Category Archives: Festivals

Sally Kindberg goes to Ledbury Poetry Festival

Posted on July 7, 2017 by SallyK

  Last weekend I ran a map workshop for children at Ledbury Poetry Festival, staying on afterwards to experience some of the Festival‘s delights and surprises, as well as explore a bit.  After my saturday workshop I managed to catch the last performance of … Continue reading →

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Stories for radio at Croydon International Film Festival

Posted on November 29, 2015 by SallyK

Yesterday to the excellent Croydon International Film Festival with producer/film-maker Roland Denning.  Two of my stories for radio, Archangel and Sweden recorded by Roland featured in the programme.  Archangel was originally one of a series of short comic strips.  Afterwards there was a short … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg at Lakes International Comic Art Festival

Posted on October 20, 2015 by SallyK

What an amazing weekend at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival!  Fantastic comic makers, films, live drawing events, talks and unexpected meetings.  Spent saturday afternoon encouraging families to hatch dinosaur eggs (as you do) at my workshops in Kendal’s Westmoreland Shopping Centre. … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s radio stories at In The Dark Documentary Festival

Posted on June 15, 2015 by SallyK

Two of my stories, Archangel and Sweden, part of my An Unfinished Business project,  recorded and produced by multi-talented Roland Denning, were well received at In The Dark part of UCL Open City Documentary Festival on June 17th 2015.  Both pieces selected by film-maker and curator Donna Lipowitz … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg at Bologna Book Fair and Fiesole

Posted on April 15, 2014 by SallyK

     In March set out for Italy to take part in a SCBWI Duelling Illustrators event with Bridget Strevons-Marzo at Bologna Book Fair.  Stayed at a converted convent pensione on a Fiesole hillside overlooking Florence, with Bridget, Candy Gourlay, Anita … Continue reading →

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Fowey Carnival 2013

Posted on August 25, 2013 by SallyK
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Monsters visit Cornish Libraries

Posted on August 25, 2013 by SallyK

  August is carnival time in Fowey in Cornwall,  a major event in this part of the world, and my Monster drawing events competed for attention with a giant walnut-cracking crab, the Red Arrows aerobatic team, a huge fancy-dress parade … Continue reading →

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Duck Racing

Posted on September 18, 2012 by SallyK

Never completely successful at horse-racing, I decided to have a go with Ducks.  As everyone knows, Lyme Regis became famous for its Duck Races after Conger Coddling (involving a frozen dead eel – don’t ask) was banned.  Apparently Duck Racing, … Continue reading →

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China trip part five

Posted on May 14, 2012 by SallyK

  Having drawn the Great Wall of China for the Comic Strip History of the World, I wanted to see the real thing.  One free morning in Beijing before I left for London – but the cold and foggy conditions … Continue reading →

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China trip part four

Posted on May 11, 2012 by SallyK

The Bookworm Festival included a visit to a school run by the Migrant Children’s Foundation for children whose parents have been drawn from the countryside to work in China’s cities.  A car picked us up from the Opposite House and drove … Continue reading →

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