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AFCC 2015 Info

The Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) brings together content creators and producers with parents, teachers, librarians, and anyone interested in quality Asian content for children.

With a mix of professional conferences, masterclasses and workshops, rights fair and media mart, and public events, AFCC is a unique and popular event right here in Asia that provides an opportunity for writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, agents, distributors, parents, children, teachers, and librarians to meet, learn, develop their craft, and discover business opportunities.

The National Book Development Council of Singapore has been organising the highly popular Asian Children’s Writers & Illustrators Conference for the past ten years. Leveraging on its success, the conference was expanded to form AFCC which has emerged as a very popular professional and trade event since 2010 into the foremost professional and trade event for Children‘s Content in Asia.

AFCC impacts 1.5 billion children in Asia as well as their parents, professionals, and businesses involved in their development.

Last year, we had 171 Speakers and Moderators, 938 Conference Delegates and 11,320 participants from Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Brunei, Sri Lanka, China, India, Korea, USA, UK, Australia, Germany, Canada, New Zealand, Spain, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Lebanon, Slovakia!

We hope to see you at AFCC this year!

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Executive Director: Mr R Ramachandran
Festival Director: Mr Kenneth Quek
Festival Manager: Ms Alycia Teo
AFCC Primary & Preschool Teachers Congress and Parents Forum
Chairman: Dr Chitra Shegar
Members: Dr George Jacobs
Dr Audrey Lim
Ms Shirley Tan Lee Hoon
Ms Merilyn Dasson
Nithya Rajamohan
AFCC Writers & Illustrators Conference
Programme Director:  Dr Myra Garces-Bacsal
Members: 
 
Dr Ken Spillman
Mr Ian Yap
Ms Raneetha Rajaratnam
Ms Candy Gourlay
Mrs Lai Lin Kiang-Koh
Ms Emily Lim

 

FESTIVAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE 2015

Chairman: Mr R Ramachandran
Festival Director: Mr Kenneth Quek
Book Illustrators Gallery Curators: Dr Tony See
Ms Susanna Goho-Quek
Festival Manager: Ms Alycia Teo
Manager – Awards & Hospitality:  Mr Adan Jimenez
Manager – Media Mart & Book Fair: Ms Celine Chow
Manager – Rights Exchange and Evening Events: Mr Carlo Venson Peña
Manager – BIG, Language Programmes: Ms Judi Ho
Manager – Sponsorships: Ms Mabel Lee
Manager – Finance: Ms Vasantha Loga
Manager – Writers & Illustrators Retreat: Ms Premadevi d/o Perumal
Publication & Web Design: Octopus Ink