Drawing Comics From Primary Sources
11:00 - 1:00pm // Fletcher Room
Instructor: Marek Bennett

Join award-winning cartoonist Marek Bennett for a hands-on look at creating comics from primary sources -- texts, images, & otherwise! Comics help us interpret existing texts in new ways, exploring sequence, voice, & point of view -- even synthesizing multiple sources into a single narrative. Marek will demonstrate some basic methods, and help you start your own original "non-fiction" comic!

Ring in the new year-at noon! Families are invited to usher in 2024 at the Noon Year’s Eve singalong and celebration. Live music with Linda Bassick, a kid-friendly countdown, and lots of merriment!

Sudoku fans are invited to solve their favorite puzzles when the numbers 1-9 are replaced by unfamiliar symbols from some of the world's minority alphabets. Contestants compete against the clock to solve 5 sudoku ranging from easy to fiendish. Prizes for the three most successful and quickest entrants! For an idea of what will be facing you, check out Endangered Alphabets Sudoku here 

Since the 1970s Cartooning legends Rick Veitch and Steve Bissette have been exploding the limits of the comics form. Both of their stories began right here in Vermont, and then really got rolling when the pair met at the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art in 1976. In a wide ranging conversation, Steve and Rick talk about Vermont, comics, friendship, collaboration, dinosaurs, dreams and–with reference to their own work such as Bissette’s TYRANT and Veitch’s RAREBIT FIENDS and EUREKA–how comics can be a powerful vehicle for non-fiction storytelling.

Calling all Swifties! Celebrate Taylor's birthday at this all-ages Swifternoon party! Enjoy music and TS-themed snacks, trivia games, crafts, and other activities, and put yourself in the running to win some great prizes.

For all ages.

For more details, please email FFLteens@burlingtonvt.gov or call us at 802.540.2546.

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