The Big Draw Festival 2019: October 27th 2019
Mark your calendars and reserve your spot ** we were fully booked last year! ** to take part in the world’s largest drawing festival here in Japan!
* Register: Email info@divyamariekato.com with your name and number of people *
More information (and exciting news!!) coming soon. Till then enjoy seeing what we’ve done in previous years below – hope you’ll be drawing with us this year! Love, Divya x
WE DID IT!!
A big thank you to all the Big Drawers who participated in The Big Draw Japan 2018!
SO happy we made this happen and look forward to growing this event year after year in Japan.
Thank you to our friends and partners in Ruskin Land, Bewdley in the U.K.
So much fun exchanging art materials and connecting with you through drawing together!
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who showed up for The Big Draw 2018
You all provided such a vibrant, visual testament to the power of creativity and expression and what it means to be human.
Enjoy our Big Draw video below and head here for the full Big Draw Japan-UK 2018 event recap!
Love, Divya x
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The Big Draw 2018
Last year we brought the world’s largest drawing festival to Japan for the first time!
A big thank you to all the trailblazers who joined us for the very first Big Draw Japan at the beautiful Toriizaka Art Gallery. The Big Draw 2017’s theme was Living Lines.
Otosan (my father-in-law, pictured below) said it had been 30 years since he last drew!
Drawing for me’s an ongoing challenge and one full of infinite discoveries; put best by our main man in Japan:
“I have drawn things since I was six. All that I made before the age of sixty-five is not worth counting.
At seventy-three I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects.
At ninety I will enter into the secret of things. At a hundred and ten, everything–every dot, every dash–will live.”
― Hokusai
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The Big Draw: Why Draw? | Watch Video Here
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This year, we’re not only bringing it back…
But we’re collaborating in an exciting, bilateral, simultaneous, UK-Japan art event across countries, cultures and time zones!
Mark Your Diaries!
Sunday 28th October 2018 | Japan: Yoyogi Park Tokyo 3:30pm-6:30pm | U.K.: Ruskin Land, Bewdley | ¥1000
Yoyogi Park Meeting Point: Sangubashi Gate
A family event open to all ages.
As part of this cross-cultural exchange, we’ll be sending Japanese art materials to Ruskin Land in Bewdley and they’ll be sending us art materials from there, including charcoal made in their woods!
Watch: Ruskin Land Creating Handmade Charcoal For Us!
Through using, understanding and experimenting with traditional British and Japanese drawing methods and materials, everyone will be able to incorporate their own style and knowledge alongside a different cultural practice.
Live Feed!
There’ll also be a live feed between Yoyogi Park Tokyo & Ruskin Land Bewdley to create an interaction between the countries.
200 Years Of Ruskin
This collaboration will also incorporate ideas and inspiration from John Ruskin, in celebration of his bicentenary in 2019.
Led by local artists Hilary Baker in Bewdley & Divya Marie Kato in Tokyo
Register
- Email: info@divyamariekato.com
- With: your name, number of guests
- Bring:
- Sketchbooks and favourite drawing materials – we’ll have materials from Ruskin Land too!
- Drinks/snacks
- Clothes suitable for the park and bug spray/sun screen
- ¥1000 (exact change please!)
- Family, friends and a willingness to create!
- See you at the park! Yoyogi park, Sangubashi gate Oct 28th 3:30pm
Contact: Divya Marie Kato 090 9107 4742
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Watch: Sending Japanese Art Materials To The UK!
Watch: Receiving Art Materials From Ruskin Land, U.K.!
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2018’s Big Draw Theme Is… Play!
The Big Draw Festival takes place every October. Since 2000, the annual, international celebration of drawing, which brings people together under the banner ‘drawing is a universal language’, regularly takes place in over 25 countries, involves over 1000 events and has encouraged over 4 million people back to the drawing board.
Arts education charity, The Big Draw, the driving force behind the festival, believes that ‘everyone can draw’. They also promote 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.
No previous drawing experience is required, although plenty of well-known artists take part, including: Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell, artist Tanya Raabe-Webber, illustrators Oliver Jeffers, Posy Simmonds and Sir Quentin Blake.
