At Art & Soul this October we will be encouraging our customers to get involved in The Big Draw Festival 2019 “Drawn to Life’.

We value being part of a community, and try to encourage this in our creative spaces. Being part of a community is all about relating to the people around us; each person we meet has a life of their own with different experiences, relationships, views and expectations. In our Big Draw Festival event ‘Getting to Know You’ we invite people of all ages to draw a portrait of someone, either that they know or are just meeting for the first time whilst they chat over a drink and then write a few words on the portrait showing something they’ve learned about that person.

Between 24th and 31st October we will provide tables and chairs, A4 paper and materials in our Gallery, along with coffee etc as normal from the cafe. Come along, meet someone and share life together.

All the images collected will be displayed on the walls in the Gallery for the last week in October, together with any A4 portraits that people have drawn at home and choose to bring in to us.