|
| Venue: | Affordable Art Fair |
| Address: | Battersea Park Events Arena, Battersea Park, Chelsea Bridge Gate entrance Battersea, Wandsworth SW11 4NJ
Tel: 020 8246 4848 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Food, Glorious Food!" |
| Description: | The theme of this Autumn's AAF Education Programme is 'Food, Glorious Food!' - we will explore food in art, making art with food and have a number of very exciting artists such as Emma Dibben (illustrator for Waitrose carrier bags) and Jennifer Wilkinson (designer and founder of wallpaper-by-numbers) leading hands on workshops for all ages and abilities. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 21, 22, 23, 24
11am-6pm each day |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: Advance - £10 wkday, £12 wkend or On door - £12 wkday, £15 wkend CONCS AVAILABLE, Under 16s FREE |
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| Venue: | Bank of England Museum |
| Address: | Bartholomew Lane, London, Corporation Of The City Of London EC2R 8AH
Tel: 0207 601 5545 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw - Designs on your money" |
| Description: | Learn about banknote security features then design your own secure banknote.
Enter our competition with prizes to be won.
No booking required. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
10:00 am - 5:00 pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
|
| Venue: | Battersea Arts Centre |
| Address: | Lavender Hill, Battersea, London, Wandsworth SW11 5TN
Tel: 020 7223 2223 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | London Drawing Presents: The Drawing Theatre
As part of the David Lynch season at BAC this exciting workshop promises to be a surreal fusion of performance and drawing.
Suitable for all levels of ability- accessible for beginners, inspiring and challenging for those with more experience.
Tuition will be available
Saturday 16 October
11-5pm
£40
Basic materials included |
| Audience: | Adults
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 16
11-5pm |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: £40 all basic materials included |
|
| Event title: | "The Drawing Theatre- Special David Lynch Edition" |
| Description: | This special edition of The Drawing Theatre will be held in conjunction with the David Lynch season at BAC. This promises to be a really exciting event drawing on themes and ideas approached in his films- be prepared for a dark and surreal drawing experience not to be missed.... |
| Audience: | Adults
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 16
11-5pm |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: £40 |
|
| Venue: | Blanche Nevile School |
| Address: | Burlington Road, Muswell Hill, Haringey N101NJ
Tel: 02084422750 |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw Treasure Hunt" |
| Description: | GCSE Art students will lead us around a Big Draw treasure hunt, searching for artistic experiences! Which team will win the treasure chest? |
| Audience: | Students
This event is closed to the public |
| Dates: | October 22
11am - 2pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
|
| Venue: | Brockwell Park Community Partners |
| Address: | Herne Hill, London, Lambeth SE24
Tel: 07899 668 038 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Brockwell Big Draw CHALKARAMA" |
| Description: | Chalk the paths, record the view, learn speed drawing in the park. Giant chalks provided. Suited to all ages and abilities - everyone welcome. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 3
12 - 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: FREE |
|
| Venue: | Cafe Gallery Projects |
| Address: | Cafe Gallery, Southwark Park, London, Southwark SE16 2DD
Tel: 020 7237 1230 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Draw directly onto the floor at Grade II Listed Building Dilston Grove. |
| Audience: | Children
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 11 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
|
| Venue: | Centre Court Shopping Centre |
| Address: | 4 Queens Road, Wimbledon, London, Merton SW19 8YD
Tel: 0208 545 3399 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Akira The Don presents...Manga!" |
| Description: | MC, producer and artist Akira The Don will be running this year’s Big Draw event. Held at Wimbledon Centre Court on Saturday October 9th (Big Draw Day), Akira will be using the very latest Manga software to create a live comic strip inspired by shoppers’ dreams of their future. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
All day |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: FREE |
|
| Venue: | Clock Factory |
| Address: | 11 Riverside Road, London, Wandsworth SW17 0BA
Tel: 020 8879 6011 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Big Draw at the Clock Factory" |
| Description: | Come and join a giant inter-active drawing on the theme of ‘time’ at the Clock Factory. Led by artists Sara Mark and Chrissie Moores, this part of ‘TimeLines’; an art exhibition in our exciting venue overlooking the River Wandle that is part of the Wandsworth Artists’ Open House trails. No drawing expertise necessary and materials provided. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 2, 9
11am-1230pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: N/A |
|
| Venue: | Collective Studios |
| Address: | 9 Broomhill Road, London, Wandsworth SW18 4JQ
Tel: 07966 987672 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Collective Studios Big Draw" |
| Description: | The Collective Studios Big Draw project aims to engage families in news ways to look, draw and make prints. By using regular, every day objects to create artwork, we will present families with new techniques and activities that can then be tried at home or at school. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 2, 9
1pm - 5pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
|
| Event title: | "Collective Studios presents The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Families are invited to discover news ways to look, draw and make prints. Using regular, every day objects, new techniques and activities will be presented that can then be tried at home or at school.
There is disabled access to the workshop but no access to a disabled toilet. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 2, 9
1pm-5pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: N/A |
|
| Event title: | "Drop in, Draw and Print!" |
| Description: | Create an unusual still life drawing AND print. Using found objects, fruits, vegetables, leaves and flowers, layer your still life print over a drawing to make something exciting and new.
