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Colour in the Big Draw
When: Saturday 10th October 2009 - 11am -5pm
Where: BayArt, 54b/c Bute Street, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5AF
Engage with this participatory drawing event, designed for everyone, whatever level of experience. Spend all day drawing or drop in for a short time. The event is free and all materials are provided.
The Big Draw is the Campaign for Drawing’s flagship, with some 1300 drawing events across the UK each October. This month-long season celebrates creativity, and encourages experiment and enjoyment. It takes place in national museums, regional galleries, castles, parks, schools, libraries, community centres and village halls. Drawing is a universal language that unites people of all ages, abilities and cultures.
The Big Draw extends the vocabulary of drawing and challenges conventions and preconceptions. It shows how pencil, pen, chalk or the computer mouse can inspire observation, imagination and invention. Drawing connects us with our environment and helps us to see, think and communicate.
The Big Draw is the UK’s biggest free visual art programme, annually involving over 300,000 participants aged 3-93. Since 2000,The Big Draw has encouraged over two million people back to the drawing board and notched up two Guinness World records – for the longest drawing in the world (one kilometre) and the greatest number of people drawing simultaneously (over 7000).
‘If you can draw, even a little bit, you can express all kinds of ideas that might otherwise be lost delights, frustrations, whatever torments you or pleases you.’
David Hockney, Campaign for Drawing Patron