Brand New!! The Big Depict 2013 Inwards Xv Countries

More than 200,000 people inward 15 dissimilar countries are expected to larn involved inward The 2013 Big Draw which this twelvemonth runs from 1 Oct to iii November.

You likewise tin flaming travel business office of the world's biggest drawing festival!

These events are for those who dear to draw, too those who intend they can't.

This is the 14th twelvemonth of the Big Draw. Since it started inward 2000, The Big Draw has:

encouraged over 1,000,000 people to larn dorsum to drawing
created the longest drawing inward the basis (the basis tape was laid at 1 kilometre)
organised the greatest position out of people drawing simultaneously (c.7,000)
created enjoyable drawing spaces inward national museums, Trafalgar Square, Somerset House - too the undercover tunnel which runs betwixt the museums inward South Kensington!
created hundreds of novel too enjoyable drawing activities that connect people of all ages amongst museums, outdoor spaces, artists - too each other.

There's lots of kids involved - but it's NOT only near children. This post service is going to travel near what's happening this twelvemonth for you, your children too your grandchildren OR your Mum too Dad too grandparents!

Drawing faces at the National Portrait Gallery inward 2012
Image courtesy of The Big Draw

What is The Big Draw?

The Big Draw is run past times the Campaign for Drawing - laid upwardly past times Quentin Blake. The master copy inspiration came from visionary Victorian creative mortal too author John Ruskin, whose mission was to learn people how to meet through drawing.

The Campaign for Drawing aims to larn everyone drawing. It raises drawing’s profile every bit a powerful tool for thinking, creating too communicating. Its long-term ambition is to alter the agency drawing is perceived too used past times Earth too professionals.

The Campaign’s annual flagship, The Big Draw, proves that drawing tin flaming travel a world activeness every bit good every bit a individual passion.

The Campaign also demonstrates that drawing tin flaming also connect communities. Over K organisations inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland too 15 other countries participate - including India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, New Zealand too Brazil. They all offering events for all ages too abilities.

Drawing is of import for happiness too a feel of consummate humanity.Andrew Marr, Campaign Patron

This is the 14th Big Draw too in that place volition travel events in over 750 venues across the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland inward October.

With the Big Draw nosotros look to get got struck something inward the national consciousness - it's every bit though everybody had only been waiting to travel told that they are allowed to draw. Perhaps it isn't surprising - nosotros alive nether a bombardment of manufactured images, too inward the aspect upwardly of that nosotros involve to travel able to depict every bit a agency of discovering the reality of the basis near us, every bit good every bit the life inward ourselves. Sir Quentin Blake, Campaign Patron

The Big Draw
what happens when you lot purpose your imagination on a REALLY BIG slice of paper!
Image courtesy of The Big Draw

The Really Big "Big Draw" Event:

There's ever 1 actually BIG consequence every Big Draw - too this twelvemonth it's going to travel only upwardly the route from me! I'll belike walk there.

Your Park: Your Big Draw.

This volition get got house at the ready novel Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford E20 3BB (next to the Olympic Stadium) on Sabbatum 12 October, 11am - 5pm. It's an opened upwardly invitation to celebrate the novel Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park amongst a 24-hour interval of costless fun activities too DIY fine art installations for all ages.

What you lot involve to larn involved

No coin - it's free (but you lot must majority for the Artist Books event)
No fine art materials - these are also provided free
Just convey your imagination!

What's happening

Make Artist Books: London Centre for Book Arts are going to assistance people to ready concertina sketchbooks, albums too artist’s books.

There are ii workshops 11.30-1.00; 2.30-4pm.
Both are Free, but tickets must travel booked inward advance via the Big Draw Shop.

Sketch Mob: 2pm: Walk & Draw architecture amongst Drawing at Work, starts at the Timber Lodge Terrace.
Other activities too workshops: Drop inward - betwixt 11am too 5pm

A squad of thirty artists volition run activities too workshops inward reply to London’s unique novel park. They volition travel leading experiments amongst recycled materials, walk-through installations, filmed animation, electrical drawings, origami, architectural drawing too much more.
The Draw Tomorrow topic volition inspire participants to invent buildings, pattern gardens too practise fashions for the future.
Drop-in workshops volition purpose wild too wacky methods to generate wise ideas for sustainability.
Nature lovers tin flaming explore the park, sketch its industrial plant too fauna, too assistance a giant caterpillar larn out its cocoon.

Who are the artists / arts organisations involved?

Bad Things Creations,
Jeanette Barnes (see her drawings of the evolution of the Olympic site - correct side past times side to her studio!) ,
Rebecca Birch,
Louise Clarke,
Codasign (see their weblog post near an consequence they ran inward the common this summer),
Carlos Cortes too the Build Your Worlds Collective,
East London Mobile Workshop (ELMO),
Tom Grimsey,
Hicks 54,
nk Illustration,
London Centre for Book Arts (the UK’s showtime open-access majority arts resources too educational centre, located inward Fish Island, side past times side to the Olympic site inward due east London) ,
Nick Marsh,
Ministry of Making,
Bob Motown,
Museum of Tomorrow,
Raksha Patel,
Sketch Mob,
Pen Pushers,
Tracey & Hobbs

How to larn there

Train: Hackney Wick, Stratford & Stratford International;
Bus: 588 from Hackney Wick & Stratford City Station;
Find out to a greater extent than near carry to the common at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park website
This is a map of the Queen Elizabeth Park relative to Stratford stations etc
You tin flaming DOWNLOAD THE MAP

On the agency to the Park

either drib inward to The White Building, White Post Lane, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN to start your drawing circuit,
or get got business office inward a map-drawing relay from Stratford Station to the common gates.

Supported by: Creative & Cultural Skills, Drawing at Work, East London Mobile Workshop, GF Smith, Posca, SPACE, Stour Space & The Wick Art Store
Produced past times Continental Drifts; Hosted past times Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Other events

See www.campaignfordrawing.org/bigdraw/search.aspx for details of ALL events. You tin flaming define a search which identifies the events that you lot tin flaming access easily.

Drawing should travel business office of visual education, inward the same agency that press-ups are business office of an athlete’s training.David Hockney OM CH, Campaign Patron

Over 750 events volition travel held throughout the UK

Hundreds of drawing activities are going to travel held inward schools, museums, galleries too heritage sites.

England - 638 events
Scotland 42 events
Wales - 28 events
Northern Republic of Ireland - 2 events

Some are targeted at specific historic catamenia groups (ie 0 - 5; vi - 11; 12 - sixteen and 16+).

So, for example, in that place are 44 drawing events during Oct 2013 for people aged 16+ too over inside v miles of where I live. Some of these volition travel for all ages. Some of these are for people who get got physical or sensory impairments.

International Big Draw Events

There are 67 overseas events at diverse venues from the Art Institute of Chicago to the Museu Picasso de Barcelona!

The Bottom Line

Drawing is non only for Oct too non only for children. Find ways to bring together the wider drawing community on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest too The Big Draw blog.