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SUMMER MISCHIEF IN ALL
GLASGOW LIBRARIES FROM
25th JUNE
Banish cries of ‘I’m Bored’ and head to your local
Glasgow library to get set for a summer full of
mischief and mayhem.
Everyone loves the Beano and for its 80th birthday we’ve teamed up with Mischief
Makers - Dennis, JJ, Gnasher, Rubi and Pieface – to bring you this year’s Tesco Bank
Summer Reading Challenge.
Take part in this year’s challenge and follow clues to explore Beanotown. Collect special
stickers along the way and try to find the mysterious buried treasure.
There will be pranks galore and a ton of fun at your local Glasgow Library so get yourself
down, grab a pack and get started!
Visit www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries
Pupils from local
primary
school fight
single use
plastic
On 18 April pupils from Sunnyside
Primary School promoted their
#NaeStrawAtAw campaign in the
Grand Central Hotel for the 2018 Best
Bar None Glasgow awards. The pupils,
known as the Ocean Defenders, campaign
for the end of single-use plastic, and
have already shown great initiative in
convincing Glasgow City Council, and
organisations such as Calmac ferries, to
stop using plastic straws and opt for more
environmentally-friendly alternatives.
For the first time, the Best Bar None
Glasgow awards incorporated the Ocean
Defenders’ campaign into their judging,
and extra credits were awarded to pubs,
clubs, hotels, and specialist venues that
could prove that they had made positive
changes to reduce their single-use plastic.
Eleanor Lee of Community Safety
Glasgow said: ‘we are absolutely
delighted to support Sunnyside Primary’s
#NaeStrawAtAw campaign and have the
pupils attend the launch. They are very
impressive speakers and knowledgeable
about the harm done by plastic pollution.
I’m sure
they will help convince even more of the
licensees to further reduce their use of
plastic’.
As a historic hub of learning and leisure, New Lanark World
Heritage Site is delighted to be hosting the V&A Museum
of Childhood’s touring exhibition GAME PLAN: Board Games
Rediscovered, in their newly developed Mill Gallery this
summer from 20th July – 4th November.
GAME PLAN celebrates the joy, excitement and occasional
frustration of playing board games. This exhibition will include some of the most iconic,
enthralling and visually striking games from the V&A’s outstanding national collection
of board games. Visitors can enjoy hands-on interactives and see more than 100 objects,
featuring games from around the world, and explores the important role of design.
Throughout the exhibition, selected games of special interest are highlighted with more
detailed information on their history and influence.
Alongside the exhibition, visitors will also have the chance to enjoy Challenge Games,
a themed Trail and Historic Toy sessions. New Lanark will also be running a programme
of inclusive sessions with ‘Autism Friendly’ mornings and dementia friendly ‘Games We
Played’ Reminiscence sessions.
GAME PLAN: Board Games Rediscovered will be open daily at New Lanark from 20th
July – 4th November 2018. Visitors can enjoy the exhibition as part of a family day out
to New Lanark. Individuals, educational groups and organised groups of all sizes are
welcome to visit.
Book online before 19th July using code ‘earlybird’ to receive £1.50 off individual tickets
at www.newlanark.org
Entries open for ‘What is a
Children’s Hearing?’ exhibition
In the Year of Young
People 2018 the Scottish
Children’s Reporter
Administration are
putting together an
exhibition of photographs
which show what children
think about children’s hearings. They aim
to exhibit the photographs from children
and young people for members of the
Scottish Parliament. Entries are open
until 30 October 2018, so get creative!
Colour or black and white, buildings or
landscapes which capture emotions, a
picture of what the children’s hearing is,
or what it can do – it’s up to you! The only
Lord Provost’s poetry prize
winner announced
The winner of the Lord Provost poetry
competition was announced in April; 12 year-old
Oliwia Szymkiewicz from Bankhead Primary
School was awarded the trophy for her poem
‘When I think’.
Lord Provost Eva Bolander and Glasgow’s Poet
Laureate, Jim Carruth, presented Oliwia with her
award at the City Chambers.
The competition runs every year with a different
theme, this year’s being
limit is that photographs which identify
individual children or adults cannot be
accepted; however, drawings,
sculptures, or other art forms
depicting individuals are allowed.
Ensure that any people in your
artwork are unrecognisable, and
don’t take photographs if you
are at a child’s hearing.
Please send your photograph, the
title of your photograph, 250 words
explaining your photograph, your
name, age, and contact details to:
PhotoCompetition2018@scra.gsi.gov.uk.
For more information, visit
www.scra.gov.uk or
www.chscotland.gov.uk.
‘Looking Forward Looking Back’.
Lord Provost Eva Bolander stated: ‘it’s been an
absolute privilege and joy to read all the poems.
The exceptional work submitted is a source
of huge pride to this city and our young poets
deserve our praise.
All the judges agree, we’ve been on a very
personal journey, with our city’s talented poets,
and we feel hugely honoured to have been able
to read all their work.’
To read the winning poem, and the runner up
poems, visit www.glasgow.gov.uk.
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