Japan’s On The Big Draw Map!
Click here to view
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Sir Quentin Blake, Big Draw Patron:
“I don’t know how imagination works…
I mean, people do say to you, where do you get your ideas from?
And I don’t know really and I think the best thing is to start drawing.
If you start drawing, you think, you start, you draw something…
And then it sort of grows somehow or another…
I think a lot of people should draw… it’s another language in a way…
I think if you draw, you find out things that perhaps you didn’t know…
There’ll be something in there that you saw… you will have taken something away…
I think a lot of young people get discouraged because they can’t do photographic realism or something…
Drawing isn’t like that, it’s another language and you can talk it in different accents so to speak.”
For More Inspiration Click Here!
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Kate Mason, director of The Big Draw:
“As always, The Big Draw Festival is for anyone who loves to draw, as well as those who think they can’t!
For 31 days in over 25 countries, The Big Draw Festival will bring together hundreds of thousands of people to learn, experiment and bring ideas to life through drawing…
…an opportunity for individuals, organisations and countries to join a global community in celebration of the universal language of drawing.”
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The Big Draw Japan 2018 will be hosted in Yoyogi Park Tokyo by artist Divya Marie Kato and artist Hilary Baker in Ruskin Land, Bewdley.
Sunday October 28th 3:30pm-6:30pm Yoyogi Park. Meeting At: Sangubashi Gate
¥1000*
*exact change please
Contact: Divya Marie Kato info@divyamariekato.com | 090 9107 4742
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To find out more about the Festival and The Big Draw Japan 2018 visit:
CLICK HERE
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For further information about this event and press enquiries, contact The Big Draw Japan 2018 organiser:
Divya Marie Kato (English) info@divyamariekato.com 090 9107 4742
Masahiro Kato (Japanese) info@divyamariekato.com 090 9159 6382
Big Draw Japan 2018
The Big Draw Japan 2018 will be hosted in Tokyo by artist Divya Marie Kato and in the UK by artist Hilary Baker in Ruskin Land, Bewdley, on Sunday October 28th.
Tokyo: Yoyogi Park 3:30-6:30pm ¥1000* (*exact change please) Meeting At: Yoyogi Park, Sangubashi Gate
For further information about The Big Draw Festival, contact:
Amy Clancy, Press and Communications Manager, The Big Draw
Tel. 0203 758 4118; Email: amy@thebigdraw.org; Website: www.thebigdraw.org
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Notes To Editors:
The Big Draw Japan 2018
Sunday October 28th 3:30-6:30pm ¥1000 (exact change please) at Yoyogi Park
Hosted in Tokyo by Divya Marie Kato & in the UK by Hilary Baker in Ruskin Land, Bewdley
Booking: info@divyamariekato.com
Link to event listing on The Big Draw website: Click Here
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Artist Divya Marie Kato FRSA, is delighted to bring the world’s biggest drawing festival to Japan for its second year and wishes to see it grow and grow in years to come.
Divya has been sharing drawing through classes and events for over 13 years in Japan and is a passionate advocate for highlighting the role of art in education and making it accessible to people of all ages and abilities.
Artist Hilary Baker FRSA, our partner in Ruskin Land, Bewdley will also be visiting Japan in 2019! Visit Her Website here
The event is open to anyone who loves to draw, as well as those who think they can’t!
It’s an opportunity to join a global community in celebration of the universal language of drawing.
Bring nothing but a willingness to create, connect and celebrate!
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The Big Draw Festival
Launched in October 2000, The Big Draw Festival has encouraged over four million people back to the drawing board.
It has notched up two world records – for the longest drawing in the world (one kilometre) and the greatest number of people drawing simultaneously (over 7,000).
The first Big Draw Festival in 2000 attracted 180 partner organisations. Since then, the number has risen to over 1,000, with over 400,000 people participating each year.
What began as a one day celebration of drawing in October 2000 in the UK, is now an annual month long festival of drawing across the world.
To find your nearest event or find out more about organising one visit: www.thebigdraw.org
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.
