Vancouver Draw Down Full Schedule – Saturday June 9, 2012

Vancouver Draw Down is an annual, daylong celebration of drawing that challenges every single Vancouverite—young and old—to dispel their preconceptions about drawing, touch a pen to a piece of paper, and make a mark. If you can write your name, you can draw!

On Saturday June 9, 2012, 18 different arts and cultural organizations across Vancouver will host a total of 27 diverse, hands-on drawing workshops in community centres, museums, art galleries and on the street! You can add to a mural, do a pinprick drawing, doodle, sketch, improve your still life or life drawing techniques, create your own font, draw inside a 12-foot high paper tunnel, and much more. The workshops are designed with a come-and-go atmosphere, and participants are encouraged to move around to different events throughout the day.

All workshops are open, inclusive, and free (or free with admission). Led by professional artists, these creative happenings are about process and pleasure, not about technical skill. No matter what your age or skill level, there’s something for everyone at Vancouver Draw Down.

This is the third annual Vancouver Draw Down, and the biggest one yet with participation from: ArtStarts in Schools, Collage Collage, Contemporary Art Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Mountain View Cemetery, Museum of Anthropology, Satellite Gallery, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Vancouver Art Gallery, and numerous Vancouver Parks Board Community Centres including Britannia, Champlain Heights, Creekside, Kensington, Renfrew, The Roundhouse, Sunset, Thunderbird and Trout Lake.

Find us online at vancouverdrawdown.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/VancouverDrawDown, and on Twitter at @VanDrawDown.

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A creative mural project with Juliana Bedoya that transforms windows into enormous glass canvases in celebration of diversity and multiculturalism in our city. FREE

Join artist Jasna Guy and make a crazy bugs carbon paper monoprint, a post-it-note finger-print map, a good fortune wish or a collaborative drawing! FREE

Join Anthony Schrag and Brian Lye for an instruction on experiential drawing. Wear clothing appropriate to moving, getting mucky and exploring the world! FREE

An all-day drawing assembly facilitated by Emily Carr’s Teen Art Group that focuses on techniques in pencil, charcoal and chalk. FREE

Explore the shape, line and design of typography by creating your own font. FREE

Take a walking tour of the cemetery grounds, and get inspired to create a memorial pinprick drawing in a workshop with artist Elizabeth MacKenzie. FREE

Join Zee Kesler and Erin Leigh Pasternak in creating a Wish Flag printed with your own personal messages and symbols of goodwill. FREE

Create blind continuous line contour drawing with Donna Cowan. Fun for everyone, they’re portraits like you’ve never seen. FREE

Step inside Radix Theatre’s Micro/Macro Drawing Lab to magnify worlds within worlds as you transform the tiny into the enormous. FREE

Explore the way in which human and animal forms are depicted in various works of Northwest Coast Aboriginal art, led by art educator Damara Jacobs-Morris. FREE with museum admission ($14.50-$16.75)

Join artist Calla Power to explore the art of portrait making and the art of togetherness as you draw serious and silly portraits of each other. FREE

Get “drawn in” to a collaborative window mural, participate in a still life drawing activity with a twist, or doodle on the sidewalk chalk art mural. FREE

Explore the many potentials of drawing and mapping as an act and state of being with artist and educator Landon Mackenzie. FREE

Be inspired by the extraordinary work of Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin and more. Learn about the distinctive drawing techniques they used, and try them out. FREE with gallery admission ($7-$22.40)

This event for “non-drawers” of all ages with artist Yoko Tomita invites you to drop in and draw at a fun, easy and inspiring workshop on the theme of dreams!  FREE

An active environment for mark making of all kinds. Take part in a drawing workshop, a ceramic fragment repurposing project, draw on the 12-foot high paper tunnel, or digitally spin clay pots on a touch screen. FREE

Draw up a circus! Join acclaimed illustrator and artist Julie Morstad for an imaginative afternoon of drawing and collage, collaborating on the creation of a whimsical paper circus. FREE

Create surrealist “exquisite corpses” with the draw and foldover technique, workshop still life + life drawings, and experiment with non-traditional drawing implements. FREE