Dumisani and Doodle Day Updates
Posted at 11:31 AM (PDT) on Tuesday, July 13, 2004

North Ealing School, in Pitshanger Lane, Ealing, won a Hewlett Packard Tablet PC in the first ever National Doodle Day competition which was held in aid of the Epilepsy Action and The Neurofibromatosis Association charities. Click here to read all about it. Over 350 celebrity doodles appeared in an exhibition alongside winning doodles from around the UK. A selection will be featured in a National Doodle Day book to raise additional funds. An on-line auction of celebrity doodles raised over £15,000 for the two charities.

Next year, February will be National Doodle Month in the UK. The NfA and Epilepsy Action charities hope to get the whole world doodling in due course!

At the Dumisani event last Saturday, the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble played beautiful heartfelt music for about 45 minutes followed by a Question and Answer session with Gillian that went on for about 75 minutes. A report on many of the questions answered is available at GAuk.

Note: There seems to be some confusion regarding a CD whose title Gillian couldn't remember. It's been verified that the CD she was referring to is Music for Egon Schiele by Rachel's.

Thanks to a couple of fans who attended the event, we have pictures and sound files of Gillian answering questions.

Click here to view pictures from the event, including the beautiful handmade invitations given to everyone who had an entry ticket. The first 8 pictures are courtesy of Keven and the rest are from the NfA.

And here are sound clips, courtesy of Louise:

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- Irish.wav
- Life.wav
- Oi.wav
- SOL.wav
- X-Files.wav

On behalf of the NfA and Buskaid, thank you very much to everyone who helped make Dumisani a resounding success!