Pop-Up Around the World
Make your own pop up art work for free!
Pop-Up Around the World:
Exhibition at The Lowry until Sun 15 March 2009
Free Family Sunday, 30 November – Learn how to make pop up Xmas cards
Visitors of all ages are discovering how to create their own pop-up art work at The Lowry’s fun and original exhibition, which takes visitors on a journey around the world, showing pop-ups of famous landmarks and buildings.
Designed specifically with families in mind, an interactive area within this enchanting exhibition is dedicated to creative activity to encourage visitors to make their own pop-up’s. A pop-up is a flat, folded piece of paper which magically turns into a three-dimensional picture when opened.
Both children and adults are enjoying this unique opportunity to learn how to make a drawing quite literally leap off the page and turn pieces of paper into magical pop-up works of art. Instructions and templates for a variety of pop-up designs, including a box, house, zig zag and a pyramid, provide inspiration for everyone to try their hand at pop-up.
The Lowry’s Free Family Sunday in November is themed around the Pop Up exhibition, providing a great opportunity to learn how to make fantastic pop-up greeting cards. Using The Lowry’s Christmas show, The Wizard of Oz, for inspiration, families can discover how to make their favourite characters and scenes literally burst out of the card!
Also on 30 November, Boostercushion Theatre’s performance of “A Christmas Carol” takes place in the Galleries at 2pm, featuring a giant pop-up book as its backdrop from which props and costumes are produced. The show involves lots of participation from the audience to take the parts of Tiny Tim, Cratchit, Fezziwig and others, to help Scrooge change his miserable ways in this comical version of the Dickensian classic.
Free Family Sundays take place in the galleries on the last Sunday of every month, between 11am and 3pm, providing FREE fun art and drama activities (suitable for ages 5 – 11) inspired by The Lowry’s current exhibitions.
The Lowry explores the magic of pop-up with a fun and original exhibition displaying art work by some of the world’s leading illustrators including Robert Sabuda and paper engineers who have taken inspiration from cities around the world.
Keen enthusiasts can continue creating pop up art work at home by downloading instructions and templates for different shapes from The Lowry’s website at www.thelowry.com/GalleryInformation/popup.html. To see your work displayed online, email in photographs of your pop up work to popup@thelowry.com, then visit www.thelowry.com/popup
The Lowry Centre Trust is a not-for-profit charitable organisation and registered charity (no. 1053962). All income supports our world-class Theatres and Galleries programmes, the care and display of the L S Lowry Collection and our life-changing Community and Education work.
Posted on Friday, 07 November 2008 under Press Galleries Press