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Doodlers, sketchers and ‘fire drawers' are invited to join in at a
drawing festival. Words: Anna Millar
reatives of all ages are being
encouraged to pick tip their pens
and pencils as the Big Draw returns for another year. Everyone from children to adults will be able to take full advantage of a programme that will see hundreds of venues announce hands-on events throughout the country.
Now in its ninth year. next month‘s events range from creating Dizzy Designs at Glasgow‘s Scotland Street School Museum to constructing Diversity Dove mobiles at the Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum in liast Lothian. Better still. a large portion of the programme is free. Originally created to inspire the idea that anyone can be creative. the Big Draw campaign continues to push the envelope on any preconceived notions of what constitutes ‘drawing’.
With this in mind. this year‘s activities will include mono-printing. mosaics. mobiles. mandala (sandpainting). drawing with your head. wire sculptures and tire- drawing.
As it has grown in stature. the annual programme of work has won many
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distinguished supporters. including Quentin Blake and David Hockney.
More than forty Big Draw events will take place throughout Scotland in museums. galleries. castles. parks. schools and village halls. Highlights include The Owl and Lion in lidinburgh. which involves darts being thrown at a giant map of lidinburgh city centre. Lines connecting the dots will be drawn. then artists will lead those taking part to ‘travel the lines‘ and draw what you find at the dots. Across at the Royal Scottish Academy. free drop- in drawing sessions are to be set up led by RSA members and their children.
In Glasgow. professional illustrator Stuart White will present a day-long drawing event inspired by The Lighthouse building and Glasgow‘s cityscape: while at the National Museum of Flight in East Fortune in liast Lothian. visitors are invited to explore how the landscape of the town has changed through two world wars and the Cold War.
The Big Draw runs from 1-31 Oct. www.campaignfordrawing.org
BOOKER SHOCKER!
I Salman Rushdie has been pipped to the Booker shortlist post by two first time novelists. Rushdie was hotly tipped to make it on to the shortlist for the prestigious prize but instead debut novelists Aravind Adiga and Steve Toltz will go up against Linda Grant, Philip Hensher, Sebastian Barry and Amitav Ghosh for the £50,000 prize.
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FILMMAKERS are being invited to submit their work for possible screening at the 2009 Glasgow Film Festival, following record- breaking sales in 2008. An October deadline has been set for submissions from filmmakers. Organisers said they welcomed, “features, shorts and work in all
genres.’
GLASVEGAS HAVE announced details of a UK winter tour. Following the release of their debut album and sold-out September tour, Scotland’s latest success story will embark on a 15- date tour across the UK, with a homecoming gig at the Glasgow Barrowlands on 16 Dec.
Ai?"i't1.R HEARS that the Arches would have to close, lollowing polics reports of indecency at club night Burly, organisers at the nightclub and multi-purpose arts venue reassured the public it was business as usual, and all upcoming tickets were still valid.
AND FINALLY.
David Tennant has put his name to the One Water campaign, in which profits from each bottle of water sold go towards building a PlayPump water system in Africa to help improve people’s lives. Visit onedifterence.org for details.
A HOMECOMING OF SORTS Snow Patrol, Adele and Kaiser Chiefs will all play live in their own living rooms as
art of the BBC Radio
Live Lounge tour. The up-close—and- personal a proach comes as t e acts take it in turns to lay host to the 10 Whl ey show, with the roster of stars kickin off
30‘” the WEE s egmnmg e . Pop princesses Glirls
Aloud will play at the Dl’s home as part of the feature.
POTTER BOOK AXED I After months of wrangling, Harry Potter author J K Rowling has won her legal battle to get an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopaedia banned from publication. Proceedings began last year when Rowling sued American based publishers RDR Books in order to prevent publication of Steven Vander Ark’s book entitled The Harry Potter Lexicon. Rowling said the result went some way ‘to uphold the right of authors everywhere to protect their own original work’. She added: ‘The proposed book took an enormous amount of my work and added virtually no original commentary of its own.’