Celebrate National Drawing Day with a host of free activities, all welcome! 

Drawing Workshop: 11am and 12noon / Book here
Drop-in Activities: 1pm – 4.30pm / No booking required

Drawing Workshop, Drawn to Sound: Renata Pekowska / 11am – 12noon

Join artist and researcher Renata Pekowska for this National Drawing Day event and explore drawing to sound as a way of intent listening which produces visual evidence of the listening processes and individual responses. The event consists of two one-hour workshops, at IMMA from 11am to 12noon, and in Temple Bar Gallery & Studios from 2pm to 3pm. The workshops will respond to existing and imagined soundscapes within two respective gallery spaces, with the option of a self-guided sensory walking trail between two workshops. These events are for adults, all ability levels welcome, no experience necessary. Workshops can be booked individually through IMMA and TBG&S website.

Drop-in Activities / 1pm – 4.30pm
Drop into the Matheson Creativity Hub from 1pm to try your hand at a variety of drawing activities, at your own pace. Facilitators from the Visitor Engagement Team will invite you to respond to the IMMA site and gardens, and artworks within the surrounding grounds. To celebrate Drawing Day, this activity will trigger your creative imagination with a series of prompts.

Drawing encourages us to slow down, look closer, think more. We invite you to listen to IMMA Horizons | Slow Art audio guide as you visit artworks and to have your own Slow Art experience in the museum. To access the audio guide, bring your phone or mobile device and just pick up an IMMA Horizons | Slow Art postcard from the Matheson Creativity Hub on the day.

Free IMMA Explorer packs will be available for younger visitors to collect from outside the Matheson Creativity Hub in the colonnades.