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TICKETS FOR for T in the Park 2010 will be available from Fri 4 Dec at 2009’s prices. This is the last chance to get next year’s tickets at this year’s prices. Call 08444 99 99 90 or log on to ticketmaster.com
SCOTLAND’S young folk band Bodega are set to take Celtic Connections to the communities of Glasgow with a series of five concerts throughout the city this January. The band will head to the communities of Barmulloch, Barlanark, Knightswood, Pennilee and Langside as part of a Celtic Connections Education and Outreach Programme and Culture and Sport Glasgow initiative. EDINBURGH filmmaker Mark Cousins has been filming in Iraq for a 76-minute documentary, The First Movie, about children, cinema and war in the country. The film has its world premiere at the ICA in London on 14 Dec and then on More 4 on 19 Dec. See www.thefirstmovie .net for more.
THE LIST ENJOY PPA SUCCESS ■ The List has emerged with a trio of gongs at this year’s PPA Scottish Magazine Awards. At the awards ceremony at Our Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh on Thu 26 Nov, The List picked up the McIntosh Creative- sponsored award for Best Online Presence for www.list.co.uk and the MCL-sponsored award for Brand Development for our in depth food guide, The Larder. The List’s publisher Robin Hodge (pictured) received the Murray Cochran award for his 24-year contribution to the Scottish magazine industry.
CARY GRANT FOR GFF The sixth Glasgow Film Festival will include a Cary Grant retrospective as part of next year’s programme, running from 18–26 February. Other elements of the festival will include the Shorts Film Festival, the Youth Film Festival and the ever-popular Frightfest strand.
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Word perfect As Scottish writing talent is celebrated with the Royal Mail Awards, members of the public are also being encouraged to take up their pens Words: Anna Millar
let us know the poem they carry with them, or if they don’t have one already, we want the campaign to inspire them to pick one so that they carry one with them every day.’ Elsewhere Lari Don, Keith Gray and former List cartoonist John Fardell have been named as this year’s winners in the 2009 Royal Mail Awards. Author and illustrator Fardell won the Early Years category, voted for by children, for his first picture book, Manfred the Baddie, while first-time author Lari Don won the Younger Readers category for First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts. Teen fiction author Keith Gray won the Older Readers category for Ostrich Boys.
P oetry and fiction are in the spotlight this fortnight following the launch of the Carry a Poem campaign, while the winners of the Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children’s Book have also been announced.
As part of a public initiative to take place next February, Edinburgh residents will be encouraged to carry a poem somewhere on their person. The Carry a Poem campaign will see thousands of free books and pocket poetry cards distributed as part of a citywide reading campaign. A free book, to be handed out through arts and leisure venues, libraries, cafés and schools, will reveal the stories behind people’s poetry choices. To get involved or learn more log on to carryapoem.com. Ali Bowden, director of the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust said of the city’s reading iniative, ‘The One Book-One Edinburgh citywide reading campaigns have been growing in strength and popularity year on year, and we are delighted to be joining forces with the Scottish Poetry Library and the city libraries this year to get everyone to make a personal connection to poetry, to really take a poem to heart.
‘We want everyone to get involved, and