Call to Action
Please review the message following sent from the Robert Burns Association of North America for your consideration.
Thanks
David MacMillan, Secretary
Burns Club of St. Andrew
Call to Action - Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in the Art Fund Prize, final round
Dear Burnsians,
We have received an appeal from Scotland to pay
tribute to Robert Burns, Scotland's National Bard, while supporting the
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in its bid to win the UK Art Fund Prize.
Nat Edwards, Director Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway writes:-
“I am writing to ask each of you to support Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in its bid to win the Art Fund Prize the UK's biggest arts prize. We are honoured to have made it to the final short list of 4 museums. the award will be announced on the evening of 15 June. ”
You can register your support for the museum by voting in the final round of public polling on line at:-
You may wish to copy, or adapt, the following statement into the comment box, as you fill in the voting page.
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum is an independently-minded, intelligent, fresh and genuinely accessible museum that presents the best of the legacy of Robert Burns. It is the only literary museum; it has grown from a real community effort; it takes risks; it promotes the Scots language in a way no other museum has ever attempted; it has a truly internationalist outlook and it stands proudly for the principles of Love and Liberty that guided the Poetic Genius of Robert Burns, which is appreciated on a Global Scale.
Please encourage your friends to support the museum in this competition.
You may receive this from several contacts as we too have, but the
important thing is to VOTE!
Yours aye
Ron Ballantyne