1pm to 5pm, drop in, children must be accompanied |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 2, 3, 9, 10 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
|
| Venue: | Common, Wimbledon |
| Address: | Wimbledon, London, Merton SW19
Tel: 020 8544 9049 Website |
|
| Event title: | "A Walk with Nature" |
| Description: | With Wimbledon Common Nature Club, we will take a walk with nature & then be inspired to make drawings based on our findings |
| Audience: | Children
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 10
9.30 - 11.30am |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: FREE |
|
| Venue: | Community Centre South Wimbledon |
| Address: | 74 Haydons Road, Wimbledon, Merton SW19 1HL
Tel: 020 8544 9049 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Voyages & Visions" |
| Description: | How could you travel into outer space? What would a London Bus of the future look like? What would be your magical journey & how would you travel? Could you travel through time? |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
1 - 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
|
| Venue: | Community Space (near The Tate Modern) |
| Address: | Bankside 3, Great Guildford Street, London, Southwark SE1 0TF
Tel: 01733 760005 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Transpersonal Art for coaching for change" |
| Description: | Transpersonal Art brings an alchemic perspective to artists and coaches by opening participants to the powerful resources (hidden potentials) that become available as we journey to discover our wholeness. This sacred approach opens you to a more fulfilling vision of who you are and what you can achieve through drawing. |
| Audience: | experienced artists or life coaches
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 2
8-10th September 2010 - Certificate in Transpersonal Coaching Psychology, 11:00- 4:00pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Donation is recommended to cover the cost of venue and refreshments |
|
| Venue: | Creative Drawing Studio |
| Address: | 1097 Finchely Road, Temple Fortune, Barnet NW11 0QB
Tel: 020 8458 0707 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Imagine the Future" |
| Description: | We will learn how to help our planet
by using recycled materials in this
fun-filled week of crafts and drawing!
Each day there will be a different art project based on this theme.
(Advanced booking required) |
| Audience: | Children
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
see website for details, AM sessions: 10.30 - 12 |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: £75 for the week (£15.00 per class) |
|
| Venue: | Cuming Museum |
| Address: | The Old Town Hall, 151 Walworth Road, London, Southwark SE17 1RY
Tel: 020 7525 2332 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Austin Osman Spare: Fallen Visionary" |
| Description: | The fascinating rise and fall of Austin Osman Spare, who lived and worked in Southwark in the early twentieth century, is charted in a new exhibition this Autumn at the Cuming Museum. |
| Audience: | Adults
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29
Exhibition runs from 14 September to 13 November, 10am to 5pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Event title: | "Get messy with the Cuming Explorers" |
| Description: | Explore drawing and painting at this free session for under 5s and their families at the Cuming Museum.
Come and explore the Cuming Museum through play, music, performance, storytelling and crafts. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 14
10am to 11.15am |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Event title: | "Fabulous faces" |
| Description: | Make your own self portrait to add to our on-line gallery, no drawing skills necessary! |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 26
2.30pm to 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Event title: | "Drawing Dreams" |
| Description: | Use your imagination to create your own dream like artwork |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 28
2.30pm to 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Venue: | Department of Foundation Studies |
| Address: | Lewisham College, Lewisham Way, Lewisham, Lewisham SE4 1UT
Tel: 07742561359 |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | College wide Big Draw on the theme of ' Reaching out to make your mark on the future'
Open to students and staff of Lewisham College workshops led by tutor of Skills for Creative Arts
in Breakspeares Building and /or Deptford site |
| Audience: | Adults
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27
special couses open during lunchtimes, |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: open to college students and staff |
|
| Venue: | Design Museum |
| Address: | 28 Shad Thames, London, Southwark SE1 2YD
Tel: 0870 833 9955 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Drawing Rooms" |
| Description: | A workshop for budding young architects to get creative, combining drawing and a variety of modelling materials to turn 2D drawings into a 3D models inspired by the designs of architect John Pawson. |
| Audience: | Children
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 10
2pm - 5pm |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: £4 for children. Museum admission charge for adults £8.50. Children must be accompanied by an adult |
|
| Venue: | Dilston Grove, Southwark |
| Address: | Dilston Grove, Southwark Park, Bermondsey, Southwark Se16 2DD Website |
|
| Event title: | "Make a Space a Place" |
| Description: | A space is merely an empty area, which is available to be used. The space only becomes a place when it is given meaning and purpose. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is closed to the public |
| Dates: | October 11
9.00 - 3.00 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
|
| Venue: | Discover Children's Story Centre |
| Address: | 383-387 High Street, London, Newham E15 4QZ
Tel: 020 8536 5555 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Lauren Child Weekend" |
| Description: | I absolutely must do drawing. Visit the exhibition and then come into our special Charlie and Lola, That Pesky Rat and Princess and the Pea art space. Recreate the funky multi-coloured skyline from That Pesky Rat and plunder our brilliant art materials to make a huge collage inspired by Lauren Child's books.
No need to book just come along on the |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9, 10
11am - 4pm |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: £4.50 each for admission to Discover |
|
| Venue: | Discover Greenwich, The Old Royal Naval College |
| Address: | Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich SE10 9LW
Tel: 02082694799 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw 2010" |
| Description: | Come and join us in Discover Greenwich to celebrate The Big Draw 2010. Make a sketch of your favourite object in the exhibition and then create a print to add to our monster mosaic. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
12.00 - 16.00 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free event |
|
| Venue: | Dulwich Picture Gallery |
| Address: | Gallery Road, London, Southwark SE22 7AD
Tel: 02082998732 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Details to be confirmed in July! |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: £2 per child or FREE with a Gallery ticket |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw Family Drop-in 2010" |
| Description: | Try your hand at drawing a portrait. Dress up using props and costumes and use our special see-through frames to make colourful pieces to display in our portrait room
With Erica Parrett, Sackler Centre Resident Artist
In the Linbury Room |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 31
Just drop in, no need to book, 11 - 4pm |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: £2 per child |
|
| Venue: | Eltham College |
| Address: | Grove Park Road, Mottingham, Bromley SE9 4QF |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw - Eltham College" |
| Description: | Build drawing machines, complete drawing challenges and build a drawing sculpture.Be prepared for the unusual!!!
