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Sally Kindberg in Cambridge: carols, the Astronomer Royal and Dan Dare
What do you wear when visiting an Astronomer Royal? Star socks of course. Lovely friends Bridget Marzo and Kit Prendergast invited me to join them on Christmas Eve for a festive treat – to attend a Kings Chapel Carol service then … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg’s Space Trail workshop at the Institute of Physics Family Day
What a fantastic day at the Institute of Physics on saturday at their Moon Adventure Family Day! Over one hundred and seventy people came in to draw comic strips and their journeys into space, and encouraged by an army of … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg’s comic strip workshops at the Institute of Physics
As it’s the anniversary year of the first moon landings, the current exhibition at the Institute of Physics is all about the moon, where I ran comic strip workshops yesterday. After some live drawing all about facial expressions and using … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg’s Space comic strip workshop at Belsize Park Community Library
Whooshy! Some of the many wonderful comic strips and drawings of visitors from another planet by children at the Belsize Park Community Library last week. Afterwards there was a lucky dip and the prize was The Comic Strip History of … Continue reading
Visit to Krakow
When I first decided to visit Krakow, partly because I’d heard about the Teraz Komiks! exhibition from comics guru Paul Gravett, I chose my hotel because of its name – the Copernicus. The sixteenth century Polish astronomer, famous for his … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop Erazm Ciolek Palace, Collegium Mauis, Copernicus, Copernicus Hotel, Higher Synagogue Kazimierz, Kazimierz, Krakow, Krakow Mariacki Church, Mrozek, Paul Gravett, Poor Clares Krakow, relics, St Andrew's Church Krakow, St Stanislaw Kazimierczyk, Teraz Komiks!, The Comic Strip History of Space, Wawel castle, Wierzynek
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Workshops at Roehampton Reads festival
Perfect weather for running open air workshops last saturday at the first Roehampton Reads festival in Heathmere Primary School, south west London. I managed to persuade the inspirational Deputy Head to join my pirate crew very briefly, before continuing … Continue reading
Workshops at Palmers Green High School
Rather surprised to see Professor Severus Snape leading assembly when I arrived to run workshops at Palmers Green High School, but then my day was full of surprises … a Suffragette librarian, witches, rabbits and all manner of book characters … Continue reading
Comic strip workshop at the Guardian Reading for Pleasure Conference
Monday was the day of the Guardian’s Reading for Pleasure Conference, where I was running a comic strip workshop for teachers and librarians. Here’s an early morning picture of my Hat of Surprise ready to go, along with assorted characters … Continue reading
Live drawing event at Half Moon Theatre
Last saturday I packed up some of my children’s books and headed to the Half Moon Theatre in Limehouse, London to join authors/illustrators Bridget Marzo, Robert Glenny and Layn Marlow for an afternoon of live drawing. Our work (and books … Continue reading
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Tagged authors' events, Bloomsbury Childrens Books, book signing, Bridget Marzo, Draw It! Dinosaurs, Draw It! Pirates, events for children, Half Moon Theatre, Layn Marlow, Limehouse, Linda Marlowe, live drawing events, Pictures at Play, Robert Glenny, SCBWI British Isles, The Comic Strip History of Space
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First Woman in Space. Notes, drawings etc – and a coincidence
Visited the Science Museum in London yesterday to see an excellent mini-exhibition about Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to go into space. Enjoyed looking at all the exhibits, including a 1965 chocolate bar named in honour of Valentina’s baby girl … Continue reading