World reading day on April 23, CTAM wellbeing lanched the Share Book Relay through daily  clock in. A very impressive and great book list generated：）

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W&N excited to attend the Portrait Society of America Annual Conference 2022, Atlanta. With over 400 artists attending, and 20+ VIP artists delivering workshops, and taking part in live paint offs. Great to be able to get back out and meet our consumers directly at these shows. We were selling, sampling and talking with the audience, one of our fav TFAC artists Jim Bergersen was  there demonstrating the new AOC colours and cad free with @ellie_deakin managing the booth sales.  Lots of opportunity for W&N AOC with this community of portrait painters.

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UK Retailer London Graphics Centre has launched it very own Art Prize, with the backing of its owner Theo Paphitis.  Theo Paphitis, a well-known TV dragon (Dragon’s Den) and retail entrepreneur, has owned London Graphic Centre since 2016, which is also part of his retail group including Boux Avenue, Robert Dyas and Ryman.

Theo has launched this new art prize after being inspired by his customers and how they used art so positively during the Pandemic.

We have fantastic representation of brands in LGC, which was recently highlighted in a townhall by Dennis after a London Store visit with our group CEO Paul Schrotti.  Great work by @Guy Peeke-Vout continuing to build our brands and our in store stand out. And thanks to @Ivo Matic for the marketing support.

As you can see from the image, as well as the links to the prize page and youtube video, Theo stands proudly by the Winsor & Newton stand for this video… despite having a large store, it is clear this is the most impressive place to be! (LB is in the background, unfortunately you cant see Liquitex in the shot).

Colart UK are supporting this initiative through some product as part of the prize.  Minimal spend, but great stand out and partnership!

https://www.londongraphics.co.uk/theo-paphitis-art-prize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wpLuDOfh5A

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Thank you Dennis for shouting out our Earth Day Snazaroo email send-out during the Town Hall session today.In addition to Gareth’s amazing post below that brilliantly covers all things Earth Day 2022, I’m sharing below the written overview from our email. It provides a great, brief snapshot of the Snazaroo sustainability journey so far + to come. 
 
🌍 Happy Earth Day 🌍
Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do. It’s a journey for us, and we’re constantly looking at ways we can improve, whilst also celebrating what we have already achieved.💚 We minimise all single use plastic, not only in the packaging of our products but also throughout the manufacturing and supply chain processes. Where we must use plastic, we ensure it can be easily recycled and contains as much recycled material as possible. Cardboard will always be our preference and we use FSC certified card and paper everywhere possible. Freight, energy usage and waste CO2 emission reductions are also high on our agenda and played a large part in our relocation in Summer 2021 to a new facility in Minehead, Somerset that runs on renewable energy.💚 We’ve got big plans for our future too – extending our range of Bio Glitter and discontinuing listings of our plastic glitter is next on our agenda for later this year. And that’s just for starters!
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2022 EARTH DAY THEME IS “INVEST IN OUR PLANET”
FRIDAY 22ND APRIL IS EARTH DAY
Earth Day have defined their theme, Invest in our planet as;

1. BUILD A PROPOSEROUS AND EQUITABLE FUTURE – actions by businesses
2. BUILD HEALTHY CITIES, COUNTRIES AND ECONOMIES- actions by governments
3. ITS THE ONLY HOME WE HAVE, WE NEED EVERYONE, WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME – actions by individuals

For more information on this, check out the Earth Day site by clicking here

AND IF THIS HAS INSPIRED ACTION ON YOUR PART … then head here for the Earth Day Action Toolkit.

FINALLY – why not test how much you know about Climate Change by clicking here and completing the Earth Day quiz (there’s only 11 questions and it doesn’t take long and you learn lots on the way).

Post your results in the COMMENTS box below … let’s ignite a conversation.

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