By invitation only - if you wish to be invited please telephone Elinor Brass at Eltham College
020 8857 1455 |
| Audience: | Children
This event is closed to the public |
| Dates: | October 10
10am -1pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: none |
|
| Venue: | Fleming Collection |
| Address: | 13 Berkeley Street, London, Westminster City WIJ 8DU
Tel: 020 7409 5733 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Taking inspiration from the current exhibition The Glasgow Boys, accompanied children can add a drawing of fruit or veg to the 'farming frieze of the future' or style a life sized cardboard person using collage and drawing to create a group of 'fashion forward figures'. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 16
1-5 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free of charge |
|
| Venue: | Forty Hall |
| Address: | Forty Hall, Forty Hill, Enfield, Enfield EN2 9HA
Tel: 0208 363 8196 |
|
| Event title: | "Cityscapes - Make your mark on the future" |
| Description: | Come and help us design the city of the future. Visitors will draw their idea of a futuristic building, park, bridge, mode of transport, etc to add to our city display
Free Parking
Free Entrance to Forty Hall Museum |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 10
11am - 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: FOC |
|
| Venue: | Friends of Ruskin Park |
| Address: | 16 Finsen Road, London, Lambeth SE5 9AX
Tel: 020 7733 5018 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Ruskin Park's Big Draw" |
| Description: | Children's drawing area around the bandstand and paths. Adults draw something to show why you love your local park, what you do or don't like about the park and anything you would like in the park that is not there currently. Express yourself visually by drawing! |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
12-3 pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
|
| Event title: | "Ruskin Park's Big Draw (wet weather)" |
| Description: | If the weather is wet the event will be held in the Carnegie Library. Children's drawing area. Adults draw something to show why you love your local park, what you do or don't like about the park and what you would like in the park that is not there currently. Express yourself visually by drawing! |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
12-3pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
|
| Venue: | From London Bridge and Tower Bridge |
| Address: | Southwark Cathedral, Hay's Galleria, The Scoop, Unicorn Theatre, Potters Field Park, Old St Thomas Hospital, St Thomas Street, London, Southwark SE1
Tel: 020 8351 1719 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Make Your Mark on the Future" |
| Description: | Join our top team of artists to celebrate London’s changing riverside and skylines. Draw the future and re-visit the past in a series of creative workshops. Discover 8000 years of trading history. Follow the Monuments Trail – from a cross-legged knight and alabaster Shakespeare to Mr and Mrs Everyman in Douglas Fir. Take your cues from age-old stonemasons’ graffiti and the latest technology. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 22, 23
11.00am to 6.00pm (both days) |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
|
| Venue: | Future Gallery |
| Address: | 5 Great Newport St, Leicester Square, London, Westminster City WC2H 7HY
Tel: 0203 301 4727 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Future Fun: Life Drawing" |
| Description: | Hi there!
Ever wanted to try drawing a life model FROM THE FUTURE? Well now you can, this is drawing with a twist... our model will don various 'futuristic' outfits and there will be all sorts of media there for you to use.. big fun!
Tickets through www.futuregallery.co.uk/events... this WILL sell out! |
| Audience: | Above 18
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
12pm-3pm, then 4pm-7pm |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: £12 |
|
| Venue: | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Address: | Lewisham Way, New Cross, Lewisham SE14 6NW
Tel: 020 7919 7970 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw at Goldsmiths" |
| Description: | There will be a wide range of creative activities and workshops ideal for children up to 14yrs, and visitors will be encouraged to take part in a variety of guided activities led by postgraduate trainee teachers from Goldsmiths making this free event a fun day out for the whole family. You can drop in at anytime throughout the day. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 23
11am - 4pm (drop in) |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
|
| Venue: | Guardian News & Media Education Centre |
| Address: | Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, Islington N1 9GU
Tel: 020 3353 3306/7 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Cartoon and art family day" |
| Description: | Draw your own cartoons and illustrations as well as take part in a whole range of creative activities with the help of top cartoonists, illustrators and artists. Morning or afternoon sessions are free of charge but advance booking is necessary as places are limited. Fully Booked
For booking form and further information please go to www.guardian.co.uk/gnmeducationcentre |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
Saturday 9 October, 10.30am & 2pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Fully Booked - limited spaces - advance booking required see guardian.co.uk/gnmeducationcentre |
|
| Venue: | Hillside Gardens |
| Address: | Hillside Road, London, Lambeth SW2
Tel: 07983 376972 |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw - Chalk the Park" |
| Description: | Come and join in the family fun, using giant chalks to get creative and make your mark in the park. Organised by the Lambeth Park Rangers & The Friends of Hillside Gardens |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 17
12 - 3pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
|
| Venue: | HMVCurzon Wimbledon Cinema |
| Address: | 23 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, Merton SW19 1RE
Tel: 020 8947 9882 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Curzon CineKids: Drawing On Film - Colour Flight" |
| Description: | With a splash of vibrant colour children and parents will be able to draw shapes and patterns onto clear 16mm film which will then be fed through a projector and brought alive with movement and light. Accompanying the workshop will be a special screening of “Colour Flight” (1938)in its original format by the master of painting on film, Len Lye. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 2, 3
10.30am |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: Under 15s £3.00, Adults Free |
|
| Venue: | Horniman Museum and Gardens |
| Address: | 100 London Rd, Forest Hill, Lewisham SE23 3PQ
Tel: 020 8699 1872 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Taking inspiration from the beautiful paintings in the Pardhan Gond exhibition, contribute to our tree of life with your own drawings. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 16, 23
1.30-3.30pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
|
| Venue: | Hunterian Museum |
| Address: | Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, Westminster City WC2A 3PE
Tel: 020 7869 6560 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Illustrating the Body - inside and out" |
| Description: | The Hunterian Museum is teaming up with the Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain and the House of Illustration for its first ever Big Draw event. Specialist medical illustrators will demonstrate their expertise and be on hand to give tips and advice, while illustrator-led workshops will inspire visitors to try out their skills, inspired by the museum’s wondrous specimens. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
12noon - 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free, all materials provided |
|
| Venue: | Islington Arts Factory |
| Address: | 2 Parkhurst Road, London, Islington N7 OSF
Tel: 0207 607 0561 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Carnival Life Drawing" |
| Description: | As part of the BIG DRAW 2010, join IAF and Glorious Backstage Arts to ‘Strike a Pose’ for an exciting Carnival costume wearing life drawing session. This family friendly drawing workshop will help you to create your own compositions inspired by this seasons Black Art of Making Mas exhibition. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 23
2.00pm - 5.00pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
|
| Venue: | Islington Museum |
| Address: | 245 St John Street, Islington, London, Islington EC1V 4NB
Tel: 020 7527 2837 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw Outside at Islington Museum" |
| Description: | This year Islington Museum is taking the Big Draw outside! You'll have the chance to become a pavement or wall artist. You can even draw on our windows! Taking inspiration from our current exhibition of works by Walter Sickert showing Victorian stage and circus stars, we will be drawing performers past and present. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
