Program SmåBUS 2023

Sunday 2 July 2023

Morning:
- 08.00 Breakfast
- 09.30 Welcome
- 10.00 - 11.30 Opening lecture: Marit Törnqvist (Netherlands)
  BOOKS AS BRIDGES
- 12.00 Lunch
Afternoon:
- 13.30 - 17.00 (with fika 15.00 - 15.30)
  As a participant you choose one workshop out of three.
  
  Workshop 1: Jan de Kinder (Belgium)
  FROM BLUSHING TO FINDING THE COURAGE TO TELL YOUR OWN STORY (a workshop on storyboards)
  
  Workshop 2: Malin Klingenberg (Finland)
  PLAYFUL CREATIVE WRITING - The Finnish way
  
  Workshop 3: Marcus-Gunnar Pettersson (Sweden)
  COINCIDENCE AND FANTASY - to create visual worlds with coffee stains
Evening:
- 18.00 - 19.00 dinner
- 19.00 - 20.00 Lecture Richard Câmara (Portugal)
  THE WORDS THAT FLED THE DICTIONARY - How to introduce visual awareness in a children's illustrated book.

Morning:
- 08.00 Breakfast
- 09.30 - 10.30 Lecture Pieter Gaudesaboos (Belgium)
  
  FROM LITTLE RED RAG TO A SEA OF LOVE - seven picture books off the beaten path
- 10.30 Buss travel to Astrid Lindgrens Näs
- 12.00 - 13.00 Vernissage exhibition Madicken all over the World
Afternoon:
- 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lecture Karin Salmson (Sweden)
  FINDING MIRRORS AND OPENING WINDOWS IN CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS
- 15.00 - 17.30 Visit gardens and permanent exhibition at Astrid Lindgrens Näs
Evening: 18.00 - 19.00 Dinner in Bullerbyn (Noisy Village)
- 20.30 Portfolio evening
  (Participants get the opportunity to present their book projects to each other.)

Morning:
- 08.00 Breakfast
- 09.00-10.00 Lecture Aline Sax (Belgium)
  COURAGE UNDER FIRE - Taking children's books seriously
- 10.00-10.30 Fika
- 10.30-11.30 Lecture Maike Stein (Germany):
  DRAGONS, MAGIC AND TRUTH - Telling Queer Stories.
Noon: 12.00 Lunch
Afternoon:
- 13.00-15.30 Workshop Richard Câmara (Portugal)
  DRAWING CHALLENGE - CHALLENGE DRAWING (DCCD) Urban sketching workshop
- 13.00- 14.30 Film CLOUDBOY, Meikeminne Clinckspoor (Belgium)
- 15.30-16.30 Lecture Meikeminne Clinckspoor (Belgium)
  THE POWER OF STORYTELLING - Why courage and vulnerability leads to empowerment.
- 17.00-18.00 Information on residency possibilities with Dominic Williams (Wales)
Evening: Buffet with live music

Participants travel back home after their breakfast on 6 July 2023.

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 at Astrid Lindgrens Näs during the summer.
  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 (2 weeks in 2024).