Proceed to checkout Expand navigation Current & future events Select a date Select a date Calendar << December 2021 >> MoTuWeThFrSaSu 12345< 6789101112< 13141516171819< 20212223242526< 2728293031 < Filter by event type All (14) Exhibition (5) Online (10) Touring (4) Online course (4) Adult learning (8) Online masterclass (3) Online professional development (1) An online fundraising auction with Christie’s – bidding now open! Paint-Splattered Artist at Work © Quentin Blake Online fundraising auction Quentin Blake: New Drawings 2021 Until 14 Dec 2021, 12:00am - 12:00am Learn the essentials of creating successful picture books for 0-6 year olds over 10 weeks with Claire Alexander (evening version). Giraffe © Véronique Truffaut 10 week online evening course Online Course: Introduction to Creating Picture Books (Evening Version) 12 Jan to 23 Mar 2022, 7:00pm - 9:00pm Learn the essentials of creating successful picture books for 0-6 year olds over 10 weeks with Claire Alexander (lunchtime version). © Elle Lever 10 week online lunchtime course Online Course: Introduction to Creating Picture Books (Lunchtime Version) 12 Jan to 23 Mar 2022, 12:30pm - 2:30pm Learn how to depict the human face and figure over 10 weeks on Zoom. Faces © Anna Bortsova 10 week online evening course Online Course: Illustrating People 13 Jan to 24 Mar 2022, 7:00pm - 9:00pm Tell your personal story in graphic novel form. Weardale Fairies © Rachael Ball Afternoon online masterclass Online Masterclass: Graphic Novel Your Life 29 Jan 2022, 1:00pm - 5:00pm Learn book-binding techniques to create beautiful and useful books. Chapbooks © Merlin Evans Afternoon online masterclass Online Masterclass: Making Notebooks & Sketchbooks 26 Feb 2022, 1:00pm - 5:00pm Learn to illustrate trans and non-binary characters. © Julian Gray Afternoon online masterclass Online Masterclass: How to Draw Trans and Non-Binary Characters 5 Mar 2022, 1:00pm - 5:00pm Discover the joys of illustration through a series of mini creative projects over 4 weeks with Merlin Evans. Pleasures of Illustration © Camelia Burn 4 week online evening course Online Course: Pleasures of Illustration (4 Week Version) 21 Mar to 11 Apr 2022, 6:30pm - 8:30pm Spend a day with the award-winning illustrator and designer as he shares his journey to success, along with his agent and team at Puffin. Look Up! © Dapo Adeola Online professional development Industry Insight: Dapo Adeola on Children's Books 16 Mar 2022, 10:00am - 2:00pm Pioneering infographics that challenged racism in turn-of-the-century America – on tour in Amsterdam. Distribution of Negroes in the United States, 1900, ink and watercolour © W. E. B. Du Bois Touring exhibition W. E. B. Du Bois: Charting Black Lives Until 29 Dec 2021 An exhibition of previously unseen Quentin Blake illustrations for Roald Dahl’s The BFG – on tour all over the UK. Drawing from first version of The BFG © Quentin Blake Touring exhibition The BFG in Pictures Until 23 Dec 2021 Ground-breaking graphic design that transformed children’s learning, from the 1940s to today. Selected book covers, with permission of Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection, University of Reading Online exhibition Marie Neurath: Picturing Science Online Exhibition Until 31 Dec 2023 The first ever exhibition dedicated to Quentin Blake’s illustrations for poetry – on tour in Kirkby and Ayrshire. The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear © Quentin Blake Touring exhibition Quentin Blake: Illustrating Verse 17 Jan to 16 Apr 2022 The first ever retrospective of one of the most influential author-illustrators of all time – on tour at The Bowes Museum. Ethel & Ernest © Raymond Briggs Touring exhibition Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective 12 Nov 2022 to 26 Feb 2023
