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Drawing Together: The Big Draw Meets Carnival was a unique street
festival that took over London's Exhibition Road to launch the Big Draw season,
running at over 1000 venues across the UK during October.
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This national launch was momentous. Exhibition Road was closed for the first
time, creating a huge drawing arena, with nine organisations coming together to
explore drawing's unlimited possibilities.
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There were a wide range of free activities and artist-led workshops in and
around Exhibition Road, from South Kensington tube up to Kensington Gardens.
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Thousands came to watch the finale - a carnival parade, with visitors wearing
masks and other decorations they made during the day, along with hundreds of
spectacular carnival performers.
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Visitors to Kensington Gardens joined artists and architects, adding models and
sketches to a vast cityscape in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, and made leaf
prints and giant landscape murals with The Royal Parks and Wildlife for All
teams.
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At the V&A they designed and wore carnival costumes and masks, while
budding naturalists and their families roved the Natural History Museum with a
free sketchbook and drew a giant blue whale or a tiny insect.
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Amazing drawing robots took centre stage at the Science Museum's
mechanical-themed workshops where visitors took inspiration from the whirring
red Mill Engine.
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At Imperial College, London, the stars were pipe-cleaner spiders that drew and
balloons made into molecular blobs and carnival costumes, with help from the
Royal British Society of Sculptors.
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Visitors also drew to experimental music at the Royal College of Art, joined an
illustration workshop at the Goethe Institut, or a drawing workshop with
Blueprint magazine (sponsored by Colebrook Bosson Saunders).
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Outside the Serpentine Gallery, Quentin Blake, Gerald Scarfe and Posy Simmonds
led the programme and added their drawings to The Big Picture Frame.
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Top caricaturists from Private Eye, The Guardian, The Independent and The Times
crossed pencils in a hard-hitting Battle of the Cartoonists, creating street
banners.
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Aerialists Viva, Chinese Ribbon Dancers and Gandini Jugglers used their bodies,
vivid costumes, hoops and streamers to draw in space on Exhibition Road.
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Children decorated Koloron tabards in the Berol marquee, ensuring a riot of
colour. Artwork created on the day was worn or carried in the carnival parade
and a steel band enlivened the celebrations.
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Photos by Eileen Adams, David Burder, Natural History Museum, Science Museum
and Hansens
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