1pm - 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Venue: | Kensington Gardens Bandstand |
| Address: | 137A Kensington High St, London, Kensington and Chelsea W86SU
Tel: 07939204120 |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Kabutar will be in the park ( Kensington Gardens )
looking at shadows and what creates them. We'll be experimenting with our own shadows with the help of tai chi and yoga instructors and expressing them with pencils, charcoal and paint onto paper card and anything else to hand! |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 3
Midday |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
|
| Venue: | Kentish Town City Farm |
| Address: | 1 Cressfield Close, London, Camden NW5 4BN
Tel: 0207 916 5421 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Walk, Oink, Draw!" |
| Description: | Kentish Town City Farm & Creative Drawing Studio welcomes families to a fun day of art whilst exploring the farm. Visitors will re-create their dream farm on a large map using their imagination, inspired by the animals and surroundings. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 24
TBD, 11 - 3pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Venue: | Kingston College |
| Address: | 55 Richmond Road, Kingston upon Thames, Kingston-upon-Thames KT2 5BP
Tel: 0208 939 4618 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | An Event organised for everyone to inspire greater participation in drawing and in community projects. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | Saturday, 10am - 2pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
|
| Venue: | Landmark Arts Centre |
| Address: | Ferry Road, Teddington, Richmond Upon Thames TW11 9NN
Tel: 020 8977 7558 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw - Tales of China" |
| Description: | Untutored creative drawing session for families, themed around the Chinese story "The Emperor & The Nightingale". Take your work home or add it to our Big Draw display frieze. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 25
Monday October 25th, 10.00am - 12noon |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: £2 donation towards drawing materials requested. |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw - Animals of Africa" |
| Description: | Untutored creative drawing sessions for families themed around African wildlife. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 29
Friday 29th October, 10 am - 12 noon & 2pm - 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: £2 donation towards drawing materials requested. |
|
| Venue: | Lloyd Park |
| Address: | Forest Road, Walthamstow, Waltham Forest E17 5EH
Tel: 0208 496 2822 Website |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw @ Lloyd Park" |
| Description: | How often do you get a chance to be creative? Be inspired by William Morris and local artists to transform the park's pathways with chalks. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 3
1-4.30pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
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| Venue: | London Borough Newham CYPS |
| Address: | Credon centre, Kirton Road, london, Newham E13 9BT
Tel: 07734101482 |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | tbc |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
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| Venue: | London Borough of Enfield Forty Hall |
| Address: | Forty Hall, Forty Hill, Enfield, Enfield EN2 9HA
Tel: 02083791463 |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Come and help us design the city of the future. Visitors will draw their idea of a futuristic building, park, bridge, mode of transport, etc to add to our city display. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 10
11am to 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
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| Venue: | Merton Adult Education |
| Address: | Whatley Avenue, London, Merton SW20 9NS
Tel: 0208 543 9292 Website |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw - Be Brilliant!" |
| Description: | Be part of the The Big Draw and the Family Learning Festival, you will have a chance to be creative and take part in a mass drawing event at the Whatley Centre. Help to create a very big drawing! |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 10
10.00-12.30 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
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| Venue: | Mount School |
| Address: | Milespit Hill, Mill Hill, Barnet NW7 2RX
Tel: 07971988393 |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | To paint a mural on the walls of the junior building |
| Audience: | Children
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 14 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
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| Venue: | Museum of London |
| Address: | 150 London Wall, London, Corporation Of The City Of London EC2Y 5HN
Tel: 020 7001 9844 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Mapping London's future" |
| Description: | Add to a futuristic fantasy map of London inspired by our 'London Futures' exhibition and the hand-drawn maps collected by the Londonist website. Make your mark on a large scale map of London to show how you think the city might look in years to come. The resulting work will be displayed on the Museum's website throughout October. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 10
11am – 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: FREE |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw at Museum of London" |
| Description: | Celebrate The Big Draw at Museum of London with drawing and making activities and special workshops for families throughout the day. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 27
10.30am – 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: FREE |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw at Museum of London: Building London" |
| Description: | Come and help us make a giant model of London, full of fantastic buildings! This is a creative workshop for families as part of our Big Draw day. Suitable for all children aged 2+. |
| Audience: | Children
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 27
11-11.30am, 12-12.30pm & 2-2.30pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: FREE but tickets allocated on arrival |
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| Venue: | Museum of London Docklands |
| Address: | No.1 Warehouse, West India Quay, London, Tower Hamlets E14 4AL
Tel: 020 7001 9844 Website |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw at Docklands" |
| Description: | Celebrate The Big Draw at Museum of London Docklands with drawing and making activities and special workshops for families throughout the day. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 25
10.30am – 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: FREE |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw at Docklands: Building London!" |
| Description: | Come and help us make a giant model of London, full of fantastic buildings! This is a creative workshop for families as part of our Big Draw day. Suitable for all children aged 2+ |
| Audience: | Children
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 25
11-11.30am, 12-12.30pm & 2-2.30pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: FREE but tickets allocated on arrival |
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| Venue: | National Portrait Gallery |
| Address: | St. Martin's Place, London, Westminster City WC2H 0HE
Tel: 020 7306 0055 Website |
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| Event title: | "Make Your Mark on the Future" |
| Description: | As part of the Big Draw Campaign 2010, join picture book author and illustrator Salvatore Rubbino and our team of artists for an afternoon of fun drawing activities exploring the Collection. All ages welcome. |
| Audience: | Especially families & young people (aged 14-21)
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
13.00-16.00 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free, drop-in event so no booking necessary |
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| Venue: | Pam Williams Studio |
| Address: | 31 Nealden Street, (off Landor Road), Clapham North, Lambeth SW9 9RA
Tel: 0207 652 1100 Website |
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| Event title: | "Comic Brixton" |
| Description: | To be updated |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
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| Venue: | Queens Park School |
| Address: | QUEENS PARK SCHOOL, DROOP STREET, LONDON, Westminster City W10 4DQ
Tel: 0207 641 5860 |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw-QPPS ARTS WEEK" |
| Description: | A week of activities culminating in an open gallery with party/fair (Links with Satchi Gallery in October)
Activities across the art spectrum from reception - upper KS2 involved.
