The Big Draw 2025: Drawn Together

This year, The Big Draw celebrates 25 years with the theme ‘Drawn Together’, highlighting how creativity unites us and how collaboration and connection are at the heart of making.

Inspire are 1 of 9 library services to be part of a wider Digital Spaces project. Digital Spaces is an ambitious new programme in association with Arts Council England, BFI, awarding National Lottery funding and The Space. Launching in 2025, this forward-thinking initiative project will deliver an array of digital experiences – including two awe-inspiring virtual reality tours, a VR masterclass delivered by Neon 8, and Inspire will produce a VR film commission delivered as The Big Draw 2025.

Find out more about Digital Spaces.

Leaf Number Three

The new VR film commission will explore the ideas of being together but separate, the same but different using the motif of leaves on a tree with audio of a poem telling the story. The workshops, illustration and animation will be undertaken by My Pockets, and the film will be created in VR by Neon8. During the exhibition tour and intensively over The Big Draw Festival Month Inspire will run activities for all libraries to deliver a simplified version of the My Pockets workshop to explore the theme and add their own leaf to displays in libraries and offer opportunities to enjoy the VR film.

Look out for the FREE drop-in workshops in Inspire Libraries this October!

The Big Draw 2025: Drawn Together Exhibition Tour

An exhibition showing the story of the project with the orginal drawings used to make Leaf Number Three, will be on display at the following Inspire Libraries:

Mansfield Central Library: Saturday 4 October - Wednesday 12 November 2025
West Bridgford Library: Saturday 15 November - Sunday 4 January 2026
Beeston Library: Wednesday 7 January - Wednesday 18 February 2026
Worksop Library: Saturday 21 February - Sunday 29 March 2026

Reading & Libraries

Digital Spaces

This innovative initiative, in collaboration with Arts Council England, BFI, with National Lottery Funding, and The Space, promises to revolutionise digital engagement and accessibility in our libraries.