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Hello Nuclear Power Station!

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Meet at: Sizewell Tea, Sizewell Gap, Leiston, Suffolk IP16 4UH

We will wonder around Sizewell B Nuclear Power station to explore it in its natural surroundings. Using divination, drawing and ways of looking we will get insights into the future and the past life of a nuclear powered landscape. We hope to return home with some answers and drawings.

Bring drawing materials and snacks.

Hello Nuclear Power Station! Is part of The ANTIUNIVERSITY NOW! festival

http://www.antiuniversity.org

The ANTIUNIVERSITY NOW! festival is a collaborative experiment to revisit and reimagine the Antiuniversity of 1968 in a weekend of events inspired by the spirit, people and activities of the Antiuniversity of East London.    The ANTIUNIVERSITY NOW! festival challenges academic hierarchy through an open invitation to teach and learn any subject, in any form, anywhere.
The ANTIUNIVERSITY NOW! festival takes place on 20-22 November 2015 in a wide range of venues across the country and is open to everyone.

 

DIGGING AND DRAWING DAY

 

Digging and Drawing Day 2015 – Sunday November 15th

Join us for Digging and Drawing Day at Asylum Studios

building 118 bentwaters park, rendlesham, suffolk IP12 2TW

http://www.asylumstudios.co.uk/

Asylum Burial Ground – Social Burial Event 11.30 to 1.30pm

Located in the grounds of Asylum Studios, Rendlesham, Suffolk.
All Burials are registered in the Asylum Register of Burials.

The Asylum Burial ground is for:
All animals killed by cars.
Any ‘things’ that can no longer be kept, but can’t be forgotten.
Fulfilled collections or assemblages.
Non Belongings.
Etc
Bring things to bury for a day of social burial

After Lunch (please bring lunch)

Drawing Exchange – Wondering The Base – 2pm to 4pm

Asylum Studios is located within the old RAF and USAF airbase, famous for the legendary UFO incident of 1980. We will explore and draw the landscape of military remains.

Come to both or either of these events bring things to bury and drawing equipment.

A letter drawing

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At Spike Island Bristol / Saturday 3 October 2015, 12–4pm

Bring along a stamp and a postal address of someone you’d like to contact. Through a series of playful collective and singular drawing experiments, we will create letters ready to post at the end of the workshop.

Free event with drawing materials provided .

Spike Island
www.spikeisland.org.uk
133 Cumberland Road
Bristol BS1 6UX

PORTRAIT SERVICE 2060 at Supernormal Festival

Draw drawings for a time capsule that will be buried at Supernormal Festival !

Saturday 8th, Sunday 9th August  2015

Supernormal Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire.

Join Lady Lucy and Kayle Brandon to draw one anothers portraits and discuss personal and collective dream and nightmare visions of what 2060 may look like. Once the drawings are made they will be placed in a time capsule and buried. On August 9th 2060 the time capsule will be opened and the drawings will be released to fly up into the air like birds.

The Drawing Exchange is a public and social drawing platform by Kayle Brandon and Lady Lucy.

http://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk/performances/

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The Passenger Drawer Society

 Wednesday 29th july at 11.16am from Bristol Temple Meads to Severn Beach / £4 ticket

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At the Passenger Drawer Society our passion is trains and of course drawing. United within the carriage we’ll go on a train drawing experiment – Along the Severn Beach line. A single track ride, we’ll go back and forth to capture sliding views. Bring train snacks, drawing things (Elderberries make good ink for drawing storms this time of year) and alight at any of the connecting stops. We’ll return to Temple Meads at 1.50pm, but also you can return earlier if needs be.

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A Shrine to Dissent

Drawing Exchange presents –

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‘A Shrine to Dissent’ at ‘The Day of The Dead Festival’

AT: Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf Southbank London SE1 9PH

FROM:
30th Oct – 2nd Nov 20014: 11 am – 6 pm.

Drawing Events will taking place at selected cemeteries and burial grounds in London, as well as at The Bargehouse. The drawings made at these events will accumulate to form the shrine.

