Event venue: A Dab Hand
Address: Mid Green Farm, Milburn, Penrith, Cumbria, CA10 1TN Tel: 017683 62664/ 01768 88761
Event title: "Back to the Drawing Board"
Description: A communities-based project in which participants in the Eden Valley will keep a Visual Diary for a fortnight, culminating in local exhibitions. There will be workshops to explain and demonstrate methods of using sketchbooks - specifically inviting people to draw, think and express themselves in a visual form. These sketchbooks will also create a valuable community rural archive.
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Last 2 weeks in Oct - contact organisers after 7pm
Price: £3 for sketchbook
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Event venue: Armitt Gallery, Museum & Library
Address: Rydal Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9BL Tel: 015394 31212; http://www.armitt.com
Event title: "Drawn from Memory"
Description: Calling all grandparents and grandchildren! Come and swap memories, share your life experiences. Picture your school days, special events, favourite outfits, first jobs, earliest memories, then get them down on paper! Be inspired by our oral history exhibition 'Were You There? Vocies of Cumbria' and see if you can learn something new about each other! You may just be surprised.....
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Sat 16 & Sun 17 Oct, 10am - 1pm
Price: Free entry for families
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Event venue: Birdoswald Roman Fort & Visitor Centre
Address: Gilsland, Brampton, Cumbria, CA8 7DD Tel: 016977 47602
Event title: "Big Draw at the Fort"
Description: Visitors are invited to draw from the inspirational site of Birdoswald Roman Fort. The drawing activities will be led by an artist.
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Sat 16 Oct, 10.30am - 4pm
Price: normal admission charge
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Event venue: Brantwood
Address: Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria, LA21 8AD Tel: 015394 41396; http://www.brantwood.org.uk
Event title: "Ruskin, and drawing as a tool for today"
Description: Brantwood is keen to work with a group of probationers and a group of blind and visually impaired particpants. We want to work with them across a year, and encourage the exploration of many forms of drawing.
Audience: Probationers, and the visually impaired.
Date/Time: Groups will be invited to Brantwood in October, Sessions across the next 12 months
Price: N/A
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Event venue: Carlisle & Cumbria Cafes, Canteens, Refectories
Address: Carlisle & area, Cumbria, CA3 8UH Tel: 01228 515127
Event title: "Art Cafes"
Description: West Walls Studios and Cumbria Institute of the Arts put the 'Culture' back into 'Cafe Culture' in cafes and canteens in Carlisle by creating 'art cafes' where diners can draw on paper tablecloths and paper plates from suggestions on special Big Draw menus.
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Sat 16 Oct (and preceding week ), 10am - 6pm (depending on cafe)
Price: Free
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Event venue: Carlisle City Centre
Address: Pedestrian Precinct, near Old Town Hall, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 8UH Tel: 01228 515127
Event title: "Big Draw Bureau De Change"
Description: West Walls Studios set up their own bank, trading in 'Spiritual Currency'- hand drawn banknotes celebrating the things that make life worth living. Come and create your own range of currency, exchange it for a drawing and meet your spiritual bankmanager! Outcomes will be exhibited at Tullie House Museum.
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: 16 Oct, 10.30am - 4.30pm
Price: Free
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Event venue: Copeland Artists
Address: Showfield, Wasdale Head, Wasdale, Cumbria, CA20 1EX Tel: 01946 817559
Event title: "Fred Copeland's Show"
Description: Artist-led event at Wasdale Show's traditional Shepherds Meet. Interactions and drawings to intrigue and connect with as many people as possible, using carbon and iron-ore pigments from the local mining industry. Group Artists include Richard Wood, Ian Hinde, Doris Rohr, Emmelien Jagger, Linda Moore, Diane McGhee and Sarah Taylor.
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Sat 9 Oct, 10am - 4pm
Price: normal admission charge
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Event venue: Cumberland Pencil Museum
Address: Southey Works, Greta Bridge, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 5NG Tel: 01768 773626; http://www.pencils.co.uk
Event title: "Pencils in the Lakes!"
