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GOAL! TOR! BUT! Arts festival making the tarnished game beautiful again ‘It’s still a lazy shorthand in some circles to refer to football as ‘the beautiful game’. Corruption allegations at FIFA, transfer fees which could pay off national deficits, moneyed young men behaving like over-privileged fools: where’s the beauty in that? Well, it’s there in individual and collective stories rather than in empty advertising hype. In the run-up to the Euro 2016 tournament this summer in France, Goal! Tor! But! is being organised by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow, the Alliance Française Glasgow and the Scottish Football Museum with the support of Glasgow Life. The festival will tell these stories through film, art and an international symposium entitled Football and Social Inclusion: Best Practices from UK, France & Germany (Hampden Park, Wed 27 & Thu 28 Apr). integration in our societies,’ says Nikolai Petersen, director of the Goethe-Institut Glasgow. ‘The conference will allow ordinary fans and activists united by an insatiable enthusiasm for football and a strong feeling of social responsibility to meet. This combination helped them pull off projects which made their communities more harmonious, and their example might incite others to get committed to the bright side of football.’
Short films, documentaries and exhibitions will also be installed in libraries and arts centres across the city, while a programme of feature films in some of the same venues includes Bill Forsyth’s Gregory’s Girl, Douglas Gordon’s Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait complete with a Mogwai soundtrack, and Little Lion, Samuel Collardey’s film about a Senegalese boy attempting to make it in Paris as a footballer. (David Pollock) ■ Various venues, Glasgow, until Sat 30 Apr.
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