Pop Up Lab 2017

 He worked for 15 years in the Serapions theater in Vienna. After initiating various culture projects in the south of Austria he founded ABC in Brussels in 1995.

Trained as a primary teacher and in theatre sciences. He now works in the socio-cultural and art education field - and is a critic of children’s and YA literature.

Charlotte Hacking is an expert teacher working at CLPE. She developed the Power of Pictures project, investigating how to read and explore picture books and the impact illustration has on children’s writing.

Richard O’Brien’s poems have been published widely and his first children’s play - an adaptation of The Selfish Giant - was produced at the Arcola Theatre in 2016.

Luke Healy is a cartoonist and illustrator from Dublin, Ireland. He studied comics at The Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont, USA. His first book, How to Survive in the North, was published by Nobrow in 2016.

Emily Jost is Head of Education at House of Illustration, where she runs a pioneering learning programme which champions the power of illustration as a learning tool for people of all ages.

Lisa Tilesihas worked for the past 20 years as Head of Modern Foreign Languages in state schools, and as a teacher of French, Italian and German

Sarah Ardizzone is an award-winning translator from French of 40-something titles. These span picture books, children’s and YA, to graphic novels and literary fiction from Algeria, Congo Brazzaville and Burundi.

Metal is an artistic laboratory that champions the need for continual investment in artistic investigation and the development of innovative ideas that could shift the thinking in the UK cultural sector. They provide innovative, multidisciplinary residency space for artists from the UK and overseas in Liverpool, Southend on Sea and Peterborough.

Sam Arthur is CEO and co-founder of Nobrow/Flying Eye Books, Director of the East London Comics &Arts Festival (ELCAF), and a board member of the Association of Illustrators. He has 20 years experience of working within the creative industries and has a passion for visual storytelling.

James Wilson is Creative Director and co-founder of Minilab Studios. One of their flagship titles, Professor Astro Cat’s Solar System won a Webby award and was included in Apple’s Best of AppleTV list in 2016. Minilab’s apps have collectively been downloaded 1.5 million times and counting.

Asia Alfasi is a renowned Libyan-British manga-influenced comic writer and artist who works with Positive Negatives to convert first-person testimonies into ethnographic art about humanitarian and social issues.

Sav Akyuz is an acclaimed British storyboard artist and children’s book illustrator.

Dylan Calder is founder and Director of Pop Up Projects. Prior to Pop Up he worked with 100’s of schools producing and teaching large-scale creative literacy projects for 5-21 year olds, including for National Youth Theatre, University of the Arts, Shoreditch Trust, The Ideas Foundation, London SouthBank University, as well as major strategic, multi-year projects for Camden, Waltham Forest, Hounslow, Southwark and Hackney local authorities.

Magali Homs is Director of Tantàgora, a cross-disciplinary forum for the creation, production and sharing of innovative literary formats. Tantàgora promotes all forms of literature and the visual arts for all types of readers. They also host the FLIC, an annual literary and arts festival for children.