Description: TV Artist Steve Abbott will be at the museum and will teach drawing techniques to anyone that wants to learn how to draw. Everyone will recieve a Derwent goody bags and there will be a childrens' drawing competition with a selection of great prizes. Visit the home of the worlds first pencil and try for yourself!
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Sat 23 Oct, 9.30am - 4pm
Price: Free for day but will have to pay to go around museum
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Event venue: Cumbria Institute of the Arts
Address: Brampton Road, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 9AY Tel: 01228 400300; http://www.cumbria.ac.uk
Event title: "Geomail: Draw a Place"
Description: Draw land/townscape on plain postcard. Draw a real (geographical) or fictional (imaginary) area, with a name of place. We need individuals, galleries, schools, colleges ...to do a mail exchange with. Our students post maildrawings to you and we expect yours in return, to be exhibited here. Hopefully you'll want to exhibit ours? Further info: doris.rohr@cumbria.ac.uk
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: 13 - 20 Oct, anytime
Price: postcard + stamp
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Event venue: Dock Museum
Address: North Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 2PW Tel: 01229 894444; http://www.dockmuseum.org.uk
Event title: "The Big Draw"
Description: An opportunity to work with professional artist, Sophie Henderson. Using the innovative architectural design of the Dock Museum, Sophie plans to create mobiles with images relating to future worlds - where we might like to live, work and play.
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Sun 10 Oct, 11am - 4pm
Price: Free
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Event venue: Green Door Studios - Annual Grasmere Exhibition
Address: 112 Highgate, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4HE Tel: 01539 729764
Event title: "Within the Hills"
Description: Working with Grasmere Primary School, a 2-day event taking place at the school and at GreenDoor exhibition at Grasmere Hall. Pupils will work with artists from Green Door, using the exhibition work as a stimulus for small and large scale drawings. Products will be exhibited at the exhibition and later at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal.
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Wed 6 &Thurs 7 Oct, 10am - 4pm
Price: Free
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Event venue: Howgill Family Centre
Address: Birks Road, Cleator Moor, Cumbria, CA25 5HR Tel: 01946 817900
Event title: "Familiar Faces"
Description: Howgill Artists will be spending a week visiting exisiting Howgill and Sure Start Carer & Toddler groups around Whitehaven and Cleator Moor. Here they will invite participants to draw their own or a family member's portrait. We will then exhibit these in a town centre venue (tba). Visitors to the exhibition will be invited to add their own family portraits.
Audience: Family
Date/Time: 11 - 15 Oct groups; 18 - 20 Oct exhibition, groups - normal times; 10am - 4pm exhibition
Price: Free
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Event venue: Kendal Leisure Centre
Address: Burton Road, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 7HX Tel: 01539 792511; http://www.southlakelandleisure.org.uk/kendal/home.asp
Event title: "The Big Draw"
Description: After your activity at the leisure centre, why not visit the cafe to draw your experience? All material provided.
Audience: Family
Date/Time: Sat 16 Oct, 9am - 5pm
Price: Drawing event is free; usual sports activity charges apply
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Event venue: Lowick New School
Address: Lowick Green, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 8EB Tel: 01229 885694
Event title: "The Big Draw"
Description: A fun, family-friendly Big Draw workshop at Lowick New School, where a creative professional will be leading a drawing workshop.
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Sat 16 Oct, tbc
Price: tbc
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Event venue: Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre
Address: Nenthead, Alston, Cumbria, CA9 3PD Tel: 01434 382 037; http://www.npht.com
Event title: "Rock and Ruin"
Description: Drawing activities tbc.
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Sun 24 Oct, 11 - 5pm
Price: tbc
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Event venue: Senhouse Roman Museum
Address: The Battery, Sea Brows, Maryport, Cumbria, CA15 6JD Tel: 01900 816168
Event title: "The Big Draw"
Description: Come along and join in the drawing fun! Visitors are invited to draw from the magnificent collection of Roman altars and the many other artefacts on display. Bring along pencil and paper.
