Made in York ‘Angels of Hope’

(A Viborg UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts Initiative)

‘MADE IN YORK’

Draw with Denmark started during the Covid pandemic in 2021 and moved from a Danish charity event to a UNESCO Global campaign focused around creative and positive messages of hope. Draw with Denmark has involved children and young people in 45 countries and in cities from all continents across the world, and has released a very special magic along with thousands of drawings. The programme has caught the imagination and featured on BBC News and BBC Look North. There have been exhibitions, involving drawings by children in York schools, at the National Gallery in Copenhagen, and at the UNESCO Creative Cities’ Annual Conference in Braga, Portugal and in Cali, at the UNESCO Conference in Paris, and in Wuhan, in China and in York.

From 2025 the focus for ‘Draw with Demark’ will be ‘Angels of Hope’ and REACH (York's Cultural Education Partnership) now invites children and young people in York to take part in this global drawing campaign! Children and young people are being asked to create drawings of Angels that will send messages of hope around the world. There are 20 drawing challenges and children can take part by creating a drawing, collage, painting, or animation (e.g. GIF) analogically or digitally. To further develop the initiative, this year we are encouraging schools to ask children to accompany the drawings by stories or poems.

The Danish campaign is running from now until the 15^th October 2025 and York schools can send their drawings to us by half term in the Autumn term. We hope you decide to encourage some of your children and young people to join the ‘Angels of Hope’ campaign so that we can help send messages of hope around the world.

The Danish campaign is running from now until the 15^th October 2025 and York schools can send their drawings to us by half term in the Autumn term. We hope you decide to encourage some of your children and young people to join the ‘Angels of Hope’ initiative so that we can help send messages of hope around the world.