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Glenn Copperstone (1984 -   ), a Maltese artist. Glenn Copperstone was born on the 9th of July 1984. Baptized in the old church of Fgura, the one built in Carmelite Street. At the age of 1, he was brought to live in Tarxien with his parents and brother where he is currently living. Attended the Paola Primary school and “St. Elijah College”, a Carmelite secondary school. Afterwards he finished a four-year course in the MCAST Art and Design College in Mosta. Currently he is working as a draughtsman in a private company. A particular interest in local feast was in him from a younger age, where his spare time always designing feast decorations on a small piece of paper. From the year 2001, he embarked in more bigger and more professional work. Glenn already made several pavilions for home balconies and began shading decorative banners for the feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin in Tarxien, set pavilions for Qormi, Fgura and wooden pelmits for Valletta. His work is spread in Tarxien, Paola, Fgura, Valletta, Zebbug, Saint Paul’s Bay, Msida, Qormi, Sernglea and Gwardamanga. Apart from the shading, Glenn’s hobbies are photography, the computer where he likes creating websites, pictures or even editing photos, walking in the countryside or near the sea, music of genres (Heavy Metal) and the traditional local feasts. He also likes to listen to soundtracks of movies and band Marches especially Funeral Marches where he owns more than 50 different cd. He also collects the feast programs where from when he began collecting them in 1995, already has over 1100 book. He also made up his personal website www.freewebs.com/sfumar Glenn is firmly involved in feasts where he is part of the “Annunciation” Cultural and Decorating Club in Tarxien. He helps in decorating for the Titular feast of the Annunciation, in Christmas and in Good Friday, also for 4 years together with the same club, in the Carnival of Malta, with a dance company where they achieved prestigious success in the higher category. Towards the end of the year 2006 Glenn was chosen as the webmaster of the official site "Annunciation" Cultural and Decorating Club with there site www.stillieritarxien.com. In 2008, he was appointed member of the committee of the same decorating club.