workshop: Interactive Climate Comic Workshop 'The Renegades'
Saturday 4th December
in shop - 3.30pm - free entry
Please register via Eventbrite if you wish to attend. It helps us manage numbers on the day!
Design your own eco-superhero at this interactive graphic novel workshop! Meet The Renegades and learn about the stories, artwork, and science behind these climate conscious superheroes.
This workshop is suitable for 10yrs+, teens and adults, and aims to:
Explain how the creative process of comic art can help to communicate the science of climate change!
Convey some of the potential solutions to sea level rise in Bangladesh - the theme of fictional story of Project Neptune
Signpost to ideas for how we can help 'climate heroes' in real life.
Jeremy Brown grew up in Surrey, fascinated by the weather. He has completed an integrated master’s degree in Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, and a masters in Climate Change: History, Society and Culture at King’s College London, and is now studying a PhD in climate comics at the University of Southampton. His aim is to inspire a new generation of real-life superheroes for the planet
Online review: ‘For fans of the ‘Renegades’ series I personally feel that ‘Project Neptune’ is another fine addition to this literary canon. Volume three is possibly the most educational and informative so far. I never realised what heroes the Sundarban mangrove forests are in protecting many beautiful species of being… The five souls who have created this series put across an issue that needs all of our help to heal yet do it in a way that is real, informative and is achieved without resorting to platitudinous self-righteousness. There is a pureness to the way that the real injustice of climate change and what can be done to help is here brought to the forefront and there is genuine warm wit too. Also, with the utter injustice that we have so many young people on this planet feeling such sadness, there is also the real message of how we all need each other and how, in truth, love comes first in everything’.
Register via Eventbrite to attend this event - there are limited spaces available and registering will help us manage numbers on the day.
We are operating with Covid caution here at October Books, so please respect your fellow attendees by maintaining some distance and wearing a face covering during the workshop unless you are exempt. We want to ensure all people feel safe and welcome at our events.
This is a free entry event, but if you'd like to sling October Books a donation, please do.
If you’d like to reserve a copy of ‘The Renegades’ to collect on the day, you can! Email us at info@octoberbooks.org If you would like a copy delivered to your door click here