Parents Welcome and Involved |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | 11-16 JULY /SCHOOL TIMES / Sunday 26th June, |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
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| Venue: | Renoir Cinema |
| Address: | Brunswick Centre, London, Camden WC1N 1AW
Tel: 0871 703 3991 Website |
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| Event title: | "Curzon CineKids: Drawing On Film - Colour Flight" |
| Description: | With a splash of vibrant colour children and parents will be able to draw shapes and patterns onto clear 16mm film which will then be fed through a projector and brought alive with movement and light. Accompanying the workshop will be a special screening of “Colour Flight” (1938)in its original format by the master of painting on film Len Lye. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 10
11.30am |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: £3 under 15s, £1 Adults |
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| Venue: | Robert Grace Trust |
| Address: | The Brunswick Gallery, Brunswick art Gallery, London, russell square., london, Camden WC1N 1bs
Tel: 07961 916289 |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Children's art workshops
alongside an exhibition by children from The St Pauls Children's Rescue Centre ( Orphanage) in Nairobi, Kenya
Free or by donation to The Robert Grace Trust |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 8 |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: Free or by donation to the Robert Grace Trust |
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| Venue: | Royal Air Force Museum |
| Address: | Access and Learning Department, Royal Airforce Museum, Grahame Park Way London, Barnet NW9 5LL
Tel: 020 8358 4896 Website |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Join us in the Milestones of Flight gallery to celebrate the first 100 years of flight. What will aircraft look like in another 100 years? Design your own futuristic plane and help us build an illustrated timeline of flight. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
11.00 to 13.00 and 14.00 to 16.00 each day |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
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| Venue: | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |
| Address: | North Kensington Children's Library, 108 Ladbroke Grove, London, Kensington and Chelsea W11 1PZ
Tel: 020 7361 3010 Website |
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| Event title: | "Our Ideal City" |
| Description: | What would your ideal city look like? Come and join our all-day family drop-in event and help our artist, Kethi Copeland, put all your little drawings together to create a really Big Drawing of everything you’d like to see there! |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
Saturday 9th. October, 10.00am - 4.30pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
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| Venue: | Royal Institution of Great Britain |
| Address: | 21 Albemarle Street, London, Westminster City W1S 4BS
Tel: 02076702954 Website |
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| Event title: | "Family Fun Day at the Royal Institution" |
| Description: | Drop in between 11.00am and 4.00pm, to see, hear, smell and touch science and art with a range of hands-on activities, exciting demonstrations and captivating talks. This month is themed around Faradays "Chemical of the Candle" and is featuring the Big Draw to provide dozens of fascinating activities for the whole family. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 2
11am to 4pm |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: Adults £5, children £3, under 3's free, members concessions |
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| Venue: | Sir John Soane's Museum |
| Address: | 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, Camden WC2A 3BP
Tel: 020 7440 4254 Website |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw: Doodling with Paper" |
| Description: | A day to explore shapes and patterns in the Museum. Initial drawing studies from the Museum will be developed into collage and 3D by using paper and scissors. |
| Audience: | Adults
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 7
10am-4pm (all day) |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free - booking essential |
|
| Event title: | "Watercolours with a Limited Palette" |
| Description: | Come and make a study of architectural fragments. Explore the use of a limited palette in order to develop your watercolour technique. |
| Audience: | Adults
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 14
10am-4pm (all day) |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: £35, includes lunch and materials. Booking essential. |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw: Ten One Zero" |
| Description: | 10 objects, 10 tasks, 10 questions, 10 people, 10/10. Create your own little book to remember from this remarkable Museum. |
| Audience: | Adults
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 15
10am-4pm (all day) |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free- booking essential |
|
| Event title: | "Architectural Drawing 15-18" |
| Description: | This intensive six-week course aims to extend your skills in drawing through exploring mark-making, observation skills and drawing practice. With artist James Willis, you will cover a range of skills techniques and theories to help you build a more confident portfolio. Ideal for students wishing to study Art and Design in Higher Education |
| Audience: | Teenagers
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 16
One Saturday per month over 6 months: Oct 16, Nov 20, Dec 18, Jan 15, Feb19 and Mar 19, 11am-3pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: £85 for all six sessions. Cost includes materials |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw: Drawing with a Brush" |
| Description: | Explore the freedom of drawing in paint and ink, using both large and fine brushes. |
| Audience: | Adults
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 21
10am-4pm (all day) |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free - booking essential |
|
| Event title: | "Dramatic Light: A Life Drawing Day" |
| Description: | Using light, drapery and classical poses from the Museum's collection, draw the life model with charcoal, pen and ink. |
| Audience: | Adults
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 22
