The Banner is finished and in place for all to see at 6-8 Market Street, Edinburgh, just around the corner from Waverley Station. Click here to see a high resolution image. Can you see your letter? See below to find out if it was included. 
Has your letter been chosen? How to find out…
Click HERE to view an alphabetical list of all the contributors - Check to see if your name is there. If it is, you will find beside your name the letter that you painted, and also, in red, your code number: remember this code number.
Next, click HERE to view a “Map” of the banner – it is a table showing all the letters, in verse and banner order - each with a code number below it. Look for your code number – it should be easy to find: you will now know where to find your letter in the banner.
Any problems? The ‘BurnsBanner’ Project Manager for the SPL is Jonathan Meuli who can be emailed on: jm101@talktalk.net
A little background
In partnership with artist Stephen Raw, the Scottish Poetry Library invited the Scottish Diaspora and those closer to home, to paint a letter which to go into a Burns Banner. Showing two verses of ‘A Man’s a Man for A’ That’, this huge artwork, situated in the centre of Edinburgh, is designed to celebrate Robert Burns 250th anniversary. The Burns Banner is due to be unfurled during the Edinburgh Festival on August 6th 2009 and forms one of the events for ‘Homecoming Scotland’. This project is funded by the Scottish Arts Council.
The Banner is located on Market Street, opposite the Electric Circus nightclub. It was made from painted letters chosen from hundreds of participants, including some from the Scottish Diaspora. Check out the video of the making – by film-maker Juliet Rees – on the home page!
The individual letters were painted and then photographed. From those submitted the letters were chosen for their suitability and digitised and placed into position. When the design was finished, the large artwork was printed on PVC, and displayed in Market Street.
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