Connect with new people—romantic or platonic—during an exciting evening of drawing, and explore your artistic side.
Just like speed dating, participants will have 5 minutes to meet, chat, and most importantly, draw portraits of one another before moving on to the next person. You’ll get to know each other while also reflecting on yourself through how others perceive you in their drawings. With these infamous speed drawing sessions, you’re invited to meet new people and build common ground in a relaxed, no-pressure, and fun setting.
No prior drawing experience is required, and everyone is encouraged to connect with strangers—even if you come with friends.
All drawing materials will be provided.
Nice Flaps is an artist initiative formed with the unanimous aim to gather and observe together, to provide time to concentrate, to look, to be, without an outcome in mind other than contemplation itself.
We offer non-taught, experimental drawing events generally with a model, perhaps two; mostly naked, sometimes in costume; alone in the room, or mingling among props and sets. We collaborate with artists, institutions, and other artist-run spaces, and challenge the parameters of life drawing by asking: What does it mean to draw from life? How can it affect our daily perception of the world? Our programme therefore expands beyond traditional life drawing that technically trains artists, instead creating comfortable welcoming spaces where first-timers and regulars alike can take part in an art event and share a collective moment with others.