LONDON HIGHLIGHT
Join the 2010 Big Draw to
Make your Mark on the Future
Free 2-day drawing festival from London Bridge to Tower Bridge
Friday 22 October and Saturday 23 October 2010, 11.00- 5.30
Can't Draw? Love To Draw?
Make your way to London Bridge!
Join our top team of artists, architects, archaeologists and cartoonists in a celebration of London's changing riverside and skylines. Draw the future and re-visit the past in a series of creative workshops. Discover 10,000 years of trading history. Follow Southwark's monuments trail – from a cross-legged knight and alabaster Shakespeare to Mr and Mrs Everyman in Douglas Fir. Take your cues from ancient stonemasons' graffiti and the latest technology.
Activities for all ages at neighbouring venues, include:
Southwark Cathedral:
Interpret the architecture, stained glass windows and mediaeval ‘spitting’ images. Add to a giant timeline of 10,000 years of developments – from Mesolithic to 21st century.
Potters Fields Park:
Visit the Drawing Stall, where every completed drawing can be exchanged for one made earlier by artists or other visitors. Make mono prints at the PrintBike, a mobile studio created by The Drawing Shed.
The Scoop, More London:
Illustrate the storyteller’s elemental tale of fire, water, earth and skylines on a huge mural.
Watch the famous annual Battle of the Cartoonists (23 October).
Old Guy's Hospital, Thomas Street, (23 October ):
Explore the hospital’s 400 AD origins, 18th century chapel, its courtyards, colonnades and roll call of heroes. Help design the future.
Hay's Galleria
First make your viewfinder, and then Draw the Future.
Unicorn Theatre:
Contribute to the Make Your Mark Visitors' Wall – the possibilities are endless! Draw Silhouettes & Shadows on illuminated frames and fill the Window of Wonder with imagination and colour.
Explore design and urban planning with the artists and architects stationed at easels along the river, from Southwark Cathedral to Tower Bridge.
Join Walk & Draw tours of London Bridge monuments and architectural history (11.30 & 2.15, 23 October)
