Vancouver Draw Down
Saturday June 9, 2012 – 27 free workshops at 18 locations all across Vancouver!
Think you can’t draw? Think again.
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, SFU Woodward’s, 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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VANCOUVER DRAW DOWN EVENTS – JUNE 9, 2012
Patterning the Community at Sunset – 10am-12pm
Sunset Community Centre – 6810 Main Street, Vancouver
A creative mural project that transforms windows into enormous glass canvases in celebration of the rich diversity and multiculturalism in our city. FREE
Drawing Attention at Emily Carr University – 10am-4pm
Emily Carr University, 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island
An all-day drawing assembly facilitated by Emily Carr’s Teen Art Group that focuses on techniques in pencil, charcoal and chalk. FREE
Alphabet Soup at SFU Woodward’s – 10am-4pm
SFU Woodward’s, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, World Art Room, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Explore the shape, line and design of typography by creating your own font. FREE
Tracing Memory at Mountain View Cemetery – 10:30am-1pm
Mountain View Cemetery, Celebration Hall, 5445 Fraser Street, Vancouver
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
Micro/Macro Drawing Lab at The Roundhouse – 11am-4pm
The Roundhouse, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver
Step inside Radix Theatre’s Micro/Macro Drawing Lab to magnify worlds within worlds as you transform the tiny into the enormous. FREE
Human and Animal Forms at MOA – 11am-4pm
Museum of Anthropology at UBC, 6393 N.W. Marine Drive, Vancouver
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)
Community Portraits and More at ArtStarts – 12pm-4pm
ArtStarts Gallery – 808 Richards Street, Vancouver
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
Map Room at the Contemporary Art Gallery – 12pm-4pm
Contemporary Art Gallery, 555 Nelson Street, Vancouver
Explore the many potentials of drawing and mapping as an act and state of being with artist and educator Landon Mackenzie. FREE
Drawing with the Masters at the Vancouver Art Gallery – 12pm-4pm
Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver
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)
Inside and Out at Satellite Gallery – 1pm-5pm
Satellite Gallery, 560 Seymour Street, 2nd Floor, Vancouver
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
Circus! at Collage Collage – 2pm-4pm
Collage Collage, 621 Kingsway, Vancouver
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
Exquisite Corpse and other workshops at Britannia – 2pm-4:30pm
Britannia Community Centre, 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver
Create surrealist “exquisite corpses” with the draw and foldover technique, workshop still life + life drawings, and experiment with non-traditional drawing implements. FREE
Face 2 Face at Renfrew – Times TBD
Renfrew Park Community Centre, 2929 East 22nd Avenue, Vancouver
Create blind continuous line contour drawing with Donna Cowan. Fun for everyone, they’re portraits like you’ve never seen. FREE
Drawing Workshops Across the Board
Various times and locations
Vancouver Parks Board Community Centres across Vancouver invite you to drop in and draw at a fun, easy and inspiring workshops! Events at Kensington, Champlain Heights, Creekside, Trout Lake and Thunderbird Community Centres. FREE
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