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Non-Fiction Comic Festival Youth Programs

Saturday · 10 AM – 6 PM

Fletcher Free Library · Burlington · 6.0 mi

FREEAll agesFestivals

Join us for a full day of drawing workshops for kids with cartoonists from all over the country in the Youth Area... Make an Autobiographical Comic! 11:30am - 12:15pm Instructor: Jonathan Todd Jonathan Todd, the author/illustrator of the kids graphic novel Timid (Scholastic/Graphix), will present a step-by-step way that you can make a comic about something that really happened to you. Planning steps will include writing a short prose version of a true story. If there is time, we’ll share our comics with the other cartoonists who participate in this workshop. Draw Anything and Everything! 12:30pm - 1:15pm Instructor: James Kochalka Learn how to draw anything and everything with Vermont’s first Cartoonist Laureate, James Kochalka. Draw with the Eisner winning creator of Johnny Boo and Gentle Observation (in Seven Days each week). Let's Time Travel with Non-Fiction Comics! 1:30pm - 2:15pm Instructor: Alexandra Gallant-Lee Let's Time Travel with Non-Fiction Comics, how you can use comics to tell stories that span a second, a minute, a year or a lifetime through the power of storytelling. We'll look at different comics that travel through time over the course of a panel, a page and an entire comic and then make our own time travel comics using some common comics formats such as four panel gag and eight panel mini-comic. SPLAT, SPLUT, SPLOCK: Making Comics Make Noise 2:30pm - 3:15pm Instructor: Jon Chad One of the greatest effects in comics is its ability to recreate the sensation of noise through sound effects. Sound effects can help strengthen the sense of place in your comic, can help communicate what's going on to the reader, and are also a ton of fun to draw. In this workshop, cartoonist Jon Chad will lead participants in some activities to help make their sound effects as squishy, explode-y, splashy, or zappy as they can possibly be! Cartooning Lessons: Telling Our Stories Using the Language of Comics 3:30pm - 4:15pm Instructor: Mike Dawson Award-winning creator Mike Dawson will walk young and aspiring cartoonists through every stage of the comics-making process. Warm-up with doodles, then practice telling stories using visual language, experiment with the ways adding text changes the meaning of our images, then finally revise, edit, and share what we’ve made. No drawing skills necessary! ⭐ Kids & Teens! ⭐ For more info about the Festival: https://www.nonfictioncomicsfest.org/ Volunteer for Non-Fiction Comic Festival: https://fletcherfree.libcal.com/event/15613626 Location: Youth Area, Main Library.

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Non-Fiction Comic Festival Workshops

