BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Creative Writing//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Creative Writing - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230427T0427Z-1682569652.5547-EO-22455-4@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260914T113524Z CREATED:20230425T173206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230629T183201Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230715T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230715T173000 SUMMARY: Camp Comics: Summer ’23 DESCRIPTION: The comics team at the School of Creative Writing is super exc ited to announce that we’ll be hosting our first ever comics camp for adult s this summer on Saturday\, July 15. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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Th e comics team at the School of Creative Writing is super excited to announc e that we’ll be hosting our first ever comics camp for adults this summer.

Join us outside on Saturday\ , July 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at UBC's Vancouver campus for one or more workshops. 

This camp is for you if:

Kee p reading for workshop descriptions\, instructor bios\, and cost and regist ration information (cost is on a sliding scale from $0 to $100).

Workshop Descriptions

 

S’mores Comics
Taylor Brown-Evans
10:00 a.m. to 11: 30 a.m.

The s’more is a weir d campfire confection that combines chocolate\, graham crackers and marshma llows. Each of these elements are delicious on their own but together make a messy and delectable treat that is somehow more than the sum of its parts . Comics are the same! In this workshop we’ll play with unexpected combinat ions of pictures\, words\, panels and pages mushed together into equally me ssy and surprisingly sweet creations. Also\, there may be actual s’mores. < /span>

Taylor Brown–Evans is an educ ator\, writer and cartoonist living in Vancouver. His work has appeared in Geist\, Matrix\, Poetry is Dead\, The Feathertale Review and Ricepaper Maga zine as well as alternative press zines and chapbooks. His most recent proj ect\, Songs for a Lost Pod\, is a comic book collaboration with local songw riter Leah Abramson.

 

Camp Friends: Visual Charac terization in Comics
Marian Churchland
11:40 a.m. to 1:10 p.m.

When we’re thrown into a group of strangers\, we immediately lo ok around us and wonder who our friends are going to be – especially if we’ ll be stuck with those friends for an entire summer! In this workshop we wi ll take a close look at all the subtle\, subtextual clues that tell us some body is a potential friend (or enemy)\; then we will practice incorporating them into our comics as a technique for adding visual depth to scenes and characters.

Marian Churchland is an illustrator and co mic artist living in Vancouver. Their first graphic novel\, Beast\, won the Russ Manning award\, and their most recent publication\, The Hchom Book\, concerns itself with deep and important matters such as how many pies one p erson can hoard. They have contribu ted to several comics series\, including From Under Mountains and Arclight\ , and they have worked on various other visual media projects such as the r ecent board game Forgotten Depths.

 

Telling Stories without Words
Napatsi Folger
2: 10 p.m. to 3:40 p.m.

Summer crushes and fast friends are what camp is all about! And we all remember be ing hormonal pre-teens\, terrified of saying how we really felt lest we be judged by our terrifying and electrifying peers. So we stumbled through the delicate dance of social and physical cues. Were you coy or bold or shy? W hatever the answer\, we were always looking at the silent actions of our ca mpmates to figure out the social order. Learn some techniques for telling y our story with everything but text. From putting your panels and gutters to work\, to the art of expressive facial and body language\, Napatsi Folger will help you make your comics more dynamic.

Napatsi Folger is an Inuk comic artist\, fiction\, non- fiction\, and children's literature writer from Iqaluit\, NU. She now lives in North Vancouver\, and graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writin g in 2021. Her work has also been f eatured in Maisonneuve\, Carousel Magazine\, Long Con Magazine\, Walrus Mag azine\, Matrix Magazine\, Taddle Creek\, Word Hoard and Puritan Magazine. N apatsi's first book\, Joy of Apex\, was published in 2011 by Inhabit Media.

 

Explore\, Observe\, Draw
Tajliya Jamal
3:50 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.

Summer camp is full of adventure and so are comics ! And sometimes making comics is less about creating an adventure from your head and more about documenting the little adventures you're already on. T ry your hand at diaristic comics\, turning your observations into a catalog ue to use in your storytelling! This session will include observational dra wing\, some writing prompts\, and a collage approach to story building.

Tajliya Jamal is a queer\, mixed-race printmaker and comics a rtist based in Vancouver. With an emphasis on storytelling\, pattern and ma ximalism\, they work experimentally between printmaking\, animation\, paint ing and collage. They like to use book forms and print media as it is a mor e accessible art form for viewers and readers\, and often collaborative in practice.

Registration Information

Registra tion is required to attend. We have space for 25 participants\, with priority given to UBC Creative Writing students and alumni\, after which we’ll open it up to others in the community.

The venue is located outside behind Buchanan E.

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Any questions\, ple ase contact Assistant Professor Sarah Leavitt at sarah.leavitt@ubc.ca

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