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Strictly Come Drawing

By on October 17, 2019

The Big Draw, the world’s largest festival dedicated to drawing, returns to Yoyogi Park on October 27, 2019.

Since its U.K. launch in October 2000, this annual, international celebration of drawing has  been bringing people together under the banner ‘drawing is a universal language’. Taking place in over 25 countries, over 1000 events have gotten over 4 million people back to the drawing board. Big Draw patrons include Quentin Blake, Andrew Marr, Bob & Roberta Smith RA, Lord Foster of Thames Bank, David Hockney OM CH, Sir Roger Penrose OM, Gerald Scarfe CBE, Posy Simmonds MBE and Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell.

Arts education charity The Big Draw, the driving force behind the festival, believes that ‘everyone can draw’ and promotes drawing as a universal language that has the power to change lives and unite people of any age, background, race, or religion from around the globe.

Japan’s first Big Draw event was launched in 2017 by Tokyo-based British Indian artist Divya Marie Kato, the person behind a number of cross-cultural art education projects in Japan for the past 13 years. In 2018, she collaborated with UK-based artist Hilary Baker, and Ruskin Land, Bewdley in a simultaneous, bilateral UK-Japan art event across countries, cultures and time zones for which they were awarded the Big Draw Art & Societies award.

The Big Draw Tokyo (Yoyogi Park): 27 October 2019 3pm-6pm
Details:  https://www.divyamariekato.com/the-big-draw-japan-2019/

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