Elaine C Smith: fundraising evening for St Andrew's Hospice

Elaine C Smith performing for St Andrew's Hospice at Airdrie's Sir John Wilson town hall

 

Comedian Elaine C Smith is doing a show to raise funds for Lanarkshire’s St Andrew’s Hospice.

An Audience with Elaine C Smith will be at Airdrie Town Hall on Thursday, April 18.
She said: “I am so pleased to be performing not only in Lanarkshire but also to help raise money for St Andrew’s Hospice – a well-loved local charity which has to raise £57,000 every week in life.
“The hospice is very close to my heart and I can’t wait to see everyone turning out to have a great night and support an amazing cause.”
Read more at Wishaw Press

Citizens Theatre: fundraising evening and auction

TELL ME THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE
An evening with Maureen Beattie and friends.
Join us for an evening of poetry and prose celebrating love in all its guises.
Maureen Beattie presents a special revue show for one night only to help raise funds for the Seat Restoration campaign.
From the wit of Oscar Wilde to the glorious poetry of Robert Burns, from the sketches of Victoria Wood to the plays of William Shakespeare. Maureen has assembled a dream cast including Simon Russell Beale, described by The Independent as “the greatest stage actor of his generation”, Scottish stage and TV star Siobhan Redmond and Lord of the Rings favourite Billy Boyd.
14 Apr 2013
The event will include a celebrity auction hosted by Johnny Beattie and BBC TV star and auctioneer Anita Manning.

CELEBRITY AUCTION
Bring your wallets on the night to bid on a host of great prizes donated by celebrities in our charity auction. Prizes include:
- An original painting by Scottish artist Robert Kelsey
- A photo donated by Alan Cumming
- A script & DVD of the film Decoy Bride signed by its stars David Tennant and Kelly MacDonald
- Dinner with Tam Cowan reviewing a Glasgow restaurant
- A meal for two with Johnny Beattie and Libby McArthur and a copy of the River City book signed by the whole cast
- and more to be announced

All proceeds to the Citizens Theatre Seat Restoration Fund

Read more at the Citizens Theatre website

Alan Cumming: Obama Swing State fundraiser, photography debut, interviews

Alan Cumming and Cyndi Lauper host Obama Swing State Fundraiser at Dixon Place
Join Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper and guests for an evening of performance, discussion and a silent auction in New York at "Obama Victory Fund 2012 - The Last Hurrah for the Swing States".

The event will be held at Dixon Place, located at 161A Chrystie Street (between Rivington and Delancy) in New York City on Monday, October 22, 2012.

Doors open at 7 p.m. with the beginning of the silent auction. Items being auctioned off include work from leading photographers and fashion designers. Performances start at 8 p.m. and the livestream of the final Presidential debate begins at 9 p.m.

To attend, RSVP HERE.

Source: Broadway World

• Alan has blogged about the event - and a forthcoming auction - here

INTERVIEW: Alan Cumming on Any Day Now, his memoir, and acting choices
Another lovely interview (with video) from the Hamptons International Film Festival
Read it at Hamptons        


'Alan Cumming Snaps!': The 'Good Wife' actor's Photography Debut (SLIDESHOW) 
When he's not destroying political enemies as Eli Gold on the CBS drama The Good Wife, Alan Cumming practices a different kind of aim-and-shoot. From now until Nov. 4, the Scottish-born actor's first ever photography exhibition drops down at the Paul Smith gallery in Los Angeles. The concerns of Alan Cumming Snaps! aren't exotic so much as exotically familiar: the OBE presents cherries, knees, and -- because how can you not -- some truly charming selfies.

Scroll through our favorites from the show below, all of which have been filtered through an "app that makes them square and saturates the colors, like a Polaroid," according to Cumming's artist's statement. Three guesses on what that could be!
Source (with slideshow): Huffington Post


Alan Cumming on shooting videos of his big nights out
From New York Post:

Alan Cumming is a video vigilante, sometimes turning the camera on himself. 

“I see things on the street and video them just in case,” he told us at an event for Peter Gabriel’s Witness, a human rights organization that teaches activists how to take footage, at Roseland on Thursday. 

The Good Wife star Cumming said, “Sometimes on my phone in the morning after a big night out I look at the things I have taken like, ‘Oh.’ There is evidence like that of some disastrous occurrence.”

Source: New York Post