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Sat 16 Oct, 10.30am - 4pm
Price: £2.50 adults/75p child
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Event venue: Staveley Mill Yard Studios
Address: 3 Mill Yard, Staveley, Cumbria, LA8 9LS Tel: 01539 721836
Event title: "The Wheel Thing"
Description: Mountain bikes draw unpredictable lines across the landscape. Can it be art?Participants are invited to join in making large (and possibly smaller) art works simply using bikes and clay. Plenty of marks, mud, mess and fun and maybe some surprising results. A partnership with WHEELBASE.
Audience: Family
Date/Time: Sat 16 Oct, 12 - 4pm
Price: Free
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Event venue: The Beacon
Address: West Strand, Whitehaven, Cumbria, CA28 7LY Tel: 0845 095 2131; http://www.thebeacon-whitehaven.co.uk
Event title: "The Big Draw"
Description: Visit our Harbour Gallery to add your own drawing to the continuous roll of artwork. If you get thirsty, have a drink in the cafe and draw on the tablecloths instead!
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: 13 - 17 & 19 - 20 Oct, 10am - 5pm
Price: Harbour Gallery Free
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Event venue: Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery
Address: Castle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 8TP Tel: 01228 534664; http://www.tulliehouse.co.uk
Event title: "The Big Draw Day"
Description: There will be a range of free, fun drawing activities with a natural history theme taking place in different parts of the Museum throughout the day - just drop in and draw! (There is a charge for some parts of the Museum).
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Sat 16 Oct, 10am - 4pm
Price: Free
Event title: "Big Draw Day - Drawing The Natural World"
Description: Develop your drawing and observation skills whilst learning about Cumbria's geology and natural history using objects from the museum's collections, led by lecturer and artist, Doris Rohr.
Audience: 16+ students/adults
Date/Time: Sat 16 Oct, 10am - 12.30pm, 1.30 - 4pm
Price: £3
Event title: "Cumbria's Natural History: Designs for Our Future"
Description: Help create a huge landscape with the help of Carlisle-based artist and tutor, Nick Dodds. Get a section each to draw and paint, then put them altogether to form one long landscape to be displayed in the museum's foyer.
Audience: 9+ and adults
Date/Time: Sat 23 Oct, 10.30am - 3.30pm
Price: £5.50/£3 concs
Event title: "Autumn Design - Drawing & Natural Sculptures"
Description: Inspired by Autumn ,the season of great change, artist Lucinda Fass will help you to use natural and found objects i.e. leaves, twigns, grasses etc., to make drawings and mini sculptures. Be experimental and try drawing and painting with feathers and twigs, or make patterns out of leaves and moss. Children 8 and under to be accompanied by an adult.
Audience: All ages 5+
Date/Time: Thurs 28 Oct, 1.30 - 3.30pm
Price: £3/£2 concs
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Event venue: various venues around Cumbria
Address: Cumbria, Cumbria, CA Tel: 01253 735309
Event title: "c.art.ed for FRED (The Big Draw in Cumbria)"
Description: Brought to you from the back of a car! Make simple drawings with the help of experienced artist, Christine Stringfellow. Work made will be incorporated into a favourite blanket/travel rug for FRED. Come along and see the bigger artwork grow. (FRED is a ten-day festival of visual art in Cumbria.)
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Fri 1 - Sun 10 Oct, various
Price: Free
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Event venue: Wetheriggs Country Pottery
Address: Wetheriggs, Clifton Dykes, Penrith, Cumbria, CA10 2DH Tel: 01768 210 345; http://www.wetheriggs-pottery.co.uk
Event title: "Crazy Creatures"
Description: Be inspired by the 'Cow Parade' cows grazing around Wetheriggs. Decorate your own cow to add to the continuous Lakeland landscape that will evolve over the weekend. Make your mark on a giant terracotta serpent or simply draw the wierdest animal you can imagine. Work will be exhibited afterwards, so don't forget to come back and see the big picture.
Audience: All Ages
Date/Time: Sat 16 & Sun 17 Oct, 11am - 4pm
Price: free (except for Pots of Fun)
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