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With the BBC, the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Mayor of London and the Big Draw
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On Sunday 26 September, London plays host to an exciting and innovative event, inspiring creativity on a mass scale. Art on the Square: Join the Party mixes a rich palette of free activities and events, bringing together leading London galleries and artists with budding enthusiasts of all ages in a day that everyone can share.
Art on the Square in Trafalgar Square
Rolf on Art - The Big Event
7.00pm, BBC ONE
Live from Trafalgar Square, Rolf Harris launches a new series of 'Rolf on Art' with one of his biggest art challenges yet. Rolf will lead nearly 150 artists including school children, doctors, train drivers, botanists, and a few famous faces as they race to re-create one of the country's best loved paintings - Constable's 'The Hay Wain' - on a giant scale. The teams of artists have only a few hours to complete their canvasses - which will all come together to make a 144 piece jigsaw revealed at the end of the LIVE TV programme.
During the course of the day visitors to Trafalgar Square can watch Rolf and the artists as they race against the clock and take part in a series of free workshops which take inspiration from historic masterpieces featured in the new BBC ONE 'Rolf on Art' series.
Venus Rising - A stylised sculpture of Botticelli's Venus emerging from one of Trafalgar Square's celebrated fountains will provide the centrepiece for a 'beach' featuring decorative shells and flowers created in workshops throughout the day.
Wedding Feast - For a taste of Bruegel, why not design your very own artistic nuptial lunch including a slice of mouthwatering cake?
Portraits - Step up to a giant canvas mural with countless miniature portrait frames for you to paint, watched over by Rembrandt's extraordinary self portrait.
Wish you were here! - Pick up a brush and a specially created postcard and paint a contemporary homage to Turner, the master of weather, light and landscape.
Art on the Square in Trafalgar Square
The Big Draw 2004
Art on the Square marks the launch of The Big Draw 2004, now recognised as the nation's biggest art event.
What's for Dinner? Help to host the dinner party of a lifetime by sketching your favourite dish or dream guest alongside leading cartoonists and chefs including Anton Edelmann, Giorgio Locatelli and Antonio Carluccio on a giant dining table.
Join Quentin Blake for a family talk, Drawing and its Stories, at 2.30pm in the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing lecture theatre.
Make and decorate your own party hat with Stockport Hat Works Museum; or design your own fancy dress; or add traditional Pacific Tapa cloth patterns to ponchos and paper costumes with Rosanna Raymond.
Help Trafalgar Square become a vast portrait studio, as families and friends draw each other's features on masks.
Join Open House Learning for a 3-D architectural drawing workshop.
Bowl on the North Terrace with sculptor Emma Churchill's bowling balls made from pencils.
Learn top cartooning tips with a team from the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain.
Watch 'Stacked Wonky' perform an urban square dance inspired by the Square's floorscape and unicyclists drawing with their wheels.
At dusk, 'Vivid', a New Zealand performance group, will animate the Square, drawing with their bodies and fibre optically-illuminated costumes (5.30, 6pm, 6.45pm).
Strike a top note by creating Graffiti Opera with Hatstand Opera or draw music with students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Draw a self-portrait on a balloon and send it up into the clouds.
Make your mark with a thumbprint in the giant visitors' book.
Design a placemat competition. National Gallery Café, Crivelli's Garden at the National Gallery and Portrait Restaurant at the National Portrait Gallery and rred @ Trafalgar Square. Try your hand at designing a placemat - the best overall design will win a free lunch!
Art on the Square at the National Gallery
Family Drawing
Party Dress. Room 9. 11am repeated 1pm and 4pm. Draw inspiration from the fantastic fabrics and patterns in the paintings.
Pleasing Portraits. Room 41. 12pm repeated 2pm. Join artist Dillwyn Smith and find out what's in a face.
Places and Spaces. Room 22. 3pm repeated 5pm. Be transported to some beautiful places with artist Felicity Powell and decide which one is your favourite.
All these workshops start with a lively talk followed by a drawing activity. Each session lasts 50 minutes.
Aimed at families with children aged 5 to 11.
All materials are provided.
All children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Places for both family and adult sessions are limited and are allocated on arrival.
