BIG DRAW THIS WEDNESDAY!

The 'Big Draw' is a nationwide campaign to get people of all ages drawing and building links with museums, outdoor spaces, artists - and each other. As part of the ongoing Park Traces Project - a collaboration between Airspace Gallery, the University, and the City Council to creatively map and document Hanley Park, this particular Big Draw event will be stretching our imaginations to model all the wild, wacky, and wonderful possible futures of Hanley Park. This project is separate from the Heritage Lottery Funding bid being put together for the Park, but of course our ideas can feed into that process and this will be a space and opportunity for unlimited imagining to happen! We want the most impossible, audacious and ridiculousely wonderful parks to take shape...

this Wednesday 30th October

At the Bandstand in Hanley Park

12pm-3pm

We will be modeling our visions in clay, tinfoil, twigs and leaves, corrugated cardboard, ping pong balls and toothpicks. We will be drawing and designing artworks and activities to go on in the park, and selecting the wildlife to live there...

 

Some images to get the rollercoaster rolling:

PARK TRACES BIG DRAW EVENT

Taking a very three-dimensional approach to drawing, on Wednesday 30th of October from 12 - 3pm in Hanley Park's Bandstand we will be imagining all the incredible futures for the Park and  begin modelling these ideas. We will be using everything from brocolli to glittery paper to ping pong balls to make our visions real; this is an event for all ages so bring your friends, grandparents, toddlers, pet rabbits, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Buttonholes

CLUMP

Parkrun

T-shirt made in Hanley Park to be worn to run in Hanley Park. Worn on Parkrun #104, October 12th 2013.

Hanley parkrun #104 - 12/10/2013

Distance: 5k
Position: 77
Parkrunner: Hazel FRANCE
Time: 31:10
Age Cat: 20-24
Age Grade: 47.49%
Gender: F
Gender Pos: 24
Club: none Note:
First Timer Total Runs: 1

Guerrilla Ceramics Trail: Sat 12th October‏

Scan

Pyschogeographic Explorations

Second year fine art students took part in a reading and practice session today, where we first looked at a reading from Merlin Coverley's 'Psychogeography' the section called Walking the City with De Certeau. We discussed the ideas within the reading around governance and the human experience of such. And the idea that Walking might be an act of rebellion or subversion.Then each student was given a gps point to go to, and then take one hour to walk from that point to the Hanley Park bandstand, paying attention to everything, both significant and insignificant, and taking a record of the journey.
This is Jess Thornton's response: whenever Jess' route was interrupted she took a panoramic photograph.

And then Below is Ali Steventon's observation: the area around the park has a lot of litter, and a big problem with fly tipping.

Peg Board

Peg boards ready to go to for the Guerrilla Ceramics Trail on Saturday in Stoke-on-Trent...

China flowers at Spode

St John's Wort

Hebe