Welcome to Vancouver Draw Down
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Check out the photos from all the chalk drawings and other Drawdown workshops around Vancouver on flickr

www.vancouverdrawdown.com

The inaugural Vancouver Draw Down happening runs June 11, 12 and 13th, 2010 and will captivate and transform the city through expanded ideas of drawing, participatory city-wide projects, workshops, multi-disciplinary events and documentary pieces. Museums, galleries, community centres and arts organizations across the city will present exhibitions and collaborative drawing projects of all shapes, sizes and media, including a city-wide public drawing project throughout May and June. Whether you join us to draw with your pen or your bicycle wheels, on rag paper or the sidewalk, we challenge you to engage and perform, to throw down your pencil and declare: I can draw!

Vancouver Draw Down: A celebration of drawing in everyday life!

Everybody does it... from doodling while on the phone, to drawing a map for directions; from drawing cartoons and caricatures to imagined landscapes. And May and June will be an opportunity to recognize and celebrate drawing for all.

Button Draw Down workshops

Participants will be engaged in various forms of drawing techniques led by artists and they will use the drawings to create a playful buttons to take home.

Kerrisdale Community Centre 5851 West Boulevard, Vancouver, BC www.kerrisdalecc.com	Tuesday, May 4th from 4:00 to 5:30 pm
Sunset Community Centre 6810 Main Street, Vancouver, BC www.mysunset.net	Thursday, May 6 from 4:00 to 5:30 pm
Killarney Community Centre 6260 Killarney Street, Vancouver, BC www.killarneycentre.ca	Monday, May 17 from 10 to 11:30 am
Renfrew Park Community Centre 2929 East 22nd Avenue, Vancouver, BC renfrewcc.com	Friday, May 28 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Carnegie Centre 401 Main Street, Vancouver BC V6A 2T7 vancouver.ca/commsvcs/carnegiecentre/	Tuesday, May 25 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm
Britannia Community Services Centre 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC britanniacentre.org	Wednesday, June 9 from 1:00 – 2:30

City-wide Chalk Drop

– random acts of chalk drawings.

Saturday, June 12 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Boxes of chalk will be brought to all locations by artist facilitators listed below for community participation in a city-wide chalk draw down.

• random acts of chalk drawings spontaneously appearing across the city
• artists will be sent to participating centers to engage local residents in the creation of sidewalk chalk murals
• a team of videographers and photographers will document this creative process across the city and post it to the website.

Kerrisdale Community Centre 5851 West Boulevard, Vancouver, BC www.kerrisdalecc.com	Location of chalk drawing: Front entrance between grass areas Artists: TBC Contact Kristi Douglas, Community Recreation Programmer, 604-257-8114 kristi.douglas@vancouver.ca
Carnegie Centre 401 Main Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 2T7 vancouver.ca/commsvcs/carnegiecentre/	Location of chalk drawing: Main Street and East Hastings, note chalk drawing will be done on black mural paper Artists: Sharon Kravitz and Carnegie artist Contact: Rika Uto, Arts & Education Programmer, 604-665-3003 rika.uto@vancouver.ca
Sunset Community Centre 6810 Main Street, Vancouver, BC www.mysunset.net	Location of chalk drawing: Front Entrance between grass boulevards Artists: Lindsay Kesler and Lisa Walker Contact: Cyndy Chwelos, Community Arts Programmer 604-718-6521 cyndy.chwelos@vancouver.ca
Ray Cam Centre 920 E Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 3T1 www.raycam.com	Location of chalk drawing: Front entrance beside grass boulevard and court yard Artists: TBC Contact: Linda De Ciantis, Program Coordinator 604-257-6942 linda.deciantis@vancouver.ca
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2W3 www.roundhouse.ca	Location of chalk drawing: Sea Wall between Marinaside Cres. and David Lam Park on the upper level walking trail between the grassy areas Artists: TBC Contact Marie Lopes, Arts Programmer, 604-713-1806 marie.lopes@vancouver.ca
UBC Museum of Anthropology 6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 www.moa.ubc.ca	Location of chalk drawing: MOA Courtyard surrounded by garden area Artists: TBC Contact: Jill R. Baird, Curator Education & Public Programmes 604-827-5618 jill.baird@ubc.ca
Vancouver Art Gallery 750 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H7 www.vanartgallery.bc.ca	Location of chalk drawing: Georgia Street Plaza centre in between grass area Artists: TBC Contact: Marie-France Berard 604-662-4700 mariefranceberard1@gmail.com

Vancouver Draw Down Partners:

Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, vancouver.ca/parks/arts
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, www.roundhouse.ca
Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts, http://cgi.sfu.ca/~scahome
Vancouver Art Gallery, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca
UBC Museum of Anthropolog, www.moa.ubc.ca
Vancouver Drawing Festival Society, www.drawnfestival.ca

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