Yarn Festival is happening this weekend. If you are in East London on Saturday, Sunday or Monday evening pop along to meet some of the Soupa illustrators and see some great story telling and live illustration! You can watch or take part - either way you will be in for a great time!
Zine workshop / Free / Sat 19th Feb - 12pm - 5pm / The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street
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Come along and make your own zine with the help of HATO press, EFDEAY, Soupa and Cure Studio. There will be an opportunity to create characters with Elissa Elwick and Jessica Allan, make narratives with EFDEAY and stitch, fold and make the zines with Soupa friends.
We may even be bringing some screen printing screens to print the covers so come along and get inky!
You can just pop along, if you decide last minute. Or come along for the whole session, spend hours on creating your perfect zine or just pop in and have a go.
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Illustrationarium / Free / Sunday 20th Feb - 12pm - 5pm / The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street
Release the doodle and turn words into pictures. Join in with YARN downstairs at the Book Club and create your own illustrations using an OHP, pens, paper and whatever else you can find!
In partnership with Cure Studio and Soupa Creative Network
Book a slot here (or pop in on the day):
http://www.yarnfest.com/illustrationarium/
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Illustrationarium – LIVE! / £3 / Sunday 20th Feb - 6.30pm - 8.30pm / The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street
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Hear the words and see the story illustrated live.
Authors, storytellers and illustrators, include Chris Cleave, Helen Smith, Rachel Rose Reid, Neil McFarland, Carlos Garde-Martin, Luke Waller, Harriet Gray and Jessica Allan.
In partnership with Cure Studio and Soupa Creative Network
Katy Darby will also be joining us. Katy Darby’s work has been read on BBC Radio, won various prizes, and appeared in magazines including Stand, Slice and Mslexia. She teaches writing at City University, edits the literary magazine Litro (www.litro.co.uk) and runs monthly fiction event Liars’ League (www.liarsleague.com). Her first novel, Whores’ Asylum, will be published in 2012.
Chris Cleave’s debut novel Incendiary won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize, won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction award 2005 and won the Prix Spécial du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007. His second novel is titled Little Bee in Canada and the US, where it is a New York Times #1 bestseller. It is titled The Other Hand in the UK, where it is a Sunday Times bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards.
Rachel Rose Reid is a Storyteller, creating Live Lit performances to melt boundaries and build bridges between the oral tradition of our ancestors and the spoken word of today. She has been named a rising star of the festival circuit by the Independent on Sunday, and is a winner of the UK Young Storyteller of the Year. She has been a featured artist at Latitude, Camp Bestival, Port Eliot, the London Literature Festival, Burning Man and the Secret Garden Party, at storytelling festivals Festival at the Edge and Beyond the Border and on BBC Radio.
Helen Smith is an award-winning novelist and playwright. She’s the author of Alison Wonderland, Being Light, The Miracle Inspector, and The Emily Castles Mystery Series, as well as children’s books, and plays.
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Cover Wars – The Buddha of Suburbia / £5 / Monday 21st Feb - 7.30pm - 10pm / The Queen of Hoxton 1-5 Curtain Road
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::: COME DOWN AND SUPPORT JAMIE LITTLER OF SOUPA CREATIVE NETWORK! :::
Four Illustrators, one book cover, who will win?
Four illustrators representing illustration networks across London will pit their pens, pencils, brushes and glue against each other in a battle to create the best book cover for Hanif Kureishi’s ‘Buddha of Suburbia’ live on the night. Hanif Kureishi will read excerpts on the night as well join Jon Gray of Gray318 on the judging panel.
In partnership with Faber and Faber
Who’s taking part?
From Soupa: http://www.soupa.co.uk/
Jamie Littler http://www.jamielittler.co.uk/
For AMMO Magazine: http://www.ammomagazine.co.uk/
Claire Hartley http://clairelouisehartley.co.uk/
From Paperfox press: http://www.paperfoxpress.com/
Robin Boyden: www.robinboydenillustration.com
From Hidden Dingbat: http://www.hiddendingbat.co.uk/
Phil Howell and Lauren Baker
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If you went along to Dazed Live earlier this month, you might well have seen some copies of our latest Soupa Zine. Wonder how they got there? Well, we sent over a few copies over to Jotta a couple of weeks back who were curating the zine part of the festival.
This Friday there is an exhibition featuring the artists, designers and photographers who make up the pool of talent that goes in to making Spindle Magazine. A fashion and culture magazine curated by Heather Falconer.
