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AROUND TOWN Gleeks of Scotland get your showtunes at the ready! In celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Breakthrough Breast Cancer is hosting an all- singing, all-dancing Glee workshop courtesy of Ultimate Arts. Get involved at George Square Theatre, Edinburgh on Sat 30 Oct. For more information about ticketing see www.breakthrough.org.uk/glee; alternatively download the Glee fundraising pack at www.break through.org.uk/glee.
CLUBS Club Noir’s bringing sexy back this month with the offer of prize-winning auditions to perform at the burlesque club. Club Noir’s Tina Warren said of the opportunity: ‘If you’re been to Club Noir before you’ll know the wide and wild variety of acts we have. All shapes and sizes. All forms of beauty. Anything and everything goes. No experience necessary. We’re more interested in someone with that “It” quality.’ First prize will be £100, while the runner up will pocket £50. Check it out at ABC2 in Glasgow on Sat 6 Nov.
FILM Actress Tilda Swinton and curator, filmmaker and author Mark Cousins have joined the Centre for the Moving Image as Creative Advisors. Swinton and Cousins will ‘work with and shape a creative vision for the CMI as it builds and evolves its ambition as a national focus for curation, research, enterprise, knowledge and educational resources for film and the wider moving image space in Scotland and the UK.’ Watch this space.
MUSIC Attention students! Here at List Towers we’re a giving bunch, and now we’re offering you the 8 THE LIST 21 Oct–4 Nov 2010
Breakthrough Breast Cancer are hosting Glee workshops in Edinburgh
chance to get £3 tickets for selected City Halls gigs with the Fonic card. The mighty Fonic is the brand spanking new collaboration between five major music organisations and T h e L i s t, offering students in Glasgow a great opportunity to expand their cultural musical experience. Any student with a valid ID can join Fonic for free, which allows them to buy £3 tickets for all designated Fonic live music events at City Halls, as well as a 20% discount on food at any Social Animal venue for that evening. This collaboration between the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Glasgow’s Concert Halls, the Scottish Ensemble and Jazz International spans a variety of musical styles including classical, jazz and world, so there’s something for every music fan, or even those dipping their toe into Glasgow’s music scene for the first time. To sign up and for details of Fonic concerts go to: www.foniccard.co.uk. In other happy music news, 16-year old Catherine Thomson has won music competition Music2Be winning a £1000 cash prize and recording time. She beat competition from other finalists including The Stagger Rats, Simba and The Laymanites. For more see www.facebook.com/ music2be. VISUAL ART A free Project Ability art exhibition showcasing works created by people with mental health issues and disabilities will be on show in Mono café bar in Glasgow from 16–29 Nov. The display will show works created by service users from Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board’s Community Adult Mental Health Team’s care groups for Castlemilk and Waterside.
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Dispatches from the sofa, with Brian Donaldson
■ Missing Lost? Still unable to get over the demise of The X- Files after all these years? Distraught that Jack Bauer has tortured his last victim in 24? Hold those tears as new sci- fi/political conspiracy/overly- complex thriller The Event (Channel 4, Fri 22 Oct, 9pm) is pitching itself at you as a three- for-one telly remedy, though you might also pick up on dashes of Prison Break, Heroes, The Fugitive and 9/11 chucked in. So, we get mystery, political intrigue, some dastardly female operatives and a bunch of extraterrestrials whose existence since being shot from the skies in 1944 has been covered up; those aliens are a cost-effective crew as they look just like you or I which rather conveniently keeps the make-up budget down.
Ratings figures from the States suggest that viewers have been getting out of there with more enthusiasm than an ascending Chilean miner and while they may have stolen their credit fonts, the twists and cliffhangers here wouldn’t have made it past 24’s first draft stage. In a neat little dig at JJ Abrams and his interminable and never less than barmy Lost saga, executive producer Evan Katz stated that with The Event, ‘everything is designed to answer questions so you’re not frustrated or feeling like we’re making it up as we go along’. Whether there’ll be enough of us around to witness whatever resolution they’ve concocted is another question.
Feeling a little Lost?