Happy New Year!

I hope your 2012 is a brilliant year for everyone.

Here are some forthcoming events that might help your 2012 go with a swing, especially if you're based in the south-west:

Nationwide, from January The Artist is in cinemas around the UK

From 7 January The Great White Silence, a 1924 documentary made from film shot on Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, will be showing in some cinemas in Wales, Scotland and England. New score

From 21 January Slapstick Season at the Watershed, Bristol, including an evening with Kevin Brownlow and Graeme Garden discussing Buster Keaton.

23-28 January Murder on the Nile by Agatha Christie, Theatre Royal Bath

From 25 January The First Born, a 1928 British silent, will be showing in a handful of cinemas in England and Scotland (non in the south west, boooo)

27 January The DS Big Band at the Arc Theatre, Trowbridge

25-31 March Bath Fashion Week, including Vintage Sunday

18-20 May Waltz on the Wye steampunk and neo-Victorian festival, Chepstow

Have a fab year!