends The Happy Mondays. Levellers and Dreadzone will also playing alongside a whole host of bands, comedians and other creative types.
The festival is being held [...]

Do you like indie? Electro? Dub? If so, you're gonna love this.
HYPERSONIC is Cheltenham's newest club night, kicking off next Thursday at Dakota. They've booked a stack of big name DJs including Pendulum and Mike Fielding from the Mighty Boosh and the launch party will feature a Razorlight DJ set.
If you text DAKOTA to 60777 [...]

The Open West is an annual open competition for the contemporary arts, 34 UK and 6 international artists have been selected to exhibit. The submission covered installation, film, paint, sculpture, print, photography and drawing.
The selected artists will be exhibiting in Cheltenham from 17th February to 21st March at the following locations:
Summerfield Gallery, Pittville [...]

If you're looking for something to do this weekend why not head to Nature in Art, Twigworth, to see a collection of over 100 stunning wildlife photographs. The Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is running until February 28th and is a great opportunity to see some of the best wildlife photography from [...]

'I want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now.'
This is the book, written by Hirst in 1997, that's going up for auction at independent auction house Dominic Winter near Cirencester tomorrow. More than 50 art collectors attended the private view earlier this week to see the [...]