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Sally Kindberg and workshops, some involving a Hat of Surprise
It’s not as if I usually wear my Hat of Surprise, but this hat is sometimes an important part of one of my many comic strip workshops, including those at schools, the Institute of Physics, the Guardian, Ledbury Poetry Festival, … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Workshops
Tagged children's book illustrator, childrens book author, comic strips, festivals, graphic storytelling, Hat of Surprise, magician's hat, museum workshops, paper houses, portraits, school workshops, storytelling, top hat, visual narrative, visual storytelling, workshops
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Sally Kindberg’s workshop at Herne Bay’s Cartoonists Festival 2024
On 3rd August I headed to Herne Bay’s Beach Creative HQ to run a workshop, part of the annual Cartoonists Festival. Not only families drew impressive comic strips – the youngest was five years old – professional cartoonists joined in … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg’s workshops at London Zoo
If you can’t wear a pair of special ears while you’re working at London Zoo then when can you? Last week I was invited to run two visual narrative aka comic strip STORY workshops with Zoo staff, as part of … Continue reading
Posted in Workshops
Tagged comic strips, Hat of Surprise, London Zoo, storytelling, visual narratives, workshops
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Sally Kindberg and more workshops
Last week I was asked back to Canterbury University of the Creative Arts again to give a talk about my work and run a workshop, this time with about fifty BAs. My train was late as there was an ‘incident’ … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg’s workshop for the Guardian and British Library Learning
Last week I took some intrepid space explorers (see above) to the Guardian to take part in their Reading For Pleasure conference. The explorers were popped into my trusty Hat of Surprise so that a dozen or so primary school … Continue reading
Map workshop for children at Ledbury Poetry Festival
Last weekend I was at the marvellous Ledbury Poetry Festival running a workshop encouraging children to make a giant interlinking map of magical sounds, and of course taking a few copies of my Draw It! book with me. It travels everywhere! The venue … Continue reading
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Tagged Draw It!, Hat of Surprise, Ledbury, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Ledbury's Walled Garden, maps, sound maps, workshops
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