N55 : WALKING HOUSE - Past Events

24 OCTOBER - 30 NOVEMBER Open

TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 6-8PM ARTISTS TALK
Wysing’s Artist Talks season continues with a presentation by London based film maker Mark Aerial Waller.

PUBLIC TALK 13 NOVEMBER 6.30-7.30pm FREE Emily Pethick, Director of The Showroom, London will give a talk about different curatorial and artistic projects in relation to her previous works at Cubitt, London and Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht and presently at The Showroom, London. http://www.theshowroom.org/

BIG DRAW EVENT SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER
FREE ALL AGES 12-5pm
The Big Draw is a national event that aims to get everyone drawing, and this activity is appropriate for all.

This year Wysing Arts Centre's Big Draw event will be run by artists Anne Mie Melis and Sarah Evans and focuses on drawing & animation. Come and help design a futuristic utopian environment by contributing to a giant drawing that, using simple stop-frame animation techniques, will move!
The resulting animation will be shown in the exhibition and on our Wysing blog. Come along and take part.

This activity is particularly suited to older children (8yrs up), teenagers and adults but there will be something for all the family to do on the day.

URBAN ORIGAMI
Artist Simon Woolham has worked with three of Cambridgeshire’s Arts Venues, Kettles Yard, Ruskin Gallery and Wysing, to create a participatory activity for the Big Draw.
Urban Origami encourages you to transform paper into small sculptures that can find new homes in any environment, record these mini interventions and upload the results to a growing BLOG site. http://www.urbanorigami.blogspot.com/

Urban Origami will be available at Wysing Arts Centre throughout the N55 exhibition and will be our Art Trolley activity for October

HALF TERM EVENTS FOR THE BIG DRAW - WORKSHOPS

Wednesday 29 October 2-4pm (£2 per child)
Simon Woolham will lead a session creating Urban Origami interventions, He will guide you on a path of drawing discovery around our 11 acre site creating paper interventions, recording through photography and uploading the results to the growing web archive.

Thursday 30 October 2-4pm (£2 per child)
Sarah Evans will lead a drawing session appropriate to all ages inspired by the walking house and futuristic environments. Experiment with a wide range of drawing materials and techniques to create your own work. This is a community drawing activity and is aimed at all ages, come along and have a go.

Walking House is part of the 2008 Big Draw – the National Campaign for Drawing. www.campaignfordrawing.org

We are also part of the Cambridge University Festival of Ideas. www.cambridgefestivalofideas.org