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This month sees us celebrating The Big Draw. This is part of the Campaign for Drawing which has a very simple aim: to get everyone drawing.
The Big Draw is the Campaign's annual October showpiece. It aims to prove that drawing can be a public activity as well as a private passion. 1000 venues across the UK are joining in by offering people of all ages the chance to discover that drawing is 'enjoyable, liberating and at everyone's fingertips.'
The Campaign was inspired by the great Victorian writer, art critic and visionary, John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900). His mission was not to teach people to draw, but how to see.
Events are taking place all over the country in venues that range from huge national institutions to the local village hall and most of them are completely free:
Event venue: Brownlow Hall, Wargrave
Web Site: http://www.artsweeknp.org.uk
Event: "Northern Parishes Big Draw"
Date/Time:Mon 23 Oct, 10.30am - 12.30pm & 2 - 4pm
Email: warfield.parish-council@talk21.com
Description: Just go along and draw! Booking is required as this event has proved to be very popular.
Event venue: New Greenham Arts, Newbury
Event title: "Wang-Dang-Doodle - The Texting Version"
Date/Time: Fri 13 & Sat 14 Oct
Description: The children's game Wang-Dang-Doodle has been adapted for use with mobile phone text messaging. Participants will take turns texting and drawing, the text messages acting as subject matter for the drawers, who in return text back. Four mobile phones will be set up at two locations, New Greenham Arts and a central point in Newbury town centre.
Event venue: Museum of Reading
Tel: 0118 9399 800
Web Site: http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk
Event title: "Stanley Spencer Day"
Date/Time: Sat 14 Oct, 11am - 3pm
Description: The Museum and Art Gallery will be buzzing with drawing activities inspired by Stanley Spencer, to coincide with our Spencer exhibition, Painting Paradise. All the family will be catered for, with drawing and comic art for kids to talks for adults by Spencer experts.
This month sees us celebrating The Big Draw. This is part of the Campaign for Drawing which has a very simple aim: to get everyone drawing.
