Arts Beyond the Classroom

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The National PORTRAIT Gallery

from nickcan | Feb 8, 2010 nickcan

Thank you to those who came along on Saturday. My parents thought you were all amazing and mum went on and on about how polite and interesting all the children were. She was stunned by how you were all so willing to chat to her (clearly more willing than I am!!!). Living out in the wilds of Devon I think she has been reading too many newspaper reports and listening to the telly all of which say that the children of Hackney are wild! Well done for showing her that the newspapers get it wrong!!! You are all amazing! I hope you were inspired by what you saw at the Gallery, I've certainly decided to focus on making my subjects look happy! Thanks to Ronnie and Kay for going to the National Gallery - sorry we were round the corner in the PORTRAIT gallery but I hope you had a good time anyway. There's a blogging sesion at Jubilee on Wednesday 10th so you can write up all your thoughts and try to get some pictures on the blog? Hope to see you there. Thanks again for Saturday.



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