ONE OF the major art events of the year, opening on Sunday at St Peter's Church Hall, Newlyn, on the eve of the Fish Festival, the 30th annual art exhibition, held in aid of the Children's Society, promises to be as aesthetically pleasing and financially successful as it has since its inception.
Although it is not known how much earlier exhibitions raised, during the past seven years its organising committee, recently singled out for praise by Vanessa Jones, the Children's Society's community fundraising manager in the South West for its splendid efforts, has been able to send the society cheques for more than £16,000.
This is a pro-am exhibition in which works by professional and amateur artists hang happily alongside one another. Last year it contributed several hundred pounds alone in hanging fees – it is as colourful as it is cheerful. The only sad note is that today the Children's Society, which came into being in 1881, not all that long after the death of Charles Dickens who crusaded so powerfully for improvements in the plight of children, should still be needed.
A society which spends every penny it receives on children in need, the exhibition is on view in St Peter's Church Hall, 11am to 5pm daily, until Saturday, September 3..
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