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The Big Line 2013 Inwards Fifteen Countries

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

You equally good tin give the sack hold upwardly business office of the world's biggest drawing festival!

These events are for those who honey to draw, together with those who mean value 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 learn dorsum to drawing
  • created the longest drawing inward the globe (the globe tape was laid at 1 kilometre)
  • organised the greatest pose out of people drawing simultaneously (c.7,000)
  • created enjoyable drawing spaces inward national museums, Trafalgar Square, Somerset House - together with the hole-and-corner tunnel which runs betwixt the museums inward South Kensington!
  • created hundreds of novel together with enjoyable drawing activities that connect people of all ages amongst museums, outdoor spaces, artists - together with each other.
There's lots of kids involved - but it's NOT only most children. This post service is going to hold upwardly most what's happening this twelvemonth for you, your children together with your grandchildren OR your Mum together with Dad together with 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 past times Quentin Blake.  The master inspiration came from visionary Victorian creative somebody together with author John Ruskin, whose mission was to learn people how to meet through drawing.
The Campaign for Drawing aims to learn everyone drawing. It raises drawing’s profile equally a powerful tool for thinking, creating together with communicating. Its long-term ambition is to alter the agency drawing is perceived together with used past times earth together with professionals. 
The Campaign’s annual flagship, The Big Draw, proves that drawing tin give the sack hold upwardly a world activeness equally good equally a individual passion.

The Campaign also demonstrates that drawing tin give the sack also connect communities. Over chiliad organisations inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland together with xv other countries participate - including India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, New Zealand together with Brazil.  They all offering events for all ages together with abilities.
Drawing is of import for happiness together with a feel of consummate humanity.Andrew Marr, Campaign Patron
This is the 14th Big Draw together with at that topographic point volition hold upwardly events in over 750 venues across the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland inward October.
With the Big Draw nosotros seem to stimulate got struck something inward the national consciousness - it's equally though everybody had only been waiting to hold upwardly told that they are allowed to draw. Perhaps it isn't surprising - nosotros alive nether a bombardment of manufactured images, together with inward the seem upwardly of that nosotros bespeak to hold upwardly able to depict equally a agency of discovering the reality of the globe most us, equally good equally the life inward ourselves. Sir Quentin Blake, Campaign Patron

The Big Draw
what happens when y'all operate your imagination on a REALLY BIG slice of paper!
Image courtesy of The Big Draw

The Really Big "Big Draw" Event: 


There's ever i actually BIG upshot every Big Draw - together with this twelvemonth it's going to hold upwardly only upwardly the route from me!  I'll in all probability walk there.

Your Park: Your Big Draw. 

This volition accept 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 together with DIY fine art installations for all ages.

What y'all bespeak to learn involved

  • No coin - it's free (but y'all must mass 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 help people to ready concertina sketchbooks, albums together with artist’s books. 
    • There are 2 workshops 11.30-1.00; 2.30-4pm.  
    • Both are Free, but tickets must hold upwardly 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 together with workshops: Drop inward - betwixt 11am together with 5pm
    • A squad of xxx artists volition run activities together with workshops inward reply to London’s unique novel park. They volition hold upwardly leading experiments amongst recycled materials, walk-through installations, filmed animation, electrical drawings, origami, architectural drawing together with much more.
    • The Draw Tomorrow topic volition inspire participants to invent buildings, blueprint gardens together with exercise fashions for the future. 
    • Drop-in workshops volition operate wild together with wacky methods to generate wise ideas for sustainability. 
    • Nature lovers tin give the sack explore the park, sketch its works life together with fauna, together with help a giant caterpillar locomote out its cocoon. 

Who are the artists / arts organisations involved?


    How to learn there

    On the agency to the Park
    • either driblet inward to The White Building, White Post Lane, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN to start your drawing circuit,
    • or accept business office inward a map-drawing relay from Stratford Station to the commons 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 give the sack define a search which identifies the events that y'all tin give the sack access easily.
    Drawing should hold upwardly 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 hold upwardly held throughout the UK 


    Hundreds of drawing activities are going to hold upwardly held inward schools, museums, galleries together with 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; six - 11; 12 - xvi and 16+).

    So, for example, at that topographic point are 44 drawing events during Oct 2013 for people aged 16+ together with over inside five miles of where I live.  Some of these volition hold upwardly for all ages.  Some of these are for people who stimulate 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 together with non only for children. Find ways to bring together the wider drawing community on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest together with The Big Draw blog.

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