The Free Expression awards is one of our major fundraising events. This year’s ceremony will feature a charity auction, with money raised going towards Index’s work at home and abroad
Lots include:
See your name in Howard Jacobson’s next book
This prize has got your name on it. Howard Jacobson, whose Man Booker prize-winning novel The Finkler Question has been called “impeccable” in its characterisation, will name one of his characters after you in his next book.
Hang a Peter Blake print on your wall
Peter Blake is one of Britain’s greatest living artists. Knighted in 2002 for his services to art, Blake has continued to create iconic pieces of work as he proudly develops into his self-titled “Late Period”. Take this chance to snap up a signed print of his iconic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band cover, one of a limited edition of 50.
Five days in heaven at Jade Mountain Resort, St Lucia
With unparalleled views of the Pitons and the Caribbean Sea, Jade Mountain Resort was carefully designed to make the best of St Lucia’s magnificent natural landscape. Enjoy five nights in a magnificent double room. Jade Mountain won the Conde Nast Johansens 2011 Most Excellent Romantic Hideaway Award, and has been showered with prizes naming it the Caribbean’s most desirable and exclusive luxury resort.
Knock out some tunes on Mark Knopfler’s guitar
Become the proud owner of a Fender Signature Stratocaster designed and signed by Mark Knopfler. This beautifully made guitar features a ’57-style ash body, a vintage-tinted ’62 C-shaped maple neck with rosewood fingerboard and five-way switching to help you recreate guitar legend Mark Knopfler’s unmistakable sound.
Get away to Tuscany
This beautiful 18th century villa sits alone on a hill above the village of Paganico, with glorious views of the South Tuscan countryside. Take your nine favourite people with you and spread out in comfort with five double ensuite bedrooms, three sitting rooms, two terraces, a dining room and a big country kitchen. There is a large pool outside or good beaches just 45 minutes away.
Please note, the villa has limited availability in the summer. Click here for pictures
Have a Martin Rowson cartoon makeover
See your best — or worst — features picked out for special attention in a personal caricature by Martin Rowson, winner of the 2010 Political Cartoonist of the Year Award. Rowson dissects the good, the bad and the ugly for the Guardian, Index on Censorship and other leading publications, and was appointed “Cartoonist Laureate” of London.
A beautiful Paris apartment for a long weekend
Look out from the window of this beautiful one bedroom flat in the Marais, next to the Bastille Metro. Only five minutes’ walk from the Place des Vosges and Isle Saint Louis, take the chance to live like a Parisian and make the most of the city. You could even bring friends — as well as a double bed, there is a sofa bed in the sitting room. Situated in a quiet block, this flat wasc very recently renovated and has everything you’ll need. Click here for pictures
Own one of Nick Danziger’s most famous political photographs
April 8: 2.30pm. Reception hall, Hillsborough Castle, Northern Ireland Tony Blair and George Bush feature in this print of Danziger’s famous “mirror image” photograph, winner of the World Press Photo 1st Prize in 2004. You could own this piece of history, taken while Danziger accompanied Blair on a 30-day study of a prime minister at war.