Family Talk
Drawing and its Stories. Sainsbury Wing Lecture Theatre. 2.30pm. Quentin Blake talks about the intimate narratives of drawing and the ways they can be expressed.
Adult Drawing
The Dinner Party. Room 32. 12-6pm. The table is laid but the food is missing. With the guests at the door, save the day by drawing a delicious feast to serve up. Drop-in. Places are limited and will be allocated upon arrival.
Adult life Drawing. Education Centre Rooms. 3pm and 4pm. Each session lasts half an hour, and is led by artist Ann Dowker. There will be a life model.
Room 19. 2pm and 4pm. Come along and make your own line drawing in this workshop that will be looking at Poussin's use of line to create great paintings. Led by artist Matthew Burrows.
Room 9. 5.30pm. Be inspired by the wonderful fabrics and patterns in the paintings to create your own patchwork drawing. Led by artist Thomas Gosebruch.
Adult Talks
Guided Tours at 11.30am and 2.30pm
Meet the artist - Titian. Central Hall 12pm, repeated 1pm. Talk lasts half an hour. Come and meet Titian and hear about how he made his wonderful paintings.
Ten Minute Talks
Rembrandt: Self Portrait at the age of 63 Room 23 12pm, repeated 2pm
Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Room 34 11am, repeated 4pm
Constable: 'The Hay Wain' Room 34 1pm, repeated 3pm
Public information lines at the National Gallery: 020 7747 2894 and 020 7747 5915
Art on the Square at the National Portrait Gallery
Adult Events
Free film screenings on artists and their work, Ondaatje Wing Theatre
From Five Women Painters series:
12pm 'Colour of Dreams: Eileen Agar (1904 - 1991)' (26 minutes)
12.45pm 'Dora Carrington (1893 - 1932)' (26 minutes)
1.30pm 'Laura Knight (1877 - 1970)' (26 minutes)
2.30pm 'Portrait: Artist Tai-Shan Scherenberg' (30 minutes) from the 'Oil on canvas' series, looking at how painters paint.
3pm 'The Colour of Britain' (50 minutes)
Featuring internationally-successful British Asian artists, including sculptor Anish Kapoor.
Family Events
11-4 pm Silhouette demonstration, room 16
Silhouette artist Charles Burns will demonstrate the art of portrait silhouette cutting, based on the display of silhouettes from the collection in room 16. Free drop-in event, suitable for all ages.
11-2pm Silhouette workshop, Education Studio
Come and make a portrait silhouette of a member of your family.
With artist Karly Allen. Free drop-in event, suitable for children aged 3+.
11 - 4pm Tour and Draw, Regency Galleries
Meet John Constable and his circle in the Regency galleries, followed by an artist-led drawing session. Free, drop-in event. Suitable for children aged 5+.
For further press information on Art on the Square: Join the Party, please contact one of the following (not for publication):
Kate Gedge (The Big Draw) 01874 730300 krpr@btconnect.com / Danny Shergold 020 8351 1719
Debbie Chapman (Rolf on Art - The Big Event) 0117 9742231debbie.chapman@bbc.co.uk
Hazel Sutherland (National Portrait Gallery) 020 7312 2452 hsutherland@npg.org.uk
Lara Raymond (the National Gallery) 020 7747 2596 lara.raymond@ng-london.org.uk
Notes to Editors:
-Art on the Square runs from 10am until 8pm on Sunday 26 September
-Art on the Square is a collaboration between the BBC, the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Mayor of London and The Big Draw
-Rolf on Art - The Big Event will be broadcast live on Sunday 26 September on BBC ONE (evening tx time to be confirmed)
Further information on exhibitions and events at the National Portrait Gallery, plus location and access information can be found at www.npg.org.uk
-Further information on exhibitions and events at The National Gallery, plus access information and opening times can be found at www.nationalgallery.org.uk
-The Campaign for Drawing is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Persil
-For details of 1000 Big Draw events, visit www.thebigdraw.org.uk or tel 020 8351 0991
-Art on the Square is part of a season of free events at Trafalgar Square run by the Mayor of London
-Trafalgar Square, London is accessible to disabled Londoners with two lifts from the upper to lower terrace
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