[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-llandudnos-take-part-festival-2019":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\"Hey Reeve, what are we doing in Llandudno?\" \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/624051_original-b20bb23362.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nTaking part in a terrific arts festival, is what! I've just been to Wales for \u003Ca href=\"https://venuecymru.co.uk/take-part-2019\">Take pART 2019\u003C/a>, which writer and performer Kjartan Poskitt assured us would be absolutely unmissable. I started out with a \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/dinosaur-firefighters/\">Dinosaur Firefighters\u003C/a>\u003C/i> picture book event. You can see here a list of jobs that I've had the kids help me come up with, and we paired the jobs with various dinosaurs to make pictures that might spark off other fun dinosaur stories. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/623459_original-6439049d5b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nIt all went very well until one of the kids asked me to draw a Batman Diplodocus, and I have to say, my picture was pretty bad. So on the train ride home, I tried to do a slightly better version: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/627801_original-661e123f62.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThe kids' drawings were brilliant! I love this T-Rex card one little boy handed me at the end of the session: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/623109_original-5b5643d425.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more under the cut!-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/622768_original-75b935746b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThe Venue Cymru is great, really state of the art. Although the vivid colour of the loo made me laugh; that is the pinkest loo ever. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/623796_original-a1f18ebdfc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAfter \u003Ci>Dinosaur Firefighters\u003C/i>, my co-author Philip Reeve and I did a joint event for \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/pugs-of-the-frozen-north/\">Pugs of the Frozen North\u003C/a>\u003C/i>. We didn't get any photos of that, but some people's fab pug drawings popped up later on Twitter:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/622544_original-ed0a660b30.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/622969_original-e687074e8e.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nPhilip also did a great event featuring his \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.philip-reeve.com/railhead/\">Railhead\u003C/a>\u003C/i> and \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.philip-reeve.com/books/\">Mortal Engines\u003C/a>\u003C/i> series. My favourite part is when he reads aloud from \u003Ci>Railhead\u003C/i> to the video projection, with music composed by his wife, \u003Ca href=\"http://instagram.com/moorland/\">Sarah Reeve\u003C/a> (aka Lufthansa Terminal).\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/624213_original-039cff5881.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nWhen Philip does his signings is often when people realise that he started out as an illustrator: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/624503_original-403f7e5d44.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nOne of the cool things about Take pART festival is that it ties together all sorts of arts, not only books. So people meet our books who might not have specifically come for a book festival, and we get to see lots of awesome performers! Here are the magnificently lit and marvelously noisy \u003Ca href=\"http://www.worldbeatersmusic.com/the-showreel\">Spark Drummers\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/624796_original-bf1dcdb5e2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nWe even got to see acrobats:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/625068_original-78a1f73343.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd opera was everywhere! (This IS Wales, after all!) We had a lovely book signing serenaded by members of the \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WNOtweet\">Welsh National Opera\u003C/a>: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/625198_original-7aaec3ea37.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nI took some pics of Philip with his former writer Kjartan Poskitt. (They used to make books for Scholastic together, back when Philip was an illustrator!) Poskitt's also a god in the Mortal Engines books, although he was rather disappointed not to appear in the film like Reeve's other friend, Nicholas Quirke (who got a statue in front of St Paul's Cathedral and appeared on the coins, if you didn't blink).\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/625410_original-cc995e7b0b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nWe managed to nip into the theatre and catch half of Poskitt's Murderous Maths show:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/625906_original-592db5b1e7.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd Poskitt drove us on a wonderful windswept tour of the Orme, the rock that juts out to see just beyond Llandudno. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/626016_original-351e147213.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nCue obligatory album covers:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/626236_original-0f4ddfbf41.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nWe also got to see illustrator and animator \u003Ca href=\"https://www.jonny-duddle.com/\">Jonny Duddle\u003C/a>! He recently did the art for a reissue of Philip's Goblins trilogy, which hit shops this spring, I think. (You can see a \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philip-reeve.com/goblins/\">preview of the covers on Philip's website\u003C/a>.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/626453_original-fabb8a31a3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nI had dinner at Dylan's with some of the festival crew, including Philip, Jonny, Kjartan, and \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JAKeDetonator\">JAKe\u003C/a>, who was featuring some of the Star Wars and Doctor Who books he'd drawn. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/626719_original-fbcd522978.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nOne more pic of Reeve, then one of excellent coordinator \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SarahVenueCymru\">Sarah Ecob\u003C/a>, who set this whole festival in motion. Thanks for hosting us, Sarah! And to sponsors \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LlandudnoBay\">Llandudno Bay Hotel\u003C/a> for putting me up in such seaview style! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/626973_original-14e74888f6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nWe'll miss you, Llandudno! Thanks for being amazing. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/627263_original-971eb10042.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/627488_original-4d21bf3164.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2019-01-13T22:38:00.000Z","llandudnos-take-part-festival-2019",[],"llandudno's take pART festival 2019",1776628729970]