Over the last four months, here at Creative Learning HQ we have been living, breathing and embracing everything Bash Street and Beano as we celebrated 80 years of the Beano here at the McManus. STOP PRESS! We have even been DREAMING about Bash Street!
We have delivered over 140 Beano and Bash Street inspired events, school sessions and creative learning activities for families, schools and young people! Cor blimey!!
Last month saw us laugh, laugh and laugh some more as we rounded off a fantastic summer with one of our final Bash Street’s Back events for this year’s The Big Draw. The Big Draw was founded in 2000 and is a visual literacy charity that promotes the universal language of drawing as a tool for learning, expression and invention. The theme for 2018 was PLAY, and for us, this was the perfect opportunity to get our pencils at the ready to celebrate The Bash Street Kids and our city’s fascinating comic history.
We enjoyed a fab comic and storyboarding workshop with our Comic Caper artists from Dundee’ Comic Space, before joining our special guest Dennis the Menace and his trusty sidekick Gnasher for our pop-up gallery activity ‘When The Bell Rings. Dennis and Gnasher kindly posed for their portraits so we could test our live drawing and portrait skills! We rounded off the day of comic inspiration with a live drawing session on our new digital smart screen and created digital storyboards inspired by Dundee’s love of comics!
This was the most successful ‘Big Draw’ yet! – Freelance Artist Feedback
What a great Creative Learning send off to our fabulous exhibition ‘Bash Street’s Back at the McMenace’!
Our latest exhibition, ARTIST ROOMS Lawrence Weiner is now open so keep up to date with our upcoming projects and reflections via the blog. Lots to come over the following weeks as we take a journey into the world of conceptual art with our McManus Youth Action group and the Wednesday Writers creative writing group.
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