Drawn to Character 2024

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Drawn to Character 2024!
**For Ages 10+
A workshop for Comic Creators and Role-Players to work with quality instructors and other talented peers.

YouthWrite Presents...

DRAWN TO CHARACTER 2024!

Explore characters, comic creation, and worldbuilding!

Registration is now CLOSED

Saturday May 4th, 2024 10:00am-3:00pm - IN-PERSON Table Top Adventure with Mason Repka @ Red Claw Gaming, Edmonton.
Sunday May 5th, 2024 10:00am-3:00pm - IN-PERSON Comics Creation with Chelsea Wong and Dan Schneider @ Rolling Tales, Edmonton.
Ages 10+ for the Table Top Workshop
Ages 10+ for the Comic Creation
TO REGISTER
Please fill out all the health information above and if you are registering more than one participant, please register each participant individually.

Drawn to Character Table Top Fee $89.99 includes

A full day of character creation, world building, and table top roleplaying, led by highly qualified instructional and supervisory staff.

Drawn to Character Comics Fee $89.99 Includes

A full day of comics creation, character creation, and visual storytelling, led by highly qualified instructional and supervisory staff.

Save $10.00 when you sign up for both workshops!

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

Please note

All fees include a $40 non-refundable fee. No refunds will be made if registration is cancelled after April 26, 2024. YouthWrite Society Canada reserves the right to cancel courses and restrict enrollment. Courses, instructors and supervisors may be subject to change.

When

May 4, 2024 - Table Top Gaming

Saturday, 10:00am-3:00pm

May 5, 2023 - Comic Creation

Sunday, 10:00am-3:00pm

Where

Table Top Adventure @ Red Claw Gaming 13552 Fort Rd NW, Edmonton, AB T5A 1C5

Comic Creation @ Rolling Tales

10219 106 St, Edmonton, AB T5J 3P3

Who

Guest Instructors:

Mason Repka

Dan Schneider

Chelsea Wong

Drawn to Character Director-Coordinator:

Tania Gigliotti

YouthWrite Director-Coordinator:
Gail Sidonie Sobat

Guest Instructors

YOUTHWRITE INSTRUCTORS: THE CREAM OF THE CROP!

Throughout YouthWrite's history, we have prided ourselves on the calibre of our fine instructors.

YouthWrite invites superbly talented and reputable instructors who represent the many facets of the performing, visual, musical, dance, film, and written arts.

Mason Repka (He/They)

Bio

Mason is a storyteller at heart, and has Studied English and Creative Writing at MacEwan University and the University of Victoria. Their dream job is to be a wizard, sending daring and unwitting heroes towards life-changing adventure. Mason is the director and founder of Dark Ascension LARP, and works as a professional Game Master, guiding players through the realms of table-top and live-action roleplaying. Mason also works at YouthWrite as a Communications Manager, Supervisor, and Instructor. They are so excited to be leading you on a table-top adventure this spring!

Course

Table Top Adventure - Join Mason as your Game Master as they guide you through character creation and world building basics, and lead you on an epic adventure using table top gaming mechanics and writing exercises to build new characters, learn to write through roleplay, and craft a narrative world together. In the morning, we will explore worldbuilding, character writing, backstory, and the art of live collaborative storytelling. In the afternoon, we'll bring all the pieces together into a table top adventure that we'll play through using our new characters, set in the world we've built together. Adventure awaits!

Daniel J Schneider (He/Him)

Bio

Daniel J Schneider is a comic artist, illustrator and storyteller hailing from his family's cattle ranch near Edmonton. He holds the honour of being the first Comic shop Artist in Residence at Happy Harbour Comics and has been privileged to be teaching students about how to create comics for the past 9 years. You can find his work in comics such as Gamesworkshop’s “Reforged”, “The Saga of the Jack of Spades”, “Ape Court” and soon the webtoon Sire & Cub.

Course

Capturing the Mind's Eye - As comic book artists we're often tasked with creating the characters, places and events a writer's words describe. Let's focus on how we artists take the written word and bring it to life with our artistic interpretation. We'll all start our visual storytelling with written descriptions, talk about how to read those descriptions effectively, and see where our interpretations take us!

Chelsea Wong (She/Her)

Bio

Chelsea Wong (she/her) is an artist who has both a diploma in Fine Arts and one in Digital Illustration. Having experience with both traditional and digital mediums, she has displayed her artwork in exhibitions and conventions in 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 Pop Culture’s first Artist in Residence, continuing Jezebel while helping young comic artists as an informative guide

Course

Let's Make a Comic Strip - We will run through a demo of how to make a quick story to make into a comic strip. Comic strips are a great lesson on how we tell a simple story. We first work together to make a story by using the circle and square exercise. Afterwards each student can do their own version and will sketch, ink, and color their own comic strip.

Drawn to Character Coordinator

Tania Gigliotti (She/Her)

is the little Hobbit you may have seen previously working in the children's section of bookstores and comic book stores around Edmonton. When she's not working for YouthWrite, she is the Project Manager on the Young People are the Future Project researching youth engagement in living history museums. At YouthWrite, she is Master of Excel and Campfax and also Communications Manager.

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!