• Evening: Arrival participants SmåBUS 2021 coming from further away
  • Dinner
    
    
    

• Morning:
  • 08.00 Breakfast
    
    
  • 09.00 Welcome
    
    
  • 9.30-10.30 Opening lecture: Marit Törnqvist
    BOOKS AS BRIDGES
    
    
  • 10.30 Fika (Coffee/tea and some sweets)
    
    
  • 11.00-12.00 Lecture Gro Dahle
    THE PICTURE BOOK AS A SPOTLIGHT IN DARK ROOMS AND BEHIND LOCKED DOORS
    
    
• Noon: Lunch
  
  
• Afternoon: 
  
  
  • 13.30-15.30 Lecture Gunna Grähs
    THE CHILDREN´S PICTUREBOOK 
    A constant battleground of adult ambitions.
    
    
  • 15.30 Fika
    
    
  • 16.00-17.30 Lecture Richard Câmara
    THE WORDS THAT FLED THE DICTIONARY or How to introduce visual awareness in children's illustrated books
    
    
• Evening: dinner
  
  
  • 19.00  Lecture Bart Moeyaert
    VET DU VAD? Bart Moeyaert´s world
    
    

For Children:

09.00-12.00: drawing with Marjolein Pottie and Sarah Vegna
Nässjö Library

• Morning:
  
  
  • 07.30 Breakfast
    
    
  • 08.30 Trip to Astrid Lindgrens Näs
    
    
  • 10.30 Official opening exhibition Madicken
    
    
  • 11.00 Lecture: Saci Lloyd
    HOW TO LAUGH IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
    An interactive, fun-filled romp through the Apocalypse
    
    
• Noon: 12.30 Lunch
  
  
• Afternoon:
  
  
  • 13.30 Visit Exhibition Pippi
    
    
  • 14.30 Visit Bullerbyn (with fika)
    
    
  • Trip to Sörängen
    
    
• Evening: Dinner
  
  
  • 19.00 Lecture Jan de Kinder
    RED
    From blushing till taking the courage to tell your own story

• Morning:
  
  
  • 08.00 Breakfast
    
    
  • 09.30-12.00 Workshop with Richard Câmara
    "RED, BLACK, WHITE and BLUE" - Urban sketching workshop
    
    
  • 09.30-12.00 Workshop with Pim Lammers
    SEXUAL AND GENDER DIVERSITY IN CHILDREN´S LITERATURE
    
    
  • 09.30-12-00 Workshop with Erica ElfströmESTER AND JOHN BAUER- WELCOME TO CHILDREN´S BOOKS ILLUSTRATIONS FROM 100 YEARS AGO
    Workshop  with a seminar about Ester and John Bauer and discussion on how to use the archives for inspiration in contemporary storytelling. 
    
    
• Noon: 12.00 Lunch
  
  
• Afternoon:
  
  
  • 13.30-15.00 Lecture by Fatinha Ramos:
    CAN I ILLUSTRATE LIFE TO TRIGGER LOVE?
    Trying to reach the heart through the eye of the beholder
    
    
  • 15.00 Fika
    
    
  • 15.30-17.00 Lecture with Sören Olsson LAUGHTER, JOY AND HAPPINESS - it is really serious
     
    
    
• Evening: Buffet with live music from the Swedish band Ensamheten
  
  

• Extra:
  • Exhibition Madicken
  • Illustrators are invited to submit an illustration (1 original work, 1 print) to SmåBUS. This illustration is to be based on the stories about Madicken, also known as Mardie in the English books. The original work will exhibited in ...
    There is a possibility that the exhibition will travel.
    
    
  • Extra:
    • During the festival, there are meet and greets to discover the work and life of colleagues from different countries.
      
      
  • Extra:
    • Have you met colleagues that thruly inspire you during the festival? Do you feel like working together? Then take the opportunity to submit a request to become artists in residence (1 month in 2022).