Saturday · 11 AM – 5:30 PM

Fletcher Free Library · Burlington · 6.0 mi

FREEAll agesFestivals

Join us for a full day of workshops and panel discussions with cartoonists from all over the country who create publications on nonfiction topics. In the Fletcher Room, check out the following workshops.... Lightning Round Comics 11:15am - 12:15pm Instructor: Bonkd Comics Collective This one-hour workshop will be a good workout for your comics drawing muscles. Participants will take on different, time-constrained drawing tasks. Some exercises will be personal, others in small groups. By the end of the workshop you'll have had a lot of fun and be ready to create your own fast comics. ⭐ Ages 10 ! ⭐ Local History Zine Making 12:30pm - 1:30pm Instructor: Vivian Li What memories, experiences, or events about your hometown do you want to preserve? Come create a zine and learn how local history research can help you discover new things about the places you already know. ⭐ Teens & Adults! ⭐ Comics, Poetry and Song Lyrics 1:45pm - 2:45pm Instructor: Julian Peters Come discover the many surprising similarities between the art forms of comics and poetry! After a short presentation of different strategies for translating poetic techniques, atmospheres, and imagery into comics form, attendees will have the opportunity to try their hand at creating their own comics adaptation of a favorite passage of poetry or a song lyric. ⭐ Teens & Adults! ⭐ Comics-Based Research! An Introductory Workshop 3:00pm - 4:00pm Instructors: Rivi Handler-Spitz, Audra McNamee, Luis Vivanco Although comics have long been a focus of scholarly inquiry, researchers have recently been integrating comics creation into the scholarly research process itself through “Comics-Based Research." Join CBR practitioners Luis Vivanco (UVM), Rivi Handler-Spitz (Macalaster), and Audra McNamee (Oregon), who will provide a brief overview of CBR’s place in the broader non-fiction comics scene and provide a hands-on activity working with research materials in comics form. ⭐ Teens & Adults! ⭐ Think It, Ink It, Zine It! Bringing Stories to Life in The Classroom 4:15pm - 5:15pm Instructor: Shuchita Mishra Ready to turn big ideas into tiny books? This hands-on, DIY workshop invites educators to explore the power of personal storytelling through mini-comics and zine-making! Participants will discover the fundamentals of storytelling, then roll up their sleeves to experiment with folding, drawing, writing, cutting, and pasting their way to creating zines in a variety of formats. No artistic experience required—just a little curiosity and a willingness to play! All materials will be provided, so come ready to create, experiment, and have fun. Educators will leave with their own handmade zines, practical ideas, and easy-to-adapt activities they can bring straight into their classrooms, regardless of grade level or teaching discipline. Because sometimes, the biggest ideas come in the smallest packages! ⭐ Teens & Adults! ⭐ https://www.nonfictioncomicsfest.org/ Volunteer for Non-Fiction Comic Festival: https://fletcherfree.libcal.com/event/15613626 Location: Fletcher Room, Main Library.

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Fletcher Free's Fictional Book Club: The Wilderness

Tue, Nov 17 · 5:30 PM – 7 PM

Fletcher Free Library · Burlington · 6.0 mi

FREEAll agesMuseums

In FFL's newest book club, discuss how these fictional stories and characters come to life (or don't) over snacks and coffee. Register below or contact, Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov About This Month's Book: The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy. Desiree, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood—overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences—swoops in and stays. Desiree is estranged from her sister Danielle, and the two nurse bitter family wounds in different ways. January’s got a relationship with a “good” man she feels ambivalent about, even after her surprise pregnancy. Monique, a librarian and aspiring blogger, finds unexpected online fame after calling out the university where she works for its plans to whitewash fraught history. And Nakia is trying to get her restaurant off the ground, without relying on the largesse of her upper middle-class family who wonder aloud if she should be doing something better with her life. As these friends move from the late 2000’s into the late 2020’s, from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another—amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern American life. The Wilderness is Angela Flournoy’s masterful and kaleidoscopic follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut The Turner House. A generational talent, she captures with disarming wit and electric language how the most profound connections over a lifetime can lie in the tangled, uncertain thicket of friendship. Limited copies of the book are available for checkout at the Main Desk. Location: Pickering Room, Main Library.

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Stories & Songs for Library Littles

Wed, Nov 18 · 11 AM – 11:30 AM

Fletcher Free Library · Burlington · 6.0 mi

FREEAll agesClasses

Storytime, songs, and open play for babies, toddlers, and their caregivers! Youth Area. Drop-in; no registration required. Location: Youth Area, Main Library.

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Royal Storytime

Sun, Nov 22 · 2 PM – 3 PM

Fletcher Free Library · Burlington · 6.0 mi

FREEAll agesArts & Crafts

Get glammed up for read-aloud stories, songs, and face painting with Miss Vermont's Teen Zoey Clopton. Each child receives a free new picture book of their choice. All ages. Location: Youth Area, Main Library.

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Stories & Songs for Library Littles

Wed, Dec 2 · 11 AM – 11:30 AM

Fletcher Free Library · Burlington · 6.0 mi

FREEAll agesClasses

Storytime, songs, and open play for babies, toddlers, and their caregivers! Youth Area. Drop-in; no registration required. Location: Youth Area, Main Library.