The Big Draw 2025: Drawn Together Workshops

Join us for a fun free drawing workshop where we will be drawing oak tree leaves to celebrate The Big Draw 2025: Drawn Together. You will have the opportunity to watch our brand-new Virtual Reality film ‘Leaf Number Three’ created from drawings by Nottinghamshire community groups. 

The film will immerse you in the drawings of oak leaves which will grow around you, bursting into life. Connecting stories and experiences, each leaf is different yet the same.

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.

FREE

Drop-in

Suitable for children aged 10+ and their families

Monday 20 October 2025:

Mansfield Central Library: 10am - 12pm
Kirkby-in-Ashfield Library: 2pm - 4pm

Tuesday 21 October 2025:
Bingham Library: 10am - 12pm
Southwell Library: 2pm - 4pm

Thursday 23 October 2025:
Hucknall Library: 10am - 12pm
Arnold Library: 2pm - 4pm

Saturday 25 October 2025
Sutton-in-Ashfield Library: 10am - 12pm

Tuesday 28 October 2025
Worksop Library: 10am - 12pm
Retford Library: 2pm - 4pm

Thursday 30 October 2025
Beeston Library: 10am - 12pm
West Bridgford Library: 2pm - 4pm

Saturday 1 November 2025
Newark Library: 10am - 12pm

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.

The film 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.

Click the link so find out more about the project: inspireculture.org.uk/thebigdraw