More Than What’s On The Page — Expanding the Horizons of a Picture Book
WorkshopJack Wong
Festival Pass| Workshop Pass
A picture book is more than the sum of its words and illustrations—it’s an experience shaped by the said and unsaid; the shown and unshown. In this workshop, learn from award-winning author-illustrator Jack Wong as he demonstrates how to use inclusion, exclusion, harmony and dissonance between text and image to make a book express far more than what can be put on the page. Through guided exercises, discussions, and visual storytelling experiments, you will be invited to rethink the way you tell your stories, and how to use the medium of picture books to make readers feel, wonder, and see anew.
readingwritingillustrationpicture bookscraft and design
Jack Wong (Canada)
Jack Wong (黃雋喬) was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver. In 2010, he left behind a life as a bridge engineer to pursue his Bachelor of Fine Arts at NSCAD University in Kjipuktuk / Halifax, Nova Scotia; he has called the east coast of Canada home ever since. Working as a children’s author/illustrator, Jack seeks to share his winding journey with young readers so that they may embrace the unique amalgams of experiences that make up their own lives. His debut picture book, When You Can Swim, received a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, a Governor General’s Literary Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and was a finalist for the Ezra Jack Keats Award. His second picture book, The Words We Share, received an Atlantic Book Award and was shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association’s Blue Spruce Award. His other titles include All That Grows (Groundwood), and forthcoming titles from Scholastic and Abrams Books for Young Readers.
Programme dates and times are subject to change.