10am-4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: £40, includes materials and lunch. Booking essential. |
|
| Event title: | "Stunning Self Portrait" |
| Description: | Find out about fascinating portraits in the Museum, then surprise your friends and family with your own very special, framed self portrait. |
| Audience: | Children
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 27
10:30-12:30am or 2-4pm. Please specify when booking. |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: £10 per child, includes materials. Booking essential |
|
| Event title: | "Shadowy Secrets at the Soane" |
| Description: | Make your own moving shadow puppets to tell tales of ghostly happenings by lamplight in the Museum. |
| Audience: | Children
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 28
10:30am-3pm (all day). Children must bring lunch. |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: £18, includes materials. Booking essential |
|
| Event title: | "Skeleton Puppets" |
| Description: | Learn how to make a simple table-top puppet. Make a Soane skeleton puppet and use it to tell a spooky story. |
| Audience: | Children
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 29
10:30-12:30am or 2-4pm. Please specify when booking. |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: £10 per child, includes materials. Booking essential. |
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| Venue: | Society of Graphic Fine Art [ SGFA ] |
| Address: | Menier Gallery, 51 Southwark Street, Southwark SE1 1RU
Tel: 020 8655 0221 Website |
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| Event title: | ""A Living Line" 1. Introduction" |
| Description: | Workshop with Marie Blake SGFA ATC
Marie helps you learn to draw the natural way, as a reflex action, so that you can record with confidence your individual way of seeing. Bring a pen, pencil or biro and a small sketchbook no larger than A6 ( 10.5 x 14.9 cms); it will become your source of discovery. |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 4
Monday 4th October, 2.00pm - 4.00pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
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| Event title: | "Putty Eraser 'Subtractive Effects' 1" |
| Description: | Demonstration by Barry Harrison ASGFA.
Using pencil and other graphite forms as the base,the putty eraser is used to form, or enhance the image. We examine how the putty eraser can be used to help create impressions of various types of texture from hair to china. Bring a small pad and pencil if you want to join in. |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 5
Tuesday 5th October, 11.30 am - 1.30 pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Event title: | "Coloured Pencils" |
| Description: | Demonstration by Roger Lewis SGFA UKCPS.
Coloured Pencils have come a long way in recent years. The vastly improved pigments, quality and range of colours means that the humble coloured pencil has 'come of age'. They are fully controllable,clean and versatile,one colour layering over another to create different tones and shades. Come and try them for yourself. |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 7
Thursday 7th October, 11.30 am - 1.30pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
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| Event title: | "Stained Glass Effect" |
| Description: | Demonstration by Freda Blayney. SGFA Dip AD
Stained glass effect by the cutting of straws for division of coloured papers, also glass effects created with pencil. Drawing, cutting and sticking in which you can participate. |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 7
Thursday 7th October, 2.00pm - 4.00pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
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| Event title: | "Sketchbook Workshop" |
| Description: | With Les Williams ASGFA.Participants meet at the Menier Gallery to draw its internal spaces or study technique,method and medium from the exhibits. This will be followed by a session of drawing in Borough Market; finally returning to the gallery to share experiences. Bring sketchbooks, pens and paint,but no possessions other than those that you can easily carry. |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 8
Friday 8th October, 11.30 am - 1.30pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Event title: | "Head Study in Pastel 1" |
| Description: | Workshop Demonstration by Michael Walsh ASGFA. Drawing out of a mid to dark background using a range of colours with white and working with pastel pencils. Bring materials:- A3 dark tinted paper(greys/sepia), pastel pencils, Spray fix, firm base to work on,image of yourself or someone you know. |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 8
Friday 8th October, 12.30pm - 2.30pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Event title: | "Head Study in Pastel 2" |
| Description: | Demonstration Workshop by Michael Walsh ASGFA. See event description as in "Head Study " Pastel 1. Michael will again demonstrate; but participants from the first session may use this as a continuation Workshop |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 8
Friday 8th October, 3.00 pm - 5.00 pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
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| Event title: | "Workshop 1 .Water Soluble Crayons" |
| Description: | Sponsored by Caran d'Ache, Jo Hall demonstrates richly coloured drawings using Neocolor ll ; layering and blending colours both wet and dry, drawing into wet colour, and sgraffito technique time permitting. Subjects include natural forms and drawing from imagination or memory.Materials will be available for participants to experiment. |
| Audience: | Children are welcome but must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
Saturday 9th October, 11.30am -1.30pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
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| Event title: | "Workshop 2. Water Soluble Crayons" |
| Description: | Sponsored by Caran d'Ache' Jo Hall again demonstrates Neocolor ll water soluble crayons. She will cover a similar variety of techniques as in the first session and the participants may experiment with the materials |
| Audience: | Children are welcome but must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
Saturday 9th October, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Event title: | "Butterflies and Flowers in Ink" |
| Description: | Demonstration by Margaret Eggleton SGFA, SWA, SBA.
