Friday, April 11, 2014Time Event

11 a.m. The Alchemy of Beginnings — Art, Inspiration, and Making a Start

12 p.m. Line and Lineage — The Art of Charles Vess

1 p.m. Lunch Break

2 p.m. Music of The Fantastic — with M.T. Anderson & Elizabeth-Jane Baldry

3 p.m. Book Signing

4 p.m. A Telling of Shadows — How Dark is Too Dark?

6 p.m. Gilgamesh — performed by Charlie Bethel

Saturday, April 12, 2014Time Event

11 a.m. The Perilous Realm — Psychosis, Restoration, and Fantasy

12 p.m. Forging the Fantastic — The Art of Swordsmithing by Jake Powning

1 p.m. Lunch Break

2 p.m. Readings by M.T. Anderson, Holly Black, & Ari Berk

3:30 p.m. Mappa Mundi — World Building in Story, Image, and Performance

6 p.m. Peter Pan screening & live harp performance

M. T. Anderson has written stories for adults, picture books for children, adventure novels for young readers, and several books for older readers (both teens and adults). His satirical book Feed was a Finalist for the National Book Award and was the winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize. The first volume of his Octavian Nothing saga won the National Book Award and the Boston Globe / Horn Book Prize.

Holly Black is the bestselling author of contemporary fantasy novels for teens and children. Holly collaborated with artist, Tony DiTerlizzi, to create the bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles. She is the author of numerous award-winning middle-grade and YA novels including Tithe, Valiant, and Ironside, The Curse Workers Trilogy, Doll Bones, and The Coldest Girl In Coldtown.

Jake Powning is a professional swordsmith, artist, and storyteller exploring the roots of European mythology and the strange places where traditional culture and the land meet.

Charlie Bethel is an actor/writer based in Minneapolis and has also worked as a director, stage manager, producer, electrician, milliner, and properties and set dressing artist. He has performed at Cincinnati Playhouse, Trinity Rep, many Shakespeare Festivals across the US and has both performed and taught at the Esalen Institute, and for the Cherubs Program at Northwestern University. He comes from a long line of talkers.

Charles Vess is an award-winning artist and illustrator who has worked with Marvel, DC, Darkhorse and Epic Comics who’s work may be seen in Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for his work on Neil Gaiman’s Sandman #19, other collaborations include Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and two best-selling children’s books, Blueberry Girl and Instructions, as well as Charles de Lint’s The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (Little Brown, 2013).

Elizabeth-Jane Baldry is an acclaimed harpist, composer, screenwriter and director of The Chagford Filmmaking Group. Her compositions have been used by ITV, the BBC and by Irish, Japanese and Canadian film, radio and television.

Ari Berk is an award-winning author of numerous books for children and adults including The Undertaken Trilogy (Death Watch, Mistle Child, and Lych Way), The Secret Histories series—Giants (winner of an NCTE Notable Award), Mermaids and Hobgoblins, The Runes of Elfland and Goblins! (with artist Brian Froud), and The Life and Times of William Shakespeare (co-authored with his wife, Kristen McDermott). Dr. Berk is Professor of Mythology and Folklore in the English Department at Central Michigan University.

Presenters

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