Tag Archives: festivals

Chatty fun & 60 launches!

By elise | Published: September 15, 2009

Well that was fun I just finished chatting to schools in the online festival. It’s wonderful to get to talk to the kids directly like that. I wish it had been longer! One of the cool questions was if I had made Sally a boy, would that have changed the design? Very good question. I’d [...]

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Iceberg!

By elise | Published: September 12, 2009

My head’s still in Ipswich… I realise that I didn’t explain anything about the festival It is a huge event. It runs for a full week with programs for primary school kids during the week days and some further sessions for adults on the weekend. The most startling fact about the festival is that it [...]

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Festival: children, characters and cows

By elise | Published: September 10, 2009

How funny. One moment I was walking through sunny fields of cows on the way to the pub after a long day of teaching… and the next – I’m back at my computer in chilly Melbourne. On Sunday 30th August I headed up to Brisbane with a group of Melbournians, collected Sydneysiders, Perthites and Adeladians [...]

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zooming off to…

By elise | Published: August 29, 2009

Off to Ipswich tomorrow morning! I’ll be there with a host of other fine illustrators and authors for the Literature Festival which lasts for a week and a day. Or two. It will be fun, a lot of drawing and painting and (judging by the weather lately) possibly swimming! I’m expecting weather-shock. Today was another [...]

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