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Drawn to Character 2022 - Live and In-Person

$175.00 CAD

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Drawn to Character 2022
**For Ages 10-16
A workshop for comics creators and Role-Players to work with quality instructors and other talented peers, developing characters by drawing and role playing.

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Inkling design and images by Spyder Yardley-Jones

YouthWrite Presents...

DRAWN TO CHARACTER: Live and in Person

Explore characters and worldbuilding! 

Registration is OPEN!

Now with 2 AMAZING Workshop Options!  

DRAWN TO CHARACTER 2022! 

  • Ages 10-18
  • October 8th, 2022 10:00am-3:00pm - Comic Creation With Spyder Yardley Jones, Daniel J Schneider and Chelsea Wong!
  • October 29th, 2022 10:00am-3:00pm - Improv & LARP (Live Action Role-Play), with Joey Lucius and Mason Repka!

Drawn to Character Fees $175.00 includes

A full day of comics instruction and a full day of LARP activities, led by highly qualified instructional and supervisory staff.


Including:

  • FULL day of Drawn to Character Comics with Cowboy Dan Schneider, Chelsea Wong, and Spyder Yardley-Jones, on Oct 8th, 2022 @McLuhan House. 
  • FULL day of Live Action Role-Play/Improv with Mason Repka and Joey Lucius, on Oct 29th, 2022, location TBD. 

Enrollment is limited, so register quickly to reserve your seat!

You can also enroll in either workshop individually, for the low price of $87.50 each!


Please note

All fees include a $100 non-refundable fee. No refunds will be made if registration is cancelled after September 20th, 2022. YouthWrite Society Canada reserves the right to cancel courses and restrict enrollment. Courses, instructors and supervisors may be subject to change.



 

When

October 8th, 2022

Saturday, 10:00am-3:00pm


October 29th, 2022

Saturday, 10:00am-3:00pm


 

Where

McLuhan House:

11342 64 St NW, Edmonton, AB T5W 4H5



TBD!

Who

Guest Instructors thus far:

Comics:

Daniel J Schneider
Chelsea Wong

Spyder Yardley-Jones


LARP adventure:

Joey Lucius

Mason Repka


Drawn to Character Director-Coordinator:

Tania Gigliotti


YouthWrite Director-Coordinator:
Gail Sidonie Sobat


Guest Instructors

You'll work for one full day with these amazing instructors, professionals in their individual writing, comics, and creative fields.

Your Instructors for Comics Creation on October 8th!

Spyder Yardley-Jones (He/Him)


Bio

Spyder Yardley-Jones is an internationally recognized cartoonist, painter and sculptor. He has been teaching at YouthWrite since its inception. Spyder's artwork has been on exhibition in the US and Canada including The Art Gallery of Alberta. He has illustrated an award-winning graphic novel and created the artwork for Theatre Network's production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. Spyder illustrated the forthcoming graphic comic, THE LOFTS, written by Rylan Kafara, which will be published in both digital and hardcopy!


Wordplayful Workshop Description

Comic Twist- This workshop is about creating a 1-page comic in full colour, or black and white, using unconventional techniques and rule-bending ideas. Let's take cartooning to another level!




Cowboy Dan Schneider (He/Him)


Bio

Daniel Schneider is an Alberta-farm-boy-turned-comic-artist. Though mostly known for his dog, he’s also a prominent figure in Edmonton comics. Daniel was the first ever Happy Harbor Comics Artist-in-Residence. He is currently working on Reforged a Gamesworkshop webcomic for Warhammer, as well as a seemingly constant mountain of commissioned art pieces. As the founding instructor of the Drawn to Write youth comic book creator camps, he has a passion for teaching and inspiring the next generation of creators.



Chelsea Wong (She/Her)


Bio

Chelsea is an artist with a diploma both in Fine Arts and in Digital Illustration. Having experience with both traditional and digital mediums, she has displayed her artwork in exhibitions and conventions across Alberta. In 2018, she self-published her silent comic Jezebel, and has contributed to multiple zines each year including a yearly shark charity zine. In 2022, she became Rolling Tales' first Artist-in-Residence, continuing Jezebel while also helping young comic artists as an informative guide. 


Wordplayful Workshop Description

Comics & Character -  Craft your own comic story with Cowboy Dan and Chelsea Wong! Dan and Chelsea will help you discover your character's; where they live, who they are and what's their story? Students will create short comics that teach them how we use both words and pictures to tell our stories




Your Instructors for LARP/Roleplay Adventure on October 29th!

Joey Lucius (He/Him)


Bio

Joey Lucius is a writer and performer from Edmonton. He is a Canadian Comedy Award Winner and Canadian Screen Award nominee for his work on YTV’s That’s So Weird. He's also been a staple at Edmonton’s Rapid Fire Theatre since 2007. As a writer, Joey is a contributor to the online Beaverton, and is currently developing a project about the Filipino-Canadian experience that received a letter of interest from the CBC. He thinks birds are cool!



Mason Repka (He/They)


Bio

Mason wears many hats. Sometimes they are a writer, a creator, a world builder, a musician, and an artist. Other times they are a game master, facilitating worlds of play, whether it be LARP, D&D, or some other form of roleplay based shenanigans. Sometimes, they are a YouthWrite worker bee, doing communications and administrative work in the YouthWrite office. Still other times they are a homemaker and a cat-dad, and they deeply enjoy spending time working around the house with their partner Cara and their cat, Phoebe. This fall, Mason is very excited to wear their instructor and game-master hats simultaneously, and can't wait to lead you through a LARP adventure with Joey Lucius!


Wordplayful Workshop Description

Introduction to LARP (with Joey Lucius and Mason Repka) - In this spooky, Halloween themed live-action adventure we'll explore character building, improv, role-play, world-building, and the art of using character and roleplay to create and enact scenes in character. All while playing in and enjoying a fright-filled fictional world we build and sustain together. 




Drawn to Character Coordinator

Tania Gigliotti (She/Her)

Tania is a powerhouse administrator, amazing client services manager, excel wizard, and an adorable little hobbit. She spends her spare time researching youth engagement in living history museums for the Young People are the Future project, as well as reading a lot of good books and eating a lot of good food. She's also Gail's favorite. 



YouthWrite Director-Coordinator

Gail Sidonie Sobat (She/They)


is a multi-award-winning teacher and author, with twelve books for children, teens and adults, and a number of educational and academic articles. A Global News Woman of Vision and an Arts and Culture Citation Award recipient, she is the YouthWrite creator/ coordinator, an international presenter, an instructor in the professional writing program at MacEwan University and in the Faculty of Education at U of A. Gail was The Writers’ Union of Canada Regional Representative for Alberta, NWT and Nunavut, and writer in residence with the Metro Edmonton Federation of Libraries. 


She has moved forty times in her life from Badlands to Siksika Nation Reserve to hideous suburbs to Istanbul to the Sunshine Coast to her writer’s garret in a century-old temperamental house. She adores all of her Supers & Coordinators equally, and loves YouthWrite like a madwoman!


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