A local community group has got 60+ artists to design table tennis rackets which are now being sold at a silent auction to raise money for Drumchapel Table Tennis Club. Here’s how to get involved.
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00:00In terms of the auction, we've got a page on the website that people can go to where they can bid for the paddles as part of the silent auction that runs through the 20th, after which the remaining paddles that potentially don't have a bid on them, they'll be available for a general purchase and at which point once all the paddles are sold off, all the proceeds will go straight to Drum Chapel Table Tennis Club.
00:18In terms of Table Tennis Scotland, not just the Drum Chapel Club, but there's so many other clubs and places that you can play in Scotland and the whole thing is putting a bit of a spotlight on the sport and just getting people involved and really just to get people playing, it doesn't have to just be the clubs, it can be in the workplace, it can be in different places, as many places you can play, as Terry says, just pick up a bat and start playing.
00:40There is a real connection, as well, I'd say, in the kind of creative industry to table tennis just in general. We all play table tennis upstairs in here as well, it's kind of replaced any smoking breaks it could have been, you know.
00:51But yeah, in terms of a lot of the artists and designers who take part, every single time we speak to them, they come back to us and they say, oh, well, I've been playing table tennis all my life or I used to play in a club here or do this or do that.
01:00So everyone seems to have some kind of connection to it and it's also incredible to see how many people involved in exhibition here who actually have a connection to Drum Chapel and the Drum Chapel Club as well.
01:09So it's a small world and it's a pretty small industry as well, yeah.
01:13In terms of artists, like, you know, we run a creative agency in Glasgow, we know a lot of kind of illustrators and artists and designers just through kind of natural environment of what we do.
01:23But I think what's interesting about it is getting so many of people in the same area into the same room that maybe haven't ever connected before.
01:29So not just like us being introduced to different artists, but a lot of different artists and creatives, you know, mingling with each other and seeing the different projects and connections that come out from that as well.
01:38So, yeah, it's just such a kind of nice community project and so much collaboration involved in it as well.