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BIG SHOUT OUT to all of this year’s MOBO Award winners: N-Dubz were the big winners of the night, picking up two gongs for Best UK act and Best album. Best newcomer and song went to JLS; elsewhere, tributes were paid to Michael Jackson with brother Jermaine performing in honour of the late superstar. A CAMPAIGN is underway to create a new woodland 12 miles outside Glasgow. The Woodland Trust Scotland needs to raise £1.5 million in order to buy 600 acres of land on the north of Dumbarton, which they hope to transform into a community resource through native woodland planting.
AND FINALLY Congratulations to Glasgow site specific events company NVA which has been shortlisted for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The Speed of Light project is one of five to be shortlisted as part of plans for 12 major artistic events to take place around the UK at the same time as the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
LORDS OF THE DANCE Congratulations to Scottish Ballet who have been awarded a Royal Patronage. The news follows a successful year for the company, which recently moved to brand new headquarters at Glasgow’s Tramway.
GLASGAY! ■ Following on from our interview with Glasgay! artist Dani Marti (Conversation Piece, issue 641), Culture and Sport Glasgow, which runs the Gallery of Modern Art, has contacted The List to dispute the article’s representation of events. In August Marti withdrew his Insideout exhibition from GoMA accusing CSG of censorsing the two films and sound component of his installation ‘Disclosure’. However, CSG assert that Marti’s films were never ‘removed’ from GoMA, as they were not part of the original commission: ‘On review, CSG decided that the films should not be added to the commission. However, we did offer to facilitate the films being viewed at an alternative venue. Dani Marti agreed to this but later chose to remove his commission, claiming that the pieces would only work together.’ Email correspondence between the artist and representatives of Culture and Sport Glasgow suggests Marti had been led to believe that his work would be shown in a Balcony Gallery at GoMA from 11 September. The films are currently being shown in Glasgow’s Parnie Street Gallery.
Food glorious food The National Gallery’s new restaurant opens its doors and a new cookery school is announced for the capital. Words: Anna Millar
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A rt lovers have exciting news to nibble on, following the National Gallery Scotland’s announcement of its collaboration with Victor and Carina Contini, the team behind popular George Street eaterie Centotre. The new look Scottish Café and Restaurant at the National Gallery will open at the end of October in the National Gallery Complex on the Mound. The restaurant will serve Scottish fare on weekdays from 9am–5pm, as well as dinner on Saturdays, with traditional afternoon tea and high tea served from 3–6pm every day.
The restaurant interior will enjoy a facelift courtesy of Scottish design and architecture firm ANTA. Individually commissioned, hand-woven fabrics, Scottish oak and Caithness slate feature in the redesign, with original oil paintings by Scot, Sir William Gillies on the walls. Director of the National Gallery of Scotland, Michael Clarke, said of the restaurant opening: ‘We are delighted to
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be working in partnership with such a high-profile and successful company as Centotre. At the National Gallery of Scotland we feel it is particularly appropriate that the cuisine will have a distinctly contemporary and Scottish flavour – to be enjoyed by our visitors from home and abroad.’ Carina Contini added: ‘We are looking forward to showcasing the best of Scottish producers and suppliers.’
In other food related news, former head of Prue Leith’s cookery school in London, Fiona Burrell, is launching her own venture in the capital this December. The Edinburgh New Town Cookery School will offer professionals and amateurs the chance to take part in courses of all levels for all ages. Burrell says it has been a ‘life-long ambition’ to run her own cookery school in Edinburgh, adding: ‘From our state of the art facilities to a wide range of courses, we aim to be the ultimate destination for any level of cook wishing to improve their skills.’
ISLAND FILM CHALLENGE ■ The search is underway to find the UK’s most talented filmmakers. The 14 Islands Film Challenge gives 14 filmmakers the chance to spend two weeks in the Bahamas and compete for a £14,000 cash prize. Each filmmaker will be encouraged to show the islands in their own way and demonstrate their ‘creativity and individuality’ through their final cut. All 14 films will be shown at BAFTA in March next year. www.14islands filmchallenge.co.uk