Day of The Dead Festival info –

http://www.dayofthedeadfestival.co.uk

The Day Of The Dead Festival 2014 at The Bargehouse, Oxo Tower from 30th October to 2nd November. The exhibition will present recent works from a host of contemporary artists, each with associated Day of the Dead themes. The festival includes works by; Graciela Iturbide, Jordan Baseman, The Drawing Exchange, James Ostrer, The Chapman Brothers and Juan Jose Rivas & Johnnie Shand Kydd

A Shrine to Dissent

A Shrine to Dissent is a participatory and accumulative installation work, which builds through social drawing events that focus on the dead’s dissent: a gift to the living. The shrine will begin as a geodesic skeletal structure, massing into a collective shrine made from participants’ drawings and assemblages. Finally the shrine will be socially dismantled in a Drawing Exchange ceremony where participants can swap and barter their drawings.

The drawing events will focus on the value of dissent. Looking at political, social dissenters whose non-agreement to the status quo or living ‘misfit lives’ enabled greater freedoms to the living. Drawing events will include a Thames drift, visits to Highgate East, Cross Bones, Bunhill Fields and Abney Park cemeteries and social drawing back at the shrine.

Thursday 30th Oct to Sunday 2nd Nov: 11 am–6pm – Drawing at the Shrine

Throughout the festival, visitors to the Shrine to Dissent will be able to make their drawn offering.

Outing Drawing Event Times and Locations:

Join us at the following locations for social drawing events. Some equipment provided, but please bring your own too. Everyone welcome, regardless of drawing ability.
All events are free, (apart from Highgate East entrance fee).

Thursday 30th Oct -Sunday 2nd Nov: 11 am – 6pm Drawing at the shrine

Thursday 3Oth Oct: 2pm–4pm Dissenting Gothic : Abney Park, N16

Friday 31st Oct:
3–6pm Beyond the Gates : Bunhill – Crossbones

Saturday 1st Nov: 11–2pm Highgate Cemetery East

Sunday 2nd Nov:
2–5pm Shrine to Dissent – Closing Ceremony.

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Thursday 3Oth Oct, 2–4pm: Dissenting Gothic
Meet 2pm at Abney Park Cemetery main gates, Stoke Newington High Street N16 OLH

Join us as we explore the reoccurring and evolving themes of dissent through Abney Park Cemetery. From the chapel’s architectural style of Dissenting Gothic through the myriad lives of the dissenting buried within this beautiful and strange nature reserve.

Friday 31st Oct, 3–6pm: Beyond the Gates

Bunhill Fields to Crossbones – Day of The Dead
Meet 3 pm, Bunhill 38 City Road, London EC1Y 1AU 3PM

Howl away the hours descending to dusk with a walking drift from one special site of the dead dissenter to another. Bunhill Fields, a former burial ground and now public park, was once known as ‘The Campo Santo of Dissenters’ and favoured by Nonconformists. It famously contains the graves of John Bunyan, William Blake and Daniel Defoe and many more radicals. We’ll walk through the city to find Crossbones a site of non-conformity and local importance where a memorial gate pays dues to the paupers and prostitutes buried within.

Saturday 1st Nov, 11–2pm: Highgate East
Highgate Cemetery East, Meet 11am at the main gates
Cost £4 Under 18’s Free Swain’s Lane, London N6 6PJ

Highgate East Cemetery is renowned as the resting place for many socialists and a refuge for the wild. Amongst the fox holes and wild plants lies Karl Marx, next to him, Claudia Jones, communist activist and journalist. Within the shadows lies Dachine Rainer, poet and anarchist and Malcolm McLaren punk pioneer. We will walk and draw as we discover the lives and labours of the buried.

Sunday 2nd Nov, 2pm 5pm 

Shrine to Dissent Closing Ceremony

A Drawing Exchange ceremony will take place where participants can exchange, barter and send drawn offerings to the other side, whilst improvisational band ‘the D Moon‘ play .