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launch Sunday Swing Sessions, set to take place in the centre’s courtyard area. The laid-back sessions, which are destined to become a weekly staple in Glasgow’s music and dance scene, will feature easy listening music from some of Scotland’s leading swing musicians as well as informal dance courtesy of the Glasgow Swing Dance society with a chance for visitors to get involved.
I Sundays. 24 Jun— 79 Aug, 2-5pm.
I Cameras have started rolling on Stone of Destiny, a new feature film based on the real-life attempt to bring the Stone of Scone back to Scotland. The film, directed by Charles Martin Smith (The Snow Walker) is based on the autobiography of Ian Hamilton, the nationalist who raided Westminster Abbey and brought the stone over the border in the 19505. The film, which stars Billy Boyd and Robert Carlyle, shoots for seven weeks in Glasgow and London and will hopefully be released sometime in 2008.
I The search is on for this year‘s Scottish Comedian of the Year. The competition. which last year launched the career of 26-year-old Glasgow- based funnyman Mark Nelson (pictured), has virtually no entry restrictions. the only qualification being
that entrants must be Scottish. Scottish-dwelling or related to someone Scottish. Organisers are simply looking to find the funniest people in the country. whether they've been performing for six months or sixty years. The winner will receive a
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$600 cash prize and a 12-month touring deal with Ha Ha Comedy. a support slot at the Old Fruitmarket and their own solo show produced as part of the Glasgow Comedy Festival 2008 as well as the coveted Tartan Mic trophy. Entry forms for this year's competition are available by visiting wwwhahacomedycouk or e-mailing info@hahacomedy.co.uk and should be returned no later than Wednesday 1 August.
I Ticket Nova, the UK’s first online ticket stock exchange, is aiming to root out touts who force fans to pay prices far beyond market prices with no guarantee that their ticket will ever arrive or be valid when it does. Grant Lillie, founder of ticketnova.com has said that his company will change the face of the re-sale market by offering the
public the opportunity to buy and sell tickets to sought-after events such as T in the Park in complete security. Customers are offered protection, as Ticket Nova checks tickets to ensure they are not fraudulent, and customers are guaranteed to receive their tickets on time and with a guarantee of authenticity backed by a refund promise of 150% if they are denied access to the event for any reason. Lillie said: ‘People realise and have always accepted that they will have to pay more for a ticket for a sell-out event. We can’t change that, but what we can do is ensure
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that people are always guaranteed to get their tickets.’ www.ticketnova.com
I Staying with the thorny subject of ticket buying and selling, DF Concerts. the Organisers of T in the Park. have launched TicketExchange. a new service offered by Ticketmaster. which will enable festival-goers to purchase and resell tickets at face value for the sold out festival. People who have purchased their T in the Park tickets through Ticketmaster and cannot attend the event. can visit the TicketExchange section of Ticketmaster and post their tickets on sale to other fans. Buyers then receive a brand new ticket with a unique barcode while the seller's ticket is automatically invalidated. It is hoped this service will help counter the ever increasing activities of unauthorised internet resale sites. wwwticketmastercouk
I Congratulations to Anna King, the winner of the inaugural Jolomo Award. The 23-year-old artist (pictured) took the top prize of £20,000 for the largest privately funded art award in the UK, which was launched in May of last year by leading Scottish artist John Lowrie Morrison, in a bid to discover exciting new talent in the field of landscape painting. The competition attracted some 85 entrants, all of whom were artists living or working in Scotland. Anna, a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Design, Dundee, said of her award-winning work, ‘I grew up in the Scottish Borders, surrounded by an expanse of countryside and this is where the atmosphere of space and light in my work has come from. It is an aspect of our landscape that will never cease to inspire me.’ www.jolomofoundation.org
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