SOLD OUT -- Life Drawing Monday 22nd Feb

WHAT'S THIS? ANOTHER LIFE DRAWING CLASS IN A DIFFERENT STRIP CLUB IN EAST LONDON?

If drawing in unusual scenarios is your thing - it doesn't get much more unusual than this... Join us for another extraordinary and genuinely inspiring life drawing class in an actual strip club. Our very talented dancers are expanding their repertoire. No longer content to save their attributes for the private rooms, they are now performing incredible routines (with the added twist of holding still) for our more artistic patrons to capture them in motion.

We are giving artists a unique opportunity to draw strippers while in their place of work. The classes are entirely self-organised and hosted by a group called East London Strippers Collective (ELSC), a group of strippers challenging stereotypes and societal attitudes towards strip clubs, by inviting a new audience of onlookers inside. Our doors are open to professional artists, designers, sketchers, illustrators, animators, doodlers, students and first-timers alike.

We have worked out a section of the class called "strip-freeze" - a striptease routine interspersed with one minute poses. As the model performs a strip show on stage, our class-leader calls out "Freeze!" giving the class one minute to capture her pose before she continues moving. This section is a warm-up exercise for the class, and an intense drawing experience. Once the model is naked, the length of the poses follow a more traditional pattern, with five, ten and fifteen minutes at a time.

23 Paul St stands out from any other strip club in London - it's internal decor is genuinely awe-inspiring. Referring to itself as a ‘Townhouse of Tease’, everything from the 7-foot ostrich skeleton to the secret room hidden behind a secret bookcase interests and amuses. Everywhere you look is a feast for the eyes, the perfect setting for framing the beauty of the female form.

The class will be led but not tutored. £15 per person, £10 for students (We have a limited number of spaces for students - IF YOU ARE A STUDENT AND WOULD LIKE TO BOOK PLEASE MESSAGE US FIRST, as students are booked separately.) All levels of ability welcome, same for gender.

All materials are available for a £2 donation.

For more info about East London Strippers Collective go to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfHrDyqrico

http://www.facebook.com/ELSC.forever

@ethicalstripper (https://twitter.com/ethicalstripper)