About this Event
Join us for a free workshop around comics and climate justice with Emma Reynolds, as part of the first ever Mersey Margins Collective Comics Fair. You will make a one-page comic about a climate justice issue you feel passionately about!
This workshop will be held in Future Yard's Yellow Room!
About our workshop facilitator:
Emma Reynolds is an illustrator and author based in Manchester, UK.Her latest book , is a middle grade graphic novel with each activist bio illustrated by an acclaimed artist from around the world. With extensive backmatter including activist interviews on the power of community, and illustrations to explain the science - Drawn focuses on the need to centre Indigenous solutions and intersectional climate justice, and also speaks on how we need more artists to transform society and tell new stories about our future - allowing us to manifest them into reality.
Emma’s author-illustrator debut picture book about bat conservation, peaceful protest and community action is a Nautilus winner, Junior Library Guild Gold Standard, National Science Teacher Association ‘Best in STEM’, and an Empathy Lab #ReadForEmpathy selection.In early 2019 she started #KidLit4Climate the first global illustrated climate campaign, bringing together thousands of children’s illustrators and authors from more than fifty countries in solidarity with the youth climate strikes.
Mersey Margins Collective Comics Fair is a brand new comics fair organised by the Marginal Changemakers, a core programme of Comics Youth. The fair promotes the work of early career Liverpool City area artists.
The fair will be held at Future Yard on February 15th from 11.00am to 3.30pm, and is free to enter.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Future Yard CIC, 75 Argyle Street, Birkenhead, United Kingdom
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