Ipswich Drawn Together

Ipswich Drawn Together – dhago Dulmur yagari [together making Ipswich]

This is a project we ran in conjunction with the 2019 StoryArts Festival. We asked people, especially children, to discover what is around them and their area. Drawing is a great way of seeing and appreciating your environment. We want everyone to draw together and see what we can discover. Look at landmarks in your area both historical and modern but also look at the everyday things and your way of life.

This was open to everyone. It didn’t matter how you drew. You just had to draw what you could see. 

A small brochure was distributed to schools in the area and placed in some other areas of the community. The brochure was inspired by a similar project in Wales and the was written in both English and Welsh. The project was called Drawn Together Wales.

To fit with the International Year of Indigenous Languages, we used some words from the traditional languages of the Ipswich region, Yagara and Yugarabul, drawn from historical sources. It was not possible to translate everything because there were many untranslatable words/concepts.

Drawings were on display in the Ipswich Community Gallery 12-20 October 2019 during StoryArts Festival Ipswich and some in our online gallery here on this website.