Flowers from Borough Market will be used as colour reference to demonstrate a drawing in ink with a bamboo pen. Brusho inks will then be painted on with plenty of water and dramatic results. This will be followed by a chance to have a go yourself. Materials will be provided. |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 12
Tuesday 12th October, 11.30am - 1.30pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Event title: | "Watercolour" |
| Description: | Demonstration by Ken Head SGFA
With his main interest being architecture in landscape, Ken will stress the effects of light and shade. He has held one man shows in the home counties and exhibited with the RWS, RI, RSMA and as a full member of the Armed Forces Art Society, as such he has shown regularly at the Mall galleries, London |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 12
Tuesday 12th October, 12.30 - 2.30 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
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| Event title: | "Putty Eraser 'Work in Progress' 2" |
| Description: | Demonstration by Barry Harrison ASGFA
Whilst Barry works on one of his large pencil and graphite drawings, ask questions on technique, method etc or bring a pad and join in. |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 12
Tuesday 12th October, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
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| Event title: | ""A Living Line" 2.Further Development" |
| Description: | Development Workshop with
Marie Blake SGFA ATC
Using reflex drawing to open up the powers of imagination. Let the drawing do the thinking. Bring a pencil and an A5 spiral bound sketchbook. As a further option :- coloured soluble pencils and a reservoir brush ( it saves having to carry water!) |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 16
Saturday 16th October, 12.30pm - 2.30 pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Event title: | "Drawing with Coloured Pencils on Black Paper" |
| Description: | Demonstration by Harriet Brigdale ASGFA
Coloured Pencils are wonderful on white paper, since you start pale and go darker; but on black paper this is reversed, lightest colours are applied last. Watching light gradually appear is an amazing and powerful experience. If you bring your own black paper you can have a go yourself. I supply the pencils. |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 16
Saturday 16th October, 11.30am - 1.30pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Event title: | "Drawing without a Pencil" |
| Description: | Demonstration and Workshop by Christine Hopkins SGFA
Watch a demonstration and then have a go yourself to produce something to take home at the end of the session |
| Audience: | All ages but children must be accompanied
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 16
Saturday 16th October, 2.00pm - 4.00 pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
|
| Venue: | South London Botanical Institute |
| Address: | 323 NORWOOD ROAD, TULSE HILL, Lambeth SE24 9AQ
Tel: 020 8674 5787 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Botanical Draw" |
| Description: | A chance to meet and draw some of the fabulous plants hiding away in our delightful botanical garden and conservatory.
From hairy cacti to tiny living stones, greedy carnivorous monsters to delicately fronded ferns there will be plenty to inspire you.
Refreshments available |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
from 11 - 3pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
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| Venue: | St Benedict's School |
| Address: | 54 Eaton Rise, Ealing, Ealing W5 2ES
Tel: 202 8862 2000 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Pupils will be drawing their local environment from buildings and trees, to people and bus stops. These will then be used to form a 3D model of their surrounding area, complete with roads and cars. |
| Audience: | Students
This event is closed to the public |
| Dates: | October 5
9.10am-4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
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| Venue: | St John on Bethnal Green |
| Address: | St Johns Rectory, 30 Victoria Park Square, London, Tower Hamlets E2 9PB
Tel: 07799065577 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Illuminated Drawings" |
| Description: | Join us for a day of drawing in response to the architecture of St John’s Church on Bethnal Green and then see your drawings projected to illuminate the walls of this atmospheric building by Sir John Soane. This is a partnership event between St John’s and the Soane Museum, led by artist and curator Sarah Sparkes. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
10.00 to 16.00 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
|
| Venue: | Stillness Junior School |
| Address: | Stillness Junior School, Brockley Rise, London, Lewisham SE23 1NH |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw 'Colour' Event" |
| Description: | This event will happen at Stillness Junior School. It will be an opportunity for Families to participate in creating Art works based around the theme of Colour. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is closed to the public |
| Dates: | October 16
11am until 3pm |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: £2.00 per Adult 80p per Child, Under 3's Free |
|
| Venue: | Strawberry Hill Trust |
| Address: | 268 Waldegrave Road, Twickenham, Richmond Upon Thames TW1 4ST
Tel: 0208 744 3124 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Come and draw Horace Walpole's little gothic castle and/or help us to recreate his cabinet of miniatures but on a large scale. Draw Walpole and his circle or dress up in eighteenth century costume and paint or draw each other. Mount your portrait in a golden rococo frame and hang it in the cabinet. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
10am until 4pm |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: free admission to the education rooms and gardens |
|
| Venue: | Streatham Common Playground |
| Address: | Streatham Common South, London, Lambeth SW16
Tel: 07983 376972 |
|
| Event title: | "The Big Draw - Chalk the Common" |
| Description: | Streatham Common Playground - Fun for all the family. Come and make your mark using giant chalk at this free event. Chalk supplied. Organised by The Lambeth Park Rangers & The Friends of Streatham Common |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 2
12 - 3pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
|
| Venue: | The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras |
| Address: | The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, Euston Road London, Camden NW1 2BA
Tel: 02083506153 Website |
|
| Event title: | "Delineation: Contemporary Dialogues with Drawing" |
| Description: | Delineation: Contemporary Dialogues with Drawing considers drawing as an expanded field that explores what it is to draw within the context of contemporary art practice. In the elegiac setting of The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church Delineation presents work from TBC Artists' Collective that contemplate the nature of contemporary drawing activity in physical, cognitive and virtual context.
Delineation, sponsored by Quinessentially |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
10:00 - 18:00 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Saturday 30th October artists talk to be led by John Timberlake |
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| Venue: | The Wallace Collection |
| Address: | Hertford House, Manchester Square, London, Westminster City W1U 3BN
Tel: (0)207 563 9500 Website |
|
| Event title: | "The Little Draw" |
| Description: | Join William Riding to explore the tonal structure of paintings as well as the ornamentation and pattern found in The Wallace Collections works of art and be inspired to create your own intricate drawings.
Will’s own practice concentrates on the harmony, rhythms and movements that come from composing an image using traditional and sacred geometrical forms and motifs. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 3
1.30 - 4.30 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
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| Event title: | "Chalk it up!: The Little Draw" |
| Description: | Artist Gayna Pelham will take you on a tour of the special drawings exhibition where you will discover that artists draw in very different ways. Next learn exciting new ways to draw using hands, fists and fingers (not to mention toes!).
