Brighton Children's Book Festival - Leaping from the page
Saturday and Sunday April 19th-20th 2008, Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY
Programme of events... Speaker profiles
Time Event/Description - aimed at adults and children (7 and up)
10:00-10:15 Welcome and introduction
10:15-11:00 Kitty Taylor, Director of Charlie and Lola on CBEEBIES, from Tiger Aspect Productons and David Mackintosh, designer of Lauren Child's books and consultant on TV series
11:00-11:45 Author Nicky Singer on the adaptation of her books to film, theatre and opera
11:45-12:00 Break and chance to get to workshop
12:00-1:00 Parallel workshops for adults and children
  • Feather Boy Musical performance workshop with Nicholas Beeby and Kate Bray (2-hour workshop)
• Making pop-ups with Lisa Boggis Boyce
• Creating comics with Marcia Williams
• Writing for young people
• Dragon storytelling with Jamie Crawford
1:00-2:00 Lunch break and chance to see exhibitions
2:00-3:00 Second series of parallel workshops for adults and children
  • Making pop-ups with Lisa Boggis Boyce
• Creating comics with Marcia Williams
• Writing for young people
• Decorating dragon cakes with Momma Cherri
3:00-3:30 Dragon cake reception plus exhibitions
3:30-3:45 Performance from Feather Boy
3:45-4:15 Dakota Blue Richards, star of The Golden Compass, answering questions from audience
4:15-4:50 David Almond on the adaptation of his books for TV and theatre
4:50-5:00 Break
5:00-6:45 Peter Tabern introduces adaptation of Clay for BBC
6:45-7:00 Q&A with Peter Tabern
7:00-7:30 Reception

Biographies of people speaking on Saturday:

Kitty Taylor Kitty Taylor
Kitty Taylor has directed animated commercials, promos and short films for a diverse range of companies...
David Mackintosh David Mackintosh
David Mackintosh is a graphic designer working in children's and general publishing...
Nicky Singer Nicky Singer
Nicky Singer has written four novels for adults, five for young people and two books of non-fiction...
Nick Beeby Nicholas Beeby
Nicholas Beeby has spent his life working in theatre, predominantly in London, significantly starting...
Lisa Boggiss boyce Lisa Boggiss Boyce
Lisa Boggiss Boyce has an MA in Children's Literature from Roehampton University and has lectured...
Marcia Williams Marcia Williams
Marcia Williams has illustrated and retold many literary classics for children with her distinctive cartoon-strip...
Jamie Crawford Jamie Crawford
For the last 20 years, Jamie Crawford has been telling stories with wit and flair to audiences of all kinds....
Dakota Blue Richards

Dakota Blue Richards
Brighton-based Dakota Blue Richards starred as Lyra in the film adaptation of The Golden Compass...

David Almond David Almond
David Almond is known worldwide as the author of Skellig, Kit�s Wilderness, Clay and many other novels...
Peter Tabern Peter Tabern
For many years Peter Tabern has been an award-winning producer of family drama..
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