Yesterday the Pop Up Picture Pavilion became a reality at last, at the triumphant Pop Up Festival of Stories. I worked with hundreds of children to make art to fill our magical gallery, build by Gabriella Malewska and Fabrizio Panella, students from Central St Martin’s School of Art.
Over the two days there were Vampire theatre shows from Marcus Sedgwick, A Comics workshop spectacular from Sarah McIntyre, A Fiesta from Candy Gourlay and a Roald Dahl extravaganza from Laura Dockrill, amongst other exciting things. I missed them all as I was so busy preparing and running the pavilion. As curator I wanted it to be perfect. And … thanks to everyone who helped, it really was!
The whole day felt like a wonderful celebration of children’s creativity. They drew and cut and scribbled and daubed and pretended to be Katie, climbing into pictures… magical!
Here are some snaps – and you can read more about this amazing event at Katie’s Picture Show:
http://jamesmayhew-katiespictureshow.blogspot.co.uk/
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