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7th annual meeting of USk Catalunya in Sabadell, Barcelona BY ELOI PONS MARZAL
On April 13th, more than 700 urban sketchers held the 7th annual meeting of USk Catalunya in Sabadell (Barcelona). Every year a group of sketchers from Catalonia, a region located in eastern Spain, organizes the annual meeting in their city and, this year, the members of the collective Dibuixant Sabadell, a group more than 10 years old, organized it in our city, Sabadell. Urban Sketchers Catalunya is formed by all the groups of sketchers of Catalonia (including official groups such as USk Girona, USk Lleida, USk Terrassa or USk Terres de l’Ebre) and nearby territories (such as USk Maestrat, USk Castelló or USk Mallorca. The official group USk Barcelona also supports and coordinates this event every year. Sabadell 2024 followed the meeting in Ultramort, Vic, Terrassa, Lleida, Girona and Reus. We started in 2016 with some 50 attendees in the small rural town of Ultramort and in each edition we have had about 700 urban sketchers attending, a success in a region as small as ours. Sketchers from groups from all over Catalonia and many other parts of Spain and Europe came. Until now, the meeting has been free for urban sketchers and companions, and is possible thanks to the work of an important group of volunteers from each organizing city and USk Catalunya, as well as the generous support of numerous companies and local institutions. In Sabadell, we started with a drink’n’draw in the afternoon. On Saturday, April 13, we had our headquarters in the Sabadell Art Museum where we started the day at 9 am with gifts of art materials for the attendees, a coffee and welcome cakes. After greeting us and chatting with many friends, each one went to 14 drawing attention