Red Wire Draw Off

Liverpool 800th Birthday
Bold Street (Outisde The Works)
01.09.07
Featuring: Amanda Ferguson, Amy Goring, Katie Halsall, Linda Pittwood, Joshua Tennant, about 150 kids a eastern european woman who wanted pitta bread

     

For Liverpool's 800th Birthday Bold Street had a large celebration, about 30 shops and cafes opened up and had special events going on for the day. Red Wire were invited to hold an event yo go outside The Works. We decided on a draw-off, wild west style.

 

Kids came on mass with the irresistible temptation of a balloon to draw whatever cam out of the hat- giraffe, birthday cake, pirate ship, 800 year old man..., and we would draw the same over 60 seconds- drawings would be displayed behind as a gallery.
We got 175 drawings by kids, some being incredable (Tom Birdie for instance), some being crazed (pita) and some being future inventions for sure (the 14 key mobile phone for example (below))

 
Above are two original Tom Birdie's. This nine year old kid chose 'birthday cake'. He drew an old and new version- the orginal being a dinosaur with candle in ("because all they had to eat was each other!") and modern one in a ring of fire. Above right is his sweat (not sweet, sweat) pizza- including kit kat and light box. Tom also drew an 800 year old man, with no hair "because he's so old he doesn't care". Birdie was amazing. Tom also decided to write his name in figures, roman numerals and as a tally.

Jessica- Dinosaur



Leon- Doll           Peter- Telephone         Unknown Kurdish woman- pizza