My first day of reporting from workshops’ has been divided between 3 instructors all along Queen street. Mario Linhares is based in front of a row of terraced Edwardian shops from 1908. The approach is my favorite, that of reportage. Mario found a drawing of the same row of houses made in 1989 by Don […]
Today the Symposium instructors group had a special opportunity to visit a Marae, a Maori community center in Papakura, Auckland. We were welcomed with a Powhiri (Maori greeting) onto the grounds and then entered the Wharenui (Meeting house) followed by some lunch (Kai) and sketching in and around the Wharenui before heading back to the […]
Symposium will start in one day and there is a lot of work behind the scene! A new idea in the Symposium format: today instructors had the whole day to meet and share insights before teaching and meet all participants the next days. They discussed about the future of Urban Sketchers, of workshops and of all […]