Please wear old clothes or bring an art overall. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 27
10.30-12.30 and 2.00-4.00 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
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| Event title: | "Building the City: The Big Draw" |
| Description: | The Wallace Collection invites you to come and invent both imaginary and real collaborative landscapes with an ecological theme.
Join artists Zoe Telford and Maryclare Foá to explore the infinite and beautiful detail Giovanni Canaletto achieved in depicting idyllic snapshots of famous European cities. Be prepared to experiment with a range of drawing techniques to create an enthralling collaborative cityscape. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 30
1pm to 4pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
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| Venue: | timelinesart |
| Address: | Clock Factory, 11 Riverside Road, Earlsfield, Wandsworth SW17 0BA
Tel: 020 8944 0473 Website |
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| Event title: | "Time Lines" |
| Description: | Be part of creating a giant inter-active drawing on the theme of TIME at the clock factory (which is also hosting an art exhibition). No need to book |
| Audience: | age 16 and over
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 2, 9
11am -1pm both days |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
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| Venue: | Topolski Century |
| Address: | 150-152 Hungerford Bridge Arches, Concert Hall Approach, London, Lambeth SE1 8XU
Tel: 020 7620 1308 Website |
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| Event title: | "Maghrib Mosaics" |
| Description: | Come to the Sahara desert and spot the camels and Bedouins on horseback in Topolski’s giant murals of the Maghrib region of Africa.
Be inspired to create your own geometrical designs and Berber inspired patterns in this mosaic workshop. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 23, 26
14.00-15.30 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free, booking required |
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| Event title: | "African Masks and Cubism" |
| Description: | Explore Topolski’s huge murals of Africa and discover how African masks inspired Modern artists such as Picasso.
Create and illustrate your own mask and then learn some simple modern art techniques to turn your mask into an abstract masterpiece! |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 24, 27, 29
14.00-15.30 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free, booking required |
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| Event title: | "Black Panther Print-Making" |
| Description: | Come and see Topolski’s atmospheric murals of the Black Panthers and be inspired to make a print similar to the graphic art featured in The Black Panther newspaper by the artist Emory Douglas.
Find out how such powerful images influenced civil rights in America and around the world and have your print displayed in the gallery. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 25, 29
14.00-15.30 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free, booking required |
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| Event title: | "Jacob Lawrence: Migration Mural" |
| Description: | Join us to paint a giant mural under the railway arches, inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series. Lawrence told his community’s story of African Americans who journeyed from the rural south to the urban north. There will be workshops suitable for all throughout the day focusing on migration and the styles of Lawrence and artists of the Harlem Renaissance. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 30
12.00-16.00 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
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| Venue: | Unicorn Theatre |
| Address: | 147 Tooley Street, LONDON, Southwark SE1 2HZ
Tel: 0207 645 0500 Website |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Visitors’ Wall
‘Sign-in’ using your thumb or hand prints changing them into pictures.
Snap-shots of Spike
Sketch our enormous statue from Observation Stations.
Silhouette & Shadow
Draw each others shadows through illuminated frames of paper.
Window of Wonder
Fill our window with imagination and colour.
Play Your PART Competition
Create a character based around the Quentin Blake brief. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 23
10am - 17:30 |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
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| Venue: | Uxbridge high school |
| Address: | Uxbridge high school, the green way, uxbridge., Uxbridge, Hillingdon Ub8 2PR
Tel: 01895 234 060 |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw: changing places" |
| Description: | Come along and be a part oif creating a futuristic city using recycled materials. Draw using light, create fantasy animal puppets, collage flags and much more |
| Audience: | Children
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
11am to 1pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: free |
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| Venue: | Wandsworth Museum |
| Address: | 38 West Hill, Wandsworth London, Wandsworth SW18 1RZ
Tel: 0208 870 6060 |
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| Event title: | "Can’t Draw? Love to Draw?" |
| Description: | Art practitioners from Roehampton University will be on site for the whole day facilitating a range of activities for all ages using the Wandsworth Museum’s enormous and eclectic collection as inspiration. Come and re-discover the love of drawing (or discover it for the first time!!). |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 2
10-5pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: N/A |
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| Venue: | William Morris Gallery |
| Address: | Lloyd Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow, Waltham Forest E17 4PP
Tel: 020 8496 4390 Website |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Be inspired by the William Morris Gallery and
Lloyd Park - take part in the Big Draw.
In association with Lloyd Park |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 3
1pm-4.30pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: Free |
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| Venue: | Willow Tree Primary School |
| Address: | Priors Farm Lane, Northolt, Ealing UB5 4DY
Tel: 02088454181 |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | tbc |
| Audience: | Children
This event is closed to the public |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: tbc |
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| Venue: | Wimbledon Common, |
| Address: | Wimbledon Common, Near the Windmill Car Park, London, Wandsworth SW19 5NR
Tel: 020 8947 2825 Website |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | An open air Drawing Room with a Chalk Walk for runners, walkers, cyclists, dogs and horses. A clothes line for drawings, a secret glade of hidden objects to find and draw. The Windmill Cafe will turn creative with 'Constable Corner' - a space set up to draw the Windmill. Windmill free of charge to anyone who has done a drawing. |
| Audience: | All ages
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 9
11am-5pm |
| Cost: | No admission charge
Event: N/A |
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| Venue: | Windsor Castle |
| Address: | Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 1NJ
Tel: 020 7766 7304 Website |
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| Event title: | "The Big Draw" |
| Description: | Record your experience in a postcard from Windsor Castle!
Pick up paper and pencils from the Moat Education Room, draw what you admire and try to capture our unique and exciting Castle.
Join our ‘Family Walk and Draw Tours’ on Saturday 30 October at 12:30 and 14:30. |
| Audience: | Family
This event is open to the public |
| Dates: | October 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
11.00- 16.00 |
| Cost: | Normal admission charge
Event: N/A |
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