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Well the The Great North Snowdog adventure is over - The grand auction was held last night at the Sage Gateshead, and it was a really fun night, 63 dogs, large and small were auctioned off over the course of three hours and there were a lot of very good spirited people in the room and lots of cash was splashed! http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/update/2016-12-07/great-north-snowdogs-raise-over-250-000-for-charity/ Thanks to the generous bids across the room, by telephone and from the internet the dogs made a total of £252000 - which is amazing and we were thrilled to bits when our Wor Geordie contributed £4500 towards that total.  I am so very proud to have been part of the team and part of the whole event.   Theres live coverage of the sale on this link... https://www.facebook.com/NewcastleCollege/videos/1475793682449149/ While I have to admit being a little disappointed about our Crowdfunding attempt, I know I was always very optimistic but nothing ventured nothing...

Snowdog Launch Day... Wor Geordie Its all very exciting....... The Great North Snowdog trail begins today - yes snowdogs in the North East...  an art installation arranged by Wild in Art  a company who work nationally with community groups, artists and schools to showcase interesting art in different cities and in doing so support various chosen charities. http://www.wildinart.co.uk/ They are putting 60 giant fibre glass snowdogs in and around the North East and Northumberland each designed and painted by a different artist and when they have been on show for 10 weeks they will be auctioned and all profits will go to St Oswalds Hospice  http://www.stoswaldsuk.org/ painting in progress And our Snowdog 'Wor Geordie' is standing proudly outside St Nicholas's Cathedral in Newcastle..... Back in May time myself and four other students with the encouragement (and organisational expertise) of a college tutor submitted a design loosely based on some work ...

Great couple of days painting the snow dog for the Great North Snow Dog event to be on show later this year - very tempted to post some pictures but apart from the fact we are not allowed to share images until the launch I also think it would spoil the overall surprise of the finished object - here is just one small sneaky preview that doesn't give too much away but its safe to say its looking really good and its been such good fun - so pleased that Rachael came up with the idea and I really appreciate her hard work and encouragement to make it happen (and also the doughnuts),  The sponsors came in to take some photographs and see how we were progressing and they seemed very pleased with the ongoing painting.  The final piece is likley to live outside the Cathedral near the Old Post Office building which now houses our sponsors NBS mystery bit of our Snow Dog ..... We've had fun each designing the individual pieces which have come together extremely well to create a very...

a naked unpainted Great Snow dog Our PGSE student - now employed by the college inspired some of us students to get involved and submit a design for the great north snowdog -  http://www. greatnorthsnowdogs.co.uk/  .  This initiative is one of a long line of similar events that have been done all over the country by a company called Wild in Art.    http://www.wildinart.co.uk    This Newcastle initiative supports St Oswalds Hospice and artists from anywhere can submit a design and be part of the experience.  Our tutor and mentor put the final design together from work we submitted and last week we got the news that the design had been accepted and it had been selected by a sponsor.  Today we went to meet the sponsors - an engineering firm NBS based in the Old Post Office opposite the cathedral.  the company are quite large and employ a large number of local people and they did explain what they did - I'm a bit hopeless, ...