**This workshop is now fully booked. Please let us know if you would like to be added to a waiting list should any places become available.**
Join comic writer and storyteller Paul Bristow, to hear some spooky stories and then work together to create your own comic to scare your friends and family.
Paul Bristow writes children’s fiction, folk tales, ghost stories and comics, sometimes all at once. He is the founder of the award winning social enterprise Magic Torch Comics CIC, which works across Scotland to help people tell stories using comics, games and audio drama – from local legends and forgotten histories, to the lived experiences of marginalised communities. Recent publications include Multiverse Academy, created with over 50 young people and 12 different artists, which told a comic story one panel each day for a year and When The Farmer Caught A Kelpie, a sensory storybook adapted from a Scottish folk tale.
This workshop on Saturday 11th October, 1-2.30pm is for children aged 8 and up. Spaces are limited so please book as soon as possible.
There will be another workshop, How to Draw your Dragon with Kate Leiper, at 10.45am – 12.15pm, for children aged 8+. If you are booking both workshops and would like your child to stay at Taigh Chearsabhagh over the lunch break, we will have a supervised lunch table and play in the courtyard. Please email susannah@taigh-chearsabhagh.org to book this additional time.
OH!CON is an annual comic con held in Stornoway, with a bonus hit of workshops this year at Taigh Chearsabhagh. To find out more about OH!CON, head to their website.
To celebrate OH!CON, we’re transforming the office into a comic den! We’ll have comfy cushions and a selection of illustrated novels to read, plus desk space and pens if you want to draw your own. This space will be available until 4pm, for anyone who fancies hanging out with fellow comic fans.
With thanks to the Scottish Book Trust for funding this workshop through the Live Literature Scheme, and to the OH!CON team for sharing their sessions with us.
If you would like to support our continued programming and enable us to keep offering free events, please consider making a donation to Taigh Chearsabhagh.
Image credit: Katherine Hemmings.