We offer a varied range of activities and events for families.
We also run regular events in partnership with Sure Start, including holding regular Fun Days.
Other regular events include:
To see what's on for families take a look at our Courses & Events.
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Drawing Inspiration Award for Big Draw
The De La Warr Pavilion,
and its Education Coordinator, Natalie Trimby,
have received a Drawing Inspiration Award for their successful project, Make Your Mark on the Future. The Campaign for Drawing selected this event for a Highly Commended Award from over 1500 events that celebrated drawing throughout the UK – and
in 20 other countries – in October 2010.
The event invited families to discover alternative entertainment – by responding to their surroundings creatively. Visitors on an artistic mission invaded the Pavilion, a modernist architectural icon, and their inspiration was the building itself. Lined with paper, interiors and exteriors provided blank canvases. Led by artist Jane Henderson, visitors drew details of the building and imagined their own additions – for instance new stair carpets. A wide variety of interactive projects, using maps, stickers and even electrical tape as prompts, ensured a day out with an enjoyable creative twist.
Leading illustrator Nick Sharratt presented the De La Warr Pavilion with the Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust Award and a commemorative certificate designed by Quentin Blake.
The Big Draw is an annual drawing bonanza, involving an estimated 200,000 people in inclusive creative activities. From 1- 31 October 2011, people from all walks of life will again join events across the UK, and internationally, in venues ranging from castles to shopping centres, national galleries to village halls, libraries to hospitals, universities to nature reserves. Their subjects and materials will be equally wide-ranging, spanning art, science and technology.
Sue Grayson Ford, Campaign Director, comments “The Big Draw is an open invitation to use drawing for learning, engagement and enjoyment. The De La Warr Pavilion superbly demonstrated The Big Draw’s aims of bringing people together, engaging them creatively and supporting active learning. I am amazed at how organisers constantly expand drawing’s boundaries, by bringing vast amounts of enthusiasm and imagination to their events.”
Alan Haydon, Director of the De La Warr Pavilion says : We are delighted to receive such a prestigious award in recognition for not only our Big Draw initiative ‘Make Your Mark’ but for our wider programme of audience engagement. The Campaign for Drawing plays an essential role in advocacy and support for learning and participation in drawing and encourages people of all communities to be involved. We fully endorse this work and as an active partner, we look forward to working with them in the future.
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>> ACTIVITY SHEET
Click here to download our Activity Sheet for children. A great way to keep kids entertained whilst learning about the De La Warr Pavilion and the latest exhibition.
They are also available in printed form from the Box Office.
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For more information about events for families please contact Natalie Trimby, Education Programme Assistant, on 01424 229103 or email by clicking here.