Your vote could help the Screen Machine win the first National Lottery Scottish Project of the Year award.
You can vote as many times as you like by telephone or online: the numbers are below.

Public voting opens today Monday 19 September and closes on Monday, 10 October 2005.

Since the lottery began in 1994, more than £1.6bn has been invested in Scottish projects in the fields of the arts, sport, heritage, charities, health, education and the environment. The prize, developed from the Helping Hand award given last year to mark the lottery's 10th anniversary, has been established in recognition of the important work lottery-funded projects do in communities around Scotland.

The winner of the National Lottery Scottish Project of the Year will go forward to the UK final against winning projects from England, Ireland and Wales, which will once again be decided by a national vote.

Staff from the winning Scottish project will be flown south for the UK awards ceremony at the Eden Project in Cornwall on Friday, November 4, when they will receive a trophy. The winner of the UK-wide competition will also be announced. The overall winner for the UK will be showcased on the BBC during the National Lottery games programmes.

Vote by phone : Screen Machine - 0845 434 6827 ( NB Calls are charged at local rates of 4p a minute but only 10
seconds are required to register a vote)

Vote Online : www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk

Read the full story at http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/47258.html

The Screen Machine is also one of the projects which has contributed towards HI~Arts being shortlisted for the Dynamic Place Awards (see http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/dynamicplaceawards ).  The other projects that were also included in the application are the Arts Journal, ArtsPlay and thebooth online ticketing system. (www.thebooth.co.uk) . The awards ceremony will be held on 24th November 2005.