This year Rdgites present :

A sketchbook collaboration for the people by the people  

You are invited to collaborate by drawing on paper provided and amending existing contributions.

Come join us and see what we all produce together.

We are at Novotel Hotel Friar Street RG1 as part of  Reading Arts and Music Week 2014  on 22/23 June

The exhibition is open to the public from

10:30am – to 6pm on Saturday 21st June 2014 and

10:30am – 4pm on Sunday 22nd June 2014

Inspired by:

• Scriberia
• Mica Angela Hendricks
• Sketchbookskool and Sketchcrawls

For the StrengthCollective exhibition in June 2013, we exhibited “Reading Perspectives” at the Rising Sun Arts Centre in Reading.
We put up twenty photos of Reading arranged over snippets of maps of Reading that we had taken whilst discovering the town and then asked you to add your tips and stories to share with us by putting them on the map on the left.

Contributions to the map helped us discover more of the town

• “Art at Ottos”
• “Climbing trees <3″ (Clayford)

• “Knitting every other Wednesday – Alto Lounge, Caversham”
• “Naked on the rooftop – cathartic escape x”
• Gorgeous lake and woods for walking (little but lovely” (Malden Erleigh Park)

• “Saw a kestrel/mobby here one morning. Also Kites apparently. Nice fields for a walk!” (Matthewsgreen Farm)
• “Lost myself to music right here”
• “Dinton Pastures – beautiful lakes + forest walks”
• Mapledurham House. Nice day out and the Eagle has Landed was filmed here”
• “Bel and Dragon – my fav. restaurant x”
• “Kate Winslet used to work in the Butt’s deli”
• “Love in the park – in the rain x
• “Bucklbury is GORGEOUS”
• “Wellington Country Park”
• “The Borrowers film was made here” (Theale)

A map of the places we had taken photos of is below