CANCELLED – New Paths to Reading

Pierre Cattan and JonArno Lawson

CANCELLED – New Paths to Reading

Pierre Cattan and JonArno Lawson

1:00pm

Friday, September 30, 2022

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED: We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. We apologize for any disappointment and inconvenience caused by this cancellation. Ticket holders will be refunded.

How do we make reading accessible for everyone? How can technology be used to enhance the experience? In an increasingly visual world how do we negotiate, interpret and make meaning of so many images. These questions and more will be explored by Small Bang Studio founder Pierre Cattan and wordless picture book author JonArno Lawson in this panel. Learn how they are challenging the status quo and encouraging new readers to celebrate the joy of reading and all its benefits across age, language and cultures.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED: We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. We apologize for any disappointment and inconvenience caused by this cancellation. Ticket holders will be refunded.

How do we make reading accessible for everyone? How can technology be used to enhance the experience? In an increasingly visual world how do we negotiate, interpret and make meaning of so many images. These questions and more will be explored by Small Bang Studio founder Pierre Cattan and wordless picture book author JonArno Lawson in this panel. Learn how they are challenging the status quo and encouraging new readers to celebrate the joy of reading and all its benefits across age, language and cultures.

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In 2012 Pierre Cattan founded Small Bang, a creative studio based in Paris (France) which develops hybrid interactive projects. The products range from film productions (interactive or otherwise), to print and digital work, as well as sound production, application and game designing. He notably produced Phallaina, a free scrolling graphic novel (France Télévisions, 2016), available in french and english, that received a Peabody Award in 2016. His current project, based on French SF writer Alain Damasio’s best seller The Horde of Counterwind, is an attempt to transcend the boundaries of animation and graphic novel toward a new reading format.

Read more about Pierre Cattan

JonArno Lawson is an award-winning poet and writer who is the author of many books for children and adults, including Over the Shop, illustrated by Qin Leng. He lives in Toronto with his family.

Read more about JonArno Lawson

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Friday, September 30

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